The Sunken Mu Continent-The Tone of Failure Was Set / The First Honkai Eruption Caused by Human Hands

Every subsequent Honkai Outbreak, once it occurred, brought enormous casualties to humanity.

The later Herrscher of Domination caused people to lose trust in one another.

The Binding Tragedy left Moth of the Fire with only thirteen Flame Chasers.

Seventy percent of human civilization was destroyed.

The Twelfth Honkai erupted, and humanity's last three remaining cities were destroyed as well.

The Herrscher of the End descended, and humanity had no hope of victory whatsoever.

After that, the story's tone seemed to contain nothing but despair.

The angst was coming!

A malicious smile curled across Su Nian's lips, and her entire aura changed.

She smiled like a villain.

That sinister smile was shown through the livestream camera to everyone watching.

It sent chills down all their spines.

Holy shit, the last time I saw a smile like that was when an old veteran actor played a villain.

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Based on what I know about the three sons in my dorm, that expression definitely meant she was up to no good!

It's fine. I refuse to believe she'd sacrifice her own work just to pull off some huge stunt. Just watch!

Book recommendation, a masterpiece by my best friend!

After transmigrating, Su Jinyan loaded the Narration System. Every so often, the narrator would reveal a secret to him.

From the preferences of young girls to economic turmoil in the universal market, every secret benefited him greatly.

He had once threatened Qingque: "You wouldn't want me to expose your slacking off, would you?"

He had also fawned over Fu Xuan: "Lady Fu Xuan, please use your soft little feet in white stockings to step on me hard."

He had once provoked Silver Wolf: "If your cheating in games gets exposed, your career as a master hacker will be over, right?"

He had even voluntarily led the way for Huanlong: "Hi, Lord Huanlong, this way, please~"

In reality, he struck hard and charged ahead with high spirits, the dream man of countless young women.

In the Simulated Universe, he was an invisible emperor feared by all.

But what I want to say is that Lord Su Jinyan truly is an unprecedented, utterly genuine good person—signed, Fictional Historian.

Silly comedy + harem romance + wild antics + Simulated Universe + power fantasy

Mu Continent Sank, the Tone of Failure Had Already Been Set

Su Nian truly would not sacrifice this story just for some wild stunt.

But... this story had always been like this, so it was not her fault.

The destruction of the Previous Civilization was not the end, but the beginning of hope.

If they truly analyzed it carefully, they would realize that this story had been destined for a tragic ending from the start.

Moth of the Fire was a moth chasing flames.

"A moth flying into a flame" was a famous idiom in Shenzhou. Apply it to the story of the Previous Civilization, and its intended ending became clear.

Even from other aspects, they could see a little of it.

This story was too tightly paced.

So tightly paced that Kevin had joined Moth of the Fire in the early days, yet The End had already descended while he was still a young man.

Moth of the Fire in the Previous Civilization had existed for barely over twenty years.

From Kevin leaving Senba Academy to the Eighth Honkai Outbreak, the timeline seemed to have covered only around five years.

What they lacked most was time.

If they had had enough time, perhaps everything would have been different.

In such a short time, they had created countless miracles and left behind so many treasures. Before The Past's Paradise emerged, no one could have imagined the glory of the Previous Civilization.

Unfortunately, they had no "if."

Thinking they had only been one step away from success, fantasizing that if they were given something more, they could turn defeat into victory—it was like debating whether Zhuge Liang could have succeeded in the Northern Expedition if he had been given a million college students or an endless supply of braised pork knuckles over rice.

But reality was powerless to grant them anything, and the ending would not change...

That was true regret.

Very soon, they would get to savor the regret of this prompt.

At the thought of being able to stab their hearts soon, watching their little pearls spill out in streams of tears, then turning them into wicked people like herself and scattering angst across the world...

Su Nian was fired up. She immediately grabbed her keyboard, determined to battle until the sky went dark.

However, she did not immediately write about the Ninth Honkai.

Instead, she brought up the character cards and selected Cosmo's blank page.

Cosmo had died during the era of the Previous Civilization. Correspondingly, miHoYo had not written much about him, and most of it overlapped with Kevin's. His presence could even be described as weak.

If Kevin had transformed from a youth into a savior.

Then Cosmo was the only one among the Thirteen Flame Chasers who could truly be called a boy.

A boy who dreamed of becoming a hero represented ideals, yet this character's design was also deeply contradictory.

He bore the form of a demon, yet was given the name Morning Light. His name meant cosmos and omnipotence, yet he had failed to accomplish anything...

Character Card: Cosmo

Time left three shadows behind Cosmo—child, boy, and hero. The days when he had been a child had long passed, while his dream of becoming a hero could no longer be realized. Through the endless night, the boy named Cosmo walked alone, like a ray of morning light, quietly awaiting dawn.

Su Nian had not written about what Kevin did during the Fourth Honkai, and this was also the first time Cosmo's character card appeared before the public.

She used those words as Cosmo's introduction.

Morning Light referred to the rising sun, the dawn. Unfortunately, he had not lived to see it.

Su Nian remembered that the manga said Kevin had used Tears of Heaven to kill the Ninth Herrscher and the Eleventh Herrscher.

But the facts proved that such a thing had indeed happened, though the process seemed to be rather different.

The coming events of the Ninth Honkai would be written into both of their character cards.

This was one of Kevin's experiences of loneliness: the death of an old comrade-in-arms, and a junior he had personally raised turning against him.

The Ninth Honkai, the Herrscher of Rocks Was Born

The Herrscher of Rocks was born on Mu Continent. The instant it came into existence, it unleashed its Herrscher Authority and created a Pseudo Black Hole, which swallowed almost everything around it in nearly an instant.

The Honkai came faster and faster, and the Herrschers grew stronger and stronger.

Another event—clearly, the Stigmata Project Su Nian had just introduced had become another massive plot hole.

A massive plot hole no one knew when she would fill.

We need someone dedicated to keeping track of all the plot holes Su Nian digs.

The enemy got buffed again. They won't end up unable to beat it, right?

Don't overthink it. Kevin will definitely get buffed too. Balancing power levels is basic stuff. Su Nian won't mess this up.

The locations Su Nian writes are generally pretty fitting. It made sense for the Herrscher of Flames to burn Australia, but Mu Continent... if I remember correctly, that was a center for high-end manufacturing and talented people...

Some viewers believed Su Nian would not write something meaningless. Burning Australia would not cause any major problems, but what if Mu Continent sank?

Based on Mu Continent's real-world setting, if it sank, the problem would be huge.

Put yourself in their shoes. If the real Mu Continent sank, the consequences would be unimaginable.

That would undoubtedly be like cutting off humanity's main artery!

And judging from the previous events, the losses caused by the Honkai had never been small.

A single major Honkai Outbreak could wipe out several cities at a time.

After someone pointed it out, the more they thought about it, the more wrong it felt.

Is that you? Did Hajime Isayama reincarnate?

To the commenter above, sadly, he isn't dead yet.

Something's wrong, seriously wrong. Humanity is doomed.

Savior Kevin, take a guess at how that "savior" title came about?

Thanks for the invitation. I'm on Mu Continent, successfully immersed myself, and have already become a Honkai Beast swimming in the sea.

I suddenly seem to understand why Su Nian smiled so sinisterly just now.

The next part of the story would probably be another round of ramping up Kevin's suffering.

But whatever. Kevin's life had been like one long cheat code. Though he did not have a system, his protagonist aura was no less absurd.

In five years, he had become Moth of the Fire's strongest warrior and survived odds of success infinitely close to zero.

Perhaps to the characters in the story, there was nothing Kevin could not do. His very survival was a miracle.

By this point, online viewers could not help immersing themselves in the story.

Some imagined themselves as Kevin, while others imagined themselves as one of the hundreds of millions of ordinary people in this world.

Synopsis: Gu Yuan was on the Xianzhou and possessed a cheat ability that could continuously level up as long as he put in the grind.

Play cards with Qingque and gain card skills. Play one hundred games, and ordinary card skills would become the Gambling King, able to draw cheat cards without being discovered. Play one thousand games, and the Gambling King would advance into Super Luck, enough to change one's fate. Play ten thousand games, and Super Luck would advance into the God of Fate. Play one million games...

Duel swords with Yanqing, grinding from an apprentice into a sword immortal.

Play chess with Jing Yuan, grinding from an ordinary player into a chess saint.

Until one day, Gu Yuan unlocked a strange entry called Xianzhou Land God. From then on, he charged down the road to becoming an Aeon without restraint...

The First Man-Made Honkai

During the Ninth Honkai, Kevin, Hen, and Cosmo participated in the campaign against the Herrscher of Rocks.

But this Herrscher Authority controlled gravity, making it extremely difficult to handle.

Under such gravity, people's movements became sluggish, making it exceptionally difficult to kill the Herrscher of Rocks.

Kevin was indeed powerful, and Tears of Heaven possessed sufficient destructive force.

But against certain Herrschers with unusual abilities, even he struggled to display his true strength.

Although Kevin possessed the ability to defeat a Herrscher, rashly approaching it could lead to danger or even serious injury.

Kevin could not take that risk.

Whether the order came from Mei or Moth of the Fire was not explicitly stated, but the decision was rational.

Kevin now carried humanity's hopes and was its strongest fighting force.

Nothing could happen to him.

After weighing the lesser of two evils, Moth of the Fire would not allow Kevin to take the risk. Someone had to confront the Herrscher directly and give him the chance to find an opening.

In Kevin's name, Hen was ordered to restrain the Herrscher.

It was extremely dangerous. If Hen went, it would practically be a certain death situation.

Hen instructed Cosmo to take good care of Griseo, then headed off without hesitation to draw the Herrscher's attention.

The Herrscher was indeed destroyed.

But that order ultimately led to Hen's sacrifice. He was swallowed by the Pseudo Black Hole summoned by the Herrscher.

That was how the Previous Civilization was. If this were a normally written story centered on the Previous Civilization...