You asked for healing, but wrote Honkai Impact 3rd?

Kevin called himself "selfish." He was not a savior in the traditional sense.

Kevin was pushed forward by everyone in the Previous Civilization...

But he was, without a doubt, a true hero!

Recalling the timeline of the story, it should be after the end of the Twelfth Honkai.

Sakura died, and humanity's last three cities were destroyed. Kevin once "mocked" himself.

He said he had never given up, because he had never persisted.

He said he didn't care what the Honkai was, or what would happen to humanity...

He also said he didn't join Moth of the Fire to save the world or protect peace.

Calling himself selfish, believing he was an irredeemable scumbag...

Others could stop, could fall behind, because the burdens they carried weren't heavy enough, but Kevin couldn't.

Bearing the Insignia of the Savior, humanity's savior, the guardian of civilization, humanity's strongest warrior...

He had been given too much.

And that line:

"We will definitely defeat the Honkai, Kevin."

Kevin's charisma lay right there. He was such a vivid person worthy of admiration.

Su Nian pulled her thoughts back.

The sources of information on the Previous Civilization included the manga, fragmented details revealed in The Past's Paradise and the main storyline. Organizing it all indeed made it easy to overthink.

[Mei insisted they couldn't let the remaining Herrschers go.]

["Kevin, we both know you can't do this right now. So hand over Tears of Heaven to me for now."]

["...Time is tight, Kevin. Only by bringing the power of the Herrscher of Flames back into this world can we completely destroy the Tenth Herrscher."]

["And there's something I've been wanting to tell you... This is the best chance."]

[Kevin tried to stop her, but Mei insisted. If they missed this opportunity, there would never be another.]

[Mei picked up Tears of Heaven, and the Blank Key instantly connected to the Herrscher of Flames core within it.]

[Mei's final strike fully unleashed the Herrscher of Flames core, annihilating the remaining Herrschers in just five seconds.]

[Even when the cleanup team arrived to sweep the battlefield, the red tinted by flames in Kevin's eyes hadn't faded. The brilliance of that strike was beyond words.]

["Is this what you wanted to tell me, Mei?"]

["Yes, Kevin."]

[If Mei could do it, then Kevin definitely could too.]

[Kevin could even do it better than her, far surpassing the limits of the Blank Key.]

[But to achieve this, Kevin had to be clear about what he was fighting for.]

[However... for him... it was too difficult.]

The Tenth Herrscher was completely eliminated here. Mei's thinking was right.

Letting a tiger return to the mountain was asking for death.

[Over four months, Moth of the Fire found a total of one thousand individuals of the Tenth Herrscher. Hence, the Tenth Herrscher was also called the Thousand-Man Herrscher.]

[This incident netted Moth of the Fire one thousand Herrscher cores.]

It really was a massive XP farm—one thousand Herrscher cores.

Later, they developed a supermutation factor serum with a relatively higher success rate, increasing the number of Flame Chasers in Moth of the Fire.

They reached their peak. Even Li Yunlong would have sighed and said he'd never fought such a rich war in his life.

But what a pity.

All that hard-earned wealth.

One Binding Tragedy, and so many Flame Chasers hadn't even been warmed in their hands. They hadn't fully cleared the Honkai outbreak zones or secured more resources...

The next Herrscher appeared too quickly, and its abilities were extremely counter to them.

All gone! Only thirteen Flame Chasers remained.

After this incident, Moth of the Fire couldn't even maintain its unit structure and had to disperse its members into various armed squads until new combat power filled the gaps.

And one more... She chose to sacrifice herself to revive hope and to ensure victory over the Honkai later.

By the time they went to the moon, there really was no one left.

Su Nian let out a long breath... Finally, she had gotten through the part about the Tenth Herrscher.

But before writing about the Herrscher of Constraint, she still needed to explain where these Herrscher cores went and show the situation of the Flame Chasers.

From Kevin's perspective, these matters had nothing to do with him.

But for the events to come, they were very necessary.

The Binding Tragedy—most of those who died weren't killed by the Herrscher's hand, but were caught in Kevin's indiscriminate attack alongside the Herrscher for the sake of victory...

That was the best solution available at the time.

Next came the Eleventh Honkai.

No time to mourn my vacation—now entering the stage is college student Dehua, babysitting his niece at home.

I'm dead.

Chapter 30, The Unbeatable Herrscher of Constraint.

The Thousand-Man Herrscher's arc was over. Although Su Nian did write that the losses they caused were no less than previous Herrschers, in terms of presentation...

The title of weakest Herrscher seemed well-deserved.

Sure, they had a chance to run, but Mei wasn't just ruthless to others—she was ruthless to herself.

Facing an opponent like that, the Thousand-Man Herrscher had met their match.

[Don't know who the strongest Herrscher is, but the weakest is settled—if they held a Herrscher PK tournament, they wouldn't last three minutes]

[Mei: Running into me? You've kicked an iron plate!]

[This Humble One is merely a researcher—if you won't let me research, I also know a thing or two about the Blank Key and anti-Honkai weapons]

[Ah, Kevin doesn't know what he's fighting for? He's always been fighting against the Honkai]

[Judge by deeds, not intentions—Kevin might not know what he wants to do, but while lost and uncertain of the path ahead, everything he's done has been real work]

[Actually, that's normal—he was still a student before, it's hard to completely transform his mindset so quickly]

But the audience's attention wasn't just on teasing the Thousand-Man Herrscher or the plot.

Su Nian wrote a little bit about the interactions between Mei and Kevin.

The long-awaited romance line was finally making progress again.

Su Nian had written about Mei and Kevin's romantic relationship from the start, but with such a short passage, it didn't feel real.

Now there was a little, but not much.

But as everyone knows, there's a type of person in the world called Kexuejia, experts at digging for sugar—with the extremely limited rations Su Nian had provided, it was like New Year's for them now.

Their level of excitement... no less than when Fu Chefs learned Fu Hua's man-made Honkai was getting an armor.

[You can see their feelings from the details—it's been so long since I've seen non-industrial sugar romance]

[Mei would rather push herself than push Kevin—ship it! Sweet!]

[It has to be a Happy End! I can suffer myself, but my ship cannot!!]

[I'll do anything for my ship]

These poor shippers didn't know yet that in the Honkai world, the most suffering couples are always the heterosexual ones.

Kevin and Mei separated by the Sea of Trees for fifty thousand years, Otto and Kallen spending a lifetime creating a world line where Kallen exists, the Captain and Guanxing watching helplessly as Guanxing dies countless times...

Not a single happy, complete, married ending!

There's a conscience, but not much.

If Su Nian could see these bullet comments, he'd be in a great mood.

He'd soon have people to drag into his misery—how could he not be excited?

Su Nian pulled up his setting collection "Divine Key Chapter" and added the Tenth Divine Key's settings at the top.

[Tenth Divine Key, Thousand-Man Key, Key of Domination]

[Mass-produced Divine Key, the golden sword possessing the strongest "Domination" power, requires activation—when stimulated by a Flame Chaser or when resonating with its user, it changes form according to the user.]

Then came the part about Moth of the Fire suddenly gaining many Flame Chasers.

Old Mi always likes retconning—originally the Herrscher of Constraint was said to be slain by Kevin alone, but later it became many Flame Chasers sacrificed, with Kevin delivering the final blow.

But the second setting was clearly more reasonable.

The Previous Civilization's foundation was there—there had to be a reason for some deficiency. While Flame Chaser success rates were low, given a large enough base, the final numbers would always be terrifying.

MiHoYo also set that Flame Chasers could improve their odds by choosing Honkai Beasts with high compatibility, instead of being stuck at infinitely close to zero.

If a group had less than 0.01% of a certain subset, but the group base was a hundred million, that was still tens of thousands of people.

Su Nian wrote another piece of foreshadowing in Kevin's character card.

[Based on the Thousand-Man Key and the developed "Meat-Morth" formula, Moth of the Fire's Flame Chaser numbers surged, reaching peak combat power in a short time.]

The Binding Tragedy was unquestionably the most important turning point in the Previous Civilization's related storyline.

It was a tragedy, a meager victory built on a mountain of Flame Chaser corpses.

And this incident involved too many Flame Chasers—even copying the story was hard, giving Su Nian a headache.

Chijie, Hua, Su, Mobius, Elysia, Kevin... and Vill-V, fished back by Mobius.

Writing the Binding Tragedy was difficult—too many characters and far too long a segment.

The information provided is also extremely fragmented, with many unknowns remaining.

And based on what was given, the exact time the Tragedy of Constraint began is unclear. It's fortunate that he never wrote down a specific time from the start, simply following the timeline.

But there were still landmark events for this Honkai.

This landmark event was—Chijie fell.

[Eleventh Honkai, Herrscher of Constraint descends]

[From the moment of birth, the Herrscher expands a barrier with a radius of one hundred kilometers, and the barrier can continuously expand outward.]

[Within the barrier, all Honkai Energy is nullified, and other forms of energy are weakened to varying degrees.]

[Any weapon using electronic systems cannot function inside the barrier.]

A Herrscher that fights with Honkai Energy, and a barrier created with Honkai Energy, yet it can render Honkai Energy within the barrier ineffective.

Absurd! Too targeted!

It's like... building a house out of water underwater, but the house itself has no water inside.

And the trait of other energy forms being weakened directly eliminates the possibility of assassination from outside.

Even directly deploying nuclear weapons or other technological weapons might not harm the Herrscher. Trying to kill the Herrscher from outside the barrier is nearly impossible.

It's almost an unsolvable ability. Even more terrifying is that any life that enters it dies rapidly.

[Ordinary humans inside the barrier have their bioelectric voltage vanish and die quickly. Flame Chasers implanted with Honkai Beast DNA suffer bodily dysfunction and die within one minute.]

Suddenly losing Honkai Energy, for a Flame Chaser who is half Honkai Beast, only leads to one outcome—sudden death.

Facing such a Herrscher, the Previous Civilization had almost no chance of victory.

Their main method of fighting Honkai was the Flame Chasers.

Even if they weren't Flame Chasers, they couldn't achieve this.