You wanted healing, but you wrote Honkai Impact 3rd?

Su Nian felt that starting from Elysia could wrap up the story directly.

She had contact with everyone, and her presence was in every major event.

In the Heroes' relationship web, it was clearly written: she loves everyone.

This was Elysia, who loved the world!

Su Nian's mood lifted considerably. Now it was time to speed things up.

Rushing to the computer, Su Nian directly typed out a few big words.

[Sakura's younger sister, Ling, was judged to be the Twelfth Herrscher—the Herrscher of Erosion—and was temporarily placed under protective house arrest by Mei.]

Sorry for the wait, sorry for the wait. I made some fine edits.

Thank you all for your support and for the gifts you've given me.

Chapter 34: Inevitable Death

"...Another new segment of the story. Does Su Nian's inspiration never run out?"

Welt was extremely surprised. How could this kid rest for a bit and then suddenly pop out another new Herrscher?!

Was inspiration free, or was setting up an extra ability just that simple?

He knew that the hardest part of controlling the power system in any novel was the concept of "power inflation."

The Herrschers kept getting stronger, and Kevin kept getting stronger too. Su Nian created correspondingly powerful enemies for him, and the combat power system hadn't collapsed—it was well-controlled.

But there was another difficulty.

The difficulty lay in the fact that the Herrscher abilities Su Nian set were all different.

How could he ensure that the Herrscher Authorities were distinct while maintaining their strength, but without making them impossible to defeat?

The two most recent Herrschers clearly had a targeted approach toward this civilization.

And this time, the one who turned into a Herrscher was one of their own people.

The Herrscher of Erosion...

In Shenzhou's culture, "erosion" had multiple interpretations.

Gradual corruption causing deterioration: germs...

Secretly encroaching bit by bit...

Was this going to erode the Moth of the Fire from another angle?

The Herrscher of a Thousand could make people lose trust in each other. Erosion from within might be something else entirely.

But the difference was that Su Nian didn't directly write about the start of this Honkai eruption.

Instead, the person detected as the Twelfth Herrscher was placed under house arrest.

What was going on?

Shouldn't the destruction begin as soon as the host became a Herrscher?

When something was abnormal, there had to be a reason.

What was Su Nian foreshadowing this time?

And what form would the Herrscher's ability take?

Welt's anticipation was once again stirred. The surprises Su Nian could bring him seemed to have no end in sight.

Otto stood leisurely to the side. He was already tired of saying the word "genius" when it came to Su Nian's story.

Schicksal had already extended an olive branch to Su Nian. An outstanding talent would soon be in his pocket.

This time, he was determined to succeed.

This wave was in the bag!

"Su Nian, show your brilliance as much as you can here." Otto stared at Su Nian on the screen and couldn't help spreading his hands.

There were still promotion matches ahead. If he was already shining so brightly now, what would happen later?

Otto was bold. He had already thought ahead for Su Nian.

Su Nian continued typing the next paragraph.

[Around the time Ling was discovered and confirmed as the Twelfth Herrscher, Elysia organized the Thirteen Heroes of Fire.]

[And the Moth of the Fire built The Past's Paradise, where the Heroes left behind their memory bodies.]

Su Nian chose to set The Past's Paradise aside for now and write about it later.

It was an extremely important concept.

MiHoYo first introduced the concept of The Past's Paradise, letting Raiden Mei seek the truth within it, and then slowly let the players get to know those characters.

Characters never introduced in the Honkai Impact 3rd manga came into view.

Their appearances were varied, their personalities different. Some were as pure as a blank sheet of paper, some as flawless as falling petals, and others were cold as ice but would soften back into that big boy's demeanor in front of close friends.

After that, it was through continuous exploration that she learned some details of the Previous Civilization, as well as the truth behind it.

Su Nian chose not to write out every detail and display it before the camera.

Some details could be guessed.

Others had to be revealed by Su Nian herself.

Controlling the rhythm of the story was something every contestant had to master—not just master, but also dig holes for themselves in the outline, concealing the most anticipated events.

The live broadcast format of the show was wonderful and could help contestants gain more popularity, but it also meant the full picture of the story could be seen directly from the contestants' outlines.

If she didn't find a way to hold back a trick or two, then once the final story lost its sense of anticipation...

The effect would be greatly diminished.

So Su Nian had to write more roughly in the subsequent parts of the story.

Only then could the effect of making others feel for the characters be maximized.

Ling was the most cherished family member of Sakura. She had chosen to cooperate with Mei and reorganize the Poisoned Cocoon unit precisely because, as the Honkai grew more frequent, she couldn't protect her little sister.

It could be said that her sister was Sakura's only weakness.

[Ling still retained human consciousness and did not use her Herrscher authority, so Dr. Mei ordered that Ling must not be harmed.]

[Sakura trusted Dr. Mei, but she couldn't trust anyone else. So she betrayed the Moth of the Fire, using force to enter the underground base to find Ling.]

[Kevin stood in Sakura's way to make her change her mind, but Sakura had a special technique—one that even Kevin didn't know about.]

Every Flame Chaser who survived had their own trump cards; if they were ordinary, they would have died long ago.

Even the weakest, Pardo, had extremely strong luck on her side.

[Sakura swung her blade—a strike enough to freeze time.]

[In an instant, Sakura vanished from before Kevin's eyes.]

[After successfully escaping, Sakura indeed found Ling on the 33rd Floor of the underground base...]

But it turned out her unease was justified.

[Sakura cut down several Honkai soldiers and rushed to the cell where Ling was held, only to collapse weakly to the ground.]

In the game, that CG was even identical to the pose of Yae Sakura seeing Yae Rin die.

Tragedy kept playing out, painful memories overlapping once more.

Su Nian's gaze was firm. In this sacred moment of making others feel the sorrow, she absolutely couldn't get emotional first.

[Sakura stared at her sister's corpse, her eyes vacant. It turned out her unease was justified.]

[Her sister lay in a pool of blood, several bloody holes in her body, already lifeless.]

[Why... couldn't it have been her imagination?]

[She only wanted to save her little sister...]

Among the surviving humans, the vast majority wanted Ling dead. The entire base might have been complicit, managing to kill Ling without Mei ever knowing.

The guards watching her had been celebrating joyfully just before, shouting that they had defeated a Herrscher.

They hadn't defeated a Herrscher—they had personally released a demon.

This was a Herrscher unleashed by humanity's own hands.

She would take revenge on humanity, driven by hatred.

If Ling hadn't died, the Previous Civilization might have been able to "limp along" for a while longer.

This disaster also cost the Moth of the Fire another Flame Chaser.

But all of this was reasonable.

Ling's death wasn't an accident—it was an inevitable outcome.

Under the calamity of the Honkai, human casualties were severe, with only three cities remaining.

No one knew if they would be the next to die.

Under such immense pressure, humanity's fear and hatred of the Honkai had already reached its peak.

Except for Mei's faction and their supporters, no one wanted to let a Herrscher live right under their noses.

Coupled with the Law of Retribution that Aponia had imposed on them—[Never give up the fight against the Honkai]—

The negative effects of the Law manifested.

Under these circumstances, Ling's death became inevitable.

Chapter 35, Immediate Retribution

So this foolish act directly wiped out humanity's last hope.

No matter how powerful the Flame Chasers were, they couldn't drag along this bunch of people who ruined everything but accomplished nothing.

[Sakura didn't know why her sister had become like this... She was still too late.]

[Although Ling had been an ordinary girl before, no one could guarantee that this was her true form. This thought kept growing in people's minds.]

[Fear and the Law of Retribution drove the soldiers of the Moth of the Fire to charge into the cell, brutally murdering this defenseless young girl.]

[The last image in Ling's eyes was the crowd cheering beside her corpse.]

["We've eliminated another Herrscher."]

Su Nian wrote down what had happened before Sakura arrived.

Brutal murder. Yes, brutal.

They took Ling's life on nothing but suspicion.

If you look at the normal creative storyline of Honkai Impact 3rd, the Current Civilization was created first, then the concept of the Previous Civilization was added, gradually building upon that story.

And in the Current Civilization, Otto once said that humanity's enemy is not the Honkai, but humanity itself.

The human race has always been a self-contradictory group. In the Previous Civilization, there were high-ranking humans who held them back, making things even harder for those who had to grope their way forward with no one to help them.

In the Current Civilization, there was Otto—a man who was both good and bad, who led people to fight against the Honkai, yet was willing to do anything for the hope of resurrecting Kallen.

Ling was a pitiful soul. Under this kind of portrayal, even though the audience was seeing Su Nian's version of this character for the first time, they still felt a deep sense of outrage from the bottom of their hearts.

Human empathy is powerful.

Human nature is not purely selfish; empathizing with others and helping them is also an innate human trait.

Immersed in this story, the innocent young girl and her devastated sister instantly ignited everyone's fury.

[Damn it, damn it! What right does humanity have to be protected anymore? If at the end, I suddenly find out they didn't protect a damn thing, I wouldn't even be surprised.]