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

Even if Raiden Mei didn't win the victory, it wasn't a big problem.

Raiden Mei was very strong, but compared to these Flame-Chasers, she still fell a bit short.

She was already quite the protagonist, but unfortunately, every Flame-Chaser was a max-level account.

Though she kept getting beaten down in The Past's Paradise, everyone was used to it by now.

[Mei... welcome [in person] to The Deepest Place.]

Chapter 58, With Elysia, As If First Meeting (Requesting First Subscription)

Poor Raiden Mei was toyed with between Elysia and Aponia's hands.

If you looked back after finishing The Past's Paradise's story, you'd realize this was merely a trial they set for her.

[Aponia's power left her helpless; the two could only return to the negotiating table.]

["Please relax. You should understand that we have never been enemies from start to finish."]

["I know you still have concerns, but... as you think, the prophecy about 'you' was merely a test."]

["The end is near, Mei. Can you tell me why you are so fixated on 'stepping into it'?"]

[She recalled the past, recalled that man.]

["My companions and I were caught in a web of schemes for a long time, manipulated behind the scenes by certain people."]

["Being arranged by others... and being arranged by fate—to me, there is no difference."]

The story had progressed to this point. It was a very ordinary sentence, but Welt stopped reading.

There was nothing outstanding about it, yet it inexplicably gave Welt a sense of familiarity.

So true, truly so true.

The identity of that man in this sentence was still unknown, but Welt's sharp gaze instantly fell on Otto.

Wasn't this sentence describing the victims persecuted by Otto?

Down with Otto's tyranny!

Otto, who was swirling his wine glass on the side, froze in his motion. Welt had a feeling of rage reigniting, as if he wanted to come over and punch him.

This... Su Nian wrote this part, "that man" had an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

Only two sentences mentioned him, revealing pitifully little information, but it felt like calling him out by name.

This was reporting his name!

It was almost as if she was about to reveal other things about Otto.

He knew why Welt had made that expression again.

"To use such a setting, Raiden Mei must also be someone burdened with much. Ah, that kind of calculating scum will do anything, truly deserving of death... don't you think, Archbishop Otto?"

Welt directly took a jab at Otto. He was no longer the Archbishop of Schicksal, but Welt deliberately "misspoke" when addressing his title.

No, this was no longer a jab, but an outright accusation.

Otto closed his eyes and didn't respond, his mind churning with thoughts.

This Su Nian person... could she have met him before the competition? Did she dare to write him into her novel too?

He had never harmed Shenzhou.

Of course... it might just be his overactive imagination.

Otto stopped spiraling internally. Whatever the situation, he could just wait and see how the story unfolded.

["I believe results can be changed. Even if they can't, I want to decide the process by which I reach that result myself."]

["There are too many endings we cannot change, but before that, there are just as many things I can do."]

["And the 'ending' will thus reveal a completely different meaning."]

[This was why Raiden Mei resisted Aponia's prophecy. She valued the process, not the outcome.]

This sentence was the most philosophical and the most personally Mei-colored line in this segment of the story.

MiHoYo liked to use content rich in philosophy.

The process is the most important, yet many people only focus on the result.

What was coming next was... the true leader of the Elysia fan club!

["Mei, you know, once upon a time... someone said the exact same thing to me. Back then... she also rushed headlong into a fate that was already sealed."]

["From beginning to end, I could not see her destiny, so I thought there was a turning point. She used a method I didn't know of to achieve what I could not."]

["But the result was as you saw. We failed. I chose to remember everything about that person, using the gift heaven bestowed upon me."]

["I saw how she lived, I saw how she fought, I saw her walk through the mud, I saw her crowned with thorns... donning new makeup to attend her own last banquet."]

["Just like you and me now, on that day, she stood before me and told me of the fate that would see her fade away in ten days."]

[Fourteen days later, the new clothes Eden had prepared for him would be finished, and there was still genuine joy and anticipation in his eyes. Sixteen days later, Kevin's birthday would come again, and she would sing a song softly, leaving him one last gift.]

[Mei and the her of that time had made the same choice.]

["The thing you have been seeking all along, the reason the Past's Paradise exists, the secret guarded by the true Deepest Place..."]

["The location of the Thirteenth Herrscher. You now possess the qualification to go there."]

So this was... Aponia's true purpose.

When death was about to fall upon Raiden Mei's head, she still made the same choice as her.

And because of that, Raiden Mei could go there.

The meaning of the Past's Paradise's existence would be revealed to her.

At this moment, some viewers suddenly understood.

Wasn't there a Herrscher that Su Nian glossed over before!

The very Thirteenth Herrscher Aponia was talking about now!

Back then, Su Nian only wrote that the Moth of the Fire "claimed" Kevin had slain the Thirteenth Herrscher.

They originally thought Su Nian had run out of ideas and couldn't come up with a new Herrscher Authority.

Or perhaps, because human civilization had been destroyed to such an extent, they really needed a sliver of hope, hence the need for such a Herrscher?

As it turned out, they had underestimated Su Nian.

How could Su Nian, who could write a story like this, be so perfunctory!

Now, the foreshadowing had been collected. Su Nian's skill was still on point.

[Was this also within your calculations!]

[Who is the Thirteenth Herrscher, and what did they do! Don't tease me, just bring it out already!]

[As expected of the Pit-Digging Immortal. I'm with you heart and soul, but you dig pits and play mind games with me.]

[Aponia says this. Is there a Herrscher among the Thirteen Heroes?? Who is it?]

Someone noticed the blind spot. Now, the memories of all the Thirteen Heroes of Fire had been shown to them.

[Who is it? Someone with a good relationship with both Kevin and Eden, and a girl?]

Although this condition covered a wide range, at least three or four Heroes could fit.

But... the first person they thought of was that pink-haired girl.

Also the person Raiden Mei met from the very beginning.

[Holy shit, didn't Su Nian set up earlier that "visitors are more likely to encounter a Hero who shares the same will as themselves"?]

And Raiden Mei, upon first entering the Past's Paradise, the first Hero she met.

Was Elysia.

The two gave the exact same answer when facing death.

It could indeed be called the same will...

The answer was easy to reach, because only she fit.

It was as clear as day...

[Elysia is the Thirteenth Herrscher!]

By sorting out the logic a little, one could understand the connection between the Thirteenth Herrscher and Elysia.

And now, it was time to reveal the answer.

Chapter 59: Heart-Grabbing, Liver-Clawing, Unable to Sleep at Night (Begging for First Subscription!)

[Before me, no creation existed in the world]

[If there is anything eternal and imperishable]

[Then it is settling within my body]

["Open the door of the final end..."]

["...O noble and pure soul." Within Aponia's voice, that familiar voice joined in.]

[A flash of white light passed. On the park bench before them was still that young girl, still in that posture.]

["You've finally come here. Let me reintroduce myself."]

["The second of the Moth's Heroes, [True Self] Elysia. As for my other identity, you should have already guessed it, right?"]

["But, before you truly stand before the [Thirteenth Herrscher]..."]

["Hey~ How do you feel?"]

Just like... the first meeting.

The foreshadowing was collected. The exploration that began with Elysia, the answer she sought was also Elysia.

The story of the Past's Paradise ended here.

Elysia, the biggest character twist in the Past's Paradise.

This wasn't because it was so hard to guess that she became a Herrscher.

But it was already known beforehand—Elysia was too passionate, too perfect.

Coupled with the story's deliberate nudges, plenty of players back then fell for it and thought she was a bad woman.

While players accepted her flirtations, they also instinctively kept their guard up.

Some even braced for a backstab from her.

Yet in the end, when they suddenly looked back, they realized it was hard to find another girl as good as her in the whole world!

She genuinely liked everyone, genuinely treated every companion with kindness.

Honkai Impact 3rd—fight for all that is beautiful in the world!

And for Elysia fans, Elysia herself was that beauty in the world!

Just seeing pink seemed to inevitably bring her to mind.

And now, that scene had been recreated here.

Su Nian had requested the production team to temporarily cut the live stream, and the moment she used the computer, she saw it at a glance.

Now she had to take a break.

Lying on the sofa, Su Nian felt her mind starting to scatter, on the verge of losing it.

If she didn't rest, whatever she wrote next would only turn into a pile of garbage.

The production team had a total of 65 live streams, including the official channel. Now, Su Nian was the first contestant besides the official one to shut down her stream.

The stream was closed, but no one was spamming pleas for her to write a little more.

At that moment, the barrage fell silent. Su Nian wrote fast, and the content was just too much.

Even now that the truth behind Aponia's prophecy had been revealed, they still didn't know... where to even start complaining?