It was as if they were code names.
They had yet to truly be made public.
But!
They all matched up.
The Herrscher of Reason had been swarmed to death by soldiers.
The Herrscher of the Void had been annihilated under a barrage of heavy firepower.
Although the Herrschers currently did not seem particularly strong. Even the old men in the upper ranks did not take them seriously.
But Mobius knew that the Herrscher of the Void was clearly stronger than the Herrscher of Reason. If Herrschers continued growing stronger, then the later stages were easy to imagine.
She was like many others.
Although there was no way to prove whether the other Herrschers projected by the sky screen were real or fake.
They instead believed they were real.
Lightning, wind, ice, death, flame, consciousness, rock, domination...
And restraint, erosion...
Even just hearing the names, they could vaguely infer so much.
But think a little further.
What if all of these were the final enemies?
What if they all had to be defeated before it could end?
Then the future truly was despairing...
The upper echelons of various nations and the people behind the organizations held video conferences with one another.
Some were even gathered directly in conference rooms.
Their silence was deafening.
Even setting the Herrschers aside.
The Honkai Beasts and Dead Ones alone were already terrifying enough.
Take those Dead Ones, for example. Some had bodies of steel and iron, some could summon minions. Some could hide in the void. Some possessed formidable martial skills.
A few of them would not be a problem.
But if they formed armies, if their numbers grew immense.
The consequences were horrifying to contemplate.
And unlike Dead Ones, whose bodies were only the size of ordinary humans.
Honkai Beasts were larger than the last.
Even a mere Rush Class was over a meter tall, while Knight Class Honkai Beasts stood three to five meters high.
The most astonishing ones were the Temple Class, and even the Honkai Emperor. They were dozens of meters tall, even reaching a full hundred meters.
The good news was that they had never encountered them before.
But the bad news was...
They might encounter them in the future.
"Everyone, speak up."
"What should we do?"
"..."
Someone asked.
Someone trembled as they crushed out their cigarette.
"Let's watch for now."
"See if we can obtain more information."
"..."
Otherwise, panicking would be useless.
It was precisely because they had become more certain that the projections on this sky screen were real.
As they watched that chibi Vup speak in such a cute voice, they had no desire to laugh. They only wanted this girl to say more.
If!
This projection truly came from the future.
Then perhaps she was showing this so that their era could see it, hear it, and learn more information.
As long as they had more information, they could get a better grasp of things earlier.
Many matters would not have to go wrong upon wrong.
All they could say was that the current Flame-Chasing Moth was still fairly clean, and those countries were still doing reasonably well.
For the Flame-Chasing Moth to truly fall into endless internal strife, even becoming infested with parasites, it would at least have to wait until after the Third Great Honkai, when their power expanded like never before.
Right now.
The Flame-Chasing Moth was merely an organization akin to the Red Cross.
It was under the alliance.
But the various nations still did not take it too seriously.
And at this very moment.
Within the sky-screen projection, the chibi UP host hopped back out and briefly introduced the Dead Ones and Honkai Beasts.
Only then did she return to the main topic.
As if summing things up, she said.
So!
We need to understand!
During the Old Era, Honkai was the source of all disasters.
Although it was a trial, it had driven almost everyone into despair. Even now, many people felt that the conditions for clearing it were extremely harsh. It might be more fitting to regard it as the apocalypse.
Put simply.
Honkai was born with the emergence of civilization and vanished along with civilization's destruction.
From earthquakes and typhoons to tectonic plates shattering, the Sun's helium flash, even comet impacts and supernova explosions—during that period, all of them could be considered Honkai.
Its greatest characteristic was that it gradually grew stronger along with civilization. The more advanced civilization became, the more terrifying it became.
Kiana had originally wanted to reveal the concept of the Cocoon of the End.
But for such an important secret to be widely known in the future would be rather strange. At the very least, it was not something that should be mentioned now.
So she set it aside for the time being and simply used Honkai as a substitute.
Therefore.
Experts and scholars often said that arms races were inadvisable, because you could never outrun Honkai.
But if they did not develop technology or strengthen their military, they would have no way to deal with Honkai. It was a vicious cycle.
The speaker had no such intention, but the listeners took it to heart.
Even though the UP host on the sky screen spoke in a more teasing tone.
Those in reality who knew the inside story could not help but feel ice-cold from head to toe, their minds going blank on the spot.
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The Herrscher of the End Was a Savior?
Were all disasters during this period caused by Honkai?
Although Honkai was a trial, was its essence actually the destruction of civilization?
Because an unqualified civilization had only one path—destruction—and no value in continuing to exist?
And even!
The stronger your civilization became, the stronger Honkai would always be by a margin. Under normal circumstances, was there only one path of thought?
"Then how the hell are we supposed to play this!" Hen cursed as he slapped the edge of the window.
Elysia tilted her head back. She was not despairing; she was still smiling.
Because she believed there was always a way out.
Even if they had nothing else!
Simply knowing this information was already wonderful.
After all.
If they did not know this characteristic of Honkai.
Then in many cases, the stronger the enemy, the more it would drive weapon development. The more wars there were, the more they would spur technological advancement.
But if they knew this.
Perhaps they could truly find a way to regulate it.
It was not as though only Otto of the Current Civilization possessed such ability.
He only knew this and made such preparations because of the legacy of the Previous Civilization.
The Previous Civilization had suffered because it truly had nothing. They had to feel their way across the river for everything.
By the time they discovered this problem, it was already too late.
Wasn't it?
Yuzu knew that you esteemed viewers would definitely ask: since the normal approach could not clear it, and brute force could not solve anything, then how did our world survive Honkai?
Yuzu could only answer: by skipping class!
The girl's playful words echoed across the sky screen.
Quite a few people were stunned.
She said.
Some experts had run simulations and conducted research, believing that if humanity had united as one during the Old Era, it might have succeeded.
Other experts said that perhaps one era would not be enough. If there truly was no other choice, they would have to find a way to make it into the next era and buy more time.
Because every time Honkai ended, civilization would cycle anew.
If used well, that could also temporarily avoid the brunt of it.
"I see..."
"..."
Quite a few people nodded.
There were some possibilities.
After all, they had confirmed that Honkai existed in this world.
The good news was that it was still in the early stages.
The bad news was that if they were not careful, they would die.
Naturally, they became even more serious.
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