There were also sociology and other humanities still worth exploring within the so-called Star Sea Alliance, including what the social structure of the future would actually look like.
Whether it was nations or organizations,
they naturally cared even more about the most important issue.
That was—
the Third Great Honkai revealed by the heavens.
While many people still refused to believe it, they had already begun to act.
Meetings, meetings, meetings!
Then came coordinated arrangements.
If they did not know where the Third Great Honkai would occur, that would be one thing.
But now that they clearly knew, they would definitely do everything possible to avoid casualties and preserve more of the population.
During the First Great Honkai and the Second Great Honkai, the affected areas had mainly not been so extensive.
If people died, then they died.
Concealing information had been more important.
Now, the existence of Honkai itself was already becoming impossible to hide.
It was half-public now.
And a Great Honkai was not something that would end after just one or two occurrences.
According to the videos projected by the heavens,
there had been a full thirteen or fourteen of them altogether.
What the hell kind of nightmare was that?
One, two, three, four... I would not even say anything about that.
Thirteen or fourteen times.
What civilization could withstand that?!
If they used such extravagant tactics every time, disregarding casualties and funding, over and over again, just try it.
If every Great Honkai was a struggle for human civilization,
then there was no doubt about it.
Once the cannons fired, gold vanished by the thousands.
What they fought with was resources.
Population, funding, all kinds of stockpiles, even food—everything counted!
Fortunately,
it was not as if every Herrscher had to be fought to the death.
After all, the light screen had mentioned it before.
The power of Origin was the power to make wishes come true.
With her around, perhaps they could truly try to awaken the girls who had become Herrschers. If that worked, enemies could become allies.
They might even have more combat power to choose from in the Great Honkais that followed.
Even so,
Flame-Chasing Moth had asked Elysia about it.
Elysia awkwardly said that she did not know how to awaken a Herrscher either. But she could give it a try.
She had indeed begun to grasp her own power.
But she was not very good at using it.
Especially since her power was far too dependent on the mind; it had the hazy beauty of flowers seen through mist and was truly impossible to fathom.
Still, that was fine!
They could make preparations on both fronts.
No matter what, when a Herrscher appeared, given the current situation, Elysia was their only option.
Other than her, they had no truly high-end combat power capable of opposing a Herrscher.
If they really had to consider how to eliminate the soon-to-appear Third Herrscher, then their only option was to send in the military, restrict its movements while minimizing casualties as much as possible, and finally blanket it with firepower until it was buried under sheer force.
But they had said earlier that they wanted to reduce casualties.
Now that they looked at it,
reduce them, my ass.
Sometimes, it was not something that could be reduced just because they wanted to.
Still,
there was one good thing about this time.
Elysia was stronger than she had been during the same period in the Original Work.
And she could openly use her own power.
Taking down a Third Herrscher would be a sure thing.
More importantly, she truly wanted to see whether she could awaken the Third Herrscher's consciousness.
At the same time,
this was indeed something Kiana wanted to know.
She wanted to know whether, after these two or three videos, the future had changed at all.
Was it truly advancing in the direction she wanted?
And then feeding back into the present?
"I remember that in the Original Work, the first Herrscher to truly display the ability to think was the Sixth Herrscher, right? Then the Seventh Herrscher, Himiko, seemed to rely on her own consciousness to temporarily suppress the Herrscher personality."
Kiana curled her fair, slender legs up on the sofa, leaning back slightly as she silently read her book.
She did not open her mouth.
She merely communicated with the system in her mind without giving anything away.
No one could tell that anything was wrong with her.
Yes, Host. The system answered calmly in her mind.
The node you have shifted has changed the future. Even if it is only by a tiny amount, it has created another possibility.
It said.
Just as I said at the beginning, at the very least, you have given them a chance to change. Whether they can succeed will still depend on themselves.
"True..."
Kiana did not feel much psychological burden over it.
"If they succeed, that is naturally good. If they fail, there is nothing we can do."
"But as long as we can save a few more girls, the Previous Civilization will suffer a few fewer losses. That is already good enough."
She cared deeply about the Previous Civilization.
Not only because this world was where she had been born.
She was also thinking ahead. If she truly left this world someday to visit Star Rail or other worlds, then this world would be her home base.
It just would not feel right if she did not take proper care of it~
To put it more extravagantly, she could cherish her own territory however she wished. Since it belonged to her, it was only right that she cared about it a little more.
It was nothing much.
PS1: Here is the second update. I will keep it up tomorrow too—let's keep working hard~~
Kiana: Not Satisfied... Then I'll Keep Updating.
"My dear Kiana, what are you reading?" Elysia walked over lightly with a milk salad in hand, wearing pink little bunny slippers. She bent slightly and curiously glanced at the book cover.
"Video Editing: From Beginner to Master?"
She looked somewhat surprised.
"Kiana, do you want to make video edits?"
"I'm just taking a look... You know, because of the heavens. I'm a little curious..." Kiana smiled and parted her lips slightly. Elysia expertly picked up a spoon and fed her a bite.
Unlike Mobius, who needed to stay busy,
Elysia and Kiana were both unemployed vagrants now.
Oh, no.
Elysia had never even gone to school.
She was the real unemployed vagrant.
As for Kiana, she was on indefinite leave from school.
Because the school was still under construction.
Elysia and Kiana's Mother did not have much of an opinion about Kiana reading books on video production.
After all, being idle at home was still being idle. Reading was quite nice.
They just did not know
that Kiana was not reading because she was bored.
She truly wanted to learn something.
That was why she planned to make use of her rest time.
After all,
some things looked simple, but only once you actually got your hands on them did you realize there were plenty of tricks involved.
Although Yuzu was the content creator standing beneath the spotlight,
Kiana was the one pulling the strings behind the scenes.
By now, there had already been three installments of the heavenly videos.
Across those three installments, it was clear that Kiana's production ideas had gradually improved.
Just think about it.
During the first installment,
Kiana had simply and dryly revealed the concept of Honkai, along with illustrations of some Honkai Beasts and zombies. Then she had explained that she was Finality and mentioned some of Finality's settings.
Other than that,
was there really anything else?
Well,
perhaps that had been good too.
But in her view,
the only reason her videos had received such praise and created such a huge response just as expected
was because she had genuinely revealed things.
There had not really been anything else to them.
Then, the second time,
she consciously began adding all sorts of fabricated photos, video materials, books, and murals. They showed that the history described by the future content creator had truly existed, that it had left traces behind, making it more convincing.
That
was progress.
As for the third time...
Before you continue