I'm Not a Flame-Chaser

He walked unfazed through the dazzling scenes of these worlds he could never have experienced, while Night Owl followed behind him, staring even more bewildered at Lin's back after seeing these sights.

"These are all yours..."

"None of these are me," Lin retorted firmly to Night Owl, his dark pupils remaining unmoved. "I am right here."

Compared to Lin's calmness, the ripples that Night Owl saw about the possible aftermath of his death disturbed his peace of mind.

"Are you... are you alright?!" After struggling with her inner turmoil, Anna rushed towards the girl whose legs had been crushed.

The chestnut-haired girl rescued Chen Tianwen as he wished, and they escaped safely to the shelter. In the end, Chen Tianwu and Chen Tianwen were reunited, having survived the Honkai that took everything from him.

Yes, it was a perfect ending. At least for Chen Tianwu, nothing could have been better. Chen Tianwen was alive, and Anna's image in his heart had not collapsed.

Perhaps the only downside is Anna.

The owl saw more information about Anna.

She was born into the Saniyat, one of the three great families of Schicksal. She joined Schicksal as Valkyrie without any doubt. When the Mania Honkai broke out, she had already become A-rank Valkyrie, but her squad, including the captain, was almost completely wiped out.

When the owl saw Anna abandon Chen Tianwen and choose to escape, it was shortly after her Snow Lotus Squad had fallen apart and lost contact. She retreated to the rendezvous point to wait for the other team members.

Along the way, the fear of death made her deaf to the cries for help from the refugees in need of rescue. She was fleeing hell, fleeing the mocking voices of the demons emanating from hell.

"I...I abandoned them..."

Anna knelt at the rendezvous point; no other team members had evacuated there, only she.

She clutched her chest, which felt as if it had been struck by a heavy hammer, and gasped for breath. She knew that the moment she abandoned the girl and ran away, she had become an incurable deserter.

It wasn't the Honkai that killed them, but her.

Anna Saniyat.

Night Owl coldly observed Anna, who was clutching her head and weeping in anguish. He felt no hatred for Anna, but rather a very tranquil emotion, so peaceful that even he found it unbelievable.

He learned why Anna had abandoned Chen Tianwen: she was afraid of death, just like him, just like everyone else, fearing the possibility of death at any moment, so she ran away.

There was no other reason, no deeper cause for distress.

Lin is right. Night Owl is just confusing the Anna he imagines with the real Anna. The Anna who saved him and the Anna who is now weakly sobbing are the same person. She is just an ordinary person.

After trembling and crying, the chestnut-haired girl's necklace fell in front of her. She picked it up blankly, looking at the crystal-clear Azure Moon in her hand, and remembered her original intention to become Valkyrie.

The trembling stopped.

Under the watchful eye of Night Owl, she stood up, revealing the resolute expression Night Owl was familiar with. She wiped away her tears and returned to the ruins of Manila, her figure gradually disappearing as Lin and Night Owl silently gazed at her.

Night Owl already knows what happened after that.

This is the real Anna. She was afraid of death and ran away, abandoning Chen Tianwen, but in the end, she was not afraid of death and returned to the battlefield to save Chen Tianwu.

"... What are your thoughts right now?" Lin asked Night Owl, who was looking down at the necklace in his hand, with his arms crossed.

"I don't know." After learning all this, Night Owl was not relieved, but even more confused. "Is all of this my fault? Because I placed unnecessary expectations on Anna, but when she saved me, she had already given up on Awen."

"It's not your fault, nor is it her fault. You can't possibly have no feelings for Anna Saniyat, who saved you, and Anna Saniyat did nothing wrong, whether she ran away or saved someone."

People always want to determine right and wrong, but if everyone is right, the world will be a better place; if everyone is wrong, the world will be a worse place.

"What should I do...?"

Night Owl murmured the bewilderment in his heart. Chen Tianwu's heart was filled with emptiness, and the void that leaked out made him unable to distinguish the direction in front of him.

Lin Mo glanced at Night Owl silently. He thought of Hua, the girl who lost everything in the Third Honkai War and also couldn't find her inner direction.

Not everyone can go on without support, so Hua, Raven, and Night Owl are all looking for support.

Lin exhaled a breath of stale air, approached the gray-haired man, looked down at the bewildered soul, and questioned him word by word, "Tell me, who do you think Anna Saniyat is?"

"I have no idea."

"I know."

"You know..."

"Her name is Anna Saniyat, A-rank Valkyrie of Schicksal."

"..."

"I also know who you are, Night Owl, real name Chen Tianwu, former World Serpent executive."

"..."

Lin spread her hands and said softly to the man, "Knowing yourself and knowing others isn't that difficult. You've come to know Anna Saniyat in a new light, but neither of you has changed, have you?"

The "Rebirth" of the Sky: Chapter Thirty - The Imaginary Divine Remains

"... I still can't accept it." Night Owl took a deep breath. He didn't quite agree with Lin's explanation, but he wasn't against it either. What he cared about more was something else. "Why have you been helping me all this time? It's unnecessary, isn't it?"

"You are Herrscher, and with proper guidance, you could become a powerful asset to humanity, just like Kiana." Lin had nothing to hide and openly told Night Owl his thoughts. "Moreover, you are another of my students. Since he believes you can still turn back, I have no reason to give up on you."

This feeling was indescribable for Night Owl; he was a little scared, much like the feeling he had when he first met Anna.

He suppressed his complicated emotions and forced a dry laugh, saying, "You're not quite the Lin I know. At least you're more... gentle."

Night Owl wasn't sure if the Lin in that place would make the same decision as this Lin, but it was clear that the current Lin was more talkative, gentler, and more humane.

"It's just your imagination. I've simply experienced more than him."

"I'll consider what you said, but for now, let's leave."

After understanding the whole story, Night Owl felt only peace towards Anna. The Anna he had in his heart had never existed, and as for the real Anna ...

He doesn't care.

"One of them is approaching us."

Kiana sensed that one of the two forest creatures had broken away from the other two and was moving at high speed in their direction. Even if she was slow to react, she realized that something was very wrong.

"... This is troublesome." Yan Luo knew Lin's situation inside and out, and she didn't expect that the Herrscher within him could be resurrected and even lure them all here.

What's more troublesome is that Yan Luo isn't confident she can defeat the Herrscher of Binding. In her world, it's manageable because with Chronos around, she can easily shatter the entire continent where the Herrscher resides.

But now she's caught in the middle, and if she uses Honkai Energy, she's no match for the Herrscher of Binding.

However, she wasn't nervous. Instead, she quickly recalled the scene of her fight with Lin in her mind, and then gave Rita and Kiana some simple instructions.

The moment the white-haired man stepped into a new area, he sensed something was wrong. A maid with short, gray-gold hair charged at him. He instinctively raised his chains to defend himself, trying to block the attack. However, he didn't notice that two figures were rapidly approaching from behind. By the time he reacted, gunshots rang out. He used his chains to shield his back, but his legs were shattered and he fell to the ground.

A shadowy figure, faster than anyone else, appeared behind him, raised its hand as a knife, and stabbed the white-haired man in the back with a hand chop.

"Laugh!"

"Waaah!"

Yan Luo confirmed the location of the white-haired man's core. Once the core was extracted and controlled, even the Herrscher of Binding Honkai, a Honkai Slayer, wouldn't be able to...

I found it! This is his Herrscher Core!

Yan Luo grabbed the core, activated the Honkai Energy, and prepared to extract the core in one go!

"Bang!"

A loud bang.

The scenery before my eyes was changing so fast that my eyes couldn't keep up.

Pain receptors cannot keep up with consciousness.

Even Yan Luo, in those fractions of a second, didn't have time to process what was happening. She was still slightly relieved to have touched the core of the white-haired man, but now she was no longer in the same place.

Or rather, her "upper body" is no longer in its original position.

"Clatter".

Yan Luo crashed heavily to the ground. She immediately used her hands to push herself up, but...

"Gurgle?"

A mouthful of blood flowed from the bewildered mouth of Yan Luo, who looked down at her body.

It's gone.

The body from the waist down to the legs was gone, leaving only a gruesome tear. Through the cross-section, she could see the still-beating internal organs and the blood gushing out like water.

Her lower body remained in place, but after losing her upper body, she slowly collapsed to the ground.

Rita and Kiana were caught off guard when Yan Luo was sent flying and collapsed to the ground, near death.

Kiana rushed towards Yan Luo as soon as she came to her senses, while Rita cried out, "Miss Kiana, wait..."

"Boom!"

Kiana's pupils contracted. She didn't feel it the first time, but the second time, being more on guard, she clearly sensed an abnormal change in the "time" around her.

A massive, golden sword slashed at her from behind from another dimension. From Kiana's perspective, both Rita and Yan Luo seemed to be frozen in place, completely motionless. It was almost as if...

Time stood still.

Kiana gritted her teeth, drew her twin pistols, and ignored the screams emanating from her body as she turned to meet the greatsword. She fired a shot at the end of the greatsword, and the bullet, infused with the Imaginary Energy of the Herrscher of the Void, easily shattered the greatsword and deflected its trajectory.

As the sword's edge brushed past her and the stench of death swept over her head, Kiana felt a chill run down her spine.

Time began to flow again. Rita looked at the giant sword that had suddenly appeared with surprise and doubt, while the Herrscher of Binding had escaped with her life, calmly raised her head, glanced at the three people present, and then got up and rushed in another direction without hesitation.

No one could stop him, and he had no desire to fight. This was not only because he had not yet completed his ascension, but more importantly, because he had discovered "something" in this crevice.

If we stay here any longer, we'll probably end up like Yan Luo King of Hell.

"Cough cough... gulp..."

Yan Luo struggled in the pool of blood. Having lost her lower body, her breath became extremely weak in an instant. Countless drops of blood flowed from her mouth and the cut surface, draining her life force from her body.

"You... you..."

Kiana rushed to her side, but was helpless in her current situation. She couldn't even utter a single word, her fingers were trembling. Having lost half of her body, there was no way she could survive, even if Yan Luo was Herrscher.

"The knife... my knife..."

Yan Luo's bloodless lips trembled violently, her eyes turning to her sword lying to the side. Kiana hurriedly picked up the weapon with a white scabbard and a black blade; she didn't want to think about anything now, she could only do as she was told.

This is someone Lin knows. She doesn't know what their relationship is, but that person has been losing things all his life. If Yan Luo were to die, he would probably show a sad expression again.

Yan Luo gritted her teeth, gripped the strangely shaped weapon, and then stared intently at Kiana's back.

Kiana sensed something and turned around in surprise.

A colossal black figure pierced through the light barrier of space, wielding a golden greatsword, like the Grim Reaper descending upon the world.

P. S.: This month has been so hectic, I've been busy with so many things since I got home. Things will get back on track next month.

The "Rebirth" of the Sky: Chapter Thirty-One - The Remains of the Three Beauties, the God of War

What is this...?

Kiana was filled with unease the moment she saw the black mechanical giant wielding a golden greatsword; a sense of horror, as if something that shouldn't exist in the world, emanated from the giant.

Although it appeared to be a man-made mechanical structure, its movements were completely biological. When the other's head looked in the direction of Kiana and Yan Luo, every cell in her body trembled.

"This is really... troublesome..."

The slightly weak clenching of teeth beside her brought Kiana back to her senses. She turned to look at the dying Yan Luo, only to be surprised to find that Yan Luo, who had been cut in half at the waist, had regenerated her limbs. Her cheongsam turned into specks of light and disappeared, and the bandages binding her body were wrapped around her skin. Apart from looking a little strained as she leaned on her sword, she didn't look like she had just been on the verge of death.

A series of unexpected events occurred, and even Yan Luo was careless. She has barely survived using the Zero Rated Power of the Black Abyss White Flower, but she will undoubtedly enter a very long period of weakness and is no match for the black giant in front of her.

So close to the Imaginary Tree, and with the Imaginary Singularity there, a low-level Imaginary Number creation was lurking in the cracks. I should have thought that such a "thing" might also appear, but I never expected to be attracted by that guy.

"I'll hold it off, Rita, you take her away." Kiana didn't have time to think about why Yan Luo had returned to normal. She could see that Yan Luo was now weak and powerless, so she pushed her towards Rita without hesitation, and then turned to face the black giant that was beginning to approach.

"Idiot... that's not an opponent you can hold off right now, and trying to escape the pursuit of this 'thing' in the gaps of imaginary numbers is pure wishful thinking."

Rita was stunned for a moment and before she could catch Yan Luo, he steadied himself, gave her a cold look, and then raised his sword to Kiana and said, "This is the Imaginary Tree Divine Remnant, which is beyond the explanation of common sense. It can manipulate time to a certain extent, so you, the Herrscher of the Void, should be able to feel the disharmony around it when it activates its power."

Manipulating... time?

Such terrifying words uttered so casually by Yan Luo, even Rita swallowed hard. Staring at the slow-moving yet resolute monster heading in their direction, she forced a smile and said, "This... Miss Yan Luo, manipulating time... it can't be the kind I understand, can it? That would overturn the laws of physics..."

"The laws of physics were overturned more than once when Honkai Energy was discovered. In this world where Honkai Energy exists, everything Honkai Energy. The laws of physics are just a 'beep-' girl that has been forcibly 'beep-' countless times."

Yan Luo, without changing her expression, uttered a stunning statement. After a few words, her condition improved slightly. This space was already filled with a massive amount of Honkai Energy, so replenishing energy was not difficult for Herrscher.

Rita was somewhat bewildered at this moment; she hadn't even fully grasped the situation before it had developed into the current predicament.

"Looks like we still have to make a move, Miss Kiana. It's surprising that we still have a chance to join forces after Sky City." Rita sighed, raised her scythe, and casually teased Kiana, who was standing next to her with a serious expression.

"I advise you... to be more serious, or you'll die."