"You don't need to know the exact reason. You only need to know that a fission bomb could fall on this city at any moment."
Her expression was stern and serious. She was not joking.
Just moments ago, Fang Jie had been unable to suppress the corners of his mouth. Now, he was stunned for a moment.
He knew what a fission bomb was. A nuclear bomb—except it was a more powerful Honkai fission bomb made with Honkai technology.
Chang Kong City was in for a blessing?
No, why? Was there anything like this in the original plot?
He clearly remembered that after Raiden Mei was taken into custody, Schicksal had lost much of its interest in Chang Kong City. At the very least, St. Freya Academy of the Far East Branch had barely interfered, even allowing the Pseudo-Herrscher Sato Yuno to emerge.
What did a Honkai fission bomb mean? What exactly was...
Wait!
Could it be that Kiana's journey had been too safe? He had casually killed those Honkai Beasts that could have forced Kiana to her knees, so there had been no chance for her to be injured while protecting Raiden Mei, then for the Herrscher of Thunder to manifest, and then...
Damn it!!
Himeko and Theresa had no idea that Raiden Mei was the Herrscher of Thunder! If her Herrscher persona did not erupt, Raiden Mei looked like nothing more than a weak Valkyrie!
Other than Anti-Entropy and that damn Otto, nobody in the Far East Branch knew about this—let alone the powers that could decide whether to launch a Honkai fission bomb.
If that Honkai fission bomb came down...
Could he count on Otto to stop it?
When did people laugh out loud?
Anyway, Fang Jie's smile was ugly whenever he was speechless.
He had long prepared for countless possibilities. Especially since he would most likely come into contact with that old thing, Honkai Gakuen 2, his assumptions had been extremely realistic from the start.
So, the bad situation before him—
Chang Kong City was a dilapidated house. One kick was all it took for a whole pile of Herrschers to jump out.
Raiden Mei was still at a stage where she could not withstand stimulation. If her hometown got nuked... she probably would not be transferred to the Hyperion, where fighting was still required. Instead, she would take a plane to the artificial island where St. Freya Academy stood, its combat strength currently severely lacking.
And Kiana would be with her.
Could Kiana stop the Herrscher of Thunder alone?
She would probably end up creating the Herrscher of the Void in return.
Even if Honkai energy was insufficient and Sirin was still weak... take a guess: would St. Freya Academy, which professionally trained Valkyries, lack Honkai energy?
Not to mention Old Yang, Old Yang, you...
A weakened Herrscher of Reason, and one with the purest heroic personality at that—would he retreat after seeing the Herrscher of Thunder erupt at St. Freya Academy, where he was undercover? Of course not. He would definitely step up.
He would fight while coughing blood, and facing Raiden Mei, the daughter of Raiden Ryoma—the subordinate in whom he had personally implanted the Gem of Conquest—he would most likely be unable to deal a killing blow. Instead, he would try to awaken her conscious will.
At such a deadlock, Sirin would emerge and launch a sneak attack!
She could not even tolerate Siegfried. If she saw Old Yang...
What a rotten world. Sirin would reclaim the Herrscher of Reason's Core and make her grand return, then seize the Gem of Conquest. Two-Core Sirin would be enough to suppress Kiana, reconnect to the Imaginary Space, keep swelling until she got beaten down, and create Pseudo-Herrschers with a wave of her hand.
And do not think Chang Kong City would be fine just because Raiden Mei and Kiana were gone. Did a Honkai fission bomb really have the power to suppress everything?
It could eliminate some Honkai Beasts, perhaps, but Honkai Beasts... as long as Honkai energy remained, would they not keep appearing endlessly? If anything, eliminating them might cause the dispersed Honkai energy to catalyze the growth of Pseudo-Herrschers.
Sato Yuno absolutely could. Easily.
And a violent attack might also awaken the Pseudo-Herrscher Yae Sakura, who had been sleeping here since Yae Village five hundred years ago, and Suzu, the Herrscher of Corruption from fifty thousand years ago.
The Herrscher of Corruption.
All she needed to do was appear, and Otto would offer her an immortal body made from ninety percent of the world's Soul Steel. The Black Serpent would offer her fifty thousand years of intelligence from across the world. Every human nation would offer her weapons capable of destroying humanity.
The Great Eruption in Chang Kong City had already begun awakening her and Yae Sakura. Fang Jie did not dare imagine how lively things would become if a Honkai fission bomb came down.
Nobody should wait for Kiana to become the End and save the beautiful world. Just go join Patriarch Kevin and live the Stigmata life.
What? I don't have a Stigmata?
Don't worry. Patriarch Kevin was still in the sea and could not climb out.
Damn it!!
Fang Jie's mind worked very quickly now, especially when he was letting his imagination run wild. Perhaps this was merely his wild imagination. Everyone could gamble on it...
Preparedness ensured success; lack of preparation ensured failure!
He had been happily planning for the future before suddenly getting hit by a Great Eruption. How was he supposed to stay optimistic?
If that really happened, who else could stop it? Cecilia was already dead, Siegfried had lost an arm, and Bianca had traveled far into the World Bubbles with Rita, Schicksal's only S-rank Valkyrie at this point in time.
Fu Hua? Leaving aside that Otto had already transferred her from the Far East Branch back to Schicksal, she could not even use Tai Xu Sword Qi anymore.
Theresa? Same thing. Do not be fooled by the fact that she was here—after constantly taking her grandfather's Judah's Shadow, she had even forgotten how to use Judah's Zeroth Power, God's Grace Barrier.
The S-rank Theresa who, if Otto had not stabbed her in the back, had nearly quelled the Second Great Eruption alone—her current level...
She had even suffered two setbacks against the Pseudo-Herrscher Sato Yuno.
What would become of our Honkai 3?
Wa↗ ta↘ shi↗...
I'll end it with my own hands!
Fang Jie hurriedly called out to Himeko, who was highly efficient and had already walked far away. His voice sounded like the cry of a malicious ghost roaring from hell.
"You can't leave!"
Himeko heard the... overwhelming resentment in his voice. When she turned around, there was no light left in his eyes.
"What, what is it?"
She was utterly baffled. What had suddenly happened?
Looking at Fang Jie, who seemed to be carrying the resolve to die, even the Houkai Valkyrie on the battlefield was startled.
"Little man, I don't have time to keep wasting. You have your path, and I have things I need to do."
Behind her was burning Chang Kong City. The city Fang Jie had always thought was already dead now vaguely showed cherry blossoms blooming thickly on the branches lining its streets.
With her back to that backdrop—which could still be saved, really, there was no need to give up treatment, it could still be saved—a tall beauty one meter sixty-seven in height, or one meter seventy-five in the high heels that could kick Honkai Beasts to death, stood proudly. Her full-moon breasts could barely be contained by her fiery armor, yet she displayed her ambition openly. She seemed to contain a soul-hooking magic, breathtakingly stunning.
At that moment, Fang Jie, who had been immersed in the thrill of battle, in leveling up, in ordering power to obey him, and had cared little for anything else, decided to do something.
Perhaps because a good woman like her might not even live to see the Final Lesson.
But what was the use of stopping her? Himeko was indeed beautiful, and wonderful, but what could she do at a time like this?
And besides, revealing that he knew so much would expose that he knew so much...
You brat are extremely suspicious!
Then—
With all the instruments of torture currently at hand, I'm sure we can pry open your mouth.jpg
"Raiden Mei is the Herrscher of Thunder."
Fang Jie still exposed Raiden Mei.
And he did it behind her back.
The consequences of this for the future would be immeasurable. But right now, there was truly no time to waste. Himeko, who had to put her life on the line and find the Herrscher of Thunder so Theresa could subdue her...
Did I just hallucinate?
She thought.
Her pretty face froze, her small mouth slightly open in stunned disbelief.
"Kid, this isn't something you can joke about!"
Her expression was serious—more serious than before. Raiden Mei had just boarded a fighter jet and been transferred out of Chang Kong City... No, St. Freya Academy. What if the Great Eruption erupted there again?!
Houkai blazed fiercely!
No one could see how that slender waist, those hips as broad as her shoulders, and those perfectly proportioned long legs moved. It was as though the world had stopped, while she appeared before him in an instant.
There was none of her earlier gentleness. One hand seized Fang Jie's already tattered hoodie at the chest, lifting him one-handed and pulling him close. He could clearly feel the pressure she exuded.
But she was not merely a ripe persimmon, beautiful enough to make one want to take a bite—though she was about to ripen fully.
"Tell me you're joking, right?!"
Her golden eyes seemed to burn as she gritted her teeth, full of pressure.
"I'm certain. You only need to inspect her a little to find the Gem of Conquest inside her body."
Fang Jie did not resist. Of course, he did not put down the Composite Blade: Willow Leaf in his hand either, adding more weight to his words.
"So you absolutely must stop the Honkai fission bomb from falling. Otherwise—"
"Otherwise, my ass!"
With a bang, the irritable Himeko was no longer a good woman. She pulled herself even closer to Fang Jie and smashed her forehead into his. What a hard skull—not armor, just her skull being absurdly hard.
Dazed, Fang Jie felt dazed.
He had a concussion, right?
He blanked out for a while in his dizziness. He seemed to hear an enormous sound, then shook his head and saw a figure descending from the sky—lofty, commanding, coldly majestic, incomparably powerful, and overflowing with tyrannical intent.
That aura shook heaven and earth. It carried the powerful will to trample the disaster of death covering the land underfoot, stirring the winds and clouds and making the heavens, already disturbed by the birth of the Herrscher of Thunder, grow even darker as wind and rain approached.
Then a little shorty dropped down carrying a cross.
More accurately, she had not even waited to arrange transportation. She jumped straight off the Hyperion's deck, making a hardcore airborne landing.
The one who had come with such hostility was none other than the world's number one cutest.
"I heard everything he said, Himeko. Do you think it's credible?" Theresa's tone was extremely calm, but anyone could hear the determination she was suppressing.
"It isn't credible."
Himeko's tone was poor, and her mood was worse. Even if she immediately went after them... the Far East was too small, but the military fighter jets fleeing the Great Eruption were too fast. At times like this, everything was done with decisive efficiency. Three minutes was enough to reach St. Freya Academy. What use was chasing them now?
Would they have to fight a Herrscher there?
Damn it!!
Even if they won, the fate of the Schicksal assault squad would be the fate of St. Freya Academy: total annihilation.
She wore this armor and went to war so she would not betray the lives of her subordinates. Yet one moment of carelessness might cause those students, who were not even qualified to become her subordinates yet, to die.
"But we can't afford not to believe it, can we?"
Theresa understood that Himeko was not speaking in anger. She was simply too furious, furious that she had let a Herrscher escape right under her nose—and one she had personally "rescued"...
"Hey, kid." Theresa had absolutely no intention of rescuing Fang Jie from Himeko's grasp. She even kicked him, asking in a tone powerful enough to nearly break his leg, "I won't ask why you know so much, or why you didn't say it immediately. What else do you know?"
Theresa was anxious too—perhaps even more anxious than Himeko. But precisely because of that, she remained calm.
She had already returned empty-handed once because of intelligence. Now, she calmly interrogated him for more.
I know plenty.
Fang Jie, who could teleport away at any time, did not leave. After taking a kick from the world's number one cutest, he bared his teeth in pain. "I do know something else. Kiana is with Raiden Mei."
"Kiana... who?"
Theresa was baffled. Then she became slightly distracted. But what did Kiana have to do with this? The Kiana she knew... Cecilia and Siegfried's daughter was already dead.
Back in 2007, Kiana Kaslana had been struck in the head by an aircraft dispatched by Otto while leaving Schicksal with her father, Siegfried. She had fallen from an altitude of ten thousand meters into the endless snowy mountains and vanished.
That was everything she knew about the name Kiana... No, wait!
Theresa's calm expression suddenly twisted for an instant. With a wave of her hand, she brought up the "civilian" footage recorded by the communicator before her—footage she had not paid attention to earlier. When she saw Kiana's unmistakably Kaslana-like appearance, a savage glint burst from her eyes. "Which Kiana are you talking about?"
That ferocity—no, that erupting presence—instantly suppressed Himeko's anger, unwillingness, and frustration...
A mere A-rank.
Like a flame that could be snuffed out at any time, she instinctively stood at attention and released Fang Jie, whom she had been gripping the entire time.
Fang Jie staggered. His leg hurt like hell, but he should secretly be happy Theresa had not kicked him down to her height.
"Of course, I mean Siegfried's daughter, Kiana."
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