Honkai: My Solo Salvation
Chapter 35

Honkai, I Alone Save Everything

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8mo ago

Reanna, who had already woken up, stood up and said slowly to everyone:

"Inspired by the Berlin disaster three years ago, headquarters secretly developed a bomb capable of instantly recreating the destructive power of a Honkai outbreak – the Honkai Fission Bomb."

As Schicksal's chief Valkyrie, she knew many secrets that the branches were unaware of.

"What is that...?"

Joyce asked, somewhat confused.

"...The Honkai Fission Bomb, through a physical chain reaction, artificially gathers and detonates a large amount of Honkai energy from the Imaginary side in an extremely short period, thereby achieving the effect of destroying everything around it," Reanna explained.

Precisely because of its terrifying destructive power, the experts and scholars who developed it unanimously regarded it as the ultimate trump card for future confrontations with Herrschers and Honkai Beasts.

Unexpectedly, it was now being used on their own people first.

Reanna glanced at Joyce. Well... in a sense, it was indeed being used against a Herrscher.

The production of the Honkai Fission Bomb was extremely troublesome and tedious in this era. Even with Schicksal's current financial and research capabilities, they could only produce one every ten years.

Therefore, it could be considered Otto's last resort, his final trump card to eliminate dissent.

All they needed to do was to deal with it in the coming moments.

After her explanation, everyone quickly understood what they were about to face.

Joyce said with some difficulty:

"If that Honkai Fission Bomb explodes here..."

Reanna nodded and said calmly:

"That's right. Not only would we be unable to protect ourselves, but all the efforts Miss Edison and Ming Yu made earlier to protect this city would also be rendered meaningless."

"...This is too absurd!"

The blue-haired youth clenched his fists.

"Don't worry, I have a plan that can counter Otto's final move."

Reanna said with a smile.

As a battle-hardened warrior, she could always find a way to survive in despair.

Then, she calmly explained her plan to everyone:

It was a very simple principle: before the Honkai Fission Bomb hit the ground and exploded, use the withering power of the Abyss Flower to destroy its detonation device in mid-air.

Her Soulium body was equipped with rocket thrusters. It was this mobility that she had used to quickly approach Edison with Ming Yu earlier.

As long as she could accurately pinpoint the missile's location, she could approach it in the air.

Of course, as participants in this close-range tactic, she and her Abyss Flower would inevitably be affected and lose their tactical value afterward.

To be precise, the specially crafted Abyss Flower might survive the Honkai outbreak and merely fall into the sea, but the ordinary Soulium that constituted Reanna herself would likely evaporate under the impact of that level of Honkai energy and high temperature.

The Valkyrie named Reanna would then completely disappear from this world.

"However, even if I successfully destroy the detonation device, due to the excessive kinetic energy, this missile, which inherently stores a certain amount of Honkai energy, will still continue to fly with immense inertia, land within the city, and cause destruction."

Reanna continued.

Although it would no longer be able to perform an instantaneous attack through a chain reaction, for ordinary people and buildings, it would still be a world-ending assault accompanied by Honkai energy infection, capable of destroying more than half of the city.

"Therefore, Welt, I need you... to protect this city from the aftermath, at all costs, after I disable the Honkai Fission Bomb."

Reanna requested.

This was not a casual request.

She had previously witnessed how the power of the Star of Eden could construct an energy shield to protect its user.

Therefore, by amplifying the power of the Star of Eden based on this foundation and principle, a shield capable of protecting the entire city could be created.

—A giant barrier with a radius of twenty kilometers.

"However, this level of creation out of nothingness could potentially exceed your Honkai energy output limit and endanger your life..."

Reanna warned.

"I agree with this plan."

Joyce said directly, without hesitation.

Einstein seemed to want to say something more, but ultimately chose to remain silent.

The atmosphere suddenly became very heavy, and no one spoke.

"Everyone, I have a plan that achieves the best of both worlds, perhaps without anyone needing to sacrifice themselves. Would you like to hear it?"

At this moment, Ming Yu suddenly spoke.

Perhaps it was because he was not a "character in the play," but when Joyce and the others were considering countermeasures, they wouldn't actively include his abilities in their considerations unless he brought them up himself.

If it were just Joyce and Reanna, facing that Honkai Fission Bomb, they likely would have no other choice but to repeat what had already happened in history.

But if he could help... everything would be very different.

"What plan?"

Tesla asked urgently, as if waking from a deep dream.

"Just as you saw earlier, I can launch objects using the principle of electromagnetic induction, and before they hit the target, I can continuously accelerate them to increase their power and speed."

Ming Yu explained:

"If it were just ordinary objects, even metal made of Soulium, after exceeding a certain distance, they would burn up due to the high temperature from air friction. But now... we have a special projectile."

He beckoned slightly, drawing the Star of Eden, which had rolled onto the ground, to his side.

That's right, this was the special projectile he mentioned.

In terms of size and shape, it was extremely suitable to be launched as a projectile for a railgun.

Moreover, its special material as a Divine Key could ensure its structural integrity before it hit the target.

"As long as the angle is right, the power is sufficient, and the coordinates are accurate... I can launch this projectile and precisely hit that Honkai Fission Bomb."

Replacing Reanna's sacrifice with the Star of Eden.

Of course, if it were only this, it would still be far from enough.

Ming Yu said solemnly:

"Joyce, I need you to remotely activate its zero-rated power the moment the Star of Eden hits the Honkai Fission Bomb."

Joyce, who already knew all the information about the Star of Eden, knew that its zero-rated power was the creation of something called a [Pseudo-Black Hole].

Black Hole—he had read about this physics concept in Einstein's papers before.

In most cases, a true black hole is the result of gravitational collapse in the core of a star whose mass exceeds three times that of the sun, after its nuclear fusion fuel is exhausted.

Everything would eventually collapse into a single point, around which an almost infinite gravitational force would capture everything.

Nothing could escape its grasp, not even light, not even... Honkai energy.

Although the pseudo-black hole created by the power of the Divine Key was far less powerful than a true black hole, its effect was similar, only its range of influence was limited to the surroundings of the pseudo-black hole.

"...You intend to use the pseudo-black hole created by the Star of Eden to devour that Honkai Fission Bomb?"

Joyce suddenly understood Ming Yu's plan.

As long as the Star of Eden could hit the Honkai Fission Bomb and instantly create a pseudo-black hole, the properties of the black hole could be used to completely devour the Honkai Fission Bomb.

Both the detonation device within and the warhead loaded with Honkai energy would be completely absorbed by the black hole, thus preventing the destructive power that would level the city.

From this perspective, it could be considered a rather perfect plan.

Ming Yu nodded and said, "This requires the combined efforts of the three of us. Reanna will provide precise coordinate information from the air, I will launch the Star of Eden, and then you... will create the pseudo-black hole."

Without any one of them, this plan could not be completed.

Reanna took a deep breath and agreed to the plan:

"I agree with this plan."

The rest of the group naturally had no objections.

One was a plan that would sacrifice two people, and the other was a plan that could bring a happy ending to everyone. The choice was obvious.

With less than ten minutes left before the Honkai Fission Bomb reached the city, the group did not hesitate too much and immediately divided their tasks.

Although Ming Yu had already fired a railgun while saving Edison earlier, expending most of his strength, he had also found sufficient energy replenishment for the upcoming shot.

—Several power lines pulled from nearby were wrapped around him, and he was now frantically drawing electricity from the city.

Living in a modern society, obtaining electricity was not a difficult task at all.

Although it might cause a temporary power outage in a nearby area, it was better than letting the Honkai Fission Bomb land.

Reanna had already taken Joyce into the sky to find a suitable observation point.

Endless electric light converged around Ming Yu and then condensed in his hand.

The azure Star of Eden was guided by electromagnetism and was currently rotating in a preheating manner.

Einstein, Tesla, and the others were precisely calculating the launch angle of the Star of Eden based on the coordinates and data transmitted by Reanna.

Soon, after completing the calculations, Tesla looked up and rushed forward, adjusting Ming Yu's angle, while ordering, "In five seconds, fire fiercely in this direction!"

Ming Yu nodded, concentrating on controlling the Star of Eden in his hand, loading the projectile, ready to fire.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1—

Railgun · Star of Eden VER, launch.

An azure shooting star rose from the ground, soaring into the sky at a speed that ordinary people could not perceive.

And unlike the previous purple meteor, this time it was a meteor that brought hope.

"—Let the tyrant in the sky properly see the stars shatter."

Hello everyone, this is the weak author who just finished updating six chapters for the loli.

Anyway, first off, I'm hoping for some votes, blades, and first subscriptions.

From when this book was started to when it was put on the shelves, only three weeks have actually passed.

I originally planned to put it on the shelves before National Day, a legendary two-week rapid launch—because I wanted to participate in a National Day limited-time coding event, but due to my weak coding ability and the onset of laziness, I ended up delaying it by another week.

In short, the time has come for it to be shelved.

Unknowingly, this is the fourth book I've started on this account. (Actually, there was one more, but it's been completely and humanely destroyed as dark history lol)

One was Genshin Impact, one was Genshin Impact X Honkai, and one was Honkai.

As for the theme of the fourth book, as expected, I've chosen Honkai as the theme.

Although I had considered writing a work when Blue Archive launched, after looking at BA's popularity with cats, I gave up.

The cheat ability I gave the protagonist in the last book was the ability to travel between two worlds. This time, I'm not going to be so fancy; I plan to write a good story within a single world.

I wonder if anyone has figured out which work the protagonist Ming Yu's rewind cheat ability is based on. I'll mention it here: it's the ability of the Rat from a very obscure work by Nisio Isin, "Juni Taisen: Zodiac War."

(Although the anime was quite bad and poorly animated, I surprisingly quite liked it.)

Of course, there are many works with time rewind themes, and the rewind abilities are more or less the same, like Steins;Gate and Re:Zero, etc.

However, simply using time rewind as a cheat ability makes it difficult to write brilliantly and support a long story.

(Readers who have read my previous two books should know that my works are generally planned with a target of at least a million characters.)

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