Honkai's Thousand Laws, Kidnapping Kiana at the Start

As he left with his sister in his arms, he suddenly understood that the sacred mountain he protected was a beautiful fantasy, and the sacred mountain his sister protected was himself.

After escaping the sea of fire, he gently placed his sister's body against the steps. Chris sat on the steps, his sister leaning against him.

He clicked open the farewell letter, listening to his sister's last voice.

"To my dearest brother, your birthday gift, I've already prepared it..."

Bang—!

A cold bullet shattered the phone along with Chris's palm.

"Report, officer, suspect has been hit. They appear to be calling for accomplices and have been apprehended."

"Maintain vigilance. The criminal is too dangerous; absolutely do not let them leave the scene."

The police officer from Oaxaca lowered his communicator, his eyes fixed on the towering flames as he took a deep breath.

"To escape pursuit, they won't even spare their own family? What a cold-blooded individual."

"But to walk out of such an intense inferno... that so-called Schicksal Valkyrie must have already betrayed them. How could an ordinary person accomplish something like this?"

Countless alarms blared throughout the entire district. To carry out this arrest, Oaxaca State had deployed nearly half of its police force. Although Schicksal had repeatedly guaranteed that the Valkyries would uphold their will, how could naturally suspicious humans easily believe them?

Only monsters could fight against those colossal Honkai monsters.

And if they were monsters, then they were enemies of humanity. Even with the appearance of human females, the Honkai embedded within them had long ago rewritten their genes. Who could guarantee that someone with a monster's power wouldn't betray them?

This was the thought of most ordinary people, a concept Schicksal hadn't managed to change in 500 years.

—The wolf is excited, the wolf is howling.

As Chris stood up from the steps, holding Corona in one hand, the house scorched by flames finally collapsed completely. In his ears, that eerie voice echoed.

"Welcome to the Theater of Domination!"

Chapter 32: Violence

"Welcome to the Theater of Domination."

Chaotic, disordered threads of Domination intertwined, forming a massive spiderweb that firmly bound the puppet.

This was the first time he had seen such a chaotic puppet. When Su Jue appeared in the Theater of Domination, he was shocked by the puppet this time. Normally, only after Su Jue had personally experienced the host's life would he grant judgment to those struggling in despair, bestowing upon them the choice between wolf and sheep.

But this time was clearly different. This time, the puppet had actively chosen the wolf spirit, and the numerous threads wrapped around the puppet indicated an increasingly chaotic mind. In other words, an excellent puppet host.

Although Su Jue didn't yet understand what the other party had gone through, since they had decided to voluntarily descend into the abyss and offer their soul to Domination, Su Jue would naturally fulfill their wish.

The previous three puppets had all chosen the sheep. Su Jue was curious what choosing the evil wolf meant.

In the audience seats, all the puppets, including the puppet [Su Jue], were present. They sat neatly in their seats, bound by the puppet's threads.

However, this time it wasn't to control them, but to continuously extract power from each puppet's body and infuse it into this new puppet.

This was the core ability of the Herrscher of a Thousand: to share the attributes of all puppets and, when necessary, to infuse them all into a specific target.

As the power continuously increased, the sound of wolf howls became more apparent, finally swallowing the puppet Chris in a distant roar.

Time froze, gears turned, and the curtain of the Theater of Domination slowly drew open.

Silence, peace.

The heavily mobilized police officers exchanged glances. The intense gunfight and ferocious criminals they had imagined did not appear; not even a single shot was fired.

A house collapsed in a fire, a man utterly calm, and a corpse that had long since ceased to be alive.

It was like the calm before the storm, like the tranquility after the dust had settled.

Beep beep beep—

In an instant, the Honkai Energy monitors equipped by the Schicksal organization for this operation went wild, their sounds sharp and piercing.

The ordinary police officers, unaware of the situation, were still confused. But those who knew the details turned pale. Before the order to retreat could be issued, the sky had already become incredibly dark.

The thick smoke from the fire mixed with dark clouds, dense as a pool of black ink, threatening to spill from the sky at any moment. This cloud was so strange that even the most inexperienced officer felt a heavy pressure. They looked up blankly, seeing the faintly visible wolf spirit hidden within the dark clouds.

Howl!

A wolf's howl echoed, and the sky could no longer contain the dark clouds, quickly engulfing the entire district.

Bang—

Perhaps because the atmosphere was too tense, some with weaker psychological resilience were the first to open fire on Chris. In their eyes, no matter what happened, it would ultimately be related to this person. So, as long as they dealt with him first, bullets were truth, and no Honkai could not be solved by truth.

The bullet hit. The police officer's aim was accurate. The bullet entered Chris's forehead, and the powerful rotational force tore through his skull, shattering flesh and brain matter together, splattering onto the ground.

"Hit!" All the police officers felt a sense of relief. However, before the officer who fired could even smile, a withered arm pressed against his face. With the powerful squeeze of the fingers, it embedded directly into his brain.

Then, like a ripe watermelon bursting, an intelligent head made its expected sound.

"Monster!"

Finally, someone screamed. Dense bullets flew towards the withered body, then, like nails driven into wood, after a series of dull thuds, there was no more movement.

The figure turned its head, a distorted face, burned by flames, looked at them.

Bullets were no longer truth; power was.

There was no fanfare, just raw, unadulterated power. When it easily smashed through the man's ribcage and into his heart, no one would ever claim bullets were truth again.

The Theater of Domination currently had too few puppets to provide fancy abilities, but Chris didn't need abilities; he needed pure violence.

He needed the violence he detested the most.

Only when this violence was sufficient to tower over everyone else could he achieve the peaceful times he yearned for.

Blood gushed out, dyeing the entire street red. In the mist, only wolves could hunt.

"Damn it, run!" Someone started a police car and quickly sped away down the road, but no matter how fast he drove, he always returned to the same spot.

Boom—!

Chris grabbed a corpse beside him and hurled it directly at the police car.

The car's steel frame instantly bent and deformed. The tempered glass, capable of stopping bullets, shattered into a sky full of marbles, riddling the person in the driver's seat. As for the corpse he threw, it was unrecognizable.

At this moment, Chris was like an invulnerable monster, using absolute brute force and speed to slowly turn the pathetic police officers into "officer-chan."

The police officer in charge of this operation trembled, repeatedly dialing Schicksal's communication line. "Honkai event, this is definitely a high-level Honkai event."

Unfortunately, the other end of the line remained silent. All signals seemed to be blocked by a heavy curtain, unable to transmit even a whisper.

He didn't know why there was no signal, so he kept dialing with one hand while holding his pistol with the other.

After an unknown amount of time, the surroundings became quiet. The strange sounds of flesh and blood splattering disappeared. The officer swallowed and poked his head out.

Bang—

The expected attack didn't come. Instead, he accidentally fired his gun due to nervousness. After surveying the surroundings, he finally relaxed. "That monster seems to have gone somewhere else."

Wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, the officer's taut nerves finally loosened. He wiped away more sweat, but wasn't this a bit too much?

As this question popped into his mind, he realized his sleeve was already soaked with blood. The man looked up, and a detached eyeball suddenly landed on the tip of his nose, then playfully bounced twice on the concrete ground.

Bang—!

Blood splattered onto the car window. In the dim window, a distorted human figure was reflected.

He suddenly turned his head.

Chapter 33: Raven Accepts the Commission

Excessive Honkai Energy from the Herrscher of Domination continuously overflowed within Chris's puppet. At the same time, the immense madness and chaos contained within the Honkai Energy constantly eroded his mind.

There wasn't a single living creature left on the entire street. Blood flowed along the ground, dyeing the earth crimson. If not for the black mist obscuring the sky, satellites would have discovered it immediately.

But it was almost the same now. The level of violence from Chris's puppet made even Su Jue feel nauseous. Schicksal would definitely intervene in such a malicious incident. He was like a wild wolf about to break free from its leash, and Su Jue had to sever their connection beforehand, or there would be a risk of exposure.

"Help... help me... one last time..." Intermittent voices came from the puppet. Su Jue, who was about to give up, froze and listened quietly to Chris's final request.

"Bury me... with my sister..."

The broken voices were difficult to discern. Chris was using his last shred of sanity to plead with Su Jue.

"..."

After a brief silence, the threads of Domination moved, completely controlling Chris's puppet. Su Jue controlled the blood-soaked puppet and walked step by step back to the residential house. There, the headless body of Chris and the body of Corona, who had shot herself, were leaning against each other.

Just like before, relying on each other, accompanying each other.

Perhaps the heaviest regret was that Chris never resolved his misunderstanding about his sister until his death, and Corona never managed to convey her birthday wishes to her brother in the end.

Boom—

Chris's puppet slammed violently into the ground. Rolling soil flew up, forming a huge pit. Su Jue controlled the puppet and carefully placed the two into the earth. Behind them was their home, now completely reduced to ruins, and now, they were home.

"Thank... you..." The last consciousness came from Chris's puppet. Then, under the dual erosion of the wild wolf and Honkai, it completely transformed into a monster. It would carry out its final dying wish, taking revenge on all the gangs until it was completely destroyed.

The puppet strings were cut, and the mist covering the sky gradually dissipated, leaving behind only a monster, slowly dyeing the entire city red.

"Where is the Fanghe Society? They issued a commission, and there isn't even anyone to greet me. Such low-level small gangs are really unreliable." The woman wearing a hood stepped off the plane, her large black and red cloak flapping in the helicopter's downdraft.

Having accepted World Serpent's arrangements, Raven would soon be dispatched to Sky City to oversee the defense of Shencheng Pharmaceuticals. It was rumored that traces of the Herrscher of Void had been discovered in Sky City, and Schicksal had already sent people to investigate. To prevent the Stigmata Awakening Project from being discovered by them, Raven, as one of the few outstanding combat cadres, was responsible for this mission.

However, before that, Raven, as a mercenary, would also take on some commissions from underground forces.

Although World Serpent's income was not low, it was still far from Raven's goal. She had originally saved enough money.

But.

"My villa and island..."

An indescribable sadness and anger filled Xiola's heart, making her exceptionally irritable even about this commission.

She took out her phone and repeatedly dialed the Fanghe Society's contact number, but it was always busy. As for the Thousand Fists Society, which was the target of this mission, although Raven had received the information, it was ultimately not as familiar as a local.

"Forget it, I'll just do it directly. I doubt they would dare to default on payment to a World Serpent executive." She signaled to the helicopter pilot responsible for her mission and chose to head to the target location alone.

However, before she could arrive, the unpleasant smell in the air already hit her. As she got closer to the urban area, this strong smell of blood could no longer be masked.

Raven frowned tightly, her hand already resting on the bow and arrow at her side. This small town was too quiet, and it gave her a very ominous feeling.

Suddenly, a dark mass flew towards her. Xiola's expression tensed, and with speed imperceptible to the eye, she drew her bow and shot, bringing down the dark mass.

Only after the dark mass fell did Raven discern what it was. It was half a corpse, torn in half from the middle by immense brute force, a gruesome sight.

Xiola covered her mouth and nose, silently taking a step back. She suddenly realized the tattoo on the upper torso was very familiar; it looked like the symbol of the Fanghe Society, the one that had given her the commission.

"Could this be a gang fight? But no matter how brutal the battle, it wouldn't result in such a bloody scene." Her feeling was terrible, a dark cloud pressing down on her heart. Her mission wasn't even done yet, and the boss who paid her seemed to be on his last legs.

As she was thinking, another shadow lunged towards her.

The bowstring hummed, and a special arrow embedded itself into the black shadow's body, but this time she miscalculated. Although the arrow hit its target, the opponent didn't fall easily like an inanimate object, nor did it scream like a living creature. Instead, it lunged at her fiercely at full speed.

Rolling on the ground, Raven dodged the attack. The black shadow slammed heavily onto the ground, smashing a deep pit into the concrete.

It was a human figure, its entire body almost dyed red with blood. Disgusting, dirty flesh was smeared all over it, a sight that chilled one to the bone.

"Who are you?" she asked instinctively, but Raven immediately realized this thing was probably not human at all, and her arrow was still lodged in it.

In the moment she hesitated, Chris, completely controlled by the Honkai, wouldn't care who she was. His arm rotated 180 degrees, an impossible angle for a human, and smashed towards her. Caught off guard, Raven only had time to block with her bow before being sent flying.

As a combat cadre of World Serpent, Raven's combat power was not to be underestimated, but she excelled at ranged combat. The current Chris was not only incredibly strong and fast, but more importantly, he used a puppet's body. He felt no pain and wouldn't lose control of his body due to muscle strain.

After a few exchanges, Raven found herself suppressed by the current Chris. Although her life wasn't in danger, it was still unimaginable.

Based on Su Jue's current abilities, infusing all the puppets into Chris's body would at most elevate him to the level of a B-rank Valkyrie. However, Chris's current combat power was clearly A-rank. This was the effect of choosing a puppet focused purely on brute force.

Of course, the side effects were also very severe. But given the current situation, if an A-rank Raven didn't escape, she might really have a chance of being dealt with by the Chris puppet prematurely.

Chapter 34: The End

Just as Raven was contemplating retreat, a long-planned sniper bullet accurately hit the puppet's head, making it stumble. Then, the trigger was pulled again, and while the puppet was stiff, another bullet hit its leg.

This bought Raven precious time. After several rolls, she finally broke free from Chris's entanglement. She quickly drew her bow, nocking an arrow, and coordinated with the sniper to restrict Chris's movements.

"Attack its joints. This monster doesn't feel pain; only its joints are weak points," a man's urgent voice came through. Raven immediately understood and adjusted the aim of her bow and arrow.

Thwack, thwack, thwack.