Necromancer, But Pre-Collapse Civilization Chapter 35

However, the officials at Quanzhou Port had already prepared for the worst.

Under their urgent plea for help, the nearest garrison had already taken swift action, boarding a special train and rushing to Quanzhou Port day and night.

Moros showed a rare display of goodwill towards the negotiation expert sent by the Quanzhou Port authorities.

What he needed to do was already done.

His objective had been achieved, and Moros had no intention of engaging in a direct conflict with this powerful nation unless absolutely necessary.

It would not bring him enough benefit.

Chapter 56: Saying Goodbye to the Past and the First Great Collapse

Since neither side intended to escalate the conflict further, the negotiations between Moros and the Quanzhou Port authorities proceeded exceptionally smoothly.

Without any additional cost, merely guaranteeing his departure from Quanzhou Port, Moros managed to put the incident of the silencing operation behind him.

Of course, this was only a temporary calm from the perspective of the Quanzhou Port authorities.

For the decision-makers at higher levels, this event was not entirely concluded.

However, Moros had no intention of waiting for an envoy from higher authorities.

After reaching an agreement with the Quanzhou Port officials, Moros left Quanzhou Port that very night, disappearing from the sight of the region's government.

Even though this land possessed the world's most advanced surveillance technology, it proved to be powerless against Moros, a model spellcaster proficient in Illusion Magic and Spatial Teleportation, who could not be tracked.

Having evaded official pursuit, Moros began to wander freely in this country, which was remarkably similar to the land he lived in before his transmigration.

Moros strolled through the bustling streets and quiet alleys of various cities, observing people's daily lives and listening to their laughter, as if searching for some familiar feeling.

However, he was ultimately disappointed.

On a sunny afternoon, Moros stood before a familiar yet strange residential complex.

This was where he had lived before his transmigration, and it was a place he deeply missed.

However, it had now been transformed into a beautiful park, and the residential buildings were long gone.

He gazed at the lush green lawn and the playing children, a complex mix of emotions surging within him.

It was, after all, no longer the world it once was.

With a soft sigh, Moros decided to leave this place filled with memories.

He casually opened a demiplane portal to his Graveyard territory, ignoring the surprised looks and shouts of the ordinary people around him, and stepped into the slowly rotating, deep blue vortex.

Passing through the deep and mysterious demiplane portal, Moros finally set foot on the somber land of his Graveyard territory.

He headed straight for the Magic Guild Level 5, paying no mind to the crowded undead soldiers outside the Citadel walls or the occasional roars of Spectral Dragons within the city.

Although the Graveyard faction possessed one of the fastest rates of forming combat power among the nine factions in the Ashan World, this advantage came at a heavy price.

The environment of the Graveyard cities was saturated with negative energy and permeated with a dark and eerie atmosphere, making them, along with the volcano-ridden Hell cities, the two least habitable factions.

However, for Moros, this environment would not be an obstacle to his self-improvement within the Magic Guild.

Magic was omnipotent.

Inside the Magic Guild, influenced by various permanent spells, the environment became extremely suitable for human habitation.

Of course, this required overlooking the characteristic Graveyard scenery outside the windows, as well as the skeletons serving as attendants.

The reason behind this was easy to understand.

The origin of the Graveyard faction was actually the result of the Academy faction (Silver City-State) cruelly persecuting Necromancers.

After suffering defeat in the war that swept through the Silver City-State and being expelled, this group of mages who specialized in Necromancy decided to establish their own faction, the Graveyard.

Looking back at history, when these initial Necromancers were constructing the foundational template for their Graveyard cities, many of them had not yet completed the Endless Night Ritual to transform into bloodless and emotionless Liches.

Under such circumstances, the environment within the Magic Guild where they lived daily naturally could not have the same style as the Graveyard cities.

Passing through the winding corridors, illuminated by the soft glow of magic lamps enchanted with the Eternal Bright Flame, Moros arrived at the entrance of the library.

Reaching out, he gently pushed open the library doors, and a vast ocean of knowledge met his eyes.

In Raymond's sight, all he could see were endless rows of books. These were not ordinary books, but Magic Tomes and spell scrolls containing profound magical knowledge.

These tomes were neatly arranged on bookshelves, upon which brilliant magic runes constantly flowed, firmly protecting the tomes placed upon them.

Not only that, but the sheer number of these Magic Tomes was so immense that even though the library's space had been magically expanded, it was still difficult to accommodate all the books; they were piled high, filling every inch of space.

Moros believed that if he could truly master the knowledge recorded in these Magic Tomes, it would not only allow him to achieve High Legend status.

It would even be possible to break through the limits of the Hero Panel and raise his level to over 40.

One must understand that this Magic Guild library housed all the knowledge of the Graveyard faction in the entire Ashan World.

In the Ashan World, the nine factions jointly governed the main material plane.

Even if a deity descended, they would have to act according to the rules of these nine factions.

This power, capable of making genuine deities submit, was clearly far beyond the realm achievable by a Destiny Legend (Level 40).

It's worth noting that among the nine major factions, the Graveyard faction's magical knowledge reserves are second only to the Academy faction (Silver City-State), with both richness and profundity that are truly astonishing.

After all, only these two factions stand in the world, relying entirely on the power of magic to rival other factions.

Moros approached the only pair of table and chairs, gently pulled out the backrest of a chair, and then sat down.

His gaze immediately fell on the desk in front of him, where the magic tomes he hadn't finished reading last time were placed.

The pages lay open, precisely at the part he had last read, as if waiting for his return.

"Hoo~"

Taking a deep breath, Moros gently ran his hands over the pages and began to delve deeper into this magic tome that recorded [Necromancy] more profound than that of an expert.

Just as Moros was completely engrossed in the ocean of knowledge, a city on the Mu Continent housing a Honkai Energy research institute welcomed the arrival of the first Great Collapse.

Collapse.

A disaster phenomenon that emerged with the progress of civilization, its manifestations are unpredictable: war, disease, climate disasters, comet impacts...

Any disaster phenomenon can be a manifestation of Collapse.

But among the many ordinary Collapse events, the Great Collapse is undoubtedly the most special and terrifying existence.

The reason is simple: each Great Collapse gives birth to an envoy chosen by the gods—a Herrscher.

This time, the Herrscher who descended upon the Mu Continent was the first Herrscher, the Herrscher of Reason, who wielded the authority of structural creation.

Unlike Herrschers in the post-civilization era, the era of Honkai Impact 3rd's main story, in this era, known to later generations as the pre-civilization era, Herrschers were staunch enemies of civilization.

Without the sacrifice of the Origin's Herrscher, Elysia, the apostles of the Finality Cocoon—the Herrschers—would not have shifted their positions.

They would have diligently completed their heavenly duty: the destruction of human civilization.

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Chapter 57: The Great Collapse and the Herrscher of Reason

While the Herrschers who descended during the Great Collapse were indeed terrifying, the greatest harm the Great Collapse inflicted upon humanity was the burst of Honkai Energy that occurred upon its arrival.

On the crowded city streets, a sudden purple light erupted.

As specks of purple light flickered, visible Honkai Energy transformed into a tide, sweeping across the entire city.

Countless humans turned to ashes in this surge of Honkai Energy, while the remaining few, due to their weak resistance to Honkai Energy, transformed into non-human monsters known as Shi.

In the pre-civilization era, there were no Stigmata, and males could also be infected by Honkai Energy.

However, due to the relative weakness of males in Honkai Energy resistance, they mostly could only transform into Zombies, creatures caught between corpses and Shi.

However, if it were just Shi and Zombies, the situation would still be relatively controllable. What truly caused the situation to spiral out of control were the beasts infected by Honkai Energy and the Honkai Beasts formed entirely from the condensation of Honkai Energy.

The former were easier to deal with. Although Beast-type Honkai Beasts were more powerful than ordinary Zombies and Shi, they were still within the scope of being easily dealt with by individual weapons like firearms.

But the latter spelled the doom for those survivors who had managed to withstand the Honkai Energy tide during the Great Collapse's arrival due to their superior Honkai Energy resistance.

Even the lowest-ranked Honkai Beasts, the Charge-class Honkai Beasts, were not something ordinary humans could defeat.

After all, Charge-class Honkai Beasts could engage in dogfights with cities' complex terrain and fighter jets.

Their carapaces could easily withstand the bullets from ordinary assault rifles, and their charge speed could even break the sound barrier.

In terms of destructive power, Charge-class Honkai Beasts were standard house-busters.

And this was merely the entry-level contestant among Honkai Beasts.

Above the Charge-class Honkai Beasts were the even more powerful and terrifying Knight-class, Ballista-class, Chariot-class, Temple-class, and Emperor-class Honkai Beasts.

Taking the Chariot-class Honkai Beast, a very common type among Honkai Beasts, as an example.

Even though Chariot-class Honkai Beasts in games pose little threat, in reality, these behemoths, standing 10-20 meters tall, were formidable opponents.

Their carapaces were so tough that they could withstand the 120MM smoothbore cannons of mainstream main battle tanks. Even with the most advanced fin-stabilized discarding sabot rounds, it was difficult to penetrate their frontal armor.

In addition to their formidable defense, the offensive power of Chariot-class Honkai Beasts was equally astonishing.

The impact of their forelegs could destroy dozens of meters of concrete ground and the buildings upon it, and when they leaped high and smashed down, they could crush a mainstream main battle tank into a metal pancake.

What made it even more despairing was that these powerful Honkai Beasts, which were like natural disasters in the eyes of ordinary people, were actually low-tier Honkai Beasts in the Honkai Beast ranking system.

Above them were the even more unstoppable high-tier Honkai Beasts—Emperor-class and Judgment-class Honkai Beasts.

Normally, Emperor-class and Judgment-class Honkai Beasts were extremely rare, but during the Great Collapse, Emperor-class Honkai Beasts could appear frequently.

As for Judgment-class Honkai Beasts, as the apex of the Honkai Beast system, they usually appeared as companion Honkai Beasts to Herrschers.

However, in the first Great Collapse of this era, there were no Judgment-class Honkai Beasts.

The companion Honkai Beast of the first Herrscher, the Herrscher of Reason, was merely an Emperor-class Honkai Beast that resembled a wild boar and possessed outstanding strength.

That's right, this Emperor-class Honkai Beast was Parvati, commonly known as the "Ice Pig."

Although it was only an Emperor-class Honkai Beast, Parvati, who could control the power of ice, was a veritable armored division of the pig type.

This giant, ice-blue, pig-shaped Honkai Beast roamed the streets and alleys of the city, hunting down any humans it could find alongside other Shi and Honkai Beasts.

The arrival of the First Great Collapse caught everyone by surprise. The fact that it immediately devastated an important research city left all those aware of it in shock.

However, the Herrscher of Reason's moment of glory was limited to this.

Due to Moros's previous surprise attack on the Mu Continent's capital using the Spectral Dragon, the Mu Continent was highly vigilant against such sudden strikes.

To counter any potential future surprise attacks, the Mu Continent's Councillors not only strengthened the defenses of all important cities but also meticulously devised hundreds of contingency plans to ensure a swift and effective response to any unforeseen circumstances.

Now, this plan, originally intended to create a "surprise" for Moros, had instead become their key to fighting the Herrscher of Reason.

After recovering from the initial chaos, the Mu Continent's regular army began to act according to the pre-established plans.

Hundreds of advanced military satellites in geostationary orbit adjusted their orbits, consuming precious fuel to ensure continuous monitoring of the cities affected by the Great Collapse.

As orders were rapidly transmitted, air force bases across the Mu Continent became suddenly busy amidst piercing alarm sirens.

Tractors steadily pulled multi-purpose fighter jets and bombers from spacious hangars, while ground crews swiftly and precisely completed the final preparations for these steel behemoths, ensuring they could take to the skies for combat in the shortest possible time.

Meanwhile, deep beneath the abyssal depths, the Mu Continent's pride and joy, its strategic nuclear submarine fleet, also received orders to stand by for nuclear strikes.

These doomsday behemoths, hidden in the dark waters, would become the Mu Continent's last and most solid line of defense against the Great Collapse.

The Mu Continent's mobilization efficiency exceeded everyone's expectations, preventing the Herrscher of Reason from completing many crucial preparatory tasks.

Unlike Herrschers who wield other divine powers, the Herrscher of Reason, whose authority lies in understanding and replicating the crystallization of human technological civilization, has combat power directly linked to its preparations.

After all, for a modern army, having ample logistical support is a completely different concept from not having it.

The Herrscher of Reason's creations indeed possess the unique ability to fight continuously without relying on traditional logistics, but this entirely depends on the Collapse Energy provided by the Herrscher itself.

With the firepower projection capabilities of a modern army, the Herrscher of Reason's Collapse Energy could still suffice on a small scale.

However, once it needed to create a large quantity of weapons and equipment, even a Herrscher from a powerful, distant previous civilization would struggle to maintain such a massive output of Collapse Energy.

Even if the Herrscher of Reason could barely maintain it by using Collapse Energy to convert ammunition and fuel, prolonged consumption would rapidly deplete its power, rendering it unable to continue creating new weapons and equipment.