Leaving the Past Behind and the First Honkai Eruption / The Honkai Eruption and the Herrscher of Reason

However, Quanzhou Port's

officials had already prepared for the worst.

Under their urgent requests for aid, the nearest garrison had swiftly mobilized, boarded a special train, and rushed toward Quanzhou Port through the night.

Moros showed rare goodwill toward the negotiation experts sent by Quanzhou Port's authorities.

He had already done what he needed to do.

He had achieved his goal. Unless necessary, Moros had no intention of entering into a direct conflict with this powerful nation.

It would not bring him sufficient benefits.

Farewell to the Past and the First Great Collapse

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

Without paying any additional price, Moros merely promised to leave Quanzhou Port, and the authorities let the matter of his silencing operation pass.

Of course, that was only a temporary calming of the matter at the level of Quanzhou Port's authorities.

To decision-makers at higher levels, this incident had not yet been completely closed.

However, Moros had no intention of waiting for envoys sent by higher-ranking authorities.

After reaching an agreement with Quanzhou Port's authorities, Moros left Quanzhou Port that very night and vanished from the sight of this land's regime.

Even though this land possessed the world's most advanced surveillance technology, it still seemed utterly powerless before Moros, a model spellcaster proficient in Illusion Magic and Spatial Teleportation, incapable of tracking his movements.

After shaking off the authorities' pursuit, Moros began freely wandering through this country, which was extraordinarily similar to the land where he had lived before transmigrating.

Moros walked through the bustling streets and quiet alleys of city after city, observing people's daily lives and listening to their laughter, as though searching for some familiar feeling.

Yet in the end, he was still disappointed.

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

This had once been where he lived before transmigrating, and it was also a place he deeply missed.

However, it had now become a beautiful park, and the apartment buildings had long since vanished.

He gazed at the lush green lawn and the children playing there, complicated emotions welling up in his heart.

In the end, this was no longer that world.

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

With a casual gesture, he opened a Demiplane passage leading to the Graveyard territory. Ignoring the astonished looks and cries of the ordinary people around him, he stepped into the slowly revolving deep-blue vortex.

After passing through the profound and mysterious Demiplane passage, Moros finally set foot upon the gloomy soil of the Graveyard territory.

He headed straight for the Magic Guild Level 5, paying no attention to the crowding undead soldiers outside the walls of the main city or the occasional dragon roars of Spectral Dragons within the city.

Although the Graveyard faction possessed one of the fastest rates of forming combat strength among Ashan World's Nine Factions, that advantage came with a heavy price.

Graveyard City's environment was filled with negative energy and permeated by an eerie, sinister atmosphere, making it, alongside the volcano-covered Inferno cities, one of the two least suitable factions for habitation.

However, such an environment would not become an obstacle to Moros improving himself within the Mage Guild.

Magic could do anything.

Inside the Mage Guild, the effects of various permanent spells had made the environment exceptionally suitable for human habitation.

Of course, that required ignoring the distinctly 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, in truth, the result of the Academy faction's—Silver City-State's—brutal persecution of necromancers.

After suffering defeat in a war that swept across Silver City-State and being driven out, those mages who specialized in necromancy decided to establish themselves independently and founded the Graveyard faction.

Looking back through history, when those original necromancers created the foundational template for Graveyard City, many of them had not yet completed the Endless Night Ritual and transformed into bloodless, tearless liches.

Under such circumstances, the internal environment of the Mage Guild where they lived their daily lives naturally could not possibly share the same style as Graveyard City.

Passing through winding corridors, Moros arrived at the library entrance beneath the soft glow cast by magical lamps enchanted with Eternal Bright Flame.

Reaching out, he gently pushed open the library doors, and a vast ocean of knowledge came into Moros's sight.

Before Raymond's eyes, books stretched endlessly as far as he could see. These were no ordinary books, but Magic Tomes and spell journals containing profound magic knowledge.

These tomes were arranged neatly upon bookshelves, where brilliant magical runes flowed continuously, firmly protecting the volumes placed upon them.

Moreover, there were so many Magic Tomes that even though the library's space had been expanded through magic, it was still difficult to contain them all. They were piled like mountains, filling every inch of space.

Moros believed that if he could truly master all the knowledge recorded in these Magic Tomes

then not only would becoming a High Legendary be possible.

Even breaking through the limits of the Hero Panel and raising his level beyond Level 40 would not be impossible.

One had to know that the library of this Mage Guild contained all the knowledge of Ashan World's Graveyard faction.

In Ashan World, the Nine Factions jointly ruled the Prime Material Plane.

Even if gods descended, they had to act according to the rules of the Nine Factions.

Such power, capable of forcing true gods into submission, clearly far surpassed the realm Destiny Legend, Level 40, could reach.

It was worth mentioning that among the Nine Factions, the Graveyard faction's reserves of magic knowledge were second only to the Academy faction, Silver City-State. Their richness and profundity were both astonishing.

After all, only these two factions stood alongside the others entirely through the power of magic.

Moros came to the only set of table and chairs, gently pulled out the high-backed chair, and sat down.

His gaze then fell upon the desk before him, where the Magic Tome he had failed to finish reading last time lay.

Its pages rested quietly open at exactly the section where he had stopped last time, as though waiting for his return.

"Phew~"

Taking a deep breath, Moros lightly ran both hands across the pages and began once more to delve into this Magic Tome, which recorded necromancy more profound than the expert level.

Just as Moros was fully immersed in the ocean of knowledge, a city on Mu Continent housing a Collapse Energy research institute welcomed the descent of the first Great Collapse.

Collapse.

A disastrous phenomenon that appeared alongside the progress of civilization, its forms were unpredictable: war, disease, climate disasters, comet impacts...

Any disaster could be a manifestation of Collapse.

Yet among the many ordinary Collapse events, the Great Collapse was undoubtedly the most special and terrifying existence.

The reason was simple: every Great Collapse gave birth to a messenger chosen by the gods—a Herrscher.

This time, the Herrscher descending upon Mu Continent was the First Herrscher—Herrscher of Reason, who wielded the authority of structural creation.

Unlike the Herrschers of the later civilization—the era of Honkai Impact 3rd's main storyline—in this era later known as the Pre-Collapse Civilization, Herrschers were unwavering enemies of civilization.

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

They would diligently fulfill their duty—the destruction of human civilization.

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Answer: Moros

The Great Collapse and the Herrscher of Reason

Although the Herrscher that descended during a Great Collapse was certainly terrifying, the greatest harm the Great Collapse inflicted upon humanity came from the wave of Collapse Energy that erupted at the moment it descended.

On crowded city streets, purple radiance suddenly burst forth.

As specks of purple light flickered, visible Collapse Energy transformed into a tide and swept across the entire city.

Countless humans were reduced to ashes in this surge of Collapse Energy, while the few survivors, due to possessing slight resistance to Collapse Energy, transformed into inhuman monsters known as Deadwalkers.

There were no Stigmata in the Pre-Collapse Civilization, and men could likewise be infected by Collapse Energy.

However, because men were comparatively weaker in resistance to Collapse Energy, most could only become zombies somewhere between corpses and Deadwalkers.

If it were only Deadwalkers and zombies, the situation would still be relatively controllable. What truly sent matters out of control were the beasts infected by Collapse Energy and the Honkai Beasts formed entirely from condensed Collapse Energy.

The former were manageable enough. Although Beast-type Honkai Beasts were stronger than ordinary zombies and Deadwalkers, that was all; they still fell within the range where firearms and other individual weapons could easily handle them.

But the latter claimed the lives of those survivors who had endured the Collapse Energy tide that came with the Great Collapse by relying on their superior resistance to Collapse Energy.

Even the lowest-ranked Charge-class Honkai Beast was not something ordinary humans could defeat.

One had to know that Charge-class Honkai Beasts could use the city's complex terrain to engage fighter jets in battle.

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

In terms of destructive power, Charge-class Honkai Beasts were standard building-level threats.

And these were merely entry-level Honkai Beasts.

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

Take the extremely common Chariot-class Honkai Beast as an example.

Chariot-class Honkai Beasts might not seem threatening in the game, but in reality, these enormous creatures standing ten to twenty meters tall were opponents to be feared.

Their shells were tough enough to withstand the 120mm smoothbore cannons of mainstream main battle tanks. Even the most advanced fin-stabilized discarding sabot armor-piercing rounds (

) struggled to penetrate their frontal shells.

Beyond their powerful defenses, Chariot-class Honkai Beasts possessed equally terrifying offensive power.

The force of their two feet stomping down could destroy concrete ground and the buildings upon it within a radius of dozens of meters. When they leaped high and came crashing down, they could flatten a mainstream main battle tank into an iron pancake.

Even more despairing was that these powerful Honkai Beasts, which seemed like natural disasters to ordinary people, were actually just low-tier Honkai Beasts at the bottom of the Honkai Beast hierarchy.

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

Under normal circumstances, Emperor-class and Judgment-class Honkai Beasts were extremely rare, but at the moment a Great Collapse descended, Emperor-class Honkai Beasts could appear frequently.

As for Judgment-class Honkai Beasts, the pinnacle of the Honkai Beast system, they generally appeared as Herrscher's accompanying Honkai Beasts.

However, there was no trace of any Judgment-class Honkai Beast during this era's first Great Collapse.

The accompanying Honkai Beast of the First Herrscher—Herrscher of Reason—was merely an exceptionally powerful Emperor-class Honkai Beast resembling a wild boar.

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

Although it was merely an Emperor-class Honkai Beast, Parvati, capable of controlling the power of frost, could be called a pig-shaped armored division.

This enormous ice-blue, pig-shaped Honkai Beast roamed through the city's streets and alleys, hunting every human it could find alongside other Deadwalkers and Honkai Beasts.

The descent of the first Great Collapse caught everyone by surprise. Its immediate achievement of severely damaging an important scientific research city horrified all those in the know.

However, the First Herrscher—Herrscher of Reason's—glorious moment ended there.

Because Moros had previously used Spectral Dragons to launch a surprise attack on Mu Continent's capital, Mu Continent had become extremely vigilant against such sudden strikes.

To address the possibility of a second surprise attack in the future, Mu Continent's legislators had not only reinforced defensive measures in every important city, but also carefully formulated hundreds of contingency plans to ensure they could respond rapidly and effectively to unexpected situations.

Now, this plan that had originally been meant to give Moros a "surprise" had become the key to their fight against the Herrscher of Reason.

After recovering from the initial chaos, Mu Continent's regular army began acting according to the plans formulated beforehand.

More than a hundred cutting-edge military satellites in geosynchronous orbit expended precious fuel without hesitation to adjust their orbits, ensuring they could continuously monitor the city affected by the Great Collapse.

As orders were rapidly issued one after another, air force bases throughout Mu Continent suddenly became busy amid piercing alarms.

Tow trucks steadily pulled multirole fighters and bombers from spacious hangars, while ground crews quickly and precisely completed the final preparations for these steel behemoths, ensuring they could take off and enter combat in the shortest possible time.

Meanwhile, deep beneath the ocean abyss, Mu Continent's prized fleet of strategic nuclear submarines received orders to prepare for nuclear strikes at any moment.

These apocalyptic behemoths lurking in dark waters became Mu Continent's final and most solid line of defense against the Great Collapse.

Mu Continent's mobilization efficiency exceeded everyone's expectations, preventing the First Herrscher—Herrscher of Reason—from completing many crucial preparations.

Unlike Herrschers who wielded the authority of other gods, this Herrscher of Reason, whose authority was to understand and reproduce the technological crystallizations of human civilization, had combat power directly tied to its preparations.

After all, for a modern army, having ample logistical supplies and lacking them were two entirely different concepts.

The Herrscher of Reason's creations indeed possessed the unique ability to fight continuously without relying on traditional logistical supplies, but that depended entirely on the Collapse Energy provided by the Herrscher itself.

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

Once it needed to create large quantities of weapons and equipment, even a Pre-Collapse Civilization Herrscher far more powerful than those of later generations would struggle to sustain such an enormous output of Collapse Energy.

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