Chapter 258 - Three Hundred Choices 4K

"So, those redemption listings you provided me with, most of the things are actually not redeemable, or rather, they are false. Right?"

[...]

A few minutes later.

[How did you perceive that.]

"How can I put it, actually at first I really thought that this so-called system of yours was everything."

"Just by paying points you can get feats, props, and money."

"Plus my subconscious perception of the system as a traveler, so that means I really thought of you as an all-powerful system."

"However, it wasn't until I simulated it many times that I realized that the points you gave me were too few, or rather, what you gave me each time was just at a situation where I barely had enough, but yet it wouldn't go to waste."

"Originally, I thought that it was really because my simulation wasn't good enough, and I didn't have enough points to exchange for those awesome things, but it wasn't until I got the six stars of the Divine Sword Thunder art technique a few days ago. I was thinking about the question that a six-star technique is so good to get, then why didn't you give it to me in the beginning, and then I was thinking about why I was so slow to get the other six-star abilities."

"Tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of points. According to the rewards you gave me, I'd need to grind and simulate hundreds of times, right?"

"Then, ever since I last fought that fake Herrcher of the Void, you've been frantically strengthening me."

"Coupled with my previous suspicions about you, all of this added up and I knew that you weren't even a system in the true sense of the word in my head."

[...]

[Very brilliant analysis.]

"Am I right then?"

[...]

[Right or wrong, didn't you already guess?]

"I thought you'd find a way to weasel out of it."

[There's no point, in fact, if I'm not wrong, you're already prepared for a showdown with me today, and you've already got solid evidence, and me coming to deny all of this won't change your mind].

"So, are you still not going to introduce yourself."

[Are you sure you want to hear it?]

"Of course, I can tell you with complete certainty that I'm angry right now, the way Ana died like that is unacceptable to me, and then I'm going to do something about it, so that means that if you don't give me a reasonable explanation I'll think about how to get you out of my body first, and if I can't, I'll tell everything to Otto, and I'm sure that he'll have an interest in you. "

[...]

[Actually, it's not something difficult to talk about, since you want to hear it, I'll tell you.]

[Lu Yu, you're a dead man.]

"..."

"That's your answer? I'm standing here properly now."

[I'm not talking about the you of this world, but rather, the you of the past. ...]

"Used to be?"

"What ... Ah ....!"

The next second, Lu Yu's brain as if the seal was opened, a section of dusty memories of a long time came out.

It was the death of a man named Lu Yu.

In a very ordinary late night, a certain man who had worked overtime for a long time in the company was tiredly walking on the street with red lights and green wine.

Then, in a trance, a drunk driver driving a car crashed into a female college student on the street.

This scene, just happened to be seen by a certain man who had just gotten off work, and without thinking too much, the man rushed up to protect the female student exactly like what happened in the anime, while he himself was knocked out of the car.

"..."

"I got run over for saving someone?"

[No, you keep reading.]

Being an adult. The man didn't die in the first place.

When the surrounding onlookers saw this scene, they also quickly bo called the emergency number.

As far as normal, the man could live as long as he went to the hospital, at most, he would only have broken bones or be paralyzed due to the impact, his life was worry-free.

However, just as the ambulance was about to arrive, suddenly, a lightning bolt appeared out of nowhere then struck the man's body.

"Holy shit?!!!!"

Now, Lu Yu understood, heck, he was killed by this lightning!

And this thunder naturally won't be a product that appeared out of nowhere, if Lu Yu didn't think wrongly, this thunder is the system's fucking ghost!

"I was killed by you?"

[is ... Neither ...]

[In fact, you were suffering from multiple fractures all over your body, and they were of the incurable kind, so even if you had been taken to a hospital, you would have been in a situation where you would have been disabled for the rest of your life].

"So that means you simply gave me a ride? Spared me from pain?"

[You could say that.]

Hearing this reply, Lu Yu was also speechless, "Then thank you very much."

[No need to thank you.]

"????"

[That inverted thunderbolt was indeed one of my abilities, I killed you completely and then brought you to this world in some way, then I referenced your memories, then in order to make you believe in this kind of a novel-like crossing over, I sealed those memories of yours before you died, then I fictionalized a so-called system that you could accept, and then you know the rest of the story."]

"And then that's when I started playing the so-called simulator as a joke, and then Honkai descended and I was brought to St. Freya's Academy right?"

[Yes.]

"I probably know, since you're not a system at all, are the abilities in me also something you chose a long time ago? Because you're not really a system at all, it's impossible for you to let me truly learn those abilities that should belong to the Honkai world?"

[Yes, I have many kinds of abilities, but as you said, the abilities of this world were something I couldn't acquire, so after carefully selecting them, you got some abilities suitable for surviving in this world as arranged].

"Then let me ask you, if I save up enough points with the intention of exchanging them for those abilities that involve the power of this world, what are you going to do?"

[Abilities in physical arts are actually easy to deal with, but those involving Honkai energy-related abilities, I'll use a conversion method to get them to you].

"Oh, it looks like Honkai energy, but it's not actually, right?"

[Right.]

"What about my ability of what's called time-stop?"

[That ability is essentially the same thing as my modification of the world, and I've divided part of my authority to you, so that means you can do a short time-stop of this world's world.]

"Good lord, what about the Demon Lord that affects the simulation? It's also a fake?"

[That one, it's real.]

[No matter where the power comes from, the power that belongs to you will belong to you.]

[Because of the special nature of the power I gave you, that Demon Lord is actually the future you, the one who has thoroughly integrated the power.]

"Then the enemy that exceeds the Final Herrcher, as he called it in his mouth, is?"

[Naturally, it's the Imaginary tree.]

"It's true, compared to theImaginary tree of the World Rule, the Final Herrcher really isn't much of a powerful enemy."

"Wait!"

At this moment, Lu Yu suddenly noticed something wrong.

"That Demon King is the future me?"

[Yes.]

"..."

"System, as I recall, every simulation is a world bubble right?"

[Yes.]

"Then ... This world I'm in now, or rather, the current me ..."

Hearing Lu Yu say that, the system didn't rush to answer this time, instead, she was silent for a long, long time.

[You, this time, perceived it faster than even before.]

[Host, or rather, Lu Yu.]

[In fact, you, it's not the first time you've carried out such a life.]

"..."

"Ha..."

"Ha ha ha ha."

"That's really, a compliment that doesn't make people happy... Go ahead, tell us everything."

[This is about the three hundredth time you've carried out the same life.]

[This world is different from the Honkai world you remember right?]

[The world in the simulation is a world bubble.]

[And this world, too, is really just a world bubble.]

[That's why this world is different from the world you remember.]

[The appearance of Aslaki is actually because of this.]

"More than three hundred times."

"I see."

"It seems that I failed when I faced the Tree of Imaginary tree, right?"

[Yes. The first time you came to this world, the location you were in was not Long Hollow City.]

[The first time you were placed by me was actually a location I picked at random.]

[You believed I was the system and began simulation after simulation.]

[As your simulations deepened, my interference in the world increased.]

[Eventually, you grasped my full power, and I gained enough interference power to modify the world bubble at the time.]

"And then we challenged the Imaginary tree together, and then we got fucked up together?"

[...]

[In terms of results, that's how it was.]

[It's worth mentioning that that person's name is actually the Lord of Imaginary tree.]

"Tsk, tsk, got it."

"Go on."

[In reality, that battle against the Lord of Void Numbers wasn't considered a complete defeat, because while fighting, with the power as well as my interfering nature of the world, you managed to take an important permission from the Lord of Imaginary tree.]

"What permission?"

[Permission to return to the source.]

[The first time you seriously injured the Lord of Imaginary tree, you even got the permission to reset the world from him.]

[So, in order to be able to defeat the Lord of Imaginary tree the next time, you chose to activate this permission, and then went back to the original time, which is ...]

"That is, when I had just arrived in a certain world bubble."

"And then the next thing was, you began to consciously allow me to make openings in different situations, so that each time, the outcome would be different, and each time, I would also get that permission on the Lord of Imaginary tree, and then I would be able to continue to reopen it, right?"

[Right.]

[Every time you challenge the Lord of Imaginary tree, you will fail.]

[But each challenge is not meaningless.]

[Because, you accumulated knowledge of this world, you learned, who the so-called chosen of this world itself is.]

"Kiana, Raiden Meiko and the others, right?"

[That's right, those aren't actually the so-called knowledge of the game, but the situation of this world itself.]

[The so-called Honkai game in your mind, that's just a false memory I forced on you so that you could accept it all.]

[All of the character news in this world is the result of you yourself getting it one life at a time.]

[From the beginning when you didn't befriend these chosen children, to later when you met and fell in love with them, the stronger your restraint against the Lord of Imaginary tree will be.]

"I told you so, why am I in Long Hollow City, which means that Long Hollow City was the best birth point you picked for me after I conducted more than three hundred challenges on my own?"

[It can be interpreted like this.]

[In Long Hollow City, you'll be exposed to Honkai at the fastest speed possible.]

[Then you'll come into contact with the students of St. Freya's Academy, and then you'll befriend one chosen after another.]

[Not just just Kiana Caslana, but Raiden Meiko, Bronya, and even Schicksal, among other Chosen Children.]

[This route in Long Hollow City is also the fastest route to reach them as of now, and this result is not something I picked out for you, but the best result after you personally tested it more than three hundred times yourself.]]

"Good lord, no wonder ..."

"Now, everything is clear."

"In order for me to change the fate of these girls so that they would no longer suffer, I would inevitably choose to challenge the Lord of Imaginary tree, and then likewise, that side would frantically try to kill me, and then each time, I would fail and then restart as a new beginning."

[That's right.]

"I remember you just said that this time, I perceived it faster than even before. Right?"

"In other words, this is the fastest I've ever progressed?"

[Yes, by far this time is the best you've accomplished.]

[In fact, there has never been a time when you won by such a large margin in a fight against Ana Schariac.]

"Yeah, that's exactly why I find it ridiculous."

Ana Schariac ....

"Anna, is she the so-called Schicksal?"

[Yes, yet no.]

[In the world's original construction, she is the Ruler of Ice, evaluating from that point, Ana Schariac she is indeed a Schicksal, but she is not one who is sheltered, her end is destined to be wiped out by humans when she becomes a Herrcher.]

"Tell me directly, how much longer is the battle between me and that so-called Lord of Imaginary tree, roughly?"

[...]

[According to the process, in roughly ten days, Kevin Caslana, who has incarnated as the Final Herrcher, is the one who will fight you.]

[And after defeating Kevin, this World Bubble will completely belong to you, and having lost control of this World Bubble, the Lord of Imaginary tree will quickly notice the problem with this World Bubble.]

"Straight to the time!"

[Less than half a year.]