Chapter 34: "Meet Will of Honkai"

Tower of Babylon, February 1, 2000.

Today was supposed to be the day all the tragedies in Kiana's life started.

The appearance of the Herrscher of Void in the Babylon tower, the disappearance of the researchers from their workplace, and the revelation of the dark side of Schicksal who uses young children as test subjects for their artificial stigmata.

Even though K-423 wants to see all this tragedy with her own eyes. None of this had anything to do with K-423's current state, however.

"Someone once said that a plan is just a plan. No plan is ever smooth in the face of fate. So is fate really that cruel?"

"You should appear at the last stage, not appear at the rookie village."

"Will of Honkai."

Standing in a very empty white room. K-423 looks at the white statue in front of her, and she sighs heavily.

The white statue in front of her began to slowly change into K-423's body shape, and the statue tilted its head to the side as if it didn't understand what K-423 was saying.

"So what are you going to do to me?"

K-423 became very curious.

After being kicked out of the train carriage. Before she could digest what she had just heard, K-423's vision changed again, and she was somehow standing in front of the Will of Honkai who had greeted her on the empty white throne.

As a Honkai impact 3rd player, of course she knew who this all-white statue in front of her was.

Will of Honkai.

The most troublesome secret boss.

The identity of the Will of Honkai itself is a system of imaginary trees for selecting civilizations. It is the embodiment of Honkai itself.

Passing the test, the entire human civilization will remain in the imaginary tree. Fail the test, then the whole world will sink into the sea of ​​quanta until it disappears.

Itself is the judge of the representatives of the imaginary tree.

However, if that were all, K-423 would not consider it its most dangerous hidden foe.

After all, the Will of Honkai follows its own rules. As long as they passed the imaginary tree assessment, then everything would be fine.

The problem is the second person controlling the Will of Honkai from behind the scenes.

The last Herrscher, or you could say, the Cocoon of Finality.

The whole essence of the Honkai Impact 3rd game seems very simple to the players. Survive the attacks of 12 herrschers, and survive the honkai test.

But, if you dive deeper into the Lore in the game, you will find that things are never that simple.

Apart from the 12 real herrschers who were indeed sent by the Will of Honkai, one herrscher appeared out of nowhere and called herself a herrscher of Human. The existence of the last herrscher is an alien who comes from outside the universe.

A representative of an energy-type high-level civilization that had fused with the Honkai itself.

Look at the sample game next door mihoyo.

Herrscher is just a mass-production-level weapon for Master of Wills to annihilate the entire civilization of mankind. Honkai all they thought was pure energy, it turned out to be just energy created by Finality to speed up their universe overlap to the GGZ universe.

Herrscher became a traitor and self-proclaimed standing on the side of humanity? The Master of Wills said that it was fine.

As long as you use honkai energy, you are just our slave!!

Look at the next game where every turn always greets the god of death and GG one civilization over and over again. Tragic story in honkai impact 3rd is nothing!

Your big sister is suffering more there!!!

If you look for the difference between GGZ and honkai impact 3rd, then it's probably just the attitude of the Will of Honkai itself.

The Will of Honkai over there is a representative of a high-dimensional civilization that wants to conquer the universe.

Where as the Will of Honkai here is just a mixture of three chaos fighting for power.

Will of Honkai from an imaginary tree, Prometheus from the era of a previous civilization, and Cocoon of Finality sealed within the moon.

These three forces mixed together maintained an extremely awe-inspiring form. As a result, Will of Honkai in this era is very neutral, with a slight lean towards chaos.

At least the Herrscher in this era weren't as brutal as in previous civilizations where killing all humans was their main mission.

No...

K-423 thinks of new possibilities.

Maybe the Cocoon of Finality itself didn't even want to fight Prometheus at all in the first place.

If not mistaken, in the main story plot, Kiana came face to face to the Cocoon to get the power of Finality, and she got it approval very easily after facing herself.

This is where Kiana becomes Herrscher of Finality.

But the suspicious, [face yourself] may have different meanings considering that the identity of "Kiana" herself is very [special] in the eyes of honkai.

Besides that, during the battle between Kiana and her friends against Kevin for Finality authority. Cocoon is like a neutral arbiter watching a stage play from the audience seats.

From start to finish, That existence didn't care one bit who would win. It wanted this conflict to end soon, and get the final result directly.

It's like, It doesn't consider Finality's authority important at all.

That intentions were becoming increasingly highly suspicious.

Remembering the next door game where Will of Honkai is controlled by the Master of Wills to control the universe, and Cocoon of Finality is almost exactly the same as the "channel" that Master of Wills once said. K-423 can't be to be worried.

Whether she/he is currently neutral for the time being, or becomes the enemy controlling everything from behind the scenes...

K-423 needs to be careful with it.

At least until her true intentions, and the purpose of these extraterrestrial aliens doing all of these things is confirmed by herself.

"[Looks like you've forgotten your true identity.]"

"What?"

Awakened from her reverie, K-423 realized that Will of Honkai had just been talking to her.

"[It's fine, come closer, and take my hand.]"

"What do you want?"

"[Become one, return to the origin. You and I will become perfect beings.]"

"... No."

Step back a few steps. Even though K-423 doesn't understand what the Will of Honkai is referring to, she somehow understands that it must be something really bad.

"[... It is deeply regretted.]"

Still keeping her right hand extended forward. The Will of Honkai looked at the white sky overhead all of a sudden, and she began to slowly close her eyes.

"[We will meet again.]"

K-423 suddenly hears a very noisy train engine overhead.

"WHAT, how did that train appear here?!"

With the familiar sound of a train engine, it suddenly appeared in an all-white room. A train suddenly falls from the sky with its body very straight down, and K-423 realizes that the train is heading straight for her.

Stunned on the spot, because it's too absurd. When K-423 regained consciousness seconds later, the train was only 5 meters from her face.

She closed her eyes in panic.

"[See you soon, the another part of me.]"

"BANG!!!"

With the train skidding downwards, and destroying the Will of Honkai in one go. K-423 only heard the roar of a huge engine explosion, and all the five senses turned white again.

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Moscow, February 4, 2000.

Today is the day Sirin dropped a meteorite from the moon into the Mariana Trench and caused a huge mega tsunami.

As a result, 30% of the city of Moscow was lost in the violent waters.

"Bah, bah! Why am I so unlucky after time traveling!? Bah! The water here is so dirty!!"

Came out of the rushing water, and kept spitting out the mud that had entered her mouth. K-423, which has completed possession of the body, is trying to get out of this very dangerous flood.

The name of the body she occupies is Larina Kaslana. One of the Moscow branch valkyries with A-rank powers.

Enter the stigmata room of the Kaslana family in this timeline and modify Larina's stigma. K-423 put Larina's consciousness into sleep using Fenghuang Down's feather, coupled with a bit of the kaslana family's will authority, and she ended up taking over this body quite easily.

"Think of this as prepayment for borrowing your body. Who told the future me to borrow your body? I'm just a person following a plot, and can't do anything about it."

Lying on the roof of an apartment that is about to be engulfed by a flood. A grown girl with white hair typical of Kaslana, raised her right hand to the sunlight, and she smiled sweetly with a languid face.

"Although temporary, having a body is indeed the most amazing thing."

Stretching the muscles of her stiff body, and ignoring the wet clothes wrapped around her body. K-423 got up from where she was lying down, and she immediately wore an extremely helpless expression.

"I don't know what the Will of Honkai means, and what the mysterious person in the train car wants. But one thing is certain, I must complete my mission here as soon as possible."

"This timeline... Too dangerous."

K-423 let out a very long sigh.