My days as a Simulation Herrscher since the Honkai Impact

The once clean and tidy experimental field is now piled with a lot of strange waste materials: wood, metal, plastic, ceramics, even soil and fruit... These things are piled up in the center of the field, while at the edge of the field, there is a medium-sized robot that looks like an octopus.

"Vilvie's automated production model 03 is a repair machine. It has a complete self-production function. As long as there are three of them at the same time, it can find usable materials and manufacture the same model of machine on its own. This is one of Wilvie's major inventions, and fortunately, I still remember how to make it." Dr. Mei pointed to the robot and several computers near it and introduced it to Bai Chen.

"I used all the resources I could find to build just this one machine. The technology of our current civilization is still too low."

"However, your idea of ​​self-replicating nanomachines is very interesting. But the Herrscher of Reason's abilities are not limitless. Let's do some experiments with it first."

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Chapter Ninety-Six: Mechanical Collapse, Nanobot Swarm

After obtaining the power of the Herrscher of Reason, Bai Chen immediately began to think about how to use this ability.

In his view, Walter was using power in the wrong way. Look at what he had done: anti-entropy mechs, planes, tanks, cannons, and the Star of Eden, which he had to create with all his might.

While it's not to say it's weak, if that were all there was to it, there would be no need for the Herrscher of Reason; the Anti-Entropy mechs could do the same thing.

The Herrscher of Reason is indeed a power derived from human knowledge, but if it is merely a simple copy, then the power of the Herrscher is far too stifling.

Bai Chen placed his hand on the octopus-shaped repair machine. The machine had an oval head and ten flexible metal wrists that could rotate 180 degrees. It also had a magnetic levitation device inside, which could float in the air at low altitude by relying on the magnetic field.

Of course, the most important thing is that it can self-reproduce. As long as there are three or more of them at the same time, they can find materials and complete the processing and production of the same machine according to a predetermined procedure.

If the machine's driving energy relied on electricity or nuclear power, it would never be able to achieve this. However, the driving energy currently used internally is Honkai energy, and only Honkai energy can achieve such a miraculous self-replication.

The power of the Herrscher of Reason's analysis spread from Bai Chen outwards. This was an ability that Bronya could not inherit. She only inherited the part of the Herrscher of Reason that created all things, but she lost the most important power to analyze all things.

The secrets of the world are revealed to Bai Chen one by one, but there are also some hidden secrets.

Although Bai Chen initially held extremely high expectations for the Herrscher of Reason's analysis, anticipating it to be an omniscient power akin to a god, capable of discerning all truths in the world and seeing the operating laws of the entire physical world, after actual use, he discovered that while the Herrscher of Reason's analysis was miraculous, it wasn't that powerful. He could indeed directly see the more fundamental structure of the world, but that was merely equivalent to having a poorly labeled product manufacturing manual.

Just as an ordinary person cannot actually build a computer even if they have the complete manufacturing process manual, there is a huge gap between seeing knowledge, understanding knowledge, and using knowledge.

Fortunately, Bai Chen himself has extremely high scientific research skills, and he is also one of the people in Honkai World who is most good at turning knowledge into power.

"It's such a beautiful and amazing invention. Even if I were to make it myself, I probably wouldn't be able to do it better than her in a short period of time."

The analysis lasted for more than an hour before Bai Chen finally became completely familiar with the machine and knew how to shrink it down in the way he envisioned.

Honkai energy gathered in Bai Chen's palm. Unlike the massive Honkai power when the Herrscher of the Void used her abilities, the Honkai energy appearing in Bai Chen's hand now was extremely weak. It was so weak that even a newly born Honkai Beast would be stronger than the power in his palm.

However, this ball of Honkai energy was extremely difficult for Bai Chen. He kept his eyes tightly closed and focused all his mind and attention on his palm.

What he needs to do next is to completely replicate this repair machine and reduce its size to less than one cubic centimeter.

For modern human society, manufacturing large machines, while seemingly impressive and powerful, is not difficult, nor does it involve a high level of technology. The real challenge lies in manufacturing tiny objects; for example, reducing the precision of a lithography machine to within 1nm is a problem that is more than 100 years beyond human capabilities.

The ultimate in miniature technology represents the ultimate in precision. However, both machines and humans are prone to error, and even the slightest error can fatally damage a miniature creation.

But now, it is not humans who are manipulating all of this, but the Herrscher of Reason, one of the most powerful beings in the Honkai world, who possesses the ultimate power to use Honkai energy to create all known objects and technologies in the world.

If the civilization to which the Herrscher of Reason belongs is powerful enough, the Herrscher of Reason could even create super weapons capable of destroying planets or even galaxies. Unfortunately, Earth is far from being able to support such power, so Bai Chen can only turn to seeking breakthroughs at the microscopic level.

Time passed second by second, and finally, the Honkai energy in Bai Cheng's hand transformed into a tiny black dot. The black dot was less than the size of a grain of rice, but as soon as it was born, it immediately took off from Bai Cheng's hand, circled around Bai Cheng a few times, and then landed back on his fingertip.

"It worked?" Dr. Mei leaned closer.

"It can only be considered as taking the first step. At least it has solved the problem of scaling down known machines proportionally. However, both the chip and the self-replication capability need to be strengthened. In addition, I made an unexpected discovery: the creations of the Herrscher of Reason can change the properties of their own materials to some extent. If it weren't for this, I wouldn't be able to perform detailed engraving of the chip at the picometer level or below."

Bai Chen let out a long breath. Creating this small machine was even more energy-consuming than the Herrscher of the Void creating a large-scale spatial collapse. If there was even the slightest mistake in the process, all the previous efforts would be in vain.

"The source of Honkai energy?"

"Part of it is supplied by me, and the other part can be absorbed from substances with Honkai energy. We haven't found any other energy supply methods yet, so we'll have to look for new methods later."

Bai Chen pointed to the pile of debris in the center of the training field, and at the same time, Honkai energy began to appear in large quantities around him.

It took more than two hours to create the first miniature mechanical octopus, but only a moment to create the second one. One after another, tiny black dots emerged from around Bai Chen like a tide, gathering together like a huge black smoke, and swarming over the debris in the training field.

Among these debris were the flesh and blood of Honkai Beasts, serving as a source of Honkai energy. After Bai Chen created approximately 30,000 mechanical octopuses, he stopped production, and these mechanical octopuses all pounced on the debris, covering the debris in the center of the training ground with a thick layer of black shells.

A chilling metallic scraping sound echoed through the training ground—the sound of nanoscale mechanical octopuses multiplying themselves. Because their bodies were exceptionally small, their self-replication rate was also exceptionally rapid. After the second hand of the clock in the training ground had completed its 172nd full rotation, all the debris disappeared, replaced by a metallic mechanical mountain.

Bai Chen waved his hand, and the black waves crouched at his feet, then combined to form a giant black Houmu.

"I've named it Mechanical Collapse. Although it's still in its infancy, I believe that one day, the Herrscher of Reason's swarm of nanobots will be able to devour even the moon." Bai Chen smiled as he looked at Dr. Mei.

Flesh and blood are weak, while machinery ascends—this is the other way out that Bai Chen's plan leaves for the collapsing world.

Chapter Ninety-Seven: Devouring, Evolution

On Bai Chen's right hand, the Void Worm that Fu Hua possessed returned to the form of a glove and attached itself to his hand.

After several days of adaptation, Fu Hua has mastered her Void Insect body. Although the most convenient form of movement is to transform into a small puppet, if she wants to exert the power of the Herrscher of the Void, she still needs to attach herself to the hand of Bai Chen, who is also a Herrscher.

"This is the gift you prepared for the Herrscher of Reason? What terrifying weapons of war. Although their attack power isn't high yet, what if they could really multiply without limit..."

Fu Hua looked at the mechanical collapse that surged like a flowing black mist in the center of the training field, and said with a hint of worry, "Are you really sure you can control these machines? If they proliferate without limit after they go out of control, it will become a new disaster."

"If you're worried about the weapons themselves and don't bother manufacturing them, you might as well lie on the ground and wait for the end to come. Besides, the current mechanical collapse is just a name; for one thing, Raiden Mei could easily destroy them all."

Bai Chen, wearing the Void Worm on his wrist, reached out to the swarm of machines ahead. Space opened beneath the machines, teleporting them from the training ground to an abandoned mountain town. This town had been impacted by Honkai energy during the Second Honkai Impact, resulting in tens of thousands of Honkai Beasts. Before the arrival of Schicksal's Valkyrie forces, the entire city had become a ghost town. To conserve troops and expenses, Schicksal did not eradicate the Honkai Beasts but instead isolated the town, leaving it to decay and perish.

This is the experimental site chosen by Bai Chen. He will place the mechs he created in this city and let them fight against the Honkai Beasts and the zombies until the mechs are all destroyed or the Honkai Beasts in the city are all eliminated.

Velvet was a special talent who appeared before the extinction of humanity in the previous era. Although she always called herself a mortal without any talent, her mechanical creations had extraordinary spirituality. According to Mei, those machines had their own souls and thoughts, and if possible, they might evolve on their own at some point under the interference of Honkai energy.

Bai Chen needs the swarm of machines to collect data and information during battle so that he can carry out the next step of modification. He also wants to see if any special individual with a flash of inspiration will appear among the thousands of micro-machines.

Through the space, Bai Chen observed the fleet of aircraft located in a corner of the city for a while. After being thrown into an unfamiliar environment, the fleet of aircraft, which did not receive any additional instructions, first circled in place in the air for a few times, and then automatically searched for materials that could self-reproduce according to the priority of the instructions from the grassroots level.

When Bai Chen created them, he enhanced their laser segmentation equipment, which became their only and most important means of attack. Although the actual damage they could cause was not high due to their tiny size, it was like an ant killing an elephant. With thousands of machines attacking the Honkai Beasts, even a Warlord-level Honkai Beast would have a hard time withstanding it.

"If it were you, you would try to use the powers of the Herrscher of Reason to develop some new metals. If you could create a fusion metal similar to Soul Steel and apply it to your fleet, you could merge all the fleets together. With just tens of millions of fleets, you could form a new Moon Throne." Dr. Mei greatly admired Bai Chen's idea of ​​mechanical collapse, but unfortunately, she couldn't become the Herrscher of Reason, and her current research environment couldn't support her in providing Bai Chen with more help.

“Soul Steel… If it weren’t for the fact that the materials needed to manufacture Soul Steel couldn’t be replenished anytime and anywhere, I would also like to use Soul Steel to build my fleet.” Bai Chen sighed as he thought of the special metal called Soul Steel in this world.

Soul Steel is a virtually omnipotent metallic material. It possesses not only extremely strong adaptability and conductivity to Honkai energy, but also the unique property of self-reforming and shaping itself under the influence of Honkai. If the self-proliferation of the mech swarm is not considered, Bai Chen would use Soul Steel to replace all other materials in constructing the mech swarm.

Of course, when actually fighting the enemy, Bai Chen can use the power of the Herrscher of Reason to create a massive mech entirely made of Soul Steel. Once he has thoroughly studied how to use and fuse the mech, he can manipulate it and create any weapon that Bai Chen wants.

“I do have some ideas, but I need enemies to conduct my experiments. It’s not good to always bother Kevin. May, prepare to open the gate to Teyvat. Hopefully, there are opponents in the other world who can give me the opportunity to conduct my next experiment.”

Bai Chen's voice still echoed in the training ground, but his body became illusory, gradually separating from the real space and entering a deeper dimension of the world space through the gate of the imaginary space.

This is what Bai Chen has been enjoying doing most lately. He is simultaneously manipulating the powers of both the Herrscher of the Void and the Herrscher of Reason, allowing him to explore the truth of the world space at a speed more than ten times faster than before.

Compared to when he first arrived in this broken world, if Bai Chen's discoveries in the field of physics were written into papers and published, it would be enough to earn him the Nobel Prize for ten consecutive years—no, human awards simply cannot measure his contributions to physics. He would directly usher in a new era, a new era after steam, electricity, and nuclear energy.

But Bai Chen no longer cared. To him, human civilization was merely a door to the truth of the world, and now that he had stepped through it, there was no one in front of him, and he could only walk this path alone.

He knew the extent of his knowledge, which was far too advanced for modern human civilization. The only consequence of sharing it with others would be to amplify the power of the Honkai, subjecting human civilization to even more severe challenges.

Above Raven's Tavern, in a large living room, several girls were sitting around a round table, each with a computer in front of them, and next to the computers were thick stacks of test papers with all sorts of questions written on them.

Each of them wore an earpiece with a special mind-control device attached to it, ensuring that they could concentrate fully on their studies.

Kiana and Mei both wore distressed expressions. The knowledge they were learning was very difficult, and the Honkai energy fluctuations that occasionally emanated from their bodies proved that they were learning while verifying their Herrscher powers one by one.

Lilia and Rosalia sat upright, not daring to move, because behind them, a burly woman with short white hair, brown skin, and a long pointer in her hand was glaring at them with her hard muscles, making sure they didn't slack off.

Suddenly, Kiana looked up and saw a flash of ice-blue light, with countless rings of light flowing through the air in the center of the room.

"That freak is getting stronger and stronger..." she muttered to herself, bending down again to bury herself in her exam paper.

Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Villain's Deal

While Bai Chen and Mei were discussing the next steps of their plan at the World Serpent's base, a secret experiment was underway in a hidden realm occupied by destiny.

"Sixth value correction, Honkai energy fluctuation is about to reach its peak, Lady Durandal, please be careful to parry." A female researcher in charge of experimental records shouted loudly from behind the experimental equipment.

This secret realm is located in a deep cave, about a thousand meters below the surface. The Destiny Organization has only been able to explore these secret realms that are thousands of meters underground in the last hundred years. They are usually inhabited by powerful Honkai Beasts that have lived since ancient times.

Of course, the original inhabitants of the secret realm had long been cleared out, and the entire secret realm had been transformed by Destiny into a testing ground for new weapons.

At this moment, in the center of the secret realm, there are several smooth mirrors like prisms. Behind the silver-white metal prisms are several huge metal cylinders. The cylinders emit a series of sounds, and you can even see faint electric sparks spreading on the cylinders.

Where the prism's focus was, a Valkyrie, clad in silver-white armor, with long golden hair tied in a single ponytail and wielding a massive lance, was poised to meet the onslaught that was about to occur.

After the experimenter finished broadcasting, the huge metal prism was fully charged. A bluish-green flame suddenly ignited on the silver-white prism and gathered together to form a dazzling pillar of fire that hurtled towards the Valkyrie.

The attack looked incredibly powerful, but a blue shield made of Honkai energy appeared in front of the Valkyrie, easily shattering the pillar of fire.

"Sixth calibration complete, experiment number ac136, disintegration ray failure."

This was the 16th experiment of the day. Although she was required to cooperate in repetitive and seemingly meaningless weapons development experiments, Valkyrie Durandal had no complaints. However, since half an hour ago, she would occasionally look up at the top of the test field, intentionally or unintentionally.

There is a small observation room there, which is usually not used by laboratory researchers because it does not have the necessary equipment. The actual staff are in the control room above, observing the recorded charts of experimental data.

There was only one person who would be there: Archbishop Otto Apocalypse. But today, an unexpected guest entered the observation room with the Archbishop and took his seat.

"This is your strongest Valkyrie. She looks pretty good and has already reached the level of a heroine."

The man with short, silver-white hair and covered in frost sat in a chair in the observation room; it was Kevin.

“Of course, this is my most proud student. If we're talking about combat ability alone, none of the three new Herrschers are a match for Durandal.” Otto held a glass of red wine in his hand, his gaze gentle as he looked at the girl below who had raised her spear.

Just yesterday, Otto suddenly sent Kevin an invitation to meet with him alone and to show him their latest research findings.

Upon receiving the invitation, Kevin immediately gave a positive reply. He already understood the current state of human society, and the Destiny Organization was undoubtedly humanity's greatest and most reliable reliance in this era's fight against the Honkai.

"Is this all you wanted me to see? Although I don't understand the technology, there's no doubt that your Honkai energy dissociation ray will not succeed." Kevin carefully examined the device below, and he understood the designers' ambition from the Honkai energy guiding circuit engraved on it.

"You want to artificially replicate the power of constraints, which is a good idea, but it's too early for you."

“The charm of science lies in trying and failing. If you can’t even take the first step, you’ll never get close to success.” Otto shook his head. Of course, he knew how difficult it was to imitate the constraints using human technology, but he had his own plan, and in this plan, the Lawbinder of Constraints was the most important and indispensable part.

“Kevin, the reason I asked you out alone is to ask about your battle with the Herrscher of the End.” Otto stated his request directly. “If we can know anything about the End, then we should start preparing for its arrival right now.”

However, Kevin gave Otto a cold look and rejected his request without hesitation: "You don't need to know. It's not the right time yet. When the end truly comes, you will naturally know everything."

Even finding Dr. Mei couldn't warm Kevin's heart, which had been frozen for fifty thousand years. The Riddler's prowess only increased; Bai Chen was unwilling to spar with Kevin because he didn't want to face the Riddler all the time.

Otto couldn't help but frown. He had promised Kallen that he would atone for everything Schicksal had done over the years, lead humanity to defeat every Herrscher that might appear next, and protect the flame of human civilization from being destroyed by the Honkai.