My days as a Simulation Herrscher since the Honkai Impact

This was an inspiration Otto received from his student Durandal. For certain special reasons, Durandal stored a world bubble from the Sea of ​​Quanta within her body. Although the initial world bubble was extremely unstable, Durandal eventually found a special method to deal with it. She even found the ability to drive the power of the world using that world bubble as its core.

The World Bubble became Durandal's holy sword, her most important weapon and source of power. It is precisely because of this power that Durandal became the undisputed strongest Valkyrie of this century.

This should have been an unrepeatable miracle, something even Durandal herself could never achieve. However, as Durandal's teacher, Otto possessed all the research data and intelligence related to her and somehow found a clever way to indirectly gain similar power for himself.

Some of this knowledge didn't even come from human civilization, but rather from a dream during which Otto Apocalypse encountered the Honkai Will and tricked it out of the minions of that great being.

The Void's Myriad Treasures - The World Thief.

Originally, this power was a contingency plan left by Otto for his grand plan to resurrect Kallen from the timeline, to steal the power and status of a certain Herrscher, to reverse the Imaginary Tree, and to surge forward in the torrent of time. But now that Kallen has returned to his side, this preparation has become a superfluous piece of chess. And now that the best opportunity to use it has presented itself, Otto certainly won't let it pass.

The seven-colored light connected with the Abyss Apostles, and to their astonishment and despair, the hands of the Soul Steel Body transformed into sharp golden blades, slowly piercing into the head of the Fire Apostle.

The Abyss Apostle didn't even have time to remove his mask or explain his identity before he was pierced by Otto's golden blade, losing his life and turning into a red mist of blood that flowed back into the necklace around Otto's neck.

He then proceeded one by one, sacrificing all the Apostles into the necklace. These Abyss Apostles possessed power bestowed by the Abyss, power that even contained some faint rights resembling those of the Herrschers. However, due to the Abyss's own unhealthy state, these rights were merely symbolic and unlikely to have any real effect.

But this is precisely the kind of symbol Otto needs. His aimless journey through the Abyss is to attract those beings of sufficient importance within it. Just as the Seven Gods are the anchor of the will of Heaven on the continent of Teyvat, and the will of Heaven can be transmitted to all mortals through the Seven Gods, there must also be similar beings in the Abyss who can directly hear the teachings of the Abyss and have the most direct connection with it.

If Otto wanted to exert the effects of the World Thief, he had to devour such anchors. In the Honkai world, he chose a new Herrscher who had not yet been born, while in the abyss of Teyvat, he chose those pitiful Abyss Apostles.

As all seven Apostles of the Abyss vanished, the seven-colored radiance emanating from Otto grew even more dazzling. He cast his gaze into the distance, where he sensed resistance—the resistance of a Son of the Abyss, who was originally most closely connected to the Abyss and beloved by the entire Abyss, against Otto's attempt to devour and conquer it.

After all, Otto was just a thief, and when a thief can't steal something, he has to face the wrath of his master.

If he were just an ordinary petty thief, a big stick and a bench would be enough to easily drive him away. But Otto is no ordinary petty thief; behind him lies the entire Honkai world, filled with so many Herrschers. He is the one wielding the big stick and the bench.

As the seven-colored light grew brighter, Otto had already seized a small portion of the power within the abyss. Although this power could not be used for attack, it allowed him to move freely within the abyss's space, much like how Void could freely open the gate between the abyss and reality.

He vanished from his spot and reappeared before the boy who was fighting him. It was a magnificent yet dilapidated palace building; from the outside, it appeared to be a bronze palace that had originally been built underground.

This bronze palace is extremely magnificent, yet possesses a rugged beauty. This was once the royal palace of the Kanria era. The entire palace was first created by casting a huge mold, and then hot bronze was poured from above. All the buildings were cast in one piece, making it the most proud mechanical wonder of the Kanria Kingdom and the essence of the convergence of civilization's power.

However, this palace has now sunk into the abyss with the destruction of civilization, and the only person living in the palace is a prince of the abyss.

The blond-haired boy stared wide-eyed as dark, abyssal power surged around him. He couldn't understand why there were rules and powers that could usurp his power. He was the only one recognized by the abyss as the true heir, yet he couldn't control the portion of abyssal energy attached to Otto.

Fortunately, as long as he's within the abyss, Kong is confident he can reclaim everything that rightfully belongs to him. No matter how ingenious the thief's methods, their control over the abyss's power is far inferior to his…

Seemingly sensing Kong's thoughts, Otto smiled slightly at him from mid-air: "Young man, this world is not just about fighting and killing, but more importantly, about human relationships and social interactions."

Otto took out a small Honkai energy crystal from his pocket. This crystal contained a strong spatial power and was a Honkai energy crystal created by Zheng Shiqiana.

It has no special use; it can only open a temporary spatial passage between two specific points.

As Honkai energy was injected, the spatial crystal shattered beside Otto, opening a wormhole that could only be used by one person at a time, directly connecting to a room in the Hall of Heroes on the distant continent of Teyvat.

That was Kevin's room, and Kevin had obviously been notified by Otto long ago and had been waiting in the room.

"Only this one time."

A man's somewhat cold voice entered the hall of the bronze palace through a spatial wormhole. The sound reflected back and forth on the metal walls, and the resulting echoes made Kong's expression gradually turn painful.

His abyss mages and hiliches constantly relayed information about Teyvat to him, so they naturally knew that among these extraterrestrial demons from another world was a powerful individual who possessed both ice and fire elements.

That guy was so strong it was unreasonable. A certain Abyss Apostle who had peeked at him from afar once said to the sky that seeing that man was like glimpsing a great abyss. What he saw was only the tip of the iceberg, but it already made him dare not continue to peek.

In the past, Kong could have easily forced the spatial passage shut. But now, with a small amount of power usurped by Otto, that tiny bit of strength became the final straw.

Before the mask of pain on the empty face could fully take shape, a phantom flaming giant sword flew out from the spatial wormhole. The intense heat, like the surface of the sun, scorched and distorted the surrounding space, and the power, concentrated to its zenith, shattered the distorted space into scattered dust.

Kevin's statement about "only once" was not that he was being stingy with his power, but rather that the fragile spatial wormhole could only allow the unleashed Heavenly Judgment to launch one powerful attack before it would cease to exist.

That sword strike was so swift that there wasn't even a chance to dodge it, let alone blink.

The sword shadow of the Heavenly Fire Judgment struck the Abyss Prince squarely in the face. The blow was so fierce that it seemed to cause the entire Abyss to tremble.

"This... he won't die, will he?" The archbishop, who quickly retreated to avoid the heatwave, frowned, realizing for the first time that such a huge loophole had been left in his plan.

Chapter Forty-Five: The Smooth Road to Heavenly Justice

Fortunately, the Abyss Prince, protected by the abyss, is ultimately not someone that ordinary people can compare to.

Although he was on his deathbed, Brother Long ultimately shouldered everything. Although he could no longer maintain stable control over the Abyss, at least things didn't get any worse.

While Bai Chen was setting up mental shackles, besieging Sumeru, and unfolding the Tree of Imaginary Numbers, Otto was busy collecting his spoils in the abyss on the other side.

It took Otto about a whole day to basically complete his usurpation of the Abyss. However, the Abyss Apostles inside the Abyss are not individuals directly controlled by the Abyss's will. Even though the Child of the Abyss has been replaced, they will not easily submit to Otto's will.

However, Otto didn't need the loyalty of these Abyssal Apostles; he only needed to control the low-intelligence Hilichurls. With just a single message, a team of thousands of Destiny members arrived at the palace deep within the Abyss to assist their archbishop in handling the upcoming matters.

The Palace of Kanria is the best-preserved building in the entire Abyss, which is partly due to its construction entirely from a single piece of metal, but also due to the various defensive alchemical runes that were once left on it.

Even now, touching the outer walls of this bronze palace, one can still see the fierce battle that took place there, through the remaining mottled scratches.

Many rooms in this palace are inhabited by monsters covered in hard armor. These monsters, known to the outside world as Dark Shells, were once the royal guards of the Kingdom of Kanria and were among the most powerful warriors in the entire kingdom.

On the day the nation was destroyed, disaster rose from the earth, and the original subjects were all transformed into monsters. Because of the protection of the palace, the palace guards held out for longer and suffered more pain. Even though they lost their human intelligence and bodies, they still stood guard in the palace until Kong became the child of the abyss, at which point they were put into a silent slumber.

Following in the footsteps of these palace guards, Otto found a long-sealed door to a secret chamber.

The secret chamber was located at the very bottom of the palace. A thick layer of dust covered the door, clearly indicating it hadn't been opened in a long time. The contents inside were obviously useless to the air, and the Child of the Abyss had never considered opening its door.

However, Otto wanted to take a complete inventory of the palace. The construction team brought in a plasma chainsaw and quickly and carefully cut open the heavy secret room door, making sure that the items stored behind the door were not damaged in the slightest.

The sealed chamber, which had been closed for an unknown period of time, was opened, and the treasured items inside finally reappeared in the world.

The alchemical arrays that were once used for defense and the ancient machinery that guarded them all lost their original functions due to the loss of energy, leaving only the artifacts they guarded quietly placed in the center of the secret chamber.

On the central bronze platform, there was a jet-black regular octahedron. It looked like an ordinary metal object. If it were not placed in a secret room, but instead thrown into the grass in a forest, passersby would not even bother to look at it.

An engineer clad in heavy armor stepped forward and scanned the octahedron with his instrument. However, the pitch-black metal block appeared as a complete black hole within the instrument's spectrum, seemingly capable of completely absorbing any energy that came into contact with it.

The engineer quickly left and summoned several scholars from the team. They had already received basic information about the world of Teyvat and had also received training from Otto on the Abyss and its artifacts.

After several more ineffective testing operations, the engineering team decided to operate a remote-controlled robot to pick up the octahedral metal block using the most primitive physical method.

However, an anomaly occurred at that moment. As soon as the remote-controlled robot's steel hand touched the octahedron, a visible black mist appeared in the pitch-black octahedron.

The black mist did not spread outwards, but instead became a rope-like thread of mist that quickly enveloped the entire remote-controlled robot.

Under the watchful eyes of all the engineers, the remote-controlled robot, which was originally powered by high-energy chemical batteries, underwent an incredible reorganization. Its internal energy structure, shrouded in black mist, no longer used chemical batteries, but instead became a mechanical core driven by gears and levers!

In principle, this crude, steampunk-style core could not possibly function as an energy source. Neither Honkai energy nor elements could enable such an inefficient gear structure to drive the numerous mechanical parts of an entire robot. Yet, despite not knowing what kind of material a regular octahedron is, it actually allowed the remote-controlled robot to operate using this inefficient lever-gear structure.

After confirming that the remote-controlled robot posed no threat, it was quickly delivered to Otto. Upon a brief inspection, Otto discovered that this newly emerged, unknown functional core was virtually identical to the perpetual motion core inside a high-level, special relic mech.

This is the part that Otto sent to Bai Chen, a newly emerged perpetual motion core transformed through unknown means.

It had been discovered before that the Chaos Core possessed technology far exceeding what the Teyvat world could master, but even Bai Chen did not expect that the origin of these Chaos Cores was through a regular octahedron that could spread power and cause pollution.

The bronze platform on which it is housed is inscribed with numerous characters, all instructions and teachings left behind by the ancient Kanreia civilization. However, these lost characters are no longer decipherable, making it impossible to know what information they contain. Nevertheless, Otto has organized linguists to study this lost script, and it is believed that results will be available soon.

Otto's purpose in informing Bai Chen of this was simply to inform him of the news, so that Bai Chen no longer needed to worry about matters concerning the Abyss, as everything there had been taken over by Otto.

The Void Tree's condition became increasingly stable, and Bai Chen finally enjoyed a long-awaited rest.

Valhalla is now fully self-sufficient. The parts that once required the power of the Herrscher of Reason to maintain and replenish itself have all been replaced with alternatives made from existing materials. A continuous stream of mechanical legions is also being produced below according to a set plan. Once sufficient quantities are available, they will no longer create an additional burden, but will instead replace the inferior products initially produced.

However, the cycle of the world will not stop because of Bai Chen's rest. The Herrscher team responsible for collecting the Hearts of Gods has already visited the other gods who possess the Hearts of Gods.

Both the Fire God and the Water God readily surrendered their Divine Hearts upon meeting the Herrscher team and hearing their purpose. This wasn't just because they knew resistance was futile—even their most senior and strongest member, Morax, had been captured—they figured it was better to avoid the trouble. Furthermore, they each held different views on the lofty principles of Heaven, and everyone hoped to witness change.

Finally, only the Kingdom of Winter, which collected the Heart of God, remained. However, before the Herrscher team could even set out to find the Fools who had taken the Heart of God, Prince Tartaglia arrived at the gates of Valhalla with the Heart of God.

He brought not only the hearts of the wind god and the rock god, but also gifts from the Queen of Winter.

"If possible, please rid this wretched world of that supreme authority that looks down upon humanity forever."

The Queen of Winter left behind this short sentence in her letter, and inside the envelope lay a divine heart that belonged to her.

With Bai Chen's groundwork laid in the early stages, the process of collecting the Hearts of Gods went far more smoothly than expected. In any case, the Hearts of Gods were not necessities for the Seven Gods; on the contrary, they were merely tools used by Heavenly Principle to block the way. If they hadn't known that they couldn't easily resist Heavenly Principle's rule, they would never have nurtured these Hearts of Gods for Heavenly Principle.

So when Bai Chen placed all seven Hearts of God in front of Zhong Li, he wasn't surprised at all. He just looked at the Hearts of God with complicated emotions and finally shook his head gently.

“We need to find an open space. Opening the road to Sky Island will cause enormous damage to the surrounding area, and we also need to prepare some special ritual requirements.”

After the Imaginary Tree successfully covered the Teyvat world, Zhongli spent a day and a night exploring the dream world, visiting all his old friends in the spiritual dream world of the Void Tree, and finally agreed to the conditions proposed by Bai Chen.

He will accompany Bai Chen to the Honkai World and assist Bai Chen in completing the Honkai World's reconstruction plan. In return, Bai Chen will grant Liyue Harbor more access to the Imaginary Tree, allocate more knowledge to them, and provide more material assistance.

At the same time, Bai Chen vowed that after defeating the forces of nature and obtaining what he wanted, the vast majority of people in the Honkai world would evacuate Teyvat. Apart from periodically collecting some rare and valuable minerals and plant resources, the Teyvat world would have a new order that would not interfere excessively with them, living in harmony with the mechanical legions left behind in Teyvat.

From this day forward, the Imaginary Tree and the Olympus System above it will become the new rulers of the Teyvat world. Unlike the previous Celestial Principles and the Seven Gods, who each ruled independently, they will macroscopically regulate the development of civilization across the entire world, striving to enable the Teyvat world to leave the world and assist the Honkai world in outer space warfare as quickly as possible.

Therefore, Zhongli will not resort to tricks to defy the laws of nature at this time, but will wholeheartedly help Bai Chen open the passage to Sky Island.

Having access to the resources of the entire world, even though the necessary ritual materials were extremely precious and rare, they managed to gather all of them in less than a day.

On this day, the mechanical legion opened up a sufficiently large experimental field at the foot of Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain, and even laid quick-drying cement ground on the field, making it the place for this call to the justice of heaven.

Besides the Herrschers, Otto, and Kevin, there was also a special guest present: Durandal, the strongest Valkyrie of Schicksal.

Although Bai Chen felt that with him and Kevin there, along with so many new Herrschers of this century, dealing with Tianli should be more than enough, Otto still summoned Durandal, who had been guarding the Honkai world, to prevent any unforeseen dire situations.

After all, Durandal brought her Divine Key, the Black Abyss White Flower, which is the weapon with the strongest healing and recovery ability among all the Divine Keys, and is also the only healer in the entire team.

This is the strongest team that the current civilization of the Honkai world can assemble; even in the past eras, it would have been a force only possessed during the final battles. Even if the Herrscher of the End were to descend now, those present could at least withstand the first wave of attacks from the Herrscher of the End.

Zhongli, holding the alchemical potion he had prepared long ago, drew an exceptionally intricate array on the ground. It seemed that even after so many years, Zhongli had never truly given up on the idea of ​​returning to Sky Island.

After the array was completed, the seven God Hearts were placed in the seven corners of the array. When the Geo God Heart in the center fell into the center, a corresponding phenomenon appeared in the sky.

The elemental flows that were originally flowing freely in the ley lines were attracted by the Heart of God and were all integrated into one place, as if a huge hole had been punched in the entire land of Teyvat. The elemental power that was originally hidden in the earth was all ejected into the air through this hole.

The elements that erupted in an instant were so concentrated that they formed seven pillars of elemental light that shot straight into the sky.

The elemental pillars of light that shot into the sky did not disappear into thin air, but instead formed clouds from the convergence of elemental power. These clouds quickly drifted in all directions and randomly brought down an elemental rain containing special elemental power.

These elemental rains are connected to the authority of the Seven Gods, and all creatures bathed in them are unknowingly transformed. Although the changes are not immediately apparent, as time passes, newly born demons will emerge from among them.

When the elemental eruption finally reached its critical point, all the strange phenomena in the sky dissipated with the wind. The magic circle drawn by Zhongli on the ground, as well as the Heart of God placed at the seventh position of the magic circle, slowly drifted away from the ground, floated into the air, and finally formed a stable portal.

“Although Sky Island is always located in the sky, it is actually in another dimension of the Teyvat continent. It is impossible to fly there by normal means. Only by gathering the seven Hearts of the Gods at the same time can a stable passage be constructed.” Zhongli took a few steps back and looked up at the small black dot that was faintly visible in the distant eastern sky.

Sky Island is there, and the all-powerful ruler, Tenri, sits quietly on his own island.

"Good luck to you. Although I don't know exactly what's on that island, at least Teyvat's fate won't get any worse than it is now."

Chapter Forty-Six: Ascending Sky Island

Zhongli did not follow Bai Chen and the others onto the pale blue sky leading to Sky Island. Although he had no reverence for the laws of nature, Zhongli still did not intend to participate in the war between the celestial beings and the laws of nature.

Bai Chen and his group entered the spatial portal and found themselves behind it a long, winding staircase. A spiral arrangement of panels, made of some kind of silvery-white metal, floated in mid-air, with nothing below.