To create Honkai Impact 3rd in a world where Kallen exists.

Unfortunately, the scales of events tipped in the direction she least wanted to take.

"Oh, that's beyond my control. You can treat it as... an accident?"

A casual remark was an attempt to quell Mei's pent-up anger and dispel the lingering thoughts of the girl who had always been thinking of Sister Wilvi.

She was as cold as ever, though not physically cold like Kevin, but the magician seemed to look down on everyone, genuinely so.

Naturally, it won't involve any other people.

Mei felt a chill run down her spine. Was this the evil thought that Wilvi had been trying so hard to suppress?

Looking back, she realized that compared to Hua and Pado's memories, the memories that Vilvi displayed were always connected by a certain thread. The further she went, the more she faced imprisonment and pain, the more her power was gradually and unintentionally weakened.

If it weren't for Pado's reminder...

"Hahaha--"

Unrestrained laughter continued. The traitor who had achieved all her goals finally appeared on stage. She no longer suppressed her laughter, nor did she hide her usual arrogance.

"The real show... is only just beginning. How should I introduce myself? Long time no see?"

"Or...is this our first meeting?"

A slight smile appeared on her lips as she looked at Mei, who had fallen into her palm.

...

In the Golden Courtyard,

"Suddenly I feel that Virvie is indeed suitable to be a villain."

Alicia rubbed her red eyes, sighed, and glanced at Luo Mo with some helplessness. This confrontation was another defeat for her.

She simply didn't want to suppress her emotions, and... the last scene with Pado had indeed left a deep impression on her.

Cats don't just meow; they also say things like, "The buds have formed, but I do not yearn for you."

Hopefully, Patto will be safe and sound this time.

"Indeed, he looks like a villain."

Möbius, unusually, reached a consensus with him and nodded in agreement.

"Hey, hey, hey, I'm still here! When did I become a villain? I've been fighting the Honkai wholeheartedly all along, okay?"

"I'm not happy about it," Vilvi said.

Otherwise, how could she have become a hero? It must be because of her significant contributions.

Vervier convinced herself well.

“But the you in the game… is hard to be convincing,” Kiana complained.

"Her... well, how should I put it? Seeing is not always believing, you know? Although she just introduced the malicious Vervie, she was extremely wicked."

“But in my heart I did not regard it as the worst evil. It is wrong to distinguish between good and evil. However, considering that era full of despair... it is not wrong to call her malice.”

Vilvi spoke in a rather convoluted way; torn between breaking her promise and revealing the truth, she simply chose the tongue twister.

The main point is that those who know will know, those who should know will know, and those who shouldn't know shouldn't ask.

"Now I understand, betrayal... no wonder everyone dislikes betrayers."

Mebius's eyes lit up, and she squinted at Verviel, seemingly lost in thought.

She asked why the other party didn't remove that thing.

"Uh... I don't understand at all, but Sister Velvi, you're not trying to mess with me, are you? The previous part was just a string of lines..."

Pado scratched her head, looked at Vervi with an embarrassed smile, and said...

"And why did I get bombed with gold coins?!" she complained, somewhat annoyed.

Is she really that greedy?

Everyone else gets crystal flowers, black crowns, and broken swords... but when it comes to her, the scene changes completely—she gets a gold coin!

Is she some kind of monster? Huh?!

"Hmm—, not anymore, little Paddo, after all... I already discussed it with her a long time ago."

Vilvi smiled mysteriously and shrugged.

"Gold coins? Gold coins are great, old relic, why don't you get one too?" The Herrscher of Knowledge skillfully put his hand on Fu Hua's shoulder, uttering these outrageous words with a grin.

What a beautiful scene of a loving mother and filial daughter.

Fu Hua raised an eyebrow, looked at her without saying a word.

...

Vilvi, or more accurately, the extremely wicked Vilvi.

Outside, time is divided into day and night by a celestial body.

In her world, time is divided into endless hatred and pitch-black darkness and loneliness.

Paradise is different from reality; there is no evil here, no fertile ground for her to grow.

This is a long prison sentence with no end in sight.

—It has been going on for at least 50,000 years and is still not over.

But she wouldn't feel despair, because she was a villain, because she was also...Vilvie.

When she first discovered the existence of the Herrscher, she was overjoyed, but all she saw was that this Herrscher was conventional and disappointing.

She didn't even attract Virvi's attention when she left!

But the second time she came, she brought something else with her...

"Of course, Vilvi noticed it too, and out of her genius and pride, she mistook it for the remnants of another experiment... and soon she paid the price."

"Of course she has a way. Just like with the precepts, she just puts forward a candidate, divides the spoils, and everything is fine."

"But she didn't expect... that when she pushed me towards death, she would become evil?"

"At that moment, my choice was simple. Betrayal? Should I die the moment I saw the world?"

You're probably wondering why I've talked so much, aren't you?

Velvi smiled as she looked at Mei. From her, Mei sensed a completely different aura from Velvi before: evil, obsessive, arrogant... as if there was nothing she couldn't do.

Is it fair to say that the other person's portrayal was so convincing?

Or did she simply fail to notice anything unusual about the other person?

"Because... I'm going to treat you the way she treated me? I'll confine you to this area, and time... will be forever."

She snapped her fingers, a dangerous glint in her eyes.

"..."

"But none of that matters to me right now. There's only one thing on my mind...!"

Mei shook her head, glaring angrily at the other person.

Even though the other party hadn't spoken with anyone for 50,000 years, they didn't reveal their weaknesses while speaking. It seems that people who expose their shortcomings only appear in wish-fulfillment novels, and Virvi is certainly not stupid.

She slowly closed her eyes, piecing together the syllables that were gradually fading from her memory.

"It's simple... I want to be friends with Mei-nee."

That was their first conversation, and she... never seemed to give them a response.

It's too late now.

"And you... you caused my friend to sacrifice himself for such an absurd reason... are you prepared to pay the corresponding price?!"

A flash of lightning appeared, and she unleashed the full power of the Herrscher of Thunder.

Amidst the dazzling lightning, she transformed into the complete form of the Herrscher of Thunder, raising her sword at an angle and coldly confronting the enemy.

However, dealing with the master of consciousness within this space of consciousness is naturally extremely difficult. Instead of confronting her directly, Vilvi first separated this space, imprisoning her forever, and letting someone else taste the bitterness she had endured for fifty thousand years.

And the appearance of this space is just as she just described.

As someone of extreme evil, she needs the nourishment of malice. Such an environment does not exist in Paradise, but in Mei's memory... there just happens to be a Herrscher from a later generation composed of malice.

Naturally, it took on a similar appearance to the Herrscher—dominating the theater.

Mei simply increased her speed silently. The direct confrontation with the division she had just experienced made her truly realize the danger and the difficulty of resisting it. Facing and stopping it was simply impossible in the hands of this master of the field of thought.

So, she wanted to gamble on something.

Vilvi once said that she divided the region into eight, but did not continue... because further division would make it difficult to maintain the standard of genius.

Thought is not something that can be arbitrarily divided; it comes at a price.

Moreover, it's very large.

"Before you catch up with Lightning—will you first go from genius to fool?"

Mei sneered, increasing her speed. As soon as the division was completed, she headed to the next area without lingering.

This time, it was Velvi's turn to have a headache.

But... it was only for a moment. She was not lacking in ways to deal with the other party, with her and Wilvi's wisdom.

[Herrscher of Thunder? ×! Herrscher of Reason √]

What did Mei bring? She actually killed the original Velvet in an instant?!

Now it seems... indeed, the mastermind behind it all wasn't any of the heroes; the traitor was the hidden personality of Virvie.

Mei may become the biggest ally of the mastermind behind the scenes, bringing it to paradise and personally incubating extreme evil.

Chapter 80 The Final Act of a Thousand Tribulations

Mei made the right bet on this.

For Velvet, splitting her mind into manageable parts to deal with the final threat—the Herrscher of Thunder—was perfectly acceptable.

But that doesn’t mean she’s willing to die together with the other person; for her, losing her talent is no different from death.

She wouldn't use all her consciousness to imprison Mei.