Honkai Impact: Starting from Wandering with Kiana

After touching her for a while, Cortana asked Jiuxiao in confusion, "Strange... I can't feel anything anymore! Where is my body?"

"Uh...it's ruined."

Jiuxiao took out a charcoal-black chip from the Sacred Mark Space and handed it to Cortana.

"???" Cortana looked at Jiuxiao in disbelief, then looked at her own body.

"We have a very good relationship, but it's not like you should cremate me immediately after I die!!"

"This was done by the Herrscher of Corruption... I didn't burn it!"

"Then I'll become a data ghost?! It would have been better to just kill me in the first place..."

Cortana immediately burst into tears. Without a physical body, no matter how powerful she was, she was just data and could be deleted at any time.

Finally, Cortana handed the chip to Ai, who was watching quietly from the side, and looked at her pitifully.

Ai waved her hand at the chip, reversing its time to the time before it was damaged.

Cortana was overjoyed to see the chip intact. Just as she was about to thank Ai, Ai touched her forehead with her hand.

Cortana immediately experienced data overload, lost consciousness, and was stored back into her main chip.

Ai Yi tossed the chip back to Jiu Xiao and greeted everyone.

"Hello, I am Shifan Traveler."

Chapter 169 The End

"The place where they were before was my private space, where there were things they shouldn't know, so please forgive me for erasing their memory data."

Fu Hua stared at Ai in a daze and asked, "Have I seen you somewhere before...? No, shouldn't you already be one with the Hyperion, Ai?"

Ai: "Hmm, my name is indeed Ai, but I'm not the Ai-chan you all know. I'm a life form born from a pseudo-time crystal, drifting through the timelines of various worlds."

"So...it was you who saved Cortana and the others, it was you who helped Himeko? Can you save Himeko?"

Yae Sakura handed the Jizo shrine to Ai, but Ai just shook her head and pushed it back.

"I'm sorry, this is Hishimaru's choice, and I respect her choice."

What you saw not long ago was merely its remnant will; the real her has long since vanished…”

"The night Higokumaru found me, she asked me to lend her power, which allowed her to briefly recall everything and create this series of chaos."

This is her revenge against the injustices of the world, and also her final gift to you.

She was not the Herrscher of Corruption of this era, but another Herrscher of Corruption will inevitably emerge in your era. She chose to leave you with valuable experience in fighting against the Herrscher of Corruption through her death.

Himeko divided the power of the Herrscher of Corruption into three parts.

One option is for her to create a data space to fight against you, giving you strategies to deal with data erosion.

One portion is the power of Jizo's Soul, which left the corrupting authority and power in the mortal world and gave it to you.

“There’s one more…” Ai helped the swaying Yae Sakura up and wiped away her tears.

"There's another one she gave you, Yae Sakura. Higomaru has already lost her sister once; she doesn't want to lose you too..."

Since the core of the Scarlet Prisoner has been devoured by the Jizo Mitama, she sacrificed all her flesh and blood to you, erasing the fact that you, as a pseudo-Herrscher, do not have a true Herrscher core and are at risk of going berserk and collapsing at any time.

So, live well, Yae Sakura…”

Yae Sakura's pupils dilated, her inner turmoil beyond description. Her tears had long since dried, and Yae Sakura once again collapsed to the ground, lost in thought.

"I'm the older sister... It's like this again... It's like this again..."

Ai Yi didn't say anything more to her, but went to stand in front of Jiu Xiao.

Ai Yi smiled as she looked at Jiu Xiao, and Jiu Xiao slowly looked up at her in return.

Jiuxiao's face was pale, and he felt very powerless.

"Does Hishiko Maru have any messages for me?"

"Well, she said if you're not sad about her disappearance, she'll let me beat you up. But if you are sad about her departure..."

Aiyi tiptoed and whispered in Jiuxiao's ear:

“She said… thank you, Jiuxiao.”

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The Herrscher of Corruption incident has ended, and people have returned to the surface from the air-raid shelter, only to find ruins awaiting them.

Because the network and communications were the first things the Herrscher of Corruption seized, people responded to the army's call and hid in air-raid shelters immediately, so only a minority of people knew that it was a Honkai attack.

Those few were taken away by the army.

The power of Honkai is commensurate with civilization and knowledge, just like the Herrscher of Reason... Civilization has only developed these things, and it can only reproduce these things.

Civilization's extensive application and development of electromagnetic force also propels the Herrscher of Thunder's strength to far surpass that of a series of Herrschers.

Because people's research on ideal fluids exists only in the realm of concepts, the Herrscher of Wind can only control some ordinary fluids, such as wind...

This is what Hiyomaru is worried about, and it's also why Otto has always kept the truth of the world in the hands of a few.

In order to control the progress of the Honkai, Otto did not hesitate to kill his chosen successor, Welt Joyce.

Jiu Xiao couldn't remember how he left the data space that day; the words "thank you" relayed by Ai Yi kept echoing in his mind.

But Jiu Xiao felt he didn't deserve that thank you, just like Fu Hua said, he wasn't nervous at all at that time.

He was too naive, forever lost in his own delusional adventures, stubbornly believing that defeating the Herrscher of Corruption would save Himeko...

In the end, Jiuxiao burned all the anime DVDs and comic books he had kept, completely burying his chuunibyou (adolescent delusions of grandeur) self.

Kind words can never change a person; only profound pain can make a person grow.

On the back mountain of St. Freya Academy, Yae Sakura personally dug a grave for Himeko, burying her spirit sword, Sakura Fubuki, together with Himeko's demon sword, Akazome Sakura.

At Himeko's funeral, everyone at St. Freya Academy placed a flower for her. Everyone at the academy loved that lively and adorable little girl.

Theresa suppressed the relationship between Himeko and the Herrscher of Corruption. People will remember Himeko as the Herrscher of Corruption, but not Himeko as the Herrscher of Corruption.

Every day, Yae Sakura would visit Himeko's grave to offer incense and recount the events of that day. Kallen, meanwhile, would silently stay by Yae Sakura's side.

Theresa would also occasionally bring many delicacies and fried tofu to pay homage to Himeko, who had reminded her to rest well, eat on time, and brought her meals.

Kiana and Huihuo also quieted down and remained peaceful for a while without making a fuss.

With one less family member at the dinner table, Mei was distracted while cooking.

However, the Herrscher of Thunder within Mei's stigmata was grinning from ear to ear. She had not only plundered the Honkai energy left behind by the Herrscher of Corruption, but also devoured a portion of the Herrscher of Corruption's authority. Although she couldn't digest it all at once, she benefited greatly.

And that armored warrior's Jizo Mitama was directly ripped apart, crushed, and reforged by the Herrscher of Thunder. When Raiden Mei truly makes up her mind to become a Herrscher, the Herrscher of Thunder promises to give her a huge surprise—after all, it's an incredibly cool set of spirit armor on her back!

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Otto stared at the mission report in his hand, veins bulging on his face. He slammed it down on the table and roared at Fu Hua through the communicator:

"Fu Hua, are you taking me for a fool? You guys spent so long in the Sky Keep in the data space, and the final mission report is just 'We defeated the Herrscher of Corruption and obtained the Divine Key Jizo Mitama'?! Where are the other details?!"

"Um, but that's really all..."

Fu Hua's eyes darted around, her face showing complete distraction.

Fu Hua couldn't reveal the details of the battle, otherwise Otto would definitely deduce that someone as unimaginable as Ai had appeared and helped Himeko.

If Otto were to learn of the Time Traveler's existence, he would undoubtedly go to great lengths to find her.

“Immortal Red Iris, we are partners, not enemies… Next time you lie, turn your back to me. You’re not suited to lying.”

Otto sighed and ended his communication with Fu Hua.

Chapter 170 When you weep for the sun you have missed, you will also miss the stars.

A week has passed since the chaos caused by the Herrscher of Corruption, and the world is in the process of recovery, with words like relief and reconstruction constantly appearing on television.

Himeko didn't kill many people, really not. But what she destroyed was more vicious than killing them.

Many cities were reduced to ruins, rivers were submerged and diverted, livestock were destroyed and eroded... Most people lost the foundation and hope for survival.

When people emerged from the ground, all they saw was endless ruins. At that moment, regardless of wealth or poverty, everyone was classified into one category—those who had nothing.

The Valkyrie can defeat incredibly powerful Honkai Beasts, but she cannot give hope to those who have lost everything.

The information asymmetry gave Otto an opportunity to exploit it.

The Mandate of Heaven united all nations to announce to the world that this event was due to an invasion by extraterrestrials.

Then, Destiny revealed the truth about the Roswell incident decades earlier, namely the alien wreckage spaceship discovered in New Mexico in 1947, which was the vanguard of extraterrestrials.

Since then, the divine organizations of medieval Europe have re-emerged before the world, preparing to protect the earth and resist invasions by extraterrestrials.

Then, Tianming presented NASA's 2005 report, "Scout Star 439, discovered over New Mexico, is believed by the world to be an extraterrestrial intruder."

As Otto displayed several more ships and tactical mechs destroyed by the Herrscher of Corruption's attack, people immediately concluded that the disaster was an attack by extraterrestrials, and that the Herrscher of Corruption was the mastermind behind it.

"People from outer space attacked our world, attacked our civilization, and destroyed my life."