Honkai Impact: Starting from Wandering with Kiana

“However, there are still some things that must be done…” Su turned her back to Jiuxiao and Youlandail and slowly walked away.

The light of "Celestial Wisdom" rose behind Su, and Su activated a semi-artificial collapse, then calmly looked at Jiuxiao and Youlandel.

"Second Divine Key, please help me one last time..."

"Hah—" Jiuxiao activated his thermal vision and shot it at Su. Youlandail also swung her sword at Su.

But before the attacks could even reach Su, Jiu Xiao and Youlandel's figures shattered and gradually disappeared into the Sumeru Mustard Seed.

Su dodged Jiu Xiao's intense gaze, panting heavily. Teleporting Jiu Xiao and Youlandel had consumed a significant amount of his and the Second Divine Key's energy.

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The Nine Heavens are a variable, and might be the key to breaking the deadlock, but Su dares not gamble on a variable. Su cannot see the existence of the Nine Heavens clearly, but he can see the existence of Youlandel very clearly.

Although all the origins of Durandal in the three thousand worlds begin with the girl at the age of eight, Su cannot see or know what happened before that age. By the time Su noticed her, he was also unable to return to the real world and could only wait for Durandal's arrival within the Sumeru Mustard Seed.

However, there is something else about Durandal that is why Su places all his bets on her.

That is what Durandal possesses... and in the previous civilization, it was only born from Alicia that "symmetry breaking" was born.

Alicia's "humanity" is not because it is the power she possesses, but because of the miracle "symmetry breaking" that happened to be born in Alicia, which freed her from the constraints of the cocoon of the end.

Alicia's power is not what the world thinks is "humanity," but rather "the power of a Herrscher that connects everything else."

At the end, the projection of power was born, and the origin gathered the projections into one place.

On the final stage, Alicia burned everything she had, passing on the miracle she created—"Symmetry Breaking"—to future Herrschers through the power of the Origin.

The so-called "severing the threads of fate" actually means freeing the Herrschers of the future from the shackles of the "Cocoon of the End".

And this is the truth behind Shaniat's "Holy Blood." The so-called "Holy Blood" is actually the mutation in human bloodlines caused by the "symmetry breaking" that Alicia conveyed to future generations.

The Herrscher Core (Yang) is formed from the condensation of excessive Honkai energy (Yin), a process that embodies symmetry. Alice, however, inflicted this symmetry breakage upon the new era, causing a symmetry breakage in this originally equivalent state transformation.

The transformation of the Herrschers from the previous civilization is actually a symmetrical equivalent transformation. Excessive Honkai energy (Yang) plus highly Honkai-adaptable humans (Yang) can only be equivalently transformed into Herrschers (Yin) who possess the property of the End Binding.

Alice and the Herrschers of the new era were born from the combination of excessive Honkai energy (Yang) and highly Honkai-adaptable humans (Yang). Due to the symmetry breakage, they were born as "Herrschers of Man" who possessed the appearance and power of Herrschers but were to some extent freed from the "Binding of the End".

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The appearance of Herrscher Nine Heavens made Su realize that Alicia's all-out efforts had succeeded.

However, Durandal's appearance was not left by Alicia, but rather stemmed from Durandal's own "broken symmetry." In addition, everything about her before the age of eight was unknown, and her origins were unclear.

It's hard for Su not to believe that Durandal is the key to fighting the Honkai, and that Durandal is the "Alice" of this era.

There's no need to repeat the mistakes of the previous civilization, the tragedy of Alicia, on Durandal's body...

Let the miracle of origin not be the final, ultimate swan song. As long as Durandal continues to grow and awakens the power of origin, then defeating the Honkai will no longer be an unattainable dream...

Unfortunately, the Herrscher of the present civilization, "Alicia," who was born with humanity, is actually another Kiana...

And the other Kiana... is the agent of the Cocoon of the End—the Herrscher of the End...

But Sue couldn't detect Kiana's presence...

Chapter 229 Kevin

In order to accelerate the observation of the Hengsha Project, Su had long exceeded his physical limits and his days were numbered.

But in the end, Su did not find a way to fight against the Honkai, because no one in countless parallel worlds could win against the Honkai.

Worlds that fail the Honkai test can only observe other worlds that also fail the Honkai test, so finding ways to combat the Honkai by observing parallel worlds is fundamentally flawed.

Only when the original world successfully resists the Honkai will the parallel worlds projected from it have a chance to win against the Honkai.

Therefore, Su's Hengsha Plan was doomed to fail from the very beginning...

Gretchen, the executor of Project Ark, went missing a thousand years ago, and Hua, the executor of Project Fire, declared it a failure two thousand years ago.

And the Hengsha Project...

Su sighed. To carry out the Hengsha Plan, to firmly believe that parallel worlds possessed a way to combat the Honkai, was actually like a clown...

(Su chose to gamble everything on Durandal, but ended up betting on the wrong protagonist and becoming a clown again...)

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During the time Su sighed, Durandal, who had been teleported away by Su, reappeared, but she had already lost consciousness and fallen into a coma.

Su placed her under a large tree and, using his immense spiritual power and the power of the Second Divine Key, pulled Durandal's consciousness into the illusion he had created.

In the illusion... Durandal will take over Su's identity and experience everything Su went through in the previous civilization...

As for Jiuxiao... Su, whose combat strength was relatively weak, couldn't defeat him, so she chose to give him to Kevin...

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When Jiuxiao opened his eyes again, a white-haired, expressionless man was looking at him. He was wearing a long black coat with an orange inner layer, a blue turtleneck bodysuit underneath, and a black chest strap.

The two remained silent, gazing at each other calmly for a long time.

Jiu Xiao thought of the armed puppet from before. Hua said its master's name was Kevin. The armed puppet looked very similar to the man in front of him, so he must be the Kevin Hua mentioned.

"Kevin...?" Jiuxiao asked tentatively.

"Ah."

Kevin coldly scanned Jiuxiao from head to toe, then turned and sat on the throne made of ice and snow.

He sat there silently, like a statue. Jiu Xiao didn't know how to describe Kevin; he was there, seemingly full of flaws at first glance, yet exuding a dangerous aura upon closer inspection.

There wasn't a trace of emotion in his eyes; one could sense that he no longer cared about anything. One could say he was arrogant, yet it was different from mere arrogance.

However, none of that matters. Jiuxiao needs to return to the Sumeru Mustard Seed, and the situation of Youlandel is still unknown.

Jiuxiao tried walking around and observing the environment. He discovered that this bubble of the world was like a prison, isolating it from everything outside. The Honkai energy on Jiuxiao's body was also constantly leaking out, without being replenished by the imaginary space.

Jiuxiao: "Where is this?"

Kevin: "A cage, a place that seals me off."

"So... you're not with that Su from before? Sitting on the Frozen Throne, I thought you weren't afraid of the cold... I didn't expect your body to be even colder..." Jiu Xiao was somewhat overjoyed and walked to Kevin's side. Then he was a little shocked by Kevin's chilling aura.

“Hey, that guy dumped me here too. We can work together to break out and then teach him a lesson.”

"No, I'm in cahoots with him. I was sealed here voluntarily."

Kevin looked up at Jiu Xiao, propped his cheek with his left hand, leaned back on the throne, and continued speaking to Jiu Xiao:

"Su has chosen to leave the choice of civilization to your own hands, and hopes I will not interfere..."

I disagree, but I choose to believe Su. So… I stayed here, for a thousand years.

"..."

"So, that means if I want to leave, you'll stop me?"

"Ah."

"I'm sorry, it seems our meeting wasn't very pleasant. But I have a reason to leave; my partner is in danger, and I need to go help."

A black hole hundreds of meters wide exploded behind Jiuxiao, beginning to collapse and devour the space.

"..."

Kevin saw the black hole behind Jiuxiao, paused for a moment, and then stood up.

"Has it already reached the Ninth Herrscher? It seems... time is running out."

Kevin's hands transformed into giant frost claws, crossed in front of his chest, and he slashed at Jiuxiao and the black hole behind him.

Swah——

The area thousands of meters behind Jiuxiao was instantly frozen, the black hole was also cut open, stopped spinning, and then dissipated...

And Jiuxiao... turned into an ice block, fell to the ground, and rolled a few times...

hum-

As soon as the light shone, Jiuxiao melted the ice block and flew out, hovering in front of Kevin and looking down at him.

"Don't talk nonsense. I'm not the Ninth Herrscher. I'm just a lucky person who accidentally gained power."

Jiuxiao's eyes glowed red as he unleashed a heat vision attack on Kevin.

"A low-class trick."

Kevin offered no defense, not even flinching, simply standing still to withstand the intense heat of the Nine Heavens' gaze.

It's a battle between ice and fire, but clearly, Kevin's ice has the upper hand right now.

Seeing that the heat vision had no effect other than melting Kevin's clothes, Jiuxiao stopped shooting.

He accelerated through the air and unleashed a powerful punch.

Kevin caught Jiu Xiao's punch and was slid several meters on the ground by the force of the impact.

Then Kevin flipped his wrist and broke Jiu Xiao's wrist, then delivered a heavy punch to Jiu Xiao's stomach, sending him flying.

Jiuxiao fell to the ground, bounced up, landed again, had several close encounters with the earth, and finally collapsed into Mother Earth's embrace, lost in confusion.