Honkai Impact: Starting from Wandering with Kiana

"Jiuxiao! What brings you here?"

“Bronya and I were terrified when you suddenly disappeared. This is a hidden area that's only open to Kaslana's people, so I had Cortana hack in and break in,” Jiuxiao replied, patting Kiana's head.

“Everything in this area has a real feedback mechanism; it’s practically a Honkai Impact 3rd realm. You idiot Kiana, if we hadn’t arrived, you might have been in serious trouble,” Bronya the Little Witch replied from the side.

"Hey. I didn't expect things to turn out like this..." Kiana scratched her head sheepishly.

“Let’s go. This area is hidden by Schicksal. If we force our way in, Schicksal’s alarms will probably be blaring right now.” Jiuxiao picked up Kiana and prepared to evacuate with Bronya.

But Kiana shook her head, jumped down, and ran to Kallen. Kiana helped Kallen up, who had been pushed over, and then said:

"Jiuxiao, I can't leave yet! I have to save Karen. I can't let them take her away like this. I'm sorry, Karen, your grandfather is injured..."

“It’s alright, it’ll just turn back to normal next time anyway…” Kallen shook her head with a wry smile, then placed Kiana’s hand in Jiuxiao’s hand and said to them, “Leave this place, I’m not worth saving… This is my destiny.”

"But..."

"Thank you, beautiful girl... This is enough." Kallen said to Kiana with a smile, then turned and left with the three crippled people.

Watching Kallen's departing figure, Kiana felt inexplicably sad, and Jiuxiao was also slightly touched. Both of them could feel that Kallen was filled with sadness and despair.

Bronya, on the other hand, felt no sadness whatsoever. She only noticed that Kallen's back looked somewhat weary, after all, Bronya's emotional module was damaged, and she had lost her emotions.

But Bronya still became somewhat interested in Karen, and she brought up Karen's information module.

"Kalen Kaslana. Born in 1453, she was the eldest daughter of Francis, the 29th generation of the Kaslana family..."

She passed the test at the age of 16 and became the captain of the Valkyrie Squad, the force that fights against the Honkai.

For the next eight years, she remained on the front lines against the Honkai. She sealed away over 1000 Honkai Beasts. To honor her achievements, Schicksal created the Oath of Judah, a weapon that only she could wield.

(This was just the propaganda used by Destiny at the time. In reality, the Oath of Judah should have been passed down from the Kaslana family, and Judah even bears the Kaslana family crest.)

The Oath of Judah is a divine key, created by a previous civilization. Destiny's own creation is a replica of Judah. ​​It just goes to show the writers are retconning the source material, with all sorts of settings flying around haphazardly.

Chapter 77 The reward is a smile~

In 1477, Kallen stole the Honkai energy crystal from Schicksal's research. She fled to the Far East and fell in love with Yae Sakura, a pseudo-Herrscher who was corrupted by the Honkai energy crystal.

In the same year, for unknown reasons, the pseudo-Herrscher Yae Sakura and the Honkai energy crystal disappeared together, causing a huge obstacle to Schicksal's research.

Severely wounded Kallen was captured by Schicksal's intelligence forces and brought back to European headquarters. At the council meeting at European headquarters...

"The girl who became a Herrscher is innocent, and I have fallen hopelessly in love with her."

When Kallen declared this at the council meeting, everyone thought she was crazy. But the most shocked was Kallen's father, Francis, the patriarch of the Kaslana family. When Kallen firmly told everyone that she had fallen in love with a Herrscher, Francis felt like his world was collapsing.

One is his beloved daughter, and the other is the family's belief in fighting against the collapse... Francis considered getting Karen to change her mind and deny it, but he knew that given Karen's personality, that was impossible.

For the first time in his life, he felt that appointing him as the family head was a mistake. If he weren't the family head, he could have simply taken Kallen and escaped from all of this...

But he couldn't. Bishop Nicholas Apocalypse was eyeing the Kaslana family covetously, and the Shaniat family was on the verge of extinction. Right now, the Kaslana family was relying entirely on Francis. Once he stepped down as patriarch, Nicholas would immediately target the Kaslana family.

Faced with a choice between family and daughter, Francis ultimately chose family.

The council ultimately sentenced her to death by hanging, which was carried out shortly thereafter.

"Falling in love with a Herrscher? Herrschers are human too. They're just twisted by Honkai energy, not monsters..."

Is it wrong to fall in love with a Herrscher? What about me and Jiuxiao? What about us who have always lived with Mei...?

Kiana clenched her fists; she couldn't accept being hanged simply for loving a Herrscher. Jiuxiao was a Herrscher, Mei was a Herrscher, they were all Kiana's family, and Jiuxiao was Kiana's lover.

"It's alright, no one can object to us being together." Jiu Xiao noticed Kiana's worry, took her hand, and offered her some reassurance.

“Let’s go save Karen. She can’t be hanged for this ridiculous reason,” Jiuxiao said.

“Yes, these guys are going too far! We have to go save Kallen! Bronya, tell us the time and place of the execution!” Kiana shouted to Bronya.

"Save her? This is just a virtual world constructed from data. The real Kallen died 538 years ago."

Bronya waved her little fairy wand, wanting to give Kiana and Jiuxiao a whack on the head each, to open it up and see what was inside.

"I don't care! Even if it's virtual, I can't just watch her die like this!" Kiana retorted to Bronya.

“We can’t not save her just because she’s virtual. We couldn’t save Kallen five hundred years ago, but this virtual Kallen is waiting for us to save her.” Jiuxiao shook his head, disagreeing with Bronya’s words. “Besides, Kallen has already paid us. How can we not save her?”

"Payment? When was that? No!" Kiana asked, puzzled.

"She gave it to me when she left."

"What is it?" Bronya pressed.

"The reward is... a smile~"

Jiuxiao smiled and said to Kiana and Bronya, "How can we just watch someone who, even in deep sorrow, still manages to smile at you die?"

"Alright, alright... I really can't do anything with you two... Bronya needs to make a good plan, after all, we have no weapons in this world. And who knows how much damage the power of the Nine Heavens will cause to the data space..."

"Yay!" Kiana jumped up with joy upon hearing Bronya's agreement.

“Thank you, Bronya. I will have Cortana do her best to assist you,” Jiuxiao replied with a happy smile.

"Bronya thinks it would be better for Cortana to fully utilize her computing power and directly modify the history of the data space."

“That won’t work. Cortana directly alters the world, which defeats the purpose. That’s not salvation; it’s just a game played by some creator god.”

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Because this is a space containing historical records within the Destiny Database, time flows swiftly. While the three from Jiuxiao were still discussing their plan, time seemed to be fast-forwarded.

Time flies like an arrow, and the stars shift. In almost a few minutes, the world was fast-forwarded to the moment when Kallen was executed.

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Jiuxiao and Kiana rushed to the execution site, covered themselves with burlap, and blended into the execution ground.

Meanwhile, Bronya was preparing to create a huge explosion outside the execution ground to draw attention to Kiana and Jiuxiao.

The execution ground was packed with people, all of whom were indignant about Karen's execution. Karen was a light in their darkness, a saint they wholeheartedly recognized. But their saint was about to be executed, and they dared not resist the oppression of the nobles, only able to whisper among themselves beneath the execution platform.

"Execution—"

With a command given, Karen's execution was about to begin.

Kiana and Jiuxiao were extremely anxious as they watched the executioner put the rope around Karen's neck.

Jiuxiao kept thinking about why he didn't ask Walter to recreate a copy of Eden's Star for him, so that he could use his abilities at will even in ordinary times.

Almost everyone present was an ordinary person. Jiuxiao couldn't possibly misuse the Herrscher powers, otherwise even a trace of leaked Honkai energy would be enough to infect them all and turn them into undead.

After the power was used on Arthur, the people in the vicinity were corroded by Honkai energy to varying degrees. Although their corruption disappeared as time progressed.

But it also made Jiuxiao realize that once the power of the Herrscher is unleashed, he himself will become a walking source of Honkai energy pollution.

It might not bother those around you who are highly adaptable to Honkai energy, but to ordinary people, they are just a walking natural disaster.

Jiuxiao would never allow a bunch of other people to die just to save Kallen. So he and Kiana were waiting for Bronya's signal.

Chapter 78: With Kiana around, it's like having the power of a thousand people!

"Phew—almost done." Bronya wiped the sweat from her brow, holding the bomb she had just finished making in her hand.

boom--

A huge explosion rang out, and Bronya looked at the unexploded bomb in her hand and fell into deep thought.

"Finally, it's starting!"

As the explosion rang out, Kiana and Jiuxiao, unable to wait any longer, jumped off the rooftop.

The crowd's attention was drawn away by the sound of the explosion. Kiana took down the executioner with a flying kick, while Jiuxiao picked up Kallen, who was kneeling on the ground and unaware of what was happening.

Just as the two were about to run away with Karen, the one-armed Arthur blocked their way.

"Get out of our way if you don't want to die! Don't stop us!" Jiuxiao shouted at Arthur.

“No…I’m not here to stop you.” Arthur shook his head, then pointed to a path and said to the three of them:

“Take Miss Karen along this path and you’ll reach the port. I’ve already arranged for a ship to take you out to sea.”

"Grandpa, I never expected you to be such a good person!" Kiana said happily.

"Grandpa Arthur, if you let me escape, what will you do..." Karen was very worried about Grandpa Arthur's actions. If Destiny knew that it was Grandpa Arthur who let her escape, Grandpa Arthur would surely be executed...

“It’s alright, I’m already this old, even if I’m punished… I won’t have any regrets.” Arthur nodded to Jiuxiao and then stepped aside.

"Sorry, your arm..." Jiu Xiao was a little embarrassed, but it was indeed because Arthur was about to attack Kiana that Jiu Xiao attacked.

"That's alright, hurry up and go, young man. Take Miss Karen as far away as possible, that's the best apology you can give me." Arthur didn't say anything more, instead turning around to prepare to block the pursuers for the three of them.

The group hadn't taken more than a few steps when they noticed a crowd rushing towards them, and behind them...

Countless Honkai Beasts relentlessly rampaged and destroyed everything in their path.

Karen and Arthur were both shocked by what they were seeing.

Arthur shouted incredulously, "How could a Honkai Beast be here! There's a tight security perimeter around this city!!"