The Artifact Forger from the Beginning of Collapse

Otto grew increasingly angry.

Otto's face contorted in a ferocious expression.

“It seems you should have told me everything from the future, right? And this is the Universal Cutting Sword, the scissors that cut through the river of history.” Sirin took out the Universal Cutting Sword and showed it to Otto.

"Durandal, kill the Herrscher of the Void!" Otto was beyond furious.

Durandal did not refuse Otto's order. After all, Durandal did not know whether the Herrscher in front of her was good or evil, and the Herrscher was the Second Herrscher who caused great damage to the world during the Second Honkai Impact. Under these circumstances, it was only right to punish him.

Holding the sixth divine key, the Black Abyss White Flower, Durandal exerted force with her feet, instantly disappearing from her original spot and reappearing beside the Herrscher of the Void.

Seeing the black abyss white flowers attacking her, Sirin's eyes filled with nostalgia.

The Spear of the Void blocked the Black Abyss White Flower, but Sirin still had a smile on her face.

“Durandal, do you know? I once met Cecilia, the strongest Valkyrie of Schicksal, and she attacked me with this very Divine Key. You are very much like her now.”

Having undergone the grueling training at the Great Black Tower, Sirin, having fully mastered the power of the Herrscher of the Void and the use of the Herrscher of Death's core within her, faced Durandal's attacks with ease.

While the Herrscher of the Void may not be the strongest in combat, she is unmatched in evasion.

"Honestly, I don't understand why Otto is so angry at all," Sirin said loudly while dodging Durandal's attacks.

Durandal attacked Sirin without saying a word.

“I only unintentionally ruined his plans, preventing his saintess from being resurrected, yet he sees me as an enemy, a sworn enemy. Although Otto lost Saintess Kallen, I can certainly help him fight against the Honkai, can't I?”

Sirin's figure suddenly disappeared from Durandal's side and appeared in front of Otto.

A scythe gleaming with cold light slashed towards Sirin, and Otto, who was unusually calm, also raised the Judgment of Heavenly Fire, which was a mimicry of the Void Treasury, and aimed it at Sirin.

"Speaking of which, the anniversary of the saint's martyrdom is just around the corner. I'm so sorry that Otto can't have a pleasant time. Let me think about how to express my apologies..."

“If Otto wants, I can go to Kloster and put on a show of weeping and wailing in front of the saint’s gallows, how about that?”

Rita's scythe was easily blocked by the Void Spear, and the bullet fired by the Void Treasury seemed to have successfully hit Sirin's forehead, but a barely perceptible spatial portal appeared in front of the bullet's trajectory.

"Bang!" Otto fell to the ground.

The bullet was teleported behind Sirin and successfully struck Otto in the chest.

Otto, kneeling on one knee, looked at Sirin with an extremely cold gaze.

Otto was in a Soul Steel body at this moment, so a mere fatal wound had no effect on him.

"I've been wanting to see this expression on your face... this look of resentment towards me! This is just too good!" Seeing Otto's expression up close, Sirin felt incredibly excited.

"I have severed the river of time. It is impossible for you to go back in time and change Kallen's fate through the Imaginary Tree, because you can only travel to the end of the Second Honkai Impact at most. And if you do travel to that time, what awaits you is the Honkai Fission Missile that you yourself will launch!"

“Oh, is your heart dead? Don’t give up so quickly. You’re not entirely without a chance. See these scissors? Take them, cut through the river of history once more, and then piece it back together. That might save all the tragedies.” Celine handed the scissors to Otto, then abruptly pulled her hand back just as Otto was about to touch them, staring at him with a mocking expression.

Sirin didn't understand how deep Otto's obsession with saving Karen really was. All Sirin knew was that because of that idiot Otto, she had been tortured in the Tower of Babel for countless years!

My happiness was ruined because of that idiot Otto, so why should I try to put myself in Otto's shoes?

"Don't look at me like that. I'm not kidding, cheer up. Otto, actually, I can cooperate with you to fight the Honkai. Really."

"Hey, why are you being so fierce?" Seeing Otto stand up again, Sirin, who had transformed the Void Treasury into a Heavenly Fire Greatsword and was swinging it at her, disappeared and reappeared high in the sky, beyond Otto's reach.

The Herrscher of the Void should make good use of their mobility to toy with, tease, and torment their enemies.

"Durandal, kill her! Take that pair of scissors," Otto commanded coldly once more.

Yes, that's right, I haven't lost yet!

From a rational perspective, if the Second Herrscher fully cooperates, it would indeed be a trump card for the current civilization in its fight against the Honkai.

But for Otto, Kallen is gone, so what's the point of saving the world of Goba?

Damn it, I can't take it anymore, I'm going to explode!

"Tsk tsk tsk." Sirin shook her head as she watched Durandal relentlessly attack her.

Even Sirin had to admit that Durandal was indeed very strong.

Xilin even suspected that if she were to actually be punched in the face by Durandal, Chen Li would have to watch an ad and revive her before he could get close to her again.

Is this Durandal, the strongest Valkyrie destined for destiny, the pinnacle of talent and hard work?

So terrifying.

But so what?

Even with the Valkyrie armor granting her the ability to fly, Durandal still couldn't even touch Sirin's clothes.

I know you have high attack power, but you can't even touch me, so how can you hurt me?

"Durandal, you're really annoying flying around all the time. Go stay in the World Bubble for a while." As Durandal flew back towards Sirin, Sirin snapped her fingers and used the principle of spacetime oscillation to make Durandal instantly enter the deceleration zone. Then, she picked up the World Bubble and hurled it at Durandal.

It was a bubble world filled with Honkai energy. If an ordinary person went in, they would become a dead body in less than 10 seconds. But Durandal could stay in for a whole day without any effect.

This is the first talent monster in Honkai Impact 3rd – Durandal.

A figure appeared behind Celine.

"Boom!" A huge burst of fire exploded in front of Sirin, and through the endless flames, Sirin could see Otto's ferocious expression.

Otto once again charged at Sirin with the Void Treasury mimicking the Heavenly Fire Greatsword, but under the protection of multiple imaginary barriers, Sirin only suffered a minor stain on the hem of her clothes.

Daikokuta says this is called multiple spellcasting in the magical girl world, but Sirin thinks Daikokuta doesn't count as a magical girl at all.

The power of the Divine Key, which is a mimicry of the Void Treasury, is not comparable to the original Divine Key, so defending against it is not difficult.

"It's now!"

"Snip!" The crisp sound of scissors closing rang out.

Void Treasury, along with one of Otto's arms, fell downwards.

Perhaps Otto didn't even notice that Sirin had used the Universal Slash technique several times in Otto's current position, but what Sirin was cutting was what would appear here in ten, twenty, or thirty seconds, which is Otto in the present moment.

Otherwise, how could Xilin be floating here like a target?

The Great Black Tower called this rehearsal and combat wisdom.

A portal appeared below the Void Treasury, which then fell into Sirin's hands.

"This time I won't forget to collect the spoils. Ouch, it's hot!" After throwing Otto's severed arm, Sirin was burned by the heat of the Skyfire Greatsword. She quickly used the Void Spear to transform into a Void Ribbon and wrapped it around the entire Skyfire Greatsword.

The Great Black Tower once gave Sirin a book called "On the Many Uses of the Spear of Subspace".

Xilin said it works very well.

"Boom!" Another burst of flames shot into the sky, and Durandal, clad in golden armor, broke through the world bubble and returned to reality.

"Hmm? I think I hit something just now." Durandal frowned after coming out.

"You killed your Bishop Otto," Sirin reminded her kindly.

Sirin knew that Durandal could break out of the World Bubble, so the place where Otto's arm was cut off was directly in front of where Durandal disappeared.

"Huh?" Durandal was taken aback.

"..." Only then did Durandal realize just how troublesome this Second Herrscher was.

If the opponent is so difficult to deal with just by using the power of the Herrscher of the Void, how did Cecilia and Siegfried defeat the six-core Sirin back then?

Cecilia is terrifying!

But Durandal only doubted herself for half a second before getting back into position.

If you're not strong enough, then keep training hard, and you'll become as strong as Cecilia sooner or later!

"As expected of Cecilia's daughter, her spirit is so resilient." Sirin nodded in satisfaction.

“Of course… What did you say?” Durandal frowned.

“I’m telling you, you’re Cecilia and Siegfried’s daughter, the real Kiana. Sigh, you don’t know that? I thought the whole of Schicksal knew. If you don’t believe me, ask her.” Sirin pointed at Rita while Durandal was still in a daze.

Although Durandal felt this was Sirin's delaying tactic, she couldn't help but look at Rita.

Durandal was completely bewildered only after Rita nodded with a complicated expression.

Wait, the entire Destiny faction knows, but I'm the only one who doesn't?

"What? Durandal is Kiana?! That hair color is wrong, isn't it?" Theresa, who was watching the live stream, was equally bewildered.

I am the chosen one, how could I not know?

"The specific situation is as follows. When Kiana and her father Siegfried were fleeing Schicksal, she was hit in the head by a flying machine and fell from a height of several thousand meters into the snow-capped mountains, but she did not die. Ragnar brought her back to Schicksal for treatment."

“Otto wrapped her body in Soul Steel, inducing and activating her potential, and successfully saved her. However, the side effect was that her hair became curly and its color turned gold,” Chen Li explained from the side.

"Oh, right. The great Principal of St. Freya Academy, the head of the Apocalypse family, and the head of the Far East branch of Fate—Theresa probably doesn't know either. But that's to be expected of Theresa. Who knows how many times Otto has used Feather of Dust on Theresa? Even if Theresa really is a prodigy, she's probably been brainwashed into a husky, so it's normal for her to be a little slow," Sirin said during the live stream.

Theresa was furious.

“But even so, I still need to render you, the Herrscher of the Void, harmless.” Durandal continued after accepting this rather absurd premise.

“Oh, really? Even if Siegfried successfully defeated me during the Second Honkai Impact, Otto still sees Siegfried as a major threat and plans to launch a Honkai Fission Bomb to eliminate him?” Sirin asked.

"..."

"Even if Otto had the chance to kill me, he betrayed Walter instead, allowing me to escape and ultimately leading to the death of your mother, Cecilia?"

"..."

"Even if I was originally just an ordinary orphan, but was captured by the Tower of Babel under Schicksal and used for human experiments, which led to the tragedy of the Second Collapse?"