The Artifact Forger from the Beginning of Collapse

"..."

Sirin asked three questions, but Durandal remained silent.

“Even if… as long as my scissors sever this thread, your friends in the world bubble inside your body and the entire world will be destroyed?” A sly smile suddenly appeared on Sirin’s face.

And indeed, on the Myriad Phenomena Severance in Sirin's hand, there was a thread that appeared out of nowhere.

"Huh?" Durandal was taken aback.

Wait a minute, what did you say?

"That's why being distracted in battle is a major taboo. Do you think I exiled you to the World Bubble instead of the Infinite Corridor? It's so that you can use the power of the World Bubble within you and find your connection to it. Since these scissors can cut through the river of time, they can also cut the lifeline of the World Bubble within you," Sirin said smugly.

This is the wisdom of combat.

It's despicable, but it works.

"Hehehe. Durandal, you don't want to see your friends, or even their world, vanish into thin air, do you?"

"What exactly do you want?" Durandal's forehead veins bulged, but she dared not make a move.

The Herrscher of the Void is so despicable!

Durandal could indeed gamble that the thread in Sirin's hand was just an ordinary thread, but the stakes were the worlds where her friends lived.

Moreover, Otto's actions have already proven that Sirin's scissors can cut through the river of time.

“I think you should know where Otto’s other Soul Steel bodies are, right? Drag him out, I want to spar with him,” Sirin said, clenching her fists.

“…Alright.” Durandal hesitated for half a second before deciding to make the bishop suffer a little.

……

"The sound of Otto's soul steel face cracking under my fists was truly delightful." Sirin looked at Otto's soul steel body, which she had almost beaten to a pulp, with satisfaction.

Otto's consciousness resides within this Soul Steel body, which Durandal personally captured.

Durandal also thoughtfully helped Sirin disable Otto's Soul Steel body's mobility.

"Are you satisfied now?" Durandal asked.

"That's not enough. You kick everyone off the floating island where the Destiny headquarters is located. I'm going to blow up the Destiny headquarters! But I don't want to hurt any innocent people."

"Don't you want to hurt innocent people?" Rita sneered.

"Hey, hey, hey, don't look at Herrschers with prejudice. I just stopped the 3rd Honkai Impact a few hours ago. And do you believe I can sever the bond between you and Durandal?" Sirin said to Rita with ill intent.

"You can even cut this?"

"These scissors can even cut through the river of time, don't you think?"

"I'm sorry, I was wrong," Rita said sincerely.

"Okay, go and chase them away."

……

"Weren't you going to blow up the Destiny headquarters?"

“I thought it would be a waste to blow it up, so I decided to make it into a decorative piece. Look, isn’t it beautiful?” Sirin showed off the crystal ball in her hand that reflected the model of the Destiny Headquarters.

However, this is the world bubble that contains the entire headquarters of Destiny.

Rita and Durandal exchanged a glance, gaining a new understanding of Sirin's power.

Then new questions arose.

How did Destiny resolve the issue of the Herrscher of the Void back then?

Cecilia and Siegfried are so awesome!

"Is it okay now?" Durandal then asked.

"That's not enough. Have the people of Destiny dig up all the items marked on this map."

A map flew out of a portal and landed in Durandal's hands.

Otto could have resurrected himself in another Soulsteel body by uploading his memories, but this connection was severed by Sirin.

In other words, if Otto dies again, he will be truly dead and will not be able to revive from another Soul Steel body.

With Otto now kidnapped by Sirin, Durandal, the strongest Valkyrie of Schicksal, can temporarily command Schicksal employees.

Otto, now knowing there's no hope of reviving Kallen, is like a walking corpse, seemingly devoid of any will to resist.

But Celine was still worried, because Otto might be faking it, so she borrowed a sack from Chen Li and put Otto in it.

Sirin felt that if it were to deal with Otto, even using 10 one-star artifacts wouldn't be excessive.

Otto is the truly sinful one, so tying him up in a sack is a sure way to succeed.

Otto had some good deeds, but his sins far outweighed them.

"What's in here?"

“These are treasures left over from the last civilization era. If you encounter other forces searching for these treasures, you don’t need to compete with them,” Sirin said.

This is a map that Chen Li gave to Xilin, which shows the current location of the weapon with special attributes that Chen Li forged using the synthesis table, as seen by Chen Li in the river of time.

The other forces naturally refer to the World Serpent.

The gray snake is still exerting its power!

Grey Serpent even forged Cocolia's orders, causing Anti-Entropy to exert its power as well.

In short, Gray Snake is a shoo-in for MVP.

……

"The order has been issued, is it ready now?" Durandal asked patiently.

Patience is essential; your friend is in Celine's hands.

"not enough."

"Herrscher of the Void, don't go too far!"

"Don't worry, this is the last request."

"Speak," Durandal said, barely suppressing her urge to punch someone.

“I swear on this gold coin that from this day forward, you will only ever call yourself my sister, and you will have to give me anything I want. In return, I will not take advantage of this privilege to treat you unfairly.”

"???" Durandal was full of questions.

"Are you going to swear an oath or not? If you don't swear, I'm going to cut it off."

"I swear, from now on I will only refer to myself as your younger sister in front of you, and I will give you whatever you want."

As the forced transaction coins emitted a golden glow, Durandal felt a sense of unease, but the contract between Sirin and Durandal was not strict, so Durandal was more concerned about her friends.

"Here you go."

The line on the Myriad Severance suddenly disappeared and was teleported to Durandal by Sirin using a portal.

"Be careful, how do we return this?" Durandal asked nervously.

"Oh, it's just a regular line. You can throw it wherever you want."

"???"

"What? Surprised? A genius once told me that the most ingenious way to poison someone is to make them think they've been poisoned. Because that way, they'll never be able to cure themselves," Sirin said casually.

Durandal is an idiot who's easy to fool, but Rita isn't.

However, Sirin's implication, conveyed through Otto, that the scissors could cut anything, made the two men hesitant to gamble.

Furthermore, since the requests made by Celine were not excessive, Celine's plan succeeded.

"..."

Charge up the punch!

Durandal started with zero frames and shattered the imaginary barrier in front of Sirin with a single punch.

"!!!" After realizing that she had pushed Durandal to her limit, Sirin subconsciously took a step back.

Durandal, the strongest Valkyrie of Destiny, is indeed no pushover; she shattered the five layers of imaginary barriers in front of Sirin with a single punch.

Fortunately, Sirin was no slouch either; she cast seventeen layers of imaginary barriers around herself.

"Uh, calm down. I really can sever your connection with the World Bubble. So strictly speaking, you weren't really deceived," Sirin comforted Durandal.

"...Then why did you lie to me with a fake line?" Durandal threw another punch, destroying six more imaginary barriers, but it was no match for Sirin's speed in creating imaginary barriers.

"Because it makes me feel intellectually superior. And it's fun!" Sirin revealed the real reason.

"Boom!" With her golden armor, Durandal punched through the nine layers of imaginary barriers, a feat that surpassed the power of the Heavenly Fire Judgment in its Void Treasury form.

Durandal's skin is getting a little reddish.

Xilin had no doubt that if that punch landed on her, it would go right through her.

"Good boy, call me sister." Xilin still looked smug.

"Sister Sirin, you'd better be able to block the Sixth Divine Key!" Forced to say "sister" due to the forced gold coin transaction, Durandal picked up the Sixth Divine Key handed to her by Rita and attacked it.

The imaginary barrier shattered instantly, along with Sirin.