Behind-the-scenes video of the beginning of Honkai.

"I want to believe such things..."

"So my wish really came true..."

"So miracles really do exist..."

As more and more memories returned... Kiana also confirmed it.

"That person really is you, Mei."

“I’ve finally found you, Kiana…” Mei gazed at the girl, “My most precious treasure…”

"Don't leave me, don't leave me again, Kiana!"

"Okay, please don't leave me either, okay?"

"We'll always be together."

"Yes, we will be together forever."

"Forever and ever!"

The method to defeat the will to break is actually from an earlier time.

“From the gaps in reality that no Stigmata terminal can interfere with, there have been countless details throughout history that have not been determined by the Stigmata.”

“Countless people continue to fight and strive in ways beyond destiny.”

"It even achieved an unprecedented unity among all mankind, a miracle that has never occurred in history."

"The offensive of the Will Dominator became increasingly fierce, and it was only with the courage of her companions that she was able to continue this path of battle without boundaries."

"Any entity would be willing to lend a helping hand to someone like you."

“But your individual awareness is more important, yet it is still not enough… We tried to respond to your prayers, but we still failed… because in this world, she ultimately endures the continuous loneliness, fighting alone.”

"At that time, I was almost certain that this battle would be lost, and I almost overturned all my previous assumptions about the tragedy of Ninti and the Doctor, and the sacrifice of Seele and Anne..."

"However, Kiana did not give up. At what is known as the critical point, the exiles' shackles were peeled away by Kiana layer by layer."

"They began to respond to the most sincere prayers in reality, making up for all the miracles that could not have been accomplished by individual effort alone."

"Where probability clouds and time intersect, where the eerie echoes of burning purple flames are guided, where shattered thunder is buried; and... where the soul finds eternal peace."

"There was still something that sustained her to the very end, to fight to the very last moment."

"That is a covenant that is deeper than the stigmata, more precious than the soul, and more important than life."

"This pure covenant brought together hope—a power called 'miracle'."

The entire world of souls and all the exiles are turning into shooting stars, cleaving the distance called the world.

Mei reached out her hand to Kiana, ready to go with her... back to where we belong—the real world.

"A wish..." Mei murmured softly, "Our wishes are very simple—"

“Realistic prayers are simple—nowadays, prayers need not have lofty and grand names, nor do they need to be accompanied by the hypocrisy and arrogance of fools.”

"The power of the souls of all exiles, the trillions of souls of all the dead throughout history, used to build the world, will break the shackles that have bound reality for tens of thousands of years."

"The prayers of all exiles will be answered by the real world that witnesses them at this moment."

"And the prayers of the real world will witness the response of your soul world at this moment."

"The intersection of the real world and the spiritual world, of prayer and response, is the two of you."

"Just follow your heart, Kiana, Mei—"

"I want to see her, I want to be with her." Mei looked up at the sky. "I want to go back to that person's side."

"I have only this simple wish—"

"Then you will possess the power to save the world. The entire world will respond to this prayer and bring you back to reality."

"All the departed souls of the past will send you blessings for the future in the peace and liberation they have longed for."

"Even in the last second before the world is destroyed, I believe that the destined future will be a future that triumphs over the collapse."

"And for you who simultaneously encompass the past and the future, the soul realm and the present world, within this 'moment,' I've come up with a name—"

"Mei." Kiana took Mei's hand. "Kiana."

Mei gripped Kiana's hand tightly. Let's fight back against these weaklings and bring miracles to the world!

I would call you—birds bound together by the stars.

Alicia (Memory): "That's great! With this, Kiana and Mei will definitely be able to defeat the Honkai!"

Möbius (Memory): "However, judging from what that writer just said... it seems there are still many mysteries that haven't been solved."

Otto: "Indeed, for example, what exactly responded to them? What is the Honkai Ruler... What is the truth of the Honkai? Why does that Will Ruler, already on its deathbed, still want to destroy humanity and occupy another universe?"

Su: "Indeed, although Kiana and Mei successfully created a miracle, as that 'writer' said, every miracle comes at a price."

Tesla: "I don't know what the cost will be, but I hope they can successfully defeat the Honkai."

[The Supplementary Truth of the Honkai Will]

Another civilization in another universe discovered Honkai energy.

Where does Honkai energy come from, and why does it exist...? Who knows? Perhaps it's just a part of the physics of the universe.

At that time, that civilization did not call it 'Honkai Energy', nor did it refer to itself as 'Honkai Will'.

Their names are not important; they are just random symbols.

This civilization expanded rapidly through its research into Honkai energy.

What followed... was a cycle of war and peace across the universe... and ultimately, the unification of the entire universe, with all life forms of all civilizations eventually becoming energy life forms and dissolving into Honkai energy.

Those who didn't become energy life forms... are probably all dead, right?

Although the fate of energy lifeforms is no different from that of the afterlife, the name 'Will of Collapse' is merely a name given by Schicksal based on its narrow imagination of the world in order to explain a series of phenomena.

'If there are gods in this world, then there must also be a god behind the Honkai, right?'

Just as today, humans may regard a country, a race, or even a natural phenomenon as a personified entity, the concept of 'God' is nothing more than a human imagination.

Otto believed in the existence of God, and therefore considered God to be the ruler of will.

The ruler of wills does not consider himself a god, but simply because he is a humble being.

The Will Ruler is a fairly honest guy.

Unlike the will of the Abyss, the concept of 'lying' does not exist in its consciousness structure, because its body is derived from the Stigma Terminal—this artificial machine.

The physical body of the Abyss's Will was transformed from a large number of human 'sacrifices', especially the liar named Incresin.

The difference in their strengths and weaknesses is not a topic worth discussing.

I don't know what determines their strength, nor do I care. Perhaps the will of XX that descends with a spoon is stronger than the will of XX that descends with an entire nebula?

I prefer to discuss how troublesome they are to deal with; the Will Ruler is definitely the most troublesome one, after all, it actually controls everything in that universe.

The Will Dominator could probably throw over several thousand "XX Wills" like the Will of the Abyss (this is just a guess). The Will Dominator is very strong, but it might be weaker than each of the individual "XX Wills" yet stronger than them all combined (this is also just a guess).

As I said before, the difference between strong and weak is not worth discussing.

Incidentally, from the perspective of the ruler of wills, "XX will" is not a will at all, but a weapon. Just as humans will use various means to treat their fellow human beings as less than human, so too will they. They, indeed, have lost their own will.

Will consortia, will derivatives, wills of the abyss—all sorts of wills—are created from living beings in their respective worlds, just like suicide warriors, Herrschers, and Honkai creatures…

The job of the will-ruler is to make these 'toys' and then scatter them everywhere.

Before they were thrown over, they were energy life forms; after they were thrown over, they became a jumbled mess of illogical things.

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Chapter 399 The Truth of Collapse, The Evil of This World

【The 'Collapse Resistance' Before the Execution of Project Stigmata】

This history is one in which Supercell stubbornly adhered to the erroneous policy of 'using Honkai to fight Honkai,' bringing disaster to the world.

MEI genuinely wanted to fight against the Honkai.

But what she subconsciously wanted was to plunge the world into endless disasters and wars, and to derive pleasure and a sense of dominance from them.

Fighting the Honkai, of course, but only in my own way.

Because I'm the only one who's right, since she's the one who inherited all the knowledge, abilities, memories, and ideas of all the previous presidents of the Super Electric Company.

In the primordial era, basic research on Honkai energy was forcibly suppressed by Supercell—because it was a long, complex, and unpredictable process… just like many things in this world that require serious attention.

Specifically, what exactly is Supercell's research on 'using Honkai to fight Honkai'?

Most of the time, the tasks assigned to researchers at Supercell can be summarized as follows: find some Honkai energy, release it onto the experimental subject, observe the changes in the subject, and if the changes are beneficial for battlefield applications, then reproduce them crudely.

As for who decides what is 'advantageous', that would naturally be MEI, the dictatorial tyrant of Supercell.

However, these 'changes' are merely caused by the 'alienation organization' and are completely different from the essence of Honkai energy.

The seemingly rapid advancements in technology are merely an illusion of progress.

Even such substandard results were monopolized by Super Electric Company.

The research of the Super Teleportation Society led to almost all the Honkai outbreaks of that era, which created a large number of political and humanitarian crises and inevitably brought about national wars.

During this period, dozens of 'Herrschers' were also born, all of whom were born in MEI's Honkai experiment project.

She wanted to create a new biological weapon for use in war.

The assassins are somewhat outdated, and their methods are not varied enough.

These 'Herrschers' have nothing in common, and they have no connection with the Herrschers that appeared in later civilizations.

Simply using the same term, collectively calling these victims "heroes," is a way of shifting the blame onto them.

Supercell conducted extensive media control during the war; terms like 'Honkai,' 'Honkai energy,' and 'Herrscher' originated in the media, not in laboratories.

This history has been whitewashed by Supercell as a struggle against the Honkai invasion, during which humanity lost 87% of its living space.

MEI genuinely believes that these are caused by 'human stupidity'.

Next came the Stigmata Project.

"If this world is destroyed by human folly, I can create a new world and take control of everything."