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

Therefore, she must achieve immortality through some means, acting as a chess player and controlling the chessboard called civilization.

Later, she met Kiana and found the foundation for the Stigmata Project.

As someone who was emotionally manipulated, she gave Kiana some distorted love and fell into it herself.

In order to bring the new world under her control, she needs a 'connection' that can directly control a large number of humans.

Through Kiana, she developed the Stigmata, which, under the pretext of being able to resist Honkai energy infection, were implanted into the human body on a large scale.

The Stigmata has three functions: memory inheritance, world correction, and Stigmata abilities.

The creation of the Stigmata ability was a complete accident.

The entire plan was executed in a very rushed manner. During this period, MEI was unable to solve the power supply problem of the Stigmata Terminal until the 'channel' became larger, and then Janna arrived on Earth.

"We will meet again in the new world. This time, I will create a world where you will not be harmed."

She thought she could finally turn the world into the way she wanted it to be.

In that era, the Will Dominator did nothing except for the initial few Honkai events and sending out Kiana and Janna.

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The Transcendence and Foolishness of the Stigmata Project

The term 'transcendence' comes from MEI and is also the rhetoric she uses to explain the Stigmata Project to the outside world: to make humanity remember the mistakes they made and not repeat the same failures.

Even if one's own civilization fails, the next civilization can learn from its mistakes, continue its existing development path, and correct its errors.

If it's destroyed, just start over... like Save & Load in a video game.

However... the player is herself.

So what happened after Project Stigmata began?

Everyone knows that civilization was destroyed by Janna.

Civilization gradually emerged through the third function of the Stigmata—world correction. These corrections were all completed by predetermined programs within the Stigmata terminal, and almost all of them were written by MEI.

MEI originally wanted to control this world, but MEI's immortality failed, and I am her failure.

The Stigmata Terminal machine replaced her and became a 'player' of civilization.

The idea that "everything that happens in the real world is set by the Stigmata Terminal"—this omnipotent fantasy has never truly come to fruition. It has nothing to do with whether MEI manufactured tens or millions of Stigmata, but even with an infinite number of Stigmata, it's impossible.

"Omnipotence" is something that cannot be done, no matter what entity claims to be able to do it.

In ancient times, those designed to possess Stigmata were always high-ranking officials, making them easier to control. As a theocratic organization, Destiny will forever hold the power to initially understand and interpret the Honkai in each era, and will also forever hold the power to retain the series of erroneous understandings accumulated in the primordial era.

Various resources will be designed to favor Schicksal. Before this, anyone who obtains information about the Honkai before Schicksal will be executed; after this, anyone who attempts to research the Honkai in other ways will be subject to Schicksal's intervention. These are all "corrections" to the Stigmata Terminal.

Now do you understand why the term "stigmata" includes the word "stigmata"? It inherently carries religious connotations.

This is all a result of the regulations of the Stigmata Terminal, designed to satisfy Otto's selfish desires in the original era.

At the time, a number of people, including Otto, wanted to gain their place in the new world.

What happened next... you should all know very well.

Why must subsequent civilizations be called Honkai? Why must Honkai energy be called Honkai energy? Why must Honkai be used to fight Honkai?

Why should the world be led into the abyss by a few scumbags? Perhaps in some timeline, the reborn civilization examines a natural phenomenon it has never seen before from a different perspective, just as they examine the decay of food, the change of climate, and the falling of apples from trees, examining the Honkai, rather than directly obtaining the one-sided perspective granted to them by the Stigmata.

The people of that world conduct basic research on Honkai energy, and are in awe of the destruction and death it may cause. They view it comprehensively from a scientific and humanistic perspective, without the interference of destiny or the various perceptions imposed on their consciousness by the Stigmata.

Such a world might never have ended up in this state.

Perhaps it won't face a collapse crisis.

Tesla: "This...this is too outrageous! I never imagined that MEI in this world would be even more despicable than Otto!"

She originally thought that Otto was the most despicable person in the world, and that anyone else was just an equivalent of Otto. But now she realizes that there are even more despicable people.

Einstein: "The line between genius and madness is often very thin."

Velvi (Memory): "Dr. Mei from our time was a genius who led humanity in the fight against the Honkai, but the Mei of this world is undoubtedly a complete madman."

Möbius (Memory): "Has MEI from another world gone to such an insane level?"

You should know that in the previous civilization, Mebius was known as a demon, the kind of person who was doomed if captured and taken to her laboratory. Now, even Mebius is somewhat shocked by MEI.

Padofelis (Memory): "Dr. MEI's goal is to plunge the world into endless disaster and war? This...this is despicable!"

Su: "That's normal. After all, no one can guarantee that the same person will choose the same path. Otherwise, there wouldn't be parallel universes."

Kevin: "..."

Kevin was speechless, because he knew that what everyone said was true: the MEI of this world was a sinner whose sins could be passed down through the ages.

Chapter 400 The Decisive Battle: The Commander of Will

The camera pans to the other side, where fiery red cirrus clouds fly towards the next will-linked entity in the sky, only to be forced back time and again.

Fu Hua landed back on the ground, her brows furrowing involuntarily.

"This body... it really hasn't fully recovered..."

"Phew! I almost thought it was all over!"

Just then, the artificial intelligence Femilis suddenly appeared in front of Fu Hua: "I heard your voice, Fu Hua!"

Why haven't you responded to me?

"Eh? Are you worried about me? You're such an unreliable immortal."

Fimiris gave a sly smile, then suddenly widened her eyes: "Wait, look—!"

The previously suspended will conjoined body suddenly stopped moving and plummeted straight to the ground.

Fu Hua seized the opportunity, her entire figure like a bolt of lightning, striking the will-linked body of the Taixu battle line and piercing it through.

The crowd that witnessed all of this erupted in unprecedented cheers.

At this moment, the attack that the Will Ruler attempted to launch at Earth seemed to have gone silent.

From Earth's perspective, the light of global connectivity gradually returned.

The moonlight dimmed, and Theresa, in the medical room, looked out the window and asked Fimiris—

"Fimilis, what happened on your end?"

"The intense thermal radiation disturbed Earth's ionosphere; after all, an object with stellar energy levels appeared only 300,000 kilometers away from Earth..."

"But... the thermal radiation suddenly disappeared, and the global connection was restored."

"Then, intelligence from all over the world revealed that the Will-Bound Alliance and its derivatives were all paralyzed!"

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it!"

"The situation has become extremely favorable for us!"

Meanwhile, researchers on Earth were surprised to discover that the moon could be detected!

After the detector was successfully reconnected, a large amount of data is being transmitted.

The researcher looked at the information above, somewhat bewildered—

"Can I interpret this as a new space forming around the moon?"

"Don't ask me, I don't understand!"

"Physics no longer exists!"

Meanwhile, a giant ray leaped from the seabed of the Atlantic Ocean, broke through the atmosphere, and flew into space—this ray was none other than Janna's true form.

"Follow."

"you call me?"

Fimiris blinked and asked Janna.

"Human aircraft are too slow. If you want to save the seaweed head you care about, then keep up."

"I don't have one—never mind, I need a spaceship!"

A spaceship, remotely controlled by Femilis, detached from the space station and became attached to the body of a giant ray.

Almost instantly, it reached the vicinity of the moon.

"So fast!?"

Fimiris was shocked, but then she reacted and looked at Janna: "Since you have this kind of movement ability, why did you only use it now?"

"Now is the right time. If we go too early, I will have to submit to that guy's control, just like the Herrscher and other toys."

The reality distortion field centered on the moon—the space that was originally the domain of the will-ruler—is being replaced by a new space.

Nine Heavens, Ningdi, Iserlin, and Bronya, their bodies fully healed, were instantly teleported into Femilis's spaceship.

Wow! Am I having an out-of-body experience?! I'm flying!

"The Reloaded Bunny has been restored."

"Even my mechanical wings... Am I going to fight too?"

"It's finally time to fight back."

The four people's 'souls' floated in the air, watching their respective bodies fall asleep.

The pain vanished, and they felt incredibly light, as if in a lucid dream, filled with unprecedented power. Everyone's power, even Femilis's spaceship, was strengthened.

"What exactly happened?" Fimiris asked, voicing her doubts. "Where's Mei? Where's Kiana?"

"Don't make it seem like I'm the only one who doesn't know what happened!"

Just as Fimiris was at a loss, a white light enveloped the spaceship, accompanied by familiar voices—it was Kiana and Mei!

"We have created space for the ruler of will to destroy it."

As Kiana and Mei appeared inside the spaceship, a large amount of knowledge was input into the computer system.

Thanks to the computing speed of artificial intelligence, Phimiris immediately understood everything—

"The fusion of the spiritual world and the real world?"

"This is incredible!? You... are essentially living in both reality and a dream at the same time, and the two are influencing each other! This is like constructing a world!"