The news of Honkai Impact 3rd updating again instantly spread across various chat groups, and netizens couldn't wait to open P Station to watch.
However, after opening the platform, they unexpectedly discovered that this time the video was different from before.
At the beginning of the video, a line of text appeared, [Honkai Chronicles: Nine Nether Chapter]
Unlike previous videos, Chronicles: Nine Nether Chapter directly introduced the story background. The summary was:
[In the Shenzhou of five thousand years ago, there was a hero who held a golden holy sword and led their tribe to resist the invasion of Honkai. In the end, they sacrificed themselves to seal the monstrous beasts threatening humanity in the Nine Nether.
And now, in order to obtain the stigma of this hero and the legendary golden sword, Kiana and her companions, under Himeko's lead, dove into the deep sea ruins to search for the remnants of Nine Nether.]
At this point, many attentive netizens realized that the Chronicles: Nine Nether Chapter was telling the very story Himeko had mentioned before, and they finally understood the reason behind their journey here.
Sure enough, the conversation among Kiana, Mei, and Bronya in the video confirmed this point.
When they saw that Himeko's body had very poor adaptability to Honkai energy, yet she still resolutely chose to implant the artificial stigma in order to fight Honkai, many netizens were moved to tears.
[So that's how Himeko's illness came to be.]
[How is this a stigma? This is a spark bought with life!!!]
[But more than this, I care about when Van is going to appear.]
[Don't mention Van. I feel like crying just hearing the name!]
[MiHoYo you have no heart! Give me back my Van husband!]
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Amid the netizens' cries of protest, the story continued.
After entering the cave, Himeko and the others got in contact with Theresa.
To ensure Himeko's team's mission went smoothly, Theresa even invited a Shenzhou native, Fu Hua, as a special advisor.
Under Fu Hua's guidance, the four began to explore the suspected "Nine Nether" cave.
During this, from Himeko and the others' perspective, the audience in the real world gradually learned the life story of that hero.
However, just as they were trying to solve the mechanism, Himeko was suddenly absorbed into a glowing stone wall.
Anxious, Kiana and the others quickly followed, but it was already too late. By the time they found Himeko again, they discovered she had already been possessed by a weapon called Xuanyuan Sword and had started attacking them.
This scene made many netizens comment that it felt very familiar.
[Although it's not quite appropriate to say this now, I have to admit, we've found the reason why the main character team keeps turning traitor.]
[To be fair, Himeko's betrayal aside, her outfit still looks amazing.]
[Indeed, that outfit is really big… I mean, really white…]
[Are you really admiring the outfit?! You're shameless! I'm different. I'm here for Himeko-sis's generous… chest. I'm honest!]
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[In the video]
After much difficulty, Kiana and the others finally suppressed Himeko and the Xuanyuan Sword.
But before they could catch their breath, Theresa urgently informed them that many anti-entropy troops had appeared around them, and their goal was precisely the Xuanyuan Sword in their hands.
[Hang in there, Kiana!] Theresa's anxious voice came through the communicator. [I'll bring reinforcements and arrive in two hours!]
On their end, just as Kiana and the others were about to retreat as ordered, they realized they had already been unknowingly surrounded by anti-entropy mechas.
Amid the crowd of anti-entropy mechas, a pink-haired girl walked out.
"You scrubs from Schicksal, stop trying to run! You've been surrounded for a long time. My name is Rozaliya. If you know what's good for you, hand over the Xuanyuan Sword quickly."
"Who are you calling scrubs, you arrogant brat!"
"Whoever responds is the scrub~" Rozaliya made a funny face. "Scrubs~ Scrubs~ Schicksal's scrubs~"
Kiana, who realized she had been mocked by a little kid, couldn't hold back her anger and was about to charge in with her dual pistols.
Thankfully, Raiden Mei quickly stopped her. "Calm down, Kiana. We're surrounded, and more importantly, we have bigger things to worry about than fighting."
"Alright, alright." Kiana nodded, then looked at the brat named Rozaliya in the mech crowd. "That little brat named Rozaliya, if we hand over the Xuanyuan Sword, will you let us go?"
To Kiana, her friends' lives were more important than a broken sword.
"Hahaha~ As expected of Schicksal's scrubs, you're so spineless!" Rozaliya showed an incredibly arrogant smile.
"Who told you that handing over the sword means I'll let you go? The advantage is with me now, so I make the rules! And since you dared call me a brat, you've already set foot on the road to death!"
After saying that, Rozaliya prepared to order her mecha troops to attack.
After giving the command, Rozaliya turned around confidently, striking a pose like "this man never looks back at explosions."
However, unexpectedly, the sound of explosions and screams she anticipated didn't occur. Instead, the entire scene was unusually quiet.
This puzzled her greatly. Turning around, Rozaliya saw the three opponents looking at her with expressions like they were kindly watching a fool.
Before she could get angry, she heard a cold voice behind her.
"Brat from anti-entropy, surrender. You've already been surrounded by me."
———
Hearing this familiar voice, netizens in the real world went full groundhog scream mode.
[Husband! That's my husband's voice!]
[Get lost, the person above! He's my husband!]
[Stop fighting! Can't we just enjoy the video? You're ruining my moment of admiring my man's heroic appearance!]
[Van! I've missed you!]
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[In the video.]
"What the hell~ I thought Schicksal's main forces had arrived, but it's just one guy?" Seeing only one person appear, Rozaliya once again showed an arrogant smile. "And you still dare to shamelessly tell me to surrender? You think these mechas beside me are just decorations?"
After speaking, Rozaliya once again ordered her mechas to attack. This time, unlike the last, the mechas finally started moving.
Seeing her mechas functioning again, Rozaliya let out a sigh of relief. She thought there was a malfunction, but it turned out she had just scared herself.
The roaring of anti-entropy mechas echoed through the cave, accompanied by Rozaliya's smug laughter.
And then...
"Click!"
A burst of sword light flashed, and Rozaliya's smug expression froze on her face.
Several streaks of purple sword light bloomed among the mechas, and the sound of metal joints snapping rang out like hail in a storm.
Just as her proud titan mecha was about to raise its cannon, the entire mechanical arm shattered into dozens of pieces along fine lines.
"This is impossible!" The pink-haired girl's scream was drowned by the deafening collapse of metal.
Those multi-ton war machines were now like tin toys crushed by an invisible giant hand, twisted and sparking in the midst of the sword light.
When the smoke cleared, a young man in dark-patterned combat clothes sheathed his long sword.
The red string hanging among his white hair swayed gently, and as he walked over the mechanical wreckage, everyone on the scene instinctively tensed their shoulders.
"I told you..." Van tapped the air with his finger, and in the surrounding shadows appeared countless sword-shaped phantoms. "You're already surrounded by me."
"You've got to be kidding!" Rozaliya suddenly fell silent. She realized her limbs had suddenly lost all strength.
Bronya's Heavy Bunny 19C had just fired a binding field, tying the flailing brat up like a dumpling.
"Van!" Kiana shouted in surprise, "You jerk, when did you come back?"
"Just finished a mission when I got a message from Principal Theresa asking me to support you guys." Van shook his head helplessly. "Seriously, I don't even get a moment to breathe."
"Long time no see." Raiden Mei smiled and nodded. "Your swordsmanship has improved again."
"It's alright." Van scratched his nose. "But you guys, how did you get targeted by anti-entropy? And what happened to Himeko?"
"Himeko, she..."
After Kiana and the others explained the situation, Van looked at the golden sword in Mei's arms with a complicated gaze.
"Xuanyuan Sword... Ji Xuanyuan..."
After a simple rest, the group prepared to leave with the captive. But at that moment, the seawater suddenly started boiling unnaturally.
Bronya was the first to notice the anomaly, "The Honkai energy in the earth veins is abnormal?! This isn't an ordinary earthquake..."
Before her words were finished, the entire rock layer collapsed with a roar. In the abyss-like seawater, dark purple scales flashed with the aura of an ancient beast.
When a giant mouth filled with barbs devoured the sky, everyone saw those lava-like vertical pupils.
It was the ancient beast recorded in the Schicksal database, the legendary Nine Nether variant, "Chiyou."
"Hold on tight!" Van's sword sheath erupted with purple energy, but was still torn apart by the violent currents.
In the final moment before consciousness was swallowed by darkness, Raiden Mei vaguely saw the gemstone on the Xuanyuan Sword hilt resonating with the mysterious pattern on the giant beast's forehead...
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