"A girl named Ji Lin; she is the first human in recorded history to possess the ability to fight the Honkai."
A petite girl wearing an ornate headdress and light clothing appeared. Alone, she annihilated all the rampaging Honkai Beasts with art-like combat, calming a disaster, allowing the primitive tribe to turn danger into safety, then silently walked away, disappearing into the horizon.
Kiana couldn't help but ask Evan.
"Where is she going?"
"Ji Lin disappeared at the end. Even Schicksal doesn't know where she went after that."
"So cool!"
Kiana's admiring comment made Evan smile, and the virtual reality scene also changed as this event ended.
Being inside the virtual reality, Evan temporarily couldn't contact Bronya in reality, but Bronya should be able to see what was happening here.
Seeing the scene change from a primitive tribe to a fully armed cavalry army, Evan's gaze flickered briefly. Following the knowledge he'd learned, he continued explaining.
"14th century Europe. A large number of Honkai Beasts reappeared, and they had evolved even more powerfully. However, by that time, the Schicksal organization had already taken shape in Europe. Schicksal formed Knight Orders to combat the Honkai and developed weapons to fight Honkai Beasts."
The cavalry army before them began charging. The super-long lances in their hands, reaching about six meters, showed excellent effectiveness against giant Honkai Beasts. Although the knights paid no small price in casualties, they successfully intercepted the Honkai Beasts in the outskirts.
Kiana blinked.
"These knights are all male? Didn't you say the male population is far lower than female?"
"Males are far fewer now, but in the past it may not have been like that—at least not as exaggerated as now. The Honkai at that time wasn't as powerful as today either. As you saw, these knights only had special weapons; they themselves couldn't use Honkai energy like Valkyries. And the Honkai Beasts they fought weren't particularly formidable. This is history from hundreds of years ago, after all."
"Oh, I see."
Kiana nodded. Seeing the scene change to show the Honkai Beasts from before—battered and scarred, locked in giant iron cages—Evan continued.
"In that era, humans couldn't completely eliminate Honkai Beasts yet; they could only capture them after making them lose combat capability. The captured Honkai Beasts were imprisoned underground beneath Schicksal's European headquarters cathedral. Humanity thought they had achieved victory, but they were met with an unexpectedly heavy blow. The Honkai transformed, appearing in the form of a virus. It was at that time that Schicksal began to suspect that the Honkai might possess some degree of intelligence."
The scene changed again. Evan and Kiana walked through a medieval European street. The sky was dim, and on both sides of the street lay people suffering from severe illness, too weak to do anything but wait for death. From time to time, people dressed in black robes with black cloth covering their mouths and noses carried away corpses—this was among the few remedies they could manage.
"The Black Death swept across Europe, claiming the lives of 25 million people in just six years."
"..."
The massive number and the tragic street made Kiana purse her lips. Just as she was walking with Evan with a somber expression, about to learn more about the situation, a giant cross suddenly fell from the sky.
The cross smashed directly into the stone ground. The intense momentum startled Kiana, who then turned to look at Evan beside her.
"What is this thing?"
"[Oath of Judah]. Principal Theresa's weapon, though in this era, the user naturally isn't Theresa."
Hearing this, Kiana looked up at the sky, wanting to find that wicked user who threw the [Oath of Judah] down. Didn't they know that throwing things from high places was dangerous? It almost hit someone! Even though this virtual reality wouldn't interact with external observers, it was still scary.
As it turned out, Kiana saw nothing. The sky was empty.
After a brief silence, Kiana tried reaching out to touch the [Oath of Judah]. Although the previous series of events demonstrated that virtual reality couldn't be influenced by observers, now Kiana suddenly had an impulse to try again.
The moment Kiana touched [Oath of Judah], the giant cross suddenly turned into a deep passage connected to who-knows-where. Kiana, leaning forward, couldn't stand steadily and fell right in.
At that instant, she panicked a bit. Her rash action seemed to have caused an unknown effect. What was happening now was definitely not in Evan and Bronya's plan.
As Kiana felt apologetic about this, she suddenly felt someone grab her hand. The girl froze briefly, then whipped her head around to see Evan's smiling face.
Discovering she had entered an unknown passage, Evan immediately followed. At this moment, looking back, the passage door behind them had closed. If Evan had hesitated even slightly, he would have been shut outside and couldn't have come in.
This fact caused a strange flutter in Kiana's heart—the kind that made her whole body feel weak, but was absolutely not unpleasant. The girl stared blankly.
Then—
"Ahhhhh!!"
Discovering she had appeared high in the air and feeling the overly realistic sensation of falling and the airflow rushing past her face, Kiana let out an uncontrollable scream.
She closed her eyes in fright and complained full of grievance.
"To just throw people down from the air like this—who designed this virtual reality? I'm not going to fall to my death, am I?"
"Don't worry, I'm here."
Evan's voice sounded by Kiana's ear. When the girl zoned out again, she found they had already reached the ground, with her held horizontally in Evan's arms in what seemed to be called a princess carry.
This situation made Kiana's face start turning red.
"Are you two alright?"
In this space that Kiana had thought was part of the virtual reality, a character appeared who could perceive Kiana and Evan's existence and actively spoke to them.
It was a beautiful girl with the same white hair and blue eyes as Kiana.
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