Honkai Impact 3: Deadwood

"Are you done? After thinking about it for so long, you should understand that resistance is useless, right?"

The black shadow was floating in the air, stroking his hair with one hand, and asked impatiently.

"What do you want?" the captain asked.

"Hmm...hehehe~" Seeing that the other party seemed to be willing to compromise, Xilin couldn't help but let out a few satisfied laughs.

"Human, I can give you another chance to become my servant, and I will let you live until the end of the world~☆"

"Servant?"

"Well~ I can forget about the things you did to me in the past, as long as you come over from that little girl and be my servant from now on. When I truly take control of this body and come to this world again, I I can consider letting you go~☆”

"Sounds really tempting."

"How, tell me, your answer."

"I reject."

"Ah."

After hearing this, Xilin shook her head. In fact, she also knew that this person would not give in to her so easily, so she put down her crossed legs, stood in the air, raised her hand and waved, but it only took a few seconds. After that, dozens of black shadows began to take shape, and soon they all turned into puppets that looked exactly like the captain and were holding the "Key of God".

When the girl behind the captain saw this, she couldn't help but widen her eyes, with a surprised expression on her face. Just one puppet had caused her so much suffering just now, and she even almost died from it. Now there are so many puppets. Get up, even the captain himself may not be able to gain the upper hand easily...

What's more, there is a "Herrscher" behind these puppets.

"What now? Are you still going to resist?"

Facing such a large number of puppets, the captain remained silent. After glancing at them, he slowly lowered his arm holding the sword.

"Haha~☆ That's right, don't forget, this is the consciousness space I created. As long as there is this continuous "Honkai Energy", I can create anything. In other words, in Here, I am equivalent to God. "

"..."

For the captain, "becoming a servant" is actually a very abrupt request, because for Siren, who is at an advantage, this is not necessary. For Xilin, the most important thing is not to let herself hinder her from taking action against Kiana, so she just uses the power that she says can "create everything" and relies on these puppets to hold her back, but she did not do so.

Even her request was not to stop herself from getting in her way, but to go one step further and... recruit herself?

why?

It is impossible to be sure, but one thing is that the captain is fully aware that Sirin does not want to have a more direct conflict with him.

There is probably only one reason why she chose to do this, and that is: she is not as invincible as she said.

"Okay, kneel down and show me your loyalty."

"..."

So the two sides fell into silence for a short time, and the pure white snowfield where the three of them were was returned to a state where there was no other sound except the howling of the cold wind.

Kiana and Sirin's eyes fell on the young man holding the black sword for a moment, waiting for him to make a choice.

Finally, as the two watched, the boy's legs began to bend downward slowly. At that second, an overly innocent smile appeared on the black shadow's face, but Kiana, who had been worried about the captain in her heart, couldn't bear it. He swallowed hard, and his heartbeat speeded up unconsciously.

But in the next moment, the captain, who had lowered his posture slightly, took a step forward with his left foot and swung the black sword in his hand horizontally at an extremely fast speed.

The sword blade cut through the air, making a crisp low-pitched sound, and at the same time, an arc-shaped purple sword energy flew out and spread.

The powerful sword energy swept across the snow and rushed towards the group of puppets who were indistinguishable from the captain. After bringing up countless snowflakes, the sword energy involved dozens of puppets in front of Xilin.

"Varied…!?"

The sword came so fast that Zai Xilin had no time to react. In her surprise, the sword energy containing the power of the "Second God's Key" easily cut and chopped the dolls... In an instant , those puppets used as bluffs turned into pitch-black mist and disappeared completely.

"As expected." Looking at the snowy field with only Sirin left in front of him, the captain said calmly.

"As I thought, even if you are the owner of this consciousness space, you will still be subject to some restrictions here, such as...the cost of creating all of this."

"..."

This time, the black shadow in the distance became silent.

"As you said, relying on the Honkai energy overflowing from the central database, you can indeed create everything you can think of in this consciousness space. However, just maintaining this consciousness space will consume a lot of your strength. Alright?"

"Human, you..."

Seemingly because she was right, Xilin was speechless for a moment.

The girl behind the captain looked at all this with confusion and asked: "Captain, what on earth is this...?"

The captain did not look back and continued to explain: "The reason why Honkai energy is stored in the central database is only for the long-term operation of the system. It is not like Hyperion, which requires a large amount of Honkai energy to operate the power system. So even if the Honkai energy that overflows there exceeds the absolute safe value, there will still be a limit.”

"That is to say...Xilin actually doesn't have that much Honkai energy to mobilize...does it?"

"Yeah." The captain nodded, "If she could really make so many puppets come out, then she wouldn't have to waste words with me here and just pester me. But she didn't do that, which means that, She can't actually do it...am I right, Siren?"

"……you!"

"The Herrscher" glared angrily at the young man not far away. Just like her impression, this man named "Zhi" was still as sharp as ever. In fact, when she saw Zhi lowering his figure slightly just now, she did look forward to it, expecting him to accept her request honestly and give up against her, but he did not.

But somehow, Xilin felt that she was not disappointed by this. Instead of being angry, there was another indescribable feeling in her heart at the moment.

She didn't know what was going on, and she even didn't understand why she had just made a request that would obviously be rejected, but right now, she had no time to think about it.