Honkai Archives: Old, Short, but Gold

Silence, a long period of silence.

The Flame-Chasers ended their simulations at roughly the same time, after all, each of their names were equally written on a list that Yuhao paid close attention to.

According to this list, they would all be purged soon after.

Ending this simulation quickly and decisively.

Everyone remained silent.

This silence continued for a long time, making the atmosphere in the conference room even more solemn.

Even Elysia, who was usually very lively and enthusiastic, did not speak after this simulation ended.

After an unknown amount of time, the group looked at each other, their faces reflecting each other's confusion.

They had thought that this simulation would be just another normal simulation, just like the more than fifty simulations they had conducted before.

But aside from the initial First and Second Honkai Eruptions, the rest of the simulation gave everyone one surprise and shock after another.

And the decisive and hasty ending also made them unable to react for a moment.

"Just now... I mean, the simulation just now, we seemed to have defeated the Honkai, right?"

Seeing that no one was speaking, Kevin scratched his head and asked uncertainly.

"It's true that we defeated the Honkai, but it wasn't us who defeated the Honkai."

"It was the leader named Yuhao who led humanity to defeat the Honkai."

"This time humanity's victory over the Honkai basically had nothing to do with us."

Mei replied, her words as precise as ever, supplementing the missing information in Kevin's words.

But the disbelief on her face clearly showed her attitude and views on this simulation.

"That's right, humanity did defeat the Honkai, and they won... they won very easily?"

Even the tone of Mobius, who was always arrogant and stubborn, was mixed with some obvious uncertainty and surprise.

She was Mobius.

She had been conscious since she was in the womb. She began absorbing all kinds of knowledge before she was even born. Her talent and intelligence were second to none. She had long stood at the ceiling of human intelligence.

A genius like her had seen everything.

But this was something she had never seen before!

Recalling the entire process of the simulation, where human civilization went from an initial decline to a comeback, to crushing the Honkai with almost no damage, and completely humiliating it.

Mobius, who had never dreamed or had hallucinations, had the impulse for the first time to wonder if she was dreaming or having a hallucination.

The other Flame-Chasers in the conference room, who had also witnessed the entire process of leader Yuhao crushing the Honkai in the simulation, had similar thoughts to Mobius.

They all felt like they had had a long dream.

A ridiculous and dreamlike dream.

After all, they had conducted more than fifty simulations.

In these more than fifty simulations, they had tried almost every method they could think of, making increasingly crazy attempts. But they had never been able to defeat the Honkai even once.

Either the Honkai steamrolled human civilization, or the Honkai was on its way to steamroll human civilization.

Aside from one time when they had gotten close to victory, the rest of the simulations were the Honkai completely crushing humanity. They could not see any hope of victory at all.

It seemed that from the moment the Honkai targeted humanity, humanity's failure was already a predetermined fate in Aponia's prophecy.

But now...

Now they had actually defeated the Honkai?

Not only had they defeated the Honkai, but they had also thoroughly beaten it into the ground, humiliate it, and finally crushed it.

It was like an old man in a wheelchair facing an attack from a malicious muscular man. Not only did he not get knocked down, but he also beat the muscular man into a pulp!

The level of fantasy was even more outrageous than "The God of War returns to see his wife and daughter being sold to a brothel and humiliated. With a wave of his hand, he orders 100,000 soldiers to make money for his wife and daughter."

"Did humanity defeat the Honkai?"

"Yes, they did."

"Did humanity really defeat the Honkai?"

"They really did."

"For real for real?"

"For real."

After a long period of buffering, Mobius, Elysia, and the others finally accepted the fact that humanity had defeated the Honkai.

Honestly, they still found it quite unbelievable.

"Yuhao!"

Recalling the name that had frequently appeared in the simulation and had led humanity to defeat the Honkai, Mei asked solemnly.

"Does anyone know him?"

At first, she was confused by this name that had appeared for the first time in over fifty simulations, and did not understand why someone who had never appeared in the previous fifty simulations would suddenly appear in this simulation.

But as the simulation progressed, and after seeing Yuhao's series of actions that were comparable to art, everyone became even more confused.

"Why didn't this great figure appear at all in the previous fifty simulations?"

It could be said that humanity was able to defeat the Honkai in this simulation entirely because of Yuhao's actions.

If Yuhao had not made a move, the result of this simulation would inevitably have been the same as before: humanity being destroyed by the Honkai.

Similarly, the method that Yuhao had demonstrated for fighting against the Honkai also opened the eyes of everyone present.

So that was how you could fight against the Honkai!

"I don't know him!"

Kevin was the first to shake his head.

Yuhao had shocked him greatly in the simulation, but in reality, he had never heard of this name.

Well, he was just an ordinary high school student, so it was impossible for him to know about these names.

Su, Pardofelis, Sakura, Mobius, and the others also shook their heads one after another.

They had never heard of this name, let alone know him.

As for Hua, she was silent for a while.

The name Yuhao was very common in her hometown, and many people were called that.

But the people named Yuhao that she knew were clearly not the leader Yuhao who had appeared in the simulation.

The aura and charisma that leader Yuhao had displayed in the simulation were unique, very easy to recognize, and could not be imitated by anyone.

"Mr. Yuhao used to be an advisor in my team. I had a very pleasant time working with him."

Eden's reply attracted everyone's attention.

"He's just like he was in the simulation, gentle, and gentlemanly, like basking in the warm sunshine. I can confirm that it's him."

"But unfortunately, he stopped being my advisor a few months ago and left. I don't know where he went now."

Eden knew Yuhao and could confirm that the person in the simulation was indeed the Yuhao she knew.

But after resigning from his position as her advisor, he had only left behind a sentence, "I'll go to see your concerts," and then left without even leaving his contact information.

Therefore, Eden also did not know where Yuhao was currently.

"Ehem~ Why don't you ask the amazing Elysia~♪"

While everyone was speculating about Yuhao's identity, Elysia suddenly spoke.

She straightened her posture, raised her arm, and struck a pose like a student answering a question.

"He was my neighbor before. He lived next door to my house~♪"

Elysia said confidently.

"The clever Elysia doesn't make mistakes when recognizing people."

When she first made contact with Yuhao in the simulation, Yuhao had already established the Human Federation and become its nominal supreme leader.

Because of this, she had felt hesitant and wondered if she had recognized the wrong person.

But after accidentally seeing Yuhao's leisurely manner of drinking tea and playing with his bird, and his habits of reading the newspaper and going to the pleasure district to listen to music, she was 100% sure that Yuhao was the person she knew.

Only he could live like a retired old man at such a young age.

"Meow! Then, Sister Elysia, what are we waiting for? Let's hurry to your house!"

Hearing Elysia say that she knew Yuhao and knew where he lived, Pardofelis immediately jumped up with joy.

They had all witnessed Yuhao's heaven-defying abilities in the simulation.

Whether it was social skills or how he treated people.

Whether it was scientific research or complete technology.

Whether it was leadership or management ability.

…

As long as he was there, humanity would be able to defeat the Honkai easily!

Pardofelis had already made up her mind.

As soon as Yuhao took over her work, she would immediately move her house to the beach and sleep in every day, slack off, and bask in the sun!

"Uh... that... Sister Mei... Why are you looking at me like that?"

"And everyone, why are you all looking at me with such strange expressions?"

Suddenly, Pardofelis noticed that everyone was looking at her strangely.

"Did... Did I do something wrong?"

"Pardofelis, you didn't do anything wrong."

"It's just that going to find Mr. Yuhao is something that probably needs further discussion."

"Why?"

Pardofelis asked subconsciously.

Soon, she suddenly understood something and immediately shut her mouth.

With Yuhao, it was easy for human civilization to defeat the Honkai.

There was no doubt about this.

But after humanity had defeated the Honkai, what did Yuhao do?

He killed all the intelligent civilizations in hundreds of world bubbles in the Sea of Quanta!

None of them were left.