Honkai Archives: Old, Short, but Gold

["Although not much, the courage and spirit of humanity were ignited little by little from this moment on."]

[The Second Honkai Eruption broke out. The Herrscher of Ice descended upon the world, bringing extreme ice and snow and low temperatures. The entire Asian region was shrouded in the haze of blizzards.]

[But human civilization had already completed its initial integration under Yuhao's micro-management in the five months before the Second Honkai Eruption.]

[The human community known as the "Human Federation" was established!]

[The Second Herrscher was defeated by the Human Federation, and the Herrscher's fragments and core were scattered all over the place!]

[Humanity began to use the cores of the First and Second Herrschers to promote the development of science and technology. Human civilization once again gained the super buffs of the sixth industrial revolution, the sixth energy revolution, and the sixth technological revolution.]

[The Third Honkai Eruption broke out. The Herrscher of Stars pulled hundreds of meteorites to launch devastating attacks on various important human cities, but they were all intercepted by the human interception matrix. The few fragments that got through were unable to cause any significant impact.]

[The Fourth Honkai Eruption broke out. The Herrscher capable of manipulating pure energy descended!]

[The Fourth Herrscher was defeated by humanity. What defeated it was an antimatter bomb.]

[Oh my god! A low-level native civilization that hadn't even entered space was able to pull out antimatter!]

[It was said that this thing was only created after Leader Yuhao provided a large amount of Eureka bonuses.]

[The Fifth Honkai Eruption descended. The Fifth Herrscher was eliminated by the Human Federation's disintegration cannons.]

[Leader Yuhao observed the stars at night and felt that the Human Federation should start accelerating.]

["Let's end this boring farce and lay all our cards on the table."]

[Skillfully stepping on the accelerator, Yuhao pointed his finger straight ahead.]

["Accelerate!"]

["Accelerate!"]

["Accelerate!"]

[The Sixth Honkai Eruption broke out. The Sixth Herrscher descended in all its glory!]

[The Sixth Herrscher was instantly killed by concentrated neutron cannon fire. It didn't even have a chance to activate its Herrscher powers, and only its core remained.]

[The Seventh Honkai Eruption broke out. Both the Honkai Beasts and the Herrscher were captured and used as expendable materials.]

[The Human Federation's starport broke free from the gravitational pull of its home planet for the first time and ascended into the brilliant galaxy. The solar system became the inherent territory of the Human Federation, and humanity officially broke through from zero to one, officially becoming an interstellar civilization.]

["Humanity's goal is always the sea of stars. From this day forward, humanity will contend for the galaxy."]

[Delivering a speech and declaring the brilliant future of human civilization to the entire human race, Yuhao turned his attention to the Cocoon of Finality, which was heading towards Earth.]

[The Cocoon of Finality stopped moving forward.]

[The Cocoon of Finality had a bad feeling.]

[The Cocoon of Finality retreated.]

[The Cocoon of Finality was endlessly insulted and trampled by the orbital attacks of the Human Federation's naval fleet.]

[The Cocoon of Finality turned into countless fragments and dust before the Eighth Honkai Eruption.]

[It died.]

[The Cocoon of Finality died at dawn before the Eighth Honkai Eruption. Perhaps as long as the Eighth Honkai Eruption on Earth successfully broke out, the Honkai's situation would have improved.]

[But all of this was meaningless now.]

[Because they were facing a terrifying opponent that was impossible to defeat.]

[The Cocoon of Finality died, and the source of Honkai energy disappeared. Having lost the maintenance of Honkai energy, the quantum creatures full of malice towards civilization and matter in the Sea of Quanta broke through the barriers of the past and entered the Human Federation's solar system, preparing for a feast.]

[The behemoth known as "SA" also set its sights on the world that had unfortunately fallen into the sea.]

[The world seemed to be about to meet the same fate as other world bubbles—being swallowed by the sea.]

[But the quantum creatures found that something seemed a little off.]

[The intelligent creatures in this world did not flee in panic or tremble like the intelligent creatures in other world bubbles they had encountered. Instead, they formed formations.]

["What are these prey doing?"]

[The iron fist of the Human Federation smashed down, declaring their arrival to the entire Sea of Quanta.]

[The quantum creatures were horrified to discover that the skinny upright creatures in front of them were not prey.]

[They were hunters!]

[No, not hunters, but freaking natural disasters!]

[The Human Federation fleet rushed out of the solar system and into the waves of the Sea of Quanta. The erosion of quantum energy was useless against the Human Federation fleet.]

[And the Human Federation fleet attacked everywhere in the Sea of Quanta, carrying out a series of systematic massacres against the natives of the Sea of Quanta, massacres that even they themselves could not understand.]

[Quantum creatures were hunted and killed in droves, their remains brought back to the Human Federation to be made into raw materials for best-selling products like soap and canned luncheon meat, as well as other items.]

[Those world bubbles that were originally supposed to be invaded by quantum creatures and eroded by quantum energy had now become spoils of war for the Human Federation. The non-human intelligent life on them was eliminated, and humans were granted full citizenship, becoming sacred and great members of the Human Federation.]

[The few surviving, more powerful quantum creatures could only hide in the shadows and watch as the Human Federation enjoyed these world bubbles that should have belonged to them.]

[Finally, one day, the Sea of Quanta boiled over. The surging waves, carrying endless quantum energy, pushed the Human Federation back to the real universe.]

[Countless quantum creatures sang and danced, celebrating the arrival of this day. Even the inhabitants of countless world bubbles were ecstatic to have survived the disaster.]

[The Human Federation was finally gone!]

[And under the impact of the quantum waves, the Human Federation was smoothly pushed, like surfing, into the real universe on the Imaginary Tree.]

[Not far away was the characteristic world with a timeline of 50,000 years later. They found that the Cocoon of Finality in the characteristic world was several times stronger than the Cocoon of Finality in the Sea of Quanta.]

[The Cocoon of Finality in the characteristic world seemed very angry that someone had disturbed its creation of its own kind, so it was angrily smashed to pieces by the Human Federation with a single slap.]

[You met many interesting new companions in the characteristic world.]

[Especially Kiana and Mei, Elysia liked them very much.]

[But not long after, Yuhao gave another speech to the entire human society.]

["Humanity is the greatest and most glorious supreme race in the world. The blood and lives of countless human ancestors have forged the manifest destiny of humanity, declaring human sovereignty and claim over the entire universe to all things in the universe."]

["Now, as members of humanity, the Human Federation will take back the universe that belongs to us, eliminate all intelligent races in the universe other than humans, and turn the universe into a utopia for humanity."]

[The data link of the investigation beacon was established, a large number of reconnaissance outposts were deployed on the borders of the federation, and fleet clusters began to assemble.]

[The low-level shipyards were once again adjusted and upgraded, and huge shipyards capable of manufacturing massive ships called "Titans" rose from the ground, emitting bursts of rumbling sounds.]

[The grand expedition began.]

[A giant stepped into the children's paradise...]

[Human supremacist ideology spread. Yuhao led humanity to conquer the galaxy. All civilizations fell at the feet of humanity, and the universe was plunged into endless war.]

[Billions of non-human intelligent beings were slaughtered, millions of non-human intelligent civilizations were destroyed, and human planets that had suffered hardships returned to the embrace of the great human collective.]

[You were disliked by those around you because your thinking was not radical enough, and you were not human extremists. Finally, one day, in the great upheaval where human supremacist ideology officially became the dominant ideology, you died.]

[Nine shots in the back, ruled as suicide.]

[End of this simulation.]

The simulation ended.

But the Flame-Chasers could not recover from the sight of those brilliant stars full of life for a long time.

"I didn't expect that there would be so much life and beauty between those stars."

"Yes, who would have thought that our world is in the Sea of Quanta, and that the difference between the Sea of Quanta and the real world is so great?"

Even Mei, who was able to perfectly balance rationality and sensibility, could not help but feel melancholy when recalling the magnificent scenes she had experienced in the simulation.

From Earth to the solar system, then from the solar system to the Sea of Quanta, then from the Sea of Quanta back to the real world on the Imaginary Tree, and then from the real world into the stars...

The span and complexity displayed in just one simulation gave them, people who were still struggling in the mire of the Honkai, a considerable shock.

The feeling that there were people beyond people and heavens beyond heavens was so strong for the first time.

And this also made them realize that Yuhao did not seem to be simply capable of leading the humans on Earth to form the Human Federation and defeat the Honkai.

They had originally thought that they had overestimated Yuhao.

But now it seemed...

They had most likely underestimated him, severely underestimated him.

And they had also overestimated their own ability to cope.