boyutpedia Chapter 429 Setting Released
Chapter 429 Setting Released
A word of caution before reading: as the title suggests, this chapter will provide a thorough summary of the book's world-building, so it may be a bit dry to read.
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"Really? That's good."
"However, Miss Kiana, I have a question."
"what?"
"How did you become so sure that we would have a final battle with Him in this world? Don't try to fob me off with 'I don't know' now."
“Although I really want to say I don’t know,” Kiana said, scratching her head, “I have a feeling that this world will definitely be the last time we cross paths with Him.”
Otto narrowed his eyes, his expression neither joyful nor sorrowful, quietly awaiting Kiana's further explanation.
Kiana took a deep breath and said, "Because the captain and I are from this world, or rather, our past lives were from this world."
"A past life...?"
Kiana nodded: "Yes, it's a past life, a reincarnation, or time travel. Think of it however you want, but what I can tell you is that we are currently in the timeline before the Captain and I time traveled."
"So, theoretically, at this point in time, you and your past life coexist?"
"That's right. The reason why the captain and I were transported to another world was that one day in the future, less than a year later, the city where the captain and I lived was affected by a disaster. The disaster caused a large number of casualties, and the captain and I died in that disaster and were transported to a world called [Honkai Impact 3]."
"Does Miss Kiana mean that the culprit behind your and the Captain's time travel is that disaster, and that disaster is very likely caused by our current battle with Him?"
“Hmm.” Kiana nodded. “However, my memories of this disaster from my past life are very vague. The only thing I can remember is that there were people with long silver hair and golden eyes fighting in the air. As for that person’s face, I’m sorry, it’s all blurry when I think back to it now.”
“This is really…” Otto shook his head with a wry smile.
"Don't you believe me?"
"I believe it, how could I not? My bitter smile is simply because perhaps everything we're doing is just repeating the same mistakes."
"Perhaps. But one thing I can confirm is that there was no virtual anchor team like we have now on the internet in my past life. In other words, the timeline may have been slowly changing."
"But that doesn't guarantee that the timeline has completely changed, does it?"
"Who knows."
Kiana went to the window and looked down at the street. Pedestrians were hurrying by, and everything was peaceful.
"This world is not like the world of Honkai Impact 3, which can be explained by a simple tree of imaginary numbers. Changing the world line and the future is much more difficult than sacrificing yourself to grow a new branch on the tree of imaginary numbers."
Otto raised an eyebrow: "I'm all ears."
"I don't know much either. After all, although my family in my previous life was a family that knew the essence of this world, I was just a family heir, and an heir who had only come into contact with half of the essence of this world."
"But knowing only half is already a lot, isn't it? Miss Kiana, could you tell me the other half of the information? This would satisfy my curiosity and allow me to make changes to our pre-planned strategy to increase its success rate. Wouldn't that be better for both of us?"
What is the success rate of the current plan?
"Do you want the truth, or a lie to make you happy?"
"There's no need to flaunt your pent-up desire to perform like this now, Otto. Hasn't anyone told you that you have a strong desire to perform?"
"I've said it before, but I've gotten used to it over the years."
"Fine, I don't want to waste my breath arguing with you. Just tell me straight."
"To be honest, it's infinitely close to zero."
"It's almost zero... Oh well, according to the family rules, these things shouldn't be said casually, but anyway, I'm not a member of that family anymore. At most, I'm just an outsider who knows the information."
"Miss Kiana, are you saying you really dislike your family from your past life?"
Kiana's eyes dimmed as she recalled her days in that family in her past life.
"Although I hate to admit it, we might actually have something to talk about in this regard. But let's leave that topic here. You want to know about this world, right? I can tell you."
After listening, Otto slowly sat down, gesturing for Kiana to continue. The sofa beneath him also lowered slightly due to the weight of his body.
"This world is the origin of everything, and also the largest fragment of the origin of everything."
Otto, who had been slightly bent over, straightened up instantly, and his expression turned serious.
"In the beginning, the world was a state of chaos. From this chaos, the first consciousness was born. Thus, the world completed its transformation from nothing to something. The chaos of the world was changed by the will of that consciousness. Thus, the universe was born. In the beginning, the universe consisted of only one planet, or rather, one world. Human beings were born into the world afterward, and thus civilization was born in that world."
Thanks to that consciousness, after billions of years of development, that civilization has mastered everything; even creating the world is merely something an ordinary person in that civilization could accomplish with a single thought.
"But that civilization was ultimately destroyed, wasn't it?"
"After all, we are human beings, and as long as we are human, we will have emotions and desires. Even if that civilization has long since solved all the problems we know, desires are endless. The initial trigger was that someone felt that the peaceful world was too boring, so in order to satisfy their own perverse tastes, that person stirred up conflicts between people. Then the conflicts increased and increased, eventually forming a world war of unprecedented scale and absurdity."
"But that world itself could no longer withstand the devastation caused by humanity, so on the third day after the start of the world war, the world was destroyed. Almost all of humanity died on that day, and the world began to return to chaos. Just before everything returned to chaos, the seven supreme leaders of that civilization stepped forward and chose to sacrifice themselves to mend the broken world, but in the end they still failed. The entire world shattered into countless fragments scattered throughout the universe, and even the universe itself was being torn apart."
"The initial consciousness was moved by the spirit of the seven people, so it took action. However, it did not choose to reshape the world according to the wishes of the seven people, but instead integrated the largest fragment along with the universe into a new world. The other fragments were placed around this new world to wait for an opportunity to 'germinate' and generate a completely new world."
"The souls of the people of that civilization were wiped clean of all impurities and returned to their original pure state before being reincarnated, waiting for this new world to be reborn and civilization to emerge again. In order to prevent the tragedy from repeating itself, He made the bloodline of those seven people His representatives in this world, so that He could intervene at any time to prevent events that would destroy the world. And that is all I know."
"Hmm, that's a very interesting story. So, does that mean our world developed from scattered fragments?"
"This is beyond the scope of my knowledge, but based on my previous experience in Japan, the ability of that civilization to create worlds should have been preserved. It's just that it has deteriorated into what is called recognition power. Those world fragments that are out of control are most likely those that have absorbed works with high recognition power from that world and thus created worlds based on them."
"Then what about that unified will entity? And what about all those worlds we traveled through before?"
"I speculate that it might be because they are both miHoYo games. Although the worlds of Star Train and New Elido are not in my past life memories, the world of Star Train is noted in the group chat as Star Train, and Mr. Welt still exists. It is highly likely to be a future derivative work of the Honkai IP. But I don't know about the world of New Elido. However, considering that Genshin Impact also traveled through time, and it is a brand new IP of miHoYo, the world of New Elido is also very likely to be a work that miHoYo will release in the future."
"In the end, it's just speculation... But never mind, Miss Kiana, I have one last question."
"explain."
"And what is the identity of that original consciousness in this world?"
“I have also said that my family and six other families are His representatives in this world, and different civilizations exist in this world. Depending on the beliefs of different civilizations, He has many different names. For example, the creator God refers to Him, while in China His name is Tiandao (Heavenly Way).”