Chapter 91: Vicissitude: Hua VIII
"Hua" took the "Lin Chaoyu" sealed within her mind and used her as a guide, letting Kiana and Bronya learn about Fu Hua's past according to her script.
Although "Hua" claimed to be Fu Hua, Kiana and Bronya could sense that she was a Herrscher, and so a battle broke out between the two sides. Taking advantage of "Hua" being in high spirits, Fu Hua engaged in mental communication with Kiana and Bronya, instructing Kiana on how to deal with "Hua."
Soon, Bronya was defeated, and "Hua" demanded that Kiana judge which of them—herself or Fu Hua—was the real Fu Hua. Following the strategy Fu Hua provided, Kiana denied the foundation of "Hua's" actions, causing her to waver.
The extreme rage that had been erupting suddenly cooled down; "Hua" understood everything. This was merely a ploy by Kiana and Fu Hua to fool her.
"Hua" returned the feather that housed Fu Hua's consciousness to Kiana, but she severed the sharing of power, and the feather was on the verge of dissipating. Now, there was only one way to save Fu Hua, and that was to reclaim Fu Hua's body.
Facing Kiana's obstinacy, "Hua" lost her patience and began to view Kiana as an enemy.
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[ Honkai: Star Rail - Duke Inferno: So, in the end, it still comes down to fighting to solve the problem, doesn't it? ]
[ Honkai: Star Rail - Acheron: Although I don't know what's going on, looking at you, I always have the urge to finish you off. ]
Acheron stared at Duke Inferno's avatar, lost in thought. She didn't know why she wanted to fight whenever she saw this face.
[ Honkai Impact 3rd - Kiana: Hahahaha, Bronya, you're no good either. You were defeated by the Herrscher just like that. ]
[ Honkai Impact 3rd - Bronya: Damn it! ]
Looking at Kiana sticking her tongue out at her, Bronya could only seethe with impotent rage.
[ Honkai Impact 3rd - MEI: This kind of ability… why does it seem a bit like the Herrscher of Sentience? ]
[ Honkai Impact 3rd - Durandal: Why do I feel like this Herrscher of Sentience is just like a child? ]
[ Genshin Impact - Nahida: I get the feeling she's like a child who hasn't been polluted by strange knowledge. ]
[ Genshin Impact - Alhaitham: Strange knowledge? Lady Nahida, what have you been reading lately? ]
[ Genshin Impact - Nahida: Ah, nothing, nothing at all. You just focus on your work. ]
At this, seeing Alhaitham questioning her, Nahida's little face turned slightly red.
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"Although the Herrscher of Sentience said with her mouth that she treated Kiana as an enemy, she actually still maintained goodwill toward Kiana. During the battle, she held back repeatedly, trying to persuade Kiana to give up the fight and admit that she was the real Fu Hua."
"Fu Hua did not give up and kept guiding and assisting Kiana in the battle from behind. At the end of the fight, Kiana unleashed the Edge of Taixuan to suppress the Herrscher, creating the conditions for Fu Hua to seal her."
"Fu Hua once again sacrificed herself to seal the Herrscher. Unable to accept a victory bought with Fu Hua's sacrifice, Kiana entered the illusion of the Fenghuang Down and destroyed the seal Fu Hua had constructed. Facing Kiana's determination, Fu Hua finally yielded to the desires of her heart and accepted the salvation offered by Kiana."
"The illusion was lifted. Fu Hua admitted that this body belonged to the Herrscher of Sentience born from it, but she could not hand the body over to the Herrscher just yet; she still had things she must do. Fu Hua invited the Herrscher of Sentience to share the body with her and resist the erosion of the Honkai together. But the Herrscher of Sentience chose to leave, taking the Herrscher's authority with her and returning the body to Fu Hua."
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[ Honkai: Star Rail - Bronya: I didn't expect this Herrscher of Sentience to actually be a tsundere. ]
[ Genshin Impact - Zhongli: Perhaps it is because she is a Herrscher that she believes she is no longer human, which is why she chose to leave. ]
[ Honkai Impact 3rd - Theresa: That's not right! ]
[ Honkai Impact 3rd - Kiana: What's wrong? Auntie, what's not right? ]
[ Honkai Impact 3rd - Murata Himeko: The Principal is probably thinking about how you, Mei, and Bronya are all Herrschers, and now Fu Hua is a Herrscher too, so she's feeling a bit depressed. ]
[ Honkai: Star Rail - Xuan Yong: After all, 'Herrscher Academy' and 'Far East Demon Cave' aren't just nicknames for nothing. ]
[ Honkai Impact 3rd - Theresa: Wuwuwuwuwu, you're all bullying me! ]
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"Although the Herrscher core was inside Fu Hua's body, the Herrscher's authority was dominated by the Herrscher of Sentience—existing in this world by relying on a single feather of the Fenghuang Down. If Fu Hua wanted to use the Herrscher's powers, she had to reclaim the dominance. However, the dominance was held firmly in the hands of the Herrscher of Sentience, and no matter how hard Fu Hua tried, she couldn't gain even the slightest bit of it. This was also related to the dissipation of the Fenghuang Down and the fact that Fu Hua's strength had not yet fully recovered."
"After taking the Hyperion to report to the Salt Lake Base, Fu Hua had been tracking the traces of the Herrscher of Sentience. Although the Herrscher of Sentience was a Herrscher, her nature was not evil. If she were left to wander alone, Fu Hua worried that the Will of Honkai would target her again. Until the Herrscher of Dominance incident occurred, Fu Hua had not been able to track down the whereabouts of the Herrscher of Sentience."
"After the Salt Lake Base was attacked, Lieserl recalled Fu Hua, who had been operating alone, and entrusted Theresa to investigate the host of the first Herrscher of Dominance together, hoping to follow the trail to find the person or the puppet and bring them back to Anti-Entropy."
"The Herrscher's host was a medical professor. Fu Hua and Theresa disguised themselves and infiltrated the university where he worked. The Herrscher core within Fu Hua soon attracted the puppet, and the two easily destroyed it before returning to Anti-Entropy."
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[ Honkai Impact 3rd - Herrscher of Dominance: Come, join us. ]
[ Honkai: Star Rail - Jing Yuan: Another obsessive maniac. ]
[ Genshin Impact - Raiden Ei: Is the Herrscher of Dominance a Herrscher composed of a thousand people? ]
[ Honkai Impact 3rd - Mobius: If you want to understand it that way, that works too. ]
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"By analyzing the core, Anti-Entropy managed to track down and eliminate over a dozen puppets hiding among the crowd, but this caused the Herrscher of Dominance to pause its operations when their numbers dropped to 500. The situation was disadvantageous for Anti-Entropy, so they had to take the initiative."
"Therefore, Kiana proposed that she, possessing two Herrscher cores, should act as bait to lure the Herrscher of Dominance to gather within a controllable range and wipe them out all at once."
"In the end, Welt Yang adopted this proposal. He planned to take the Hyperion to the Arctic Base, a containment facility built by the Congress for the Herrscher of the Void. The geographical conditions of the Arctic Base fundamentally blocked the Herrscher of Dominance from creating puppets and connecting to the Theater of Domination."
"So, the journey from the Salt Lake Base to the Arctic on the Hyperion was the only chance the Herrscher of Dominance had to seize Kiana's Herrscher authority. Kiana, after being teleported into the Theater, used the power of the Herrscher of the Void to bring the real-world Hyperion into the Theater, wiping out the Herrscher of Dominance in one fell swoop."
"Two weeks later, the Herrscher of Dominance returned. A mech malfunction occurred suddenly within the Salt Lake Base, and at the same time, all the Herrscher of Dominance cores that had been recovered and sealed in the vault dissipated."
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