Earlier… When the fight against Herrscher of the Void happened…

"Very well… I will give you a chance." - The Void Queen said.

You are familiar with this scene…

But did you know why the Void Queen retreated? Well, now you will know…

Unbeknownst to everyone, including you and the Herrscher of the Void, there was someone else…

5 minutes earlier.

At another mountain, not really far away from there. Someone is riding a bicycle to the top, but he stopped near the top because the view was nice.

"Oh? A fight is going on… Meh, ain't stopping me." - The man gets down from his bike and took his backpack down, then he started to unpack something.

A camera.

A camera stand.

A small portable gas stove.

And a cup noodle with chopsticks.

He begins to boil the water.

Then he hit the stream button.

"Ah, right. Forgot." - He took his hat and the glasses off.

Less than a minute, more than hundreds of people have joined his stream.

"Hallo, hallo niece and nephew. It is me, Uncle Kevin." - The man, or should I say, Uncle Kevin introduced himself to the camera.

Chat messages :

AverageJoe: Hallo Uncle Kevvvv

TastySky: Demn where is he now?

No1Idol: The view is nice.

UwooSegs: MHMM THOSE ABS [Comment has been deleted for violating community guidelines.]

KallenLivesOnForever: What the…?

Dudu: Is that a dragon in the background?

MeiAdmirer: Heyyyyyy

"Anyways, today Uncle Kevin is doing the challenge of riding your bike to random locations and cooking some shit there. Easy challenge. Easy." - Kevin said confidently. "So I'm cooking instant noodles now."

KallenLivesOnForever: Typical Kaslana.

Dudu: LMAO

NotHerrscherOfVoid: Noodles for laifuuu

"Oh, some of you nieces and nephews showed me some good extra ingredients for noodles, so I brought some with me as well… It's right here somewhere." - Kevin said as he searched his bag of said ingredients.

At the same time.

You took the shot. The single bullet that carried everyone's hope…

Missed. Like a few meters away from the Void Queen. She smirked. But little did she know…

The bullet hit a Honkai-infected bird which was flying right above her. The bird is in pain, but it still tries to fly forward while taking the bullet out using some Honkai tentacles it just grew.

And the bird quickly flew to Kevin's place in the span of a few seconds.

"Ah, I think the noodles are done. Just in time we finished putting these in. Now… water into the cup." - Kevin said happily, he's glad that he can finally eat his favorite food after a long time of bicycling.

Dudu: Looks tasty.

NotHerrscherOfVoid: Demn i can smell it from home.

And then, the Honkai infested bird fell straight to Kevin's arms and spat a lot of blood.

"... Wait wh-"

Both the stream and his channel were terminated due to blood and animal dying. Also Honkai censoring. I don't know really, but the only thing I know for real is that is what Yertube will do.

"...." - Kevin spaced out, but immediately gets angry later. "My 4 million sub channel…. Well at le-" - Kevin still has his noodles.

His anger was what Sirin felt from distance at first.

But then the bird spat the bullet out, the bullet fell straight into the freshly cooked cup noodle, to make it even worse, it made a hole at the bottom, causing the noodles to spill out. And Kevin is just watching his long awaited noodles being poured on the ground without being able to do anything.

"......"

The bird flew away after it recovered the bullet wound.

"........." - Kevin is… ABSOLUTELY ANGRY.

Meanwhile Sirin got the shit scared out of her due to Kevin accidentally revealing his presence to her because of his emotions.

That's why he came back to lead the World Serpent once again…

To avenge his noodles.

Also his Yertube channel. 4 mil sub btw.

Upon his research… He discovered the bullet was from Schicksal… So he circled the investigation slowly… And discovered that it was one of Hyperion's people…

And he sent Shadow to scout first.

"Alright, time to knock some sense into these Schicksal buffoons." - Shadow said, his hand put on his sword. The so-called "Holy Blade, Maximus The Third Holy Empire's Divine Grace''. 

The carrier slowed down as it hovered above Hyperion.

"You can land safely now." - Grey Snake contacted Shadow. "Sire asked me to assist you with this mission."

"I don't need any help, they'll just get in my way. Plus.. Safety? Heh, fate always tries to kill me." - Shadow said in a cool tone(that he thought was cool anyway), he looked to his back, standing there were some goofy ass looking cyborgs who were tasked to join him in this mission.

"Sigh. Go."

Shadow followed by the goofy cyborgs shortly after he said he didn't need help, jumped off from the carrier and landed on Hyperion, undetected by anyone.

"Spread out." - Shadow ordered the cyborgs to take different routes. This was mainly because he liked working alone.

While he takes the most dangerous route only he himself could handle - The dormitories.

He took the first steps into the hallway, with very little to no light. He have to turn the flashlights on, but that will alert someone. But he doesn't care, for all he knew, enemies would come to him even if he was invisible.

"..." - He knew his bad luck still existed the moment a bird pooped on his head shortly after he got fired from his previous job where he accidentally saw his boss having an affair.

Anyway, he decided to go find the switches for the lights first. Unfortunately for him, no matter where he searched, the switches weren't there. He didn't know, but the lights on Hyperion had to be turned on from voice.

"Faq this sht. Forget the lights. Holy Blade Maximus The Third Holy Empire's Divine Gra- Sht I bit my tongue!"

Feeling that it was better to say nothing, he simply turned on the switch on his sword that made it glow like a light stick at concerts.

Moving on, the surroundings became easier to see. So he decided to find where all the Valkyries' weaknesses were recorded. From his knowledge, that would be the Captain's room.

He started off with the room that was right next to him. Opening the door, what he saw made him regret opening it. It was filled with pictures of Theresa.. There were some nude pics pasted on the wall too.. All were in 4K quality.

He quickly closed the door out of fear that he may get distracted.

And then, again, opened another room.

This time, it was completely empty. No bed, no fan, no lights, no AC. Nothing.

"..."

He rushed to the room at the end of the hallway and opened it.

Turns out, it was the bathroom.

"..."

And an unnamed Valkyrie is taking a shower.

"..."

Both stared at each other awkwardly. Of course, he made sure to burn the sight into his eyes. Unfortunately, the Valkyrie raises her fist and is ready to punch Shadow.

"Chill, it's 2023, I identify myself as a woman." - Shadow said calmly as he dodged the punch and chopped at her nape, knocking her out.

Shadow immediately retreated after putting the girl on the floor to a more sneaky corner. Of course, he totally did nothing weird to the girl.

".... No one is out yet." - Shadow said, after a bit of observation, he thought it's clear and started to proceed again.

But then he took a quick step to his left, dodging a blade slash from behind. He then swung his blade to his back immediately. But the attack was stopped.

Whoever was fighting him surely is strong, to have approached Shadow this close without him knowing. 'Hmph, this is an accomplishment in itself for whoever approached me!'

Shadow decided to hide no more, and channeled more power into his blade.

The faint white light radiating from the blade suddenly glows even brighter. Lighting up this entire section of the hallway.

He then looked behind.

It's Raiden Mei. Immediately, Shadow felt a headache coming. 'Oh hell naw, it's the 3rd Herrscher.'

"I didn't expect there would be an infiltrator…" - Mei said as she pointed her sword at him. "Just on time, I was coming back from my training session."

Mei was telling the truth, she is wearing a robe, not her usual battlesuit.

Shadow gave no response, but he rushed forward and wielding a sword with one arm, he tried to attack Mei.

Mei just parried his attacks every time. (Like a certain famous game protagonist…)

Parry after parry. Shadow gets annoyed by the fact that his sword got stopped every time he thought it'll hit. But what's amusing to him is Mei's determination to parry the shit out of him.

But as soon as Mei slowed down and focused more on evading, Shadow noticed something was out of pace, it's strange, he can't tell what it is.

Then, Mei parried his attack. Right at the time when his force to swing the blade declined, he wasn't in a position to defend or attack, and Fu Hua approached him from behind.

She kicked, aimed for his head, but he caught her leg with the other hand before she hit his head. Fu Hua was surprised he still could react to that sneak attack. Fortunately for her, his grip isn't strong so she breaks free easily. (he couldn't bear to grip tightly on such a heavenly leg)

"1 vs 2. I'm at a disadvantage, aren't I?" - Shadow said. "Dayum Sire's friend got nice legs, wait, mission first." Shadow locked his eyes on Fu Hua's thighs for a second before wielding his sword with one arm and raised his fist as if he actually knew Gun Kata Art from the Kaslana family.

"Surrender, I can tell that you are no match for the two of us." - Fu Hua said.

Shadow could barely hold himself from retorting. So he retorted in his head, 'You two aren't a match for me in bed- Family friendly.. Be family friendly Shadow.'

He concentrated his power to the blade which he was wielding, and it continued to shine even more.

Flashback time.

"...."

"Sorry but um… You've died kid." - God talked to Shadow, before all of this happened. Also they're in his office.

"... Uh… what?"

"So basically… Let me give you a quick summary. You were on your way to school."

"Mhm."

"You were crossing the roads."

"Oh ye."

"Then suddenly an alligator appeared on the sidewalks."

"Wait what the fuc-"

"You got distracted. And a bear was driving a motorbike, behind him was another bear wielding an AK-47."

"......." - Shadow was left speechless, he didn't know what to say.

"And you died because you slipped on a banana peel and hit your head really hard on the ground ."

"......"

"I know it doesn't make sense for you at all. But that's what happened."

"Uh… So i'm finally dying?"

"... Yes…?"

"Oh cool! Finally!" - He was actually kinda happy about it, which didn't surprise God at all. "I have already been very unlucky so… this is some good news. Yey."

"Oh well… Normally I'd send you to the other office for you to arrange your next life… But uhm… I need to tell you something."

During Shadow's creation.

"Okay so. Handsome. Yes. Intelligent. Yes but not too much. Very respon- ah fuck it, everything go brr brr."

Back to God office.

"So… ye."

"... Do you have any ideas on… How… Absolutely… Un-fucking-lucky I HAVE BEEN-"

"Chill son. I want to uh… give you a new life where it goes in your favor." - God said.

"Mhm…"

"I'll give you some super instinct to react to any sneak attack."

"Uh huh?"

"Also this holy divine sword which only you can yield, it can also be a glowstick, really makes you stand out in a concert."

"Uh huhhh???"

"Y- You don't seem happy??"

"Of course. I want to get lucky."

"Oh, sure. Drink this." - God gives Shadow a bottle of liquid.

"..." - Shadow hesitated a bit before drinking it. But he felt nothing has changed. "Uh… you sure it worked?"

"Yah. At least you won't get unlucky. Now sign this contract, also read this, it's the basic summary of this world." - God gives Shadow a manual book.

"Cool." - Shadow signed the contract and grabbed the manual book. He then floated.

"You'll float all the way into the reincarnation pod."

"Yey."

Then Shadow immediately hit his head on the ceiling, and was forcefully pulled through the nearby wall, because the float force was too strong and unstable.

".... Wait…" - God checked his potion stock.

He accidentally gave Shadow the unlucky potion.

"... Nah he'll handle it."

Back to the story.

"I have to overcome my curse. Now I want to punch God so hard even he would regret doing this to me." - Shadow said, his sword radiated pure white light, and blinded both Fu Hua and Mei.

Shadow also disappeared. But he did not retreat. He silently stood behind Fu Hua and Mei.

"I am the master of my own fate." - Shadow prepared for an overhead slam attack, with his sword still glowing. This charging attack of his will be devastating.

Fu Hua and Mei turned back, but they wouldn't be able to dodge this attack.

Shadow slammed the sword… But it missed and hit the floor, upon which a huge hole was blasted open. They could see the forest below.

"..."

"..."

"..."

An awkward silence filled the hallway as the two Valkyries stared at the man that missed at point blank range.

Shadow, being the shameless person he was, naturally shrugged it off. Afterall, it happened often…

He decided to use his ultimate move and smiled,

"You know, in the past I was just like you."

Mei and Fu Hua: ???

Fu Hua: 'You were a MANTIS too???'
Mei: 'You were a Herrscher too??'

Immediately realizing the lack of efficiency of his talk no jut*u, he immediately resorted to the next best outcome.

'Yes! They are distracted!'

"Hahaha! You fell for it fools! Thu*derc*oss split at*a*k!"

He raised the light level of his sword up, immediately it looked like the sun had descended.

Feeling that it wasn't enough, he also threw a smoke grenade. Then he quickly made a dash for it after turning off his sword's light. Run? Nah, it was towards his objective! The Captain's room! But he didn't have the faintest clue as to where the Captain is!

After running for some time, he crashed into something or someone. Then he heard a yelp, so he was confident it was someone. Of course, with his God level reactions, he didn't fall. He stood there like Michael Jackson. But the other person fell.

He wanted to see who it was so he turned on the light of his sword again. Lo behold, it was a sleepy red haired dude! How did he realise the dude was sleepy? Obviously due to the dark circles on his eyes!

But he still realised who it was, immediately, his fighting spirit got ignited.

"CAPTAIN OF HYPERION! I have heard many of your accomplishments! Come fight me!"

He decided to strike first and stabbed at the Captain's leg. He didn't want to kill the Captain.

"Hey wait!" - The Captain was trying to speak, but he was blinded by the light coming from Holy Sword Maximus The Third Holy Empire's Divine Grace. So he couldn't see properly and accidentally dodged the stab.

Shadow thought - 'As expected. Dodging even while being blinded.'

He raised the speed of his swings and eventually his sword became a blur. But he still could not hit the Captain!

The Captain was moving around trying to talk while being blinded. Yet he coincidentally dodged all the swings.

Eventually, Shadow got exhausted. He did not want to give up. He took out a bottle of blood red liquid that had a sports drink label on it and took a huge gulp.

Immediately, he was up and kicking. This time, his eyes turned a bit red and the white light of his sword became red. He smiled bitterly as he said,

"Ugh, the Scharic Blood is too strong even when I made it into a sports drink."

He shook his head as his muscles bulged a bit as his speed of swinging tripled! He swung it with full power immediately!

This time it didn't miss… However, there happened to be a banana peel nearby and the Captain accidentally stepped on it as he couldn't see. Then he slipped, the attack barely missed!

The attack sliced the reinforced floor of the Captain's living place once more, this time the strike was so strong that Hyperion itself shook as it started ringing alarms.

Shadow gritted his teeth and struck once more. But coincidentally, there was a bit of metal that fell from the strike that shook Hyperion. The attack hit the bit of metal and got diverted, again failing to hit the Captain.

This time, Shadow noticed it. He started sweating,

"Holy sht. What kind of luck is that!? I swear that metal piece would have fallen somewhere else if you weren't here!"

Faintly feeling an ache in his chest. He realised it,

"Sht… This guy is too lucky for me to kill him… Damn, you didn't have to hit me in the heart like that."

Shadow was dealt a huge mental blow, he was reminded of his bad luck. As the unluckiest person alive, he wanted to cry but had no tears to do so. He shook his head as he decided to not fight.

He started thinking, 'Captain came from around here, so his room must be close.'

Thinking until that point, he immediately increased the luminosity by a lot and made a dash for it once the captain got blinded.

Making a turn, he saw the Captain's room with its door open. He quickly rushed in and looked around before noticing a blue holographic computer and a normal computer with a faint red color.

He was conflicted now, he had to choose between one of the two computers. Password? That wasn't an issue, the HQ gave him two chips that could take all the information of two computers, unfortunately, he lost one and now he only has one.

"The information is quite important, so it should be in the high tech looking computer right? High tech computers have higher security afterall… Alright, I'll go with that one.

Immediately, he approached the holographic computer and threw the chip into it. It was holographic so it went right through, but midway the chip stopped in it. Don't ask, Schicksal designed it to only be solid when a human touches it, otherwise it would go right through. The chip started glowing as the holographic computer started dimming.

A few moments later, it would be finished taking the data. He sighed in relief, but alarms started ringing in his head. His body moved before his mind did and dodged to the left while hugging the computer.

Immediately, a bullet was left in the place where he was before. He looked at the opponent and found out that It was Kiana!

"K423!?"

Kiana got angry,

"Don't call me that!"

Maybe this was why he was still single. He looked at the chip and got happy news, the information was taken successfully!

He laughed and made a dash for the door. Unfortunately Kiana was blocking the door so he pulled out the Holy Sword Maximus The Third Holy Empire's Divine Grace and raised it's brightness.

"Taste the power of disc*rd light mode!!"

Kiana got blinded, this trick always worked, none could defend against discord's light mode, but it's probably because the God sword wasn't considered a part of him so his bad luck didn't affect it.

He successfully dashed out of the door while Kiana was blinded. Captain was nearby so he laughed loudly and said,

"Sasuga Captain of Hyperion, your luck is immense. Only you are worthy to be my arch nemesis!!"

He quickly jumped out of the window. He won't die so it's all good. But it turns out Hyperion had already landed so he could only kiss the ground.

"Faq. GREY ASS SERPENT TELEPORT ME BACK!!"

Grey Serpent: "Please leave a message as Grey Serpent is currently busy."

"NOOOO!!!"

He immediately started running while the sports drink was still active. He didn't look back, looking back is a death wish. He was certain he was being chased. He tilted his head subconsciously and a huge ass lance flew by.

"That.. Is.. The Key Of Creation!? D-Durandal!? RACIST SERPENT!! TELEPORT MEEEEE!!"

Grey Serpent: "Please leave a message…"

"FAQ!!"

Right when he decided to duke it out with Durandal, he vanished. He was teleported back.

Durandal who caught up to him could only sigh,

"He got away.."

…

Meanwhile back at World Serpent HQ.

Raven, Jackal, Grey Serpent, Kevin and Shadow were all staring at a screen. The screen showed stuff not appropriate for children.

A vein bulged on Kevin's head but he remained silent. Instead it was Jackal that yelled at Shadow,

"THAT'S HIS DAMNED PORN COLLECTION!!!"

Shadow: Ehe~!

…

Back to the Deep.

The mysterious man slowly makes his way to the upper levels of the base, he is familiar with these corridors for some unknown reason. The lower levels were in complete darkness, but he still could navigate his way. Stairs after stairs, finally, he saw some light behind a door which was locked from his side.

He opened the door, and bathed in the light.

He smiled then looked around. But that smile faded as soon as one of Ravenblood’s soldiers found him.

“HERETIC!!” - He pointed his rifle at the man.

The man suddenly appeared in front of the soldier, putting his hand on the soldier’s face and slamming his head against the floor. The soldier was certainly dead after that.

“... Ravenblood… Huh.” - The man is looking through the memory of the dead soldier. “I can use him.”

Through some magical multi-dimensional-quantum-magic-4th-wall-breaking shit, the man healed the wound of the soldier and controlled him as a puppet.

“Take me to your master.”

A few minutes later. A squad of troops escorted the mysterious man to Ravenblood, and yes, as you expected, the entire squad has been turned into his puppets through some quantum magic thingy. (I don’t know, I need something to work on shits like the warp)

“What’s this you’ve brought me? A heretic? Sure… But this isn’t a good father’s day present, guys.” - Ravenblood said, while looking at the man who is smiling gently to him. “Urgh, I don’t know who the fuck this guy is, and what the fuck did he do,  but my mind is telling me to kill him.”

“No no my lord.” - The Captain of the squad, who is a puppet, said. “He could be more helpful than harmful to us.”

“Oh? What do you mean?”

“I’d like to stay away from curious eyes.” - The man said.

Ravenblood would have shot him on the spot since he spoke without his permission, but something is interfering with his mind… Ravenblood accepted his demand and went to some place more quiet and less people. Just Ravenblood, some troops, and the squad with the man.

“My name is Ravenblood, Lord Commander of the Royal Blades’ legion, a General of Schicksal’s infantry, Lord Otto’s most trusted executioner, Someone-That-Purge-The-Shit-Out-Of-Heretics. I demand you to tell us who you are, and why you are here in this heretical base.” - Ravenblood said as he drew his sword, and pointed it to the man.

To his surprise, the man didn’t even flinch.

“Heretical base? What has Otto taught you?” - The man said.

“How dare you call his name so cas-”

“Raven, Raven, what have you become?” - The man continued. “Back in our days… You were someone who pursued absolute justice… With a burning rage for slaughtering innocent lives!!”

Ravenblood and his troops did not understand a single thing he was saying. But then, Ravenblood quickly assumed he was making things up to try and trick him.

“Now you are just making shit up, you damn heretic! I’ve had enough of your bullshit!” - Ravenblood grabbed the man by his neck, attempted to choke him to death.

It was with that physical contact, that very hand of his touching the man’s neck that sealed Ravenblood’s fate.

He seeks for the deepest memories that Ravenblood precious the most, buried deep within his soul… That he likely has almost forgotten about. Every person would have something like that, a memory, a friend, a promise from the past…

And he finally found it, the key to turning Ravenblood into his pawn.

“It’s me… Raven… It’s Kyle.”

The name of “Kyle” reminded Ravenblood of something that stopped him from grasping his throat tighter. Using that advantage, the man used his magic tricks to play with Ravenblood’s mind. While also using his precious memories with this friend named “Kyle” to mess up Ravenblood’s mind even more. Ravenblood’s memories are being replaced slowly… Making conflicts within his own mind.

Ravenblood threw the man away on the floor. His men ran to him and were ready to shoot.

“Wait!!” - Ravenblood shouted, stopping all of his men.

While being on the floor, the man was  smiling maliciously, knowing that he had achieved his goal.

“Is that really you…?”

“Of course… Raven.” - The man said, as Ravenblood approached him and offered him his hand.

(Btw it’s not your Raven mommy in the game so don’t worry, just the lunatic with the same name) ood)

“What… I thought you were… Dead.”

“Death was not the end, brother. I discovered something beyond our knowledge… Something so common.” - The man smiled. “... There’s something I need to tell you, as my best friend.”

“Of course… What is it?”

“Otto was lying to you this entire time.”

“... What?”

“Honkai was not our enemy… It is what we needed.”

A tragic event was about to happen. The main characters of this event are slowly gathering at one spot… To mark the final battle between them all, that decided the fate of mankind. (in some way)

Otto’s office.

“...” - Amber looked at the empty office. Everything… Was gone. Otto isn’t here with his cock. Yet, Amber doesn’t express any emotion. After all, she was the only one who knew what happened. The thing that would be revealed to everyone 2 days later.

Otto left a letter there.

“Amber. 2 days after I’m gone, I want you to open what’s inside this box, there's two video tapes. Send the small one for Theresa, while the big one… Broadcast it on every channel of ours.”

Meanwhile.

“It’s been a while since I last visited my hometown… Kolosten.” - Otto said as he saw the town from afar, followed by an army of his clones transporting some equipment.

End of Chapter 8.

Big thanks to RHsNovels for helping me finishing this chapter ^^

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