Author: May Without a Moon
I'm playing Honkai Impact 3rd on Star Iron (Author: May Without Moon)
Sent to the Star Iron World by Dimensional Slash, I'm sorry I couldn't let Optimus Prime-sensei have his fill of Prayer, only half of him remains—Qiong.
Why are there stars in the world line with the sky?
How can anyone resist the urge to speak in the Star Language?
It's bound to the Honkai Impact 3rd game system, but system, isn't there something wrong with this Valkyrie character card?
'Qiong' stared blankly at the bewildered gray-haired youth in her field of vision, then looked down at the bright red holy mark on her chest.
At the Black Tower Space Station, the dream butterfly girl from the Illusory Sea captivated Silver Wolf's heart.
In Belleburg, (Honkai Impact 3rd) Big Duck said: "Everyone, the situation is urgent, let's kill the traitor Cocolia!?"
On the immortal boat, Li Dazhentou stared blankly at Li Sushang, who looked like a sword immortal in the world: "Do I...do I have a twin sister?"
In Pinocchio, Huang Quan looked at Aunt Mei, who looked almost exactly like him, and the cheerful, white-haired girl next to Dai Mei, and fell into a long silence. Was he dreaming?
Eden discussed music with the robin.
Himeko Murata and Himeko drank fine wine together.
Alicia and a girl named Xilian...
No one knew that these Valkyries were actually all the same person.
And behind the scenes, there's the occasional 'automatic AI' that takes over the game.
Chapter One: Prayer for the Heavens
Moon.
Under the deep starry sky, the chain lamps surrounding the tents emitted a warm, cozy glow.
"Why are there fewer snacks?"
Raiden Mei keenly noticed the food on her plate had vanished, her eyes narrowing slightly: "Kiana~~"
The deliberately drawn-out tone startled the girl with the white high ponytail and purple cross-shaped eyes staring blankly at the table, and she quickly raised her small hand as if to prove herself.
"No, it wasn't me!"
"Really?"
"Of course."
"Idiot Kiana, you're sneaking food again." Bronya teased and teased her as always.
"Silly Kiana, you're stealing food again~"
Cangxuan Zhishu, sitting on the chair opposite Kiana at the dining table, held a half-eaten pastry in her small hands and joined in the verbal attack on Kiana.
"The Book of Azure Mystery!"
Like the shock of a mother suddenly calling out your full name, the little guy turned his head frame by frame to look at Fu Hua, who was walking towards him with a gloomy face, sweating profusely.
Watching her friends laughing and joking, Kiana couldn't help but smile, turning her gaze back to where she had been lost in thought.
Kiana crouched down and took out a large red kite from a cardboard box under the table. Noticing Kiana's actions, her friends stopped playing around.
Looking at the object in the girl's hand, Fu Hua scratched her neck: "Actually, this is..."
"I know, it's a kite, right... But can a kite fly on the moon?"
"Of course, there's air in the lunar base, as for higher reaches of space..."
Thanks to Kiana for drawing Fu Hua's attention, Cangxuan Zhishu patted his completely flat chest:
"Just keep running, Xiao Xuan will figure out the solution."
"Okay, I'm off then!"
Kiana assembled a complete set of Crimson Kite kites and began to run across the moon.
"It really flew!"
The girl's cheerful and sweet laughter rose with the kite in the wind, but then she suddenly opened her eyes wide.
"Hey, the kites are getting tangled up!"
"Don't worry about that." The Book of Cangxuan operated the holographic projection, and the specially made kite string automatically disconnected from the connection point.
"Everyone come quick, it's about to start!"
Raiden Mei, Bronya, Seele, Durandal... the girls stepped forward and surrounded the white-haired girl.
"Ugh, what are you doing? Eh~ Eh~~!" Kiana, bewildered, was lifted up by the group.
"Three, two, one!"
At the very moment the countdown ended, the girls all exerted their strength and threw the white-haired girl into the sky.
The kite with the broken string, which had crossed the lunar base, should have scattered and fallen to the ground. However, when sunlight shone on the kite's surface, its internal mechanism converted the light radiation into propulsion, allowing the kite to continue flying in space while simultaneously deforming certain components.
Kiana's eyes widened in surprise at what she saw.
The kites, arranged in a regular pattern and reflecting sunlight, look like...
"Light Wings—"
Amidst the overlapping cheers of the crowd, at the moment when the white-haired girl reached her highest point, her figure overlapped with the main body of the kite, and the pale blue kite was completely dyed a brilliant golden yellow by the sunlight.
"—Expand~!"
From the moon's perspective, the kites transformed into wings of light, carrying Kiana towards Earth.
This scene was so beautiful and breathtaking that it seemed as if time itself stood still.
Then, the image truly froze...
Along with the still image, a lyrical background music plays, and the entire screen is filled with the words "Wings of Light Unfold!" in various colored fonts.
The rented room was brightly lit, and the small bedroom was decorated in a cozy style.
A handsome young man sat in front of a computer and paused the video using a mouse, a tool that controls the 'timeline'.
In his dark brown eyes, Qi Qiong saw Kiana's long-awaited wings unfolding on the screen, and he let out a soft breath.
The visuals alone do not have the emotional impact to deeply resonate with people.
Bullet comments and music are also factors that evoke emotions, but the most important thing is the companionship and memories that run through the story behind the visuals.
"Want to stand before that figure on the clouds?"
"It's still you when I turn around?"
Scanning the background lyrics at the top of the screen, Qi Qiong sighed with emotion:
"When I watched it before, my attention was focused on the unfolding of the wings, and I didn't listen carefully. Now, looking back, these two lines of lyrics are quite interesting."
He thought of the opening GC of Honkai Impact 3.
A white-haired girl with her braids billowing in the gale-force winds opens her tactical goggles and leaps from a warship tens of thousands of meters above the ground.
Passing through the endless, stacked clouds, bathed in the afterglow of the setting sun in varying shades of gold and red, it fell like a shooting star.
It is now 2024.
"That figure before the clouds, it's still you..."
As Qi Qiong watched the white-haired girl unfold her wings of light, memories surged through his mind like a tidal wave.
In 2016, I stumbled upon a short video on my phone and was amazed by the exquisite graphics. I immediately downloaded the game!
At that time, Qi Qiong was still a high school student.
Few high schools allow students to bring cell phones, so Qi Qiong could only play with them when she went home each month.
In any gacha game, you either have to spend money or grind to have a relatively good gaming experience.
Qi Qiong doesn't have time to grind, as for spending money...
After her parents divorced and remarried when she was young, neither of them wanted to bring Qi Qiong along as a burden when they started their new lives.
Both parties have been paying child support to Qi Qiong on schedule. Living with his grandmother, he knows how hard it is for her to earn every penny, so he naturally wouldn't spend his living expenses on games.
If not for her special family circumstances, Qi Qiong would not have been able to own a cell phone, such a 'luxury,' during her high school years.
The game offers a guaranteed minimum of 100 pulls for a character, but the extremely low luck of getting a rare "African Chief" character after 80 or 90 pulls only exacerbates the already frustrating experience, further diminishing the enjoyment of the game.
They are caught in a vicious cycle of 'can't beat them - no crystals - can't draw the character - can't beat them'.
After consistently pulling all the gacha pulls and getting the pity system, I quit the game and uninstalled it all in one go.
However, after a while, when he feels like playing again, Qi Qiong will download the game again.
Back in the day, Honkai Impact 3rd was truly unmatched in terms of action and character design.
He climbed onto the bridge to look around and touch things, only to be kicked off by Kiana.
Fortunately, there are benefits for returning players. After the benefits are used up, as long as you play again after a period of time, you can trigger the returning player benefits again.
Intermittently, Qi Qiong managed to accumulate starting capital by reviewing the benefits. During a certain version, a stroke of good fortune came when he drew the first essential card, the fake Herrscher of Reason.
After graduating from high school, Qi Qiong had more free time, but the challenging online life made it difficult for him to focus his energy on the game.
Playing games is all about going with the flow; he went from being a half-XP (experience-focused) and half-hardcore player to a complete XP (experience-focused) player.
However, Qi Qiong's XP is quite inclusive, basically covering all types of Valkyries.
Prioritize using crystal resources to pull for characters. Only pull for weapons and stigmata after you have enough resources to guarantee a Valkyrie pull.
Until you unlock the achievement of collecting all Valkyries.
Pulling his thoughts away from his memories, Qi Qiong casually tapped the screen, and the video continued playing.
Watching the girls laughing and celebrating on the screen, the lively and adorable Kiana, and the screen full of 'thank you for your company' comments, Qi Qiong leaned back in her chair.
Overall, the story of Honkai Impact 3rd is not particularly outstanding.
It's boring at times, tedious at others, and repetitive throughout, with many plot points serving the characters' purposes.
If we trace it back to its source, what has been dragging this game through to the end is nothing more than the character design, isn't it?
Of course, in this respect, it's just like reading.
There are as many Hamlets as there are readers.
For Qi Qiong, what touched him was not the story, but the memories of playing games in the past.
If a different game had accompanied him through the eight years of his youth, then no matter how exquisite the short film was or what story it contained, it would not have moved him.
The video will pause after it finishes playing.
After closing the webpage, Qi Qiong looked at the Honkai Impact 3 icon on the desktop, moved her hand holding the mouse, and finally double-clicked the girl pointing with her finger.
"Hmm... I feel like I can understand Eden a little better now."
After the final battle, Eden brought the surviving Fusion Warriors back to Earth.
Everyone entered the cryogenic chamber to avoid the world's reset and travel to the next era, except for Eden, who refused to enter.
In the end, amidst the swirling yellow sand and scorched earth filled with radiation, she sang her last song for Alicia, before vanishing with that era in the final cataclysm.
When Qi Qiong first heard about Eden's ending, he couldn't quite understand it.
Why not live on and go to the new era with your friends?
Why be buried in the graveyard of the end times?
Now, Qi Qiong can understand Eden's thoughts a little better.
The ending of Part 1.5 is a classic Chinese-style dumpling-making family reunion ending, which is not bad.
In the second part, Qi Qiong only tried it briefly before quitting.
Regardless of whether the content of the second part is good or bad, no matter what the new era's ship is like, it can't make Qi Qiong recall or feel sentimental about 'his youth'.
Even though the characters from
the first movie are still involved in the second movie, they are like the white moonlight in everyone's heart.
The former white moonlight was invincible, and even the future white moonlight itself could not shake it in the slightest!