Honkai Star Rail: I Played the Villain, Now the Heroines Want Revenge — Chapter 226

Chapter 226: Aeon War

“What?!”

Everyone on the balcony was shocked.

The Stellaron is as important to its host as a heart is to a living being!

Without the Stellaron, Stelle would…

“He… he took it…” Stelle whispered, her voice hollow.

Just then.

Boom!

The lone, black battleship in the sky suddenly opened fire.

Its main cannon, a weapon of unknown, chaotic design, was aimed at Lan. A blinding, pure golden light—the very essence of the Stellaron—shot out from the muzzle!

That was Stelle’s Stellaron!

The golden stream of pure destructive and creative potential streaked across the sky, directly bombarding Lan!

Bang—!

The Stellaron, a “Cancer of All Worlds,” collided with the Aeon of The Hunt.

It erupted in a dazzling golden light that dwarfed even the previous Legion attack, forcing the Express crew to shield their eyes once more.

However, when the golden light dissipated, there was only a tiny mark on Lan’s body.

That was all.

A nearly invisible crack had appeared on His divine, starlight armor.

But for His massive, conceptual divine body, this small amount of damage was negligible.

On the battleship, your eyes turned cold.

“Just as I thought,” you murmured, your voice a low hiss. “Even a Stellaron… is nothing more than that to an Aeon.”

[Inorin’s Note: The user (Orion) is realizing that a single Stellaron, a cage for an Aeon’s power, is not enough to kill a true, free Aeon.]

You had proven your hypothesis: he could be damaged. But the damage was infinitesimal.

This was not enough.

“Damn The Hunt!”

A huge, monstrous figure suddenly appeared in front of Lan, rising from the Luofu below!

It was Phantylia.

She had finally revealed her true, fused body of Destruction and Abundance, a towering, grotesque being of flowers and tumors, her size increasing a thousandfold to rival the Aeon!

“Take this fan!”

The giant fan, now a weapon of conceptual power imbued with both Destruction and Abundance, swung fiercely towards Lan!

It was a storm of withering plagues and entropic decay.

Bang!

At the same time.

“Kill!”

Feixiao also appeared!

She floated in mid-air, her entire body wreathed in a cold, dark aura, her eyes completely blood-red.

The Moon Madness had completely erupted!

[Inorin’s Note: “Moon Madness” is an affliction specific to the Foxian race of the Xianzhou, a form of mental degradation. Feixiao’s seems to have been weaponized or amplified by her grief and Phantylia’s influence.]

“Die, Lan! DIE!”

She wielded her giant axe, charging towards Lan with an overwhelming, suicidal killing intent!

Whoosh!

At this moment, new spatial rifts opened!

More Anti-Matter Legion poured out!

Celenova was not dead; she had long anticipated that the first wave of attacks would fail and was commanding from afar.

Now, she was leading the reserve Anti-Matter Legion back to battle!

“He’s distracted!” Celenova’s laugh echoed across the comms. “All ships, fire at will! Drown him in our hatred!”

Doomsday Beasts, Voidrangers, and various weapons of Destruction…

All attacked Lan!

For a moment, the Aeon was surrounded.

Phantylia’s plague-wind, Feixiao’s madness-fueled axe, and the Legion’s endless barrage…

Although these attacks were, individually, harmless to Him, their sheer number and the presence of two other Emanators made Him… annoyed.

His focus was broken.

And in this chaotic battlefield.

You had quietly arrived.

Using the pandemonium as a cover, you had activated your own abilities, vanishing from the battleship and reappearing in the void directly behind Lan.

Your eyes turned as black as ink, the pupils dissolving into bottomless pits.

Mystic Eyes of Death Perception—Full Power!

[Inorin’s Note: The “Mystic Eyes of Death Perception” is the user’s (Orion’s) core ability, allowing him to perceive the “death lines” or “lines of fate” on all things. Cutting these lines results in irreversible destruction.]

Then, you saw it.

The world dissolved.

You no longer saw an Aeon made of starlight.

You saw… lines.

Even an Aeon has death lines on its body!

They were there. Faint, impossibly complex, shifting like a river, but there.

Those black lines densely covered Lan’s divine body.

Although they were much finer and harder to grasp than the death lines of mortals…

But… they existed!

“It can be done…”

A crazed, triumphant smile appeared on your face.

“The Mystic Eyes… can indeed kill even an Aeon!”

“Lan!”

“Die!”

You gripped the sharp, simple blade in your hand, a weapon forged for this single purpose.

You prepared to charge at Lan.

At this instant.

You suddenly felt an indescribable gaze fall upon you.

A gaze from across the entire universe, focused on you in this single moment.

This feeling was familiar.

It was Nanook.

The Aeon of Destruction, glanced at you again!

Those vast, golden pupils pierced through your soul, seeing through the endless hatred and the pure, destructive intent in your heart!

Powerful, burning, chaotic energy instantly surged into your body!

You felt every cell in your body burning, disintegrating, and recombining!

Your skin began to crack, not with blood, but revealing a molten gold beneath!

Your bones shattered and reformed, your blood transforming into pure, liquid Destruction energy!

Your body trembled, changed, and was sublimated!

You became… an Emanator of Destruction!

The Seventh Lord Ravager!

However, it wasn’t over yet!

Just as you were absorbing this terrible, agonizing power, you felt another gaze!

Even deeper, more distant. Colder.

As if from the end of the universe. From the final, inevitable heat death of all things.

The Aeon of Finality… Terminus… He was also watching you!

A blessing of pure, cold, absolute ending joined with the fire of Destruction.

Dual divine blessings descended!

You became a dual Emanator of Finality and Destruction!

Immeasurable, paradoxical power surged within your body! The power to end and the power to destroy.

“So that’s how it is…”

You laughed, a wild, unhinged sound that echoed in the void.

“You also want me to kill Lan?”

“Heh heh… Exactly what I want!”

The power was absolute. You were no longer mortal. You were a concept. A weapon.

“LAN!”

“YOUR TIME HAS COME!”

Without hesitation, you shot forward like a black comet, wreathed in gold and shadow.

You charged directly at Lan!

The sharp blade in your hand aimed at the thickest, most tangled knot of death lines on His body—His “heart”!

As long as you cut along that line… even the high and mighty Aeon of The Hunt would die!

The distance was shrinking!

You could already see the patterns on Lan’s divine armor!

You were moving faster than light, faster than thought!

Now!

However, just as you were about to succeed.

Lan suddenly turned around!

His entire, colossal form rotated in an impossible instant!

Facing you directly for the first time!

He seemed to have noticed your existence long ago!

No… He had been waiting for you to get closer!

This was a trap.

The divine bow instantly aimed at you, but this time there was no charge! No gathering of light!

A light arrow shot out!

Too fast!

Infinitely faster than any previous time! It was not an arrow; it was a concept. The concept of “The Hunt” striking its target.

You had no time to dodge!

You had no time to think!

“Oh no…”

You widened your eyes.

The world slowed.

You saw the arrow. You saw your own death.

Were you going to die here?

After all this… after a thousand years of pain…

Jiang Li… Neergul…

I’m sorry.

In the end, I couldn’t avenge you…

The moment before the light arrow was about to pierce you and erase you from existence…

Boom!!!

A huge, golden, physical figure suddenly appeared in front of you!

It warped into existence, a body of pure, cracked gold and raw, burning hatred.

He spread His arms, using His own divine body to block this fatal arrow!

Pfft!

The light arrow pierced through His chest, leaving a huge, gaping, golden wound!

Molten, divine blood poured down like a waterfall!

But soon, the wound began to heal, sealing over with new, burning gold.

You hovered in the void, your charge broken, looking at the figure in front of you in shock.

Dark, cracked skin of pure gold. Piercing golden eyes.

A broken arm floating in the void beside Him…

The Aeon of Destruction… Nanook… had actually appeared in person!

And He, He blocked Lan’s attack for you!

“Nanook?!”

You looked at Him in surprise.

Nanook turned His head, His colossal, golden pupils glancing at you.

There was no emotion in those eyes. No recognition. No salvation.

Only the pure, absolute will of Destruction.

He hadn’t saved you. He had saved his weapon.

Then, He turned around…

And charged directly at Lan!

Boom—!!!

The two Aeons collided!

The entire universe trembled!

The galaxy itself seemed to scream.

Nanook’s broken, floating arm smashed towards Lan, tearing through space and leaving dark void cracks!

Lan parried with the divine bow, and the concepts of pure Light and pure Darkness erupted in a world-destroying, paradoxical impact!

Bang—!

Nanook’s elbow strike heavily slammed into Lan’s chest armor, and the divine armor instantly shattered, revealing the starlight beneath!

Lan was not to be outdone, His elbow, condensed from pure light, fiercely struck Nanook’s golden wound!

But Nanook seemed to feel no pain, instead fighting with even greater, more joyous frenzy!

His floating severed arm transformed into a hammer of pure Destruction, smashing at Lan again and again and again!

The collision of the two deities instantly pulverized the surrounding asteroids, and space itself groaned!

On the Luofu, the Express crew looked at the scene above, all stunned into silence.

Welt, Himeko, Dan Heng… even the unconscious Stelle…

They watched as two gods, two fundamental forces of the universe, tore each other apart.

March 7th covered her mouth, her hand trembling as she pointed at the two giant figures in the sky, her voice a tiny, awestruck whisper:

“Is this… the legendary…”

“Aeon War?”