Honkai Star Rail: I Played the Villain, Now the Heroines Want Revenge — Chapter 251

Chapter 251: Phantylia Was Defeated?

Their conversation, shouted across the cavern, reached Jing Yuan and Fu Xuan, who were standing nearby, word for word.

Jing Yuan’s mouth twitched as he listened.

“…not as powerful as Asat Pramad?”

“…chasing this one around and beating her?”

My two young ladies, do you have some profound misunderstanding about the term “Lord Ravager”?

Or have you simply grown so accustomed to your companion’s extraordinary, heaven-defying strength that this… this display… seems normal?

Jing Yuan suddenly felt like he was a bit of a failure as the Luofu General.

He and the Imbibitor Lunae were nearly killed, and these children were treating it like a spectator sport.

Soon.

Amidst Phantylia’s frantic and futile attacks, Orion swung his sword again.

He didn’t charge. He just… appeared.

His black sword, still Yanqing’s blade, traced another complex “end line” in the air.

“Pfft!”

The next moment, Phantylia’s last remaining arm, along with the giant fan she clutched in her hand, fell to the ground.

The fan dissolved into ash before it even landed.

The arm followed a moment later.

“Ah–!”

Having lost both her arms, she was now completely defenseless.

Orion’s sword flashed again, aiming for her core.

To evade it, Phantylia could only fall backward clumsily, her massive, divine body crashing heavily onto the lotus platform.

She broke down.

The power she was so proud of, the fusion of Destruction and Abundance, was utterly vulnerable before this man.

She couldn’t even touch the hem of his clothes and was instead… dismembered… like this.

And right there, in the middle of the battlefield.

That man, surprisingly… even had time to turn his head.

Orion’s gaze swept across the chaotic battlefield, past the stunned Jing Yuan, past the awestruck Astral Express crew…

His gaze landed on the small, pink-haired figure in the distance, who was already standing dumbfounded, her mind blank.

He met Fu Xuan’s shocked eyes and smiled.

“Master Diviner.”

His voice was calm, carrying easily across the cavern.

“It seems you’ll soon learn how to serve tea and pour water.”

“Remember,” he added, “I don’t like my tea too hot.”

Fu Xuan was startled by these words.

She had been completely lost in the sheer, terrifying spectacle of his power.

And now…

He was talking about the bet?! NOW?!

Immediately after, her fair little face flushed crimson at a visible speed.

On such a tense and solemn battlefield…

At the decisive, climactic moment that determined the fate of the entire Luofu Celestial Ark…

He… he actually still had time for that bet!

And he was still teasing her!

Shame, shock, humiliation, and… a hint of affection she herself was unwilling to admit.

A complex, chaotic torrent of emotions churned in her heart, becoming a tangled mess.

Her brain, the legendary Matrix of Prescience, went into a crashed state again.

“I… you…”

Fu Xuan opened her mouth.

She really wanted to rush over, point at Orion’s nose, and curse him as “shameless,” “bad guy,” and “brazen.”

But she couldn’t bring herself to say it.

Although she was very strong-willed and hated to lose.

However, deep down, she was unconsciously, profoundly drawn to powerful individuals…

Not to mention someone as powerful as Orion, who had completely transcended the existence of mortals.

He… he is truly strong…

This thought emerged from the depths of Fu Xuan’s heart.

Making her already flushed cheeks even hotter.

“Pfft…”

March 7th was the first to burst out laughing.

“See? I told you Orion fights the Lord Ravager with ease! He has plenty of room to spare! Look at him, he even has time to talk to that little shorty… oh no, I mean, to the Master Diviner!”

Stelle: “Hehe, the Master Diviner is definitely going to lose! From now on, she’ll have to serve Orion tea and pour water!”

Welt and Dan Heng, standing nearby, glanced at the fuming Fu Xuan and reminded them: “Keep your voices down, the Master Diviner doesn’t look too good…”

Jing Yuan, meanwhile, felt his temples throbbing.

He now seriously doubted whether he was in a bizarre and fantastical dream.

Otherwise, why was everything happening before him so illogical?

But… he thought, …I have a feeling I might have actually dreamed this before?

However, that dream seemed even more terrifying… because the villain wasn’t like Phantylia, but as strong as… Orion…

He shook the strange, phantom memory from his head.

On the other side, Orion’s battle with Phantylia continued.

Or rather, the one-sided crush continued.

Having lost both her arms, Phantylia was like a fish on a cutting board, at Orion’s mercy.

“Damn it… you hateful fellow!”

She lay on the lotus platform, her massive body twisting, trying to use the Ambrosial Arbor’s vines to stop Orion from approaching.

However, Orion’s sword was too fast.

Another swing.

The black sword slashed out, and a large section of the golden, pulsating roots connecting Phantylia to the lotus platform was severed.

Her body’s connection to the Arbor was being stripped away, little by little.

Phantylia could feel her power, her immortality, rapidly draining away.

She was unwilling!

Unwilling to be defeated by a mere mortal like this!

“No!”

Phantylia opened her massive mouth.

She gathered all her remaining power, all the chaotic energy of the Great Stellaron, within her mouth!

Another black-purple “star” appeared, smaller than the last, but vibrating with desperate, unstable power.

“Be careful, she’s going all out!”

Jing Yuan’s face changed in the distance, and he immediately warned everyone.

Everyone thought Phantylia’s final, desperate attack was aimed at Orion.

However, the moment the star finished forming.

Phantylia’s head suddenly snapped around!

It didn’t shoot towards Orion, who was within reach…

But instead, it shot directly towards Jing Yuan, who had just escaped and whose breath was not yet steady!

She, surprisingly, wanted to drag the Luofu General down with her in death!

“RUN!”

Fu Xuan cried out in alarm.

This attack came too suddenly and too quickly.

Although Jing Yuan reacted immediately, raising his blade to defend and summoning the Lightning-Lord to shield him.

However, he had just endured a fierce battle and had been infused with the power of destruction by Phantylia; he was feeling weak at the moment.

Facing Phantylia’s dying, spiteful counterattack, he had no full confidence in being able to withstand it!

The star of destruction grew larger in everyone’s pupils.

It instantly crossed the cavern, about to engulf Jing Yuan.

However, just then.

A figure instantly appeared in front of Jing Yuan.

It was Orion.

He didn’t even turn around. He just casually raised the black sword in his left hand.

A barrier, a small, dark distortion in space, formed before the blade.

“Boom!”

The “star” that was powerful enough to severely injure Jing Yuan and the Lightning-Lord was solidly struck against the barrier.

But upon contact with that dark, empty space, it was… absorbed.

It simply vanished, its power neutralized, as if it had been thrown into a black hole.

“This…”

Jing Yuan, standing directly behind him, looked at the back of the man so close to him. He, once again, fell into a daze.

Blocked… no, he… he absorbed it?

He could even absorb the power of destruction?

After saving Jing Yuan, Orion didn’t even pause for a moment.

His figure flashed, and he was back in front of Phantylia.

This time, his target was the final, central connecting point between Phantylia’s massive body and the lotus platform.

One sword.

A single, clean cut along the main “end line.”

Phantylia’s enormous upper body was severed!

Having lost her connection to the Ambrosial Arbor and the Great Stellaron, her massive, divine-like body could no longer be maintained.

It shrank rapidly, like a deflated ball, the light and power rushing out of it.

Finally, she transformed into a smaller, humanoid-sized form—the true, core Heliobus body—her form unstable.

She fell clumsily from mid-air, crashing heavily to the ground at the foot of the now-withering Arbor.

[Inorin’s Note: A Heliobus is a being of pure energy, a fragment of an Aeon. Phantylia is a Heliobus who possesses bodies; this is her true, non-corporeal form, now forced out.]

The battle was over.

The once-unrivaled Lord Ravager, Phantylia, was… defeated.

Defeated so thoroughly, so miserably.

Everyone stared blankly at the man standing with his sword, unable to recover for a long, long time.

Phantylia lay on the cold ground, utterly disheveled.

Her magnificent robes were tattered, her beautiful hair was disarrayed, and divine, golden blood stained the corner of her mouth.

She looked like a defeated stray dog at this moment.

But Phantylia did not surrender.

Instead…

“Hehe… hehehehe…”

She lay on the ground, her shoulders shaking, emitting a hysterical, wild laugh.

The laughter was sharp and mad, making one’s scalp tingle.

“Hehehe… AHAHAHAHA!”