Honkai Star Rail: I Played the Villain, Now the Heroines Want Revenge — Chapter 28

HSRVS – Chapter 28

[At 14 years old, you walk the war-torn Xianzhou Zhuming as Orion.]

The war between the Heliobus and the Xianzhou Alliance has reached a fever pitch. Under the powerful call of the Flint Emperor, scattered Heliobus began to converge on a massive scale.

You see countless powerful Heliobus individuals—those flames that once fought independently—continuously surging towards a single point above Zhuming. They merge and devour each other, forming a terrifying aggregate whose energy level continuously rises.

That aggregate gradually becomes terrifying. What the mortals of Xianzhou can see with their naked eyes is a ‘Calamity Crimson Star’ suspended in the sky, emitting an ominous red glow. The appearance of the Crimson Star cast the entire Xianzhou Zhuming under the shadow of doomsday.

The Xianzhou Alliance naturally wouldn’t sit idly by. Your Golden Threads captured that the Xianzhou Alliance’s high-ranking officials, in extreme panic and despair, launched a desperate plan.

The young valiant general, who had gained renown in the war, volunteered to lead a suicide squad composed of elite Xianzhou Alliance troops. Their mission was to carry a powerful siege weapon and assault the ‘Crimson Star’ before it was fully formed, aiming to destroy it from within. This was a plan of mutual destruction.

You observe all of this with cold detachment. The structure of the Crimson Star, the gathering point of the suicide squad, the assault route, the characteristics of the weapon—all intelligence continuously flowed into your consciousness through the Golden Threads. You understand the key to this gamble better than any party on the battlefield.

At this moment, how should you act?

Respond to the Flint Emperor’s call, join the Heliobus main force, and participate in attacking the Xianzhou Alliance’s suicide squad.

Roam the edge of the battlefield, focusing on devouring defeated or injured Heliobus, maximizing your own power growth amidst the chaos.

Use the information from the Golden Threads to manipulate the battlefield’s direction, attempting to mislead the Xianzhou Alliance or the Heliobus, creating a chaotic situation more favorable to yourself.

Upon seeing the options, Orion quickly weighed them. Option one, joining the Flint Emperor’s main force, meant directly confronting the elite troops of the Xianzhou Alliance. No, the risk was too high; his current level of Heliobus would likely be instantly reduced to cannon fodder in such a high-level clash.

Option three, manipulating the battlefield, sounded tempting. But with his current strength, even with an information advantage, trying to play power games between the Flint Emperor and the Xianzhou Alliance, and sway the entire battle, was still beyond his capabilities. Once he failed, his fate would likely be worse than being cannon fodder.

Hmm… it seems only option two is the most stable. Looting in a burning house, profiting from chaos, and maximizing gains while ensuring his own safety. The power growth from devouring those scattered Heliobus earlier had already given him a taste of success. Now, more and more powerful ‘supplements’ are about to appear on the battlefield. How could he miss this buffet?

“I choose 2!” Orion made his decision.

[You choose to continue devouring your kind, looting in the chaos. Villain Value +100.]

[At 15 years old, you control A Yun’s already hollowed-out body, like a ghost on the battlefield, wandering through the various fierce combat zones of Xianzhou Zhuming.]

Golden Threads are your best eyes and ears. You precisely avoided the area where the ‘Crimson Star’ converged, and also bypassed the assault path of the Xianzhou Alliance’s suicide squad.

Your targets are the large Heliobus fusion bodies that were shattered on the front lines, or the powerful Heliobus individuals who lost a lot of energy in battle and fled in a panic. You reach out and absorb those Heliobus on the verge of collapse.

Vast and pure Heliobus Fire energy surged frantically into this body, ultimately being fully absorbed by your greedy Heliobus core. Each devour made your own flame grow stronger. Your Heliobus Fire began to pulse with a faint greenish-blue glow. That is a sign of Heliobus power being highly condensed, tending towards a higher level.

Under the impact of this increasingly powerful Heliobus Fire energy, A Yun’s body has completely become a mere container. His flesh and bones are wailing, and his vitality could extinguish at any moment. But you don’t care at all. The mission of this mortal body is about to be completed. All you need is a temporary container to safely pass through your growth period.

[At 16 years old, the final confrontation between the Xianzhou Alliance and the Heliobus ‘Crimson Star’ erupted with a roar.]

Through the Golden Threads, you witnessed how the suicide squad led by that young valiant general fought valiantly. They broke through numerous obstacles and successfully penetrated the chaotic core of the ‘Crimson Star’.

Immediately following was an explosion beyond description. The ‘Crimson Star’ in the sky, like a punctured balloon, instantly collapsed inward, then transformed into a pitch-black void that devoured all light and matter. The edges of that void twisted unpredictably, precisely the most terrifying celestial phenomenon in the universe—a black hole!

A destructive shockwave, centered on the black hole, swept out in all directions. Wherever it passed, whether it was Heliobus energy constructs or Xianzhou Alliance buildings, all were reduced to dust.

Relying on the Golden Threads’ early warning and the surge of power gained from devouring a large amount of Heliobus, you controlled A Yun’s body to hide in an underground empty facility just an instant before the shockwave arrived. Even so, the intense tremor still caused your Heliobus Fire to become unstable for a moment.

And A Yun’s mortal body, in the face of this disaster, could no longer hold on. With a cracking sound, this body that had accompanied you for more than ten years completely turned into ashes and dissipated. Your Heliobus energy body, that cluster of greenish-blue flames, was exposed to the outside world for the first time. But thanks to the frantic devouring before, your current strength is already far beyond ordinary Heliobus, so you will not dissipate after losing your host.