(Omni POV)
Eleven months had passed since the Third Honkai Eruption began.
Nagazora was still crawling with Honkai beasts, the air thick and heavy with Honkai energy.
On the northwestern edge of the ruined city stood a destroyed school. Behind it lay a massive arena—now scarred by battle.
Inside, a sparring match was underway between two students and their teacher.
The arena was filled with countless craters, slashes, and an infinite sea of dolls.
There were so many that the entire field seemed alive with motion.
Nava and Lan struggled to hold their ground against the endless tide.
Nava smashed through human-sized dolls, punching and kicking as she hurled debris from the fallen to use as improvised weapons.
Lan's sword flashed as he cut through the swarm, but there were simply too many for him to even draw his bow.
"How is Teacher spawning this many dolls?!" Nava shouted, panting as fatigue began to take over. Even after destroying hundreds, more kept appearing.
Lan was equally baffled. He didn't know his teacher possessed this kind of power—it was reminiscent of the Herrscher of Reason he once heard Adam mention in passing.
Then suddenly, the army of dolls stopped moving.
Their bodies began to merge, tearing apart and fusing into a single, gigantic construct of wood and metal.
Nava and Lan could only stare, exhausted and out of breath. Nearly half their stamina and energy had been spent fighting the swarm, and now they were facing something larger than any Honkai beast they had ever seen.
Outside the arena, Adam had sealed the area with a barrier—so that to anyone looking from beyond, nothing unusual seemed to be happening.
He smiled softly, his tone gentle and calm as he addressed his students:
"Defeat one of my masterpieces, and you will pass this final test."
His voice was warm—almost innocent—but his words carried the weight of an impossible challenge.
Nava gritted her teeth, summoning the last of her strength. Her gauntlet whirred to life, transforming into a sleek staff. She leapt forward, twirling it before throwing it skyward, catching it between her legs as she shouted:
"RAILGUN!"
BOOM!
A thunderous shockwave erupted. The force of her kick turned the staff into a supersonic projectile that slammed into the doll's shoulder, shattering it and sending its massive arm crashing down with a deafening thud.
Lan, silent as ever, whispered words that echoed like a vow:
"The hunt never ends."
He loosed an arrow infused with pure Honkai energy. It struck the doll's head dead-center, detonating it into fragments—nothing remained but splinters and dust.
Yet the massive doll still moved. It swung its remaining arm in a wide arc, striking Nava. She managed to block with her staff, but the sheer force sent her flying back through the debris.
As one of Adam's Masterpieces, the doll's strength rivaled that of a peak A-rank Valkyrie. The clash was far from over.
Coughing, Nava rose again. She dashed forward through the cloud of dust, channeling her Stigmata's power into her next strike—each blow heavier than the last.
While Nava kept the doll's attention, Lan—who had vanished moments earlier—reappeared behind it.
Drawing his bow once more, he pulled the string to its limit. Four pure Honkai arrows materialized, glowing like violet stars.
He released.
The arrows ripped through the air, obliterating the doll's remaining arm, chest, and legs in a blinding flash.
When the dust settled, Lan collapsed to the ground, completely spent.
His energy and stamina were gone.
Nava, who had long since exhausted her own reserves, followed shortly after—both students lying unconscious amid the ruins.
Adam stepped forward, Rosy materializing on his shoulder with a soft chime.
"Rosy, what's their rank by Schicksal standards?"
Rosy's voice answered after a moment of analysis:
[Combining strength, stamina, and technique—Nava is low A-rank. Lan is high B-rank.]
Adam smiled faintly, pride flickering in his eyes.
He teleported the two unconscious students back to his makeshift lab, carefully placing them inside separate pods. With precision, he began implanting dormant Emperor-class Honkai beast genes into their bodies.
For Nava, he used a gene from an unnamed beast—one he personally named Lyssa, in honor of the Greek minor goddess of rage, fury, and rabies
Lan received a gene from another nameless Emperor-class beast, which Adam named Rudra, after the god of storm, wind, medicine, and the hunt in Hindu mythology.
Rosy watched curiously, her holographic eyes flickering.
[Host Adam, when will these dormant genes awaken?]
Adam didn't look up from his work. His tone was calm, almost detached.
"They'll awaken before Otto Apocalypse begins his five-hundred-year plan."
Half an hour passed before the procedure was complete. Both students were stable, the genes successfully integrated.
Rosy tilted her head.
[How did you even manage to make those genes dormant—and control when they'll awaken, Host Adam?]
Adam smirked faintly.
"That's connected to my fourth wish from ROB."
[Oh? And what were your wishes again, Host Adam? I never got the full list. Even Creator ROB didn't tell me.]
Adam paused, as if recalling a distant memory.
"My first wish was for a companion—you, Rosy.
My second was to have my own background in whatever world I entered—hence this body: Grisha Adam, son of a Chernobyl scientist who died.
My third wish was for a starter gift that would make me one of the top twenty beings in this world.
My fourth was to possess the combined knowledge of the greatest geniuses in this world—which explains why I'm as intelligent as both Mobius and Dr. Mei combined. That's how I created the dormant gene.
And my fifth… my secret wish… was to forget my past life, keeping only the memories of the games and stories I once loved."
He looked down at his sleeping students, a rare softness in his gaze.
"My masterpieces," he whispered. "The best I could ever create."
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I genuinely forgot that I even had a fanfiction to update and had to rush to create this chapter what do you guys think do you like my naming sense or not (talking about the two emperor class honkai beast I named)
I got the idea of naming the two honkai beats to Hindu mythology and Greek mythology cause of Vishnu and asura existing in honkai so I find some deities to name from
(Edit: Lyssa is a minor Greek goddess that governs rage, fury, and rabies)
Rudra was the god of the storm, wind, medicine, and the hunt
I was quite tempted to just find a centaur and a mythology beings to name after Lan's honkai beast because of a certain hunter just in another honkai verse next door
Now for my question who do you guys think is stronger, pre creation veldanava or volume 22 rimuru tempest
Edit:I'm starting to hate on chatgpt's grammar fix on this chapter because it deleted the scene that I added when the doll "died" it also lessen the words I integrated in the last parts and even added some words I didn't even write
("My masterpieces," he whispered. "The best I could ever create.")
I didn't even wrote that one I just ended it with a saying something like this
(As he looked down in both of his students his gaze soften and muttered
"Don't worry my little ones I will protect you")
Mother fudger isn't even trying to hide that he deleted that scene it straight up said
(I deleted a sentence and replaced it to make it for the flow and attitude of Adam)
Mother fudger I'm trying to show a personality of his previous life not the personality he inherited from the body he inherited