Chapter 188 Chapter 188: 'Active Honkai Reaction'
Chapter 188: 'Active Honkai Reaction'
To be strictly accurate, the words and thoughts from Illumination Dragon were indeed spot-on.
The essence of the so-called fusion warriors was originally to use the power of 'Honkai' to fight against 'Honkai'.
Compared to ordinary humans, fusion warriors are actually more prone to lean towards the side of 'Honkai'. After all, fusion warriors fuse the genes of various Honkai Beasts—the moment they underwent the MANTIS surgery, they had already taken the 'first step' in transforming from humans into Honkai Beasts.
And for many things, the hardest part is often the 'first step'. The 'second step', 'third step'... after that... none of them are particularly difficult anymore.
Another well-known point is—survival of the fittest, the law of natural selection, is an inevitable and irreversible rule in the development and evolution of all living beings. And undoubtedly, in the natural world, Honkai Beasts are undoubtedly a species with greater survival advantages than humans.
It's not even an exaggeration to say that the fall and transformation from human to Honkai Beast... for fusion warriors, this tends more towards an 'instinct'.
Like eating, like reproduction, like... survival.
To suppress this instinctual transformation, one must constantly use their will to suppress their instincts. The more powerful the fusion warrior, the more this holds true.
Fortunately, for most fusion warriors, their development of abilities is far from reaching a point where they could fall into Honkai Beasts at any moment. Moreover, the reason they were willing to become fusion warriors was out of hatred for Honkai, and... a firm belief in their human identity.
It was precisely because they firmly believed in their identity, precisely because they had immense faith in human civilization, precisely because they hated Honkai which sought to take everything away—that they were willing to somewhat abandon their human identity and undergo the MANTIS surgery with an extremely high mortality rate to become fusion warriors.
But... this 'instinct' not causing much negative impact on ordinary fusion warriors only applies to ordinary fusion warriors...
In the history of the Previous Era, the first person to fall into a Honkai Beast was one of Kevin's students, Kosma.
Back then, unable to bear the blow of losing friends and comrades one after another, and even more unable to accept The MOTHs' philosophy of sacrificing soldiers for victory, he defected and gradually fell into a monstrous form under the influence of 'Vishnu' within him.
Yet even so, he maintained the utmost restraint back then; even when losing his sanity, he would only target Honkai Beasts and some utterly evil individuals.
Only after Kevin managed to bring him back to The MOTHs did he regain his original form under Mobius's surgery.
And Mobius also conducted multiple developments based on this degeneration, ultimately refining it into an ability that fusion warriors themselves could control—'Active Honkai Reaction'.
But in reality, very few fusion warriors could truly master this ability; even among the final Flame-Chasers, not everyone could freely manipulate it.
Even if they could master this power, they would never willingly use it unless absolutely necessary... after all, it meant they actively abandoned their human identity, attempting to gain power in the form of a 'beast'.
However, if an entire civilization was about to fall into silence and extinction, wouldn't clinging to this issue become meaningless?
As the final product of the 'Chimera Project', a person fused with genes from almost all Emperor-class and above Honkai Beasts, Kevin naturally also possessed this power, and it was even more complete and powerful than anyone else's.
As early as in the Previous Era, to buy time for everyone until the end, Kevin unhesitatingly exchanged his human identity for that power—and until a time in the Current Era's past, he similarly used this form to steal the 'Power of Finality' and gave the final test to the pioneers of the Current Era.
Kevin had long understood that stubbornly clinging solely to human identity and form held no meaning. The true continuation of civilization, its true brilliance, does not lie merely in so-called appearances. And to continue it, sacrifices must inevitably be made by someone.
If possible, wouldn't Kevin also wish to live out his uneventful life peacefully yet fully as an ordinary human?
But since he had already taken that step, he would never regret it.
"I can sense it... you seem to have a peculiar stubbornness regarding humans."
Although Illumination Dragon was quite polite in asking her question, Kevin could sense that she had already begun acting without hesitation the moment she detected the power belonging to Honkai Beasts within his body.
The so-called words were merely to distract his attention, allowing her plan to proceed smoothly and instantly stir all the power within his body.
But instead of becoming anxious because of this, Kevin began softly analyzing Illumination Dragon's mindset: "You seem stubbornly convinced that so-called humans are inherently an inferior species; their individuals are weak, greedy, selfish... even their volatile emotions are probably just a foundation for you to easily manipulate people's minds."
For Illumination Dragon, who delights in manipulating minds to create internal conflict and self-destruction within civilizations, she has likely destroyed countless worlds using similar methods. Among them, purely human worlds are probably not few.
"Yet I believe instead that even a beggar on the roadside has a life far nobler than yours... because from beginning to end, he strives and seeks for 'life', while you, who pursue 'Destruction', have actually never created any meaning from start to finish."
This is Kevin's most genuine thought. Whether it's 'The Hunt' or 'The Abundance', they are ultimately concepts and forms of existence. But only 'Destruction'... from any perspective, for anyone, is completely a meaningless thing.
"Hmph... I'd like to see just how far your glib tongue can sustain you!"
At this point, Illumination Dragon no longer held anything back. Clenching her hand, she stirred the power belonging to Honkai Beasts within Kevin's body, as if she already had Kevin completely in her grasp.
"Once you've completely turned into a monster that only knows 'Destruction', you won't reject the concept of 'Destruction' anymore!"
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