Houkai

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Otto Apokalypse meets the Will of Houkai in Reborn chapter 14

Houkai is born before the first human civilization, with the ultimate goal of manipulating humanity to infinitely extend its lifetime. In Houkai Gakuen 2, Houkai is also responsible for extinction of species that dominate Earth, such as dinosaurs.

Houkai is a supernatural force with a certain degree of intelligence and multiple manifestations, including but not limited to any form that may cause damage to human civilization, such as the invasion of beasts and zombies, mutation or death, viruses (such as the black death), natural disasters, world wars and even as pure energy.

The concept of Houkai

Honkai / 崩壊 (Houkai) / 崩坏 (Bēnghuài), is a cyclical natural disaster phenomenon which periodically adjusts the universe.

Every once in a while, the Houkai will break out. The outbreak of the Houkai is irregular and unpredictable, making it highly dangerous.

The Houkai will continue to evolve with the development of human science and technology, and will always push human beings to a dead end with a posture of superiority over human beings. This is the consciousness of the universe, the law of natural development, and the extinction of human beings is inevitable.

The manifestation of Houkai

The manifestation of the Houkai is unpredictable. Wars, infectious diseases, climate disasters, comet impacts, and even the arrival of giant monsters are all possible.

  • According to the interpretation of history books, Houkai can only be said to be an unpredictable will of God. But judging from scientific results, it has brought about a large number of extinctions of the species that used to dominate this world.
  • The Black Death in the 14th century was a manifestation of Houkai, affecting the human beings who ruled the world at that time. The Black Death directly or indirectly caused the destruction of one third of the world's population.
  • Whether the extinction of dinosaurs in the Cretaceous period was also a manifestation of Houkai, there is no explanation in history books.

Houkai energy

Houkai releases a kind of energy that has never been seen in past technology - Houkai energy.

  • Houkai energy can act on anything with a material basis, change their state and properties, trigger various physical or chemical reacts, and cause unpredictable effects. The Houkai cannot be recognized by the naked eye under normal conditions, and can only be detected by the latest equipment.
  • The efficiency of Houkai can far exceed any energy currently found in the world; Houkai energy possesses the ability to turn humans and animals without sufficient resistance and immunity that come into contact with it into mindless zombies.

Houkai source

  • Houkai energy has the characteristic of mutual attraction. They will attract each other and gather together to form a "Houkai Source".
  • The Houkai Source is not stable, constant, and not evenly distributed in the universe.
  • Countless small Houkai Sources will gradually converge and become larger Houkai Sources, but this aggregation will not continue indefinitely.
  • The bigger the Houkai source, the more unstable they will destroy the steady state under external disturbances and break through the critical equilibrium, causing huge explosions.
  • The changing effect of time and space attributes induced by the Houkai source is called "reality distorting field". The physical laws of the time and space will be singularized, and any supernatural phenomena may occur in "reality distorting field". Such phenomena as parallel space and time rollback are all such phenomena.
  • A large-scale Houkai phenomenon caused by the accumulation of specific huge Houkai energy is called the Great Houkai. Compared with the normal Houkai outbreak, the Great Houkai has a wider range of influence, and the damage caused is stronger. At the same time, higher level Houkai creatures other than the zombies will be born. And most importantly, the Great Houkai will inevitably produce a Herrscher.

Alien Authority

Alien Authority (异化机构) is a mechanism that turns anything into something that can be controlled by the Houkai.

"Alien" here can be understood as zombies, Houkai creatures, Will Parasites... This includes Herrscher.

Stigmata gave the user the ability to resist Houkai corruption while in incomplete alienation state.

Houkai's appearance and manipulation

Heavy spoiler alert! This part is only available in chapter R15. You have been warned!

The Houkai are energy beings from another universe, Houkai was born before the Houkai "entity", and the "entity" are one with the Houkai.

  • So the Houkai can have 2 means: The first one is a kind of energy, and another one like an "entity" or "civilization" that become one with the Houkai energy.

Houkai energy is the basic mediator of perception, dissolution, and substance displacement. They put one kind of matter into our universe through the "channel"; Send the Houkai energy back to the original Houkai universe through the "channel" to get another kind of matter. That is, the basis of Houkai energy substitution.

But the Herrscher, a by-product of the cheap large-scale replacement of guiding weapons named "Alien Authority" by humans, has attracted the attention of Otto and the humans before him.

At first, the two universes were unrelated, the distance between universes was unfathomable, and the Houkai entity have judged that invading another universe is an unattainable miracle. But their determination to progress is unstoppable, even if all other civilizations in the universe are unified. The search for another universe, and a civilization in another universe, consumes enough time to call eternity. The first faint ray of Houkai energy was precisely replaced by this civilization, consuming hundreds of billions of galaxies' energies and making countless attempts.

The Houkai succeeded, you may have forgotten the original "Houkai", but they still remember. Even before human named it "Honkai", the entity began to observe, understand, and analyze human civilization through the Houkai energy. A weak civilization that could self-destruct before the two universes overlap. Only when humans also use Houkai energy, the distance between the two universes can be quickly narrowed. The "channel" can continue to expand, and the 2 universes can unify.

So the Houkai comes, even were at a loss. Because solving the Houkai crisis is urgent for humanity; But the basic research on Houkai energy is long, complex, and unpredictable.... Fortunately, a utilitarian, ridiculous, and extremely advantageous wrong strategy was born in her hands:"用崩壞對抗崩壞 (Houkai must defeat Houkai)"[1].

At the beginning of the first era, every time humans defeat, capture, and study a Herrscher, the more remarkable the results of the trial-and-error application of the "Alien Authority", and the less valued the basic research on the Houkai energy. This gives the entity a glimmer of hope, so it stripped a part of itself and gave it to Otto through the humanoid individual he named "Kiana". And give him the real theoretical gap in the Houkai, what he called the "Power of the Saint". The "stigmata" created by that crazy human being, another displacement guide weapon, combined with the apostle they sent and whom the Houkai called "Jyahnar".

Towards Project Stigmata: An extermination plan against humanity; A planetary-scale mass displacement experiment; A repeated reboot of civilization, causing the stigmata to repeat the false joke of "Houkai must defeat Houkai".

By using human and manipulate them to use Houkai enegy, the Houkai extend its life until the end of R15 story.

The enemies

The zombies

Various types of modern zombies in Houkai Gakuen 2

A new type of Houkai species that appeared in modern times. It was transformed by human beings infected by Houkai energy. The low-level zombies only have the most primitive desire to eat, and the more advanced zombies will be given special abilities, but the only thing is certain, they no longer belong to the human category, and they don't even have the characteristics of life.

The Houkai beasts

Kallen encounters Crimson Hell Fox in Houkai Gakuen EX - Sakura comic

Animals that undergo abnormal changes under the influence of Houkai energy are called Houkai beasts. At first, because of the small scale of the Houkai itself, the generated Houkai mutation only made the creature stronger, or gave birth to other limbs and structures, and the individual that the Houkai itself hosted would undergo structural abnormality. Its biological and genetic sequencing has an irreversible impact. The stronger the original individual is, the more its body structure can host more Houkai energy, and therefore the stronger it is. In the era when the Houkai occurrence became more frequent, the Houkai beasts were affected and evolved, and occasionally powerful Houkai beasts mastered the method of manipulating the Houkai energy. Compared with the zombies, the strength of the Houkai beasts is much stronger.

  • Little White Fox is not classified as Houkai beast species but rather as "Common white fox".

The Herrscher

Raiden Mei - the 3rd Herrscher

Every Great Houkai will give birth to a Herrscher. The Herrscher has strong adaptability to Houkai. Even when they were born, they had certain characteristics of Herrscher ability, so it is speculated that the location of the Great Houkai was not random, but because the region has humans with the characteristics of Herrscher that caused the explosion of the Great Houkai. However, the number of such humans is extremely small. The current information shows that the purpose of the Herrscher is to execute the will to Houkai, showing a strong desire to destroy existing things.

The Herrscher Core

The Herrscher Core, which is condensed from the Houkai energy in the body of the Herrscher, is the source of the ability of the Herrscher. The Houkai energy needed to condense the Herrscher core is very huge, and the body of ordinary zombies and Houkai creatures creatures cannot form a Herrscher Core.

The Unknown

These enemies are never been seen before until Reborn R14 timeline which Wendy spawned from the "dead spot", their composition is difficult to explain with existing physical structure and have have strong defense capability.

Main article: Will of Houkai.

Amalgam of Wills

Amalgam of Wills

A Houkai creation that suddenly appear above the Taixu mountain, consume lots of Houkai energy when they're born. Its composition is difficult to explain with existing physical structure, and it have strong defense capability. This individual moves slowly, emit high-energy Houkai rays that have extremely strong destructive power. There's also Will Parasites appears and parasitize any targets nearby, any creatures or objects touched by the Will Parasites will belongs to them.

Will Parasites

Will Parasite

Soldiers or soldier corpses parasitized by the Will Parasite will force the actions regardless of the host's will, and attack surrounding enemies. There's nothing to prevent the individual from acting except destroying.

The record of Houkai

  1. In 1961, the first Great Houkai broke out in Germany. During the Houkai outbreak, a Herrscher named Welt was born. But Welt suppressed the influence of the desire for destruction caused by the Houkai with his own will, and the Houkai didn't cause much impact.
  2. On December 25, 2000, the second Great Houkai broke out in Siberia. During the Houkai outbreak, the Herrscher named Sirin was born. The Schicksal Organization paid a painful price to kill the Herrscher. The S-Rank Valkyrie Cecilia Schariac and her Snow Wolf team died in the battle. But even so, the Pripyat area, where the outbreak occurred, has become a wasteland and has been permanently quarantined.
  3. On March 28, 2014, the third Great Houkai broke out at Senba Academy in Changkong City. During the Houkai, a Herrscher named Raiden Mei was born.

From here, Kiana Kaslana embarked on the road to fight against the Houkai.

References

  1. A meme line from Jackie Chan Adventures: "Magic must defeat magic", very popular in Chinese ACGN scene.
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