[Complete; occasional extras are still being updated]
Q: What’s it like to become a Lord Ravager?
A: Long story short, I just started my second run and spawned in the Luofu. Overall rating: don’t do it.
A: 365 days a year without a day off, no overtime pay, and no salary either. Your coworkers are either sick or sick, and even the company next door would cry for you.
A: Anyway, I’m going to become a Galaxy Ranger now, then blast every last one of my enemies to death with a single shot.
Mo Qi, a gamer, ran into the foremost Galaxy Ranger in a game expansion and couldn’t beat him no matter how hard he tried. After half a second’s hesitation, he downloaded the game.
But isn’t there something wrong with how this story is going? How did I become a Lord Ravager, fighting to the death with the character I’m obsessed with?
Am I supposed to kill my fave? For real? (Stares in shock.)
With his convictions shattered, he decided to start a second run.
The good news: his stats carried over.
The bad news: so did his progress with the magic taro.
At this point, Mo Qi, former Lord Ravager, Hoolay’s strictest father, surgical prodigy of the Alchemy Commission, man who keeps hopping between three Paths, Galaxy Ranger, fully supportive Lamancha bot, and partner at the Undying Detective Agency, had six things to say: “…”
Never mind. Since things have come to this, I’ll take out Hoolay first.
[I once lost my way among the stars. I once scattered like flames. I glimpsed the crooked path of fate, and returned from error.]
[Now I make this promise: no matter when, no matter where, I will protect all the weak, and turn the Hunt’s arrowhead against all evil.]
[And I will ensure that one Galaxy Ranger dies peacefully in his bed of old age.]
0. Primarily a getting-back-into-writing project, probably around a hundred thousand words. Another reason is that the Path of Nihility has me feeling repressed. Anyway, everything is dedicated to our boss.
1. The protagonist is chaotic good and an unabashed, undying, devoted fan of the Path of Nihility.
2. He’ll save people. The overall timeline follows the original, but a lot of plot elements had to be made up to keep the story logical. There will inevitably be forgotten lore and details that haven’t been fully researched, so lore obsessives should be cautious.
3. A nontraditional second run.
4. My knowledge of the story goes up to version 4.3. If the developers release relevant lore later, I’ll decide whether to change the plot accordingly.
5. I’m especially fond of the Path of Nihility, Blade, and Welt, so they may get more story time. For personal reasons, Blade will become a Galaxy Ranger before joining the Stellaron Hunters (Jing Yuan: So?).
6. I’m perpetually sleep-deprived. If I’m rushing to meet a deadline, the writing will probably get overly colloquial. I won’t revise it unless it seriously affects comprehension. I hope you’ll understand QAQ
?. Gui Ji declares herself responsible for this book.
Also, here’s an upcoming story: [Honkai: Star Rail] A Ranger Can’t Be Killed
(Also known as “A Hundred Ways to Let a Ranger Grow Old”)
Blurb: The first time the Path of Nihility met Yu Xing was at a crime scene.
Except…the other person wasn’t a suspect, a cop, or a witness.
He was the victim.
“Hey, could you report a case for me? He accidentally cut my windpipe, so I’m a little hoarse…”
The man held his head and smiled wryly, if you ignored how his neck was barely holding his head on, as well as the blood covering most of his face and shirt.
Then the Path of Nihility discovered this seemed to be part of the man’s everyday life.
By the time he’d gotten used to the other man dying every now and then, he went to visit him one day and found his body cold.
He stood there for a long time, but the man never woke up again.
He decided to investigate the truth. Just then, he received a commission. The job itself was nothing unusual, but the reward caught his eye.
“I know the truth about Yu Xing’s death.”
The client was Xu Zhao.
Tips:
0. The second major work born of my Path of Nihility angst, also a short story and probably even shorter.
1. The protagonist was a Galaxy Ranger and is now a Mournful Actor. There’s a lot of invented lore.
2. There’s angst, and it’s real, but the story is fundamentally a happy ending.
3. My knowledge of the story goes up to version 4.3. I expect to start after the Thousand Stars City storyline at the earliest (I feel like the canon story is going to blindside me, so let me squirm a little first).
Theme: Uphold justice and champion what is right.
Boss, this company is so reductive that it makes me so angry [angry] Can I blow it up in San Chuang?
Did Guiji's old father plan in advance to let Mo Zai reveal his true face?
The technology research and development department of the damn company that is to blame for every death, your precious, ruthless capitalist, the inhumane human experiment, how can you, a religious monopoly organization that exploits and oppresses the people of the world, have the stand to accommodate Xiao Mo, the patrol ranger who fights for the people to the end? Still doing experiments? I'll go to hell with you and let people get out of control and get rich. I don't care about the overall situation, my dear. The so-called asking you to take care of the overall situation means that you are not in the overall situation, and you still want to continue to be the overlord of the world and suck the blood of the entire universe? In this line, Qianxing City had better be finished as soon as possible. The more miserable the death of the company's top executives, the better. Anyone who escapes will be unjustly killed. It is best to go directly to the end, at least have a good time, and at the same time shock and scare those gangsters. You are just damn lucky. Sooner or later, you will retaliate. Sooner or later, I will retaliate. What bothers me the most is the company. You, his precious death spot!
Boss, boss, why is our Mo Qi being chased and killed all the time? I want to see the ff line. Damn it, Xiao Qi is always damaged in battles. I want to see Xiao Qi not caring about others. The only connection left with him is our boss. I imprison Xiang's fan [Fan Fan]
Lead the hunter across the universe to find his lost star.
"What's going on, this outrageous trend, another plot kill - I'm stuck!" Outside the game, Mo Qi wailed, thinking that he was forcibly transformed into the Lord of Extinction again, while desperately reconnecting to the game to prevent a second BE from being played on the first account, and he wanted to greet the person who wrote the game judgment eight hundred times in a Ranger-like spoken language.
It is just a boring starry sky. It has no magnificent colors that can lead to development and attract traffic, nor does it have any rare treasures that can tempt people to plunder and seduce sin. It is neither a geomantic treasure land located at the center of a major transportation thoroughfare, nor has it ever produced any famous figures in the world who were envoys of the Star God.
In short, this is just an ordinary starry sky, an unknown corner of the universe, a place that people all over the world will skip for a moment when they refer to the map to count the place names.
But the power of hunting led him here.
La Mancha raised his hat, operated the spacecraft to stop at a planet port for supplies, and then contacted and integrated the local star network information: Planet 146 of the Clariant Galaxy, an ordinary medium-sized planet, has been connected to the world trade system for fifty years. The local civilization has reached the level of industrialization. There is no large-scale space navigation, and exchanges are mostly limited to nearby areas. Therefore, it is the only port planet in the vicinity.
Search for nearby historical events: None
Abnormal fluctuations in fate energy: None.
In other words, in such a remote place, there is no mechanism or equipment to detect the energy of destiny. There isn't even a well-known Destiny Walker, and no, in most cases, that's a good thing. LaMancha thought.
Related searches for Visitors from Beyond: None.
To say that the network here is lifeless compared to other places, like after being implanted by the company to develop the planet according to unified standards, the local people have not touched it at all, and only use the superficial functions, just like the plastic film on the remote control on the hands of the older generation in Xianzhou, which has aged and is not removed.
Latest news: His own, a new policy system implemented by local company leaders. La Mancha looked around and saw two words between dozens of pages of high-sounding terms:
Squeeze!
It seems that over the past fifty years, local government has been reduced to a corporate white glove. La Mancha is not familiar with politics, but he has seen this set of policies all over the world. If this set of policies is implemented within a hundred years, this star that is slightly smaller but still home to hundreds of millions of people will become a dim star that has been squeezed dry: resources are exhausted, brain drain, the local economy is in a slump, and the future of the local people is getting narrower... There are many patrols against the company, just because their hometown has been treated more cruelly.
Hey, when you find someone, come and "talk" to the company employees here. It's best if there is a local resistance organization and you can contact those good girls and boys who have a grudge against the company... If everything goes well, he and this planet can survive until then.
La Mancha turned off the starnet and disembarked. Since there was no bright news found such as "Lord of Extinction invaded the galaxy", "Unknown humanoid body covered in green fire was observed" or "An unknown disaster occurred somewhere, and the unquenchable green flames are spreading", it means that the worst case scenario is not yet there. Mo Qi probably still has self-awareness, or has gotten rid of "that" state where unconsciousness can cause huge casualties, or is still in control.
Or... He's already under control, but he's avoiding me. Intuition revealed a possibility, but La Mancha was not optimistic. Under what circumstances would he wake up and need to hide from me?
A sudden intuition disrupted La Mancha's plan to find the person step by step. He stopped going to the local black market, found an Internet cafe, booked a private room, inserted a hard drive provided by hackers, and directly searched for Mo Qi in the fastest but most illegal way.
Don't be like this... [Doctor], please don't be like this... But if this is the case, he must find Mo Qi as quickly as possible to prevent the residents here from dying of a former doctor and ranger who is now the Lord of Extinction before they are eaten up by the company. No matter what, I will find you, Mo Qi. I still have the responsibility of supervising you that I received from Xianzhou.
Government buildings, company headquarters, major public places, some important factories... Hackers are diligently searching for viruses, and cheap computers are humming with overheating, but not every place is covered by surveillance. Putting aside the cost, even tacit secret matters can poke many holes in a network that should be tightly covered. Fortunately, hackers who know how to edit ether are not ordinary people who follow the laws of physics, and detectives with hunting instincts can also be called the top hunting walkers——
Found it.
In the blurry picture, Mo Qi was wearing a dark sweatshirt, with a hood covering his face, revealing only a few strands of hair that gradually turned from black to white. He was standing in a deserted abandoned square, under the angel statue in the center of the square, raising his right hand slightly upward - then he sensed something, put down his hand, and turned his head to look somewhere:
The light escaped from a pair of pitch-black eyes, reflected by a fragment of mirror, an abandoned surveillance camera and a computer screen, and entered another pair of rose-red eyes contrasting with bright silver fragments.
They looked at each other thousands of miles apart.
Mo Qi turned around and left, disappearing from the angle of view that he only found after the hacker virus burned out.
La Mancha threw down the money and flew out of the Internet cafe, turning into a blue stream of light trailing behind him, heading straight for the person who had been found through several layers of lenses but successfully marked with the [Hunting] mark in one go.
If you are still struggling, I am here to save you.
If you fall, I will kill you.
"It's such a touching friendship. By the way, no vision was lost, no footsteps were lost, no information was lost. We tracked down the same planet, more than a thousand miles away, and reflected it on an abandoned surveillance camera lens through a mirror fragment. The surveillance image was locked across levels and [Hunting] was successful——"
"Let's open it." Lord Yitou clicked his tongue in surprise and said to the other person beside him.
Mo Qiyi, who was wearing a dark cloak, stood there in Ruowen. He made no move after instinctively adjusting his position to avoid surveillance. Even his eyes were dark and focused.
"Ah, I forgot that you were stuck and haven't logged back in yet." Gui Ji suddenly realized it and slapped his head (high-fiving himself), and complained in distress: "Is the three-dimensional network so bad? You automatically following me will affect my actions. Look, my old friend is chasing me after smelling the smell."
Mo Qi is still on standby and has not responded.
Gui Ji stared at this young colleague, considered it for a moment, and then snapped his fingers:
A gust of strong wind blew by, and the sharp blade sliced open Mo Qi's dark cloak, turning the cloak into several pieces of fabric and falling to the ground, revealing his new dark green and blood-red clothes.
Mo Qi raised his head and looked at Gui Jing.
Guiji said:
"Don't be nervous. Since you are willing to wear the cloak I handed you, you can also accept my suggestion to take it off——"
"All my old friends are here, shouldn't I show off this handsome new form?"
[Please] I'm so cute, I'm pinching Mo Zai, even though I've sprouted ginkgo branches, I'm still holding on. Sure enough, I'm full of motivation when I hear that I can beat him to death.
Thinking about it this way, Gui Ji is such a good ghost father.
Oops, this if line is too exciting, right?
Sesame filling! Hehe, I'm already looking forward to it
Boss, I want to read your writing about Bengtie, please🙏[biting the handkerchief][biting the handkerchief]
[Beng Tie] the Ranger Will Not Die If He Is Killed
[Comprehensive British and American] the Intensity Party Gets Out of the Super-English Worldview!
[Comprehensive British and American] Entomology Research Notes
[Comprehensive British and American] Survival Guide for Gotham's Evil and Tricky People
[Comprehensive British and American] Dreams and Investigator Code
Boss, this company is so reductive that it makes me so angry [angry] Can I blow it up in San Chuang?
Did Guiji's old father plan in advance to let Mo Zai reveal his true face?
The technology research and development department of the damn company that is to blame for every death, your precious, ruthless capitalist, the inhumane human experiment, how can you, a religious monopoly organization that exploits and oppresses the people of the world, have the stand to accommodate Xiao Mo, the patrol ranger who fights for the people to the end? Still doing experiments? I'll go to hell with you and let people get out of control and get rich. I don't care about the overall situation, my dear. The so-called asking you to take care of the overall situation means that you are not in the overall situation, and you still want to continue to be the overlord of the world and suck the blood of the entire universe? In this line, Qianxing City had better be finished as soon as possible. The more miserable the death of the company's top executives, the better. Anyone who escapes will be unjustly killed. It is best to go directly to the end, at least have a good time, and at the same time shock and scare those gangsters. You are just damn lucky. Sooner or later, you will retaliate. Sooner or later, I will retaliate. What bothers me the most is the company. You, his precious death spot!
Boss, boss, why is our Mo Qi being chased and killed all the time? I want to see the ff line. Damn it, Xiao Qi is always damaged in battles. I want to see Xiao Qi not caring about others. The only connection left with him is our boss. I imprison Xiang's fan [Fan Fan]
Lead the hunter across the universe to find his lost star. "What's going on, this outrageous trend, another plot kill - I'm stuck!" Outside the game, Mo Qi wailed, thinking that he was forcibly transformed into the Lord of Extinction again, while desperately reconnecting to the game to prevent a second BE from being played on the first account, and he wanted to greet the person who wrote the game judgment eight hundred times in a Ranger-like spoken language. It is just a boring starry sky. It has no magnificent colors that can lead to development and attract traffic, nor does it have any rare treasures that can tempt people to plunder and seduce sin. It is neither a geomantic treasure land located at the center of a major transportation thoroughfare, nor has it ever produced any famous figures in the world who were envoys of the Star God. In short, this is just an ordinary starry sky, an unknown corner of the universe, a place that people all over the world will skip for a moment when they refer to the map to count the place names. But the power of hunting led him here. La Mancha raised his hat, operated the spacecraft to stop at a planet port for supplies, and then contacted and integrated the local star network information: Planet 146 of the Clariant Galaxy, an ordinary medium-sized planet, has been connected to the world trade system for fifty years. The local civilization has reached the level of industrialization. There is no large-scale space navigation, and exchanges are mostly limited to nearby areas. Therefore, it is the only port planet in the vicinity. Search for nearby historical events: None Abnormal fluctuations in fate energy: None. In other words, in such a remote place, there is no mechanism or equipment to detect the energy of destiny. There isn't even a well-known Destiny Walker, and no, in most cases, that's a good thing. LaMancha thought. Related searches for Visitors from Beyond: None. To say that the network here is lifeless compared to other places, like after being implanted by the company to develop the planet according to unified standards, the local people have not touched it at all, and only use the superficial functions, just like the plastic film on the remote control on the hands of the older generation in Xianzhou, which has aged and is not removed. Latest news: His own, a new policy system implemented by local company leaders. La Mancha looked around and saw two words between dozens of pages of high-sounding terms: Squeeze! It seems that over the past fifty years, local government has been reduced to a corporate white glove. La Mancha is not familiar with politics, but he has seen this set of policies all over the world. If this set of policies is implemented within a hundred years, this star that is slightly smaller but still home to hundreds of millions of people will become a dim star that has been squeezed dry: resources are exhausted, brain drain, the local economy is in a slump, and the future of the local people is getting narrower... There are many patrols against the company, just because their hometown has been treated more cruelly. Hey, when you find someone, come and "talk" to the company employees here. It's best if there is a local resistance organization and you can contact those good girls and boys who have a grudge against the company... If everything goes well, he and this planet can survive until then. La Mancha turned off the starnet and disembarked. Since there was no bright news found such as "Lord of Extinction invaded the galaxy", "Unknown humanoid body covered in green fire was observed" or "An unknown disaster occurred somewhere, and the unquenchable green flames are spreading", it means that the worst case scenario is not yet there. Mo Qi probably still has self-awareness, or has gotten rid of "that" state where unconsciousness can cause huge casualties, or is still in control. Or... He's already under control, but he's avoiding me. Intuition revealed a possibility, but La Mancha was not optimistic. Under what circumstances would he wake up and need to hide from me? A sudden intuition disrupted La Mancha's plan to find the person step by step. He stopped going to the local black market, found an Internet cafe, booked a private room, inserted a hard drive provided by hackers, and directly searched for Mo Qi in the fastest but most illegal way. Don't be like this... [Doctor], please don't be like this... But if this is the case, he must find Mo Qi as quickly as possible to prevent the residents here from dying of a former doctor and ranger who is now the Lord of Extinction before they are eaten up by the company. No matter what, I will find you, Mo Qi. I still have the responsibility of supervising you that I received from Xianzhou. Government buildings, company headquarters, major public places, some important factories... Hackers are diligently searching for viruses, and cheap computers are humming with overheating, but not every place is covered by surveillance. Putting aside the cost, even tacit secret matters can poke many holes in a network that should be tightly covered. Fortunately, hackers who know how to edit ether are not ordinary people who follow the laws of physics, and detectives with hunting instincts can also be called the top hunting walkers—— Found it. In the blurry picture, Mo Qi was wearing a dark sweatshirt, with a hood covering his face, revealing only a few strands of hair that gradually turned from black to white. He was standing in a deserted abandoned square, under the angel statue in the center of the square, raising his right hand slightly upward - then he sensed something, put down his hand, and turned his head to look somewhere: The light escaped from a pair of pitch-black eyes, reflected by a fragment of mirror, an abandoned surveillance camera and a computer screen, and entered another pair of rose-red eyes contrasting with bright silver fragments. They looked at each other thousands of miles apart. Mo Qi turned around and left, disappearing from the angle of view that he only found after the hacker virus burned out. La Mancha threw down the money and flew out of the Internet cafe, turning into a blue stream of light trailing behind him, heading straight for the person who had been found through several layers of lenses but successfully marked with the [Hunting] mark in one go. If you are still struggling, I am here to save you. If you fall, I will kill you. "It's such a touching friendship. By the way, no vision was lost, no footsteps were lost, no information was lost. We tracked down the same planet, more than a thousand miles away, and reflected it on an abandoned surveillance camera lens through a mirror fragment. The surveillance image was locked across levels and [Hunting] was successful——" "Let's open it." Lord Yitou clicked his tongue in surprise and said to the other person beside him. Mo Qiyi, who was wearing a dark cloak, stood there in Ruowen. He made no move after instinctively adjusting his position to avoid surveillance. Even his eyes were dark and focused. "Ah, I forgot that you were stuck and haven't logged back in yet." Gui Ji suddenly realized it and slapped his head (high-fiving himself), and complained in distress: "Is the three-dimensional network so bad? You automatically following me will affect my actions. Look, my old friend is chasing me after smelling the smell." Mo Qi is still on standby and has not responded. Gui Ji stared at this young colleague, considered it for a moment, and then snapped his fingers: A gust of strong wind blew by, and the sharp blade sliced open Mo Qi's dark cloak, turning the cloak into several pieces of fabric and falling to the ground, revealing his new dark green and blood-red clothes. Mo Qi raised his head and looked at Gui Jing. Guiji said: "Don't be nervous. Since you are willing to wear the cloak I handed you, you can also accept my suggestion to take it off——" "All my old friends are here, shouldn't I show off this handsome new form?"
[Please] I'm so cute, I'm pinching Mo Zai, even though I've sprouted ginkgo branches, I'm still holding on. Sure enough, I'm full of motivation when I hear that I can beat him to death.
Thinking about it this way, Gui Ji is such a good ghost father.
Oops, this if line is too exciting, right?
Sesame filling! Hehe, I'm already looking forward to it
Boss, I want to read your writing about Bengtie, please🙏[biting the handkerchief][biting the handkerchief]