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Otto Apocalypse

Kevin Kaslana

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"What is the Honkai?"

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Otto spent many years searching for an answer to this question.

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The search spanned 5 centuries and 2 eras. He knew more about the Honkai than the other 7 billion lives on Earth.

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The more he knew...

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...the less he understood.

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Otto finally realized that he knew nothing about the Honkai.

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Where did IT come from? Where does IT want to go?

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What drives IT? To what end?

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Why was IT created? How would IT end? How does IT grow? Why did IT stop? Why does IT erupt? Why is IT silent?

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Does IT have a persona? A gestalt? Or is IT simply a law set at the very beginning of existence?

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Otto was inundated with questions that pushed him into the terrifying abyss of the "unknown".

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He desired to push forward, yet he found no path. He wanted to start his search, yet he did not know where to go.

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He searched. His confusions grew. He failed and he lost his way.

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In his frustrations he tried many experiments. The pain of discontent plagued him.

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Over 500 years had passed. The hypotheses he tested and rejected were beyond counting.

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Answers were transposed, adjusted, combined, and taken apart. The cycle was repeated. The tapestry remained broken.

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But after enough cycles, an image began to appear in the obscure sea.

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"Let us now imagine a tree - the Imaginary Tree."

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"A massive tree whose crown cannot be seen, whose canopy of branches and leaves blots out the sky."

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"The Tree emerged from an endless Sea of unfathomable depths and boundaries."

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"The Tree and Sea are alone in the Universe. Thus began their never-ending rivalry."

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"The Sea swells while the Tree extends its roots. One seeks to flood. The other seeks to absorb."

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"The Tree has drunk from the Sea and endured an asamkhya of time and grown a nayuta of branches, and leaves."

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"And it was during this seemingly endless time that an unassuming branch grew a new bud."

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"This was the birth of human civilization."

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Otto achieved his eureka when he finally learned of the Imaginary Tree.

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Chaos gave way to order. He saw the path meandering through the darkness.

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He ran along this path. Every step he took brought him closer to the light.

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Soon, he was at the very edge of science itself.

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Previous attempts to acquire knowledge stopped here, but he must keep going and enter the yawning abyss.

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"Imagine it! The Imaginary as the origin of the human race and the seed of civilization!"

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"Time flows in the trunk of the Imaginary Tree and branches out into an infinity of worlds."

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"Every branch is a form of civilization. Every bud is their past and present etched onto the dimension of time."

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"But growth is countered by a force - a selective and corrective system in the Tree's rivalry against the Sea."

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"A natural system based upon the Imaginary mechanics. It breeds, nurtures, tests, and removes."

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"This is what humanity describes as the Honkai."

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"Indeed. Humanity will never escape the Honkai."

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"We must press forward because the Tree must grow. Those who fail become wilted shadows in the Sea of Quanta."

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"To achieve everlasting peace, we must reach the origin of civilization and return to the Imaginary realms."

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"The answer I seek must lie within the Imaginary Tree..."

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Otto finally found the way to the truth after having endured 559 winters.

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He explored the Sea of Quanta, Ether Anchors, and Imaginary constructs. He also found the Divine Key.

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He experienced uncountable failures, obstacles, difficulties, and impossibilities.

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Otto did not care for the impossible.

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He decided that it must be made possible.

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Otto Apocalypse must enter the domain of GOD.

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Otto Apocalypse must ascend the Imaginary Tree.

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Otto

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Otto

I'm glad that our negotiations have arrived at the most desirable conclusions.

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Otto

Let us proceed with the transfer of the Beacon. Do you have any requests for the time and place?

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Kevin

I leave that to you.

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Otto

Let me think... I don't like to wait. I hope to ascertain its value at once.

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Otto

Firing the 2nd Key requires vast amounts of Honkai Energy. There is a perfect place. The Far East city of Nagazora.

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Kevin

The site of the 3rd Honkai Eruption.

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Otto

Yes! That event 3 years ago left a singularity linked to the Tree even though the 3rd Herrscher is asleep.

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Otto

And that singularity still leaks Honkai, and the leak has grown thanks to the Great Eruption.

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Otto

What a coincidence! The 2nd Key shall be moved to Nagazora after 3 days for our first test with the Beacon.

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The white-haired man left without a word.

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The golden sphere grew dim and dissolved with every step he took.

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Otto

Whoah. Leaving already? How disappointing. I was hoping to raise a glass with you to celebrate this.

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Otto

Kevin Kaslana, I believe that this meeting has far-reaching consequences to you, to me, and to the entire world.

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Otto

All hail the alliance of Schicksal and the World Serpent.

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End