Chapter 44: Shocking! The miHoYo President is Publicly Beating the Vice President?
"Pfft..."
Watching Kiana's sudden outburst during the stream, even Raiden Mei couldn't help but chuckle.
"No, no... if this keeps up, I'll feel too bad for Bronya..."
Raiden Mei felt a twinge of guilt. Since she had just laughed along, wouldn't she be helping solidify Bronya's new nickname of "Black Duck"?
Originally, Raiden Mei had been worried that Kiana would turn the stream into a total mess. However, as she scanned the bullet chat, she was surprised to find that the atmosphere... actually seemed quite positive?
[Black Duck? Pfft, Zhou Hei Ya!]
[That's actually quite vivid, isn't it? A darkened Bronya—isn't that just a black duck?]
[True, the pronunciation of 'Bronya' and 'Ban Ya' (Board Duck) are indeed similar...]
[I just checked—do you guys know who the Vice President of miHoYo is? Bronya!]
[The company President is dropping memes to diss the Vice President on the spot?]
[I want to see the Vice President's expression while watching this stream...]
The Vice President's expression?
"(ᗜ˰ᗜ)"
Bronya didn't say a word, maintaining that exact face while glaring at Kiana inside the studio. If looks could kill, Kiana would likely have been sliced into a thousand pieces by now.
After dropping several memes, Kiana sensed Bronya's murderous gaze. She coughed a few times and sat back in her chair, acting like a well-behaved but foolish little girl.
"Eh? What did I just say? Nothing at all~"
[Pfft WWWW, the Vice President is definitely glaring from the side!]
[Acting cute and playing dumb won't work, I'm recording this!]
[Support the righteous chroniclers!]
Kiana's face instantly slumped into a "grumpy cat" look. You guys want her dead! Wait, no! Bronya pranked her first, so why should she feel guilty? Hmph, what goes around comes around! That's what you get for using that note to prank me! Now we're even!
Reinvigorated, Kiana looked at the upcoming Black Nucleus boss battle in the game. Once again, she reached out to Pardo for the controller!
"Sister Kiana! I can give you the controller, but you absolutely cannot smash it again, do you hear me?"
Pardofelis clutched the controller tightly, looking as if she were ready to jump off a ledge with it if Kiana didn't agree.
[Puffing up? Pardo is puffing up?]
[No, family, if anyone says this stream follows a script, I'll be the first to lose it!]
[Isn't this just a genuine revelation of feelings? Pure emotion!]
Kiana agreed to Pardo's request and finally took the controller under Pardo's worried gaze. Without another word, she took control of Valkyrie: White Comet and began a fierce battle against the darkened Bronya!
It had to be said that the sense of pressure from the darkened Black Nucleus was top-tier. Not only could she unleash fierce artillery fire from Project Bunny's cannons, but she could also use Project Bunny's heavy fists to smash the ground, triggering area-of-effect tremors!
Furthermore, Black Nucleus could throw flashbangs. If hit head-on, the Valkyrie would be stunned, followed by an explosion from grenades thrown by Black Nucleus! The darkened Bronya truly embodied the concept of utilizing one's advantages to the limit. She used black smoke to obscure her movements, continuously bombarding the Valkyrie from within the cover!
And once her health was reduced to a certain point, Bronya would teleport to the other side of the arena, raising her hand to summon countless energy cannons to conduct a saturation bombardment of the area before her!
[Holy crap! HOLY CRAP! This is too cool, isn't it?!]
[Is this the 'becoming three times stronger after darkening' trope??]
[This large-scale saturation bombardment truly brings the aesthetic of firepower to the limit!]
[Bronya using all those heavy weapons from Project Bunny is just too cool!]
The various attack patterns of the darkened Bronya truly shocked the audience. While large-scale saturation bombardments weren't entirely uncommon in other games, combined with Honkai Impact 3rd's intense BGM and Su Mu's meticulously optimized graphics, it undoubtedly raised the audio-visual experience to a whole new level!
Although Kiana's gaming talent didn't quite match Bronya's, when it came to her and Mei's battlesuit proficiency, she was second to none in the entire miHoYo company! She had asked Su Mu for the internal test version early on and practiced her skills relentlessly!
Against a mere Black Nucleus, Kiana knew exactly what she was going to do the moment she twitched! After maneuvering behind Black Nucleus to deal some damage, Kiana successfully broke her shield bar and unleashed a flurry of punches and kicks with White Comet!
"Hehe! Bronya, witness my greatness! Hahaha!!"
The way she acted really did look like she was venting her frustrations on Bronya...
[Shocking: miHoYo President beats the Vice President live on stream!]
[She's really beating the VP live!]
[Hey, don't leave out the keywords!]
After Black Nucleus recovered her shield and re-summoned Project Bunny, she plunged the entire space into pitch-black darkness! Black Nucleus instantly became a hunter in the night, lurking in the shadows and appearing like a phantom to deliver heavy strikes to the Valkyrie!
[Entering Phase 2?!]
[Is the Chapter 1 boss really this intense?]
[Can we play as Black Nucleus later? I want to play as Zhou Hei Ya right now!]
Although Bronya's move was full of pressure, Kiana had played the game beforehand. After some maneuvering, she took Bronya down.
"Useless, useless, useless! See that, Bronya? It's the hot-blooded combo of me and Mei!!" Before defeating Black Nucleus, Kiana made a big show of using Crimson Impulse's Ultimate.
[Classy!]
[So classy! Way too classy!]
Amidst a sea of "Classy" comments, Kiana felt a wave of refreshment—it felt so good!
Pardo finally managed to get the controller back from Kiana. According to the pre-arranged plan, after finishing Chapter 1, Pardo was to introduce the other general gameplay mechanics. The story after the first chapter would be left for the players to explore themselves; after all, spoiling everything at the start would be boring.
Daily missions, the Abyss, Memorial Arena, Co-op stages, and the Chronicles feature. As for the Open World, it was currently grayed out. By clearing specific stages and completing tasks, players could obtain rewards. This included materials needed to upgrade Valkyries and, most importantly, the gacha resource—Crystals.
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