The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"sand--"

Mikael raised his head slightly, and the first thing he saw was a familiar girl.

"Why are you back again?"

As soon as he said this, he saw the figures of Kevin, Alicia and Sakura emerging behind her.

He pursed his lips, and without any hesitation, he met her eyes, and each other's greetings naturally popped into their minds - "Hi! Long time no see!".

It's been a long time, think about it carefully, it's only been two days, but it seems like there are a lot of words stuffed in the chest, and it's not easy to spit out. This is the first time this feeling has happened between the two of them.

After all, for them, most of the time, their feelings for each other only needed to be conveyed through their eyes and movements.

But now, after that initial greeting, Mikael could not accurately read the meaning in her eyes, and vice versa - it turned out...it turned out that there were emotions between them that were so complicated that they had to resort to words. The words naturally didn’t come out of nowhere. How many words could be saved in two days? As far as Mikael is concerned, it must be because of some kind of insincerity, because of some worries about gains and losses that have accumulated over time.

Until this moment, it almost filled his entire chest and pressed heavily on his heart.

"The situation is not good now, so it's not the time to talk about this."

Mikael warned himself, so he carefully "moved" those words away, leaving a little room for his heart that almost stopped beating.

Unexpectedly, his heart suddenly beat strongly and rapidly, almost causing the words he had finally managed to sort out to blurt out.

Mikael could only bite his lips and remain silent.

But suddenly, his heart became calm and soothing, and the eagerness to talk gradually relaxed, just because she on the opposite side narrowed her eyes slightly and gave her a smile.

This time, Mikael easily read all the meanings of that smile, one of which was - "When this matter is settled, you have to tell me exactly what you wanted to say just now. ! Don’t miss a word!”

So Mikael also raised his lips.

"Ahem! Although your appearance makes me want to laugh inexplicably, I still want to remind you - now is not the time for romance."

Mikael's newly raised smile instantly turned into a twitch at the corner of his mouth.

Foreign consciousness invaded, and their [consciousness] and [instinct] differentiated again, so that the delicate balance that the body had just formed was broken, and then the body went berserk again - of course Mikael was early It was just what was expected...

"Okay, okay, Kevin, I hope I don't catch you staring at May and giggling next time we have a meeting."

"Ah-uh...Mikael you! No! When have I ever looked at Mei and smiled stupidly!"

"Tsk!"

The girl who looked like Xi'er shook her head, curled her lips and walked aside. She didn't know why, but seeing Mikael's mood return to normal, and even talking and laughing with Kevin, she felt very, very, very, extremely uncomfortable... No, she actually knew the reason.

"Okay, don't say much, I understand what Mebius means."

Mikael spread his hands. He didn't just stupidly fight the power that symbolized [Instinct] for a long time and a night. He certainly had enough time to sort out the strategies that Mebius and Aponia might adopt.

Maybe before Ellie, Kevin and Sakura appeared, he would still hesitate about which possible plan they chose, but when he saw this staffing arrangement, he immediately gave Mikael a sense of relief that the answer was revealed. .

"Kevin, Sakura, what she means is, use the Parvanti factor and Yaksha factor in your body to suppress mine, use Alicia's Great Freedom to suppress Vishnu and Shesha, and win a touch for me. Core opportunity, right?”

Before anyone else could say anything, he continued: "But I have a more complete plan."

Seeing Mikael arranging a new version of the battle plan, "Xie'er" couldn't help but walk further away.

She released her clenched hand that was covering her chest, and a blood-red color like the dust beneath her feet suddenly appeared on her snow-white skin.

Then, a new moon and a waning moon appeared separately, as if they were about to embrace each other, almost touching each other. However, the possible intersection seemed to have been cut by a knife, completely cut off, and even dragged out for a long time. Mark of.

She lowered her head, not knowing whether she was looking at the marks on her chest or the dead dust at her feet.

Her long bangs hung down, covering her eyes that were constantly changing colors.

In fact, what flows in those eyes is not just the colors, but also all the stories in the short life of "Xie'er".

"Really... what kind of brother, you haven't asked me a word until now... He can clearly guess Mebius's plan, he knows the existence of the stigmata... He really doesn't know what's stored in that necklace Something, or..."

Although she can easily obtain the story of what happened to Mikael, the story is only a result, and thinking is a process, at least a process that she cannot see yet.

Suddenly there was some difficulty in breathing. Although this was in the space of consciousness and there was no need to breathe, it was not a physical touch, but the spread of sadness gradually spreading in my heart.

She bit her lip tightly to prevent herself from making any sound.

He hoped that Mikael could know some truth, and she even wanted to tell Mikael the truth in person, but... considering her current way of existence, the joy that the truth brought would soon be replaced by a larger one. Covered by despair...so...so...

Suddenly, there was a warm touch on my shoulders, accompanied by a hint of heaviness.

She raised her head in shock, her eyes clearing instantly, and the traces on her chest dissipated unconsciously.

She knew that Mikael was standing behind her, but she was stubbornly unwilling to turn around. She was looking forward to what Mikael would say to her, but she was also afraid that this fool would say a bunch of things she didn't want to hear...

Time passed slowly in this contradictory psychology, until she raised her eyelids slightly, and saw that Mikael was half-kneeling in front of her at some point, gently pressing her shoulders and looking up at her.

"Well!"

She had not yet recovered from the previous conflict, and she instinctively retreated.

Normally, Mikael would probably let go for fear of hurting her, but this time he didn't.

"Xie'er."

He called out this familiar name again. In fact, upon closer inspection, this was just the second meeting between [her] and him, but...

"Xie'er, I don't know how you exist now, and I don't know why your character is so... hahaha, but I know that you are Xi'er, you are her, there is no doubt about it, right? ?”

In fact, even [Xier] itself cannot give a truly positive answer to this Ship of Theseus question.

But somehow, she nodded.

"Xie'er..." Michael paused, blinked, and seemed to have made up his mind, and then said: "I thought I would never have the chance to say these words, but now is the time."

He smiled softly.

Xi'er gritted her teeth lightly, but didn't she hate this kind of smile before? At this time, there was no anger at all, but a strange emotion began to fill his heart.

"First, Xi'er, as a brother--if you still agree with my identity...I'm sorry."

Xi'er sniffed and turned her head slightly.

"Secondly, Xi'er, as a warrior, I still have things to do, and... I need your help."

"Tch! Aren't you very powerful? Didn't you defeat the Seventh Herrscher by yourself?"

"Uh... The one who took down the Seventh Herrscher is the guy we're about to face!"

"snort!"

Mikael scratched his head, hesitated for a while, and a golden light flashed in his eyes——

"You! What are you... doing! Let go!"

Xie'er's fist hit Mikael's back twice, not lightly or hard.

Mikael held her legs. Although this posture was not good-looking, he did not use much force. If Xier wanted to break away, it would be easy to do so.

But she didn't.

"Then... once again as a brother, Xi'er, I hope to fight side by side with you and my sister, okay?"

"cut……"

"Xie'er?"

"..."

"Xie'er is so powerful, help me! Help me!"

"You! Okay, it's not impossible to help you, but... after it's over, I have to help... realize a wish."

As a result, in the vast yet narrow and closed mental space, blood red and blue light flashed simultaneously.

The light gradually solidified from fine light particles into a wave-like touch, and then enveloped everything...

"Moo——"

"Restrainer No. 1 damaged 37%!"

"Restrainer No. 8 damaged 61%!"

The giant straightened its neck and kept struggling to escape from the shackles given by humans, just like it once struggled under the shackles of the big snake, but this time, it had nothing to chew on.

On the projection screen in front of Mei, the restraints symbolizing the joints of the giant were lit up with orange-red light. The most severely damaged restraints on the right shoulder and left knee were lighting up with red light that was close to blood red. .

The giant, who was more than a kilometer tall, clearly failed to take a step, but the ground still shook violently - more violent than every aftershock he had experienced before!

The outer alloy of restraints No. 1 and No. 8 has undergone obvious deformation under the squeeze of the giant's force, with folding dents and bulging muscle outlines. Even the wedge nails that were originally deep enough to reach the bone were gradually squeezed out under the instigation of muscles.

"Vilvi, backup restraint plan!"

"Come on, come on!"

Dozens of helicopters that had been prepared in advance connected ten special steel cables as thick as a building in batches to the corresponding restrainers using the principle of magnetic attraction, and the other end was connected to the headquarters with a foundation three hundred meters underground. On the ruins of the base.

"Bang!", "Bang!"

In the two explosions, the alloy of the main parts of restraint devices No. 1 and No. 8 completely exploded, and the wedge pins flew to nowhere.

Naturally, the giant's right shoulder and left knee joints were also exposed and freed.

But when it tried to take steps, the steel cables that had just been urgently added acted to lock its limbs. Even though the joints could move freely, they could only swing slightly under the pull of the steel cables.

"call--"

Mei let out a long sigh of relief. It was expected from the beginning that mental invasion would destroy the balance of [consciousness] and [instinct] in the giant body, and the restraint device was born for this purpose.

Just these things have consumed almost all the existing resources of the Fire Chaser Moth, but this has just begun. Two of the twelve restrainers have already been lost. How long can the next ones be sustained? The steel cable only strengthens the restraining effect of the restrainer. When the restrainer itself is damaged, the steel cable fixed by magnetic attraction will no longer be able to play its original role.

"Restrainers No. 2 and No. 7 were severely squeezed, and the damage rate exceeded 50%!"

As soon as Prometheus finished speaking, the restraints corresponding to the left shoulder and right knee exploded with a bang. Now, the Herrscher could bend his legs and swing his arms.

"Kakaka-"

As it continues to pull, the remaining eight steel bars make explosive noises all the time, which makes people worry, how long can this last layer of insurance be able to stop it?

"Mebius..."

Mei turned her head and looked at the little girl who was only about ten years old.

"Once all the restraints are broken free, Velvet predicts that using the Second God's Key can trap the giant for 37 seconds. However, given that she had previously overestimated the strength of the restraints, in fact, can the Second God's Key win for us? Half a minute is also a question, so..."

"I know, I know!"

Mebius waved his hand tiredly, "At that time, it will be my turn to play, right! I won't die anyway."

She smiled self-deprecatingly. The midday sun hit her face, but it looked paler. How long could such power hold back the giant in front of her?

Mei was unsure, but Mebius was the only fusion warrior she had found who could still be put into actual combat, even though she was labeled as a scientific researcher.

"It seems that we still need to expand the team of fusion warriors. A small and sophisticated team is easier to control and can reduce casualties. The combat effectiveness of a single individual is sufficient in a sense... but its scale limits what it can execute at the same time. The number of tasks... No matter what, we have to survive this time... It's a race... I hope Kevin and the others can reach the finish line before we reach the limit."

Mei glanced at the three people lying on the cot behind her, as well as Aponya and Destobia, who were closing their eyes and lowering their heads to maintain neural contact...

Suddenly, the latter two opened their eyes at the same time.

"Contacted?"

"Um."

Aponia nodded slightly...

The vibration suddenly hit her, and before Mei could take a deep breath, a series of explosions came one after another.

"No way!"

The remaining eight restraints exploded almost at the same time, and the thick steel cables fell to the ground, raising a layer of soil higher than a person.

The giant covered his head and took a step forward aimlessly. Suddenly, with a burst of golden light, the space around it was cut off by a golden light curtain into a regular rectangle, like a big coffin.

"one two three……"

May, Mebius, and Prometheus were all counting down, but only Prometheus made a sound.

It can break through the restraint so easily, so the Second Divine Key... It seems that the thirty-seven seconds that Velvet said will definitely not be achieved, but it can be delayed for one more second...

"Pong!"

The barrier was shattered like glass, and the giant rushed forward savagely until it hit the border of the underground city dozens of kilometers away.

"boom!"

The arched armor plate that could withstand the weight of the entire earth was instantly knocked out of spider web-like cracks. The giant's movements stagnated slightly, and then its whole body began to twitch. It covered its head in pain, and hit the border with its forehead again and again. The armor plate was completely deformed and fell off, revealing the hard frozen soil layer behind it.

The giant punched, kicked, dug and gnawed at the frozen soil. Seeing that it had no effect, he raised his head and looked at the bright midday sun...

It suddenly began to jump, and the depth of the underground city was only just above its head. If it stretched out its hand to grab the edge of the soil, it would really be possible for it to flip out!

Of course, with its jumping ability, it is not difficult to jump out directly. It's just that no one's consciousness can stably grasp this body at this time. Its muscles are tangled and its fingers are twisted and intertwined. Its efforts to turn it out naturally ended in failure.

So it turned around again and stumbled toward Mei's temporary command post.

Although the distance was tens of kilometers, but considering its size, it was only a distance of more than ten steps. Mebius let out a "tsk" and silently walked to Mei.

Thick black liquid flowed from her wide sleeves and then condensed underneath her body.

"Wait a minute, Mebius, you-"

"In my current state, is there any other way besides being overweight and super-transformed?"

Mebius asked without looking back.

But there was not much time left for her. The giant had already rushed forward, but she had never been able to break through the layer of commandments set by Aponnia, and she had never been able to regain the main consciousness she had during the fifth collapse. A sinking feeling.

It suddenly became dark, and the giant's feet blocked the sky and stepped down from above her.

"Tsk! Do you have to die again?"

She didn't care about death, but none of the people lying in the tent behind her could escape!

"Why haven't these people recovered yet?"

Mebius wanted to shout these words out, but with strange noises, the Herrscher's feet actually stopped sinking.

"The collapse was successful?"

Mebius lowered his head and saw indeed his young and pale palms, as well as the sea of ​​pure white flowers that had bloomed under his feet for some time.

No, not her!

Then who else!

She turned around in confusion and saw that at the entrance of the tent that no one had noticed, the Sixth God's Key was emitting a pure white light. Under the guidance of this light, bunches of green vines suddenly covered it. The whole piece of scorched earth shot out from under the white flowers, first locking the giant's feet and ankles, and then quickly snaked upward along its calves.

Hips, waist, hands and shoulders, up to the neck.

"Why is the key to the sixth god..."

Mei naturally looked at Alicia, but she was still lying there, and the movement just now was obviously not her work.

"Who is that……"

"Of course it's me."

The familiar flirtatious tone, but of course it wasn’t Alicia, but...

"Mebius, give in, give in!"

Mikael held the weapon that was later named Black Abyss White Flower in his left hand, picked up the back collar of Mebius who was still in a daze with his right hand, and threw her into Mei's arms.

He gently covered his chest and muttered to himself: "Did you only regain so much power in that moment? It seems that the core is more disobedient than imagined... Fortunately, there is just enough to reshape the body, or I adjusted my tactics before, and...you help me, Xier."

"cut!"

The reverberated voice sounded in Mikael's ears, and even the place he covered with his hand felt slightly warm.

Even through the thin clothes, the outline of the stigmata can be seen.

"are you ready?"

he asked without looking back.

But this time the person asking the question was not Xi'er, but the three people standing behind him.

"Ha-yeah, I didn't expect that it's just one more step and it's so tiring."

As soon as Ellie's complaint fell, the giant let out a painful roar. Soon, amid a burst of flesh and blood tearing, the giant's body suddenly became grotesque. Finally, four vague masses of flesh and blood broke away from the torso and fell to the ground. In the flowerbed beneath it, amidst the sounds of flesh and blood squirming, it gradually took on the shape of a Honkai Beast.

They are all old acquaintances, Yaksha, Shesha, Parvati, Vishnu... but their sizes seem to have more than doubled compared to their original size.

That's right, the small change Mikael made in his tactics was that he hoped that Kevin and Sakura would not just help him suppress the factor corresponding to Honkaimon, but guide it and strip it out of this body. Shesha and Vishnu's genes were replaced by Mikael - this is why he had to borrow the power of the stigmata. He had not yet fully regained the power of the Herrscher, and it was impossible to accurately combine the original genes with Honkai Impact. The element of beast is distinguished, let alone glass.

"How should I put it? It's a good thing that I took this step. Otherwise, with my current strength, I would be unable to deal with the collapse beast that is the fusion of four Honkai beasts."

It is easier to gather them together and annihilate them, but it must be based on a sufficient appetite. If the snake swallows the elephant and bursts its belly, it is better to divide it and eat it honestly.

"According to the plan, Ai Li, you are responsible for Vishnu, Sakura, you deal with Yaksha, Kevin, tsk, Parvanti and Shesha are left to you! They are all old rivals, I guess it won't be difficult to deal with them if necessary. ”

After saying that, without waiting for the confused Kevin to refuse, he waved and stuffed a flaming red sword into his arms. Then when he turned around, he gently picked up Alicia with his fingertips. hair and winked at her.

Unfortunately, this is still not a good time to talk.

The golden light locked on five enemy targets, including the four figures of Mikael.

Then, they just disappeared.

"It's the power of space, Velvet, where did they go!"

Mei held Mebius in her arms. Although she was a little clumsy, she felt pretty good overall... Well, at least she didn't forget what she should do now.

"The Honkai energy reactions of four Honkai beasts and Alicia were detected in the plain a hundred kilometers to the south. But Mikael and the giant were not found. Wait a minute, I will look for the global records... and there is none. ”

"Does he want to solve it in the world... But that also means that he won't get any help from us."

"Oh, don't worry! If you ask me, you should worry more about your guy. Mikael... although he is indeed disappointing sometimes, he has never lost."