The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Report... cough cough cough! The fire in the 31st area has been put out!"

"Take all your equipment and rush to the 38th area immediately... cough cough! The fire there is the biggest and has not been put out yet!"

A strange smell permeated the air, all kinds of burnt smells, oil smells, meaty smells... choking people to the point of being breathless.

The flames jumped out of thin air, and everything it touched, even stones and soil, started to burn. The cold water from the high-pressure water gun shot out, and after being thrown into the sea of ​​fire, it not only did not play the role it should have, but it was like adding fuel to the fire, making the flames jump more arrogantly.

Mikael saw it clearly. This fire was not a traditional flame. The heat energy it emitted did not come from the combustibles themselves, but was directly converted from the collapse energy, so it could skip the preconditions for the reaction to occur and directly give birth to the flames through molecular movement.

And this way of stimulating the flames was too familiar to Mikael, because this was the second power he really possessed -

the power of fire.

Obviously, the fire caused by the power of the Herrscher cannot be put out by a simple high-pressure water gun.

"Ying, I leave it to you, go help them."

Stepping on the scorched earth that was still emitting residual heat and almost melted the rubber soles, Mikael ordered without looking back.

Ying said nothing, and if the fox ears on her head had not shaken slightly, it would not even be clear when she nodded.

And when Ellie squinted and focused her eyes on her fox ears, she disappeared.

"Wow, Ying's speed has reached this level!"

Ellie touched her palms together and praised sincerely.

"Hehe, Alicia's face has become so round!"

Mikael replied straightforwardly.

"Hey! Hey! Mikael, why do you always use this kind of thing to attack others? I will be very sad!"

Mikael tilted his head, pulled the corner of his mouth, and resisted the urge to continue complaining-

Alicia is now more and more skilled in facing these ruthless revelations. It is almost impossible to see her as angry as she was when she was a child.

Since it is impossible to make the target of the complaint so angry that he jumps to his feet, the fun of complaining is directly reduced by more than half, and this is not the most uncomfortable thing.

The most uncomfortable thing is that not only has her defense increased, but she has also learned to counterattack:

"Ah... Really, the way you talk now is similar to Mobius... Although Mobius is also cute, he is still slightly inferior to you in the past! How about it, Mikael, do you want to learn to smile like a child, and I will take a picture of you?"

"First, Alicia, you have said more than once that I was not cute at all when I was a child, and I couldn't even smile."

"Oh, I was discovered... I don't care, I don't care, anyway, as long as it's Mikael, it's cute!"

"...Alas."

Mikael sighed softly:

"Second, let's do business now."

Without staying at the scene for too long, Mikael quickly found two Herrscher individuals who were killed by the local guards following the weak Honkai energy reaction, took away their cores, and then took Ai Li and Sakura who directly froze the fire to reunite and return to the base of the Fire Chaser Moth.

"How?" Seeing the return of several people, Mei also did not raise her head, and asked while doing the work at hand. Kevin stood beside her with Skyfire in both hands. On the one hand, it was naturally to prevent the previous assassination from happening again, and on the other hand, it could also use fire to drive away the chill in the middle of the night. "It can be confirmed." Mikael paused, and Mei's action also paused for a moment. What was confirmed? Mikael did not say, but both of them knew in their hearts - the Tenth Herrscher and the Thousand Herrscher were born as in the "script". Others naturally did not understand, so Mikael took out the two cores found at the Rhine riot scene, plus Carol's one, a total of three, and placed them on the table in a row. Seeing Kevin's nervous expression, Mikael knew what he was worried about, so he explained:

"Don't worry, Kevin, the core of the tenth Herrscher is different from the previous Herrscher cores. If you carefully feel the Honkai energy in it, you will find that its energy fluctuations are minimal and will not have any effect on Mei."

After hearing this, Kevin's expression relaxed a little, but then he tilted his head, blinked in confusion, pointed at the three cores and asked:

"No... that's not right, shouldn't these be the cores of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth Herrschers?"

"You reacted quickly, but it's a pity, it would be great if it was really like this... No, it can't be said to be good."

Mikael shook his head regretfully.

Kevin also reacted immediately. Whether it was Mei's calculation or the inscription left on the moon, it proved a fact-there are thirteen Herrschers in total, and there are twelve in total, excluding the last Herrscher of the End.

If these are the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth Herrschers, then they are too weak, even worse than the early Mikael who has not experienced metamorphosis and has a very low synchronization rate with the core.

If it is true, it means that the end is coming soon, which is both a good thing and a bad thing.

Just like students always look forward to the final exam, but when it really comes, they hate that the review time is too short.

So, unfortunately and fortunately, these are the core of the Tenth Ruler.

"It seems that you understand that from a logical point of view, the Herrscher should be getting stronger and more targeted, but it can never be getting weaker, let alone three in a row.

"From the perspective of power...we number these three cores as L10-001, L10-002, and L10-003 according to the time when the individual appeared. The power displayed by the individual they are in, the first one, is Carol has not shown any power. The second one is speculated to be the power of partial consciousness, and the third one is clearly the power of fire.

"Although there is no research evidence that the power of the Herrscher will not appear repeatedly, but there are two consecutive repeated powers and one that does not show power... Then we can only think that the power of the Tenth Herrscher can never be the above three. One of the species."

Things are getting more and more difficult. Even Mei, who has read the "script", has a lot of doubts in her heart. After all, the "script" is just the result, not the specific process. Naturally, it does not write about the real power of the Tenth Herrscher. , there is only one title of "dominance"...

But what exactly does it mean to dominate? Mei herself still didn't understand, but when she saw these cores, some inaccurate and unreliable guesses also came to her mind.

But Mikael winked and walked towards the cubicle without looking back.

Mei glanced at the pile of local documents in her hand that needed to be processed, and shook her head helplessly.

…

"Why did you come here just talking?"

The small cubicle suddenly became a little crowded after Mikael, Mei, Kevin, Ellie and Sakura stood there. Of course, it was mainly occupied by the table and Kevin's Skyfire.

"Could it be that you doubt..."

Mei's face quickly became serious.

In the past, everyone entered small cubicles when making decisions to prevent some "truths" from damaging the morale of ordinary soldiers.

But looking at Mikael's expression, and when Mei contacted her previous guesses and "scripts", it was obvious that things were not that simple, but...

"You guessed it right, Mei, we have a traitor... Ahem! No, it's inside the Fire Chaser. In addition to Carol, there should be other Tenth Herrscher individuals, and they are of different levels. will be low.”

"How to judge."

Mei asked more or less knowingly.

"I just infer that if these powers are obtained by each individual Tenth Herrscher from the moment they are born, wouldn't Honkai give them two kinds of powers? Although it is not said that one Herrscher only corresponds to one kind of power, But judging from previous samples, this is the case.”

Mikael's memory of the tenth collapse of the original civilization was already very thin, but he already remembered that there was an individual who was a high-ranking member of the Fire Chaser Moth.

But today's Fire Chasing Moth is completely different from the original Fire Chasing Moth. Whether the individual Herrscher is the same as before is still open to question.

But from the perspective of power, Mikael does not feel that the powers of other Herrsters displayed by these individuals are possessed from birth, except that this destroys the common sense of "one Herrscher corresponds to one power" , but also because...

In the tenth collapse of modern civilization, the Herrscher fully demonstrated how he could seize the power of other Herrschers.

As long as the opponent uses their power against them in the Domination Theater, their power will be taken away by them, except for the feathered Mei.

This process looks a bit like the time Mikael dealt with the Eighth Herrscher, but it is completely different in nature.

Mikael's method is to feel the power contained in the opponent's attack, analyze this power, and then reproduce it.

The Herrscher of Dominance uses a tug-of-war method to seize part of the power revealed during the attack and seize it by force.

To put it simply, assuming that the power is a file in the computer, Mikael's method is CTRL+C and then CTRL+V, so he gets two powers. His own use of the power does not affect the power in the core. This It’s about understanding and constructing.

The Herrscher of Domination forcibly dragged this document from the corresponding folder (core) to his own folder, and the total amount of power did not change. This is domination.

And considering that the power of the two civilizations is the same, the Tenth Herrscher that the Fire Chaser Moth is facing now must be the same -

Their power must come from the core of the Herrscher in the Key of God, but it is unknown whether it is because they do not have control of the theater, or because the Tenth Herrscher is unwilling to attract the attention of the Fire Chaser Moth prematurely, so the power they seize is In terms of quantity, it's not big.

So much so that even though an individual of the Tenth Herrscher demonstrated the power of fire, Kevin's Heavenly Fire Judgment did not have much impact.

"You mean...the way the Herrscher obtains these powers is through contact with the Key of God...no, to be precise, contact with the core of the Key of God?"

May quickly understood what Mikael meant.

"Kevin, give me the God Key."

Kevin quickly carried Tianhuo behind him, "Mei, calm down."

Although Mei has emphasized countless times that there is no problem with her adaptability to Honkai energy, neither Kevin nor anyone else dares to let her come into contact with the God Key.

I really don’t dare to gamble.

"Then...okay."

Mei took back her hand angrily and looked at Mikael, "Sorry to trouble you."

Before she could finish her words, the surrounding scenery changed in the blink of an eye, and everyone had appeared in Mei's exclusive laboratory.

Mei winked, and Kevin understood and handed the God Key to Prometheus.

Prometheus used a mechanical arm to transfer the Heavenly Fire Holy Seal, and finally put it into the Honkai energy input device, and then massive amounts of Honkai energy began to pour in.

After a while, a lot of ant-sized numbers popped up on the screen.

Mei immediately found the amount of Honkai energy input, and Prometheus understood it and had already enlarged this data and displayed it in the form of a percentage.

"Eighty-seven point eight percent..."

Taking into account some errors and the consumption of the God Key energy transmission, after the God Key is actually charged, the charging percentage should be between 95% and 99%.

But now it is 87.8%. Obviously, part of the power has been taken away, which affects the core's charging limit.

"That is to say, this... no, maybe there is more than one. In short, there must be an individual Tenth Herrscher in the Fire Chasing Moth who can access the Key of God. Hiss..."

From a certain point of view, the control of the God Key by the Fire Chaser Moth is not as good as that of ordinary firearms. This is because the God Key also has the data of synchronization rate——

Don't think that dead cores have no synchronization rate. In fact, different people will have different effects when using the Key of God. Taking the just-completed Ninth God's Key, the Law of the Star Sea, as an example, there are only three people in the entire Fire Chasing Moth who can maximize the power of this God's Key, the two Herrschers and Eden.

That’s why there is a rule that fusion warriors are allotted a God Key, find the most suitable God Key, and hone the synchronization rate in the long-term battle and life process, so the God Key is often carried casually .

But considering the power of a few carriers, if you want to snatch the God Key from their hands...

But despite this, it does not mean that others will not come into contact with the God Key.

For example, when conducting routine inspections and tests on the God Key.

Or it could be used for training of comrades who are also fusion warriors. After all, they may be faced with using other people's weapons on the battlefield.

And looking at it this way, the individual who grabbed the power from the God Key is either a person from the scientific research department or a fusion warrior...

"And that's not all."

Mikael added in a low voice:

"I have seen the scene of the riots in the Rhine, and I have also read the various records of the city hall. Regardless of the specific causes of the riots, one thing is very clear - the organizers behind it, regardless of the involvement of the Tenth Herrscher How much? They have one and only one target, and that is the Soul Steel Manufacturing Plant in the 31st to 38th Industrial Area of ​​the Ruhr District."

This is obvious. There are so many factories in the Ruhr area. The main thing that was destroyed in the end was the soul steel manufacturing factory, especially the warehouse where soul steel was stored. It was burned clean by the flames released by the power of fire - those soul steels. It was originally used to give Velvet the fourth and fifth divine keys that had been undecided for a long time.

So targeted…

Mei closed her eyes tiredly, and she once again understood the voice of Mikael's words for the first time:

"You want to say that the location of every soul steel factory in the world is information that only the Fire Chaser and the top leaders of the coalition government know. Even the mayor of the Rhine only knows that there is one arsenal in the Ruhr area that produces soul steel. Steel, he doesn’t know which one it is.”

"Yes, and I have used the power of consciousness to explore the consciousness of the Rhine Mayor. He is not an Herrscher individual, and he has not revealed the news about the Soul Steel Factory to anyone, not even the one he fears most... his wife."

Mikael shrugged. Once upon a time, using the power of the Herrscher or any other ability on a human was an insurmountable sacred taboo in his heart. He once called this a principle and regarded it as a proof that he was still a human. .

But I don’t know when this taboo started to be broken, so that it has become a commonplace behavior now.

"Then... maybe those violent... hungry people are related to the workers of the Soul Steel Factory?"

Kevin asked from the sidelines.

"Theoretically, this is indeed possible, but...even the workers in the soul steel factory don't know that what they produce is soul steel..."

Mikael pointed at Kevin with a speechless expression:

"Forget about those workers, Kevin, you have been exposed to soul steel weapons for four or five years, right? Have you seen what soul steel looks like when it leaves the factory?"

"Well……"

Of course Kevin doesn't know...

"They say it's steel, but it's just a metal plate or something, right?"

Mikael closed his eyes, grinned, and shook his head.

"The essence of soul steel is a nanorobot, so when it is used in weapons, it will have particularly rich morphological changes. This is clearly reflected in the Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment and the Seven Thunders of Purification. As nanorobots, they The initial appearance is actually like this.”

Mikael pinched out a special test tube, with half a tube of glazed liquid flowing in it.

"This is what soul steel looks like when it leaves the factory."

"This...then why is it called soul steel and not soul water?"

"Who knows, ask Mebius. Or maybe she considered the issue of confidentiality at that time? It is not new to name weapons that need to be kept secret with unrelated names, such as tanks. Of course, In terms of its application, Soul Steel deserves its name.”

"All right……"

Since even the workers themselves don’t know what is being produced, how can they possibly reveal it to the Tenth Herrscher?

Therefore, it has become uncontroversial that there is a mole.

"but……"

Mei pushed up her glasses and asked calmly:

"Mikael, if you are so sure, you probably know who this mole is, right?"

After hearing this, Mikael just lowered his eyelids and leaned silently against the wall of the laboratory.

Mei also sighed softly - another acquaintance, another old friend who has been with him for many years...

This is obvious. There are only a few people in the Fire Chasing Moth who know the location of the Soul Steel Factory. It would not be so embarrassing if those targeted are people from the coalition government.

But, who is it?

If you want to know the information about the Soul Steel Factory, your level must not be low.

Is it a mark? Or Erwin?

Or Cang Xuan? Danzhu? Blanca?

"It's Aldemir."

"ha?"

Even Mei couldn't help but tilt her head and hum in confusion.

Aldemir's level is actually about the same as Erwin, Cangxuan, and Danzhu. Their levels are just at the dividing line between knowing this information and maybe not.

The reason why she mainly suspected the latter three was because these three people worked in the intelligence department and were more likely to have access to information about the Soul Steel Factory.

Of course Mikael understood her doubts, and he immediately explained:

"If there hadn't been yesterday's riot, he would have led a team to Rhine tomorrow to escort the soul steel stored there."

"Is this so..."

Mei scratched her head. Although most of these tasks were arranged by herself, because there were too many facts to deal with, it was impossible for her to write down all the key information...

Of course, she didn't have much of an impression, or it could be that she directly asked Prometheus to arrange the candidates for this order.

"But... when did you start to suspect him? Last night? Is the evidence conclusive?"

Mikael's chest rose and fell rapidly twice. With a little force on his back, he pulled his body out of the wall and stood upright again.

His tone was silent, but without any emotion, as if he was saying something insignificant:

"The pair of goggles he brought from Luluye, because the elastic band had a limited lifespan, he was reluctant to wear them and always held them in his hands. But last night, he put them on his head."

Of course Mikael knew what that was about.

There are only two possibilities:

First, after exploring Aldemir's memory, the Herrscher's consciousness realized that the goggles were of great significance, so he specially wore them on his head as if he cherished them.

But this possibility is unlikely. Since the Herrscher looked at his memory, he would certainly see his behavior in the past few years. How could he act against his subconscious mind?

Or is the second possibility more likely:

Aldemir regained control of his body for a short period of time when he was replaced by Herrscher's consciousness or became its puppet. Then his last thought was to put the goggles on his head. He believed that such a small detail was unusual for Mikael. You can definitely catch it.

Moreover, since he possesses the power of consciousness and is a Herrscher himself, he will definitely be able to identify that he is a Herrscher without disturbing the Herrscher's consciousness.

This is his six-year friendship, his last trust in his comrades and friends.