The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Oh?"

Wei Weiwei noticed Hua's gaze and smiled generously:

"It seems that he thinks you are qualified to get the key, right?"

Hua shook her head and nodded.

She felt that things were not that simple. The paleness and powerlessness of language has always been the principle that Mikael adheres to. He should not hope to use a so-called epiphany to measure Hua's growth.

Rather than thinking that Mikael told her something through Hua's past, it is better to say that he confirmed something through what he just did.

As for the so-called key, perhaps he had confirmed that she was qualified to carry it long before that - if I guessed correctly, it should be the shallow hug not long ago, when he said to her:

"Welcome to the World Snake."

What exactly is the World Snake? He never mentioned it to Hua again, as if it was just a flash of inspiration in his mind, or it was a word that only meant something to him. He had to use this word, and he had to use the behavior of personally confirming this word, before he could make a certain determination in his heart.

This included dividing a small part of his consciousness and attaching it to her, and also confirming that she was qualified to release the power of Garuda.

Or perhaps, all the stories that happened on P-21 today were already fixed in his mind at that time.

As for Hua, as the owner of the power of Garuda, apart from super memory and extremely strong self-healing ability, he did not find anything special, but Mikael believed that this was a power that could be released and gave her the key - such prophetic behavior was no longer surprising in Hua's eyes.

Therefore, for Wei Wei's knowing question, she did not give more explanation, but just nodded slightly and said hum.

"Tsk, he really has an incredible confidence in you... It was agreed in advance that the thing he was going to give you next, in some ways, was completely different from the key. Of course, that guy only made requests and didn't tell me what this thing was for you...

"At this point, both Mei and I can probably guess the direction of the story he arranged, but I think, as the maker of the [Key], I need to remind you - as a weapon, it does not have the huge destructive power of the previous God's Key. Considering the state of the Herrscher it corresponds to, it is more like an early experimental model of a mass-produced product.

"So, if you really want to use this thing to fight the Herrscher, I advise you to think about it carefully. Alas... In fact, if you ask me, it would be more reliable to let you wear the Blank Key directly, but it is understandable that the strongest is often not the most suitable..."

Hua didn't care about Wei Wei's nagging, even though the amount of information she revealed was as large as ever.

But she thought she was not a person who would dig deep into the matter. If she really wanted to know the truth of everything, she might as well muster up the courage to ask Mikael directly after the matter was over.

Besides... it was too late.

She knew the physical condition of Captain Himiko very well. After fighting for so long, she should be almost at her limit...

She took the briefcase from Weierwei without hesitation. It seemed that out of some intuition, she chose the longer one from the two briefcases at the beginning. According to Weierwei, it should be the Key of God.

Hua had come into contact with other Keys of God more than once during training. The weight of the briefcase was much lighter than expected. It was completely incomparable to the Holy Judge of Heavenly Fire and the White Flower of Black Abyss. Of course, it can be seen from the size alone that the latter two were heavy as soon as they were picked up, as if reminding the holders of how heavy the weapons in their hands had been.

But the first feeling Hua had about this one was not heavy at all, but a resonance from deep in the body, or a desire to own it.

Although they were separated by a box, Hua could feel a dull tingling sensation in her body as soon as they touched, as if something was about to break out of every cell of her body - it was very similar to the pain when she grew bones when she was a child, except that this pain was radiated from the bone cells to the whole body.

She pursed her lips into a straight line and opened the box without hesitation. There were two objects quietly stored inside -

One was the familiar serum.

The other... was a yellow-orange long sword that looked like bronze at first glance.

"This is..."

"Key of Domination - how about it! Are you conquered by this genius design? In order to match your origin, I specifically referred to the ancient sword style of Shenzhou!

"Also, although it looks like an ordinary long sword, I introduced the lottery system PLUS version derived from the third god key! It can transform into various weapons that fit the user according to the needs of the user. Of course, it can return to its original form when necessary..."

"No, Wei Wei..."

Hua interrupted her explanation:

"I mean, this core..."

"Ah? Oh? This, yes, is what you think. The core of this God's Key comes from the first discovered Tenth Herrscher individual, numbered L10-001, or the name you are more familiar with - Carol. Of course, from a strict point of view, this name cannot be used, after all, it is her body plus the consciousness of the Herrscher..." Hua gently touched the dark red gem embedded in the sword guard with his fingertips, and in his mind, the whirring sound sounded through the sticky and cold water curtain -

"Hey! Look at that girl over there, she's well-dressed - tacky - oh!"

The memory did not pour out like opening a floodgate, but only gently opened a corner, allowing Hua to confirm the source of the core.

Her vision suddenly blurred, and she slowly grasped the so-called key of control and placed it across her knees, but the tears in her eyes were already saturated, so she had no choice but to turn her head and look at the still burning dark Hai, it seems that as long as tears are not left in front of others, they are not considered crying.

But she remembered what Mikael said——

"Don't suppress your longing, obsession, regret, and unwillingness to the past, because it is a part of you. Others can't take it away, and you can't erase it.

"A person's true attitude toward the past is neither indulgence nor farewell, but an embrace."

Does he think the same thing every time he holds the white flower of the black abyss?

Then... give it a gentle hug and let it be the motivation to keep going and keep fighting.

After thinking this way, the soreness in his eyes stopped, and the world in his eyes gradually became clearer.

The hot wind caressed the exit she opened with her own hands - perhaps this wind also caressed the emerald green grasslands of Bohemia, the white snow of Siberia, the yellow and dim sea at the foot of Tianshan Mountain, and the foot of Taixu Mountain. The black and purple wasteland was finally able to lift the hair on her forehead.

She was glad that she could still think like this.

Suddenly there was a small black object flying quickly in the field of vision, like a bird, but how could a bird survive in such an environment?

Perhaps, it was someone's soul that was carried to the end of the world by the wind that lifted the hair on her forehead.

She stretched out her hand, lightly stroked the sword, and finally grasped the hilt tightly.

When she turned around, she saw the surprised looks of Mei and Velvet.

Before he had time to think about it, an unprecedented force surged out of his body in an instant, as smoothly as a dam releasing floods that had accumulated for many years, and spread out for thousands of miles, out of control.

Finally, she lowered her head slightly. The ancients in China once polished bronze and used it as a mirror. Now she is doing the same thing.

The face of a girl with white hair and red eyes was reflected on the engraved sword. She didn't know if it was an illusion. She looked at her reflection on the sword and inexplicably thought of the feather she had just grasped and then disappeared.

"Is this...how I collapsed?"

As the [most qualified] experimental subject in the hands of Mebius, she would certainly not miss the operation to give her the ability to artificially collapse, but just like most of the experiments she underwent, this operation did not seem to bring any changes.

There is no doubt that artificial collapse, sacrificing human posture and even part of sanity in exchange for more powerful combat power, conflicts with Shenyin. Before that, Shenyin had been tightly confining this power. Therefore, for other fusion warriors, they needed to work hard to suppress the urge to fall into a collapse state. This had never happened to Yu Hua.

But today, with the intervention and pull of another external force, the shackles imposed by Shenyin were briefly broken——

In addition to the changes in hair color and pupils, flames began to dance on her body, and there was a tingling sensation in her neck. She straightened her neck, and the overly active Honkaimon factor overflowed from under the skin of her left neck, like a Beads of blood dripped onto her face, and they didn't stop until the left side of her face was covered.

The changes didn't stop there. Her shoulder blades on both sides were slightly sore, as if something was about to come out of them. Reminiscent of Garuda's appearance, there was no doubt that it was a pair of wings.

At this moment, a strange syllable sounded in her mind. It seemed to have no meaning, but it seemed to be all-encompassing - the divine voice. After this sound sounded, Hua's shape gradually became fixed, and her body did not continue to move toward the inhuman. The posture changed, and the wings on his back no longer appeared.

The voice did not stop when it was over, but continued to ring in his mind. It seemed to be telling something, but the anxious Hua had no intention of calming down to distinguish it.

Because of this, she was not aware of a problem - the effects of the serum, as you could tell just by looking at Velvet's condition, would not be eliminated so quickly. And the core of the sword in her hand is only one thousandth of the power of the Tenth Herrscher. How can it draw out enough energy to cause her to collapse?

Hua looked at the key of control in her hand again. As she collapsed, the seemingly light sword also trembled and was reshaped in the flames.

Suddenly, with a heavy blow in her hand, the Key of Dominance changed its form, wrapping her hands in the form of a pair of not bulky, extremely close-fitting gloves.

It was as if - as if the key to dominance had tasted every drop of sweat she had spent on boxing for more than ten years.

Of course, an extremely weird thought came to mind:

"That's great... Mikael's first weapon seems to be a glove..."

She turned her head away, but this time it was not to hide her tears. Her eyes glanced at her shoulders. It was impossible for the wings to appear, but the flame could still become her wings.

She grabbed the tube of serum, and the flames gathered behind her, forming a pair of lifelike wings, and then——

Soar.

Mei closed her eyes, and with her wisdom, she had already deduced the whole story.

Therefore, she just snorted lightly and dropped a brief announcement:

"I won."

…………

"cut!"

Himihu turned her body, and countless pairs of dark hands crossed her side, twisting as if they had no bones, as if to hug her.

"Trouble! Ugh!"

Accompanied by a painful groan, the monstrous flames rose again. The thick, edgeless sword drew a perfect arc with the force of the waist, cutting off the flesh that was purely pieced together by the power of death. Burned down.

"You look really ugly..."

Himiko gasped for breath, the integrated body of the Tenth Herrscher in front of her, no, to be precise...

It is more like a huge mass of flesh polymer. Since the power of death is too small, it is obviously impossible for the Tenth Herrscher to accurately control and integrate cells.

So it can only piece together various living individuals and dead stumps centripetally. What emerges is like a huge meat ball, covered with living and dead heads, and limbs flying in the wind everywhere. .

A handful of them were the parts that Himihu had just cut off, and they were pulled back by their power, just like the wooden stakes in the forest that were chopped off by their roots.

Of course, this description is a bit too simple. From Himihu's perspective, even though she has seen countless bloody scenes in her more than ten years of fighting career, she still has a desire to vomit at this moment.

In particular, this desire to vomit overlapped with the desire to vomit caused by lack of oxygen, making her feel her stomach churning all the time.

Just as the Tenth Herrscher's attack had no effect, her counterattack seemed to have the same effect. Under the influence of the power of death, those severed limbs were restored to their original state in less than a second.

"Tch, I thought... I could... rest a little longer."

Himihu felt that his body was getting heavier. Regardless of the weakness of his limbs, it was his brain that was fatal.

Her vision was dim and black, and she quickly shook her head twice, but instead of waking her up, it made her grit her teeth in pain——

The brain seemed to be disconnected from the skull. As her head shook, she could feel the brain matter churning between the skull bones like real paste.

"Hehehe...hahahahaha! It seems that this is the end of it for you."

The Herrscher also seemed to feel the urgency of time, even though it knew that the woman in front of it had truly reached the end of its strength, and perhaps it only needed one more probing attack like that just now to make her collapse from exhaustion, but...

After all, it’s better to be on the safe side.

As a result, more than 700 heads opened their mouths and let out dizzying and uniform wails. This did not have much impact on Himihu who was protected by Mikael's power of consciousness, but this was just a start.

Then, in front of the Tenth Herrscher, the space began to twist into a purple as thick as night. Accompanied by bursts of thunder, the blue wind roared up, sending an icy chill, but correspondingly, there was a burning... The flames in the entire sea area did not subside with the strong wind and severe cold. Instead, the fire increased even more, but...

Although it cannot be said that she is completely out of Himihu's control, after all, the power of fire that the two mastered at this time is incomparable, but it ultimately caused certain obstacles to her control of flames.

Can you avoid it?

This was Himiko's undisputed first reaction. No one wanted to face this blow that combined almost all the powers of the Herrscher up to this point, but it was a pity, let alone whether he could dodge it. After dodging, P- What to do with 21? What to do with Dr. Mei, Weiwei, Hua and Aponya behind them?

Besides, Himihu soon ran out of options——

Under the dual effects of the power of air and the power of rock, the entire surface of P-21 rocks and soil converged toward the space collapse point in front of Herrscher, and Himiko could only insert nearly half of Shirter's sword under his feet. , and barely resisted the fate of being sucked away and crushed.

"Is there no way to retreat?"

She turned her head, and her long fiery red hair fell loose and flew uncontrollably, like flickering tongues of fire.

She closed her eyes, and the feather still lingered in her mind without saying a word.

"Sigh...Mikael, this time, I was fooled by you quite badly."

Himihu knew that her complaints could be heard by Michael thousands of miles away. But is that really a complaint?

There was no trace of blame in her words. If anything, it would be a sense of relief to let go of everything.

She touched her cheek, and the purple lines climbed up the right side of her face, almost touching her right eye. Even if the Tenth Herrscher died suddenly at this time, she probably wouldn't be able to wait for the moment of treatment...

"Then let me show you..."

Her voice was word by word, because every time she uttered a syllable, the fire around her would increase by one point. Correspondingly, the purple lines on her body would also increase by one point, and the pain she endured would also increase by one point... …

"A warrior's final blow—"

A crimson light lit up in her eyes, and at this moment she drained all the Honkai energy remaining in half of the core of the Seventh Herrscher. As soon as Shirter pulled it out from the ground, flames started to flow along the sword body. Roll it up to a length of hundreds of meters.

"Shilter, help me one more time..."

She allowed her body to be captured and pulled by the space collapse point, and followed this force to raise the hundreds of meters long flame sword high above her head...

"team leader……"

"Well?"

A hand covered her shoulder and pushed her back to the ground. Then, the owner of the voice hugged her from behind and pulled out half of the Herrscher's core from the blank key. Then Shilt The flames on you instantly turned into fire rain and scattered.

"Leave the rest to me."

"Are you...Hua?"

As soon as Himihu finished speaking, he felt a tingling sensation in his neck. Then, deep fatigue spread throughout his body, and he no longer had the strength to even move his fingers——

She knew the feeling well, it was the serum.

"Hua, you..."

"I said, leave it to me."

Hua's tone was obviously very gentle, but it also carried an unquestionable meaning.

Of course, after being injected with a dose of serum, Himihu had no room to struggle.

"You have destroyed your own teammates, you humans are so pretentious!"

The Herrscher mocked, and then, a huge earth ball with a diameter of a thousand meters, gathered by the space collapse point, was raised high, as if a pair of invisible hands raised it to the back of the head, and then slammed it down in front of the face.

"call……"

Hua let out a sigh of relief, and even laid down Himiko's body flat on the ground in an orderly manner.

It was obviously the first time that she faced a Herrscher-level blow alone, but there didn't seem to be any special fluctuations in her heart.

"Why must there be any special psychological fluctuations? You can ask Sister Eden. Many young actors tend to assume a very standard emotional change when they encounter major events, but this is wrong. .

"Most people have no psychological fluctuations at all when facing one thing. They experience things that are very important in the future with an empty mind or a normal state of mind - Prometheus stealing fire Can you really realize the punishment you are about to face and the changes that humans are about to undergo?"

Mikael's words were even replaying in her mind.

When she turned her head, the huge earth ball was less than a hundred meters away from the ground.

How long does it take for an object to free fall from 100 meters?

It only takes 4.5 seconds, not to mention that it is not in free fall.

And this time was only enough for Hua to close her blood-red eyes, clench her right hand into a fist, and tighten it on her psoas muscle as she had done countless times.

then……

"Cun Jin·Open the Sky!"

This formula has been repeated at least ten thousand times in the past ten years, but today, there is something a little different.

When she used her extremely small body to press her fist against the plummeting earth ball with relatively limp strength, an unprecedented amount of energy rose up from her body, turning the snow-white tips with bright red hair. The silk is lifted up and floating in the sky.

Time seemed to swallow up this moment, until the blazing flames spurted out from the other side of the earth ball, shot into the sky, and rained down sparks all over the sky. Then, branches of this flame stream also poured out from other parts of the earth ball. The earth ball with a diameter of over a thousand and covering the sky was easily disintegrated.

"How can this be!"

More than 700 mouths were wailing together. The Herrscher certainly knew the girl in front of her, but she never expected that this girl with no sense of existence and no achievements would become the biggest variable at this moment.

"It's just a poor imitation of God by humans. Why...why!"

Thousands of hands and feet rushed toward Hua. She quickly leaned down and easily picked up Himihu, who was much taller than her. When she looked up again, those scary hands and feet were already in front of her.

"Girl, you are a girl after all. Naturally, you cannot open and close your body like your senior brothers. You should be as light as a fly whisk."

Her father's instructions rang in her ears, everything seemed so familiar...

"I understand, this is the whisk step."

She tapped her toes, as if a whisk was really sweeping across the table. The dense tentacles brushed past her side and shot far away due to inertia, unable to return for a while.

"It's now!"

Instead of retreating, she advanced. The wings condensed by flames spread out again, and she rushed to the Herrscher with a gentle wave.

There was still fear in the Herrscher's countless eyes, and his vision was filled with a fiery red light.

Behind Herrscher, Hua held Himihu in one hand and held the key of control made of Carol's core in the other hand, holding a sword flower in his hand.

Behind her head, the Herrscher's huge body had been split into two.

"Wait a minute, Hua, the Lawyer...the power of death..."

Himihu lay next to her ear, weakly reminding her.

Hua's pupils shrank and he turned around quickly. Sure enough, Herrscher's body had begun to heal again.

"It's okay...this way...just delay..."

But can everything really go as Himiko wishes?

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha……"

The lawyer's laughter was a little loud and a little lonely.

"I really didn't expect that things would come to this point...but do you really think you can buy time with me?"

"What's the meaning?"

Hua pursed her lips tightly and frowned slightly.

"Hahahaha, thank you to the First Herrscher. Although he is a traitor, at least... he left behind the means to die together!"

Hua didn't know what it was going to do, but she could feel... No, maybe she didn't need to feel it anymore. As far as her eyes could see, the Honkai energy in the entire world was converging towards Herrscher, forming a huge one in the sky. swirl.

She didn't know, but Himihu had completely experienced the third collapse——

"Not good! It's trying to imitate Mikael's self-destruction core like he did during the third...collapse..."

"How did the Third Herrscher respond?"

"Take out the core..."

Hua's breath paused. Unless he was also a Herrscher, how could he sense the other person's core and separate it from the Herrscher himself?

Even if the location can be sensed, this method obviously does not apply to the Tenth Herrscher - there are nearly 800 Herrscher individuals and nearly 800 cores in front of him!

Even if you can take out dozens of them in a short period of time, it will not help.

what to do?

what to do?

what to do?

She had no confidence that she could survive such an explosion. But it doesn't matter. If she can't find a solution at this time, she won't be able to protect Himihu, Mei and Velvet.

Even an explosion of this magnitude may be able to cut off the connection between the deepest place and the intrinsic world!

Hua trembled and took a deep breath of smoke full of burnt smell.

Could it be that even if you gain the power you dream of, even if you can easily defeat the Herrscher, you still can't protect anything?

"call……"

She exhaled slowly, and her hyperamnesia almost allowed her to read through all her memories of more than ten years in one breath.

It also allowed her to discover something that had been overlooked before - the influence of the serum had not been eliminated, and the Honkai energy in the Key of Dominance was equally insignificant in front of the Herrscher.

Moreover, Mikael also said that the Key of Domination is just a [key].

When the key opens the door lock, the door remains closed, and external force is required to rotate the door handle and push the door open.

She didn't do this on her own, Hua knew that very well.

Then, there is only one answer.

"Mikael..."

Hua silently recited his name in her heart, and then, in her heart, the feather that had been floating once again transformed into the appearance of the person she wanted to see.

Although they had just met in the same place a few minutes ago, Hua felt as if they were a lifetime apart. She tilted her cheek to the left, pretending to straighten the braids hanging down from her temples, and also covered the marks left on her face.

But with the blessing of Garuda's collapsed state, she finally felt the difference in the "Mikael" in front of her.

"No, you are not him... No, you are not just a part of his consciousness."

"Um."

The man's answer was crisp and clear, or it could be said that he had been waiting here for a long time as a last resort.

"The Key of Domination is just a key, but you, Hua, you still lack a weapon."

He stretched out his hand towards the girl, and the feather he held in his hand gradually changed into the shape of a lotus, but when he handed it to Hua, it turned into a feather again.

The roots of the feathers were blood red, gradually turning into snow white, exactly the same color as the girl's hair at this time.

"The key to the eighth god, Yu Duchen."

Hua reached out to take it, but Mikael retracted his hand at this time.

"If you want to solve your predicament at this time, you have two options. The choice is in your hands - my body can phase shuttle over to solve this trouble. As for the restraint barrier, the surrounding cities have not been evacuated yet. Keep it safe. It is estimated that 1.2 million people will be trapped in the barrier, but I think that 1.2 million lives are worth it for you, the captain, Velvet, Mei and the deepest place."

Hua raised his eyebrows and opened his mouth in vain, as if he was meeting Mikael for the first time.

"I...I...tell me the second option."

"Yu Duchen, the first rated power."

"Give me."

she says.

Mikael shook his head. In the consciousness space, the flow of time was extremely slow, so he had enough time and absolute necessity to let Hua make a decision.

Although, he knew what that decision was from the beginning.

"Aren't you asking about the side effects?"

Hua sniffed her nose, pushed her lower lip upward, and then stared at Mikael stubbornly with blood-red eyes.

"Yu Duchen's first rated power can release an unstoppable blow, not only in a practical sense, but also in a spiritual sense. When the Herrscher's spirit is killed, he naturally does not have the ability to guide the core to collapse and self-destruct. The ability...but the price is that it requires burning memory."

"Burn...memory?"

Suddenly, the person in front of her no longer looked like Mikael, but... exactly the same as herself.

"Are you really going to do this? Burn memories?"

Hua bit her lower lip lightly, "I want to do this."

"You will forget what you are trying to protect today, is that okay?"

"It doesn't matter." - As long as I really protect them.

"Don't you care that you forget the reason you finally understood and fought for?"

"I don't care." - Since I can understand the first time, I can understand the second time.

"You will even forget [yourself], everything you lost and everything you gained before... Doesn't it matter?"

"...It doesn't matter."

This time, Hua paused for ten breaths before giving the answer.

"You hesitated. Can you even accept losing all the memories of you and him?"

"..."

After a long silence, there were dry and pale words:

"I can accept it." - As long as he is still with me, our connection will not be severed.

The other woman shook her head to herself, "You still don't understand what your choice at this moment actually means. But before that..."

In reality, Hua still closed her eyes tightly, and a feather suddenly appeared in her hand.

All the voices in her head, whether they were Mikael's or the other one's, disappeared.

She felt like a fire was burning in front of her, like something was burning.

Can dreams become transparent if all memories are burned away?

This question disappeared as soon as it surfaced.

then……

Her father's smile, her father's voice, the touch of her father's hands rubbing the top of her head...

Carol's noise, the coolness and sweetness of the ice cream, and the feeling of two intertwined hands...

Also, the figure that was always following him, unable to lend a helping hand when he was in trouble, unable to follow him when he moved forward resolutely...

Everything in the past has gone with the smoke rising from the flames.

All that remained in her heart was an endless blankness.

But so what?

For the first time in more than a decade, she clearly knew what she wanted to do—even if it was just for a moment.

"All kinds of things in the past..."

"Pay it forward with this sword!"