The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

Mikael sat down on the ground at some point. He knew that his other self was not lying.

In order to get a chance to meet Ellie, he personally destroyed tens of billions of human civilizations, even if there were other people he admired, was close to, and loved in this civilization.

All of these are real and inescapable sins.

Although he can also defend this - time in the entire universe has stood still, and no one knows that tens of billions of civilizations have been destroyed here.

But in the world, as long as something really happened, it will definitely leave traces.

Both the Final Crater and the Quantum Sea faithfully record all reincarnations... Moreover, even if no one really knows about it, does the sin that no one knows about not be a sin?

He could also argue that these were all crimes committed by another Mikael. He was already a new personality, a new Mikael, and these crimes had nothing to do with him.

But is it really so? As the other side of his personality, he was separated and became a unique individual in this era. In the longer time, during the tens of billions of reincarnations, he has always been a part of the original Mikael.

Even if such a paranoid plan was proposed and executed by the other side of the personality, that is, the current part of Mikael's personality, as his other half, did he really not participate in the decision? He must either acquiesce or secretly support...

No matter how he said it, he could not get rid of this part of the sin.

Thinking like this, the boundaries of himself gradually began to blur, and he could no longer tell which Mikael he was...it was even unclear whether he was Mikael.

Seeing his unacceptable look of decadence, Michael finally let out a contemptuous sneer:

"You have such a disgusting personality. I don't know how lucky you are. It was me who was wiped out by the rules of the world at that time...it was obviously you who was the main consciousness controlling this body at that time. It's really unreasonable. !

"If you let me come! If you let me become the Herrscher of Reason from the beginning... Oh, forget it, there is no use saying this anymore."

Seeing that Mikael was still indifferent, he reached out and clamped Mikael's arm, roughly pulled him up, and then knocked him down with a backhand punch:

"What happened during the seventh collapse, do you want to do it again? Waste!"

Until Mikael was knocked to the ground, his mind was still dizzy. What should I do now, what should I do here, all my wishes, all my dreams, all my obsessions become blurry at this moment.

"Waste! Waste! Waste! Waste! Waste!"

Finally, Mikael got on top of him and punched and kicked him in the face. He didn't know whether he was venting the resentment he had accumulated during his tens of billions and fifty thousand years of loneliness, or whether he was simply venting his hatred for himself. Dislike of the personality of the other half that you don’t like.

But is this really Mikael, the original Mikael?

No, not really. At this time, the person who inherited the authority of the original Mikael may just be the so-called Mikael No. 2. In this case, his resentment and disgust towards Mikael is not surprising.

"Snapped!"

After receiving an unknown number of punches, Mikael finally raised his hand and caught the other's own fist.

"Hmph! Why, are you awake now?"

Mikael had a swollen pig-headed face and opened his mouth in vain.

Just as the other man raised his fist again, preparing to make him more awake, Mikael finally spoke——

"So...what do we do next...so we can save Ellie and save the world?"

"Hmph! Finally..."

Mikael was pulled up again. After a sudden burst of anger, the other man's mental state seemed to be more stable, and at least he could patiently explain something to Mikael.

Of course, he also had to explain himself for what he called "the last step."

"It's very simple. Let me tell you clearly - the path you envisioned has no possibility of success at all!"

"What's the meaning……"

"If you want to save the world, you must sacrifice Alicia. Only if you want to save Alicia can you save the world."

Finally, he paused and continued before Mikael could ask a question:

"Actually, for me before this era, as long as I want, I can control Honkai. With Mei's intelligence, it is only a matter of time before I can make Honkai useful to mankind - but in this era, I It’s no longer possible, and you can’t get the true final power.”

"Why……"

As soon as Mikael said the words, he realized it belatedly.

"Because... uh! Humph..."

Finally, he suddenly raised his hand and slapped himself twice, with such force that Mikael's eyelids twitched - he slapped himself harder than Mikael.

But before he had time to think about the reason, he finally grabbed him by the collar, lifted him up, and roared hysterically at him:

"I said before... because of what? Because of what! Because Alicia! Siyuan is part of the cocoon of the end, and her body is part of the cocoon of the end! Only after she returns to the end, this Strength will be complete! And she... even if she doesn't want to, but due to the strong centripetal force between the origin and the end, she will definitely come back here and become a part of the end again - this is what she can't escape. Fate! Do you understand?”

"I……"

Mikael just said one word, and was interrupted rudely by Zhan Yan:

"If you want to be the End and save the world, you don't have to make any sacrifices at all. Because of you and me, as the End, you can't die even if you want to. The only person who really has to sacrifice is Alicia! "

"Then... what if... you choose to save Alicia?"

The smile on Zhongyan's face instantly brightened:

"Guess, why do you exist?"

Finally turning around, he opened his arms and raised his arms as if to embrace this hard-won victory:

"That's right! You were born from the beginning to replace Alicia and become a sacrifice to complete the power of the End! That's right! Aren't you and her the same? You are both half of the End— —She is the physical half of the cocoon of the end, and you are the personality half of the end!

"You are not qualified originally, but just as I planned, without knowing her own power at all, she used her power - yes, Siyuan's power is to connect with the heart of the end. The remaining powers of the Herrscher. She exerts her power on you, making you a container for the twelve powers of the Herrscher. Although the power of erosion has not yet arrived...but it is almost there.

"That's right, that's right, that's right, that's right! You are the brand new Cocoon of the End! As long as you use your body to make up for the part that the Origin took away, and then cut the thread of fate at the expense of your consciousness, I can regain complete final authority and then..."

Finally turning back, his face was filled with a happy smile:

"Then, I can create a world without collapse, but with Alicia in it. Then, as Mikael, as Endgame, I will be with her as the Origin forever, and live forever. Go down...

"And the price you need to pay for all this is just the dissipation of your personality and consciousness. Apart from you, no one knows what is happening here, and will not be affected by it. Alicia will not be sad because of us They are one body, and it is impossible for her to distinguish them clearly..."

Perhaps out of nervousness or excitement, Mikael began to swallow his saliva crazily.

But Zhongyan couldn't wait any longer. He rushed forward, held Mikael's shoulders, shook his body, and roared anxiously:

"You must be willing, right? You must be willing, right! Aren't you already prepared to sacrifice! Alicia is saved, and the world is saved! Isn't this the best of both worlds you have always imagined? ? What are you still hesitating about? Promise me quickly! Say you are willing!"

Mikael's body was swayed back and forth by him, but he remained unmoved and just lowered his head silently.

The memories of the past twelve years flashed through his mind like a flash. Compared with the memories that had crazily poured into his mind before, the memories of these twelve years were too short, too insignificant, and too weightless.

However, this is the most relaxing, happiest and best twelve years since the personality of "Mikael" was born in the Final Cocoon.

As long as he thought that from now on, he would lose everything he owned, and the beautiful memories of these twelve years would no longer have anything to do with him, but would be taken over by another self, he would tremble with fear.

His vision also blurred for a moment. He didn't want to be laughed at by his other self, so he could only quickly close his eyes and lock the tears welling up in his sour tear ducts in his eyes.

Although he had made up his mind to sacrifice before he came here, the longer time passed, the more he felt how cruel the so-called sacrifice was.

That's right, humans are inherently selfish animals, and only gods can be selfless. Whether it's the end in sight or himself, Mikael has never become a god, but is just an extremely selfish human being.

One person, out of his own selfishness, turned the entire human civilization over and over and destroyed it tens of billions of times.

The other one selfishly regards the memories of being with Alicia and Ying Jie in the past twelve years as his own, not as his property under the big concept of "Mikael".

It's just that...as a sacrifice, sacrifice is indeed difficult to accept and must be faced with fear.

But if the result of the sacrifice is acceptable... it is what I have been looking forward to...

With this thought, sacrifice becomes acceptable.

After all, sacrificing only him in exchange for everyone's happiness was the ending that he had been pursuing, but because it was too beautiful, he didn't even dare to think about it!

With your right hand, loosen and tighten, tighten and loosen again, and after repeating three times, squeeze tightly.

Mikael breathed a long sigh of relief, raised his head again, and met his other self's eyes——

"Okay, I'm willing, let's get started."

As the words fell, happy smiles appeared on the faces of the two Michaels at the same time.

Immediately afterwards, the imaginary number space where the two of them were located began to rapidly distort and disintegrate.

The originally vast sea of ​​​​stars disappeared in an instant, and fine cracks appeared in the space like a wall, and then peeled off in the blink of an eye.

Mikael felt his feet were empty, and before he could react, the soles of his feet stepped on soft gravel.

He lowered his head and saw a sea of ​​blood-red sand. When he raised his head, he saw a tree that was even taller and more leafy than he had ever seen before.

The tree of imaginary numbers exudes golden light, holy and bright. The arrival of the two Michaels, who are almost at the end of their lives, only brings a gust of wind, making its branches and leaves tremble slightly. So there was only the echo of "rustling" in the entire space.

But if you listen carefully, you can hear more voices in the whirling leaves - sometimes joyful laughter, sometimes sad cries, sometimes desperate silence, sometimes angry roars.

Each of these rapid flashes and insignificant sounds is proof that every insignificant life in the three thousand worlds has existed.

This is the real tree of imaginary numbers, the foundation of the three thousand worlds. Except for the quantum sea, no force can shake its rules, not even the end.

As for what Mikael saw after his first emergence, it was nothing more than an illusion created by his other self in order to ensure the success of his plan and encourage him to collect the power of the end bit by bit. At that time, he did not have the power of consciousness, so he was naturally unable to distinguish.

In fact, at that time, he was not even clear about the concepts between finality and imaginary numbers. He only thought that finality was the same as the tree of imaginary numbers, so naturally he would not feel abnormal - after all, the space where the two Herrschers performed inversely The collection must be pointing to the only imaginary singularity, the cocoon of the end.

But what's the point of worrying about this now?

Mikael just looked up at the tree of imaginary numbers. He was searching. He was trying to find the piece of the world he loved among the many branches and leaves, for no other reason than to be with it and with it before it dissipated. She said her last silent farewell to them.

Even though it was a one-sided farewell.

But he was disappointed. There are countless branches and leaves on the tree of imaginary numbers. Even if thousands of years are exhausted, there are only tens of millions of worlds that can be covered. For the so-called "Three Thousand Worlds", there are only How can you find the world you want to see in just a few breaths, just a drop in the ocean?

"I didn't expect... I would still have regrets at the end..."

Like him, another Mikael is also looking up at the Tree of Imaginary Numbers. During the endless reincarnations, this is the only thing that can accompany him eternally.

But looking at each other endlessly is just a beautiful fantasy after all. He is probably tired of the existence of this tree.

No...More than that, Mikael could feel the anger that he tried to cover up and suppress from his other self.

He should indeed be angry. If he was not restricted by the rules of the Tree of Imaginary Numbers, why would he painstakingly create another self to take away what he should have gotten?

If he were not limited by the rules of the Tree of Imaginary Numbers, he would not feel the despair that even though he was the ultimate, there were still too many impossible things to do.

But besides anger, there is also gratitude - after all, if there was no fight between the trees and the sea, perhaps there would be no so-called collapse. As an outsider, he will affect the world in another way, but... maybe there will be no Alicia.

"Why don't you start yet?"

Unusually, the person urging this time was Mikael.

Because he was convinced of his cowardice, the longer he delayed, the more he felt that he would regret it because he couldn't let go.

In the end, he did not answer, but walked to a section of the root of the Tree of Imaginary Numbers, leaned down, pushed aside the accumulated gravel, and picked up a branch that still emitted a faint light.

He held the branch tightly in his hand and squeezed it. As the imaginary energy surged, the branch began to grow rapidly into a spear. The two "Y"-shaped front-end twigs became sharp and rotated around the main axis countless times. Leave a winding pattern on the front end of the handle.

Just as Mikael was about to ask what he was doing, Zhanyan stretched out his index finger and pointed at him, and then his body floated uncontrollably.

Su Yan's index finger pointed at the Tree of Imaginary Numbers again, and then Mikael's body slowly but surely floated to the tree trunk like a building.

Su Yan's index finger shook, and Mikael's body turned over, his feet came together, and his arms opened on their own—

"It was like being crucified."

Mikael thought this in his heart, and saw Wan Yan's body floating up, and finally stopped one step away from him.

"ah!"

He stretched out his palm and pushed Mikael. The latter only felt pain in his limbs, as if he was nailed to the tree trunk like a crucifixion.

He finally let go of the hand holding the spear, but the gun was still floating in the air. When his palm pressed down on Mikael, the spear also aimed its front end at Mikael's eyes, and then slowly and firmly Lunge forward.

Out of biological instinct to fear the edge, Mikael trembled and closed his eyes.

But before the spear pierced his eyes, he quickly opened them again. Regardless of the pain, he forcibly broke away his right arm from the shackles of the unknown force, and tremblingly stretched his right arm to the other one. Own.

"Well?"

The tip of the spear almost touched Mikael's eyelashes, but paused at this moment.

Finally he closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

What he was about to kill was, after all, a part of himself.

He has controlled the life of this other self in front of him, clearly arranged it from birth to death, and will inherit everything he once had.

He felt neither guilt nor pity. Tens of billions and fifty thousand years had almost worn away all the softness in his heart. And the part that he regarded as a treasure, buried deep in his heart and not smoothed by time, was also given to the personality in front of him by him twelve years ago.

To this day, he no longer knows what guilt and pity are. The only meaning of his existence is to allow Alicia to survive.

Today, let alone letting another self die in her place, even if it was himself that disappeared, he would not hesitate at all.

But... as the same yet different individual, he could feel the pain, unwillingness, fear, and of course determination and relief in Mikael's heart.

Therefore, he finally decided to stop here for a moment:

"Soon... it will be over. Don't worry, there will be no pain."

When he finally opened his eyes again, he had to control the spear made of imaginary branches to complete the last step.

But he caught Mikael's eyes.

The gaze in those eyes was not directed at him, but behind him.

The hand was not reaching towards him, but behind him.

After tens of billions of reincarnations and tens of billions of fifty thousand years of waiting, he finally heard the dreamed-of voice, which also came from behind him——

"You! Give Mikael back to me!!!"