The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

Hearing that familiar yet unfamiliar voice, he finally trembled and his body froze in place.

At a loss, he accelerated the spear thrust forward, but the spear tip did not move forward anymore——

Mikael's left hand also broke free from his shackles. He grasped the two small branches at the front of the golden spear with both hands. To a certain extent, his power was more complete than that of the final one. The spear was pushed back!

"You should... just die...ah!"

Finally, he trembled and lowered his neck, looking in disbelief at the pink arrow that shot out of his heart.

"Why... why..."

He suddenly looked back, and the figure he had waited for tens of billions of reincarnations grew bigger and bigger in his pupils.

Somehow, he suddenly felt like laughing——

"This is the closest you and I have ever been in tens of billions and fifty thousand years..."

"boom!"

What greeted him was a hard and cold fist.

In the end, he turned into a stream of light and crashed into the red sand sea in the distance. Losing the restraint of his power, the golden spear and Mikael also fell from the air.

His whole body felt the unique feeling of weakness after walking on the edge of life and death. His vision was sometimes dizzy and sometimes bloodshot. He could not even control his falling body, but out of instinct, he still did not let go of the hand holding the spear. .

Suddenly, he felt himself falling into a soft embrace. He tried to raise his eyelids, but to his amazement, he found that he had been held in Ai Li's arms.

"Hey...can you...change your position?"

Ellie bit her lip and ignored him.

She constructed several crystal stairs in mid-air and continued to release her strength, returning to the ground in the blink of an eye.

The soaring adrenaline gradually stabilized, and Mikael regained some strength, and immediately jumped out of Ellie's arms, holding the handle of the spear with both hands, and stood firm in the sea of ​​red sand.

Only then did he ask, half surprised and half guilty:

"Ellie...why are you here?"

Ellie's lower lip wrinkled upwards. After a while, she opened her lips, took a deep breath, and then silently raised her hand.

Mikael automatically tilted his head, obediently preparing to face the coming storm, but in the end, Ellie's cold hand only lightly touched his cheek.

Then, the other hand reached out, held his face, and turned his eyes back to the front, so the two people's eyes met at this moment...

"Fool!"

Ellie cursed softly, shrugging her shoulders.

Through his blurred vision, Mikael seemed to see the flickering light in Ellie's eyes.

Then, before he was mentally prepared, Ellie threw herself into her arms.

Her voice was muffled:

"If you leave me alone, won't I take the next bus to catch up?"

"Ellie..."

Mikael didn't know what to say or what to say at this time, so he could only keep stroking Ellie's fluffy long hair.

"Never...never do this again, Mikael...I will...I will be angry!"

Mikael's body stiffened, and then he asked angrily:

"You still have the nerve to say that I...you..."

"Pfft!"

When talking about this, Ai Li almost burst into tears and laughed.

Also, the two of them were "intriguing" just to get an opportunity to sacrifice themselves to help the other person, but neither of them ever considered whether the other person was willing to accept such a sacrifice.

The most ironic thing is that in the end, the two of them still stood here side by side, exactly the same as they did twelve years ago.

"Tsk!"

Mikael smacked his lips in disgust:

"Alicia! You got snot on my clothes!"

"You! You spit on others!"

After recovering from the initial excitement, Mikael's smile gradually became forced - now that Ellie is here, the final choice...

"Why?"

The sudden questioning interrupted his thoughts, and Ai Li stood beside him again, and the two of them looked warily towards the direction from which the voice came.

He finally climbed out of the crimson sand, and the crystal arrow stuck in his heart gradually became illusory, and finally disappeared completely. Correspondingly, the arrow actually reappeared in Ellie's hand.

Also missing was the injury on Zhongyan's heart.

"This...this is..."

Mikael's eyes narrowed slightly. From Zhan Yan's previous narration, he already had a bad guess. Taking the arrow in Ellie's hand as an example, he was almost certain -

"Alicia, the ultimate authority may be time."

"time?"

"Well - the sum of all movements in the world is time. This is the definition given by humans, and it is also the end of the wheel... In short, that's it."

As for why Zhongyan only reset the time of the arrow and the wound, but did not reset the time of Mikael and Ellie as well. Perhaps as he said himself, after the Origin turned away from the End and the power he projected in other planes was shouldered by Mikael, he could no longer fully grasp the power of the End.

Or perhaps, it's because Mikael and Ellie are already approaching the end in essence and performance at this time. He can't reverse a time that exists almost equally with him, and can only interact with other created creatures in his own time. Time to start.

And within this moment of communication between the two, he finally dragged his body out of the sea of ​​sand.

His steps were staggering, his expression was crazy, and a circle of black energy visible to the naked eye appeared on the outline of his body:

"It was like this twelve years ago... It was like this twelve years ago! Why... why did you choose him again and again! Why!"

Blood red completely occupied Wanyan's eyes. As soon as Mikael met those eyes, he realized that they were just the afterimage of Wanyan left in place.

He instinctively pushed Ai Li aside, and the next moment, finally appeared in front of him and kicked him away.

"Mikael!"

Ai Li exclaimed, and sharp crystals instantly covered Fei Hua's bow arm. She tapped her toes, and while turning around, she held Fei Hua in her hand and chopped it off like a curved blade.

The right leg he finally kicked out was completely cut off, but he didn't even frown. Instead, he turned his body in the air and kicked his broken leg again. The broken leg flew out, and Ellie She crossed her arms in front of her to resist, but the force was surprisingly strong. Even after landing, she couldn't help but take several steps back to relieve the force.

Looking in front of him again, Wan Yan's legs were intact and he was rushing towards her crazily.

"What a disgusting power!"

She opened her bow and nocked an arrow. There was no need to aim at such a short distance. She just let go, and the arrow flew to the center of her eyebrows in the blink of an eye.

However, in the end, it was as if she hadn't seen the arrow, and she didn't slow down her charge at all. When Ellie reacted, the arrow was back in her hand.

"You cheated!"

Even so, there was nothing she could do with Zhongyan's authority. Seeing Zhongyan rushing in front of her, light bloomed in her right hand, and a huge cross-shaped crystal flower unfolded in front of her.

"boom!"

Finally, he hit the wall where the crystal flower was unfolded. His head was bruised and bloody, and the crystal flower was almost broken under the huge force.

But in the end he did not continue to attack. The frightening red light in his pupils subsided slightly, and his face became calmer. Then he almost leaned in front of the crystal flower in a lying posture, staring blankly with a face that was no stranger to Ellie. Staring at her blankly.

"Why?"

He is still asking questions.

"Why did you choose him twelve years ago and still choose him twelve years later! How is he better than me! It's because of his fragility that he harmed Xi'er and Himihu. If it were me, if it was If I say it, none of this will happen!

"But...why...you would rather help a fragile loser like him than choose me! I am the one who has endured tens of billions of reincarnations just to wait for you!"

Yes, why...

Ai Li's eyebrows wrinkled upward, the corners of her mouth curled up, with a faint smile.

Is it reincarnation?

"Because human beings are miserable in life, human beings themselves are so fragile, and human beings' hearts are so delicate. That's why he won my favor - because he is more like a normal human being than you."

Because I am fragile, I am afraid of losing everything, so I want to make up for it and redeem myself.

Because it is slender, it will cherish every good thing, so protection has real and practical meaning.

It is precisely because of delicacy and vulnerability that people will understand what they can do, what they cannot do, what they should do, what they should not do, and what they must do. To do it.

And the Mikael in front of him, precisely because he lacked this vulnerability, he lost one of the most important things about him as a human being... Well, that's right, he is not human in the first place.

It is precisely because of his self-proclaimed strength, self-proclaimed optimism, and self-proclaimed decisiveness that he constantly carries a heavy load that he has absolutely no need to carry... just for a love that is as illusory and morbid as a castle in the air. .

"Besides, he is...only he is the Mikael I know, and he is the only Mikael who has spent these twelve years with me! In my eyes, Mikael is the only one I know." It could be him. And you are not qualified to use this name!"

"Is this so..."

Final Yan's eyes narrowed into a narrow sliver, and a bitter smile spread across his face... until he became crazy again——

"Hehehe...hahahahaha...hahahahaha!"

He understands.

Even if He killed Mikael, He could never take over his connection to everyone else. Of course, the rest of the people have nothing to do with Him. All He cares about is Ellie's attitude.

But... when Ellie said categorically that for her, there was only one Mikael in the world, she finally knew that she had lost everything again.

No, compared to losing, when has He ever "owned"?

"Then...destroy them all for me!"

He can endure the loneliness and heaviness of tens of billions of reincarnations in exchange for a chance to meet Ellie. Since this Ellie does not accept Him, then He can do it again tens of billions, hundreds of billions, trillions of times. In reincarnation, it is not a bad idea to get an Ellie who can accept Him.

The crystal flower shattered into countless pieces with a "bang". Ellie quickly retreated, and finally chased after him unwilling to be outdone. Her speed was extremely fast, and from the first blow, Mikael was killed without even having time to make any defensive moves. This was evident in his ability to be knocked away, but facing Ellie, who was as erratic as a falling flower, he couldn't even touch the corner of her clothes until Ellie stumbled over the roots of the Tree of Imaginary Numbers buried shallowly in the gravel while dodging. , so that he could seize the opportunity.

He rushed forward, and Ellie seemed to have no time to dodge. She could only condense a huge crystal flower once again, trying to take the blow forcefully.

"boom!"

The crystal flower easily shattered again, but this time Ellie did not retreat to avoid it. Instead, she stood on the spot, controlling the crystal dust flying everywhere, trying to bind the end.

Does this really work? As soon as those crystal dust touched Wan Yan's body, time flowed back silently, and they returned to their previous position, maintaining the state of being scattered in all directions.

At the same time, Ending's own time was not affected. He no longer hesitated, and his five fingers formed claws, grabbing Ellie's neck...

"Whoosh!"

Feeling the sound of breaking through the air on both sides, he finally glanced and made a dodge move for the first time.

He retracted his arm and dodged his body to the side, but he had already wasted a lot of time. Even though his speed was not bad, the spear that Mikael threw vigorously was faster!

The tip of the spear grazed Zhan Yan's cheek, leaving a long trail of blood on his face.

In the process of finally retreating, he tried to reach out and hold the spear, but Ellie stepped forward again at this time, kicked him away, and then pinched the equally sharp tail of the spear.

"This gun feels really good, but unfortunately, under the authority of the end, the weapon is not easy to use."

She threw the spear aside casually, and the next moment, Mikael appeared beside her and caught the gun steadily.

"It's really good, but it looks like a harpoon."

"What should we do? His authority is too deceptive. If this continues, even if He doesn't seem to know how to fight, we will be dragged down sooner or later."

Not far away, Yan Yan crawled out of the sand again. The wounds and blood caused when he hit the crystal flower had disappeared without a trace. Only the scar made by the "harpoon" still existed, almost penetrating half of his cheek.

The flesh and blood at the wound turned outwards one by one, and the blood and muscle fibers weaved a few red threads between the wounds. More blood foam gushes out from the flesh and blood, and soon flows to the corners of Zhan Yan's mouth.

"Huh?"

Mikael's eyes narrowed, and he used the power of consciousness to whisper:

"Ellie, weapons may not be useless."

Mikael doesn't need to explain too clearly, Ellie should be able to understand what he means.

In the previous battles, all the crystal arrows shot by Ellie never dodge, but directly used unreasonable time authority to resolve them.

But when he faced the spear that turned into a branch of the tree of imaginary numbers, he had no authority to use time for the first time. Moreover, when he reversed time and eliminated the injury on his forehead, the injury on his cheek that was scratched by the spear remained. As before...

right! The branches of the tree of imaginary numbers!

Even if the ultimate time authority is unreasonable, it still needs to follow most of the laws of imaginary numbers. At least, with His current state of not being able to fully grasp the final authority, it is probably impossible to reverse the damage caused by the branches of the Imaginary Tree!

Zhongyan's next actions undoubtedly verified this conjecture. The black energy on his body became denser. His eyes were fixed on the spear in Mikael's hand, and then he stretched out his hand towards it.

The Tree of Imaginary Numbers is unconscious. As a part of its branches, the spear felt the call of a person who had accompanied it through countless reincarnations, and flew towards the end uncontrollably. Fortunately, Mikael reacted quickly and died. He grabbed the butt of the gun.

Even so, the gun was still moving uncontrollably in the direction of the end. Mikael constructed countless imaginary barriers in front of the gun tip, but they were easily penetrated. The ribbon woven by the power of space could only slow down the speed of the gun. Slow down a few minutes.

On the contrary, it was the sea of ​​red sand that Mikael's heel pressed against, which had a first-class deceleration effect, but this still could not stop the spear from flying towards the end.

But Mikael smiled instead:

"Hey! You really have no combat experience... Are you ready, Alicia?"

Finally, he was slightly stunned. He had been focusing on the spear that was the only threat to him, but he didn't notice that Ellie disappeared almost at the same time as he took action.

But...what does it matter?

Although the authority he holds is not enough to affect Shiyuan, who is also part of the Cocoon of Finality, there is still no problem in reversing the damage she caused.

"Hey! Watch your head!"

But even though he knew this, when the voice sounded above his head, he finally couldn't help but raise his head, and even gave up on summoning the spear.

When the pink light fell, even Mikael, who had expected it, raised his head. The flawless dome bloomed in mid-air, covering the entire imaginary space visible to the naked eye. In front of the rose flower in the center of the flawless dome, Ellie A huge arrow has condensed in Shia's hand.

The moment Zhan Yan and Mikael raised their heads together, the arrow came out of the string.

Jiu Yan did not dodge, because the arrow was not coming towards him. The arrow smashed into the red sea of ​​sand, and the entire imaginary space began to shatter and flip. He actually came to a place that was very similar to the cocoon of Ji Ji just now, but In a purer and brighter sea of ​​stars.

And among the bright stars, a cross that was almost as tall as the previous imaginary tree bloomed brilliantly.

However, these extremely overflowing energies quickly collapsed in just a few seconds. At the end, they actually had a silk-like touch, until finally, they turned into a pink and white wedding dress and draped around Ellie's body.

"This is!"

After landing quickly, even Zhan Yan, who had already made up his mind to reincarnate again, couldn't help but open his mouth in surprise——

"This is the complete power of origin..."

In an instant, the space was flipped to the Sea of ​​Origin, where the power of the Origin would be fully reflected, and without the Origin, his power would be limited to the greatest extent. Under the circumstances, he could no longer take back the spear.

Moreover, being separated from the Tree of Imaginary Numbers also eliminated the way for Him to pick up branches and create a spear again.

And the spear that could determine all fate was now suspended beside Alicia.

The five fingers of her right hand bluffed, and a pink energy ball condensed in her hand. The brilliance flowed, and the overflowing energy turned into clear crystals, spinning outside her palm. She raised her right hand high above her head, and in just the blink of an eye, a huge and colorful Dharma form like church glass appeared behind her.

The next moment, a pink giant who looked exactly like Ai Li broke through the dharma image and stood behind Ai Li.

That is the most authentic appearance of her soul.

Ellie lowered her shoulders and elbows and made a bow-bending gesture with her bare hands. The giant behind her did the same, but the difference was that the golden spear continued to grow and turned into a huge bow and arrow, which was held in the hand of the pink giant. Aiming at the final position.

The ferocious expression on Zhong Yan's face suddenly dissipated, and the soft Origin Power emanating from the pink giant made him inevitably start to look back at his own heart.

Some questions that He had been unable to answer during tens of billions of reincarnations suddenly surfaced at this moment:

"What is the meaning of my existence? To destroy the world? Or to save the world? Or to save Alicia? Or...my existence has always been an accident, and I have no meaning to pursue at all..."

"No... I, am it really me? The memory that is the foundation of my existence is just a false product, and the person I make a living from... is it a real existence?"

He didn't look at Alicia anymore. Instead, he looked at Mikael, who was dozens of steps away with empty hands, with a complex expression. If he felt correctly, he didn't use his power of consciousness to say anything to Alicia just now, but then However, the author formulated specific tactics in the blink of an eye based on prompts that he did not even analyze...

This kind of tacit understanding is really... really... makes him jealous...

It was as if he had always been jealous of the twelve years they had spent together.

But under the illumination of the most authentic light in his heart, he gradually understood that what he was jealous of was not only the mutual love between Mikael and Ellie. In a sense, he envied everything about Mikael——

Because, for Mikael, who truly has the memory of being a "human" for twelve years, even if he is freed from the false memory caused by quantum entanglement, he can still live as a "human".

And He, in the end, has nothing but the memory that never existed from the beginning.

"Mikael, I really, really envy you."

At this point, He calmed down completely, because there was no need to resist at this time. And when Alicia came here, all his arrangements lost their meaning——

"It's just...Mikael, do you really understand what it means to have her come here?"

He looked at Mikael with a cold expression, but did not say the second half of the sentence.

Mikael looked at Him with an extremely complicated expression. No matter from every angle, this was the other half of Him, and he was about to watch Him go to death.

Of course, this is not the first time he has faced the end of his "other half".

But at this moment, he had an unspeakable feeling in his heart.

That may not be "Mikael's" own emotions, but those of this other self... his mentality when facing the end...

Reluctance and jealousy gradually faded away, and the madness no longer existed when he came to the Sea of ​​Origin.

Maybe no one will ever know what kind of person Mikael was originally. Now his heart is like a blank, because there is nothing here from beginning to end, not even self.

Does He really love Alicia?

Mikael couldn't say for sure.

Even in the moment before the end, the morbid love for Alicia in his heart no longer existed.

After all, his love for Ellie is just the product of quantum entanglement between the existence of a more distant world and the cocoon of the end.

But Mikael was different. The twelve years he and she had experienced, every second, could not be erased.

"Stand further away, it's too close here."

Finally he faced Mikael, but his sight had already lost focus.

Mikael pursed his lips and quickly backed away.

He saw Zhongyan's mouth finally open. He really wanted to say something this time.

And He didn't even need to speak, Michael's heart heard His voice:

"A person's fate is his character. Mikael, even if you are the fragile part of me, you will inevitably make the same decision as me in the near future."

This is neither a curse nor a prophecy.

It's just a person's unilateral farewell to another self in the world.

He lowered his head, put his hands in his pockets, and floated into the air until he was level with Ellie.

Then, His figure slowly disappeared into nothingness. In contrast, an equally huge figure appeared in front of Ellie, facing away from the pink giant behind her.

However, compared to the flesh-and-blood entity with fluttering skirts behind Ellie, the giant that finally transformed was as gray as a stone, and its whole body was covered with uneven traces and traces left by the passage of time. crack.

Just by looking at it, you can tell that it has run out of energy.

Perhaps this is the moment that the real Mikael is waiting for.

Ellie let go of her hand, and the arrow shot through Zhongyan's heart.