The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"No... Damn it! No!"

Ying punched the ground, and the ground trembled, but it was not her credit, but the aftermath of the battle in the basin with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers behind her.

Her own insignificant punch, except for leaving an insignificant fist mark on this dead field, could not change anything.

As a killer who needs to be indifferent to emotions to the extreme, she rarely lets her emotions spill out, especially the negative emotions that have the greatest impact on combat effectiveness.

But at this moment, she is really a little desperate and...confused.

Ying has not actually seen Mobius's resurrection, and can't explain the specific principle, but she knows what she should do-Shesha's passive resurrection needs to be based on a large amount of Honkai energy. In theory, even if she does nothing, Mobius will frantically demand Honkai energy from her and everything around her out of biological instinct.

But Ying has tried to input Honkai energy into her body many times, but to no avail. No matter how much Honkai energy is injected into her body, it will be lost in an instant, and there is no possibility of being absorbed.

Then, everything was obvious-

Mebius was dead. Mebius was indeed dead.

No mercy, no reversal, death was death, there was no second possibility.

But...

"How is this possible?"

She spread her right hand flat, and she could still feel a trace of warmth in her cold palm. Two months ago, Mikael had held her hand, and she remembered the dry and warm touch. She also couldn't forget his gentle and self-blaming eyes that day.

No, it was not just that time. Perhaps in the eyes of some people, he was a "hateful Herrscher", and he did give himself many extremely bloody and even cruel secret missions.

But at that time, Ying could feel that the reason he wanted to do such a dark thing was just to give more people light, just to give them light.

He had always been so gentle to the Fire Moth, to Anti-Entropy, and to Yingjie. Ying had never thought that one day he would have the possibility of killing his "family" with his own hands.

Mobius's cold body still had no movement, no temperature, as if he was telling her an irrefutable fact with such silence - she was dead, killed by Mikael himself. So, Sakura was completely confused. She believed in Mikael, this was a habit she had maintained for so many years... or it had become a belief. It was also this habit that made her sure and certain that doing such a thing - killing her "family" and destroying the civilization she had always protected was so painful for him that he couldn't do it, let alone want to do it. But he still did it, so there was only one other possibility - he had to do it in order to get something he wanted more. Was it because of the disappearance of Alicia? Or was there something else going on in this world? Sakura tried to guess Mikael's motives, but this was also the most incomprehensible part of her, and the weirdest part of everything that was happening now - "Mikael... what exactly do you want to do? What do you need us to do? Why don't you say it?" Why... don't you want to say more, even if it's just a half sentence or a few words of explanation? "Ah..."

Sakura's left hand supported the ground, and her five fingers gradually bent under extreme force, and finally clenched together. She raised her hand and slowly loosened her five fingers. The fine moon soil was instantly mixed into the darkness under the wind, and the answer she wanted to know could not be found.

As for the violent vibrations and explosions that continued to come from the basin behind her, it didn't seem so important at this moment.

Suddenly, her heart contracted suddenly. It was an instinct that Sakura had tempered after walking between life and death for a long time. She hurriedly pulled Mebius's body to the side and rolled. The next moment, a thin and straight red line passed through her previous position, and the entire ground was cut open. There was also a white track caused by the high temperature in the air.

Sakura swallowed her saliva and grasped the cold handle of the knife with her left hand, but she didn't know what to do.

"Sakura, are you okay?"

Just at this moment, a familiar voice sounded in her mind.

"Su?"

"It's me."

Su's voice was a little ethereal and even a little intermittent.

"I'm sorry, after the collapse energy around him completely erupted, this place has become a singularity where the collapse energy in the space accumulates, just like a black hole or space collapse... Ah, sorry, now is not the time to talk about this. Anyway, the current state of the mental communication network is a bit bad, so I just rebuilt it now. How is the situation on your side?"

"I..."

Sakura looked down at the body of Mobius, not knowing how to resort to language.

But Su seemed to be just asking casually. He did not wait for Sakura's answer, but announced in a concise and cruel tone:

"Sakura, the only one I can contact at the moment, but with my mental power, I can sense some life fluctuations... I hope you are mentally prepared. In my perception, Aponia, Eden, Mobius, Destobia, Hen, Kosmo and Qianjie are all... dead."

"Mobius is here with me."

Sakura answered mechanically, and it was not until two seconds later that she added an explanation:

"I tried to input Honkai energy into her to trigger Shesha's 'snake shedding' ability, but nothing happened."

"Is that so..."

"Su, do you think it's possible that everyone is not dead, but Michael used some method to make everyone enter a state of 'pseudo-death'?"

After hesitating for a moment, Ying bit her lip and asked.

And the response she got was a sigh:

"I can't say..."

After a pause, Su continued:

"We don't know what powers Michael, who has become the end, has. If he can do these, I am no exception. However, based on the mental state I have detected, they are no different from dead people.

"So, Ying, I just want to remind you that in the next battle, you must be prepared to kill and be killed, otherwise..."

Otherwise what, Su didn't say it clearly, but Ying knew it clearly.

But knowing clearly doesn't mean you can do it. Ying recalled her previous knife, and she had the opportunity to cut Michael Why did she choose her right arm when she wanted to kill Mikael's neck?

Although even if she really aimed at his neck, Mikael would not be injured, it had nothing to do with Mikael. This was her own choice - from consciousness to body, she was resisting fighting with Mikael.

"Heh..."

Ying closed her eyes and exhaled quickly.

The wind on the back of the moon suddenly became stronger, and the slender fox ears on her head also swayed with the wind. If it were in the past, for some reason, she would deliberately reduce the amplitude of the fox ears to make herself ignore their existence.

But all this is nothing more than meaningless self-deception when I think back from the perspective of now.

"I understand, Su. The best ending for a soldier is to be killed by the last bullet in the last battle. The determination to die in battle has existed since the first day I became a soldier. At least..."

Ying loosened her left hand that was holding the ice blade, and placed it on the other blade behind the ice blade.

When she opened her eyes again, there were some purple arcs of lightning between the blue frost color of ice and snow in her eyes.

At least, we can choose how to die - this is what Ling once said.

As a younger sister, Ling has this awareness, and as a sister, she certainly can't fall behind.

Besides, death is never scary.

But just when Ying was ready to return to the battlefield, her mental connection with Su was suddenly disconnected.

"Su? Su? ”

With the power of Ying Jie alone, there is absolutely no hope of defeating Mikael. Although Ying is prepared to die in battle, she hopes that her death can create some value, which is not something she can do alone.

So, facing Su's loss of contact, she can only stand there vigilantly and continue to wait, while praying in her heart-Aponia, Desdobia, and Hen are all "dead". If Su, the last spiritual perception fusion warrior, is also killed, then she can only fight on her own.

After about ten seconds, Su's voice sounded again, which also made her relieved.

"Sorry, the fluctuation of Honkai energy just now was a bit large... Um! Connected to Mei and Weiwei!"

As soon as the voice fell, a pretended calm voice sounded:

"Su! Where's Kevin... How are you all?"

"Kevin... I'm still looking for his specific location. He should be Mikael's main target of attack, but don't worry, I can feel his spiritual fluctuations, which means he is still alive. As for the others..." Su sighed silently, and then briefly explained the current situation. Mei was silent for a moment, and then spoke again: "That is to say, only you, Ying, Weiwei, Kevin and Hua are still alive, right?" "Well, but I can't contact Kevin and Hua for the time being, and they may still be in a coma." "Tap, tap, tap--" Mei tapped the table lightly a few times, and then asked: "Weiwei, is there any hope for Pado?" "... Mei, if you are willing to believe in Pado's usual good luck, then she... has almost no chance of survival. However, you should be able to see the situation of the terminal there, right?" "Well... the terminal has arrived at the designated location, and then... you just need to start it. But Paduo, I can't contact her..."

The communication network fell into a brief silence again. Su and Ying didn't know what Paduo's so-called mission was, nor did they know what the terminal's arrival meant. However, this did not prevent them from sorting out the most important information from Mei's words--

Paduo is dead.

And the three-second silence that spread during this time that should have been a race against time was just the last thing that their comrades could do for her and the previous victims.

It was just silent mourning.

"Don't give up!"

Mei suddenly patted the table and encouraged loudly:

"Humanity still has the last weapon to use, Weiwei..."

"What? Do you need me to appear again?"

Mei shook her head silently. Of course, other people in the mental communication network could not see her movements.

In fact, Mei also knew that the battle had been fought like this, and there was no possibility of victory.

Besides, Prometheus' terminal had already entered the end along the path opened by Mikael and Ellie before, and the only meaningful goal in this battle had been achieved.

Logically speaking, it was time to retreat. At least... at least Kevin, Su, Ying, Weiwei and Hua could survive.

But... you have already come this far, how can you be willing to give up at the end?

Moreover, Mei is not just making it up. Humanity does have a weapon that has long been pinned on, but has never been put into actual combat... It's just that there is a slight problem with it.

"The accumulation of a large amount of Honkai energy interferes with the electromagnetic field. Without human control, the Moonlight Throne cannot complete the braking in recent months and cannot reach the intended position. Therefore, Velvet, I can only leave it to you."

"Huh? Is that all?"

"Besides you, there is no other choice, Velvet. You should know very well that our series of remote commands to the Moonlight Throne are all completed through electromagnetic waves. Under the current situation, someone must personally enter the satellite to manually Operation. The only ones who have this ability are you and me, the designers and makers of the Moonlight Throne.”

"Sigh... Okay, who asked me to do more work? But the situation here is also a bit bad. So many baby bumps were damaged in the previous battle, and so many blank keys have not been used yet..."

"Blank Key? When did you copy it..."

"Uh... cough, cough, cough! In short, I need to make some repairs to the equipment before I can go to the Moonlight Throne, and this time is conservatively estimated to take more than half an hour... I need someone to buy time for me."

"To gain time……"

Sakura had been listening to the conversation between the two silently, and her eyes gradually became firm:

"give it to me!"

"What?"

"Leave the task of delaying time to me."

Sakura repeated firmly.

"You want to use the 'sword that freezes space'? No, that's fine if you're facing other enemies, but for Mikael... I'm afraid it won't work. Even if it works, it won't be able to delay half of it. hours or more.”

Sakura pursed her lips. Mei's analysis was certainly reasonable, but...

"There is no other way. Among those who can immediately jump into battle, I am the only one with the strongest fighting ability. We have no choice unless we are willing to bet that Mikael will stand motionless."

Mei closed her eyes in pain. Of course she knew what Sakura said was right, but if the sacrifice could not achieve its intended purpose, then it was better to bet that Mikael would do nothing and generously give them time to prepare.

But just like Sakura said, they have no choice... huh? Huh?

Suddenly a bright light flashed in Mei's mind:

"Sakura, how long can you delay Mikael at most?"

"I can't say for sure, but... although I hate to admit it, it could be one minute, it could be two or three minutes, it won't be longer."

"That's enough!"

Mei adjusted her glasses - "No matter what direct means we take, we can't contain him for half an hour, but what if we can make one minute turn into half an hour?"

It's really sad to say...

For May, the reason why she came into contact with the Fire Chaser was because she published a paper on the theory of relativity and was noticed by Mebius.

But what she didn't expect was that...at the end of this civilization, she would still have to use it one day...

"this……"

"Oh I see."

"I understand too."

Only Sakura was still confused and didn't know what Mei meant.

Of course the latter understands this. If possible, she doesn't want to explain more at this critical moment, she just needs to tell Sakura what to do:

"Sakura, you only need to get close to Mikael, then release the rated power of the Ninth God's Key to create a pseudo black hole, and hold on for another minute. This is enough - the gravitational time dilation effect will make you near the pseudo black hole. One minute spent becomes sixty minutes spent in real space!”

Mei paused, and without waiting for Sakura to digest her words, she turned to Su and ordered:

"Su, please, can you find the key to the Ninth God?"

It is indeed useful to use mental power to find people, but it is not impossible to turn it into a form similar to electromagnetic waves and spread it out, like radar to find objects. However, it is a test for the fusion warrior's own level of control over his mental power.

I don't know whether it's because Su was lucky or because his control over his mental power was really superb. He only remained silent for two minutes:

"Found it! The Key to the Ninth God...is with Hua!"

"Okay! Sakura, you go find the Ninth God Key and Hua. If Hua can still fight, then the task of containing Mikael will be completed by the two of you. Velvet repairs your equipment as planned and prepares to go to the Moonlight Throne Go manual. Finally, Sue..."

"I understand, May. Leave Kevin to me. If it is him, he may not be able to fight Mikael if he cooperates with the Moonlight Throne."

oh? Is it really so?

Sakura wasn't sure whether Mei's confidence was genuine ignorance or feigned. At least based on her judgment of Mikael's combat power, getting close to him and using a pseudo-black hole is far more difficult than holding him down for a minute...

Even though she was so helpless and not optimistic about this plan, Sakura had to admit that this was the only chance to reverse the situation of the war so far.

So she didn't complain and followed Su's guidance and headed in the direction of Hua.

…………

"Well……"

Hua closed her eyes tightly, but she still couldn't get rid of the dizziness. Rather, it was precisely because of this dizzy feeling that she realized that she was slightly awake.

She instinctively wanted to take a deep breath, but the thing pressing on her head was extremely heavy, and she couldn't even take a simple breath... Fortunately, the fusion warrior would not be suffocated to death.

But when she felt it carefully, she felt a strange feeling - the thing underneath her was as hard as a stone, but the thing pressing on her... was softer, as if... a person.

What happened before? She only remembered that everyone was fighting with Mikael. After a sudden white light, her body flew back uncontrollably, and then...

Then she remembered nothing.

Hua's limbs were still a little weak. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't move the soil around her at all, and the soil that buried her didn't leave any space for her to exert her strength.

"Damn it...can we just wait here?"

To be honest, her mind is still in a daze, and she has no idea why Mikael is like this.

Of course, this is true for all Yingjie.

"Because of this...I have something I have to do...I have to ask him clearly about all this!"

Thinking of this, an unprecedented power suddenly surged out of her body. She concentrated all her strength on her right arm and raised it sharply——

"puff!"

She felt that her right arm had successfully broken through the shackles of the soil, and her wrist had emerged from the soil.

"It's still a little bit...a little bit..."

Her limbs were struggling, always feeling that she was still close to success, but she was still unable to break through that little distance.

Fortunately, at this moment, a pair of equally cold hands held her right hand that had broken out of the ground.

"Hua, is that you?"

There seemed to be a vaguely familiar voice shouting.

Hua heard it, but didn't know how to express it. She couldn't even breathe, let alone speak.

She had no choice but to bend the four fingers of her right hand and put her thumb up.

The next second, a huge force came from her, and her entire upper body stood up instantly.

Because of this, she saw that what was pressing on her was...

"Eden!"

The blood overflowing from her seven orifices dyed her beautiful face black and red, but her identity was still not difficult to identify. Hua hugged Eden's body, but she could no longer feel any warmth from his body.

The tears flowed out of control.

Sakura's eyelashes trembled, and she picked up the Ninth God's Key, the Law of the Star Sea, from Eden's right hand, then knelt down beside Hua, gently hugged the girl's body, and touched it like a comfort bell. Her head.

But after a long sigh, she still didn't know what to say to comfort Hua, what to say to comfort Hua.

After all, with her observation ability, it is not difficult to see that, except for Mebius...

However, after all, the girl lost all her memories at once a few months ago, so her dependence on him may not be as deep as before. Compared to... she should have much less resistance in her heart when fighting, right? Is this a blessing in disguise?

"Huh?"

Sakura seemed to suddenly think of something. She took advantage of Hua's opportunity to wipe away her tears and quickly opened Eden's closed eyelids. When she saw the red cross in her eyes, her eyes narrowed slightly, and then she quickly opened her eyes before Hua could. Withdrew his hand.

"Hua, now is not the time to cry. Listen to me. We still have a chance to reverse the situation. We need your help."

Thank you all for your support in the past six months. I suddenly remembered that I haven’t updated it for so long (hahaha). This time I just took advantage of the opportunity to make a small update (I really can’t squeeze it out)