The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"This feeling is..."

Kallen bit her lower lip. She joined the Valkyrie Army before she was a minor and became the captain at the age of sixteen. Now she is the so-called "Destined to be the strongest Valkyrie". Of course she can see that the sun-blocking Black is not a "black cloud" at all, but the color displayed by high concentration of Honkai energy.

It was also the strongest Honkai energy reaction she had ever seen in so many years.

"Damn it, it happens at this time..."

Kallen glanced at Otto, who was still relatively calm, and her frown quickly relaxed. She did not hesitate anymore, but smiled apologetically:

"I'm sorry, Otto, you are not a combatant after all, so just stay here and get acquainted with Vera by the way. Leave the frontline matters to me."

"Karen!"

Otto narrowed his eyes guiltily to hide his wandering gaze. Of course, he had expected Kallen's reaction. In other words, it would be puzzling if Kallen did not choose to rush back to the front line at this time. thing.

Therefore, according to his original plan, he should entangle Kallen in various ways, but when the matter came to pass, he still hesitated for a moment, so that when he stretched out his hand to hold Kallen, the latter had already With the powerful physical fitness of the Valkyrie, she quickly jumped out, leaving Otto with an increasingly smaller figure.

Otto took a symbolic step forward, slowly retracted his outstretched right hand, and turned to cover the lower half of his face. His five fingers exerted force for no reason, grabbing his mouth and nose so twisted that he felt a little pain. pain? No, of course he is not a masochist, and he cannot explain the specific reason for doing this. Maybe he just wants to feel the "pain" at this moment.

The logistics camp turned into a mess. As more and more "black clouds" accumulated on the skyline, mules, horses and other animals felt the danger, and their instinctive desire to survive was fully aroused. The soldiers' whips could no longer suppress them. They all swung their hooves, tore off the ropes, broke down the fences, and ran around in the already crowded camp. For a while, the crowds were so furious that no one could care about Otto standing at the entrance of the camp.

"Aren't you going to catch up?"

Kōku Manzo, who had been silent all morning, finally spoke, with a hint of ridicule in his words.

"Why chase?"

Otto lowered his hand, pretending that it had nothing to do with him, slowly turned around, and was about to walk into the logistics camp.

"Karen is Destiny's strongest Valkyrie. It's just an emergency, and she can handle it completely. Compared to this, I'm more anxious to see the child named Vera... After all, it's me and Karen’s adopted daughter.”

"But, if I remember correctly, this is different from your original plan, right?"

Otto's footsteps stopped in place, his brows furrowed inward, he unconsciously looked back at the black clouds pressing on the skyline, and retorted sarcastically:

"If I remember correctly, some people claim to have extremely high moral qualities. Unless they are facing enemies, they will not peek into other people's hearts at will, right?"

"It's not my fault. Peeping means that I take the initiative to look into your heart. But sometimes, if your mood swings are too violent, it's like I passed by your door and you talked loudly inside, so that I After hearing two sentences, who can I blame?”

Otto sneered twice: "Strong words!"

Having said that, his footsteps did stop, neither moving forward into the noisy logistics camp, nor turning around to chase Kallen.

"If you hadn't stuffed me with a bunch of weird dreams and kept me awake until almost noon, I should have been able to hold Karen back in many ways."

"Tch, don't blame me. Didn't you have a way to hold her back just now? It's just that you don't want to do it. Since you want to protect her, you are willing to challenge your own conscience and trample on your bottom line for her, but when it comes But you don’t want to stop her from living against her will, so you would rather see her in danger. What kind of awkward character do you have?”

Otto took a deep breath. After all, Kōku Manzō could directly peer into his heart, so he could grasp his mentality very accurately. Although if someone really saw him thinking like this, he would only give a wry smile and not explain. .

Otto was still repeating stubbornly:

"It's nothing. With Karen's strength, it's nothing."

But even so, "Valkyrie" are not real "gods" after all. Even if they have abilities that are far stronger than ordinary people, they still belong to the category of "human beings". They can still be hacked to death by an ordinary soldier with a knife, or they may be killed by an ordinary soldier. The excessively strong Honkai energy was irreversibly corroded, and finally turned into a dead soldier who lost all consciousness.

And Kallen...Otto would never question her fighting ability as the "strongest Valkyrie", but what would happen if a human was stronger? Will you not die if you are strong? Isn't it worth worrying about being strong?

What's more, Kallen's name is followed by "Kaslana", a surname that is almost cursed!

It seemed that a brazier had been overturned in the camp, and he didn't know what was lit. There happened to be a trace of charcoal smell wafting under Otto's nose. The muscles on his face twitched twice quickly, and a feeling of nausea came from his stomach. The water came up, making him almost want to retching.

He hated the smell of coke. It reminded him of the most powerful human being he had ever seen since he was a child - Francis Kaslana, Kallen's father.

The scene where he stood in front of him and Kallen and easily killed a giant Honkaiju with a swing of Kaslana's family's Skyfire Sword was still fresh in Otto's memory, but what was the use of it?

Francis was lying in a small coffin, surrounded by flowers. The soft light in the church and the holy singing of the choir lingered around the coffin, but it still could not cover up the burning smell that kept escaping from the coffin.

As long as he thought that Kallen would one day pick up the Skyfire Sword and burn himself and his enemies together, Otto would tremble with fear and feel sick in his stomach.

Fortunately, the Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment was also damaged after that and has not been repaired to this day. Maybe this is a good thing for the Kaslana family? No, even without the Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment, Kaslana is still entangled by the curse of death in battle. As William said yesterday, Francis's children either died in battle or died of illness. In the end, only the disabled William was left, and the monk was intact. Karen.

"So... nothing can happen to you, Kallen..."

Otto turned his toes to the side, but he was still hesitantly deceiving himself with a false hope.

Or maybe, even he himself didn't realize that at some point, he had regarded Kong Kong Manzo as a friend with whom he could discuss his inner thoughts on an equal footing, so that he revealed his plans in full in confusion, even though... he also knew that these There is no secret at all about Void Manzo:

"According to the plan, Eleanor will spread the potion I concocted around the Ming army camp. It is a by-product of my treatment of the Black Death. It will trigger the deposition of Honkai energy within half an hour. This time should It was enough for Eleanor and the others to evacuate and return to the Destiny Camp. The sedimentation phenomenon would last for about ten minutes, which was enough to turn most ordinary soldiers in the Ming Army Camp into dead soldiers, and their rangers would also be trapped and killed. In the battle between warriors, let Eleanor lead the Valkyrie to fight back at this time...

"Yes! That's right! That's it! Akito will be unable to fight back under the attack of the Valkyrie troops! The reason why I want to keep Kallen and not let her participate is not because I have any concerns about the success rate of this plan. What worries! It’s not that I’m worried that Karen will be in danger! Akito’s main force has already been in trouble, and there’s not much danger at all. I want to keep her, but I just don’t want her to...

"I want to keep her, but I just don't want her to witness such casualties. I know it will cause her pain...I..."

He said this, but Otto had turned around completely and looked up at the "black cloud" that had begun to dissipate.

In terms of general rationality, he has always considered himself a relatively rational person, but recently he has relied more and more on intuition to make judgments.

Unfortunately, from the beginning of the dream that he stubbornly believed to be forced upon him by the Void Manzo, his intuition had been denying his actions, and his intuition had been conveying an "unknown" premonition to him in his mind. This was completely opposite to the result of his rational analysis, and it also made him more and more confused——

"What is the source of all my ominous premonitions? Is it distrust of the plan I made, distrust of myself? Or is it purely worry about Karen, worry about her safety, and worry about her safety?" Can she accept such dark worries? Or is all this just a hesitation caused by the psychological suggestion that Kongku Manzo exerted on me through that dream? "

Otto experienced the feeling of confusion for the first time. No, this was not ordinary confusion, it was so confusing that he couldn't even figure out what he should be thinking about——

He was obviously worried about Kallen at first, but now he is obsessed with the origin of his ominous premonition?

"So, are you going to keep thinking here?"

Void Manzo let out an unabashed laugh:

"Hey, hey! You don't really plan to stand here thinking all the time, do you?"

"Then what do you think I should do?"

Even in this state, Otto still did not forget to fight back against Void Manzo, but he did not mean to do so. If he had to say it, he actually expected this talkative guy to give him the answer and tell him What should be done.

But he was also very resistant to this, so much so that his consciousness instinctively responded with a fierce rejection before he was ready to ask for help from it.

"Otto, you think you are much more mature than your peers, but in fact, in my opinion, you are just an extremely naive child. I admit that unreasonable thinking can bring many things to people, and the seeds of growth are sometimes hidden in them. . But is it really meaningful to think about it at this moment? This will only waste your time. Maybe you will not realize how weak you are today until more than ten years later - whether it is to keep her or not. Let her touch the darkness, or catch up with her and accept all the consequences of your 'crime' calmly. You have not made any choice because you are evading responsibility.

"Yes, let me be blunt, you are just escaping, Otto. You blame yourself, you feel guilty, and you feel that you have made such a mistake and you are actually shameless to face Kallen - this is because you do not want to keep her Her reason. You are afraid that she will know everything and expose your hypocrisy to your face... You are even afraid of seeing all the consequences of your 'crime' with your own eyes - this is the reason why you dare not pursue it. You are. Just escaping."

"Yes...yes yes yes!! I'm just escaping, but so what!"

Otto took a few steps forward and squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, his whole body shaking uncontrollably with excitement.

"You can't understand! After all, you are just a cube with no human or ghost! Do you know how much blood I have stained in order to develop a medicine to cure the Black Death? Do you know how scared I am of Kallen knowing Is this all? I obviously want to give her what she wants, but I have to first make myself someone she doesn’t want and commit a crime that she can’t accept... Do you understand this kind of pain? "

Regardless of whether anyone would hear him or not, Otto roared these words to his heart's content, but he didn't hear Void Manzo's response for a long time.

In a trance, he seemed to hear Void Wanzang sighing, but the sound was too ethereal, as if it passed by his ears across countless time, space, or even beyond the distance of time and space itself. It was so ethereal that it seemed like it was just him. My own illusion.

It seemed that after a while, it spoke slowly, with a hint of unprecedented vicissitudes in its tone:

"very good."

It repeated the word of praise twice, although Otto could hear no praise in it.

"At least you are stronger than the other person I once knew. If he were in a different place, he might have hidden away and cried a lot by himself."

Void Manzang snorted softly, as if he was telling a story about another person who had nothing to do with it.

"Speaking of which, your original personality may not be so awkward, but who made that person your ancestor?"

"ancestor?"

"Okay, let's get back to the topic itself. Otto... do you really think your plan is foolproof? Do you really think... Akito will be powerless to fight back when faced with the erosion of a large amount of Honkai energy? Otto Oh, Otto, your biggest weakness is your arrogance and ego that are proportional to your abilities. Your eyes have never left yourself and Karen, but why do you think that your plan will succeed? "

"What do you mean? I read a lot of records from the Ming Dynasty before I came here. They probably have no experience in facing a collapse of this scale..."

"Tsk, you also said, 'should', which means you also know that compared to the vast historical records of China, what you can read from thousands of miles away is only a very small part. Who gave you the courage to be so confident? of?"

"This this……"

"Sober up, Otto. To be honest, I don't know if Akito has the ability to handle such a scale of collapse on her own, but I know she must have..."

"Her? Who is she?"

"Pfft... Hahaha! You know, Otto, all your self-righteous actions have only led to one result - a person who didn't want to get involved in this matter has a reason to have to get involved in this matter. And the so-called The destiny of being the most powerful Valkyrie is just a joke in front of her. After all, at this time and in this world, she is undoubtedly the most powerful [person]..."

Otto couldn't tell whether what Void Manzo said was true or false, but he couldn't find a reason why Void Manzo deceived him, so he had to stand up and run towards the horizon where the black clouds gradually dissipated.

"Yes, that's right, that's it... run quickly, my descendants... use your and her love to open up the possibility for [us] to reunite at a new point in time. With your and her love, Point out the direction and open the way for the lonely person, help him...help me find the way that allows everyone to [go home].”

In the spiritual world that Otto could not see, a man with skin as pale as paper lay lazily on a chair. He waved his hands to construct a mirror, looked at himself in the mirror, looked at the pair of oval pink pupils that were incompatible with his own, and smiled to himself——

"I can't possibly understand? Ridiculous!"