The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"But...it's okay, Otto, I can leave by myself."

After leaving the yard for some distance, Kallen quickly recovered her strength and hurriedly broke away from Otto's arms, but the latter did not stop her.

"What happened? Who is that man... You and he seem to know each other?"

Kallen asked three questions in one breath. To Otto, these questions were nothing. He could have spent a few seconds editing a half-truth and half-false answer to get rid of them...

But he glanced at Karen, and a strange voice suddenly popped up in his mind: Look, the reason why your relationship with her is becoming more and more estranged is because what you did is intolerable to her, or is it because What about concealing it on your own initiative?

This is not an absolute choice between the two, but Otto feels that at least this is what he thinks at this moment - when faced with problems that cannot be said frankly, instead of constantly using lies to bury the truth, a complete Showing her the false "Otto" would be better than refusing to answer in the most direct way.

"I'm sorry... I may need a little time to tell you a lot of truth... Kallen, are you willing to wait for me again?"

Karen was caught off guard by this sudden frankness. After a brief daze, she nodded vigorously:

"Then...you must keep your word."

Feeling that the distance between the two had become closer again, Otto had mixed feelings in his heart for a moment - he was certainly happy, but when he thought about it, if he had been so honest from the beginning, the two of them might not have felt the same way. Such a large distance would be opened unknowingly, and sadness inevitably emerged in his heart...

He looked back at the yard just now. Since they left, there has been no movement there. He breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"Karen, you go inside first and look after Vera. She was frightened just now. I'll check the situation outside."

"Um……"

Kallen wanted to refuse. As a Valkyrie, how could she let others stand outside to protect her? But now she has some strength, it's just "a little strength". The "restraint" imposed on her by that man still existed. Without the ability to control Honkai energy, her combat power would not be much stronger than Otto's.

What's more, if the enemy was that man or Red Kite Immortal, she wouldn't be able to fight back even in her prime.

But her contemplative look fell into Otto's eyes, and he thought she was adhering to the fine traditions of the Kaslana family and planning to continue to show off. I just heard him persuade with a wry smile:

"Karen, I can't handle Vera's child, so you still have to go..."

"I know."

Karen looked at him, blinked quickly, and then shuffled into the house.

After knowing that the wooden door was closed, Otto slowly turned around. He had a lot of questions to ask "Kuji Manzo" and he had a lot of conjectures waiting for "Kuji Manzo" to confirm, but at this time he was really facing His best moment?

The current situation is not good. Although neither "Void Manzo" nor Immortal Scarlet Kite, nor the disciples of Immortal Scarlet Kite, have any hostility towards them, who can say for sure about this kind of thing? For the first two existence, an ordinary person like Otto may be just a somewhat interesting plaything. Of course, people will not have any hostility towards playthings, and of course they will not have any cherishment...

And if for various reasons they need to kill people and silence them... then they will naturally have no hesitation.

"This is Taixu Mountain's own business. You two have special status, so it's best not to get involved."

Well said, it would be great if things were as simple as "Void Manzo" said.

Ever since he went up the mountain yesterday, he had noticed that the atmosphere in Taixu Mountain was a bit abnormal. He originally did not want and had no need to get involved in the master-disciple dispute in this distant China, but now it seemed that it was impossible to escape.

Not to mention other things, just the fact that he brought "Void Ten Thousand Treasures" to Taixu Mountain made him completely lose the possibility of staying out of the matter.

Of course Otto didn't like this situation of passively waiting for all the results. If he could make his own choice, at the moment when he was destined to be unable to escape, he would certainly choose to take the initiative to do something to gain a chance. But "Void Manzo" didn't even give them a chance to struggle.

Whether it is "Void Manzo" or Red Kite Immortal, the power they have shown has completely shattered Otto's knowledge of the past twenty years. Before that, he once thought that no matter how powerful human beings were, they were nothing more than Kallen's father Francis. That kind of level, but when he saw Kallen, who was the most powerful Valkyrie in destiny, unable to fight back when facing the two of them, he clearly realized that perhaps his stupid self had failed him in the previous twenty years. Not even a corner of the world was glimpsed.

And the void left by Void Manzo... well, the data stored in the golden cube also fully proves this point. When Otto put his consciousness into the cube, it was like being thrown into an endless sea, an ocean purely composed of knowledge. The strange thing was that it did not have any retrieval measures, but Otto didn't care, his only The knowledge he desperately wanted to know was obtained as soon as he entered it - the story about a destroyed civilization.

In this case, he had some guesses about the identity of "Void Manzo" - the first Herrscher of the former civilization, Mikael, whose abilities were exactly the same as what Otto himself obtained from the golden cube. Coupled with the similarity in appearance to the description, it is almost confirmed.

But he had only seen the beginning of the story, and the rest still required a long process of searching and interpretation. Now, Otto no longer dares to think about what Mikael's purpose is. Of course he is curious, but the most important thing now is to protect himself, Kallen, and Vera...

What else can we do besides placing our hopes on others...

Otto's footsteps froze in place, and then he suddenly slapped his head - yes! That’s right! If you want to pursue a glimmer of hope, why must you take the initiative to approach danger?

Can't we just run down the mountain now while no one on Taixu Mountain can take care of them?

Otto quickly followed his habit and made a "theoretical verification" of this sudden idea, and the result was naturally completely feasible.

They followed the immortal on the way up the mountain. As long as they returned along the original path, they would not fall into the phantom formation. When the immortal brought them to China, he gave them a special communication. Even if they went down the mountain, they would not be arrested by the local officials...

Of course, this also means that they may be wanted... But with the level of Mikael and Red Kite Immortal, do you still need to be wanted if you want to take their lives?

Besides, they...

"No...why do I think so?"

Otto leaned against the courtyard wall and gently held his head - many of his thoughts at the moment were not very coherent from the perspective of logical reasoning, and there were even contradictions. This was quite different from his usual clear thinking. A long way from each other...

"Is this...is this true? Mikael, what do you want to do?"

He quickly figured out the whole story - of course the abnormality in his thinking was not that his brain was broken, but that Mikael, who had mastered the ability of consciousness, had left some psychological hints for him in the encounter just now. The only way to explain it.

"But...why did he do this?"

Otto believed that Mikael would not be unreasonable. Since he had imposed such a psychological suggestion on himself, it must mean that he needed Otto to do this... He wanted Otto to do this...

How about this time, should we follow his hint?

Of course Otto didn't want to be another person's tool or puppet, but reality did not allow too much time for hesitation and thinking. He quickly made a choice - he quickly ran back to the door of the house and pushed the door open:

"Karen, take Vera, let's go down the mountain quickly!"

Otto's gloomy expression startled both Kallen and Vera, but Kallen had no reason to refuse Otto when it came to going down the mountain.

This was, before she had time to respond, she saw Otto rushing back to his room in a hurry, and quickly ran back with a scroll in his hand.

"Just bring the pass, come with me quickly!"

Kallen is still ignorant and knows nothing about what happened on the mountain, so naturally she can only obey Otto's decision.

She put Vera on her shoulders, but Otto snatched Vera away. They ran wildly, passing by the deserted martial arts arena, and soon came to the edge of the trail that went up the mountain.

In order to prevent being disturbed by others, the road up the mountain was set up with hundreds of forks. If you take a wrong step, you will lose yourself in the illusion. This has successfully blocked Taixu Mountain in the past thousands of years. Too many visitors.

But the way down the mountain is different. All roads branch upward. This means that there is actually only one way down the mountain. Just go all the way to the end. It is easier than Otto thought before... Wait a minute, the fork. ?

Something flashed through Otto's mind, but he failed to catch it immediately, and could only take steps forward with a vague understanding.

The trail down the mountain was more than two miles long. In Kallen's current condition, it was hard to say she was not forced to walk down such a long trail in one go.

However, as time went by, the "restraints" Kallen was subject to slowly disappeared, and her physical abilities offset each other, rounding off to approximately no change.

After running like this for about ten minutes, he saw that the surrounding mountains were getting gentler and gentler, and not far away was the last fork in the road. Otto grabbed Karen, put down Vera on his shoulders, and sat down on the stone steps. He gasped for air.

Although he has done many experiments on himself, his physical constitution is not very good. Even if he is half Shaniyat blood, it cannot change the fact that he is weak and sick since he was a child, not to mention carrying a heavy weight on his shoulders. A Vera... He ran continuously for such a long time, and it was still downhill. He almost burst his lungs and his legs were shaking. After he sat down, he never wanted to stand up again.

It was such a short moment of respite that gave him time to look for the bright spots in his mind that he had not been able to find before——

Fork in the road?

A ridiculous idea came to mind: It couldn't be... that Mikael wanted to use him, the person who knew the route up the mountain, to lead the way for someone... right?

It has to be said that his intuition has been quite accurate recently. Before he could refute that ridiculous idea in his mind, he saw an extra... monster at the fork in the road not far away?

The man's face couldn't be clearly seen due to the hood, but the wagging tail behind him was a real presence.

"not good!"

Karen once again clutched the cross necklace on her chest, but this time, Otto held her hand down in time.

"Don't... don't. Let's observe first. She shouldn't be able to see us."

A deep sense of powerlessness surged into Otto's heart again. Why could Mikael's plan be so accurate in time? Could it be that in front of such an existence, he could only be a tool and a chess piece?

The path was blocked by Yu Duchen's phantom mist. The visitors could not see the specific situation above, but could only vaguely see two forked roads. However, Otto and his companions looked down from above and saw the movements of the "monster" clearly.

Just as Otto was still hesitating whether to obey Mikael's task again, the monster took out a shiny silver coin from his arms.

She stood at the fork in the road, muttered something, and then flicked her thumb, and the silver coin rolled in the air, and finally she pressed it back into her palm with a "snap".

"Front left, back right, front left, back right, front left, back right, open! Hey! Left!"

I don't know whether I should praise her luck for being so good. She chose the road where Otto and Kallen were.

She took a step towards the right path, then supported her forehead, and when she raised her head again, her eyes of different colors stared straight at Otto, Kallen, and Vera.

"Eh? You three, are the one that Boss Mikael said... that... that what?"

Pado held her chin and pursed her throat, but she couldn't remember what Mikael had said. In the end, she succeeded in calling out the title naturally with muscle memory:

"Boss!"

"You are..."

Kallen was a little confused, Vera's eyes followed the cat's tail that kept swinging behind Pado, only Otto, although the girl in front of him didn't finish her words, he still understood what she meant -

"You want to say, guide, right?"

Otto said the word tiredly.

"Ah, right, right! That's what I meant! Thank you for waiting for me here! When Boss Mikael told me before, he mentioned that I would see you after I tossed a coin to choose the first fork in the road. I was thinking, if that's the case, why not let you wait for me directly at the first fork in the road? Although I've always had good luck, if I make the wrong choice, it won't be good. Ahua's Yu Duchen won't let me off the hook... But, Boss Mikael is Boss Mikael after all, and he calculated everything..." At this point, the girl in front of him suddenly lowered her head and uttered a barely perceptible murmur: "If such a power could come earlier, it would be great..." But she quickly raised her head again, with a smile on her face: "Okay, okay, please trouble the two bosses and this little boss to lead the way for us!" ………… "Mikael, you——" Seeing Mikael construct the black abyss and white flowers, Hua finally couldn't sit still. "The only good thing on the mountain today is that no one bleeds." She held her breath and said this without thinking. She certainly believed that Mikael had his own considerations and his own sense of propriety, and she herself handed the power of disposal to Mikael. But she also knew that Mikael's perception of Su Mei from her perspective was not much better, and in the end, she still couldn't help wanting to protect her apprentice, even though the two had already fought each other... After all, it was the instinct of a master. But she also knew that such feelings were somewhat silly from Mikael's or Su Mei's perspective, so she could only make such obvious and obscure hints. "Okay, okay, everyone knows that you are protecting your apprentice." Mikael chuckled, "But, Hua, if I really want to do it, I don't need to take out a weapon, right?" Hua pursed her lips, it seemed to be true. In that case, why did Mikael take out the Black Abyss White Flower? In fact, as long as she calmed down and thought about what he said before, Hua would soon understand what he wanted to do. "Perhaps for you now, compared to punishment, what you get is more like a reward, but only after you have truly gone through those times, you will know what kind of torture you are enduring today."

Su Mei was still in a daze. With her intelligence, she guessed what Mikael was going to do even earlier than Hua, but she didn't believe that it was something that could be done by human power...

"No... Don't!"

Seeing Mikael holding up the spear, the youngest Yan Qing suddenly rushed out and resolutely blocked in front of Su Mei, and then with a sigh, Lin Chaoyu blocked in front of Yan Qing again.

Soon, Wan Xi, Wan Ru, and even the little apprentice sister Su Yi came over and stood with everyone. Only Ling Shuang was still squatting in the corner, carefully examining the fragments of the key of domination. When she found that there was no one around her, she barely reacted. She didn't say anything, but just clamped the fragments of the key of domination between her two fingers and stood beside the eldest sister.

"Everyone is responsible for their own actions. This matter is all my fault, so I will take it alone..."

Su Mei raised her head, but was interrupted rudely by Chao Yu halfway through her words:

"Then what? You live forever alone and watch us grow old one by one?"

Su Mei stared at the back of the eldest sister in a daze. For a moment, she didn't know whether she really wanted this "punishment" or just said it casually to ease the atmosphere.

But Mikael didn't give anyone a chance to regret:

"Very good, at least you know that you share the difficulties... Then, experience this "gift" that mortals can't get!"

After the words fell, nothing happened in the room, but everyone felt some changes in their bodies.

Hua looked at the backs of his disciples with a complex expression, but he became more and more confused about what Mikael was planning. Did he still need their power in the future he wanted?

"Um?"

Hua frowned and suddenly turned his gaze to the closed door. The next moment, the door was pushed open unceremoniously, and a familiar loud voice overwhelmed all other sounds:

"It's something serious, Ah Hua... Huh? Boss Mikael is here too..."