The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Miss Sushang, please come this way."

"Oh, okay, okay! Your Tianming Headquarters is such a big place. I am already familiar with it. Besides, there are road signs above my head, so there is no need for anyone to deliberately lead me!"

The girl was chewing on the meat buns that she had brought from the Tianming Canteen not long ago. The aroma of fat floated along the corridor along with the hot white steam. Considering that this is a floating airport, this smell will probably linger here all day. They couldn't get away - the younger girl who was walking in front of the girl showed an awkward smile.

"Miss Sushang, this is not a question of whether you are familiar with the road or not. It is a question of etiquette... La. Since you came here from a distant country, you are naturally considered a guest. How can a host not entertain guests and let the guests stay on their own? Where is the wayfinder at the master’s house?”

Su Shang curled her lips and muttered in an imperceptible voice:

"Actually... you don't have to be a guest..."

"Huh? Miss Sushang, what did you just say?"

"Ah...ha...I'm praising your Tianming chef for his great skills. The meat buns he makes are much more delicious than those made by the master! Alas! Ever since Li Xue...Uncle Shi was snatched away by your Tianming, Taixu Mountain's The food standard has dropped a lot, and I have to go down the mountain to buy steamed buns several times during my morning exercise.”

"Well, this... It is said that Miss Lixue taught the chef how to make many Chinese dishes, so the Chinese food in Tianming Canteen suddenly became more and more popular... Ah, that, but I just joined Tianming, I don’t know the specific situation, I just heard what others said..."

"well……"

Li Sushang sighed and looked at the girl leading the way again.

The girl is about fourteen or fifteen years old, but she already has to take on the responsibility of the Valkyrie... Ah ha, Li Sushang wants to laugh a little - for the era in which she was born, a girl of fourteen or fifteen is indeed not young. It was time to get married and have children, and it was at this age that she was driven down the mountain by her master to "test the sword."

However, the relatively peaceful society now has somewhat changed many of her ideas. She always feels that these Valkyries are less than eighteen years old, or even sixteen years old... somewhat cruel.

But there is really no way around it. The training of combat skills and tactics takes a long time, and personal martial arts is even more so. As far as Sushang herself is concerned, she has been practicing swordsmanship with her mother for as long as she can remember. He was sent to Taixu Mountain when he was five years old, and was personally taught by his master and master. After practicing for ten years, he was allowed to go down the mountain and travel around the world. As a result...

"Huh? So Li Xue...where has Uncle Master gone? Is there any combat mission? In the past, the Rakshasa people sent Li Xue to lead the way."

"Uh...I don't know about this. I haven't heard of any missions for Lord Lixue, but currently all A-level Valkyrie have been recalled and are in a state of combat readiness. They must be on standby at any time..."

Su Shang raised her brows and looked around again. Apart from the two of them, almost no one was walking in the aisle. The atmosphere was a bit strange and tense. But she was not surprised at all. After all, this was what she came for today.

"That's it...what about you? What's your name?"

"Ah...me? Miss Sushang is asking for my name?"

"Otherwise? Could you please lead me the way? I have to know your name. This is only polite!"

"Ah...ah, it's nothing."

The girl was praised and was very excited for a moment. She stopped and turned sideways a little helplessly, her side face and earlobes flushed.

"Um...my name is Ragnar, C-class Valkyrie Ragnar Lodbrok!"

After saying that, she probably felt that the "C-level Valkyrie" was a bit..., she immediately followed up and defended:

"However! Although I have only been a Valkyrie for a short time, I am already preparing for next year's B-level Valkyrie exam!"

"Very good! Very energetic!"

Su Chang waved her fist and loudly praised the girl's vitality!

"Yeah, Ragna, I know your determination, so...can you give in first, you are blocking my way..."

"Hey...hey! Lord Bishop!"

Ragnar was lightly patted on the head. She slowly turned her head and saw Otto's helpless face. Looking up again, she saw the sign for the men's room.

"Uh... uh... Lord Bishop, good afternoon..."

She silently took two steps back, still muttering fussily:

"Let me go...the bishop actually needs to go to the toilet!"

The muscles on Otto's cheeks twitched violently. He lowered his voice and asked deliberately pretending to be serious:

"Oh? We're also human, why don't I need to go to the toilet?"

"Ah...ah hahaha, it's mainly because I rarely see the bishop leaving his office..."

"Okay, Ragna, your mission has been completed. I will take Miss Sushang personally for the rest of the journey."

"Oh...ok! C-rank Valkyrie Ragna, mission accomplished!"

The girl bowed and fled the scene as if fleeing.

"Hey! Let me tell you! Why are you so strict, Rakshasa? Do you see how scared this little girl is to you?"

Otto shook his head and sighed helplessly:

"It's just a joke. Let me tell you, you always like to joke, but why can't you hear other people's jokes?"

"Ah... ah... am I like this..."

Otto raised his lips and said nothing. Sushang did not make a fuss. She rubbed her head and followed Otto quietly. After a few steps, they arrived at his magnificent bishop's office.

"Well, you came all the way from Shenzhou. What happened?"

Sushang sat obediently opposite Otto. She heard what Otto said, but did not rush to answer because her eyes were attracted by the figurine on Otto's desk.

"This is..."

For some reason, she felt an impulse in her heart. Although she knew that it was not a good behavior to move things without the consent of others, she still couldn't help but reach out to the figurine of the white-haired girl that she felt inexplicably familiar.

"Hmm?"

Otto took the figurine back to himself first, and then put it into the wooden box that appeared out of thin air and kept it properly.

Although her behavior was stopped, Su Chang was still not giving up. She lowered her head and pretended to be indifferent with her poor acting skills and asked:

"What is that figurine just now... Why does it feel familiar?"

"Oh? This one, it's familiar. I sent you a CD before, and it contains this, a role-playing game that I developed personally and has not been released to the public - "Karen Fantasy VIII""

"Karen Fantasy? Oh, oh... oh... Now that you mention it, I remember it, but there are no computers on Taixu Mountain. You said it would not be released to the public, and I didn't dare to use it in the Internet cafe or game hall, so until now, I have only seen the cover of the CD..."

This is another half-true statement. She initially felt that Karen's figurine was familiar because of the visual memory left to her by "Karen Fantasy VIII", but...

When she heard Karen's name, she actually remembered it.

"Rakshasa, Karen... is that the name of your childhood sweetheart?"

One, two, three - Otto took three slow breaths before answering slowly:

"Yes, but I just borrowed a name."

"Huh? Just a name? What about her appearance?"

"..."

Otto leaned on the blood-red sofa in silence. He spread his right hand and half a glass of red wine appeared in his hand. He took a sip before speaking again:

"I can't tell what she looks like... I can't tell."

"How could it be! Isn't this a game you made yourself? Karen must have been made according to her appearance in your memory, right?"

"... The problem lies in memory."

Otto shook the wine glass, and the floor-length curtains opened automatically without receiving any voice commands, allowing the brilliant sunset outside the window to fill the room without reservation.

Otto stared at the wine glass in his hand in a daze. Different reds were floating in the glass, and the light and shadow rotated and intertwined. It was beautiful, but there was only deep boredom in his eyes.

"The problem lies in memory... Sushang. After all, those were people and events from five hundred years ago. Five hundred years later, even if I try my best to look back at everything at that time, it's just a blur. Even she, even she, is just a blurry figure in my eyes. I can only see her snow-white hair and blue eyes, and the confident arc of her mouth. I can't see anything else."

Li Sushang knew what he was talking about. Kallen... This person had little to do with her. Kallen's death even happened before she was born. But...

But with Otto's tone that was so flat that there was no fluctuation, she felt sad and heartbroken inexplicably.

But she knew very well that she was not heartbroken for the illusory Kallen whom she had never met...Maybe a little bit, every tragedy will make people heartbroken. But in the final analysis, this kind of heartache is more about the pain for the man in front of her.

"I've heard you tell her story before."

"Well... that was five hundred years ago, which year exactly..."

"Using your calendar, it was 1496."

"You remember it clearly."

"After all, it was the year when my master drove me down the mountain to test my sword. How could I not have a deep impression of it?"

Su Chang forced out a bright smile. Yes, that was the year when she went down the mountain alone to test her sword. Although Taixu disciples were spread all over the world with the efforts of several uncles, her master did not allow her to report the name of Taixu Mountain, but made up something called the Supreme Freedom Sect... It was precisely because of this that until now, she still used this name when introducing herself to others... Of course, everyone in Shenzhou today knows that the Supreme Freedom Sect is a branch of the Taixu Sect.

But... none of this matters.

The important thing is that when she first entered the martial arts world that year, she met in the yellow sand-filled Western Regions...

"At that time, you were carrying two coffins on your back, one was Kallen's, and the other was..."

"My sister, Eleanor."

"Oh... Now that you mention it, I remember it."

Su Chang leaned forward and laid her upper body on Otto's desk. She tilted her head and looked at the sunset outside the window without saying a word. I don't know what she was thinking.

Otto was not in a hurry to speak. Logically, as a bishop of the destiny who held all the power, he shouldn't be so leisurely, but who made him have Amber as a tool? As for some obscure and unexplainable things... Hehe, if Otto Apokalis didn't take care of things for a few months or a year, the destiny would fall apart, which means that he really didn't make any progress in the past five hundred years.

Besides...

"I'm sorry, I asked you to tell those sad things again."

Su Chang lay on the table, and her voice became a little dull.

"It's nothing. Although it is indeed a sad thing, I have been used to being sad every day for decades or hundreds of years."

Su Shang nodded silently.

It seems reasonable at first glance. Su Chang lives in a different place. If he is really addicted to the grief of the past, he will not put Kallen's image into the game, and even make Kallen a figure for himself. In front of you.

In this way, wouldn't it make her even more sad just to see Karen?

right? right? right? Yes... right... yes...

If you say this, you can only lie to yourself, right?

【But... ugh! What does that have to do with this girl... I just feel that it is a bit... pitiful that such a good man would leave everything he had five hundred years ago... I have a chivalrous heart and just likes to help poor people. ! 】

"Hey! Rakshasa people, come and recite with me: Give up your fantasies and recognize the reality. The world is a beautiful place!"

Su Shang suddenly jumped up from her seat and raised her hands in the air, looking somewhat funny.

Otto smiled, "Where did you learn this?"

"A mental hospital!"

"...how did you get in..."

"Oh... I sneaked down the mountain to play that day, and I met a driver at the bus station who said I could take the bus for free, so I got on the bus, but he drove a bus full of people directly to a mental hospital. I kept stressing that I was not sick, but The doctors and nurses there said that only those who are sick think they are not sick, and people who are not sick think they are sick. What kind of theory is this? It wasn't until the third day that the police came to the door and complained about the driver. He was hired to transport a carload of mental patients to a mental hospital, but this guy got off the bus and bought some roast chicken. When he came back, he found that the people in the car had all run away. He was afraid that the money would be deducted, so...just..."

"Pfft...hahahaha...hahahahahaha...ahhahahahahaha..."

"Oh Rakshasa, why are you laughing!"

Su Shang was ashamed and angry, but in the end, wasn't she the one who told this embarrassing thing that should have been buried? But people are often like this. On the one hand, they want to use their embarrassing things to attract someone's attention, but if they really laugh about it, it will make themselves even more shy.

"Ahhh! Rakshasa, don't laugh!"

Su Shang sat down on the table and slapped Otto's face hard with both hands, directly compressing his facial muscles together. Now Otto really couldn't laugh anymore.

"Okay, okay, I just won't laugh."

Otto made a promise, and Su Shang sat back in her seat with a pouted mouth.

"Huh? What did I just say?"

He had clearly decided in his mind to say something serious just a moment ago, but as soon as the words came out of his mouth, he somehow turned down another road:

"That was... 1476."

"Huh? What did you say?"

"I said, the year she and her... Karen and Eleanor died was 1476. The spring of 1476."

"Rakshasa, you..."

"listen to me."

He clearly said, "Listen to me," but after the words fell, he himself fell into a long silence.

"If... if you are unhappy... don't say anything..."

Su Shang's eyelids kept twitching. She wanted to continue listening, but she didn't want the Rakshasa to continue talking.

It's painful enough to chew on those painful memories alone in the middle of the night, let alone talk about them in full again?

"No, that's not the case."

Otto drooped his eyelids and looked absent-minded, but he could easily see through Su Chang's heart.

"Perhaps those memories do mean pain. But I have deeply felt the powerlessness of memory. Su Shang, what is more painful than retelling these is to watch the once clear memories become blurred and finally helpless. So, I will I tell you this story, just remember it for me. If one day I forget something important... it's up to you to tell me."

Su Shang swallowed her saliva. She wanted to say that her memory was really bad and she was often criticized by her master at the private school when she was a child, but she did not dare to say it out loud. She was afraid that the Rakshasa people would give up her plan to continue talking.

So, she just listened quietly:

"You all know the previous story. I followed my sister Lisa's instigation and opened a special prison in Klosten - the prison where Honkaimon is held. No, there is nothing to cover up until now. It's necessary. It's a laboratory, an underground laboratory, a laboratory specially used for conducting experiments on Honkai beasts, and I am half the owner of the laboratory.

"When I shook off the small number of Honkai beasts that were clinging to me and returned to the ground, the entire Klosten was already in a sea of ​​fire. Before I could even react to what was happening, I saw someone fighting. With just one blow, I was killed. All the buildings in Klosten were razed to the ground except for the church with the protective circle.”

The corner of Su Shang's mouth twitched. She remembered that her master and master seemed to have been to Klosten. Could it be...

"At that time, I didn't know the situation at all, and I didn't know whether Kallen was saved. I just ran as fast as I could in the direction of the church, because the gallows prepared for Kallen was right there... But when I got there, everything was gone. It no longer exists. I can only continue to search... But not long after, the whole city was submerged in ice and snow again. My body could not resist the temperature, and it didn't take long before I fainted in the snow... By the time I did, When I woke up, the ice and snow were gone, and all traces of frostbite on my body were gone. The ground as far as I could see was covered with lilies as white as snow."

"Then what……"

"My father died directly in that disaster, and more than half of the castle council was killed or injured, and its power was greatly reduced. On a field full of lilies, my sister Lisa took my eldest brother's son Marcel and inherited the Archbishop of Destiny. position. He also reprimanded me for allowing the Honkai Beast to enter the city and colluding with outsiders to destroy the hanging ceremony. I was deprived of the surname of Apokalis and could never return to Klosten."

"Ah... then you..."

"Oh, by the way, she also portrayed both Karen and Eleanor as evil people who colluded with outsiders to try to subvert the destiny. But only I know that it was the two of them who saved Klosten."

"Ah... you, how did you know?"

"When Lisa and Marcel were holding the bishop's coronation ceremony at the door of the church, I found the weapon that Eleanor had used - the Key to Creation, the White Flower of the Black Abyss - on the field full of lilies."

"Uh... Is that the one you treated me for?"

"Um."

"But, in the final analysis, you just saw a weapon. How to identify them... Well, I didn't mean that, I was just curious..."

"I understand, I know you're not that kind of person."

Just a simple sentence, Su Chang was instantly obsessed.

Otto didn't say anything more. He raised his hand to the side of the air, and there was a piece of pink letter paper in his hand that was almost as brand new.

"There is this on the ground next to the white flowers in the black abyss."

Su Shang took the letter. The handwriting on the paper looked like it was written by a woman. It was neat and neat, with playful curls added at the end of the strokes, and the punctuation marks in some places were replaced with cute musical notes.

She couldn't help but read out loud:

"This city was saved because of the sacrifices of the two of them. They gave their blood to the key of creation in exchange for the lilies that never fade in this field. They used their lives to save a group of innocent people. People who don't love them and don't understand them. They are real heroes, but I'm sorry that I took their bodies away. The bodies drained of blood by the black abyss and white flowers are not good-looking, but beautiful girls, even Even if they die, they should also leave their most beautiful side to the people they love. Of course, the corpse must not be beautiful, so just remember the most beautiful moment in your memory. "

"Uh...their bodies were taken away by unknown persons? Then what was in the coffin you were carrying..."

"They are clones of the two of them. They are just superficial, soulless clones. I know that Red Kite Immortal has a magic that targets the soul, and I want to use it. At that time, I just thought that as long as I can recall their Putting the soul into a body that is exactly the same as in life, maybe we can resurrect them."

Su Shang pursed her lips and said innocently:

"Crime...grab who?"

Otto closed his eyes and opened them in an instant.

"Okay, now that I've made you laugh, let's get back to business - Miss Li Sushang, the third generation head of Taixu Sect in China, who unexpectedly gained immortality due to a mistake her mother made, you came all the way to Destiny, what’s the point?”

"I want to eat the wonton noodles made by Uncle Li Xue."

"ha?"

"Uh, no, I mean, in the west of China... Siberia, there seems to be abnormal Honkai energy reactions there. You must have known about this, right? I just heard Ragna say that all A-level women The God of War has entered a state of combat readiness."

"Well, that's true. But according to the agreement I signed with your master, Siberia should belong to my destiny's sphere of influence, right?"

"Bah! You evil villain, don't try to deceive me! When I came here, I specifically read the original agreement. It clearly said... Hey, how did you say that?"

"Tianming and Taixu Sect work together to ensure the safety of Siberia. If a collapse disaster occurs in Siberia, it will be dealt with by Tianming first."

"Ah...oh...it seems like this. Anyway, this girl is here to inform you. If you can't handle that thing, you Rakshasa people, don't be so shameless. As long as you say it, our Taixu Sect will be ready at any time. support."

"I understand the Taixu Sect's good intentions, but at least for now, things are still completely within the control of Tianming."

Otto stood up lazily, and Su Chang was naturally not to be outdone.

But as if they had a tacit understanding, the two of them turned to look out the window at the same time——

Dusk has passed, and the full moon hangs quietly above the sea of ​​clouds.

Out of nowhere, Li Sushang asked a question that she had always wondered:

"Hey, Rakshasa people, I heard that you went to the moon decades ago. What did you see? Why was lunar exploration later banned? It can't really be like science fiction. There are alien debris on the back of the moon, right? ?”

"Science fiction also says that there will be a war between humans and aliens this year..."

"Hey! Maybe! There are still the last few days of this year, so don't talk too much!"