The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Come here, Eve, come and see this carousel!"

The girl looked around, and while she was still hesitating, a huge force came from her hand, and her whole body was pulled over without any explanation.

"Wait...wait, MAMA, this, this..."

"Ah? Is this a merry-go-round? Why... Ah, yes, there shouldn't be such a thing in your era, right? How about it, isn't it cute? It's suitable for girls, right?"

"Uh uh... this..."

That's not the problem... The corners of Eve's eyes twitched slightly. Although she has never seen or ridden this merry-go-round in reality, she has ridden a real horse... Looking at this merry-go-round under this premise, the bright and colorful shape is indeed very good, but it is somewhat... childish .

But the girl next to her obviously didn't think so. When Eve wasn't paying attention, she picked up Eve from behind and quickly put her on the wooden horse. She jumped onto the other horse. Then, before Eve could react, she snapped her fingers, a childish children's song sounded, and the wooden horse began to spin slowly.

"well……"

At the top of the castle in the distance, Mikael held his forehead and sighed softly.

"That's great. The carousel is still too childish for Eve, but it's just right for Ellie."

Another voice sounded behind him, with a hint of envy.

"...If you want, you can bring Adam to play."

"Then forget it."

Mei pushed up her glasses with one hand and shook her head slowly.

"I heard from Ellie that you almost never appear in front of Adam, but you have a good relationship with Eve?"

"That's right...Adam's child is so similar to his father. I don't know...I still don't know how to be a good mother. And Eve...is my future daughter-in-law after all, so of course she needs to communicate more Communicated.”

"Do you get along with the kids?"

Mikael held his chin up and rolled his eyes in a circle.

"That being said, I'm not suitable for getting along with children. Ai Li can get along with the two of them, but in this way, I really..."

"Don't look at me, I can't learn it either."

"Cough cough cough!"

Mikael smiled while coughing. Indeed, the way Ellie interacts with others would appear deliberate and contrived if applied to any other person. Only she, even though she sometimes seems too intimate, is not As for being annoying.

"In the final analysis, this is because... we were missing in their childhood. They came to the paradise when they were almost adults. Looking at us who are about the same age as them... if we think about it, if it were me It’s Adam, I’m afraid it’s hard to regard this girl named Mei as his mother.”

"But... I remember that I left a clone body for you and Ellie. If you want to leave the paradise for a short time and go to the real world, it is not impossible, right?"

"Yeah, but Ai Li has never gone out once, and I don't know what I should do out there. In fact, it's good to just stay here. Everything I could have wished for fifty thousand years ago, a peaceful and ordinary life, is here. Yes. It can only be said that it is indeed the paradise that Alicia calls it. It is more ideal than a utopia, but it is a real world. "

"But if you live like this for too long, it will be boring, right?"

"I said, this kind of life is everything we fought for fifty thousand years ago. Now that it has been realized in this way, I naturally can't ask for more. But what you said is boring... maybe, but there are also Maybe it’s because I’m used to the life in the paradise, and I’m more afraid of the unknown outside than the boredom caused by the same, maybe?”

Mei's chuckle was carried to Mikael's ears by the soft wind. His eyes slanted to the side, his eyelids blinked twice, and then drooped.

"Afraid of the unknown? That's not something you would say."

"Well?"

Mei was stunned for a moment, then asked with a smile:

"Then what do you think I should say?"

Without waiting for Mikael to answer, she continued:

"Mikael, after all, you still treat me and us as the heroes in your memory. However, without the halo you subjectively bestowed on me, I am actually just a girl whose life stopped in her twenties. That’s all. Of course, I also have the pain, worry, timidity, and cowardice that normal people should have. Even a true hero must have such a dark side. Or, it is precisely because a person can be painful, timid, and cowardly, but He still chooses to face everything bravely, so we call him a hero. Of course, I can’t.”

Mikael moved the tiles on the roof, neither confirming nor refuting. After a long time, he suddenly changed the topic:

"So... I'm not saying, Mei, Adam still doesn't know who his mother is, right?"

"I didn't tell him. But it doesn't matter. He can guess it to some extent. Even if he can't guess it, after exploring the Paradise of the Past for so long, it's time to see some memories that belong to our era."

Mikael was silent. He sat on the rafter and quietly looked at the pink clouds created by Ellie's imagination without saying a word.

"What? It's so hard to come to the promised land, why don't you go and spend some time with your daughter?"

Mikael still didn't reply. He stared unblinkingly at the slowly rotating wooden horse not far away. The melodious melody of children's songs continued to echo in this paradise, but he gradually couldn't hear clearly and had no desire to distinguish.

"Sure enough, you haven't changed much from fifty thousand years ago."

Mei held on to the spire on the top of the building and waved her hand towards the back of Mikael's head:

"Then, I'm going back to rest. If possible, I suggest you meet Eve. That child has a very similar personality to yours, and besides... today is her birthday."

"..."

"Ah, yes, it was the same day as that incident. Mikael, time for Ellie and I has stopped fifty thousand years ago. But you and Eve will continue to move forward, and she will continue to move forward for decades, You have to move on for thousands of years... You still have a long way to go. Leaving behind some... unforgettable and beautiful memories may help you face everything in the future more easily. "

"Whoa-pop!"

Mikael's hand shook. He remembered that his hand shaking the tiles shook at that time, so the tiles rolled down the slope of the roof and shattered on the shadow-covered masonry floor.

"Ah……"

Although it was a long sigh, there was no sound echoing around. There was only a ball of white steam curled up against the dark background, slowly floating up, and it was particularly conspicuous.

"It's so ridiculous, Mikael, that you are stuck in a memory from five thousand years ago... Well, five thousand years ago, not fifty thousand years ago."

He smiled to himself, but no one could hear it but himself.

He raised his head vigorously. He had asked countless questions before. This was clearly the back side of the moon, but why could he see the gray earth when he raised his head?

But looking back now, that kind of doubt was not born out of a real desire for knowledge, but just a sense of novelty brought about by the subversion of common sense. This was already the countless times he had looked up at the earth from here, and he would never have that question in his mind again.

Because he has long been used to it, so accustomed that he is too lazy to make such meaningless thinking.

"Heh...heh...yawn——"

He slept for a long time, and his tiredness returned again. He wanted to yawn, but all he got was an extreme tingling sensation.

"Kevin, you're so harsh..."

He lowered his head and glanced at his chest. The double-pronged tip of the red spear pierced deeply into his lungs. As the chest and abdominal muscles squirmed, more and more blood poured out along the wound, drawing out on the pale skin. Thin red line.

"I don't know who won that battle back then... Really, don't let that guy get lost in the quantum sea."

"Sigh... With his Chimera physique, long-term survival in the Quantum Sea is not a problem. However, Mikael... I have always wanted to ask you, does such an injury really not matter?"

Hearing the voice in his head, Mikael turned his head subconsciously, but didn't feel anyone around him.

He was stunned again before he remembered that it was the voice of Prometheus No. 17.

"Don't worry about me, my body is still essentially... nothing can kill me."

"Haha, I have no obligation to worry about anyone. According to my personal position, I should be more worried about Kevin."

"Hmph, then you...didn't you still follow my method?"

"That has nothing to do with anything else, it's just because Dr. Mei asked me to listen to you."

Mikael smacked his lips and stopped asking for trouble.

"So, how long have I been in coma? The collapse of the earth hasn't officially started yet..."

"Oh, more than five hundred years. But I'm sorry, a Herrscher has already appeared on the earth. Since I couldn't wake you up before, I made my own decision and implemented plan No. 2."

Mikael tilted his head with difficulty on the cross, "Oh, it seems I woke up at the wrong time?"

"No, you woke up at the right time. No matter which plan it is, the second Honkai Impact and the third Honkai Impact are the top priority. Unfortunately, I just deceived a girl as planned not long ago. , She will probably be here soon."

"Ah... that's a coincidence. It's also a boring time, but dreams are much more interesting than reality. On the 17th, I'll sleep a little longer. When the child comes, remember to call me."

"You-hehe..."

Before No. 17 could say anything, he saw pink feathers falling slowly - Mikael actually used the power of consciousness to force himself into sleep.

However, it’s okay to fall asleep... If we say that for the former Ying Jie and the survivors of the Fire Chasing Moth, they can seek everything they have fought for and even dared not dream of in the promised land. .

For this man, what he wants no longer exists in this world. In other words, what he pursues does not exist in this world - it does not exist in the past, nor in the future, nor is it possible. Something that exists now and shouldn't exist at all.

Continuing to stay here, continuing to stay here... is just feeling the huge pain of being nailed to the cross.

Then, only in dreams, and only in dreams in which all pain is artificially deleted, leaving only incomplete beautiful fragments, can he briefly get the peace he wants.

"Mikael...you...next time..."

She didn't know why, but she just couldn't put the scattered words together into what she wanted to say.

"Tch... this idiot, although his body is still the cocoon of the end, the power of the end... no longer belongs to you. How could... how could he not die? Really, stupid human beings, Why do we need to do this? ”

As an artificial intelligence with absolute rationality, she could never understand this man's choice.

He abandoned everything he once believed in, everything he once owned, all the glory he once had, and the beliefs he once cherished. In the end, he even abandoned his own life... No, in the above Among these, life may still be the cheapest thing.

So, it’s normal not to understand, right?

…………

"Further forward...further forward...I see it! I see the place that the Lord God said!"

As if feeling the excitement of the creator, Benares flapped his wings vigorously, and the loose soil on the moon surface instantly rose up, obscuring everything around him.

But even so, Xilin could still see the huge cross that could not be blocked by the thin smoke, and...

Benares slowly landed on the scorched black wasteland. Unlike other parts of the moon, the soil here was hard and cracked. It was obviously night on the back of the moon at this time, but there was still an extremely high temperature. When Benares His sharp claws touched the ground, and white smoke rose up.

"Has there ever been a fight here?"

Siren blinked. She had not long since become the Second Herrscher, and she was already at a time when she was extremely sensitive to Honkai energy. Of course, if you want to feel the Honkai energy here, you don't actually need to be very sensitive at all, because...

Compared to the earth, compared to the place where she caused Honkai with her own hands, compared to the Honkai energy piggy bank she had absorbed... If the Honkai energy spread by the first three is to her, it is the same as in the desert. A drop of water, a glass of water in daily life, a bathtub of water that you can comfortably soak in and take a bath, then here...

It was like an ocean that would drown even the fish like her.

She couldn't help but take a big breath, even though she couldn't breathe any air on the cold and hot back side of the moon.

"Roar!"

Seemingly sensing something was wrong with her state, Benares let out a low growl. Although the actual sound was extremely low on the back of the almost airless moon, it brought Sirin's attention back just right without causing any harm. As for scaring her.

"Yes, Bella, please wait here for a while, I want to go to see the Lord in person..."

The girl reached out her hand and stroked the hard bone armor on Benares' face. Benares raised his neck a few times, then obediently laid his body on the ground.

"Trust me, Bella."

The girl forced out a smile, a warm smile:

"I will definitely get strength from the gods, and then..."

She didn't know if Bella could hear it, but she still spoke softly, until the corners of her mouth raised in a smile became higher and higher, and finally turned into a crazy smile:

"Then, destroy those who took everything from us, this ugly world, and all these ugly human beings!"

She turned around and nodded firmly:

"Lord God, here I come!"

She began to take steps towards the crimson cross, one step, two steps, three steps...

Suddenly, a hurricane suddenly blew up on the lunar surface, which had no atmosphere. Xilin's figure remained motionless in the wind, but both in front of her and behind her were covered by yellow sand and dust. Even the eye-catching huge No more red crosses...wait...yellow!

yellow?

Why is there yellow dust on the moon?

This question rang in Xilin's mind, but was not captured by her attention.

Even though you can’t see clearly the situation on the road ahead, as long as you move forward, you will definitely reach the place the god said, right?

She took a step forward confidently, but then her complexion changed. A stronger storm rolled back from the front, pushing her body back bit by bit, and when she turned to the person she had always relied on, , when I prayed for the power given by God, I received no response.

"This must be a test from the gods! That's right! This must be a test from the gods!"

Xilin gritted her teeth and took another step forward, but the wind surged again as her footsteps fell. This time she was no longer pushed back, but almost torn to pieces by the wind.

Her body was so heavy that the wind cut countless wounds on her body. As soon as the blood beads flowed out of the wounds, they were carried back by the wind.

"If you call Bella now...Bella..."

no!

"Lord God said that I am the only one who can reach that location..."

Siren trembled and took another step forward.

"Boom——"

There seemed to be such a gentle sound echoing throughout the space, and Sirin felt that her entire body was bound by cold crystals, unable to move at all.

"Damn it...but...but I must..."

"Do we really want to move forward?"

A strange voice sounded in her head.

"Does it need to be said? Of course!"

"Click——"

Something started to break.

"It will be very painful if we keep going."

"But what pain can be compared to everything I suffered before..."

"Ka-ka-"

The cracks on the crystal gradually expanded, and the voice asked the final question:

"So, Siren, are you sure that what you are thinking at this moment is completely correct?"

"Then there's no point in...saying it!"

Xilin tried her best to shout loudly, but what she received was a faint sound:

"Maybe, Siren, there's still some time before the real choice...before then, you can get what you want."

"boom--"

Everything that restrained her disappeared without a trace in an instant, and the sudden strong wind seemed as if it had never appeared before.

When Siren came to her senses, she was standing on the edge of the huge pit directly below the tall cross.

The cross spreads upward to the sky beyond the reach of the eye, and on top of the cross, there is a figure as huge as the cross...

No, to be precise, half of it - this body that was so pale that there was no blood at all was cut off from the waist. The blood seemed to have drained away long ago, and only the last bit slipped away drop by drop along the lines of the cross.

The gaze continued upward, and two huge rock pillars nailed its palms to the cross. This position obviously could not bear the weight of the entire body, so there was a huge red spear on its chest, which was what really held it Something fastened to the cross.

As his gaze continued upward, the man's face became blurry due to shadows.

God just asked her to come here, but Xilin didn't know what to do next.

"ah--"

At this moment, two blood-red light spots suddenly lit up on the man's dark face.

And a familiar voice also sounded in Xilin’s heart:

"My child, you are finally here... Pull out the spear, and my seal will be lifted, and you will get the power you dream of..."