The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Boom——"

The sudden light of lightning dyed the entire world into its own color. It was not a lifeless white in an instant, nor a weird and alluring purple, but a red, as red as blood.

The thunder was continuous, and the lightning seemed to never stop. The rain naturally continued to fall, falling in an erratic manner, smashing into pieces on the steel tentacles protruding from the ruins. The broken raindrops splashed like broken jade, and finally merged silently into a low-lying area under the ruins.

"Crack——"

The next moment, a staggering figure stepped into the depression and fell down.

"Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-uh-ah!"

Raiden Ryoma covered his abdomen with his left hand, and stuffed the bent and deformed steel bar under his knees with his right hand, straightened it, and then inserted it into the uneven ground, using his hands to support it, trying to get up again.

But he obviously overestimated the stability of this pile of broken bricks and rubble. The steel bar that poked the ground suddenly scratched, and he fell to the ground with a groan.

"He-he-he-"

He gasped for breath, and the wound on his abdomen would initially send waves of pain to his brain, causing a muffled groan. However, under the cold rain, the nerves at the wound gradually became numb, and if Except for the place where the palm is pressed, there is a warm and viscous liquid that is completely different from the rain. It is constantly pouring out. You don't even realize that there is a wound on your waist and abdomen.

The thunder and lightning dragon horse just lay there, as if it had given up all struggle.

He didn't know what time it was, but it always felt like it wasn't too long before the disaster happened. But the winter night always comes so early. The full moon, which is supposed to symbolize reunion, floats into the middle of the night without noticing. The blood-red clouds in the sky actually make an opening for it, as if it is afraid of thunder and lightning. Invisible.

I heard that during a total lunar eclipse, the originally bright white moonlight will be polluted into red. Thunderbolt Ryoma didn't know if there was a so-called total lunar eclipse tonight, or if the terrifying lightning had polluted the moon like this, but it didn't matter anymore.

The crimson moon reflects the crimson city, and also reflects the world that is gradually approaching its end.

"Meiyi...have you finally...become a Herrscher? Hehehehe...hahahaha!"

Raiden Ryoma felt that he was ridiculous, so hypocritical and ridiculous.

Eight years ago, although it was Mikael who proposed that implanting the Conquering Stone into Mei's body could cure her terminal illness, how could this treatment method, which had no theoretical basis, be put into action without his approval?

He knew that such a day would come eight years ago, but he did not make any preparation for it. He just spent these eight years day by day with a sense of luck.

It is true that when he met with Mikael yesterday afternoon, the other party confessed that he had the ability to modify other people's memories. So if you think about it boldly, it is not too much of a guess that he has the ability to modify other people's cognitions, right?

Maybe this is okay, as long as you conclude in your heart that this kind of luck is due to Mikael's guidance, then you are not wrong.

But you can't lie to yourself at all.

The ability to act on consciousness sounds very strong, but there can be no perfect thing in the world. After all, only consciousness and cognition are modified, and the facts will not change.

For another example, if a person does not know that he is in a dream, he may feel that the dream is very realistic, but once he clearly knows that he is dreaming, the lines and colors in the dream will be too simple and cannot be deceived. to people.

Of course, even if Mikael did all of this, wouldn't he be able to escape his crime of not knowing people well and luring a wolf into the house?

If Mikael heard his thoughts, he might not be able to help but complain:

"They are really like father and daughter. They take all problems on themselves."

Just for this dazed moment, the rain blurred my eyes again.

"snort……"

The lightning dragon horse groaned, the muscles all over his body bulged, and the wound on his abdomen that was almost frozen by the cold rain finally felt a little pain.

His hands groped back and forth among the brick fragments, and his palms soon became bloody and bloody, but he still moved sideways little by little until he rested his back against the broken wall nearby.

The pain in his hands gradually faded away under the wash of the rain, and he felt a little unaccustomed to having his hands empty. He groped around and finally found the steel bar that had come out of the retention yard with him.

"Haha...hehe...I didn't expect that the person who would accompany me to the end would be such a thing."

The heavy prison uniform was soaked by the rain and clung to the body coldly, making people feel sick. Thunderbolt Ryoma sat up straighter, unbuttoned his buttons one by one, took off half of his clothes, rested against the wall for a while, and then took off the other half.

The cold wind blew across his exposed upper body, seeming to make the countless scars deeper and longer.

There were countless wounds, and the one on the abdomen was just the longest and deepest one.

The raindrops accidentally hit the wound, arousing a slight pain, but it was quickly replaced by numbness. Lightning Ryoma smiled, at least he got rid of the cold, sticky, oppressive, and breathless prison uniform, right?

He suddenly threw the steel bar in his hand into the rubble.

His luck was really used in unnecessary places. He was not transformed into a dead soldier in the first place, nor was he blocked in the narrow and long passage like most people.

He escaped, but so what? If he had a choice, he hoped that none of this had happened. He hoped that the person who "escaped" was his daughter... If this was really going to happen, why couldn't he die before he realized what was going on?

"Mei Yi...Mei Yi...Mei Yi..."

Leaning against the rough wall, Thunderbolt Ryoma's consciousness gradually blurred, leaving only his mouth still mumbling his daughter's name.

"Boom——"

Thunder light penetrated the sky and the earth, and the thunder shook Ryoma. He felt that his internal organs were churning, but his consciousness was unexpectedly clear.

At the same time, a light flashed in his mind——

"Mei Yi...I can't fall here...Herrscher doesn't mean...right! So what if I have become a Herrscher? There is still hope, isn't the leader of the alliance also a Herrscher!"

He had to look for the discarded steel bars again. It was his only weapon and his only support.

But this time, his luck was not so good. Just as he knelt down and sat up, he staggered again, and his entire upper body fell into the depression filled with red rainwater.

"Cough...cough...bah!"

Red water splashed into his mouth, and he couldn't tell for a moment whether the disgusting smell was the earthy smell or the bloody smell.

"Meiyi...wait for a while...wait for me a little longer..."

In a daze, the thunder seemed to dissipate, but even without the thunder light, the whole world was still red, as if soaked in blood.

Or maybe it's not the whole world that's soaked in blood, but his eyes.

"Uh...ahhh..."

If there is something in your heart that you must do, you can easily endure the pain, right?

Thunder Ryoma stood up, and he finally stood up again. Although he didn't know where Mei Yi was now, although he also knew how naive it was to want Mei Yi, who transformed into a Herrscher, to fight for humanity like the leader of the alliance. Delusional, but since he is standing here, since he can still stand up, it cannot be said that there is no hope at all!

"puff--"

"Ugh! Cough--cough--"

Everything happened too suddenly. Thunderbolt Ryoma had just gained the hard-won hope, but now everything was shattered.

He lowered his head and looked at the right hand that came out of his chest. Even though the hand was bathed in blood, and even though the palm was holding a piece of flesh that was constantly expanding and shrinking, he still recognized the owner of that hand immediately -

"rice--"

The heart was directly crushed, and the Thunderbolt Ryoma lost all vital signs before he could leave any words.

Mikael silently withdrew his hand, and the pieces of his heart and the hot blood fell back to the ground little by little under the pull of gravity, and merged into the puddle of red water.

"Good idea, Raiden Ryoma."

Mikael muttered to himself while looking at the man's corpse.

"But unfortunately, you know too much."

Mikael is not a murderer, nor does he have to kill the lightning dragon and horse.

If there hadn't been the confrontation between Raiden Ryoma and him yesterday afternoon, Mikael would have had no reason to kill him. Even considering Mei Yi's friendship, he would take the initiative to save him.

But since Ryoma has noticed his abnormality, there is nothing to say.

It is true that he can use the power of consciousness to modify Raiden Ryoma's memory and make him forget his doubts about himself.

But why would he do this? Why do you do this?

Mikael had to admit one thing - Thunder Ryoma was still very keen.

Ordinary people would only feel deep despair and powerlessness when faced with the unreasonable power of the power of consciousness, but Raiden Ryoma calmly analyzed the biggest weakness of the power of consciousness.

As he thought, the power of knowledge can only change consciousness and cognition, but cannot change established facts. This seemingly omnipotent power is actually nothing more than a rootless tree.

Of course, Mikael could not kill him and instead use the power of consciousness to modify his consciousness or even control him, but doing so would be risky. Since Thunderbolt Ryoma could wake up for the first time, he could also wake up for the second time. In the following time, Mikael had no time or mood to stare at him every day, constantly using the power of consciousness to brainwash him, in case he influenced him The whole plan, that's not good.

Therefore, it is better to kill directly. Dead people cannot speak, and killing does not cost much. You only need to take out the heart and crush it. It is that simple.

What reason does Mikael have to let Thunder Ryoma survive?

Because of Mei? He is no longer the Mikael who never saw others sad. Besides, whether Mei Yi is happy or sad, what does it have to do with him? He only needs the other person to follow the path he set to reach the end step by step. This is the fundamental relationship between them.

As for the Thunder and Lightning Ryoma thing, it is enough not to let Mei know that the Thunder and Lightning Ryoma died at his hands before the planned turning point comes.

Or, it could be said that it was precisely because the relationship between the two of them was too close when they got together before that he needed such hatred so that she could do something to him without hesitation one day in the future.

Kill two birds with one stone, isn't it?

Mikael raised his right hand, and the gradually thinning rain was naturally not enough to wash away the blood on his palm and fingertips, not to mention that there were still pieces of Thunder Dragon Horse's flesh between Mikael's nails.

His movements paused, and suddenly he laughed "chichi". With his shoulders constantly shrugging, he put the five fingers of his right hand into his mouth and sucked them clean one by one.

"So, if you know too much and think too much, you will pay the price with your life..."

Mikael smiled, as if talking to himself, but the next moment, he turned his head and showed the broken flesh and bloodshot eyes between his teeth with a weird smile.

"Are you right? I've been hiding there and watched the whole thing. What do you think?"

With a "pop" sound, the broken bricks rolled down. Almost at the same time as Mikael made a sound, a black shadow flashed across the bloody city. She held the blue sword upside down and pointed it at Mikael's head. Crossed the neck.

"when--"

What blocked the sword's edge was a big sword with leaping flames.

"No...how is that possible! How could the Holy Inquisitor of Heavenly Fire be in his hands?"

Li Xue was just stunned for a moment, and in the next moment, all the Honkai energy poured into Ruoshui.

The erratic raindrops within a radius of several hundred meters turned and shot at the man in front of him in an instant. However, he first used force on his wrist to push back Li Xue's helpless body in mid-air, and then staggered and twisted his body like a drunken man, using the Skyfire Great Sword. Then draw a circle and evaporate all the needle-like raindrops.

"do not underestimate me!"

In the depression at Mikael's feet, the red water condensed into a tentacle, which directly wrapped around Mikael's left leg, and then continued to wrap upwards, binding it to his chest in the blink of an eye.

More liquid circled around Li Xue's body and formed a huge water dragon. With her "Go", the seven or eight meter thick water dragon rose into the sky and swirled in the sky. , and went straight to Mikael.

"well……"

Mikael sighed, and the high temperature emitted by the Skyfire Great Sword evaporated the tentacles trying to bind him. However, the water dragon condensed by Li Xue had already rushed in front of him, and the time was just right.

"That's it..."

Only then did he remember that during the second collapse, the girl in front of him had also faced the Herrscher of Mimetic Flame. She suffered a loss at first, but now she has naturally made progress.

Faced with being tied up, the first reaction of most people is to break free, but Li Xue has already taken this step. The reason why the water dragon first rises into the air and then turns a corner and runs towards Mikael is not to look good, but to look good. It's to save time.

She gave Mikael time to evaporate the tentacles with flames, but how long can the high temperature given by the power of fire last? At least the Herrscher of Pseudo-Flame and Siegfried who used the Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment she had faced could only maintain the high temperature for a moment. If the time was extended any longer, they would be irreversibly damaged.

And when the high temperature subsided, Mikael could only take the water from her.

Of course, she did not rule out the possibility that Mikael would wait until the water dragon attacked before using the high temperature of the power of fire, but even so, she had no loss and treated it as an ordinary confrontation. Maybe there will be a surprise - the water vapor formed by a large amount of evaporation will not cool down immediately, and it might even burn Mikael.

Reality seemed to obey her thoughts. Mikael immediately used high temperature to evaporate the tentacles, and the water dragon had already arrived in front of Mikael in a hurry.

Taking into account people's stress response, the control of time is also quite precise. If the opponent is not Mikael, this is certainly a perfect attack.

But for Mikael, the reason why he evaporated the tentacles without hesitation was simple - he didn't care.

He had too many ways to deal with the water dragons that came one after another. He was neither a half-assed Herrscher of Fire nor a genetically degraded Kaslana. The five thousand-degree high temperature had no impact on his "cocoon". "It's not even a sauna.

In addition, he had eleven other powers that could be used to stop the water dragon. The reaction time he spent selecting the powers was even longer than his astonishment.

"puff--"

The water dragon smashed into pieces against Mikael's face, and the remaining water droplets slowly fell along the air, as if there was an invisible wall blocking Mikael's face.

"This is! No...who are you, and why do you have the power of the Herrscher of the Sky...Ah, you were told by Senior Sister Lingshuang——"

"Yes, it's me."

Mikael forced a smile.

"But it's a pity that since you saw something you shouldn't have seen, I can only ask you to go to another place to rest for a while. In fact, it is also a good thing. As the only survivor of the Snow Wolf Team, you also want to be with yourself. Reunion of comrades?"

A spatial fluctuation visible to the naked eye spread with Mikael as the center. Lixue immediately retreated, but was tied up by golden chains.

Then what appeared in front of her was a brand new world.