The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Ah... um... vomit!"

Kiana kept rolling on the bed, sometimes making groaning sounds, sometimes sucking in cold air, and sometimes suppressing dry heaves.

She was forced by the monitor to spend most of the day in the library, and even her lunch was just bread and boiled water. When it was time for dinner, she was dragged to the playground to practice with the monitor...

After finally finishing the training, she returned to the dormitory and ate five bowls of curry rice made by Mei, and Kiana finally stacked all the debuffs.

The mental fatigue, physical fatigue, and the nausea caused by eating a lot after intense exercise tortured her to the point that she lost all sleep.

"Ahhh! No! I have to go to bed quickly. Uncle Mikael and Mei said that with the record of Canghai City as a foundation, and with the archbishop watching, she might be promoted to an A-level Valkyrie! It would be troublesome if something went wrong because of not sleeping well!"

But what about the A-level Valkyrie?

There was a voice sighing in her heart.

Yeah, so what?

The girl sat up and opened the curtains of the bedroom. The round moon was stuck between the two windows, and it was difficult to move.

The girl was quiet for a rare time, thinking about when she started to have the dream of becoming the strongest Valkyrie of Destiny.

At the beginning, maybe it was just a simple desire to win and show off. And if you want to become the strongest Valkyrie of Destiny, you must be an S-level Valkyrie. In this process, A-level is just a stepping stone.

But she and her aunt have a bet.

Once she becomes an A-level Valkyrie, her aunt will tell her the whereabouts of her father. Perhaps in the eyes of her aunt, A-level Valkyrie is a threshold of strength. Only with this power can she make corresponding efforts after knowing the truth.

The girl's thoughts had never been so clear. Legend has it that in the past, a hero was deprived of his rationality by the moon, and could only recall everything on a full moon night. Kiana patted her head gently, and it seemed that she did not feel smarter. Obviously, the heroine of the legend was not her.

"It's just an A-level Valkyrie, humph! Look at how easy it is for me to catch her!"

She pulled the curtains and lay back on the bed.

"There is still one day. The first step to becoming an A-level Valkyrie is to have a good dream first!"

Kiana crumpled the quilt into a ball and covered her head, isolating all the weak light and the sound of the universe.

After five minutes, Kiana suddenly sat up from the bed, gasping for air.

The air-conditioning quilt was not thick, but if you cover it hard, it can still make people almost suffocate.

Kiana slowly got out of bed. The feeling of suffocation made her vomit even more, and it was impossible to lie down again. Her head became dizzy, as if she was really going to fall asleep.

But half a minute later, with the influx of fresh air, the drowsiness disappeared without a trace. Kiana even felt that she was now much more awake than at the beginning.

Helplessly, she opened the curtains again. The full moon was still stuck between the two windows, as if it had not moved at all.

"Oh... It's so annoying. When can I fall asleep like this?"

Kiana looked at the unchanging moon indignantly, thinking that it must be because it was so big and round that she couldn't sleep.

"Huh?"

Kiana suddenly blinked. She didn't know if it was an illusion that she seemed to see the moon turned into a familiar face...

She blinked hard, rubbed her eyes hard, and when she opened her eyelids again, the first thing she saw was a bunch of colorful pockmarks and small flies.

Well, I used too much force, and my eyes hurt a little.

She closed her eyes again, rubbed them gently a few times, and then opened her eyes without any hope.

"Hey! Mei, why are you here?"

She was a little surprised, after all, she didn't hear the knock on the door.

But when Mei opened her eyes, Kiana saw a pair of strange eyes.

The color of the eyes was a rare bright yellow, and the pupils were even more strange. The cross-shaped pupils were rare, and they were not vertical like a cross, but diagonally formed an "X".

Kiana was indeed the first time she saw such eyes, but she was sure that she should have...

"Kiana, you are a waste!"

While the girl was still staring at the strange pupils, "Mei" spoke first.

"?"

"You are always the one who drags us down, and you will always cause trouble that you shouldn't cause during the mission!"

"Mei...Mei...Why are you suddenly saying this? Where am I disobedient?"

"You are still quibbling!"

"Mei" suddenly grabbed the collar of her pajamas.

"If you hadn't disobeyed orders, how could you have run into that Honkai Emperor? What on earth do you want to do to be happy? Do you have to drag everyone down to death?"

"No, I don't... I don't, Meiyi, listen to my explanation!"

Kiana wanted to argue, but her words were so weak.

"I didn't mean to, I was just careless..."

"You were obviously being careless on purpose! Is this the first time you've gotten into trouble in a battle? Kiana, you always have to rely on our protection to survive, you're too weak! Weak as you are, you're not as good as Seele, at least she's always so obedient!"

Finally, the girl's scolding stopped, because there was a silvery white drop of water at the feet of the other girl.

But soon, Kiana raised her head stubbornly:

"No! You are not Mei Yi! Mei Yi would not curse like this!"

Seeing that the girl in front of her finally reacted, "Mei" slowly raised the corners of her mouth.

"It seems that you are not stupid, but do you think what I said is unreasonable?"

"Mei" spread out half of her wings behind her, and arcs of electricity faintly lit up in her hands.

"hateful!"

Kiana punched "Mei" in the face, but there was no feeling of hit on her fist, as if what she hit was just a cloud of smoke. Thinking like this, Kiana only saw in front of her The "bud clothes" really drifted away like smoke.

"This is……"

Kiana vaguely realized something. The next moment, she saw the figure of "The Herrscher of Thunder" appearing outside the window, and she even waved to her arrogantly.

"How dare you tease me! Don't run away!"

Kiana smashed the window and rushed out, chasing the ethereal figure. She didn't know how many times she circled the school. When she turned a corner, she suddenly found a figure blocking her in front of her.

"Aunt Jizi? Why are you here?"

"I should ask you this question, right? Kiana Kaslana, what are you and Raiden Mei doing?"

"Uh...Aunt Jizi, why are you so raw...that's not right! There's something wrong with that Mei, she is..."

Kiana stopped mid-sentence because she saw Himeko's eyes.

Bright yellow background, X-shaped pupils...

"you……"

"Kiana!"

"Himeko" spoke first, swallowing Kiana's surprise.

"Don't you want to know why I'm here? It's simple, because you and Raiden Mei are our key surveillance targets. The reason why the academy accepts you is because you are regarded as prisoners."

"Ah...ah? Huh??"

Kiana shouted three times in a row, full of incomprehension.

Reason told her that Aunt Jizi in front of her, just like Mei just now, was not the real her.

However, if you think about it carefully, this seems to be true. The Third Herrscher sleeps in Mei Yi's body. Although no one else told her, Mikael still told her that Mei Yi's heart was equipped with a miniature bomb. As long as the Third Herrscher completely occupied Mei Yi's body, the bomb would explode.

At that time, she was still clamoring to argue with her aunt because of this, but it took Mikael a whole day to persuade her before she reluctantly accepted it.

She still remembered what Mikael said:

"The school's surveillance target is not Mei, but the Third Herrscher. The damage caused by the Third Herrscher in Changkong City is obvious to all. If you think you can let her take over Mei's body at will, then you can go to the school principal to argue with her. . In fact, this is the only way we can threaten the Third Herrscher and keep her in Meiyi's body."

Therefore, it was not unexpected for Kiana that Meiyi became a "key surveillance target", but why did she...

"It's impossible. I also have a Herrscher inside me, right?"

Of course this is impossible. She is Kiana Kaslana, how could she be the Herrscher?

But her consciousness gradually became drowsy, and she couldn't help but start thinking in her mind - if she was like Mei Yi and had a Herrscher in her body, it would be...

The First Herrscher?

Kiana quickly ruled out this option.

Today is the night of the full moon, and Kiana's thoughts are particularly clear. Contents that she had not listened carefully to in many previous classes actually emerged in her mind. She really didn't know when and where the first collapse occurred, but she remembered that Mikael said that Walter, the leader of the anti-entropy alliance, was the current First Herrscher.

Is that the Second Herrscher? But the Second Herrscher...huh? The Second Herrscher...

"Second Herrscher...Second Herrscher...Second Herrscher..."

Kiana recited the name silently, feeling that something originally fuzzy in her memory became gradually clearer...

Human consciousness is inherently strange, and memory is the sum of all past experiences. It can only be misled and blurred, but it cannot be completely deleted.

Even if you have "lost your memory", as long as you see certain keywords again, return to certain key places, meet key people...these lost memories will come back - you can remember them! I remembered it all!

She also had a strange dream last night. The woman in the dream told her about the second Honkai Impact and the Second Herrscher!

And that woman's tone of voice was exactly the same as the pretentious guy in front of her!

"Hey! Stop pretending! I remembered it all. You must be the person who appeared in my dream last night!"

"Um?"

The "Ji Zi" in front of her raised her eyebrows, then frowned slightly.

She pressed her thumb between her eyebrows and then smiled slightly:

"Ah...you guys are really being targeted by many people."

"Huh? Is there anyone else?"

"Ji Zi" looked at her deeply and said nothing.

Then, as the world was spinning, Kiana came to a strange snowfield.

The feeling under my feet was indeed snow, with a coolness as if it were cutting with a knife. But Kiana stood on it with bare feet, and felt a little familiar.

"here it is……"

She vaguely seemed to have seen this place before, but she really couldn't remember it. If her "feeling" wasn't wrong, it meant that she had been here a long time ago.

Was it when you were wandering with your stinky dad in Siberia? Probably not. The snowfields of Siberia looked the same to outsiders, but she was a nostalgic person, at least she would not be unable to recognize the place where she had lived for more than a year.

However, these are not important. What is important is that both the sky and the snow here are glowing with a suffocating blood red, as if the time of the entire world has been suspended at a certain moment.

"Kiana..."

There was a sudden call from behind, and Kiana turned her head in response. The sudden appearance of Theresa startled her.

"Huh...Auntie, why are you here...that's wrong! You...is there something wrong with you? Why are you still pretending to be someone else!"

After all, it was the pair of weird eyes that revealed her identity. "Theresa" had her arms folded in front of her chest, and her posture was not much different from usual.

"Kiana, give up. Even if you become an A-level Valkyrie, I will not tell you Siegfried's whereabouts."

"No! Ahhhhhh! This guy of yours has shown his prototype to me! Why are you pretending!"

"Hehehe!"

"Theresa" took two steps back, avoiding Kiana's grasping hands as if she had expected it.

"I'm just using their appearance to say what they want to say but have never dared to say to you. What? The majestic Kiana Kaslana is so timid? She doesn't even know what the people around her are saying. Don’t you dare to listen? Or do you actually know what they want to say? That’s really sad!”

"You're talking nonsense! They wouldn't say such things at all!"

"Oh? Since you think nothing I said will happen, why are you still afraid?"

"I...I won't allow you to slander them like this!"

Kiana rushed forward again, and just when she was about to touch "Theresa", her vision suddenly went dark, and she felt a faint sense of dizziness, and she actually staggered back to where she was.

"Then again, if you ask me to continue talking, will I mention Siegfried? Do you really not want to hear it?"

"roll!"

The girl didn't talk nonsense. She lowered her head slightly as she realized that she was in a dream. Since this was her dream, could the weapon in her fantasy also exist here?

Kiana quickly recalled the appearance of the two guns she usually used, but just as she clenched her hands, perhaps the Siegfried mentioned by "Theresa" affected her consciousness. Another gun appeared unconsciously.

A gun that Daddy and she used to bake toast pizza.

The next moment, Kiana felt something she was holding, and there was a hint of heat in the hardness. This was really a long-lost feeling...

Correspondingly, "Theresa"'s expression also changed - "No! How is that possible! How could such a thing appear in your dream!"

But it's too late...

"boom!"

The phantom before his eyes finally dissipated.

"Hmph! You're just a bastard! You dare to act arrogant in this young lady's dream! If you have the ability, come back next time!"

Kiana didn't believe that this guy was really dead. She also knew that if this guy had to appear in her dreams every night, it would be very painful for her, but she was Can't help but make provocative remarks.

I finally won once, why can't I just indulge a little bit?

Kiana smiled with satisfaction, wishing she could raise her chin high and aim at the chubby full moon.

"Oh? Did you really win?"

Kiana's smile stopped.

Did she really not expect that this annoying guy would dare to show up?

But she raised her gun and looked around, and all she saw was blood red.

"Damn, damn, damn, damn!"

Kiana fired a few random shots at the surroundings, but naturally it was impossible to have any effect.

"Why hasn't the dream gone away?"

She couldn't understand that this was her own dream. Once a person realizes that he is dreaming, he is not far away from waking up.

But now she is still dreaming.

"What don't you understand? Isn't the answer obvious? This is your dream, but this is also my dream. It's not that simple to kill me or leave."

The voice that made Kiana extremely annoying came from all directions, and Kiana couldn't help but fire several more shots into the air.

But the flames, which could even easily kill a several-meter-high Honkai Beast, seemed to be shot into water after tens of meters away from the barrel of the gun. Apart from creating circles of ripples in the empty space, nothing happened. Didn't happen either.

"Damn it! Why!"

"Why? Don't you understand? Kiana, you are me, I am you, you and I are one. If you don't understand this, how can you get out?"

"Shut up! Who the hell are you!"

Kiana obviously didn't have the patience to listen to her long speech, but she couldn't do anything about the other party.

She was powerless, but she felt that this powerlessness was somewhat familiar... This seemed to be the case for Mei?

It's not like... the guy who always disturbs her sleep and says nonsense like "you are me, I am you", is he really a Herrscher, right?

impossible.

On a full moon night, Kiana felt very awake.

If it was the Herrscher, the other party should be as desperate as the Herrscher of Thunder to take control of her body. How could he have time to hide and seek with her in her dreams?

"The story about Siegfried just now seems to have been interrupted by you. How about, if you beg me, I can't tell it to you again."

When Kiana didn't notice, a pair of translucent hands gently placed on her shoulders.

"Come on, just say 'I do' and I'll tell you the truth."

"What a beautiful idea! Even if I don't know the truth for the rest of my life, I won't give in to you!"

Kiana roared and turned around instinctively.

Then, she saw the phantom standing behind her, its fingers turning into claws.

"ah!"

She quickly raised her gun, but it was probably too late, as the phantom's claws had already reached her forehead.

"Whoosh——"

A sharp sound of breaking through the air flashed by, and along with a slender red line, the transparent figure disappeared again.

Then, a familiar face appeared in front of Kiana.

Although his hair became snow-white and his eyes changed from calm blue to red of fire and blood, his facial features and figure did not change at all.

"Squad leader? Why are you here too?"

Hua ignored Kiana's doubts and just said with a cold face:

"Don't think about this, come with me!"

After saying that, she picked up Kiana and ran away.

"Hahaha! Hahahaha! I didn't expect you to be here! I didn't expect you to be here too!!"

Listening to the increasingly crazy voice, Kiana's heart suddenly tightened.

But this was obviously the voice of the enemy. The enemy was defeated, and Kiana felt that she should feel comfortable.

But she felt uncomfortable for no reason, as if she was the one who suffered the pain.

"Hahahaha! Kiana, do you think this is the end? And you, do you think you can protect her forever?"

"Kiana, don't listen to her!"

Hua Qing shouted, but this did not make Kiana sober.

"I promise, this won't be the last time we meet. In the days to come, I will keep appearing in your deepest nightmares until you can no longer resist..."

"found it!"

Hua's violent shout interrupted the singing of the voice. She held a sword that appeared at an unknown time and cut a cross in front of her body, and the light that symbolized the real world instantly poured into the dream.

"Let's go!"

She pulled Kiana and rushed into the light.

It's just... I don't know if she felt something in her heart. At the end when the white light engulfed her, Kiana suddenly looked back, but she saw another person who shouldn't be here.

"Mikael, how could you..."

Hua seemed to hear Kiana's voice. She grabbed Kiana's hand and violently tried to pull her back to reality, but it was already too late.

Kiana saw Mikael raising a pistol.

A pistol identical to the one in her hand.

The man's face was cold and empty, and he pulled the trigger without hesitation.

"boom!"

Familiar fireworks flashed at the muzzle, but the imagined pain did not come.

At the end of this dream, Kiana vaguely heard the voice of the phantom——

"How come...it feels so familiar, you are..."

"ah!"

Kiana sat up from the bed and touched her forehead with lingering fear. Except for the hot forehead, the rest of the area was ice cold.

Immediately, she froze in mid-movement, and patted her head again, as if she didn't understand why she behaved in such an incredible way.

Is it because of the dream just now?

Kiana tried to recall the dream, but found nothing.

She only remembered that her last memory before opening her eyes was actually just closing her eyes.

"Hey! I thought insomnia was so terrible, but why did I fall asleep in a daze? I didn't even give you a chance to stay up late to test my skills!"

She got out of bed, without drawing the curtains, and looked out the window at the dull sky. The full moon was hanging in the southwest corner, and its color was so pale that it almost blended in with the surroundings.