The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Huh? What a coincidence."

Mikael tried to lean down, but the "crackling" sound from his waist forced him to stand up straight again, and even leaned back to stretch his body.

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

The bones in his waist were reshaped during the twisting, and Mikael hit his waist twice as if to vent his anger, as if the person being hit was not him. But...he is an expert at beating himself up. If he has any special insights, it is that he can experience a different feeling of pleasure every time.

But there is no doubt that this sense of satisfaction has something in common. To describe it, I would like to borrow a quote from a villain in a comic that he once borrowed from Padu, who had many last words before he went offline:

"It's a hundred times more enjoyable than cum!!!"

"ah……"

After taking a long breath, Mikael punched his waist twice more, and then yawned with satisfaction.

"Really, you are really merciless when you start..."

The shadow matrix is ​​like the endless surging tide, with large and small bubbles floating in the stagnant water. The same is true for the waves in the human world. Even the smallest wind can actually affect the direction of the ripples, but that's all.

Even if the water below is completely silent, the surface of the water cannot be so calm that there is no ripple. On the contrary, even in the coldest season, there is definitely a turbulent undercurrent under the ice...

Water is something that cannot stop "moving", just like sharks that will die if they don't swim, and humans that will die if they don't breathe. "Movement" is the instinct of water. Since "sea water" is used to describe the world of imaginary numbers, Corresponding to this space, it can be imagined that this medium filled in the parallel world bubble has the same characteristics as flowing water.

But the moment Mikael bent down again, all the "waves" and "ripples" were frozen in place, unable to move at all. Then, as if a pair of invisible hands were caressing those shadow-like matrices, the entire "space" calmed down and became a pool of stagnant water. In a true sense, it did not contain any movement of stagnant water.

"Is it a bit exaggerated? But there's nothing I can do about it... Then again, this is too much of a coincidence. Is it finally the good luck of Padu? In the past, I bought scratch tickets for several years without making a penny. Yes..."

Picking up the blue gem at his feet, Mikael muttered to himself, silently feeling the commotion in the Herrscher's core in his palm.

"Hush! First meeting, Walter Young, or should I call you, Joachim?"

The core of the Herrscher was raised above the head, and the dark light in the sea was refracted when passing through the core, leaving behind a blue intertwined with the shadow.

Mikael blocked the light source with his hand again. Without the reflection of the light, something seemed to have been taken away from the core, leaving only a dark gray void.

The palms of both hands surrounding the core gradually shrank, and the dark gray suddenly turned into black.

It's really strange. It's obviously the same core, but why does it show so many kinds of brilliance? It's like the same thing, the same person, the same behavior, but different answers can be interpreted?

The answer is simple, because a thing, a person, and a behavior are essentially the same as this gem, without any color. The so-called color is what the observer receives. As long as the angle, time and place are changed, the gemstone in the hand can show different colors, and the same is true for people and things in the world.

Mikael, who had already taught himself a whole lesson in his mind, did not wait for any response from the core.

However, this one was not beyond his expectation.

"Just keep pretending. Your body has indeed been dissolved, but I know that your consciousness still exists in the core of the Herrscher that cannot be eroded by the quantum sea. But if you don't want to speak, forget it. Anyway, it was originally I didn’t expect anything like this, and there was no need for it.”

The Herrscher's core trembled slightly. After a brief thought, the consciousness lingering in the core seemed to give up the decision to pretend to be dead - after all, this kind of thing must be based on the other party thinking that you are dead. This behavior makes no sense if people know you are alive from the beginning.

But Walter Yang’s voice did not appear, replaced by Mikael’s laughter:

"Hahahahahaha!"

The laughter was extremely loud, not so much crazy, but more like a little pride after a successful prank - suddenly taking the microphone away when someone is about to speak, isn't this a hundred times more satisfying than hitting yourself? Something?

While covering his head and laughing, he simply sealed the power in the core of the First Herrscher. When Mikael came back to his senses, the shadows in all directions began to squirm like waves again.

"However, since the core of the First Herrscher appears here, their positions can't be too far away, right?"

Mikael closed his eyes, and the muffled sound of water movement could be heard in his ears. After just a few breaths, the "sea water" in the ocean he had once set foot on became part of his senses. He felt the sea water surrounding him. The mellow touch left behind when passing through the world bubble, feel the different touch, feel the temperature of the skin, feel the pitted pores and the hairs swaying like tiny algae.

An interested smile soon appeared on his face.

"Hey! It's really surprising... But it's so blatant that you really don't take me seriously... Okay, let's finish what needs to be done first, and then interfere. Hmph - -Hmph-"

Humming a somewhat unfamiliar tune from his mouth, Mikael stepped down the shadow that was trying to emerge at his feet and walked towards another location he had sensed earlier.

A blue light lit up on his body, and his white shirt and black tie quickly transformed into Fire Chaser's black combat uniform jacket and white physical fitness suit inside.

…………

"Why did this guy fall asleep again? Damn it, Mikael is also nosy, why did he have to create a separate body for me, so that I can't enter the world with Xi'er..."

"Xie'er" held the girl who looked exactly like herself tightly in her arms, patting her back gently with her palms. From a distance, it undoubtedly looked like a warm scene of a mother coaxing her daughter to sleep, but when she got closer, she saw Looking at the impatience she was trying to suppress, looking at the frowning brows and pursed upper lip from time to time, people couldn't help but think it was a poor imitation.

After all, she also understands the reason why Mikael is here.

Although she didn't know what Su was planning, there were only a handful of people in the world who could easily pull people into the quantum sea, and it was still consciousness rather than body.

…

Well, the so-called "I don't know what Su is planning" must be put in quotation marks. What I don’t know is the specific plan, but letting Mikael in a world bubble break away from the shackles of the world bubble, combined with the current situation of the original world, and Su’s attitude five hundred years ago... What does he want to do with this? It’s really not impossible to guess at all…

People always like to have random thoughts, and "Xie'er" unfortunately inherited this as the will of the stigmata.

There may be a purple-haired woman with round glasses who seriously says, "I think, therefore I am," but what comes out of her thoughts is as unforgettable as the past she has experienced.

Now that you have realized something, you must make a choice. Whenever faced with this kind of choice, the person stuck between the two sides is always the one who feels the most uncomfortable. Unfortunately, "Xie'er" was pushed to this position again.

"Sigh... It's true. A group of people have been arguing for a long time, and they don't even know what he wants to do."

"Xie'er" ran her fingers through Xi'er's hair and gently rubbed the back of her head, as if this behavior would make her feel more relaxed in the dream of the quantum sea.

"Haha. I don't seem to have the right to talk about them...what is going on in that damn head of Mikael..."

"Xie'er"'s fingers suddenly stopped moving.

People can't stop thinking. "Xie'er" clearly wants to say that she can't figure out what Mikael is going to do, but they are brothers and sisters after all. Even if the length of time they get together is not taken into account, they do not exist in themselves. After all, he also has a "stigma" on his body that can bring her down. It's not Shaniat's kind of stigma that can only gain a little power after time cleansing and deterioration of blood, but the original copy of Xi'er's stigma. She may not understand every nuance of Mikael's thoughts, just like she doesn't understand Su's specific plan, but this does not prevent her from feeling Mikael's emotions.

His emotions are heavier than they were 50,000 years ago, which is inevitable.

But if he said he fell into madness, "Xie'er" disagreed. From her perception, she can feel that Mikael is moving towards the ultimate goal very calmly and rationally. This kind of rationality is dominated by sensibility. However, it is by no means a selfish sensibility. At least "Xie'er" feels Less than that.

At this point, there is actually no need to push our thoughts forward.

enough.

She already knew what Mikael was going to do.

This is really something he would do...

"asshole!"

"Ah - sneeze! Oh? I've only been away for a while, you're not going to scold me secretly behind my back, are you?"

"I*, suddenly talking loudly behind other people's backs, I'm sick!"

The voice from behind scared "Xie'er" and her hands shook. She turned her head angrily, but the words that followed her mouth were not so aggressive.

"Tsk! Don't worry, it's not you who's being called 'bastard'. Did you find something when you disappeared talking to yourself?"

Although that "bastard" was indeed not meant for you, there is no denying that you are also a bit of a jerk - this is the inner monologue of "Xier".

"ah."

Mikael responded casually, sat down next to "Xie'er", and then reached out his hand to rub Xi'er's head in her arms.

"Hasn't she come out of that world bubble yet?"

"No, she woke up once, but went in again... Is there anything special about her? Why does it feel like the world bubble in the sea is staring at her like a mosquito..."

When we got along before, "Xie'er" was somewhat apprehensive. After all, in Mikael's memory, she was always as supple as her other personality, so she unconsciously imitated it, even though the imitation technique was too clumsy.

By now, she probably couldn't pretend anymore, or maybe she felt that she couldn't hold back the scolding when she was frightened just now. There was no need to pretend anymore, and her voice became casual again.

"Who knows, maybe it's a characteristic of you?"

"Me? What does it have to do with me?"

"Xie'er" instinctively denied it.

It is not a good thing to be bombarded by world bubbles in turn. The consciousness does not have time to relax. If things go on like this, the boundary between the "world bubble" and the "original world" will gradually blur. In the end, even who you are will become blurred. She knows this very well, better than anyone else. Therefore, if it is really due to some characteristic in her body that causes Xier to be like this...

It is impossible to blame yourself, but you will feel a little bit regretful and stuck in your throat.

"ah."

Mikael seemed to like this syllable very much, but in terms of language expression, he always liked to use meaningless syllables to supplement the points that words did not take into account, so "Xier" did not care.

"The existence of stigmata itself has something in common with the Quantum Sea, but it is manifested in the form of genetic engineering. Ultimately, the stigmata is a collection of the concept of 'stories of human past', and the Quantum Sea It is the 'cemetery of all the withered worlds of mankind', and mutual attraction is normal.

"Not to mention, even if you throw away these, you have spent 50,000 years in the sea. Although the sea does not have the latitude of time, time itself is a description of movement, isn't it? It's just that the movement here cannot be expressed in terms of time. It's just a description of other latitudes set by humans. In this case, over such a long period of time, the existence of 'Xie'er' has been assimilated by 'Hai' to a great extent. As a 'peer of the next reincarnation', Xie'er It’s not difficult to understand that you also inherited this affinity with the Quantum Sea, right?”

"Is that so...there's no way to avoid it?"

"Why avoid it?"

Mikael tilted his head and spread his palms to express his confusion.

"For countless stigma holders, this is the talent they dream of. Only by becoming stronger can you protect yourself in this collapsing world. If you are really worried about Xi'er's safety, you should understand This is true. As for the dangers you are thinking about being addicted to the world for a long time - isn't it me? I'm still Xi'er's brother, and I won't let anything happen to her again. "

Mikael's tone was calm and gentle, but anyone who saw his smiling expression and standing straight posture should be able to appreciate the firmness and confidence in his words.

"Xie'er" felt a heat spreading in her heart, and even goosebumps appeared on the back of her neck.

But less than a second later, her pupils tightened and she realized the problem - how could Mikael at that time have such an understanding of the Quantum Sea and the Stigma!

There is also the habit of saying "ah" from time to time, which was not a habit developed at that time!

"Who are you……"

"good."

Her vision was irreversibly changing towards a blurry and dark direction. "Xie'er" only felt her forehead being tapped by Mikael again, accompanied by his voice speaking close to her ear:

"I'm sorry, Xi'er, this is the last time."

"..."

"…………"

“……………Crack!”

The corners of Mikael's mouth twitched, and his teeth clenched together, making a dull popping sound.

"Ah……"

After a while, the tense muscles all over his body relaxed completely. When the shadow at his feet surged into the tenth wave, he stacked the two Xi'ers together, put them on his shoulders and stood up.

"Now, it's your problem."

Looking up, Bronya did not sink to the bottom of the space like the First Herrscher Core and Seele, but was suspended in mid-air, as if there was an invisible membrane connecting her to the quantum sea. blocked.

Once again, this space is just the embodiment of the observer's subjective image. Since the waves appear under the feet, it means that the real quantum sea is under the feet, and those constantly surging shadows are just the "surface" of the quantum sea. . This is something that does not require analysis at all, because from the moment he stepped into this space, Mikael could feel the familiar and powerful aura rising from his feet.

But Bronya, who was suspended in the air and failed to fall, actually couldn't even touch the quantum sea.

"Oh? So it turns out that when Walter fell into the sea, he used the power of the Herrscher of Reason to build a barrier between the Eye of the Abyss and the Quantum Sea? What a boring temptation..."

Suddenly, as if he thought of something, Mikael grinned from the corner of his mouth to his ears.

He raised the core in his hand and slowly aimed it at Bronya's body

"Forget it, you are also the Herrscher of Reason, let me evaluate you on his behalf. Bronya Zaicek, the weight of 50,000 years that this core has been carrying has been completely different. Can you hold it?"