The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

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In the familiar darkness, countless unidentifiable voices sang in Mebius's ears, a bit like the exaggerated and meaningless chants in the church, and also like shouts of despair.

That was the strongest desire in her heart every time death came, some were positive, some were negative, some were crazy, some were relieved... all of them accumulated together and became an indissoluble noise.

She, Mebius, has never had any "immortality" ability. She experienced a serious death, but she could be resurrected after each death.

Mebius opened his eyes.

Just like it had happened countless times in the past, the first moment I opened my eyes, I felt thick and cold black mud, and darkness with a hint of hazy green.

"Uh...ahhhhh-"

The pain accumulated in the chest and abdomen came out with the sound of trembling airflow. Presumably this sound was also recorded at this moment. If there is a next time, it will be merged into the indistinguishable noise. .

Mebius sat up from the mud. Everything should exist concretely in the spiritual world. He lowered his head and glanced down. As expected, the whole person turned back to the appearance of a little girl. But this is not a problem. Fifty thousand years of Time is enough for every fusion warrior to learn to control their own side effects. Evolution is also the instinct of living things.

If she wanted to, it would only take a few minutes after she woke up to grow back to her original size. It's just that the guy still seems to prefer the smaller version of her, and is somewhat uninterested in her adult appearance.

"Uh...ah!"

He let out a muffled groan of pain and died by being decapitated. This will inevitably make people feel uncomfortable in the throat, as painful as swallowing a hundred fish bones alive.

She casually picked up the black mud that had completely replaced most of the body fluids in her body and swallowed it into her mouth. Wherever the black mud passed, she first felt a cold feeling, and then a numbing electric shock.

"Is this what it feels like? No wonder he likes to drink it so much."

Wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, Mebius stood up.

After death, consciousness also falls into complete chaos. But before the physical body recovers, the consciousness often wakes up first. But due to the special nature of his spirit, Mebius couldn't tell how much time had passed.

However, this time will not be too long. If there is enough Honkai to be absorbed, a few seconds will be enough.

"It's really embarrassing. I regard Mei as an ordinary person. It seems that her fifty thousand years have not been in vain... So, how is she planning to kill me?"

Can we find a way to isolate Honkai? For example, build her a soul steel coffin? This is not impossible, but it should be too late in time. Even if he had prepared this kind of thing in advance, the flaw of "no Honkai Energy" that could lead to his real death was fixed by Mebius.

Resurrection requires swallowing a certain amount of Honkai energy. This is based on the law of conservation of energy. However, Mebius's body itself contains a large amount of Honkai energy. In the absence of Honkai energy, the Shersha factor will in turn swallow it up. Mebius himself. Of course, because of the damn energy conservation, resurrection in this state will cause many problems. The best case is that the body will no longer be able to grow for a long time, and the worst case may be "incomplete" disability. Appear.

However, with Mikael's authority at his side, it's not a big problem.

Mebius covered his head and stood up. She began to laugh at herself.

Who could have imagined that she, Mebius, would be so dependent on another individual that was not "me".

"Tick-tock——"

"Um?"

Mebius slowly turned around and looked at the figure behind him in disbelief.

"Mei? You...what kind of Honkaimon did you fuse with?"

"Mebius, since when did your thinking become so rigid?"

Mei lifted her long hair from her ears and rubbed her temples vigorously with her thumbs.

"You know that my body is impossible to become a fusion warrior. I have broken out of this shackles with actual actions, why are your thoughts still stuck in it?"

"Hey! So you specifically showed me the ability of a fusion warrior with mental perception, just to show off in front of me? Or to make me understand how you were killed by an ordinary person? "

"Just friends, don't be so hostile to me..."

"Ah? Is this what you are saying? Are you going to kill me and then tell me not to be so hostile to you?"

Mei tilted her head and smiled, but her expression was full of sentimentality.

"If I hadn't used such a method, I'm afraid you wouldn't be willing to listen to me honestly, right?"

Mebius's eyebrows twitched, she took a deep breath, and then crossed her hips vigorously, her questioning voice became high-pitched due to her body condition:

"Mei, we have chosen different paths, so there is nothing more to say."

"Huh? Really?"

In front of Mebius, Mei slowly knelt down in the mud. As long as the other party wanted to, the dark mud could turn into sharp spearheads and pierce her in an instant, but she still did so. Maybe she felt too tired to stand and talk, or maybe she was just showing her sincerity to Mebius in this way.

Mebius's lips trembled and she made an upward effort. She suddenly waved her hand violently, and the surging darkness was about to engulf Mei for a moment, but was silently removed at the last moment.

Mebius stood in front of Mei, lowered his head slightly, and looked down at her.

"You are still so competitive... I still remember that you always liked to stand on tiptoes with Alicia to compare your height. Although you are much taller than her, you rarely have the opportunity to appear in your complete posture... …”

"That was clearly the woman's provocation. I just don't like talking to others with my neck raised."

"Does this remind you of your father?"

Mebius didn't answer, just crossed his arms over his chest.

"Mei, stop talking about me. In your current state... I don't know what method you used to gain power, but it's not easy after all, right? How long can you maintain your current state? Or, How many more times can it be used?”

"..."

"Don't try to use small talk to convey to me the illusion that you have plenty of time. We have always been well aware of the 'cost'."

Mei spread her hands and palms and slowly covered her face.

"I underestimated you too, Mebius. Your insight is still as sharp as before."

"Both and each other, you also played a trick on me, and we were even."

Mei shook her head noncommittally and answered Mebius's question in a nonchalant tone:

"Three times. I can only use the ability of the fusion warrior three times."

"The first time doesn't count. I just used the physical fitness of the fusion warrior. It entered my spiritual world once. Killing me immediately was the second time. Is there one left left for Mikael?"

Mei did not answer or deny, but asked:

"You don't seem to be afraid that you will die in my hands?"

"Compared to this..."

After finally changing back to this form, Mebius couldn't help biting his nails, so that his complete words were broken into two pieces——

"I'm more concerned about how you achieved this level. I originally thought you used a soul steel body like that Otto, but how can you use the power of a fusion warrior after being separated from the body?"

"This... method itself is not that difficult, it just depends on whether you want it or not."

Mei tapped her head with her index finger.

"You made yourself a new body? This shouldn't be possible, right? The body made with biotechnology will also have a soul. Even if it is not awakened, it will reject the input of another consciousness. You are not a spiritual perception A human fusion warrior doesn’t have any special talents. If his consciousness enters such a body rashly, there might be something wrong, right?”

"Yeah...but Mebius, why...don't you be more bold?"

Before Mebius could say anything else, Mei straightened her upper body, took the hem of her shirt out of her skirt, and continued to lift it up, exposing her waist and abdomen.

On the left waist, there was a blood-red mark that Mebius was definitely not familiar with.

"Stigmata, you..."

"That's right, now I control this body completely as the 'Stigm Will'. And this Stigma doesn't have much special power. After all, the essence of the Stigma is a story that happened in the past. What 'Mei' means Correspondingly, it happens to be that nothing can be accomplished, but it is extremely compatible with the imprints in the Paradise. After all, one of the meanings of the existence of the Paradise is to train the Awakened Stigmata. And as a result, I gained the ability to temporarily use the power carried by the seal in reality."

"..."

"The problems with this are also obvious. The technology is immature. The original soul of this body fell into a deep sleep and was unable to cooperate. In the end, I only had three chances to take action. However, it was enough."

"You are really... a lunatic."

"Don't worry, the time and resources required to make such a body are astronomical. I can no longer make a second body like this, and there is no need to sacrifice another soul."

"What happens after the three opportunities are used up?"

Mei tilted her head and smiled, but did not answer the question.

In other words, this question does not need to be answered at all. Mebius himself made it clear before that they have always been well aware of the "price".

"Tick-tock——"

"Is it worth it, May?"

"Is there anything worthwhile or unworthy about this?"

Mei's rhetorical questions are always so silencing.

"You are... no longer a human being. You are further away from a human being than a fusion warrior... What will you get in exchange for this price?"

"I never thought that such words would come out of your mouth one day, Mebius - is your definition of human beings so narrow?"

Once upon a time, this was Mebius's most famous mantra, and it even sparked a wave of imitations in The Fire Moth. Now, Mebius's old story is brought up again, but it is full of irony.

"Mebius, you have changed. You have changed since Alicia's death. You have put away the sharpness and harshness you used to show others, and even the dangerous aura about you has dissipated a lot... You are so Do you want to use love to make that man look back? "

"Oh, you are really good at joking. You have no idea what he wants to do..."

"No, on the contrary, the reason why Sakura went to die and the reason why Velvet and I are standing here is precisely because we know what he is going to do. It is precisely because it is so clear that I feel that everything you are doing now It’s so ridiculous.”

"What did you say!"

Mebius shouted loudly, but the black mud that symbolized her consciousness did not cause many ripples. Therefore, Mei knew that all her speculations so far were true.

"You know, Mebius. Like most people who saw this story, in the first tens of thousands of years, I always thought that what Mikael wanted to do was to create a world with Alicia. But this There are too many doubts, such as why he wants to reincarnate the whole world and why he wants to save us, but in the end the reason why I gave up this conjecture was precisely you."

Mebius bit his lower lip, but his eyes inevitably moved to the side.

"If what he did was really just to bring Alicia back into existence, then I can't imagine you standing by his side so firmly. Even if the person he wanted to save was Alicia, she was so perfect I can't convince myself to believe that a woman will do her best to help the man she loves to save the woman he loves. "

"But it just happened, didn't it."

Mebius's voice was full of resentment. She hated Mei and why she wanted to crush all the illusions she had constructed in front of her.

"Rather than believe that this kind of thing really happened, I would rather believe that Mikael's purpose was never just to save Alicia. I built his character model for derivation, and substituted him for countless days and nights. Looking back on everything in the past, he finally understood why he did what he did in the first place——

"What Mikael despairs about is not Alicia's passing. What makes him despair is that after going through so much effort and enduring so much pain, step by step, he came to the end, and finally paid Alicia's deeds. Despite the price, it still failed to save the world.

"And how did our world end? It was not destroyed by collapse, but by our own hands. It was the interaction between good and evil in human beings that ultimately led to the end of mankind in the most tragic and absurd way. . Maybe we can use 'This is the provocation of the Twelfth Herrscher' as an excuse, but as humans who lead that era, have we really guided the good and evil of mankind? We ourselves also despise the power of mankind so much. This ending is not unfair, and Alicia must not like it—Mikael will definitely think so.”

"Ah……"

After uttering a syllable of unknown meaning, Mebius raised his head, his white neck shining brightly in the darkness like snow under the winter sun.

"When I figured this out, I just felt unspeakable sadness. What Mikael wanted to do was still defeat Honkai and save the world, but he changed from a person who challenged the gods to someone who needed to be defeated. god.

"Of course he could have given victory to human civilization 50,000 years ago, but humans 50,000 years ago were not qualified for such a victory. We had already destroyed ourselves. And humans in this era have just embarked on the road to challenge the gods. It is even less likely that he will grant them victory directly.

"Remember the story in the textbook when you were a kid? When a baby bird hatches out of its shell, you can't help it. That will only make its body weak and unable to really fly into the sky. The real Victory cannot be a gift from the gods. It would be a blasphemy against all the deaths that have been born due to this event, and it will also make human civilization unable to face new challenges after crossing the end.

"The real victory must be for humans to use their own strength and will to pull the gods down from the throne. This is what his human personality expects. This is also an ending that Alicia will definitely like. It's a pity. , when I understood this, the third collapse was already over. This was even crazier than the Stigmata Plan. The Stigmata Plan was the last line of defense I originally built, but in Mikael's plan, there was no There is no room for failure. Once you fall into reincarnation again, it is irreversible. If you don't fall into reincarnation, it is equivalent to giving victory to mankind."

"You know this, but still want to stand against him and be a disruptor? Can't you make it easier for him to realize this dream?"

"That won't work."

Mei looked into Mebius's eyes seriously:

"Pretending to know nothing and spending the next year in the paradise of the past is a blasphemy against the dream that Mikael has endured so much pain but still wants to complete. To complete his dream, What is needed is the efforts of every human being, including humans in the new era, humans in the old world, and you and me. Only such a victory can be recognized by him, and only in this way can his dream be truly fulfilled. . Only such humans can bid farewell to their childhood, cross the threshold, and move towards the future. So, join us, Mebius, this is what he wants to see."

"But that's what he doesn't want to see."

Mebius shook his head slowly but firmly.

"He is such a contradictory person. Maybe he really wants to see me challenge him as a human being, but he certainly can't accept my betrayal of him. Besides, I swore to him that I will always Stand by his side. He's got enough on his back and I can't let him get hurt again."

"That's right...that's another situation. Mebius, do you know why I allowed Sakura to sacrifice herself so hastily?"

"Isn't it to confirm Mikael's attitude?"

"not completely."

The person who shook his head slowly turned into Mei.

"For Sakura, it is undoubtedly painful to resist Mikael, but she wants to do it and make up for the regrets fifty thousand years ago, so it is better to reduce the pain to a moment. For this reason, she I even hid the situation from my memory, not because I was afraid that the memory would stop me, but because I wanted the memory to continue living with Suzu as the real Sakura, and I was just shamelessly taking advantage of this. In fact, Mikael must also think that that battle was the best counterattack we have fought in the past 50,000 years. Both coordination and tactics are much better than those 50,000 years ago and 500 years ago. "

"You also know that you are shameless."

"But we did everything we could, like the fourth collapse, we took advantage of it but also got a lot of people out of there early when we could."

"What about the others? Did you do the same to them as you did to me?"

"Of course not all heroes are willing to do this, but you are the only one who stands by Mikael's side, and it is impossible to betray him until the end. This is contradictory to the proposition that 'all mankind will defeat the end' ”

"Ah...I understand."

Mebius nodded vigorously. In fact, both of them understand that the above reasons are indeed true, but the existence of Mebius as an individual will not affect the decision of the entire human race.

However, getting to this point is painful after all. Mikael is in pain, and Mebius's pain is no less than his. This is a pain that only "old friends" can understand.

Caught between faith and love, between instinct and reason, between the lover and the person the lover loves and the human beings the lover loves...

Instead of continuing, let's give her the peace that has been overdue for 50,000 years on the pretext of making up for the regrets of 50,000 years ago.

"You don't have to worry. In the new world he wants to see, you will not be tolerated."

"Oh, you want to say this kind of thing?"

After taking a long breath and unloading all the burdens, she gradually felt the return of "self".

She suddenly squinted her eyes, looked at Mei with interest, and asked softly:

"So, how do you plan to kill me? Ordinary mental attacks will not work. In order to prevent this from happening, my soul, or consciousness, has been trained, but..."

"It's actually very simple."

Mei's voice was suddenly full of pity:

"Mebius, [please] free yourself."

"I can still do this-"

Mebius's voice stopped suddenly. After realizing that it was a commandment, it was too late to do anything.