The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

There was something in the void - even though she couldn't see anything, Bronya got such feedback.

"What's wrong? Don't you continue to complete your mission?"

"Sister Bronya...Senior Bronya, I..."

The second hand ticks forward, carrying the time that cannot be turned back.

The air trembled.

Deep breathing and sighs sounded together, Bronya narrowed her eyes, and her fingers, who were supposed to be the victim, moved slightly. As the button was pressed with a click, a dazzling blue light shone overhead and enveloped everything.

Under the sudden, awkwardly angled light source, a figure quickly twisted out of the empty air, especially the white bandage on his arm that was particularly conspicuous.

Of course, this is only temporary. If she really possesses the power of the Fourth Herrscher, the other party will naturally instinctively enter the state of optical invisibility again... But this also means that she will give up [contacting] Bronya at that moment. task.

The gap may be less than a second, but facing a Herrscher, especially the Herrscher of Reason who has the most possibilities, it is undoubtedly a fatal mistake.

Bronya's pupils instantly turned into blue gear-shaped crosshairs. The crosshairs were accurately selected, locked, and turned into dangerous red.

The next moment, Bronya covered her ears, and ultra-high-frequency sound waves swept through the closed dormitory. In the dead silence, everything was trembling, even the air.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah--"

When the enemy, or the Herrscher's existence, belatedly tried to cover his ears, it was already too late.

A striking bright red color was pulled out of the air. The two red colors flowed down in the direction of gravity, and soon formed a thin face.

"Just go ahead and capture him. You have no way out."

The sound waves still sway in the small space at a frequency that the human ear cannot catch, and silently destroy the important organs in the human body. Bronya used Honkai energy to form a barrier, isolating the sound waves and Guinevere's screams, but she suddenly remembered that if this was the case, the other party wouldn't be able to hear what she said.

No……

The dim blue light reflected the metal floor like smooth moon rocks, but one drop, two, or three drops of scarlet blood ruined everything - Guinevere may have been unable to hear those words.

Thinking like this, the ultra-high-frequency sound waves and the barrier condensed by Honkai energy dissipated almost at the same time.

The light and shadow in the air distorted again, and the familiar figure was revealed again. Her blood-stained hands dropped, and her whole body fell to her knees weakly - this was undoubtedly a test. Logically speaking, the guy who holds the power of the Fourth Herrscher should have control over all fluids. The so-called sound waves are just high-frequency vibrations of the air. If the real Fourth Herrscher was here, he would not be hurt at all.

so……

"Is he really the so-called Herrscher of Dominance?"

Bronya walked off the bed and stood in front of the figure lying on the ground vomiting blood without any scruples.

Although she did not dare to claim to have fully mastered the power of the Herrscher of Reason, she didn't know what to fear from the Herrscher opposite her, whose Honkai energy reaction level was less than 10HW.

But the problem is that the current situation can no longer be solved without fear.

"I'm sorry, Bronya really... doesn't want it to be you. Xi'er doesn't want it to be you. Jizi doesn't want it to be you. If Kiana is still here, she definitely doesn't want it to be you either... "

Slowly squatting down, wiping the remaining blood clots on the corners of the girl's mouth, Bronya half-hugged her in her arms.

She didn't know if the girl could hear her at this moment. But she still wants to make the final effort in her own way——

"Look back. Bronya is a Herrscher who fights for humanity, and Kiana is also a Herrscher who fights for humanity. You can be one as long as you want. So far, everyone can still forgive you."

Biting her lower lip tightly, Bronya still had the same expression and dull eyes that had remained unchanged for thousands of years. Only in this way, it seemed that only in this way could she suppress the feeling in her heart...

Grieving?

It doesn’t seem to be very sad…

She wasn't even surprised, because... everything that was happening at this moment had been reduced to what was destined to happen a few hours ago——

"Bronya Zaicek, can we trust you?"

In the empty interrogation room, opposite Bronya, were two familiar figures.

Su, who was squinting her blood-red eyes, and Mei, who was looking at her critically.

"Perhaps Bronya should say this...forget it, Bronya will do whatever a [Herrscher who fights for humanity] should do."

"That's your answer, Bronya."

This was supposed to be a question, but for reasons that Bronya couldn't understand yet, Mei said it in a statement tone.

However, she doesn't need to understand, she just needs to respond.

"Yes."

"Then, what if your enemy is a former friend?"

An ominous premonition slipped through her heart, and the only few familiar faces popped up in her mind, "Who is it?" - as a human instinct, she was driven to ask this question. However, she just pursed her lips and replied:

“What do you need Bronya to do?”

The two people opposite were silent for a moment, and Bronya added:

"Bronya used to be a mercenary. It is common for comrades who were handed over to their backs in the last battle to become enemies in the next battle. In addition, although Bronya is very young, don't underestimate her. Bronya’s reason.”

With a calm tone and indifferent eyes, only Bronya knew the tension in her heart.

Who on earth is it?

Although she put down her big words, she actually knew quite well that the "friends" Mei mentioned were definitely not the mercenaries who used each other in the Siberian snowfields.

Besides that, she wasn't quite herself anymore.

The two people opposite turned to look at each other, and then nodded in unison.

"What you need to do is quite simple, Bronya. Kiana and Wendy have disappeared one after another, which shows that the opponent's target is most likely the Herrscher. And Bronya, you are the only Herrscher in the base right now."

"So, you need me as bait?"

"That's true, but compared to aimless fishing, we already have suspects."

"..."

Bronya didn't speak, just waited quietly.

"...Of course, we only need you to deal with one of them. In fact, if it is you, the chance of her taking the bait should be quite high."

"So, who is it?"

"Guinevere."

"I see."

The girl sighed from the bottom of her heart, but for some reason, she felt relieved again.

She knew exactly what this relief meant - she was happy that the "enemy" was not Xi'er or Himeko.

So, even she felt that Guinevere, whom she had only known for more than half a year, was indeed someone she could abandon in her heart?

Holding the girl who was still vomiting blood, the question from a few hours ago came to mind again. However, Bronya was still unable to give an answer.

"Ha ha ha ha ha……"

As if reading her mind, Guinevere raised her hand and wiped the blood on Bronya's cheek.

"Bronya-senpai must be very disappointed in me. But will Bronya-senpai feel sad because I was the one who fell into the Herrscher?"

Their eyes met, and Bronya could feel the anticipation in the girl's eyes.

What was she expecting?

After thinking for less than tenths of a second, Bronya understood.

Guinevere expected her tears.

The Herrscher, once known as Guinevere Alighieri Fernand Caballero Serre, waited for her tears of sorrow, her tears of regret.

But no. But no. But not at all.

Bronya didn't cry.

I can't explain any reason. I feel sad and sad, but I just can't shed tears.

why?

Bronya also wanted to know the answer.

But before she knew the answer, she had to end everything in front of her.

"As expected, Senior Bronya didn't shed tears, nor did she feel sorry for me. I am a dispensable existence in everyone's eyes, even in the eyes of Senior Bronya."

"No, that's not the case."

Bronya quickly denied it, her voice was trembling, and her eyes finally felt a little sour, but even so, the tears did not come as promised.

Therefore, she could only dryly repeat what she said before:

"Guinevere, please repent..."

"Repent? Hahahaha... What should I repent? Hahahahaha... What do I have to repent of?"

Even though she was hit hard by the sound wave, the girl seemed to still be able to hear the sound. She tremblingly raised her bandaged hand, grabbed the broken glasses, and threw them aside.

"Snapped--"

The fragments of the glasses were like splashing water drops, drawing straight white lines in the dim light and shadow, also dividing right and wrong, justice and evil, light and darkness, reality and Everything that is false.

"Senior Bronya, if you ask me to repent, then you can tell me what have I done wrong since you met me?"

"..."

The girl showed a sad smile, blood continuously spilled from the gap between her teeth, but her voice was choked:

"I joined the anti-entropy mecha unit because I wanted to contribute to defeating Honkai Impact. But I have no talent, no talent at all. When I was in the recruit company, I kept making mistakes, dragging down the entire team. Instructor They didn’t like me, and my comrades thought I was holding them back, and they always had to be punished by me. This was indeed my fault, so they scolded me, beat me, bullied me, and tried every possible means to get me to quit. I accepted them all. But what about after that?

"In the first battle after graduating from the recruit company, what we faced was not Honkaimon, but the Destiny of humans. In that battle, only seventeen of the more than three hundred recruits who trained with me survived. . I am scared to death, not only of death, but also of the fact that I hold on to the ideal of defeating Honkai, but end up dying at the hands of humans.

"But those who had bullied me were more afraid than me. They all hid in the hospital to avoid combat missions, and some cut off their calves with unbladed bayonets and blinded their eyes with bullets in order to escape. So I Suddenly I realized that these people who bullied me were nothing special. Even if they performed better than me in training, I firmly believed that I was braver than them, so I...

"Senior Bronya, actually six months ago, I didn't understand what Kiana meant to human beings at all, and I still don't understand it now. The reason why I chose to join the battle was just because I wanted to prove that I was better than those who had bullied me. My people are braver, at least I am braver than them. Even if I can't do anything, at least I am braver than them... Probably such a naive idea... But such a talented senior Bronya must not be able to do it. Feel this feeling.

"Senior Bronya, you can also see what happens next. I also want to become stronger, but I am no longer the same as you...Senior Bronya, Senior Xi'er and Senior Kiana The training is just to use stronger power to save mankind, but I am different. I just want someone to praise me. It shouldn't be like this, but I don't know when I suddenly felt like saving mankind. Talking about defeating Honkai is just... stupid.

"I just want to be praised, I just want to be praised. I thought this was something that I could get easily. After all, I am indeed making continuous progress. From the beginning, I could only exercise at your pace for five minutes, and now I can already I barely finished a whole set of exercises in second-place mode. However, no one praised me except Bronya-senpai, Xi'er-senpai, Kiana-senpai and Himeko-senpai.

"Actually, I really hate exercise. I hate it so much that I will have insomnia if I think about it before going to bed, and I will vomit if I think about it before eating. But just to be praised by others, and to be praised by people who have bullied me, I also I am willing to force myself to do this. I don’t understand why no one wants to praise me. Even if they don’t want to praise me, why do they always bully me? Why do they think I am always a bad boy? Well...Sister Bronya, why do you think so?"

Bronya was completely speechless.

Once upon a time, there was a girl who threw herself into her arms, crying and timidly asking her, "Why does Xing always bully me..."

At that time, she couldn't give any answer, so she could only instinctively hug Xi'er tightly.

She thought she had grown a lot in the past few years, but when Guinevere asked her why, she still couldn't give a decent answer.

What should I say?

I was still hesitating in my heart, but my lips moved consciously:

"Don't say that Guinevere. Didn't people write love letters to you before? Look, there are still people who recognize you..."

"He asked me to meet in the letter, and I went."

"?"

"I was very happy that night. We drank in the dormitory, and I thought he was the first person of the opposite sex to recognize me, so...he asked me for it, so I gave it to him. But when I woke up the next morning, I didn't When I found him, his contact information was blocked, and he didn’t even say hello to me when I met him on the street.”

"Wait, what are you talking about? Why can't Bronya understand..."

"Hehe. Sister Bronya also has things she doesn't understand."

Bronya's eyes flashed. Although she really didn't have that kind of experience, she had done things like pretending to be a young prostitute to hunt down targets when necessary. only……

"...Why don't you tell us?"

"Sister Bronya really cares about me. But what's the use of telling you this kind of thing? Help me beat him up - I have already done this myself. Or tell Lady Theresa Or two doctors, let them punish that man? Then everyone's opinion of me will probably be worse."

"boom!"

He punched the ground hard, as if this was the only way to vent the anger that had nowhere to go. But that's all Bronya can do.

"I know, Sister Bronya must want to say, maybe I just happened to hear other people's accusations, maybe I just happened to meet some evil people, but there must be people who think I did a good job in places that I didn't pay attention to. There must be someone who will [love] me well.

"But there is no way. My luck is so bad, it has always been so bad. I am actually British, and there is actually an anti-entropy boot camp locally. I just hope to join the headquarters, so I went all the way to America. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't have participated in the blocking battle against Tianming, right? And the time I was injured later, there were hundreds of people on the bridge, and I was the only one who was so unlucky. And this time, none of you were injured. , only I was hit by a stray bullet...

"Sister Bronya, Guinevere is such a stupid person with extremely bad luck. It's not that Guinevere only sees darkness, but that Guinevere only encounters darkness. That's all. "

Her cheeks trembled slightly, Bronya took a deep breath, and her eyes gradually became colder:

"Bronya sympathizes with you, but why do you involve Kiana and Wendy? Why do you involve them! Kiana has faced no less darkness than you, or should I say, you Just because she has experienced darkness, she has to drag others into the same darkness? At this point, Bronya can no longer distinguish between right and wrong, but only on this point, Bronya firmly believes that this is absolutely true. Not correct!"

"Hehehe... Sister Bronya, your vision is indeed too narrow. I am not targeting a specific person, I just... want to make the world a better place."

"?"

Bronya's facial features were instantly distorted——

"What a joke! Not only Kiana and Wendy, you were also responsible for the previous mecha accident in Salt Lake City, right? More than thirty lives and hundreds of people injured. Is this the beauty in your eyes? Reply to Bro Nia, Guinevere!"

"It's certainly not pretty."

Guinevere's answer was unexpectedly straightforward.

Under Bronya's puzzled gaze, she raised her arm and tore off the bandage.

"Hey——"

The white mist rose, and not only the scratches caused by the stray bullets, but also the severe injuries caused by the high-frequency sound waves moments before were healed in an instant.

"It's just the only way to good things."

"what is this……"

"As expected, Sister Bronya, who has carried the power of betraying the gods, will not understand our great deeds."

The golden thunder snake wrapped around Guinevere's body, but Bronya, who hugged her tightly, did not feel any numbness.

Instead, she seemed overly sober.

Many fragments of memories are connected together, [us], [us], could it be...

"Bronya, stay away!"

Her body instinctively leaned back under the familiar shout. The shattered door did not hinder the golden chain that shot out. The conical head of the chain directly pierced Guinevere's wrists and ankles.

"Ahhhh!!!"

Amidst the screams, a golden cross flew into the room. The bottom of the cross was deeply inserted into the floor. In contrast, the golden chains quickly shrank and tied Guinevere to the cross.

"Principal!"

At the door of the broken dormitory, a white-haired dwarf holding a golden chain poked his head out.

"Bronya, are you okay?"

"Bronya is fine, but..."

"The Tenth Herrscher individual was captured successfully."

After confirming that Bronya was not injured, Theresa interrupted her with cold words.

"It seems that not only did she control the power of the Fourth Herrscher, she also gained the power of the Silence Gem. Her wounds healed so quickly."

Bronya clenched her fists, but had nothing to say.

Guinevere's screams gradually deepened until they were barely noticeable.

But soon, the scary laughter sounded again——

"Hahahaha...hahahahahaha...I'm so sorry, Bronya-senpai. For the sake of that wonderful future, I can't stop here."

After a brief look at each other, Bronya's pupils shrank suddenly.

"Praise be to the God who created the heavens and the earth. From now on and forevermore, the heavens were created by the words of your mouth, and all the phenomena were formed by the breath of your mouth. You dropped the oil of your decree on our way forward, and did not let us get lost."

Words that approximate prayer, but are not prayers at all.

Guinevere struggled wildly, shouted, and pulled the chain, making a clear and detailed sound like a wind chime.

As if in response to her, the golden lightning flashed again.

"What's going on? Doesn't the power of restraint work? No, no, this is..."

The golden chain that bound the Herrscher, who was probably the weakest Herrscher that Theresa had ever faced, vibrated violently, almost shaking Theresa's hands away.

"Bronya, the arrest failed, kill her quickly!"

【Kill her! 】

There was a voice in her heart that overlapped with Theresa's shout. The gears in Bronya's pupils were spinning rapidly, but her accuracy gradually became blurred.

Why……

Why the hesitation? This shouldn't... this shouldn't be a mistake that the Siberian Silver Wolf would make...

Looking at each other inadvertently again, Bronya saw such meaning in Guinevere's slightly thoughtful eyes.

But just like most of the questions that popped up in her mind today, she couldn't give an answer at all.

"Grateful, dear God, we are filled with gratitude to you. Thank you for choosing us out of the vast sea of ​​people. Thank you for loving us unfailingly. It is you who has forgiven our sins and shown us the only way to achieve beauty. Therefore, the all-knowing and all-powerful God, please appear here! Save the apostles who are working for you, punish the traitors who have deviated from your teachings, and also wipe out the filth in this world -"

"Woo-wu-wu-"

The shrill alarm sounded three times, and the golden thunder swallowed up everything in sight in an instant.

As if expecting it, Bronya closed her eyes a moment in advance. Even through a layer of eyelids, she could feel the dazzling light.

When the compelling golden light dissipated, she opened her eyes immediately, and there was a figure beside the cross.

A figure that was not unfamiliar to her and did not surprise her.

"Kruger... or rather - Mikael!!!"

The man ignored the man in front of him, but waved his hand gently, and the chains that originally bound Guinevere were dissolved in the golden light.

"God..."

With pious murmurs, Guinevere slipped from the cross.

Mikael caught him with one hand and kicked the cross away, taking Theresa, who had not yet reacted, directly to a place where Bronya could not see it.

Stepping on the golden light, Michael held Guinevere in his arms, but he was approaching Bronya step by step.

With every step forward, he found a piece of [himself].

In the first step, the dark shoulder-length hair grew into a silver-gray color like Bronya's in the blink of an eye.

In the second step, all the stubble on his face disappeared, and his expression became no longer so vicissitudes of life, but it was still the same indifference. It was only at this moment that Bronya discovered that his facial features had almost not changed, but only changed. The color of his eyes, hair, and slight haggardness made him unrecognizable.

On the third step, the green eyes turned back to moonlight silver, and only the pair of pink pupils were so weird.

In the fourth and final step, his skin became as white as salt, like a dead person in the morgue. Correspondingly, the pink pupils expanded outward and turned into blood-red crosses.

"First Herrscher, as long as you come with me now, everything will be over."

[Can’t move...]

Get moving! Get moving! ! Get moving! ! !

Can't move! Can't move! ! Can't move! ! !

Not even the fingers could be controlled. From beginning to end, only the pupils were vibrating, and I couldn't even feel my breathing.

She could only watch as the moonlight-like arm stretched towards herself, wrapped in golden lightning.

"boom--"

The flames were raging - just when the hands were about to touch her, a flaming sword swept over from the side, as if it didn't care whether she would be injured at all.

The bet was right. Mikael turned his wrist upside down and took the sword forcefully with his palm.

"Mikael!!!"

When the flames that obscured her vision dissipated, Bronya felt hot and itchy all over, but the battlefield seemed a little far away from her.

The broken walls were like windows of eternal circulation. In this window, the white-haired warrior holding the flame itself was raising the sword over his head again and again, and then smashing it down with no skill but emotion.

However, the flames did not hurt Michael and Guinevere at all - an invisible barrier seemed to have sealed the hearts of tens of billions of reincarnations, blocking everything.

Mikael passed the first window, still approaching her.

Bronya wanted to get up. She raised her upper body with her hands, but she couldn't feel her legs.

[Power of Reason—Structure]

No response.

The core is still in the body, and one can even still feel the Honkai energy contained in it, which is at least enough to destroy the entire Salt Lake City base. But when it comes to power, that part ceases to exist, just like the legs.

Suddenly there was a chill behind him, like a body of sea water hugging him, and the itchy and hot pain all over his body was slowly dissipating.

"Sister Bronya!"

"Xie'er..."

Before Bronya had time to look back at the girl, suddenly, her eyes darkened, and another flash of fiery red stood in front of her.

The flames condensed into the wings of the red kite behind the girl who didn't look much stronger than her, and the flames that were shot out quickly formed countless fist shadows in the air.

"Click——"

Something seemed to be broken. Something seemed to have cracked.

It's just this moment.

The next moment, there seemed to be an extra layer of glass in the air, with colorful lights reflecting on the glass.

"No one can stop me today, but as long as Bronya comes with me, nothing will happen."

There seemed to be such a cold voice, and then the colorful [window] pressed over unstoppably like a running chariot.

"Let's go!"

It was probably the squad leader and Xi'er who set up a fight for him, and Mikael, who had scarlet eyes, just watched coldly after seeing that there was no hope of taking her away.

"A useless struggle."

The next moment, golden thunder and lightning burst out from his body. The thunder and lightning went upstream, directly breaking through the armor of the Salt Lake City base and reaching the dark clouds in the sky.

"Moo——"

The shrill siren, the tinny thunder, and the roar of inhuman things took away the world that belonged to both ears.

What he could see with his only remaining eyes was a ridge rising slowly in the light of lightning.

Then, a giant thousands of meters high stood up.

"boom--"

The giant trampled on the ground, and in the blink of an eye the sky fell and the earth overturned. The earth screamed and the smoke and dust that rose up took away everything that could be seen with the eyes.

"I brought the war you wanted. But it seems that you are not worthy of being my enemy at all."

At the end of my memory, I seemed to hear such a voice.

Bronya suddenly woke up - this was a response to humanity's declaration of war half a year ago.

It’s half a year late, but a powerful enough response.

But even more——

"You traitor!!!"

It seemed that Bronya was not the only one who tried her best to shout these words with a suppressed cry. (End of chapter)