The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"boom!"

Leaning back, narrowly avoiding the black abyss white flowers that Mikael swept over, Hollandale took advantage of the situation and stabbed Mikael's knee with an identical weapon. ׺°”˜˜`”°º×But after seeing that Mikael had no intention of evading, she was shocked and quickly took back the Black Abyss White Flower and placed it horizontally in front of her. The next moment, two handfuls of Weapons that looked identical from any angle collided.

"cough--"

A few drops of blood coughed out from Hollander's mouth.

Even though the top-down blow was blocked, the huge impact caused by the collision of the guns almost shattered half of Hollander's ribs, and the internal organs were also displaced as expected.

But is it okay to block it?

The hair on the back of her neck all stood up in an instant. Hollandale's brain was still empty, and her nerve center subconsciously controlled her head to tilt to the right. The next moment, the shining black tip of the gun grazed her left cheek, pricking her. into the blood-red sand.

"King!"

The calf folded under the body quickly straightened like a spring that was pressed to the extreme. The sharp heel directly kicked Mikael's right leg away from the knee at the moment of kicking out. At the same time, the tall self-propelled phantom stood between Mikael and her. A sword almost as wide as two people slashed down from above, cutting Mikael at an oblique angle like an onion. It became two pieces.

"!?"

Hollander's body quickly retreated under the drag of Queen.

Although I have already overcome unnecessary emotional fluctuations in training day after day, and when I actually fight, I rarely have room to think in my mind. Even most of the movements and attack methods are just the body overcoming the brain. Feel free to play freely, but at the moment Queen pulled her body out of the sand, she still felt somewhat proud of the successful tactical deception.

After all, she only called King, but she also summoned Queen at the same time... [Bianca, Bianca, you really should change your stubbornness. Only you will understand this as deception, right? 】——If Bishop Otto hears it, he will definitely say this.

But all this came to an abrupt end when Mikael's body was cut off.

"Where? Where?"

Mikael was killed just like that - no matter how straightforward her thinking was, she couldn't believe such a thing. The Bishop once said that Mikael, like him, is a person who must accomplish something, so he will never die before that. Similar to the Bishop, Hollandale believes that even if Mikael really encounters a crisis of death during the battle, he will not hesitate to liberate the suppressed power.

As for the previous vows? That's just a restriction that the cat deliberately placed on itself for the sake of fun after confirming that the mouse could no longer escape.

At least that's how Hollandale understands it.

His blue eyes quickly scanned the entire scene, and his gaze lingered on a few suspicious sand dunes for an inconspicuous amount of time.

But after looking around for a week without finding Mikael, Hollandale suddenly noticed a foreign object in his sight——

That is the black abyss white flower still standing on the sand dunes.

It was not his own branch, but the one Mikael left there.

His gaze extended forward along the gun, and he saw two parts of Mikael's dead body, as well as a lower leg further away.

"Are he pretending to be dead? But which part of his body will start to revive? It doesn't matter, it's just three parts. Just lock all three parts of his body-"

"boom!"

Her thoughts were abruptly interrupted by the murderous intention coming from the back of her head. With Hollander's reflexes, she didn't even have time to react before she heard the sound of a fist hitting the Queen's shield - if it weren't for this self-made body, With the Exorcist Spirit present, there is no doubt that the previous punch would hit Hollandelle's back and pierce her vital parts.

"Why in the back?"

Before he had time to think about the reason, Hollandale's body once again jumped to the side under the guidance of instinct.

When she rolled forward on the sand and got up, out of the corner of her eye she saw the black abyss white flower cutting through the space like a meteor, and the two bodies that were pierced by the black abyss white flower's tail and finally strung together. Exorcism.

Mikael's pale fingers pushed aside Queen's huge shield, and slowly grasped the small handle of the gun that protruded from Queen's chest.

But he quickly waved his hand, and the two self-driven phantoms and the black abyss white flower all turned into blue light points and dispersed.

Then, another handful of black abyss white flowers appeared in Mikael's hand.

"With the structure of the Black Abyss White Flower, it's not easy to pull it out the way it was just now, so it's better to make a new one."

His eyes swung to the right position, but Mikael explained to Hollander in a serious manner with an unexplained kindness.

"From a human perspective, you are better than me in terms of speed, strength, and reaction. As for skills, at least it is more like a gun in your hand. But that is not the point, Hollandale, your fighting style , seems to lack some imagination.”

"ha?"

"Well, yes, imagination."

Mikael held his chin with one hand, and suddenly inserted the Black Abyss White Flower into the sand. The battle was stopped in a daze, because Mikael just stood there defenselessly and analyzed.

"Maybe it's because of your personality? Or is it because you're not familiar with this weapon? I don't deny your strength, nor your fighting style, but you seem to be too conventional when it comes to predicting my actions."

Mikael stirred the sand with his toes and stepped hard on the sand twice, leaving distinct footprints.

"The power of life in the White Flower of Black Abyss has been used to the extreme. It can be said that as long as the consciousness still exists, the body can be completely reshaped. Therefore, resurrection usually occurs from the fragments of limbs with brains. But this is only for ordinary people. I am a Herrscher whose consciousness is stored in the core rather than in the brain. For me, any drop of blood or any piece of flesh is enough to serve as a carrier for resurrection. Don't you think my previous injuries were a little slow to repair? Just to mix the blood in this red sand, it is impossible for you to tell where I will resurrect, but the general direction [behind] can actually be grasped. "

As Mikael explained, Hollander's brows wrinkled together unconsciously:

"No... you cheated. You clearly said before that the one who will fight me is you as a human!"

"yes."

Mikael shrugged playfully.

"In your eyes, showing the posture of the Herrscher is not [human]? Is your definition of human beings so narrow? Of course, the most important thing is... In my fifty thousand years of life, only One week was a pure human being, and for the next twelve years, I fought with the dual identity of human being and the Herrscher of Reason. For me personally, these two concepts are completely overlapping. ”

"Are you really not being sophistical?"

Hollandale still maintains a fighting posture, but this does not prevent her from speaking out.

She indeed captured a certain sadness in those words, but this did not prevent her from defining the guy in front of her as an enemy that must be killed.

"Whether it's sophistry or cheating, whatever you want about Kiana."

"Huh? Did you call the wrong name?"

The hand that held Heiyuan Baihua tightened. She didn't know why her heartbeat seemed to skip a beat at that moment, which made her hands and feet a little weak and her head a little dizzy. But at least she remembered that her name was not "Kiana".

"Who knows."

Mikael smiled and quickly regained his composure.

"How about it, do you want to continue fighting?"

"Needless to say-"

Before he finished speaking, Hollandale rushed in front of Mikael again, dodged, and went around to Mikael's side again, aiming his tall lance at Mikael's brain.

But this is just an illusion. As long as Mikael blocks, she will hit the high-frequency stabs that she has trained countless times at the fastest speed, leaving Mikael's body covered with holes, plus the black... Yuan's [Wither] power, even if Bai Hua's [Creation] is used to counterattack, it will take a long time to recover from so many wounds. And every second she wins is a victory that cannot be ignored.

However, this did not happen - at the moment when the tip of the spear almost touched Mikael, the latter neither dodged nor blocked, he did nothing.

It would have been a good idea to pierce his brain like this, but even this idea could not be implemented. Her hands and feet seemed to be immersed in water, and her movements were heavy and slow. The last distance of the spear tip could not be covered no matter what. Then, wrapped in "water", her body started to move again.

Her figure circled back to Mikael, then retreated in a charging posture, and finally returned to the position before departure.

It wasn't until this moment that she realized what had just happened - time had been reversed.

"Let's talk about it. What's the point of fighting and killing? You still have a long life, and there will be countless battles in the future. As for me, I have already fought enough."

The white flowers of the black abyss in Mikael's hand dissipated, and he sat happily on the blood-red sand dunes, while waving to Hollander expressionlessly from behind.

"Just say whatever you want, I won't be fooled."

Hollander held the spear tightly as always and maintained a fighting posture. His resolute face made it impossible to read any unnecessary emotions.

"Fooled? No. I already... don't want to fight anymore. Anyway, the battle between two users who can completely liberate the power of the Black Abyss White Flower is destined to be endless. Of course, I can also Unleashing more power will naturally kill you easily, but that’s meaningless.”

"Pointless?"

Hollander chewed these words carefully and asked:

"What does it mean to be meaningless? Shouldn't you..."

"What should I do?"

Mikael raised his chin.

"Should I deal with you quickly and then help the Tenth Herrscher kill and destroy the world?"

"..."

Youlandale did not answer.

In fact, she realized something was wrong a long time ago.

If he simply wanted to destroy the world, why would the man in front of him do so many unnecessary things? The only explanation is that the goal that the bishop said this man must reach is not to destroy the world.

However, when he should be fighting, especially when his comrades are still fighting, he is chatting with the "enemy" in everyone's eyes. Wouldn't this be bad?

As if seeing Hollander's hesitation, Mikael then said:

"Okay, let's put it another way, Kiana. You can choose to refuse and continue the fight, but I will be anxious to resolve the fight because I have no desire to fight, so I will directly use more powerful force to kill you here. Death - well, of course I know that you are not afraid of death, but you have to believe me, it will happen in just an instant, and your attempt to prevent me from going to the Tower of Babel you call will be shattered."

The corners of Youlandale's eyes twitched.

The second time she was called by the wrong name, she didn't care. After all, it is well known that Mikael's mental state is problematic. It is probably because he is not clear-headed and has recognized the wrong person.

But there's really nothing wrong with what he said.

Her mission is to hold off Mikael and leave enough time for the other side to deal with Kiana and defeat the Tenth Herrscher. Although I don’t know why Dr. Mei firmly believes that she alone can do this. But since this mission really has hope of success, she will not ask for trouble or death.

"What do you want to talk about?"

"..."

Probably due to Hollander's illusion, there was a moment of emptiness in Mikael's eyes.

Are you distracted? Or are there any extremely distant thoughts that require more than a second to capture?

"What are we talking about... Let's start with Black Abyss and White Flowers."

Mikael's eyes fluctuated twice, and finally rested on the lance in Hollander's hand.

"Black abyss and white flowers..."

Reciting this name silently, Hollandale held the weapon that he did not often use tighter.

"Really? I'm also curious. Why do you rarely use such a powerful weapon in actual combat?"

[Can he hear what I’m thinking? 】——Such doubts flashed through the girl's mind, but she didn't pay attention.

She is not trapped in doubts, because many things just need to be accepted. She didn't need to know how Mikael heard what she was thinking, she just needed to accept the fact that Mikael could hear what she was thinking.

However... Hei Yuan Bai Hua, when she first got this weapon, even though she was famous for being meticulous, she was visibly happy and even made an extra cake than usual.

But after learning about Cecilia's past with the Herrscher of the Sky, she almost stopped using this weapon in actual combat. Most of the time, she just stuck the spear at her feet and meditated with it in the mustard seeds.

For this weapon, she still needs to constantly confirm whether she is qualified to use it. Before that, she just borrowed the weapon from the original owner.

"So that's what you think..."

Mikael suddenly snorted a puff of air from his nose.

"Actually, the qualifications to use this weapon are far less complicated than you think. To understand this, you must first know how it was born."

"Birth? Isn't it the Key of God made from the core of the Sixth Herrscher of the former civilization?"

"That's true, but that incident can be said to be an accident, or it can be said to be a tragedy caused by negligence."

"..."

"The Sixth Herrscher of the pre-civilization was not completely extinct. Due to the schizophrenia of the Qualified One, the other half of her personality was retained in the form of the will of the stigmata, just like May and Eleanor. . In a sense, Eleanor also knows her. As a different stigmata will born from the same stigmata, she has higher [management authority]. Yes, you can think of her as Shania. Manager of the Special Stigmata. Therefore, in theory, if you want to completely liberate the power of the Black Abyss White Flower, you only need one qualification - a Stigmata Awakener with Shaniyat bloodline. Kiana, you are like this. me either."

"What do you want to express?"

Hollandale frowned and took a step back.

Information was placed in front of her one after another, seemingly unrelated to each other, but also as if there were invisible threads connecting them all together.

Bianca Ataljina, who has lost her past memory, actually has the blood of Shaniyat? Also, Mikael has been calling her Kiana since not long ago... plus the black abyss white flower...

The previous owner of the Black Abyss White Flower was Cecilia Shaniat. In other words, although the Black Abyss White Flower does not only recognize people from a certain family like the Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment, most of its previous users also All from the Shaniyat family.

What Mikael said is true, but...

It seems like I overlooked something...

Hollander's thoughts drifted quickly, and he quickly returned to the original path and captured the obvious fact——

Kiana Kaslana seems to be the daughter of Lady Cecilia Shaniat. But the current Kiana Kaslana is not actually the real Kiana, but the only successful experimental subject among the K-series artificial humans created by Bishop Otto using the genes of the real Kiana - she knows at this point.

And Mikael has been calling me "Kiana" since before. If he hadn't had a mental illness, he wouldn't have...

This is not an unimaginable result, or in other words, this guess can be naturally derived by simply connecting the information.

And when he realized this, there was a relatively long gap in the tense consciousness of Hollander.

is it possible?

Could it be such a coincidence?

But... the Kaslana family is probably characterized by their long, straight, snow-white hair and azure blue eyes. Lady Cecilia also has the same hair color and eye color as Lady Siegfried. It is impossible for a child with blond hair like me to exist...

Hollander actually ignored an extremely fatal problem - from the moment she did not immediately deny the conjecture and regarded it as a trick by Mikael to confuse the public, but seriously analyzed the possibility of this situation, She already believed this result.

"Well. It seems that you have initially accepted the fact that you are the real Kiana, but you still think it is impossible. It doesn't matter, I will give you a chance, one that can not only reassemble your past memories, but also A chance to gain the power to kill me."

In a daze, she heard Mikael's voice ringing in her ears again.

There was no hostility or ridicule in that voice, only a coldness and... tenderness that Hollander even thought he felt because his ears were broken.

"By the way, I forgot to tell you. The reason why I can also exert the full power of the White Flower of the Black Abyss is because my name is Mikael, not Mikael Zaicek, because that last name means a lot to me. It's meaningless. But Mikael... Mikael Shaniat... Oh, after thinking about it for a long time, the name Shaniat still makes sense. So, come on, after all, you are her and me. Descendants—but remember to keep the above words a secret after they come out.”

"Well!?"

The sky and the earth turned upside down again, and what they stepped on was no longer blood-red gravel, but ice and snow that could feel the chill through iron boots.

"rustle--"

There were footsteps in front of her. Hollandale endured dizziness, covered her forehead and looked directly in front of her. Mikael had already disappeared, and was replaced by another person she was very familiar with——

"Kevin? Kevin Kaslana?"

The man's ice-like face relaxed for a moment, and then he closed his eyes expressionlessly.

"Haha... I thought you would be sent here by [me], but I didn't expect that the person who sent you here would be him... But it doesn't matter, I am not Kevin Kaslana, just because A stigmatized will that borrowed his image, personality, and memory for some reason, that is, Kaslana’s stigmatized manager.”

"Kaslana..."

Hollander's expression became extremely complicated in an instant. She already understood what it meant for her to appear here.

"As the [starting point] of all stigmas, and corresponding to the [end] of the Shaniyat stigmata, Kaslana's stigmata gave birth to this space of stigmata in the dream of Brahma's beasts. You don't have to Doubt, being able to enter here means that Kaslana's blood is flowing in your body. However, until you fully awaken the power of Kaslana's stigmata, you cannot leave here unless you pray that Kevin will come out of here. Get you out, like Siegfried Kaslana."

"!?"

"So, friend or foe, take your pick."

In the snow, the figure that was not Kevin, but was indeed Kevin, raised the sword with flames leaping high.

Just like in countless story fragments and memories, he imitated [his] tone and said the words [he] liked to say before the battle.