The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

Rustling, rustling—Russling, rustling—

As far as the eye can see, apart from darkness, there are only silver threads dangling under the dim candlelight.

Rustling, rustling—Russling, rustling—

Weird sounds poured into his ears from all directions, almost drowning the girl in the middle of the theater.

The silver thread kept beating, like a fine rain curtain under the candlelight, and the darkness connected to it gradually took on the outline of a surging wave.

Xi'er's lips pursed, and sweat dripped from the palms of her hands unconsciously.

The girl has seen the Honkai Beast; the girl has killed the Death Soldier.

We have experienced life-and-death battles countless times, but when everything returns to darkness, the only light source is the flickering candlelight, and the enemy is hidden in the darkness from beginning to end, and is not in a hurry to attack, but only exudes tiny bits of light. Apart from the sound, there was no other sound in the entire space...

Faced with such a situation, the girl couldn't help but panic in her heart.

She knew what was in the dark.

They are nothing more than those dolls whose individual combat power is not very high and can only be made up for by their almost endless numbers.

But in the dim light, one could barely see clearly, and the psychological pressure caused by the ever-moving silhouette was completely incomparable to seeing a ten-meter-level Honkaimon from a long distance in broad daylight.

I don’t know how many enemies there are. Although I won’t be scared in a one-on-one battle, even Teacher Jizi who put on the Blank Key died under the crowd tactics of these dolls. If the dolls There are thousands of them, how long can she last?

I don't know where the attack will come from, maybe from the back of the head, but attacks from this direction are naturally the focus of attention. Xi'er pays special attention to every move behind her, so could the doll predict this and turn from Guarding against the more empty sides, or even doing the opposite, deliberately catching her off guard from the front?

Under such thinking, Xi'er's attention was unconsciously scattered to the sides and the front, but she quickly woke up - if the enemy had predicted her prediction, and would be directly behind where they were most likely to launch a surprise attack, What should we do if we launch an attack?

Xi'er's footsteps moved to the side and spun a little.

He maintained a high degree of concentration at all times. The sounds of the wooden joints of the doll's joints hitting each other, the sound of silver wires entwining with each other, and the sound of the friction between the cloth of the doll's clothes were all activating the aorta connected to the heart. , so that she must remain vigilant in four directions at every minute and every second.

How long did this last? How long will this last?

Energy does not come out of thin air. Such long-term and aimless preparation will only consume your physical strength exponentially, and your attention will become more and more difficult to concentrate as time goes by.

There is no doubt that the longer the stalemate lasts, the more dangerous Xier will become.

The hands and feet will become weaker and weaker, and the spirit will become more and more lax, until in the end, not even one-tenth of the original fighting power can be exerted, and his life will be easily taken away by a doll.

The combat power of a single doll is naturally very weak, but if you think "victory is inevitable" because of this weakness, it is just treating a battle between life and death every second as a card game.

One additional lesson that every Valkyrie needs to learn before going to the battlefield is that even if she is facing a mosquito-sized Honkaimon, she must treat it as a twenty-meter tank Honkaimon. treat.

Because people will die when they are killed. No matter how weak the enemy is, they may kill you.

Sweat quickly moistened the ends of Xi'er's hair, but it was not enough.

The puppets were still surging and making noise in the darkness.

They moved forward from time to time, exposing the outlines of their bodies in the front row to the candlelight, but then retreated into the darkness before Xi'er's eyes could clearly capture their number and appearance.

They deliberately made loud noises, stamped on the floor hard, and slapped the butts of the puppets around them... These overly noisy sounds seemed to be covering up the sounds caused by some secret operations.

Swallowing the saliva in small sips, his feet drove his body to rotate bit by bit.

Xi'er knew that continuing like this was definitely not an option.

"Tsk! What are you afraid of them for? If you ask me, just attack directly and tear these guys to pieces who only dare to hide in the shadows!"

"No...it's better to calm down. We were obviously with Sister Bronya, Sister Anna and Brother Chen before. But suddenly we were the only ones around...How did the Herrscher do all this? Has it already mastered the power of space? Is what is happening in front of me real? Or is it an illusion created by the power of the Herrscher? This is a question that needs to be clarified... "

"Then there's no need to go to such trouble. How about you give me control of your body, and I'll help you tear these guys apart one by one. As for your question - it's not that simple. Keep a few dolls. Don’t kill them, tie them up with chains, step on their faces, and then the answer will come, although I don’t think they will answer it.”

"No... the battle is indeed unavoidable. Don't worry, Xi'er, I won't show off. If I need your help, I will definitely call you! But now is not the time..."

"Huh? What do you mean 'it's not the time yet'?"

"Just...just..."

"Forget it, don't explain it to me. Just keep an eye on the front and left side of you, and leave it to me to feel the back and right side. These idiots want to waste time with us, so let's have a good competition to see who can endure it better! "

The odds of winning if the stalemate continues is not [0]. This is Xi'er's judgment at this moment.

On the surface, it seemed that they were the party that came to rescue Kiana, and they seemed to be anxious about being delayed, but the fact was exactly the opposite.

Thinking of this, Xi'er paused her absorption of Honkai energy amidst an imperceptible chuckle.

"Huh? What the hell are you doing again?"

"Shh! Don't talk to the other me yet. Let's see if this Herrscher will be fooled."

"Fooled? Fooled for what?"

[Xie'er] I just feel like I can't keep up with Xi'er's thinking.

But she didn't need to understand, and she had no time to understand. The next moment, just as Xi'er expected, after she stopped absorbing Honkai energy, the dolls in the darkness around her began to stir, and they made "kicking" sounds. The sounds of footsteps, their outlines became much clearer in the flickering candlelight.

Then, amidst the noise of the dolls, a relatively clear sound, but whose direction could not be accurately captured, reached Xi'er's ears——

"The collection of Honkai energy has stopped... Heh, it seems that you are destined to be ineligible to become a Herrscher again."

"Again..."

Xi'er's lips moved, chewing the word secretly, then straightened her chest, her eyes quickly scanned the surrounding dolls, and focused her gaze in a certain suspicious direction.

"Although from a factual point of view, Xi'er did not become the Herrscher, but... 'again'... Herrscher, you do know part of the history of previous civilizations. It was stolen from the memory of senior Wendy, Or did Brother Mikael tell you?"

"This is none of your business. Also, don't call the Lord God in that disgusting tone of yours. What qualifications do you have to call Him that? As a sister, you even betrayed Him and you actually have the nerve to call Him 'brother' ? Hehe, people who betray the gods cannot win the favor of the gods. I am really overly worried. Next, I will just drown myself in your childish and ridiculous fantasy. "

The wave of dolls surged.

From time to time in the darkness, the doll's face illuminated by candlelight could be seen, but only for a moment.

The corners of Xi'er's lips were slightly raised, her steps were steady, and she drove her body to rotate slowly, until at a certain moment, she felt the sound of breaking through the air from behind, and a sickle taller than a human cut across a perfect semicircle - Xi'er Without even turning around, the huge beak of the scythe smashed the sneak attack doll's head into pieces.

"Overhead! Another me!"

"I know, when do I need your reminder?"

The right hand holding the scythe was stretched straight behind him, making it completely impossible to deal with the attacks from above his head at almost the same time.

But Xi'er didn't panic because - she was never alone.

The body rotates clockwise, and the left foot even leaves the ground and is raised slightly. Only in this way can the palm of the left hand raised up face the puppet attacking overhead.

However, it was just a pair of empty hands...

"Puff——"

Suddenly a red line appeared on the white left wrist, and a large amount of scarlet liquid spurted out from the red mark, directly turning into a short spear more than two meters long, piercing through the mouth of the sneak attack doll, and then from Pierce between the two strands.

"*! It's so disgusting!"

In my memory, this was the first time [Xie'er] had screamed in such terror.

The next moment, Xi'er's body cooperated and increased the speed of rotation, and her left arm was raised from the vertical position and quickly flattened. With the centrifugal force brought by the rotation, she completely penetrated the penis and then smacked her lips in an attempt to kill herself. The doll bit off by the hand was thrown heavily into the surrounding darkness.

"coming!"

"Hmph, coward, leave it to me!"

boom--

When the puppets collided with the ground and smashed into pieces, countless puppets suddenly poured out. Not only the four sides, but also the top of the head were covered by the figure of the puppets, and they were still jumping. The candlelight was completely blocked by the barrier pieced together by the individual dolls.

It was at this moment that the sea-like blue in the girl's eyes dissipated like an ebbing tide, and when she opened it again, only the blood-like color remained.

The corners of her already raised lips raised even further, and then, Xi'er's figure disappeared from the spot, leaving only a red light that shuttled wantonly among the black dolls.

The blood covered the blue-white sickle, so in this darkness, from time to time, a blood-colored light like a crescent moon could be seen lighting up.

Arms, thighs, torso, neck... countless limbs were thrown into the air, and were affected by the next attack of the scythe. By the time they landed on the ground, they could not even distinguish their parts.

Occasionally, the girl's body will be captured by the doll while moving at high speed. Countless dolls will rush towards the stopped body, causing ugly and funny collisions. Only then will it be discovered that the blood-red outline is just hope. The afterimage left behind when the child moves through the quantum state.

Hahahaha--

The girl's suppressed and crazy laughter kept echoing in the darkness. until--

"boom!"

The last doll corpse in sight was smashed to the ground by Xi'er. The doll's torso was almost completely shattered, but the upper and lower jaws were still opening and closing, so Xi'er generously picked up a section of the human body from the ground with her toes. My arm was stuffed into its mouth.

"But that's it. I thought you were only so powerful."

Xi'er dragged the sickle forward, and all the puppets at her feet were kicked together, gradually forming a hill.

Xi'er, whose eyes were glowing red, stood step by step on top of the doll's corpse. She stamped her left foot vigorously on everything under her feet, and her eyes swept over the surrounding darkness with half amusement and half contempt.

"What's wrong? You've just lost dozens of bodies and you can't stand it anymore? Come on, keep going, don't stop. Where did the arrogance go?"

Rustling, rustling—Russling, rustling—

Naturally, such a simple provocation will not receive any response. More dolls are still hiding in the darkness. They are like undercurrents surging in unseen places, but they may appear at any time at any moment. Turned into a huge tsunami.

But [Xie'er] wasn't worried about this. She just raised her chin high and provocatively said again and again:

"Why is no one talking? Oh, I understand. You will feel bad for losing so many dolls all at once. After all, if we come here a few more times, I will kill them all by myself. It's really Weak and pitiful.”

"snort--"

Xi'er originally thought that what her other self said would be a bit excessive, but she didn't expect that such a simple provoking method would actually get the Herrscher's response.

"It seems that I need to correct you a little - don't you think that I am still the same as I was not long ago? These dolls today are just my puppets, and I have to thank your sister Bronya for this friendship. The power of sponsorship is something that you can have as much as you want.”

[Xie'er]'s smile stiffened for a moment, and she couldn't tell whether the Herrscher was bragging or stating the facts, so she gritted her teeth and continued to mock:

"Hey, who can't tell lies? If you have the ability, don't be stunned. It just so happens that I've just finished warming up. Even if you serve me another one or two hundred, it's just an appetizer. If you don't come, I'll acquiesce You're scared."

The voice in the darkness was silent for a while, and then suddenly spoke in a strange tone:

"You may have misunderstood, Xi'er. My stopping is not to show weakness to you. Of course, if you like spiritual victory so much, I don't mind being your target. On the contrary, I am just showing my sincerity. Because I suddenly discovered - Xier, you are also very qualified."

"...Huh? What are you farting?"

The sound of heavy breathing suddenly came from the darkness, but the next moment, the sound was re-injected with the soul called [Jiao Jiao], clumsily bewitching [Xie'er]:

"Look at your masterpiece, Xi'er. Look around, you can't find a complete corpse of a doll at all. Look at your appearance now, Xi'er, you are like a person standing on a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood. Devil. Why are you doing this? Isn't it hatred? Isn't it such a deep hatred and such a powerful force? Why not join us..."

"What's wrong with you?"

Xi'er shook it with one hand and lifted the bloody sickle to her shoulder with the other hand.

"You keep saying that I have hatred and that I should join you... Heh, it seems like you know me very well. It's really inexplicable and self-righteous——"

"No, no, no, you misunderstood me."

The voice in the dark pursued him slimily.

"I do know you very well. It's you Xi'er, not that Xi'er. After all, I am an apostle of God, so I will naturally pay attention to his sister. I understand, I understand everything about Xi'er. The sadness in your heart, you I understand all the reluctance in your heart, the despair in your heart, and the hatred in your heart——

"Fifty thousand years ago, in order to prevent you from becoming a Herrscher, the gods who had not yet become gods brought you to the Quantum Sea. Originally, you only had to wait until the Herrscher appeared, and you could return to the familiar world. But no one thought that , the wait is close to two years. In two years, you can only communicate with a limited number of people, have no friends, no entertainment activities, and only God will take time to visit you from time to time - oh, just listen. You know how desperate this is for a fourteen-year-old girl.

"So you collapsed, but it was not fatal just because of that. But unexpectedly, Mebius secretly experimented on you with the stigmata that allowed you to successfully return to your original world, and you were immediately killed by the old one the moment you returned. God watched, became a Herrscher, and finally died in front of God... Ah, it sounds like such a desperate story...

"But it happened that the Stigmata saved you. Relying on the Stigmata, you still exist in this world to some extent. Because you were thinking about the seaside travel agreement that you have never been able to fulfill, you prayed to the gods to travel into the Quantum Sea. But at a certain moment, you suddenly find that your connection with Him is broken, and you can't find your way back at all. You have been drifting in the quantum sea for 50,000 years, constantly experiencing various desperate reincarnations and endless hardships. Loneliness...oh, it scares me just to hear it!

"So you don't hate me? Why are you the one chosen by fate? Why did Mebius's stigmata experiment also choose you? Why can't your brother Mikael spend more time with you? Why do you Brother Mikael became a god without saying hello, leaving you alone in the quantum sea. Compared with traveling, it is undoubtedly an exile... Don't you hate these?

"And you, Xier, Xier Zaicek, not Xier Fuleai, from the moment you chose to become your brother's enemy, we knew that you never let go of this hatred. You are Xi'er, who can't deny her heart, come on, join us, we will all be your friends, and together we will use despair and hatred to create a beautiful new world, in which you will forget all the painful memories. Isn’t it good?”

"Well……"

[Xie'er]'s cheeks twitched, and for a long time, she breathed a sigh of relief, tilted her head, and picked her ears with her free hand.

"Is that all you have to say?"

"..."

"I have a question - are you mentally ill? You speak like a god, but you don't shy away from what you say?"

"You have misunderstood us. We have always said what we say. Our allegiance is to the god who can lead us to a wonderful new world. As for what He has done before, as for countless of us, it is actually because of He had to suffer misfortune, none of this is important, so there is no avoidance.”

Accompanying these words, there was also the sound of "crunching" wooden blocks hitting each other. [Xier] could tell at a glance that it was the doll's head spinning one by one.

"oh oh!"

[Xie'er] opened her mouth into an "O" shape and nodded, looking like she suddenly understood.

"I understand, you just regard Brother Mikael as a tool that can realize your dreams. The only respect you have is just out of fear of that power... Tsk, why is that idiot so pitiful?"

The puppet was silent again, but [Xie'er] put down the sickle and spread her hands generously:

"Then again, I don't want to be friends with you at all, you know why? - Because I hate you, because you are annoying, because the way you talk is so stupid, because the crunching sound makes me very tired. Disgusting. Yes, disgusting! The color scheme is disgusting, the joints are disgusting, the eye patches are disgusting, and those two things on the head are even more disgusting - maybe they would be cuter if replaced with cabbage! Of course, the most disgusting ones are you! This kind of arrogant and respectful attitude, on the one hand treating him with respect and respect, but on the other hand treating him as a tool to be used casually, is really disgusting to the extreme! Just looking at you makes me feel unhappy. It’s best to hurry up. Disappear from me, otherwise this pile of things at your feet will be your only fate!"

He cursed loudly in one breath, but didn't give the puppet a chance to reply.

[Xie'er] gasped and unbuttoned the first button of her shirt, her chest rose and fell rapidly, but her words did not stop for a moment:

"Also, as I said, you are self-righteous and can't understand people's words, right? You have to pretend to know others very well and point fingers. In fact, the more you talk, the more ignorant and stupid you look! Listen to me, I, Shir Zaicek, do hate that idiot, but it’s not hatred. I just think that guy is stupid, and he still likes to show off his strength. It’s really mentally ill for me to become his enemy! Because of hatred, but because-"

As if she had finished speaking in one breath, [Xie'er] took a sudden breath before continuing, but her tone became less sharp:

"Becoming his enemy and killing him is the last thing that my idiot sister can do for him."

"Excuses! They are all excuses! You are running away from the hatred in your heart!"

"I **** can't understand human language, can I?"

[Xie'er] raised the sickle high above his head and slammed it down on the hill of doll corpses.

Broken pieces of wood flew randomly into the darkness, and the screams of the puppets came and went, then subsided in the blink of an eye, as if pairs of invisible hands had blocked the mouths of all the puppets.

But [Xie'er] didn't care about it, she even laughed happily.

Half of that smile was due to the miserable condition of the doll, but the other half was due to another reason:

"Of course, there is another reason why I don't want to be friends with you - you are too stupid! You have been paying attention to me ever since you realized that the excess Honkai energy would form an imaginary singularity, right? Right? Because you have investigated me, you know that I, who was originally the [Sixth Herrscher], can definitely take advantage of this opportunity to become the Herrscher again. You are completely capable, but if another Herrscher is born, you can't say whether you have a chance of winning, so you keep an eye on me.

"And you must think that Bronya said that Chen and Anna can also become Herrschers to try to divert your attention from me? Unfortunately, you guessed wrong! By the way, share Xi'er with me The guy with this name has a very bright mind. She had already guessed that this would be the case. The reason why she stopped absorbing Honkai Energy was just because she realized that you were here with [us], so she gave it to Chen and Chen in this way. Anna just creates opportunities.”

"What?! Impossible! God-sama wouldn't--"

"Are you confident that you know him better than I do?"

As if confirming [Xie'er]'s words, the ceiling shattered at this moment.

Transparent ice cubes wrapped every inch of the wall. Although the candlelight disappeared along with the ceiling, the light from upstairs penetrated along the large hole in the ceiling and illuminated this huge space through the reflection of the ice surface.

At first glance, there were endless dolls in sight, but Xi'er no longer needed to be afraid or worried, because Anna, wearing a crown of ice and snow, was slowly falling from the hole in the ceiling like snowflakes.

"Bang! Miscalculated!"

The Leader, who was mixed in the pile of dolls, immediately made a decision and prepared to escape. As long as it was mixed among a bunch of identical dolls, it was confident that it would not be discovered.

But a sudden gravitational force grabbed its body. In an instant, almost all the puppets were attracted by the black hole in the space. Their bodies were piled together randomly, as if the Herrscher himself had piled human corpses into a Like a giant, it exploded with the black hole.

Chen Tianwu walked to the edge of the ceiling and looked down with his dead eyes. He was surrounded by purple energy that could not be dissipated, which was a manifestation of the Herrscher's power that he had not yet completely controlled.

Leader hid behind a broken pillar in time. At this point, it could only lean on the pillar, close its eyes and pretend to be a corpse, praying that these humans did not discover it. After all, it looks like any other doll.

But even this hope was quickly dashed——

"Idiot, those threads exposed you, go to hell, and return Bronya's power to Bronya."

"If you say you're stupid, you're really stupid. How can I have a complete doll body in my hands?"

Two voices sounded from the left and the right.

At this last moment, Leader sighed softly and raised his chin high, as if he was going to kill it by its neck, but the moment before the sickle cut off its head, the threads that bound it and guided it were broken. (End of chapter)