The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Hershers? You want to turn them into Herrschers to fight the Tenth Herrscher, Dr. Mei, are you sure you're not kidding?"

In the overly bright meeting room, Theresa silently covered her ears. If possible, she didn't want to sit next to Dr. Tesla every time she had a meeting - her ears were really suffering. ̮̦͖̥͈̳̭̭̋̏͝ŝ̸̢̜̳̱͈̹͓̀̆̔͋͛͜͠ḩ̷̻̩͍̱̗͔̺̏̓͊̀͂̀ͅṵ̵̙̻͉̦͙̗̥̉̓̓͊̑̂̑x̸͍̘̳͂͊̂̊̀͊̕͘.̷̹̦̆̆c̶͙͈͚̽̄̈̎̒͜ó̶̧̧̝̳̠͇͕̺̲̹̔̈́̃͝͝m̷̽ ̗͓̂̌̋̃̌

Regardless of whether the two doctors' opinions are right or wrong, at least in Theresa's opinion, if such a story happens a few more times, her ears will be broken, and she will not be able to hear whether the plan is correct or wrong.

Of course, the premise is that there is still a chance of "happening a few more times".

"This is indeed a problem, Dr. Mei."

After a while, feeling that Dr. Tesla had finished her speech, Theresa had to rub her temple and slowly explain:

"Knowing that the Tenth Herrscher has the characteristics of dominating the power of other Herrschers, I don't think it is a wise decision to use the Herrscher to fight against it. "

After a pause, Theresa turned her head and looked at Kevin standing behind Mei.

This man, whose mere presence here was equivalent to explaining to everyone what "powerful" was, just closed his eyes and lowered his head slightly, as if he had fallen asleep standing like this.

Of course, falling asleep was just an illusion. Kevin would stand behind Mei like this every time he had a meeting. At first, everyone felt strange, but gradually got used to it.

He almost never spoke during the meeting. Even if he occasionally said a few words, he was just agreeing with Mei's determination, but at this moment Theresa asked him:

"Kevin, if... I mean, if you face the Tenth Herrscher, are you sure you can defeat it?"

"You mean, you will stop the Tenth Herrscher's army and delay the possible appearance of Mikael, and I will deal with the Tenth Herrscher?"

Kevin slowly opened his eyes. Although it was a question, his tone was unusually calm.

"Well... that's what I mean. The Tenth Herrscher cannot take away the power of your fusion warriors. I think this is a better battle plan, isn't it? "

"If you ask me, I will answer - yes."

Kevin nodded with his eyes wide open, but quickly shook his head.

"But you should understand that if even I can think of this, then Mei will naturally know it better. But she still chose a plan that seems more illogical, which means that she must have seen something behind that plan that you and I have not seen yet. Perhaps it is something that was previously overlooked, or something that can affect the more distant future. "

Theresa looked back at Dr. Tesla again. Tesla spread his hands. Although he did not say anything, Theresa understood that the meaning of that action was probably - don't keep me in suspense, can you finish your words at once?

She looked at Otto, who took out a glass of red wine from nowhere and sipped it, and blinked quickly.

Otto narrowed his green eyes, as if deliberately ignoring Theresa's expression, but soon shook his head and spoke:

"Dr. Mei, have you discovered the weakness of the Tenth Lawrence's [Domination] ability? "

Mei nodded slightly.

"That's right, there is no perfect thing in the world. The more powerful a power looks, the more fatal loopholes there must be in places we haven't noticed. The key to the problem is whether we can find it. As for the weakness of the Tenth Ruler [Domination]...Kevin, do you still remember Luluye? "

Kevin's eyes were blank for a moment, and he glanced at Wei Wei and Su unconsciously - he was not the only Ying Jie here, but...

He suddenly thought that among the Ying Jie, he was the only one who had experienced the Luluye incident.

But what did Mei want to ask?

Kevin didn't know, but he believed in all the decisions made by Mei. Besides, everything that happened in the past was honestly stored in his memory, not to mention that the memory of Luluye had a more special meaning.

That was his first meeting with Mei, and with Mikael and Alicia.

He kept every detail, even every word of dialogue in his mind, and he didn't forget it, let alone forget it.

Thinking about it, he even forgot to give an answer for a while.

But Mei knew him well enough, and sometimes, [silence] and [affirmation] are equivalent.

So Mei continued:

"I don't know if you have looked through the archives of Luluye's collapse incident, and the third collapse archives of Canghai City battle revised by Mikael after returning to the Fire Moth. "

"Well... I have seen it, but these... uh, can be regarded as Mikael's black history, what does it have to do with the Tenth Herrscher... Wait, you mean... the use of power?"

"Yes, that's it - if Mikael, who was born to be the vessel of [The End], had great difficulty in using another Herrscher's power before his transformation, and even because he was too obsessed with this, he could not fully exert his original power as the Herrscher of Reason, then what about the current Tenth Herrscher?"

The topic gradually led to a direction that everyone in modern civilization could not understand. However, there was at least one person in modern civilization who could understand it——

Otto slowly put down his wine glass and reminded:

"However, Mikael is using the power of the Herrscher of Reason to construct the cores of other Herrschers, thereby achieving the purpose of using the powers of other Herrschers, without affecting the other cores themselves. The power of the Tenth Herrscher is essentially Domination, it seizes the power of the other Herrschers. For example, Bronya, her core has directly become an empty shell, and she even has to bear the burden of the Tenth Herrscher's power of using the Herrscher of Reason. In other words, The essence of the two is not the same.”

"No, the two are just different in form, they are exactly the same in essence."

Otto fell silent, pursed his lips and looked at Mei for several seconds, then spread his hands towards Mei, gesturing for her to continue.

"The so-called core of the Herrscher actually only has one [End Page], and the rest are just its projections in different dimensions, and the same is true of power. Whether it is the fabrication of principles and laws, or the control of the Tenth Herrscher, essentially It is a flow of energy at the core of the Herrscher, but it is freer than the Key of God.

"So, the so-called [dominance] is by no means free of cost. First of all, we know that if you wrestle with the emerged Herrscher, the Tenth Herrscher has no chance of winning, and there is even the possibility of being seized of power in turn. So in fact, the Tenth Herrscher has no chance of winning. , can the ability to control be imagined as a rope? The Tenth Herrscher connected this rope to Bronya. Since Bronya could not perfectly control her power, she was pulled by it, Thinking about it on the other hand, as long as Bronya is willing, she can pull back her power - even though she won't succeed.

"However, this is based on the situation where the Herrscher only controls Bronya. If there are more objects being controlled, and each controlled object tries to take back their power, the Herrscher will suddenly have to fight with When multiple individuals wrestle, the situation becomes dangerous and delicate.

"And one more thing, assuming that the result of the wrestling is that the Tenth Herrscher wins, will these controlled powers really greatly enhance the combat effectiveness of the Tenth Herrscher? I think not. This is what I The reason for taking Mikael's example is that before he was transformed, the burden caused by his other Herrscher powers could only support a very short battle, because the output power of the core was completely insufficient and the Tenth Herrscher had not gone through it. Feathering, [Domination], as a kind of energy flow, is essentially the same as [Fabrication].

"So, even if the Herrscher of Reason has controlled the power, the Tenth Herrscher has almost never used it. Therefore, the Herrscher clearly has many opportunities to control Kiana's power, but he has not acted rashly. Therefore, the Herrscher has not even used it. Trying to find the movements of the Herrscher of Knowledge may be due to layout considerations, but it may also be due to the fact that even if he controls so many powers, it will be difficult to bring much improvement in actual combat... Phew, he said this in one breath. "More, are you satisfied with these explanations?"

Otto raised his hand and pinched his chin, looking sideways to signal Rita to give everyone more coffee, and of course Theresa's bitter melon juice, but then he remembered that Rita had already gone to the Greek front.

"How should I put it? There is a huge information gap between the two of us, so it's hard for me to judge. So, Dr. Mei, why don't you just tell me your plan."

"Okay, then I'll just tell you."

Mei drank the last sip of coffee in the cup, moistened her lips, and deliberately paused for a while. Seeing that there were no other opinions in the conference room, she opened her mouth and said:

"Currently, we still have three people who are qualified Herrschers. Xi'er, Anna, and Chen. Xi'er doesn't need me to explain. Anna and Chen. Instead of explaining now, I think it's better to wait until the battle is over. How about that?"

The response May received was a chorus of nods.

"The specific operation is not complicated. Meiyi alone will serve as Group A and bring Bronya, Xi'er, Anna, and Chen from Group B into the Tower of Babel. Group B will deliberately enter the floors below Kiana's location. , attracting the attention of the Herrscher, and Group A will rush directly to the floor where Kiana is located. After confirming that Group B has entered the Tower of Babel, we will use the Second God Key to drop a large number of Honkai energy piggy banks at the location of Group B. and Honkai energy reactor.

"The three qualified Herrschers in Group B try their best to absorb energy and try to condense the imaginary singularity. It is not difficult. When a large number of Honkai appear around qualified people, they only need to obey their instincts to become Herrschers. . And Bronya attracted his attention by wrestling with the Herrscher, and the other three tried to annihilate the Tenth Herrscher after becoming Herrschers.

"Of course, that is the Herrscher's territory after all, and it is a bit difficult to kill it just like that. But once it escapes, in order to cope with the worsening situation for it, it will inevitably choose to dominate Kiana's power. Because it At that moment, only the power of space can reverse everything. I don’t need to say more about it. Groups A and B will join together and kill Herrscher together.”

There was silence after Mei's words fell. After a while, Xi'er raised her hand and asked:

"Doctor, after becoming Herrschers, what should we do if we cannot control our own consciousness and become...well, Herrschers in that sense?"

"Then execute the second plan, let Kevin and Hua enter the Tower of Babel, and then use Otto's [Restraint] power to kill all the [Herrschers] in the tower."

Just such a short sentence caused everyone present to fall into silence.

After a long time, it was Tesla who knocked on the table with her robotic arm, breaking the stiff atmosphere.

"Dr. Mei, what you have said is just to prove to us the possibility of implementing your plan. However, since the first plan has so many uncontrollable risks, why not directly implement the second plan with higher reliability? A plan?”

Mei's hand covering the coffee cup rose, fell, and finally rose again, with her fingers interlaced and closed on her chest.

"Don't say that Kevin, Hua and our beloved Bishop will be used to block the advance of the Tenth Herrscher's army, and don't say that they will be arranged to deal with Mikael. They can do the former, Bronya and the others can do it, but Bronya and the others can't do it, and Kevin, Hua, and Otto can't do it either. Although it sounds a little hurtful, it's true, isn't it? ?”

"yes."

Mei nodded generously.

“But what I want is uncertainty, or in other words, what I want is [risk].”

"W-do you want to hear what you're saying?"

When the word "you" came out of his mouth, out of respect for the leader who led pre-civilized mankind to the end, Tesla was ready to forcefully change to a softer wording, but after thinking for 0.01 seconds, Tesla Finally, she blurted it out without any politeness.

Mei was not angry, she just silently pushed up her glasses on the bridge of her nose, then lowered her voice and said something that no one expected with an inexplicable heaviness:

"Kiana must emerge from this collapse. If not, Kevin and I will go to World Serpent to start the Stigma Project."

"嗗嗗——"

"Crack-"

The fluorescent light in the conference room flickered twice. Amber, who was standing by the wall, quickly turned off the light. When he turned it on again, the light was stable.

Meiyi let go of the long purple knife in her hand, but couldn't help but tighten it again, but this time there was no Razer spilled out.

Theresa also swallowed nervously, her heart rate soared to nearly 200 in one second, and she almost retched even when she stared at the bitter melon juice in the cup.

Su opened a slit in his eyes and looked around, but the moment his eyes touched "Anna", he was glared at by the latter. He thought for two or three seconds, and finally swallowed back what he wanted to say, and gently pulled away. Pulling on the sleeves of Weiwei and Hua who were standing on both sides of him.

As for Dr. Tesla, as soon as she opened her mouth, a cold hand covered her lips. Einstein stared at her without any fluctuation, shook his head slightly, and then let go of his hand.

"The reason why we are sitting here as friends is because in my current judgment, [The Fire Project] still has the possibility of success, and once Kiana cannot emerge from this collapse, then our The odds of success are slim, so we have to resort to the worst possible plan.”

Although the worst plan has long been impossible to implement, for Mikael, an insider, whether it is to instigate Prometheus or kill Prometheus directly... in short, compared to the Tinder Plan, Project Stigmata's odds of success are even slimmer.

The only purpose is probably to scare everyone at this time.

Because Kiana must evolve during this collapse, and it is also the one with the highest probability of success, so it is worth taking the risk.

But if Kiana fails to emerge in a more secure way, then it is completely unknown whether she can finally take over that fool's power as everyone expected.

"I've finished my words, then everyone will vote as usual..."

"Wait a minute Mei, I have something to say."

Su suddenly stood up, with blood-red eyes staring, and placed a [leaf] on the long table in the conference room.

"I also left a backup plan at the beginning, which should improve the success rate of Mei's plan."

…………

"Hey! Is it dead?"

[Xie'er] kicked the puppet that was limp as mud in annoyance, but the latter didn't react at all.

"It seems that he transferred his consciousness to another doll and escaped. This guy... is really difficult to kill. Do we have to completely destroy the tower?"

Bronya covered her heart and silently felt the beating of her core - it was a pity that she had not been able to regain her power just now.

"Anna, Chen, go back tonight, Bronya will treat you to the principal's favorite bitter melon juice."

Chen was the first to answer expressionlessly:

"No, the bitter melon juice is too delicious."

Anna waited until Chen Tianwu finished speaking, then pursed her lips and said:

"Yes, bitter melon juice is not something people drink."

Bronya and Xi'er breathed a sigh of relief at the same time - the passwords were exactly right, and there were no problems with the answers. It seemed that they were still the familiar Anna and Chen.

To be on the safe side, Bronya added another question:

"How about it, do you feel something is wrong? If it doesn't work, don't hold on, and let Su Qing clear the Herrscher consciousness from your heads in time."

But the two people's answers... how should I put it... were very unexpected, but seemed to be reasonable——

"No... I don't seem to feel any sense of the Herrscher, but there was a strange voice telling me how to use my power at first. It was quite nagging, and then it disappeared... Tianwu, what are you doing? Sample?"

"I……"

Feeling the power flowing out of his body, and meeting Anna's concerned eyes, Chen, who was already taciturn, couldn't think of the right words to say at this moment.

So, he used the most concise and direct words:

"me too."

"Well, it seems that you all have no problem..."

Bronya slapped her forehead.

"Bronya's powers haven't been restored yet. Let's check again. Can your powers still be used normally?"

"able."

"no problem!"

Bronya nodded, glanced at the big hole in the ceiling, and ordered:

"Okay, everything is according to Dr. Mei's plan. Check which floor this is, we are going to meet Sister Mei, and then..."

"Bronya?"

The sudden sound made everyone stunned.

Bronya turned to look at the source of the sound, which was also the spiral staircase connecting each floor of the Tower of Babel. Standing next to the stairs at this time, holding a long knife in one hand and pressing the handrail with the other was - —

"Bronya, why are you... on top of me?"

Mei blinked in confusion, and then walked up the stairs before Bronya said anything.

And after twenty-two "tap tap tap" footsteps, Mei Yi walked up from the lower stairs.

After seeing Bronya, she rubbed her eyes again, turned around and walked down resolutely, but after twenty-two footsteps sounded, she walked down the upper stairs again.

This time, she finally stopped moving and just looked at Bronya silently.

Bronya also looked at her silently.

Dr. Mei...seems...miscalculated?