The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

Chapter 652 The Twelfth Herrscher is...

"Cough cough cough——"

The pungent smoke choked the man awake, his vision was dim, and he could vaguely see the brilliant firelight in the sky. His hands were groping frantically as if searching for a life-saving straw, and he touched the cold hilt of the sword among the debris, and then Honkai energy rushed in from the body on its own, and the hilt of the sword instantly became hotter than the flames burning around him.

"Ahem...Mei...is anyone still alive?"

Kevin stood up from the ruins with the Heavenly Fire Seal on his back. His hearing was filled with a sharp roar like the tip of a needle rubbing against his body, and he couldn't even hear what he was shouting.

The surrounding firelight and the dusk in the sky were mixed together, making it difficult to distinguish.

Such a scene is so familiar.

Kevin felt something unusually cold on his forehead, and when he touched his right hand, his fingertips were stained with sticky blood.

After discovering that his head was injured, he felt pain, and his consciousness actually changed from being awake to being hazy again.

The scene in front of me...here is...

Is it Changkong City...

The place that completely changed the fate of himself and Mei, may also be the place that changed the fate of the entire world...

No! wrong!

When his eyes glanced at the fiery red sword in his hand, Kevin finally recalled reality.

The eardrum-piercing howl disappeared without a trace, replaced by uninterrupted explosions, roars with all one's strength, and...

"Kevin! At nine o'clock, he's heading to you!"

Before his brain could even figure out whose voice it was, his body had already started to move instinctively, and the flame-flaming sword drew a perfect semicircle in front of him, slashing to the left.

The raging flames surged toward the direction of the attack like a tsunami, but were easily torn apart by invisible force in an instant.

Kevin finally saw Mikael. He saw this comrade he once trusted so much, and watched this family member who had agreed to welcome the future together reach out to him.

He stretched out his hand, with his palm raised and his fingers spread out.

"not good--"

An irresistible force wrapped around Kevin and pushed his body directly towards Mikael.

He was no stranger to this type of attack, and he had already learned how to deal with it - quickly visually measuring the distance between the enemy and ourselves, and then swinging the Skyfire Great Sword forward at the right time and in the right place.

"when--"

The flames surged again, but the flames only lasted a moment. When the flames dissipated, the Heavenly Fire Saint, who had emptied the Honkai energy at once, hit the invisible barrier. The void was like an LCD screen pressed by a finger. Colorful lights lit up everywhere, but the great sword that had always been invincible could not be saved after all.

Fifty thousand years ago...it was clearly possible to break through several layers.

This was Kevin's last thought.

The next moment, the invisible barrier rolled forward, and this time Kevin finally saw it clearly - in fact, it was not the indestructible barrier that was moving forward, but layer after layer of new imaginary barriers that left no gaps. The ground overlaps forward, so it can grind everything in its path into powder.

The distance is too close and there is no way to avoid it.

The ground was plowed into deep ravines by the barrier, and it continued to move forward, parting the sea water and cracking the seabed, and it seemed to not stop until the end of the sky.

And Kevin could no longer be caught in sight.

"The most troublesome part has been solved."

Mikael shook his spotless hand, then swung his arm back, and his fist hit Qianjie who rushed from behind him. The fragments of the mask, bone residue and blood beads flew everywhere, and the body was burning with flames. He was also directly smashed into the rubble, and his life and death were unknown. However, the flames on his body slowly extinguished after two or three seconds, leaving only his charred black body.

"The second most troublesome issue has also been solved."

Mikael's eyes were unblinking, and there was no expression on his face.

Just after saying this, he took a deep breath, spread his feet, and slowly rotated his body in a circle, locking the bodies of each Ying Jie.

"Let's solve the rest together."

The last words finally blurted out, and with the crisp sound of snapping fingers, the whole world was stained with a bit of blue frost.

So time froze.

Then, pink crystals broke out of the ground and enveloped everyone.

The next moment, the colors of the world became saturated again, and the flames among the ruins started to stir again. Only in the space wrapped by crystal, the pause button was pressed on time.

Release your right hand, clench it, release it, clench it again...

Finally, Mikael waved his hand and blew out all the flames among the ruins.

The feeling of scorched earth has become too familiar, and only wisps of blue smoke are still stretching unremittingly into the sky.

Five minutes--Mikael thought silently in his heart.

That's how long it takes from the start of the battle to the end. Not one second too much, not one second too little.

And this is also the time that a dozen heroes can hold on in the hands of [Final Yan] when both sides go all out - meaning, if the battle does not end in one second, then it will probably be this. It's time.

The dusk in the sky is still gorgeous, and the black soil under our feet seems to be completely different worlds.

The accumulation of Honkai energy has stagnated. It is unknown whether the Herrscher has been born, or because Mikael has absorbed too much Honkai energy, which has forced the birth of the Herrscher to be suspended.

But no matter what, it's time to meet my other self and end this farce.

Following the direction in his memory, Mikael stepped away from the ruins step by step, and soon left the heroes behind.

Not long after, he found another version of himself on a platform like a sacrificial field further back in the residential area.

The floor tiles underfoot were as white as jade, seemingly unaffected by the previous battle.

The boy with the same face as him closed his eyes and stood motionless in the middle of the platform. It wasn't until Mikael's figure appeared that he opened his eyes and moved his lips slightly:

"You came."

"Well, how come... it's a lot faster than you planned?"

The other self smiled noncommittally.

"So, should I call you [former me] now, or - the Twelfth Herrscher?"

"Then it's the latter. It's easier to distinguish the two of us, isn't it?"

The Twelfth Herrscher didn't seem nervous, nor did he seem very angry when facing Mikael again.

Even if Mikael can be sure, the twelfth Herrscher just watched him defeat Ying Jie...

This attitude was beyond Mikael's expectations, and made him feel uneasy that things were beyond his control.

After staring at each other for a while, Mikael put one hand on his hip and inserted the blood-red spear into the gap in the floor tiles beside him.

"If you say that, it seems that you have become the Twelfth Herrscher. In this case, there is nothing more to say, right? Let's have a fight. In this world, you, the Herrscher of Corrosion, can have something close to The ultimate power... Heh, this may be the only battle that I need to go all out for so many years. As another me, don't let me down."

"Um……"

The Twelfth Herrscher closed his eyes and responded, but the moment Mikael drew out his spear again, he raised his hands without hesitation.

"So, I surrender - it seems I am destined to disappoint you?"

"Bah! What do you mean?"

Mikael inadvertently bit off half of his teeth, spat out the broken teeth along with the blood foam, and immediately pointed the tip of his spear at the Twelfth Herrscher.

"It doesn't mean anything. What can I mean? It's just meaning..."

bass--

The forked tip of the spear stopped in front of the Twelfth Herrscher, but he still seemed fearless. He raised his index finger and pushed the spear aside.

"What exactly do you want to do?"

Mikael was obviously a little angry.

"Is it possible that in their plan, the time I bought with my life...after making you the Herrscher of Corrosion, was just to surrender to me?"

"So...you still care about them so much..."

The Herrscher's emotion caught Mikael off guard, but he quickly became expressionless again.

"You are angry because you feel that I have failed them in their sacrifice."

"so what?"

"But, you are right again - both Su and Mei told me that as long as things progress to this point, their goals have been achieved. As for after this, there will be a hearty and bloody battle between you and me. It’s up to the two of us to decide whether we should have a good talk face to face.”

Click——click——click——

Mikael unconsciously raised his fingers. He had seen many people. The guy in front of him had neither the power of the Eighth Herrscher nor the shield of Su and Aponya. He could tell that the other person was not lying.

But... what does it mean to just get this far?

Mikael didn't understand at all.

Shouldn't we try our best to stop ourselves?

The time to enter the paradise was too hasty, and he had no way of exploring what the heroes were thinking.

But based on the contact with Sakura, it is obvious that the reason why everyone will come together to stop him is just because they need to play such a role on the road to the final outcome.

In addition, they probably know what they are thinking.

Because he hopes to be stopped by [everyone], the heroes will risk everything for this final battle.

But what’s the point of ending here and ending at the end?

Why did it get better after the birth of the Twelfth Herrscher?

Does it mean that the Herrscher is complete and ready to enter the final stage?

If this is the case, why should his past self serve as the candidate for the Twelfth Herrscher?

"What's wrong? Do you really want to fight [yourself]? Mikael, judging from my understanding of myself, you are not the type who enjoys fighting, right? Do you want to fight your past self? , or being beaten by your past self? If it is this level of need, I can satisfy you. "

"Stop talking nonsense and tell me the reason why you are still standing here. Otherwise, I should send you, a person who should not appear in this era, on your way."

"The reason..."

The Twelfth Herrscher laughed sadly and sat cross-legged on the ground.

"Because I want to see you with my own eyes. I want to see with my own eyes what I will become in the future. To be honest, I don't believe that I will become an executioner who kills countless humans. I firmly believe that you are so There must be a reason for doing this. I tried to put my past Mikael's thoughts into my future self, and just now, I already understood your thoughts - it was not told by Su or Mei. But I really understand what you are trying to do.”

Mikael's lips parted, and the hostility dissipated as silently as the white steam he exhaled.

He suddenly felt that the scene in front of him was too familiar.

Now, when he looks at his past self in front of him, is he just like how Mikael looked at him in the end?

Hostility brewed in my heart again, and then a thought emerged uncontrollably——

Just like what Mikael wanted in the end, let him do that thing instead of [me], and then [I] can also...

The ten fingers were embedded in the palm of the hand, and blood flowed down between the fingers, which finally made Mikael's mind clear up a lot.

If that were the case, the world would really be a drama of reincarnation.

But... but...

I really want to do this, as long as this is the case...

"call--"

Clenching his fists again, Mikael looked at the Twelfth Herrscher calmly.

"So, what are you going to do now?"

"Of course...I have a few last questions for you."

"explain--"

After saying a simple word, two identical faces revealed an identical smile:

"Having come this far, do you regret it?"

"How can you not regret it... But even if you regret it again, you must take the path you choose to the end."

"Then... you can't witness the ending you long for, you can't apologize and say goodbye to everyone, and you are destined to not be able to truly see her again. Do you regret it?"

"Of course she regrets it, and even...scared. But she must have felt like this at the beginning. There was no way to see the world after defeating the Honkai Impact, no time to say goodbye to everyone, no time to reveal everything about herself to everyone, and what was inevitable in the end She must be sad and scared to leave me alone in the world, but it is precisely because of this that the decision she made after overcoming her sadness and fear is particularly beautiful. I am not as selfless as she is. She lived and was able to see everything she wanted to see, but it was because of such a selfish desire that I was able to overcome the fear and regret."

"That's it..."

The Twelfth Herrscher slowly closed his eyelids, not knowing whether he was satisfied or dissatisfied with his future self's answer.

He quickly asked the last question:

"Mikael, although I have not personally experienced the authority of the End, but based on my understanding of the [truth] of this world, even the Cocoon of the End itself has no way to transcend the rules of imaginary numbers without paying any effort. Do what you want to do at the cost. Not being able to see you again, not being able to see her again, is the price I could have imagined before, giving her a second life, but... I want to let her. The world she wants to see becomes a reality, and she wants to reverse all the evils, which probably means... So, in the end, no one, including her, will remember your existence anymore. Is that acceptable?"

"Of course I can't accept it."

Mikael tilted his head and laughed.

"I wish Alicia would remember me and always remember me. She was so cruel that she left me alone in this world for fifty thousand years, so I have to ask her to remember me for fifty thousand years as well. Still. There are Mebius, Hua, the promise made with Sakura, the Yingjie, and Mei...these bonds that have been established, even if they no longer exist, I don't want to see them disappear..."

"So do you have any ideas that I don't know about?"

"No."

"Well……"

The Twelfth Herrscher looked at his future self in surprise, but only saw an extremely serious look on that face.

"What you want to get, you have to pay for. Because of this, not everything you want can be obtained, so you have to make choices."

"That's it..."

"And...if everyone really doesn't remember me, then it will be the best ending for everyone. Although we have swords against each other several times, I can feel everyone's thoughts. We have agreed to go together. If one of the future family members is missing, everyone will never be happy. For Alicia, it is even more cruel. Because I have experienced 50,000 years, I know better what kind of pain it is. , she completely forgets, to be precise, she no longer knows about my existence, so she won’t be sad about it. Isn’t this the best ending?”

The Twelfth Herrscher's lips moved and finally turned into a smile.

"It seems that you have prepared everything, so I have nothing to worry about."

He walked towards Mikael step by step, and finally stopped in front of him.

"Come on, let's do it. If you don't kill me, you won't be relieved, right?"

Mikael's eyebrows trembled, he raised his hand and said:

"This isn't the first time I've killed myself. It makes me feel like I'm familiar with it."

"Wouldn't that be nice-"

Before the Twelfth Herrscher finished speaking, he saw that Mikael's raised hand did not insert into his chest, but instead went around his body and hugged him.

"Yes, I kill myself every time, as if by killing my past self, all the mistakes I have made can be wiped out and I become a brand new self. Fortunately, I still treat Mei and Kiana every time It is said that a person has only two choices when facing his past self, either to kill it or to embrace it... Haven't I never embraced myself before..."

The astonishment on the twelfth Herrscher's face quickly turned into a helpless smile.

"Then I also wish you success - although for you now, there is no possibility of failure."

With every word he spoke, his figure became more illusory, until his limbs began to dissipate, spreading to his torso, and finally only a mouth remained.

Mikael's smile gradually became stiff.

He doesn't regret it, but why...

"Why wasn't the core of the Twelfth Herrscher found?"

The last remaining mouth of his past self whispered in his ear.

"I'm sorry, my future self abandoned you in the end - I'm sorry, but from the beginning, the Twelfth Herrscher was not me."

When Mikael turned his head, he had completely disappeared.

Mikael's fingers trembled crazily.

The platform next to me looked so familiar, and pink petals were floating in the sky at the right time.

That's it...

My past self also had the power of reason and could easily construct a Twelfth Herrscher core to attract his attention.

but……

Mikael...why never thought of it——

In this paradise of the past, there is only one person who is qualified to become the Lawyer of Corrosion, besides his past self, besides Ling, and besides Himihu.

There were more and more pink petals, until his eyes were completely confused.

"I'm such an idiot..."