The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"So... Alicia, why are you here?"

After gently patting Kiana on the back, Mei turned around and asked curiously after the two people's emotions gradually became calmer.

Although the doll that appeared in front of her was Fairy Ellie, after spending time together, she could still detect slight differences in the tone and movements of Alicia and Fairy Ellie, not to mention that Ellie did not deliberately camouflage.

"Me? Of course I am here to help you."

"No, I mean...I mean, are the heroes and warriors okay?"

"Don't worry, it's okay. It's just that after the Paradise of the Past is blocked, only I, as the Herrscher of Corrosion, can come to the True World by possessing a doll."

"Is this so..."

"Ahem——"

Otto cleared his throat, interrupting their reminiscence.

"Now that Raiden Mei has returned to her true world, Ms. Alicia... er, I mean, Ms. Pink Fairy. In my opinion, it's time for us to make the final plan."

"Ah, yes..."

Alicia did not hesitate when she answered, but her eyelids lowered slightly.

"In a sense - to implement the final plan, this is the most important purpose of my coming here."

Mei Yi opened her mouth, but finally said nothing.

"So, as the former Origin, can you now tell us how to reach the End?"

"No!"

"Um?"

Ellie smiled and shook her head.

"After all, I was just a memory and did not possess the power of the Origin. Even if I knew where the road was, I could not open it. And there is no way to give specific coordinates for the orientation in the imaginary space. Only Only those who have the power of the origin can feel the coordinates themselves. In fact, Prometheus No. 17 could have pointed the way, but now that Kevin and Mei are trapped in the paradise of the past, I I can’t contact Prometheus either.”

"But... Alicia, since you don't have Siyuan's power, how did you pass on Siyuan's power to me?"

Mei Yi looked at her right hand that had returned to normal in confusion, already having a vague premonition.

"Because Mei Yi, your original power was not given by me. That power was entrusted to you a long time ago. I am just a counterfeit of the former owner of that power, helping you to exert that power." The restrictions on power have been lifted.”

"Is that really the case...He has already calculated from that time to now...wait...so..."

"That's right!"

Seeing Mei's expression of enlightenment, Ai Li reminded her softly:

"Just like many times in the past, the [key] to unlock the answer is actually always by your side."

Meiyi's lips moved, and then she took out a key with a cat's claw pendant from her pocket.

"This is what you gave me in the eternal paradise..."

"uh-huh?"

Looking at the cat's claw-shaped keychain, Mei Yi obviously thought of something again and took out a crumpled map from his pocket.

"This is the treasure map Padu gave me. She said it marked the treasure she left behind...and this key, if I guessed correctly, is not actually the key to the room where the typewriter is located, but the key to the room where the typewriter is located. The key to the treasure left by Duo, right?”

"That's right, Mei!"

"And something else was put into the treasure Padu left behind - something that can help us reach the end, right?"

This time, Alicia stopped answering and just smiled and nodded.

…………

Ten minutes later, Mei arrived at a construction site in Brindi City alone.

With the power of lightning, she can turn into lightning and move at the speed of light, without wasting the opportunity to recharge the Second God Key.

Following the map given by Paduo, it is naturally impossible to find the burial place of the treasure. Although the general territory of the two eras did not change much, when it comes to a single location, the same changes have taken place.

Fortunately, Otto's Void Manzo also contains a map of Dusk Street in the pre-civilization city of Brindi. By overlaying it with the current map and calculating the longitude and latitude, the approximate location was obtained.

This is the construction site where Mei Yi is currently located.

Most of the human race has been involved in the Stigma Project. Even if they are returning to reality one after another, it will still take a certain amount of time. Therefore, there is no one else on the construction site except Mei, so she does not need to pay attention to the movement.

Although Paduo did not bury the treasure too deep when he buried it, crustal movements are not uncommon in fifty thousand years, and the factors of soil accumulation must be taken into consideration. Both the specific location and depth are very different from those on the map. Jinting. Fortunately, Herrscher's digging efficiency was not comparable to that of ordinary excavators. Meiyi soon dug out an aluminum box with a cat's paw pattern more than 20 meters underground.

Insert the key into the hole and twist it slightly, and the box will pop open on its own, revealing the items neatly arranged inside.

A folded wanted poster with Padu's photo printed on it.

Several Fire Chaser uniforms full of holes.

A bottle cap with a crooked print.

A poison chrysalis badge and a Honkaiju-like mask.

...It is nothing more than this kind of thing that looks ordinary, but to the girl herself, it is a rare treasure that no amount of money and gems can buy.

Therefore, in the end, the girl did not choose even one of her favorite shiny things, but instead saved these rags in the eyes of others.

At that time, what kind of mood did Padu have in burying all this... It is said that cats' intuition is quite sensitive...

It was just Mei Yi thinking randomly, and even this kind of thinking soon had to be interrupted, because Mei Yi found something at the bottom of the box.

It’s not something that Pado would bury.

It was a pocket watch, a pocket watch with Velvet's spiral engraved on it.

Mei took it out of the box and opened the cover. The hands on the dial below it always stayed at a certain moment without changing, and even the clockwork couldn't rotate.

Not surprisingly, this is what I was looking for.

Meiyi put the remaining items back into the aluminum box, put the aluminum box and the pocket watch into the pockets on both sides of her clothes, and quickly filled back the excavated soil. She soon turned into a bolt of lightning and returned to the meeting at Tianming Headquarters. room.

The conference room had been cleared, leaving only Kiana, Bronya and Alicia waiting for her.

"That's it, Alicia."

Mei handed the pocket watch to Ai Li.

"That's right! That's it!"

Fairy Ellie held the pocket watch in her small hands and explained in a low voice:

"After the battle with the end was over and I returned to the Paradise, everyone also knew the final decision I made. Velvet was not willing to accept that ending. Of course, no one could accept such an ending willingly... So she brought I made this device with a glimmer of hope, and continued to send certain signals to the cocoon of the end through the path I opened at that time, hoping to awaken the original part of Alicia's personality in the cocoon from now on. Look, this plan can be declared a failure, but it still has value -

"Mei Yi, you happen to be the Herrscher of Thunder. You should be able to find the way to that place through this signal."

Meiyi clutched the pocket watch tightly, closed her eyes and felt it carefully, and soon found it and opened her eyes with awareness.

"I found it."

She said this, but there was no joy in her eyes.

"Oh, why are you still looking so sad after you found it?"

Alicia smiled knowingly.

"So what if all of this is an arranged fate? Isn't what we experienced at that time also a fate that has been spun? Moreover, even if the tangible thread of fate is cut and countless individuals' personalities are intertwined, in the end Rewoven into an invisible destiny, what really matters is your will, Mei.

"Mei Yi, have you ever gone against your own will along the way? Aren't everything to this point achieved by your own will? The result itself has no meaning, it's the path to success. The process of results is a process in which every decision made due to one's own will gives meaning to the results.

"The important thing is, what I want to believe in this journey will determine what I can get when I reach the end. And even if the end is already doomed, I have to choose the process of reaching that end - someone once said But you, Kiana, and Bronya, you have accomplished this without any doubt.

"So, what are you still hesitating about?"

Facing Alicia's smile, Mei pursed the corners of her mouth quickly, and her sadness dissipated inadvertently.

Then, Elf Ellie floated to her side, took her and Kiana's hands respectively, overlapped them, and then pushed Bronya over.

"In that case, let's go!"

"Uh...have the conditions been met? But we still don't know how to concentrate all the power on Kiana, and Kiana's own power has not been restored yet..."

"Hmm! It seems that Yayi still needs some tips - listen up Yayi, the most essential point of Siyuan's power is to connect the powers of all Herrschers and combine them into one to reach the only true The end. Phew—it seems that you didn’t pay attention when I relayed the memories I saw in that space to you. I’m so sad.”

"No, it's not...it doesn't seem to exist in this section."

"Ah? No? Didn't that memory include the part about how we planned to defeat the Twelfth Herrscher in the end?"

"No...I'm sure not."

"Well, you know now."

Alicia smiled slightly, then raised her staff and struck each of the three girls on the head like a mallet.

"Okay, this is my blessing to you. Go quickly and see you there!"

"Um."

The three girls held hands and responded in unison, and then took a deep breath in unison.

Meiyi slowly closed her eyes and felt the [position] carefully. She seemed to see a road.

The roadside is full of thorns, and you will get stuck if you don't pay attention, but there are colorful flowers blooming on the thorns.

There are too many weeds growing on the road. However, depending on the height of the grass, you can still vaguely make out the footprints left behind.

Yayi held the two hands beside her and walked along the blurry road. The light and shadow in her sight became brighter and brighter, as if covered with a high-light filter. It was whiter than the light in the stigmata space. Those are more like a [dream].

Suddenly, a white light burst out, covering everything in sight, but the light was not dazzling, and people didn't react until there was only a pure white mass left in front of them.

When the light curtain dissipated like a tide, what appeared in front of the three girls was an ordinary station.

The track on the right was empty, but the bench on the left was still warm.

After all, this is an imaginary number space. Since then, time has never flowed here.

Mei leaned down and put her hands on the bench, silently feeling the warmth left by Mikael and Alicia.

She will be sad and moved by a story that spans a hundred and a thousand times longer than her own life so far, and gain the strength to move forward from it. Only humans can do this - if it is Alicia, she will definitely would say this in her ear.

"Mei Yi, what should we do next?"

Hearing the question from the girl next to her, Mei turned around slowly.

She opened her mouth, but before she could speak, she was overtaken by a voice that shouldn't exist here:

"What else do you need to do? We are already here."

"The Herrscher of Knowledge!"

Looking at the older girl coming from behind, Kiana was a little surprised.

The Lawyer of Consciousness didn't explain, he just raised his thumb and pointed behind him.

Soon, with the long sound of the whistle, the tram slowly pulled into the station and stopped, and the car parked in front of a few people was already full of people.

They are all...familiar people.

The car door opened, the four people on the platform filed in, and the car door slowly closed again.

The train began to move, from swaying, slowly and leisurely, to gradually becoming stable, and gradually elongating the surrounding light and shadow into straight lines.

"What's wrong with you three? Didn't we already agree to meet at this place? Do you think I'm joking?"

Elf Ellie floated in front of the three of them, but after thinking about it, she reached out and hooked the armrest above her head.

"No...we just..."

"Okay, don't talk, just feel it quietly."

Elf Ellie smiled and then handed her hand to Kiana.

The light outside the car window instantly turned pink. Through the corner of the eye, you could see an endless sea of ​​pink flowers. At the end of your sight, there stood a paradise that could not exist even in fairy tales.

Kiana swallowed, thinking of the stories Mei Yi had told her, her hands suddenly seemed to be carrying too much weight.

But she still gritted her teeth and raised her hand, then held Ellie's hand.

A force surged into the body, which was the power of erosion.

"I didn't expect that I could actually witness the ending you created as a witness instead of a bystander. So, you must work hard! Although I will also secretly cheer for Mikael behind your back—— Uh, shouldn’t I say this?”

"I understand what you mean, Alicia-senpai."

"I want to call you Miss Pink Fairy, or Fairy Ellie!"

"Uh... this is still too shameful..."

"Hmph! Even if you don't scream!"

Elf Ellie floated to the corner with her staff in her arms, her eyes closed and her head held high, her mouth pouted. She was obviously disappointed that Kiana didn't call out the title she expected in the end.

Kiana shook her head at a loss, still hesitating whether to obey Ellie, even though it was just this time, a short black-haired doll had already walked up to her.

"Guinevere?"

"Yo! Not bad, can you recognize it at a glance this time?"

The doll's lips curled up, and it also handed its hand to Kiana.

At the same time, the light outside the car window dimmed, and the tram drove through the dark purple sky, surrounded by broken masonry and a huge stage.

"I don't seem to have anything to say to you. Kiana, remember her words are also your own promise - go and make this imperfect world what you want it to be."

"Well, I will definitely do it."

As a result, the power of dominance also flowed into Kiana's body.

"Is it my turn next?"

There seemed to be the sound of crows passing by outside the window. When I glanced out of the corner of my eye, I saw a solar eclipse that was infinitely close to darkness, and a cross erected high in the square in the distance.

"Although there is still hatred between us that can never be resolved, the past remains in the past, but the people in the past may not be judged until the future. But at least this time, I will be your strength."

Otto put on his gloves, knowing that Kiana didn't want to touch him.

Thus, the power of restraint is completed.

"The next two are us!"

The train traveled to a silent island and endless ruins.

Anna pulled the expressionless Chen and stood in front of Kiana.

"We would also like to participate in the final battle, but the Bishop said that if we don't become immortals, we will just go and deliver food, so... I'm sorry Kiana, handing over my power to you, this is the greatest we can provide you. of help.”

"It doesn't matter. With your support, I will never lose."

Anna and Chen stretched out their palms overlapping in front of Kiana, and Kiana also folded their hands with a smile.

Thus, the power of ice and the power of rock were also in place.

Boom——

A thunderstorm broke out, and the rapid raindrops began to beat hard on the car windows.

In the hazy endless rain curtain, a messy steel forest can be vaguely seen, as well as the black shadow of the Honkai beast that is slowly rising like a mountain.

Of course, the most eye-catching thing is the blood-red thunder and lightning that occasionally flashes in the clouds.

"Looks like it's finally our turn."

Mei Yi and Bronya stood next to Kiana with a smile and a paralyzed face, and each held Kiana's hand tightly.

"When I wake up, the idiot Kiana is going to become the God of the Earth... If Bronya really makes a game after she retires, she will use you idiot as her spokesperson."

"Yeah!"

"Qi-Ya-Na-"

"Hey! Mei!"

"Hmm...that's it. There seems to be nothing more to say. Who wants us to be together forever."

Kiana felt Mei's hand tightening on hers, and then she also smiled.

Thus, the power of the Herrscher of Reason and the Herrscher of Thunder filled the final hole.

In a daze, the train arrived at the dazzling sea of ​​stars, and slowly stopped in front of a huge eyeball that looked like it was carved out of rock.

The eyeball was stuck in the broken space, twitching.

That is the cocoon of the end.

Suddenly, the carriage beneath her feet disappeared, and Kiana felt herself falling.

She was not afraid, but slowly closed her eyes.

Then, one hand after another put on her back, lifted her up, and pushed her forward until she was in front of the cocoon of the end.

The cocoon was still twitching, but between twitches, it slowly turned downwards, and its ruptured cross-star pupils stared at the long line of people walking in front of it.

Once upon a time, a man walked up to it alone, trying to change the world with everything he had.

That person is itself.

Now, the new era has arrived, but the one who walks in front of it is no longer [a person].

Kiana took two steps forward, but suddenly she saw [herself] emerging not far away.

To be precise, it seemed to be a plaster statue exactly like [Kiana].

No color, no pupils, no expression, other than that, they were exactly the same.

"Kiana!"

Mei Yi, who was no stranger to this, immediately stood in front of Kiana. Cute Li pulled the corner of her clothes, causing Mei Yi to get out of the way while hesitating.

Kiana glanced at Mei and then chuckled.

"Don't worry Mei Yi, no matter what it is, I won't lose."

Kiana took steps towards the figure.

But the strange thing is that there seems to be a mirror between the two, and the figure also made the same movements as Kiana - just upside down.

Kiana was stunned for a moment, but did not hesitate. She continued to stride forward until she was face to face with the figure, and then slowly raised her hand to touch it.

The warm and soft fingertips touched the cold and hard fingers. Kiana looked at the figure in front of her who imitated all her movements, and seemed to understand something.

So she smiled and hugged it like she had done months before.

The portrait also made the same move, so in the warm embrace, the portrait melted like an ice sculpture, and the remaining light merged into Kiana's body.

Kiana straightened her body, raised her head and looked silently at the cocoon of the end that had gone through so many years.

Then, the ends of her snow-white hair gradually turned purple.

"Kiana, are you okay?"

"Don't worry Mei Yi, I'm very fine. Next..."

Listening to Mei's worried call, Kiana smiled and turned her head, revealing the purple cross-star pupils in her blue eyes.

"Let's go, it's time for the decisive battle."