Humans are in chaos, despicable outsiders.

The golden eyes swept over the crowd before him, and the owner of the eyes spoke with an undeniable will.

"Oh... Mr. Kevin?"

Penglaiji Jiuxiao glanced at Kevin, whose expression was somewhat embarrassed, and frantically winked at the man...

Kevin naturally knew what Penglai Temple Nine Heavens meant, but letting this guy enter the Paradise of the Past World was something Kevin was extremely unwilling to do in any way—even if he really compromised, Qian Jie next to him would probably punch him in the face the next second.

"Do you really understand the nonsense you're spouting? You, a Herrscher?!"

Compared to Kevin, who remained silent with a grim expression, Qianjie's reaction was much more direct. Having been thrown out, he seemed to have fallen into a rage once more, his entire body engulfed in flames as he relentlessly charged forward, wanting to devour the white-haired giant before him—

"Stop—Thousand Calamities!!"

Seeing his companion activate the artificial collapse and rush towards the Herrscher Kevin, his expression changed, and the next moment, his whole body was filled with cold aura as he grabbed the berserk Thousand Tribulations tightly.

"Kevin—?!"

The man being held back didn't seem to have any intention of giving up; he planned to beat up Kevin and the Herrscher as well.

"Holo, amigo... I am Yuri-zai, you can also call me His Majesty Yuri-zai—looks like you're having quite a fight, huh? My beloved humans???"

Just as the battle was about to erupt again, an uninvited guest entered the scene. It was a figure that everyone was extremely familiar with—the long-absent young master of destiny appeared in the public eye.

"You are, Snow?"

Durandal looked at the blonde girl who had suddenly appeared. The girl's figure was somewhat ethereal, seemingly not of solid form, and she subtly observed the group before her—

"No, no, no, I want to clarify one thing: I am Yuri, not Snow Apocalypse—"

Everyone wore somewhat confused expressions, while Zhongyan looked enlightened and nodded to the girl. Qianjie, who had been tightly held by Kevin, watched as a familiar face suddenly intervened and finally broke free from his artificial collapse state...

"Hmm... judging from most of your expressions, this sentence seems difficult to understand...?"

Perhaps because she had already had her fill of non-verbal escapism on the other side, the blonde girl who appeared here was very patient in explaining her existence to the people in front of her—

"If we assume that Snow Apocalypse is a high-performance CPU with multiple cores and threads—then I am just one thread on one of those single cores, a clone of you Snow who spared time from your busy schedule to... no, arrange...? No, anyway, I'm just here to find you."

"And I, the great Lord Yuri.exe—after completing my tasks, this single-core, single-threaded program will be shut down, so please don't mind if I suddenly disappear with a bang—"

Miss Yuri gave a polite bow to the group of people in front of her.

"So... what brings Miss Yuri here?"

Yulandel looked at the seemingly polite female projection in front of her with some curiosity.

"You didn't come here for the Herrscher of the End, did you?"

"Bingo~ Is she smart? — That's exactly why I came here..."

Miss Yuri nodded and looked at Kevin and Qianjie.

"Oh, what brilliant idea do you have now, deity?!"

With Kevin holding her mouth shut and the relentless Qianjie asking the girl in front of him in a provocative tone.

"How rude! — Regardless of the specific instructions in the thread, whatever Qianjie says, just ignore it..."

"I'm bringing the opinion of the original entity; whether or not to adopt it is up to you—"

"Since everyone in the Paradise of the Past is capable of independent thought, why not seek their opinions? — That was her exact words."

After delivering her message, Miss Yuri blew a kiss to the heavens and vanished with a bang...

Chapter 354 Airi, My Airi—

"this......"

As the blonde girl's projection appeared and then disappeared, the remaining group looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Don't look at me. The Paradise of the Past belongs to your World Serpents. How you arrange things is up to you—"

"Anyway, I think that makes sense. It's about a two-way journey... If those heroic consciousnesses in Paradise don't want to see her, she can't force them out—"

Jiuxiao nodded thoughtfully...

"If you're worried about this white-haired guy causing trouble in Paradise, then Kiana and I will go back with you to keep things in order."

"What are your opinions? Say something... This is the memory of your comrades, not mine. The final decision rests with you."

The purple-haired Jiuxiao shifted the focus of attention back to the two heroes of the Fire Moth.

"...I agree, but, Herrscher of the End, you must remember—to the Paradise of the Past, you... are the one who came."

After a long silence, Kevin finally managed to squeeze out a few words through gritted teeth. Upon hearing Kevin's words, Qianjie struggled for a while under Kevin's restraint before letting out an angry snort.

"Hey, think of something positive, you two—?"

"Have you forgotten why this white-haired guy wanted to go to Paradise? The moment you heard that the Herrscher of the End was going to enter Paradise, you two looked like you were about to explode..."

Seeing that the two men were practically gritting their teeth but couldn't defeat the Herrscher of the End who had inexplicably become several levels stronger, Jiuxiao began to divert their attention.

"Alicia—that Alicia! If what this white-haired Herrscher said is true... your dear pink fairy is alive! She's alive!"

"Shouldn't you be happier?"

Jiuxiao looked at Kevin and Qianjie and prompted them to explain why the Herrscher of the End was going to the Land of Bliss.

“…”

Kevin and Qianjie turned to look at each other, then turned to face the Herrscher of the End...

"Hey—! Herrscher, are you sure she's resurrected? That Alicia?!"

Qianjie spoke first, using a tone that was more of an interrogation than a question, his gaze fixed on Miss Zhongyan through the mask, as if he wanted to glare a hole through her face.

"I am certain... she is returning—the firstborn, who rightfully belongs to Heaven, has now stepped back into reality..."

Finally, he made a promise to the people in front of him.

"So here's the question—why would a person who's already dead suddenly... come back to life?"

Durandal, who had been involved but hadn't said much, seemed to have finally figured out the situation and started to care about another issue.

"Even if the one you're talking about—uh...? Miss Pink Fairy is a Herrscher, it's been 50,000 years, shouldn't she be long gone by now...?"

"She is special—"

The Herrscher of the End interrupted Durandal's question and shook her head.

"The Firstborn is special... In a sense, she is the same as me, possessing a unique uniqueness."

Having been granted entry into the Land of the Dead and receiving help from another deity, the Herrscher seemed to be in a very good mood, patiently explaining things to the group.

"Special? I know that the final Herrscher is the one responsible for bringing a civilization to its final conclusion and making the final judgment. What about the original Herrscher?"

Durandal continued to press for information about the mysterious pink fairy lady, trying to learn more about this mysterious Herrscher who had never appeared in the Schicksal records.

"She is special...I can confirm that—the Herrschers of this era are proof of her specialness..."

The white-haired Herrscher glanced at Kevin beside her and tilted her head slightly.

"I think you must understand this very well..."

"The Herrschers of this era are capable of communication and interaction..."

Kevin nodded.

"And Ellie mentioned to me... if a Herrscher appears in this era whose power is controlled by a human's will, we must bring them to Paradise to show her..."

"The Firstborn severed the 'threads,' a kind of 'thread' that you humans cannot understand, that is difficult to comprehend... making the Herrschers of this era no longer cold tools, and the mechanism of trials—also granting your era infinite possibilities."

"What a lucky era!"

The Herrscher of the End silently observed the crowd and the city beneath their feet, sighing with awe.

"Um... Herrscher? Tool...? Miss End, I don't quite understand what this means?"

Having never faced a Herrscher of the Sequence from 50,000 years ago, Durandal seems unable to grasp the meaning of "Herrschers are merely cold tools" for the time being...

"In the previous era... apart from Ellie, the other Herrschers were just Herrschers. It could be said that they had almost no human emotions or will. If the Honkai was a trial, then they were just pure tools."

Without waiting for the End to explain, Kevin took the initiative to clear up Durandal's doubts—

"Compared to your era, all the Herrschers who have appeared possess a human will... In the previous era, I only saw this fleeting emotion in a very small number of Herrschers."

"Is that so...?"

Yulan Delno nodded thoughtfully...

"That's right... Ah, in your human terms—the original Herrscher was a nailed signboard, with the content of the test written on it, and that was it..."

"What you see now, the Herrschers born from a single human as their base, are like a silver coin that can be tossed... with two sides."

Zhongyan nodded and continued to explain, using Kevin's words as a starting point.

"Wait a minute, a Herrscher based on a human body... Miss End, what does this mean?"

Durandal, having gleaned some interesting information from the Herrscher of the End's words, subtly shifted her attention to the other side—

"Literally, not all Herrschers need to be based on humanity, or rather, on a single human being—"

"For example, the thousand Herrschers you humans faced in the last era were more like a collective consciousness than a human being; or the Herrscher of Corruption, when it had a human form, could not be considered a Herrscher—only when it died would the existence called the [Virus] appear, and its essence was just a [omnipotent] virus with consciousness."

"So... your era is almost here, and you'll be facing even more bizarre Herrschers—it can be said that all the Herrschers who truly take one person as their base have appeared: Truth, Space, Lightning, Storm... Death and Flame have been invaded by Space, and consciousness has chosen another master. Frost and Gravity have also been born in this city."

"And what you will face next is domination..."

The End glanced at the crowd whose expressions had begun to turn serious.

Chapter 355 The Great Memory Restoration Technique of Destiny!

"Domination? Miss End, do you mean the Tenth Herrscher? Could you give us a spoiler about that Herrscher's abilities?"

Seeing that the Herrscher in front of her seemed so easy to talk to, the blonde Valkyrie decided to take advantage of the situation and started looking for ways to skip class...

"Skipping class is not a good habit... but I might as well tell you—you need to understand that some classes are unavoidable."

The Herrscher of the End looked at the blonde Valkyrie in front of her with amusement.

"Those are the Heralds of a thousand, that is the malice of a thousand... the ultimate manifestation of the darkness and despair that you humans are forced to confront..."

"So... warriors... do not even think of escaping. Suffer the pain, temper your mind—go and prove your bravery and your determination to overcome the darkness."

The Herrscher of the End, now transformed into the old hunter Gehrman, narrowed her eyes, quietly watching Durandal, who was lost in thought...