A journey into an infinite dimension

The imagined explosion did not happen. Instead, after the missile was evaporated in an instant by the light beam, a vortex the size of a tire suddenly appeared out of thin air in front of the light beam. With its powerful rotational force and suction, it quickly rotated and swallowed most of the light beam, and gradually showed signs of expansion.

Joyce seized the opportunity, clasped his five fingers together and grasped the sphere in his hand. Then he saw the space around the vortex and the light beam begin to distort. At the same time, the vortex was like a balloon that was filled to the limit. After expanding to a certain extent, it exploded. The explosion conflicted with the energy inside the remaining light beam, causing a secondary explosion. However, all the impacts did not affect the surroundings, but were all contained within the distorted range, as if these explosions occurred inside a solid box.

At the same time, the long-range specialized mechas standing around the two of them all directed all their firepower towards the Thunder Angel without any prior agreement, while the melee specialized mechas held light blades and turned into afterimages that swept towards the back of the Thunder Angel.

All the actions seem cumbersome, but in reality only take about two seconds.

“Ah~~~~~~~!!!!”

Perhaps she was angry because her attack was easily blocked. Amidst the Thunder Angel's sudden sharp cry, her form returned to a regular octahedron, but her volume had shrunk visibly. The reduced parts turned into wheel-like shapes and rotated around her body at high speed. Then a pink laser suddenly swept across from left to right.

Boom boom boom boom boom! ! ! ! !

Countless ammunition and missiles exploded before they even touched the enemy. The melee mechas that were quickly approaching the Thunder Angel were cut in two by the lasers before they could react in time, and then swallowed up by the light of the explosion.

No one survived.

In the smoke and dust, holding up a black protective shield full of cracks, Walter Young and Joyce looked at the tragic scene in front of them with solemn expressions. With just a move that was like countering a move, their troops were almost completely wiped out. What exactly is this regular octahedron?

Knowing from this scene that ordinary mechas would be of no help in this battle, Walter Yang did not continue to waste his energy on recreating the mechas. Instead, he put his energy into creating the same Star of Eden as the one in Joyce's hand.

[The second Herrscher has already awakened, but judging by his abilities, he is the Herrscher of the Void, who has mastered spatial abilities.]

A calm female voice sounded in their ears at the same time, and Joyce and Walter Yang looked at each other.

The Second Herrscher is the Herrscher of the Void who masters spatial abilities. However, this thing in front of him has nothing to do with spatial abilities, and it doesn't look like a Honkai beast or a dead soldier. Could it be a new manifestation of the Honkai disaster?

Before the two of them could think clearly, the female voice in the headphones sounded again.

[At the same time, as an unknown third party prepares to launch a sneak attack on the Second Herrscher, a young man suddenly appears and uses a strange mecha to block the attack for the Second Herrscher. Judging from their interaction, he seems to have an unusually close relationship with the Second Herrscher.]

Hearing this, the two of them couldn't help but look even weirder.

Each Herrscher is transformed from a highly Honkai-energy Qualified Person who was originally an ordinary human. So someone proposed this hypothesis: if a Qualified Person is transformed into a Herrscher, then will the ties they had as an ordinary human, such as family and lovers, choose to betray humans and help the Herrscher, or will they recall the Herrscher's humanity and pull the Herrscher back into the human camp?

Many people agreed with the second half of this scenario. After all, there really is a Herrscher in the human race who fights for humanity, but few agreed with the first half.

Because the Herrscher is the enemy of mankind, and the meaning of its existence is to destroy mankind. Before being reformed, all humans will be enemies of the Herrscher, unless the Herrscher is a special Herrscher like Joyce who uses human knowledge as his own power and is in a state of amnesia in the early stage. Otherwise, even if the Herrscher's relatives want to help the Herrscher, the end result will only be that they will become the first sacrifice after the Herrscher's advent.

In the eyes of most people, the Herrscher is actually an existence that can be equated with "natural disasters". How can a natural disaster have feelings like nostalgia?

However, now, this rare and promising possibility seems to have come true.

Does this mean that, in addition to the desire to destroy humanity, the Herrscher actually has emotions of his own?

At this moment, an idea emerged in the minds of Walter Young and Joyce at the same time.

Perhaps, they could use the bond of the Second Herrscher as a stepping stone to allow the Second Herrscher to join the human forces?

Emotions are a double-edged sword. They may become the fatal weakness of a strong person, or they may cause the strong person to burst out with even greater power, or change his or her own thoughts. It all depends on how you handle it.

If successful, then this war can be fought without sacrificing anyone.

I have to say that their ideas are very good, but unfortunately, the premise they use as a basis for thinking has been wrong from the beginning.

Putting aside the question of whether Jia Ye, a man whom Xilin had known for less than a day, held a position in Xilin's heart that was enough to make her change her mind, Xilin's hatred for humans, which was caused by fate, was something she would never let go of no matter how hard she tried.

So this idea was doomed to be impossible from the beginning.

"Ah~~~"

The voice of Thunder Angel woke the two of them from their thoughts, and then their faces changed at the same time.

The sturdy charged particle cannon suddenly attacked with the momentum to destroy everything, but fortunately, despite thinking, they still remembered that they were still on the battlefield, so the moment they sensed the destructive aura, they reacted at the same time.

"Eden Star, fourth rated power liberation."

Waving his hand and throwing the Star of Eden high into the air, Joyce declared calmly with a calm gaze.

The Key of God is the collective name for thirteen weapons made from Herrscher Cores and Soul Steel by the civilization that resisted the collapse of the previous generation.

The Ninth God Key, "Star of Eden," is a weapon crafted from the core of the Ninth Herrscher of the previous generation, Herrscher of the Stone. It possesses the powerful ability to manipulate gravity, and at its peak, it can even create black holes.

Although the Star of Eden in Joyce and Walter Young's hands was created through the First Herrscher, the Herrscher of Reason's ability to reproduce an object exactly as long as he understood its principles, its power was actually not much different from that of the real Star of Eden.

After all, it can only be reproduced after a complete understanding. Naturally, the Star of Eden in their hands now has the same powerful power as the real thing, especially under the premise that the core of the Ruler of Reason provides sufficient Honkai energy.

Rated power is a general term for the various usage modes of the Divine Key. Although many unique applications may emerge due to user development, they all lead to the same goal: the 'zeroth rated power' of each Divine Key is to release all the Houkai energy stored within the Herrscher core that constitutes the Divine Key, thereby unleashing an attack comparable to the Herrscher's full-strength attack.

The zeroth rated power of the Star of Eden is the aforementioned ability to create black holes, but this ability does not distinguish between friend and foe and is not suitable for use in the current situation. However, it does not matter, because Joyce believes that the current situation is not bad enough to require the use of a trump card.

As the Star of Eden shone brightly in the air, waves of dark particles quietly spread. A dark energy body, the python head, instantly condensed with the Star of Eden as its center, and then opened its huge mouth that could swallow an entire building, fearlessly swallowing the entire particle cannon.

A vortex of gravity instantly bloomed with the python's head as the center, and then quickly shrank into an extremely small singularity, eventually disappearing into the void.

Chapter 61: Angel of Extinction

"You, are someone who goes against entropy?"

Landing gently in front of the rabbit-faced figure that sniped Sirin, and guarded by the mecha-like demon named 'Belphegor', Jiaye asked.

"Isn't it possible that it's destiny?"

A female voice as clear as a silver bell came from under the mask. Judging from the voice, the other party seemed not much older than Xilin, but judging from her curvy figure, it is possible that her voice was simply tender.

"There is no such person as you in the Destiny Valkyrie database, either openly or secretly."

He didn't care at all that if his words were heard by Theresa or other members of the Destiny, they might abandon Xilin and attack him instead. Jia Ye looked at the figure for a moment, and then turned his gaze to the sniper rifle in his hand, which was bathed in leaping lightning.

"This strange weapon, is it also a creation from the last era? Its Honkai energy response is very similar to the 'Oath of Judas' in Theresa Apokalis's hand. Is it the Key of God?"

"Oh my, if what you just said reaches the ears of Tianming, I guarantee that after they deal with the threat of the Second Herrscher, you will be their next target."

It seemed like a teasing remark, but the figure's casual grip on the sniper rifle's handle revealed her inner shock.

What the hell is this young man? Not only can he check the most confidential Valkyrie database of Destiny, but he also recognized the sniper rifle in his hand as the Key of God at first sight. You are so awesome, why haven’t I heard of your existence before!

"Then I probably won't be in any danger."

Not noticing anything unusual about the figure, Jia Ye said casually.

"Although we have no grudges against each other, I am quite interested in the principles of the Divine Key and Soul Steel. I would like to trouble you to lend me the Divine Key for a while."

Jia Ye was indeed very interested in the ability of soul steel to change its shape and structure at will. Perhaps it could be used to replace some weapons and props with weak external devices.

[Tsk tsk, isn't it because she almost succeeded in a sneak attack on Xilin?]

[We have someone who was a commentator in his previous life, led by you? ]

【We have experienced almost every kind of career and every kind of life.】

【Have you ever been a chef?】

[I was wrong. I can't cook.]

"What if I say no?"

With a slight shake of her hand, the original sniper rifle suddenly disintegrated in the distorted lightning, and then gathered behind the rabbit-faced girl to form six small sci-fi-style floating cannons. She raised her hand and hooked her finger at Jiaye. Even though her expression could not be seen because of the mask, the provocation was still extremely obvious.

"Then don't borrow it. This way you don't have to pay it back."

Jiaye shrugged lightly, and the pattern of the Tree of Life in his right eye began to flicker. A huge, upright shadow of the Tree of Life emerged. As the first sephirah "Crown (Kether)" flickered, a platinum-colored light quietly surrounded Jiaye's body. Accompanied by the faint chanting of his true name, he showed his dreamy appearance for the first time in this world.

“———<Metatron>———”

Some large, some small, sixteen light golden feather-shaped floating cannons emitting a holy aura appeared in the eyes of the rabbit-faced girl the moment the light faded.

However, before the girl could be shocked that Jiaye's weapon was also a floating cannon, Jiaye seemed to think it was not enough, and he snapped his fingers lightly.

“———〈Qliphoth (Reversed), Satan〉———”

The shadow of the upright Tree of Life still exists, and the shadow of the reversed Tree of Life also appears at the same time and overlaps with the upright one. Then, the light emitted by the upright first point and the reversed tenth point gradually merge together, and the shadow of a hideous demon roars and flashes away. When the girl comes back to her senses from this shocking scene, the originally holy and brilliant Angel of Extinction has been stained with a dark and sinful color, as if the sacred angel has fallen from heaven and become a vicious demon king.

But this smear is not completely black, there is still a trace of stubborn white on it. Even if it is a dead white, it cannot change the fact that it is "white".

Just like its name—it is a demon king, but it is a demon king born to save the world.

When he was still an angel, he saved the world by destroying it; when he turned into a devil, he destroyed the world in order to save it.

This is the reversal of the first Sephiroth of the Tree of Qabalah, the Crown, and the reversal of the tenth Sephiroth of the Tree of Qliphoth, Bacikal.

"...If it weren't for the lack of Houkai energy, I would have thought this thing of yours was also one of the Divine Keys."

A drop of cold sweat quietly slid down the pretty face under the mask. Even though the other party was just standing there without any movement, she could still feel a terrifying aura spreading and surging as if it could tear the sky apart.

She had only felt this kind of feeling from the Lord, and because the Lord was just a projection at that time, his power was even far inferior to that of the guy in front of her.

Where did this monster come from? Why didn't our previous intelligence mention anything about him?

Could it be that, like the Lord, it is an existence from the previous era?

Just woke up recently?

Or was this guy actually a Herrscher as well? Two Herrschers in one Honkai?

What the hell is going on with humans?

Not knowing what the rabbit-faced girl was thinking while she was madly complaining, Jia Ye saw her standing there without reacting, and thought that she was unwilling to take the first step, so he reached out and grasped two black "feathers", and then the remaining fourteen feathers were arranged behind him in the shape of a pair of wings.

Dang! !

In an instant, he did not move, but appeared behind the girl by teleportation. Jia Ye's expression was calm as he swung the light blade that spewed out from the feathers and slashed it heavily at the girl's seemingly defenseless back.

At this moment, without any warning, the floating cannon that had been quietly floating beside the girl suddenly turned its muzzle and shot a ray of lightning towards Jiaye in one thousandth of a second. At the same time, the girl's figure also left Jiaye's slashing range in a flash.

The rays with structural destructive properties arrived in front of Jiaye's face in an instant. If they hit, not to mention the fragile human body, even a mountain would be easily penetrated. In addition, with the ability to destroy the structure of matter, it is possible that a smaller mountain would be directly shattered.

At such a close distance, even the face could feel the violent and fiery energy contained in the ray, but at this moment, Jiayena's right hand, which was making a slashing motion, suddenly turned around in a way that went against common sense, and completely ignored the kinetic energy and deflected the ray.

Chi————

The sound of air being cut was heard. Because the blade of the light blade was a pure body of energy, it was not restricted by shape or length. Therefore, at the moment when Jia Ye blocked the ray, the light blade in his left hand, which was still swinging, suddenly extended and stabbed straight at the girl.

At the same time, the wing-shaped feathers behind Jia Ye suddenly shot out several purple-black destructive light bullets.

boom! ! !

The huge explosion swallowed up everything around it in the blink of an eye. However, before the silence lasted long, two figures broke through the smoke and rushed out. Countless dazzling rays and lasers filled the sky, and the sound of blades colliding was endless.

"Damn it! Relying on numbers to win is a foul!"

The girl stepped on a floating cannon and moved quickly in the sky. She controlled the other five to interfere and attack, and smacked her lips secretly.

Five against sixteen. Even if we take into account the one we use for movement under our feet, our firepower is still completely inferior to that of the enemy. How can we play this game?

"I say, Ms. Seventh Thunder of Purification, don't you feel resigned that the mighty Divine Key is being outmatched by a weapon of its kind?"

It seemed like she was talking to herself, but the floater under the girl's feet shook slightly, and a feeling of disdain suddenly entered the girl's consciousness.

[It's because the user's quality is too poor. If it was my original master who used me, even if the opponent's number was doubled, they would still be evenly matched.]

This is probably what the Seven Thunders of Purification want to express.

"Can we only be evenly matched?"

This time the girl was really shocked. She knew who the original owners of the Seven Thunders of Purification were, or in other words, most of the original owners of the Keys of God were the strongest people in the pre-civilization era, and they were all on the same level as the most powerful Lord in her heart. It was said that each of these beings had the powerful strength to fight against the Ruler on their own.

However, if such a person were to be in her current position, she would only be able to fight against that young man on equal terms?

Sure enough, he is either a Herrscher or someone from the previous era, right?

[Didn't you see the shadows behind him just now? There were twenty circles, and only one lit up when he pulled out that floating cannon weapon. So without seeing his full strength, I can only make a conservative judgment.]

"Does that mean he can be even stronger?"

At this moment, the girl felt that she was probably doomed today.

Originally, I was just following the organization's orders to check on the Second Herrscher's situation. If her power exceeded my expectations, I would try to kill her on the spot. But how could I have provoked such a strong person who was not in my intelligence?

[His target is me, so just this once, I will grant you the authority to master my true power.]

A large amount of information poured into her mind from the contact surface of her palm. After digesting this information in milliseconds, the corners of the girl's mouth under the mask curled up slightly.

"This power is truly formidable! It truly lives up to its codename, 'Judgment,' the Key of God."

Once again dodging a passing laser, the girl manipulated the Seven Thunders of Purification to change direction in a drifting manner, and instead of retreating, she rushed straight towards Jia Ye who was chasing her.

"Show your cards?"

His eyes fluctuated slightly, but Jia Ye did not retreat. Instead, he rushed towards the girl at a faster speed.

Although this battle was not enough to excite him, it was his first time facing the Key of God. Let him see how strange the power of Honkai and the Key of God was.

"The Third Divine Key: Seven Thunders of Purification, Third Rated Power Release—"

"-Bound Shot-"