The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

So, rather than finding a way to get Kevin back to the past, the first problem they need to face is how to rewrite as many facts that have happened as possible with maximum efficiency while [going back to the past].

In addition to this, the second problem they had to face was to find a way to make the pre-civilization era pass smoothly through the [end].

How should humans in the current civilized era spend [the end]? Although their sacrifice cannot be accepted by most people, it has to be admitted that with the joint efforts of the geniuses of the previous civilized era, humans in the current civilized era have actually obtained the answer to this question.

What humans in the current civilized era need to do is to find another better [solution] when they already have a solution called the [Stigmata Plan]; and for Li Shubai, what he needs to do is to further optimize the [solution] given in the current civilized era on this basis.

It is not shameful to stand on the shoulders of giants, but at the same time, the solution of the current civilization era also brings another problem that Kevin and Li Shubai have to face.

——The [solution] obtained in the current civilization era may not be applicable if it is placed in the situation of the previous civilization era.

How to successfully survive the End was not a problem that could be solved with a simple theory from the beginning. The geniuses of the previous civilization era implemented several precise and detailed plans at the same time, but under the hands of the End, they could only barely get the last trace of fire and only twelve hours left.

Therefore, even if they help the humans of this civilized era successfully survive [the End] in the most acceptable way, it does not mean that Li Shubai and others will be able to use the same means to help the humans of the previous civilized era escape from the threat of [the End].

Although the problems facing them were as numerous as a mountain, Kevin's face became brighter and brighter as the discussion went on.

Because - compared to the desperate situations he had originally experienced, the problems raised by Li Shubai were merely [problems].

Even the worst case scenario listed by Li Shubai is that after successfully helping the humans of the current civilization era survive the collapse, protecting his life, and successfully sending him back to his era, it may take a considerable amount of time to solve the problem of [the end of the previous civilization era].

For him at this moment, although the plan proposed by Li Shubai was not perfect, it had already made him so excited that he could not find any flaws.

Just as Li Shubai once said to Kiana, for Kevin, who is also a Kaslana like Kiana, although he will not show any obvious joy in front of outsiders with his cold attitude, but if he can clearly realize that humans in the current civilized era can defeat Honkai without using the Stigmata Plan, then Kevin will really wake up with a smile in his dreams.

In addition, after seeing the dawn of victory over the collapse without the use of the Stigmata Plan, Li Shubai brought him [the opportunity to try again to save everything in the past and reunite with Dr. MEI]. This happiness almost made Kevin forget how to breathe and how his heart should beat. In other words, it was a luxury that he had never dared to even think about before...

God knows how uneasy Kevin was when he witnessed Alicia following Li Shubai and later confirmed that this Alicia was the Alicia he knew.

It's like a drowning person who is about to despair and sees the only straw appearing in front of him, but because he is afraid that the straw is just an illusion that appears at the moment of death, he never dares to reach out for fear that his hope will be completely shattered.

Fortunately, Li Shubai did not disappoint Kevin when he came to him.

Since he had extended to him a lifeline that was not very strong but was indeed real, then of course Kevin had no other choice.

After accepting Li Shubai's proposal, Kevin told him most of the information he knew. It was precisely because Li Shubai knew Kevin's next plan and knew that he was going to take on part of the power of [The End] himself that Li Shubai, after carefully weighing the pros and cons, let Kevin show him all the power he could exert after taking on the power of [The End] in the Stigmata Space.

In the bright light that was like a star disappearing, Li Shubai stared at the raging pillar of fire that completely devoured Kevin's body, and he couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine.

However, although I have prepared myself mentally, it is still hard to imagine how Kiana and the others will survive Kevin in this state in the future, Li Shubai thought.

Li Shubai persuaded Kevin to fully unleash his power here for three reasons.

First, he wanted to know what challenges Kiana and the others in this world would face in the near future.

Second, since Kevin has inherited some of the power of the End, can he use this power himself?

Third, this is something Li Shubai had wanted to figure out a long time ago, but it had been put on hold for a long time because he had no suitable partner.

That is, in the face of extreme threats, what can he, the [Captain of the Hyperion], do after using everything he can?

Since he regained his power as a captain, Li Shubai has been eager to find an opportunity to evaluate himself. Although he rarely feels threatened after regaining his power, it is also because of this reason, coupled with the loss of memory, that for a long time, Li Shubai has not been able to accurately evaluate his own strength.

No one can pose a real threat to him. Even when facing Kevin in his normal state, Li Shubai is confident that he can win.

After all, if Kevin was just in his normal state, the key of restraint he held could easily limit most of Kevin's power.

If there is something that can push him to his limit, then, at least at this point in time when the end has not really come, the only two things Li Shubai can think of are the last two.

Otto, the false god who possesses almost infinite power, and Kevin, who I just learned from Kevin that he has inherited the power of the end.

The tyrannical strong light arrogantly occupied his entire field of vision. Li Shubai endured the hot wind blowing in his face. All the muscles in his body were tensed up. On his arms, which were not particularly strong, blue veins like swimming snakes were coiled around him.

After a moment, the strong light and wind pressure disappeared together, and Kevin's figure holding the greatsword of the opposite sex appeared in front of Li Shubai. He stepped on the ice layer that had already revealed magma, and his azure blue eyes were as calm as an eternal glacier.

To a large extent, the weapons and forms constructed by the collapse are closely related to the state of mind of their users. Therefore, although Kevin has inherited some of the power of the end, at this moment, he has made up his mind to follow Li Shubai back to the pre-civilization era alive, but he did not turn into a [karma demon] as he expected. Instead, under the infusion of the power of the end... he turned into some extremely mysterious state.

This feeling...is it?

Although he had all kinds of doubts, Kevin's hands did not slow down at all.

The moment the strong light disappeared, a layer of [membrane] emitting golden light that was visible to the naked eye rapidly expanded in all directions with Kevin's body as the center. In less than a millisecond, this [membrane] emitting light golden light completely dominated the ice field and formed a vacuum field that repelled all energy.

Is this... the power of restraint? Seeing this familiar scene, Li Shubai's pupils shrank slightly. He subconsciously took out his Judas and unfolded it, but his hand suddenly stopped.

——The power was not taken away.

Although his body was covered by this golden field that looked like a restraining barrier, he did not feel that his power was taken away.

Did Kevin hold back? Or, although it looked similar, this golden field was not a restrictive barrier?

Such questions were answered in the next moment.

As the blood vessels emitted an ominous red-purple light, intense pain suddenly occupied Li Shubai's brain.

Before he regained his strength, he had experienced similar pain when Changkong City collapsed for the third time.

Without using the power of the Herrscher, Kevin in this state simply released a lethal amount of Honkai energy on him that even he, as the [Captain], could not bear? !

After realizing this fact, Li Shubai decisively gave up his control over Judas and instead chose to inject power into another Key of God in his hand.

"I am the black going to hell; I am the white coming from heaven—"

Black Abyss White Flower·Second Rated Power·Holy Spear Countercurrent, Release!

As the two men standing on the ice field kicked violently, the cracked ice was lifted up piece by piece. The two figures approached each other in a sudden storm, and at the same time, they picked up the weapons in their hands and slashed at each other's bodies.

Then, in the millisecond when the two weapons collided, the Skyfire Sword held by Li Shubai suddenly broke.

Although it was not impossible for him to transform the Skyfire Greatsword into the same Destruction Sword as the one he gave to Kevin, Li Shubai was better at using multiple Keys of God at the same time than investing all his strength in the Key of Destruction. However, he did not expect that the Skyfire Greatsword would be defeated so completely in front of Kevin's alien greatsword.

The Jiemie Wujin in Kevin's hand is indeed more powerful than the simple Skyfire Greatsword, but even so, according to Li Shubai's original prediction, his Skyfire Greatsword should be able to block at least two or three attacks from Kevin, and would not be cut off by just one sword.

Is the power of [End] determined by the powers of the thirteen Herrschers really so irresistible? Li Shubai, whose Skyfire Greatsword was cut off, did not hesitate at all, but quickly raised the Black Abyss White Flower, and barely blocked the Sword of End that cut off the Skyfire Greatsword before it touched his body.

The first round of confrontation ended with Li Shubai's Skyfire Greatsword being chopped into pieces. Even though the Skyfire Greatsword was chopped into pieces, he did not want to fight anymore. He quickly jumped back before Kevin's second sword hit him, and pulled away by about ten meters.

For people of his and Kevin's level, this distance can be crossed instantly in just one step.

Having won in one strike, Kevin certainly would not give up this opportunity. He took a step forward to pursue the victory, but suddenly stopped when he tried to move forward again.

The pitch-black light enveloped and distorted the space between the two people.

Eden Star·Zeroth Rated Power·Pseudo-Black Hole, Liberated!

Chapter 4: Experiment of the Power of the End (k)

At the top of the tower, Siegfried, feeling more agile and light than ever before, touched his stomach which was making a loud rumbling sound. Then he put his hand on his waist and looked around, and finally cast his eyes on the food and supplies left here by Kevin and Li Shubai.

Because he was surrounded by his family the moment he was freed, and he suddenly learned that his biological daughter was still alive. Under the impact of many unexpected events and happiness, Siegfried was not even aware of his physical condition at first. It was not until everyone left that his stomach finally seemed to wake up and sent a warning of hunger to its owner.

But just as Siegfried was about to open the daily necessities that Kevin and Li Shubai had brought him, a series of loud bangs shook his body so much that he almost jumped up.

"What's wrong? What happened?" Without caring about his still growling stomach, Siegfried hurried to the outskirts of the tower. He was stunned when he saw the horrifying scene on the outer ice field. His voice trembled, "Didn't they... reach a consensus? Why did they suddenly start fighting?!"

And it was fought so hard that the sky and the earth changed color——!

The atmosphere was torn apart, and cracked ice layers were constantly being rolled up from the ground. Two different realms were wantonly invading the air above the ice field. The gorgeous yet deadly and dangerous light filled Siegfried's entire field of vision. At the junction of the two realms, what looked like two small black shadows kept overlapping and then separating.

Siegfried was not sure whether there had been a battle of this scale in the history of mankind in the current civilization era. However, when the second Honkai broke out, he had witnessed the final battle of the previous civilization era in the form of text in the soul steel data, and he suddenly had a very serious sense of déjà vu.

It was as if... if those cold words were presented in the form of a real scene, perhaps what he would see was the scene before his eyes that seemed to announce the approaching end of the world.

The zero rated power of the Heart of Eden was completely unable to stop Kevin. Facing the treacherous black hole that swallowed up matter, space, light... everything, Kevin paused for just a moment before stepping into the space distorted by the black hole without hesitation.

The moment Kevin stepped into the black hole, Li Shubai injected all his strength into the Oath of Judas without hesitation. As the golden spear in the cross expanded in a fan shape, golden gears appeared out of thin air one after another in mid-air. Slender and tough chains wrapped around the gears, linking them all and driving them to rotate in a peculiar rhythm.

The surfaces of all the gears and chains are flowing with beautiful luster. Rather than industrial products, they are more like works of art made of extremely pure red gold.

Judas's Oath·Zeroth Rated Power·Divine Grace Barrier, Liberated!

The moment the Divine Grace barrier was completely released, the air around it turned into thick golden mist, and the ice surface that should have been able to freeze all liquids oozed juice as sticky as honey.

At the same time, the moment Kevin stepped into it, the black hole that swallowed everything shattered into pieces like a shattered glass ball.

"Divine Grace Barrier..." After easily shattering the black hole with brute force, Kevin did not pursue immediately. Although Li Shubai asked Kevin to release all his strength, he certainly did not forget that this battle was not a fight with the enemy from the beginning, but an act similar to testing and experiment.

Therefore, Kevin, who had no intention of actually harming Li Shubai, said calmly after entering the Divine Grace Boundary: "You should know that among the thirteen powers that determine [End], [Restriction] is also included. The Divine Grace Boundary alone will not have any effect on the power of the End."

Li Shubai did not reject Kevin's kindness, but honestly accepted his reminder and nodded: "Well, actually I have guessed that if the Constraint Key can suppress the collapse of the end, you will not have to start the Moonlight Throne Project from the beginning. After all, in terms of function, the two play similar roles. But after all, the Constraint Key I have is not the one you made, so I still want to try it out... How do you feel now?"

"Just like what I just said." Kevin said calmly, "I am not affected at all."

"But the expansion of the domain has been curbed, right?" Li Shubai raised his arm and glanced at the blood vessels that no longer glowed red. "The Holy Spear Reverse Flow of the Black Abyss White Flower is a one-time ability. It can't continuously expel the Honkai energy that has penetrated into my body."

"That's because the power of [End] I used is not the same as the real [End]." Kevin said, "And, in principle, although the power of restraint can indeed curb Honkai energy and other energies to a certain extent, in the final analysis, this power is no different from other powers controlled by Honkai energy."

As the only power of the anti-herrschman and the power of collapse among all powers, the power of restraint is in a sense the most special and the strongest of the thirteen powers.

Within the large-scale barrier opened by the power of restraint, all Honkai energy will be instantly deprived, and other energies will also be affected to varying degrees. Living things will quickly die due to the disappearance of bioelectricity in their bodies, all weapons driven by modern electronic technology will lose the energy to operate, and even space-based weapons that are capable of completing precise strikes on restrained positions will lose their original effectiveness due to the rapid weakening of kinetic energy.

But even though its expressiveness is so exaggerated compared to the special [Restraint] power, in essence, it is still one of the powers controlled by Honkai. From this perspective, no matter how special it is, no matter how much it can invalidate other Herrscher powers, it has not escaped the constraints of its principles.

As for the Herrscher of the End who possesses the power of the End, and Kevin who has inherited some of the power of the End, the so-called power of [restraint] is a part of what they control, and it is easy to ignore its influence.

"I see. So this is why all the God's Keys can't have any effect on the normal state of the End?" In the collision field, Li Shubai showed a thoughtful expression. "In the last civilization era, Dr. MEI deduced this before the arrival of the End?"

"Yeah." Kevin nodded and said softly, "This is also the reason why MEI will put the Moonlight Throne System into the lunar orbit before the end comes."

"I see. He is indeed worthy of being the most outstanding genius among all human beings in the pre-civilization era...even in the present civilization era." Li Shubai let out a long sigh and expressed his heartfelt admiration for this great doctor who stood at the top of the scientific research community in the pre-civilization era.

There are many reasons why it doesn't work. From a physical point of view, if you just want to ignore attacks from foreign objects, you only need to make it hard enough so that other things can't damage it.

In the era of cold weapons, the shields held by soldiers and the armor they wore; as well as the so-called bulletproof vests and bulletproof vehicles in modern times, all rely on this principle to exist.

But no matter what, there is no armor in this world that is strong enough to ignore all attacks, and bulletproof vests and bulletproof cars cannot withstand bullets. Therefore, as long as you use an attack that exceeds its defense limit to attack a certain point, no matter how strong the armor is, it will eventually break.

However, for the Herrscher of the End, the reason why most of the Keys of God had no effect on her in the last battle of the pre-civilization era was slightly different.

The Herrscher of the End is not so defensive that she can withstand Kevin's attacks without any impact - although from a certain perspective, if she can really do this, it would be even more despairing. But from the results, if there is no Moonlight Throne, the Herrscher's power alone will not be able to completely escape her control in the realm of the End.

Rather than [enduring it], it was more like [there was no way to hit it from the beginning].

Therefore, the humans in the pre-civilization era designed an anti-Honkai system called Moonlight Throne after MEI deduced the form of [The End]. Although in terms of actual effect and scale, the Moonlight Throne's ability to convert Honkai energy into other energies is not even as good as the Oath of Judah, which is the Key of God, for the humans in the pre-civilization era, it is the only means to effectively attack the End.

This is something that not only the Key of Constraint, but even the Moonlight Throne constructed by the construction ability of the Ruler of Reason cannot do.

And when he thought of Dr. MEI's understanding and knowledge of the Herrscher of the End, and the fact that she had deduced and later confirmed it in the last era of civilization when the civilization had not really faced [the End], Li Shubai, who already admired Dr. MEI, suddenly felt even more in awe of this terrible genius.

Seeing Li Shubai sincerely expressing his admiration and praise for Dr. MEI, Kevin's emotionless face like ice melted a little for the first time.

He nodded and said calmly, "You're not bad either."

No boy can remain calm when his beloved is praised by others.

Although Dr. MEI was praised as a genius countless times in his time, in Kevin's eyes, if we have to talk about "genius", Li Shubai is also worthy of the word.

Not only his personality, but also as the Captain who saved Alicia and made her willingly serve him, this time traveler possesses genuine abilities and wisdom.

As for Kevin, the stronger Li Shubai's performance and the more outstanding his thinking ability is, the more effective the help he can provide to him will undoubtedly be.

"Do you want to continue?" Kevin gently put down the alien sword in his hand. "In my opinion, there is no need to continue this battle."

"No, keep going." Li Shubai shook his head, and did not stop maintaining the Divine Grace Boundary as Kevin moved. Although the Divine Grace Boundary could not work on Kevin in this state, it would allow him to survive under the expansion of the [End]. "One day we will have to face the real [End] who is stronger than you now. Even if we can't cause real damage to you, if we continue to fight, we can still collect some useful data."

"Besides, I should have said this before." Li Shubai shrugged, "In addition to figuring out what you are now and whether the power you have now can be used by us, I also need to conduct a stress test that pushes myself to the limit."

Unfortunately, as the captain of the Hyperion, Li Shubai could master multiple God's Keys. If conditions allowed, he would even dare to learn from the Valkyries in his family and let go of the influence of the collapse to try to see if he could regulate it, but he could not take on part of the power of the end like Kevin did.

Li Shubai did not choose to do this not because he was afraid of death, but rather the opposite. After he and Kevin went to meet [No. 17] before, he actually asked Kevin to try it once.

——If the other Valkyries knew that Li Shubai dared to try to bear the power of the end without being fully prepared in a place where they could not see, perhaps they would have one more reasonable reason to join forces to break the captain's legs.

Maybe Li Shubai himself is not aware of it, but in the eyes of other Valkyries who know Li Shubai well, their captain can be a real headache when he gets angry.

Maybe for geniuses like these, the so-called madness is a common characteristic that exists naturally.

However, although Li Shubai did ask Kevin for help, and Kevin did not reject Li Shubai's request, it was obvious... after they conducted the first experiment, the final result was not satisfactory.

If it was at that time, Li Shubai had successfully obtained part of the power of [End] like Kevin, perhaps he would have brought Kevin back to the pre-civilization era now.

Of course, neither Kevin nor Li Shubai were surprised by this not-so-wonderful result. Because they all knew that although Li Shubai's physical fitness was not much different from Kevin's, his mental condition was even stronger than Kevin's - after all, Kevin couldn't use the Great Void Sword God. But even so, Li Shubai was not a fusion warrior like Kevin and the others, and he had never been selected as the executor of the Stigmata Plan.

Even though the prerequisites have been met, what is still missing is the [channel] that has been prepared since 50,000 years ago.

Chapter 7: The Captain's Unprecedented Authority (k)

After all, taking over the power of the end is not an easy task. It is just like a math problem. Even if you can count from one to ten thousand, without learning the formula for solving the problem, it will be difficult to get the answer even if you talk until your mouth is hoarse.

To be honest, Kevin didn't quite understand why Li Shubai was so eager to let him use this kind of force that might even kill him to push him to his limits. Even the Thirteen Heroes of the former civilization would not really use their full strength when practicing sparring.

But under Li Shubai's strong request, as the only one who could pose a fatal threat to him at this stage, Kevin had no choice but to take on this task that might offend Alicia and the others.

“Since you have to do this anyway, then…” Kevin, who no longer suppressed his strength, raised the alien long sword in his hand, and the indescribable power instantly issued a final warning: “…Be careful!”