The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

"Heh." Li Shubai sneered, "There are so many things that the Destiny Headquarters didn't record. I am the captain of Hyperion, and there is no contradiction between whether or not your Destiny Headquarters has registered me as the captain."

"So, from now on, you, like the members of the Far East Branch, are no longer planning to return to the Destiny Headquarters, right?" Yulandel asked.

"Why go back to the Mandate of Heaven headquarters?" Li Shubai shrugged. "Send yourself and your significant other to Bishop Otto's lab table? Sacrifice your life to help you fight against Honkai... or even for something else that may not necessarily be about fighting Honkai?"

"Destiny will never do such a thing." Yulandel frowned, her face looking a little ugly.

"Yes, Miss Kiana and Miss Jizi can testify, right?" Li Shubai smiled.

"..." Yulandel was silent, and Theresa's expression became a little strange.

This... sounds so strange?

Is this guy speaking up for what happened to us?

This villain who stole the Hyperion from me?

"I feel very sorry about what happened to Miss Kiana and Senior Jizi." Yulandel took a deep breath, "But..."

"Alright, alright, don't use those moralizing tricks on me. I know saving the world is important, but the biggest difference between you and me is that I'm not going to use saving the world as an excuse to arbitrarily decide the fate of others." Li Shubai shook his hands impatiently. "If you want to convince me with words, I suggest you save your energy a little."

"...Well, it seems that it is difficult for us to convince each other." Yulandel sighed, "If that's the case, then there is little point for me to stay here. Fighting here and getting both sides hurt is not a wise decision for either me or you."

"Rita, let's go."

"...Understood, Master Yulandel."

"Who told you that I was going to let you go just like that?" Just as Yulandel and Rita were preparing to leave here temporarily and return to the Tianming headquarters to discuss with Otto everything that had happened tonight, Li Shubai suddenly laughed.

"..."Yulandel and Rita stopped at the same time.

"Why?" Rita raised her wine-red eyes and stared straight into Li Shubai's eyes. "Sir, after you have mobilized the strongest combat force, do you still want us to stay and fight with you?"

"...Your strength is not simple." Youlandel glanced at Li Shubai calmly, "But I don't think that you alone can stop us from leaving here without paying any price."

The atmosphere that had just relaxed became tense again.

"...Hey." Theresa's expression turned ugly. Although she was very angry that the Hyperion was taken away by Li Shubai, she still knew the pros and cons of the matter clearly. She didn't want the conflict that had just been eased to be further intensified. "...I say, you have achieved your goal, right? The Hyperion has fallen into your hands, why do you still force them to stay?"

"Why do you think I chose to trade with you in the suburbs of Sky City?" Li Shubai shrugged. "Who told you that my goal is only the Hyperion?"

"..." Rita pondered for a moment, her pupils slightly dilated, "Could it be that...?"

"It seems like you already have a clue?" Li Shubai smiled, "Yes, just as you thought, the information that Bishop Otto received was also sent to him by me through the World Serpent."

"As for my purpose..." Li Shubai said calmly under Youlan Dai'er's frown, "Of course, before I take the next action, I want to eliminate all the [unexpected factors] in this world that can affect me."

"World Serpent has reached an agreement with me. In the coming period, their cadres will not interfere with my actions. Anti-Entropy, which is basically tied to the Hyperion, will fall into my control after the fall of the Hyperion."

"Besides them..." He raised his hand, extended his index finger, and made a gun gesture with his hand. Then he slowly pointed at Yulandel and Rita, who were ready to fight because of his words. "Except for the [third person] who is still sleeping in the life support chamber and cannot be awakened by your bishop in a short time, the only two people in this world who have a chance to interfere with me are you two S-rank Valkyries."

"So... I'm sorry." Biu, Li Shubai shot a shot at Youlan Daier and Rita from a distance with his finger, "For the next period of time, I'll have to trouble you two to go with me for a while."

Chapter 4: The Punished Perpetrator (k)

"Oh, you are really so arrogant." Rita raised her pink lips slightly, and her bright wine-red eyes flashed a little coldly. "If you are too arrogant, you may hurt your waist inadvertently."

"Thank you for your concern. My bones haven't aged to the point where they would sprain just by walking on the road." Facing Rita's ridicule, Li Shubai shrugged and put on an indifferent expression.

"Just walking on the road..." Rita gracefully turned the blue sickle in her hand. She took two steps forward and stood shoulder to shoulder with Yulandel. "I'm really curious, what kind of thing allows you to have the confidence to describe the matter of 'capturing the captain and vice-captain of the Undying Blade' so calmly as 'just walking on the road'? Is it the lady of the Herrscher of Thunder who has already left here?"

"If you want to understand it this way, then there is no problem." Li Shubai smiled, "At least, from my personal point of view, I can make a Herrscher who retains her self-awareness stand by my side by her own choice. Just this point, perhaps no one in your entire destiny can do it, right?"

"...No matter how powerful the Herrscher's power is, it is not originally your power." Rita narrowed her eyes slightly, "If you rely on the Herrscher of Thunder standing beside you, then you should not take the initiative to choose to let her leave."

"You're right. Even if Mei becomes the Herrscher of Thunder, it doesn't mean that I possess the power of Thunder." Li Shubai smiled, "But then again——"

"——Why are you so confident that you would use your own judgment to choose Mei, the only Herrscher who stands by my side?"

"...?!"

Rita, Yulandel, even Theresa, and everyone who was still observing the situation on the scene through the Hyperion's monitoring system were all shocked.

"It's not that difficult for me to subdue you two, but since the opponent is 'Kiana Kaslana'..." Li Shubai glanced at Yulandel who was serious, and stared at Rita's wine-red pupils with a meaningful look for a while, and smiled gently, "...Then, I will also send 'Kiana Kaslana' to deal with it."

"Please don't let me down, Captain and Vice Captain of the Undying Blade."

Theresa was stunned.

What does it mean?

What does "the opponent is Kiana Kaslana" mean?

Unlike Theresa, who heard Li Shubai's words clearly but was confused due to lack of information and knowledge, Rita's pupils could not help but shrink slightly after hearing Li Shubai's teasing words and realizing Yulandel's true identity.

He actually knew the true identity of Lady Yulandel?

How can this be?

Rita knew very well the true identity of Yulandel, but she knew even more clearly that... apart from herself, Bishop Otto and Captain Ragnar, there should be no one else in this world who knew that [Yulandel's true identity was the past Kiana Kaslana].

If you ask why... this top-secret information is not recorded in the Destiny database at all.

Of course, there is no possibility of leakage of things that are not recorded.

Therefore, even though Yulandel had reached the highest level of Destiny as the strongest S-class Valkyrie, she could read all the confidential contents of Destiny with authority second only to Bishop Otto... Even among those confidential contents, there were the bad things that Bishop Otto had done. She had never had the opportunity to know or understand her own life experience.

Compared to Rita, whose mind was in a state of confusion in an instant, Yulandel herself did not feel shaken by Li Shubai's words.

She just frowned slightly, and a hint of confusion flashed across her honest and clear blue eyes.

But soon, the confusion in Yulandel's eyes turned into astonishment in less than a few seconds.

A scorching gale, accompanied by a dazzling light, blew in her face, and Yulandel almost instinctively rushed in front of Rita.

In such a short time, there was no time to call out the two self-driving phantoms built into this God-killing armor. Youlandel raised her arm, and the high-speed defense system of the Brilliant Knight Yuepo, Carlo Karl's solid formation, was fully deployed! A gorgeous transparent thin shield quickly formed in front of the two S-level Valkyries.

The next moment, everyone's vision and hearing were plunged into a void of nothingness.

- No, although Yulandel and Rita heard nothing, they could still clearly realize through the constantly shaking ground and the scorching temperature burning their skin that the reason they could not see anything and hear any sound was not because nothing happened, but simply because the sudden flash of light and sound had completely exceeded the perception limits of their eyeballs and eardrums.

In order to protect their visual and auditory systems from being damaged, they spontaneously fall into a state of temporary paralysis.

Amid the explosive sound that nearly pierced everyone's eardrums, the hard, transparent thin shield let out a clear and mournful cry as it could not bear the heavy burden, and the shattered defense system turned into dots of fluorescent light that splattered everywhere.

The violent light and explosion sound were fleeting, only for a moment, but this short moment made the two S-class Valkyries, Yulandel and Rita, have the illusion that they were inside a star.

On the other side, Theresa, who had also squinted her eyes subconsciously due to the scorching light that almost burned through her retina, finally opened her eyes after the explosion.

Then, her eyes suddenly widened and her mouth opened wider and wider: "Qi...Qiana?!"

In the night sky, thick clouds fluttered in the wind, and the moon that appeared briefly was once again hidden in the gloomy dark clouds.

However, the outskirts of Sky City, which should have lost the moonlight, did not fall into darkness again.

What exactly happened just now...Except for Li Shubai, Yulandel, Rita and Theresa, who closed their eyes briefly to protect their visual systems from the flash that was strong enough to burn their eyeballs, had no idea what was going on.

The only thing they could understand and realize from the tragic scene before their eyes was that the red and white figure standing in the firelight easily turned all the nearby ruins into a sea of ​​fire engulfed by flames the moment it appeared.

The flying sparks blended into the dark night. The crisp sound of burning branches and leaves was endless. And around the land where the red and white figure stood, a huge pit appeared out of thin air, which was very eye-catching.

If I'm not mistaken, the hole that appeared out of nowhere should be the result of the violent explosion caused by the moment the red and white figure appeared, which dug out all the surrounding land.

"You are—" Enduring the still blurry vision and hearing that had not yet recovered from the paralysis, Yulandel, who seemed to be unharmed, stood up straight and looked at the red and white figure with an unprecedented solemnity, "Kiana Kaslana?"

"it's me."

Although they didn't see the red and white figure make any movement, the moment the steady and powerful voice fell, she, who was standing in the center of the pit, suddenly disappeared from the sight of Yulandel and Rita.

The next moment, her body appeared in front of the two S-level Valkyries without any warning.

"I've heard of you for a long time, captain and vice-captain of the Undying Blade team." She held a bright red sword inlaid with several gems in one hand. Her face was exactly the same as the Kiana that Theresa knew, but she showed a calm and mature smile that she had never seen before.

"Although it is a bit offensive, but - under the captain's order, I need you two to stay with us for a while." The calm and gentle azure eyes silently told of the owner's tough and domineering attitude, "If possible, can you two give up resistance?"

It is hard to imagine how she could combine gentleness, steadiness, maturity, domineering and tyrannical temperament so naturally and perfectly. It is like a mother facing a willful child. Although both her expression and tone are restrained and calm, and even mixed with a hint of obvious tenderness, the majesty that has been accumulated over time, even though she has not really lost her temper, still makes it completely impossible for the child to have any idea of ​​resisting.

Not only Yulandel, Rita and Theresa, but even Li Shubai fell into silence when they saw this scene.

Has Kiana ever been so tough before? And she was facing her own sister, Yulandel.

He couldn't help but start to mutter secretly. When facing him before, this little bug seemed to have displayed a tough attitude that was quite inconsistent with his understanding... Who on earth led her astray?

The culprit tilted his head, puzzled.

Faced with the tough attitude shown by the red and white figure, Yulandel, who suddenly felt a little cowardly for some reason, couldn't help but shrink her neck, but she quickly reacted, straightened her chest again, and took a deep breath of the hot air.

"I'm sorry, but I find it difficult to accept your proposal." She turned her head and looked at Rita very quickly, then gently turned the knight's gun in her hand, "If you must take Rita and me away, let's talk with the weapons in our hands!"

As soon as the words fell, Yulandel and Rita flashed forward at the same time.

This red and white figure, who has the same appearance as Kiana, seems to possess some kind of power similar to space transfer, so if they want to escape from here, they cannot do it with their mobility alone.

Therefore, there is only one option left -

——Defeat the warrior who is suspected to be a Herrscher standing in front of them head-on!

"…Why do you have to fight so hard?"

However, although Yulandel and Rita's choices were not wrong.

However, their opponent, the Herrscher of the Fire, Kiana Kaslana, sighed quietly the moment the two made their judgment and launched the surprise attack.

“After going through so much, I can understand your original choice and stance…” As if recalling something, she gently narrowed her azure eyes with prismatic patterns, and suddenly revealed a kind of helplessness in her eyes, “However, since the choice you made is to help Bishop Otto and bring the Herrscher of the Void back to the headquarters of the Destiny—”

"Then, on the other hand, when the experimental subject you had recovered chose to help his captain and recovered the two of you into the Hyperion, you shouldn't have any complaints, right?"

Hearing the whispers, Yulandel and Rita, who were attacking the Herrscher of Fire, turned their gazes away slightly at almost the same time.

They all understood the harm that Bishop Otto's behavior had caused to Kiana. Therefore, after hearing Kiana's words, both Rita and Yulandel didn't know what expression to use to face her.

Of course, they knew that Otto had wronged this family. They also knew what he had done to Cecilia, Siegfried, and Kiana. Therefore, although both Rita and Yulandel were mentally prepared to be questioned by Kiana——

——However, that was based on the premise that Kiana had not completely mastered the power of the Herrscher.

The two of them never thought that after just three months, Kiana, who had her body taken away by the consciousness of the Herrscher of the Sky and was still in her infancy both as a Herrscher and as a warrior, would stand in front of them with such a skilled posture.

If facing Kiana who is in an unstable state, Yulandel and Rita, who have the initiative and psychological advantage, will not easily reveal such obvious flaws because of the other party's words.

But there is no if. Facing Kiana, who has completely mastered the power of the Herrscher and has the upper hand in strength, neither Yulandel nor Rita can give a convincing answer to the questions she raised.

They all knew that what Kiana said was right. Since they had already done what the perpetrators did, then, whether because of their position or because of the mission they needed to complete, it was of course their responsibility to accept revenge from the [victim].

It's not that they hadn't thought about Kiana taking revenge on them, but they certainly didn't expect that this day would come so soon.

The words of the Herrscher of Fire and Fire revealed the fleeting flaws of Yulandel and Rita at this moment.

——It also completely blocked their only hope of escaping from here.

"Come to think of it, this is the first time I've used this divine key that the captain lent me."

In the face of Theresa's shocked look, the Herrscher of Fire chuckled and took out a golden cross that she was very familiar with.

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

Chapter 4 Conflict (k)

Following the command of the Herrscher of Fire, several chains that dominated the space quickly shot out from the fan-shaped cross, condensing into a sticky mist of light golden energy that filled the outskirts of the entire Sky City. Tens of thousands of golden gears appeared out of thin air in the nearby air, meshing with each other, and then driven by the chains, slowly rotating in a unique rhythm.

"Wait—" Before she could say anything to stop him, a huge feeling of powerlessness suddenly dominated Theresa's whole body. Her legs refused to stand because they had lost strength, and her body became heavier than ever before. She raised her head with all her strength and looked at the golden cross and the Herrscher of Fire and Fire standing beside the cross. She was sweating and her face was pale. Her dry lips moved in a weak arc, but her vocal cords could not make any sound.

How is it possible? ? Judah's Oath can release a divine grace barrier of this scale... She has never heard of it before! !

Moreover, why does she seem to be completely unaffected by the Divine Grace Barrier?

As the current holder of the Oath of Judah, Theresa is well aware of the power of this Key of Binding. She can certainly use the Divine Grace Barrier of the Zeroth Rated Power, but this powerful ability that is enough to suppress all Honkai energy has a big problem - it has no way of distinguishing between friend and foe!

This is why Theresa didn't dare to use the Divine Grace Barrier when the Herrscher of the Void awakened during the battle at the Destiny Headquarters. She could indeed use the Divine Grace Barrier to control Kiana, whose body was taken away by the Herrscher of the Void, but at the same time, not to mention the Valkyries such as Raiden Mei who were also present, even the Destiny floating islands and warships that were maintained in a suspended state would fall from the sky because the Honkai Energy Power Reactor would lose its original function.

At that point, there would be no need for the Herrscher of the Void to destroy everything. The falling floating islands alone would be enough to destroy most of Europe.

However, looking at the calm expression of the Herrscher of Fire, Theresa could not find any trace that she was affected by the Divine Grace Barrier.

And that's not all.

Although her power was instantly taken away after the pale golden restraining field was opened, Theresa did not feel the pain of every muscle in her body being torn apart when she opened the Divine Grace Barrier during the Second Collapse.

Not only the scope of the domain, but also the identification of friend and foe - the divine grace barrier unfolded by the Herrscher of Fire Flame can actually accurately control the operation of the power itself and completely deprive the opponent of his power without harming him?

For a Herrscher to use the Key of God... is that really unreasonable? Theresa couldn't help but start to doubt her life.