The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

London time, January 2014, 1.

7:35 am.

The bright sunshine, shining through the azure sky without a trace of cloud, is evenly spread over this British-style port city surrounded by the sea.

The city, which had just woken up from the night, was not noisy. Residents who were preparing to start their day's work gradually appeared on the streets of London, and traffic on the streets began to become congested.

The noise and vitality that cover the night make this newly awakened city look prosperous, what a peaceful and harmonious scene.

What ordinary residents cannot see is that above the sparkling surface of the Thames, in the cracks of space -

——Inside the huge train-shaped mechanical device, the Second God's Key, the Thousand Worlds One Vehicle, there is a world bubble created by humans.

It is called [Sumeru Mustard Seed], and it is also the real hiding place of Su, one of the thirteen heroes of the previous civilization fifty thousand years ago, who carried the inscription of [Heavenly Wisdom] in the present civilization.

The sky of [Sumeru Mustard Seed] is azure blue without any impurities, the air is fresh and pure, and the breeze blowing through the air blows the Bodhi leaves that are slowly falling in the sky into flying all over the place.

The endless wet soil is filled with withered yellow leaves. Under the clear sky, a huge Bodhi tree stands in this vast bubble of the world. Countless branches extend out and are covered with countless green leaves. Whenever the wind blows, the leaves on the branches will rustle due to friction.

In [Sumeru Mustard Seed], Su, a man with flowing gray hair, sits on the ground covered with yellow leaves. He leans against a huge Bodhi tree, holding a withered yellow leaf between his fingertips. His beautiful face with his eyes closed shows a trace of sadness that is hard to let go.

Alas, this world has also failed... He loosened his fingertips and let the yellow leaves in his hand fall to the ground and pile up with other withered leaves.

The slightly raised pile of leaves looks like a small grave.

During these thousands of years, he had seen countless leaves. Every civilization destroyed by the collapse would wither away like these leaves and turn into a dream-like bubble, and this was true for every leaf.

After loosening the dead leaves in his hands, he stood up, moved his back away from the Bodhi tree, and then walked slowly forward a few steps. He lowered his head slightly and looked at the phantom reflected on the lake.

During these thousands of years of observation, Su's goal had already been achieved. After obtaining the answers he needed to explore, the only thing he couldn't let go of now was probably this close friend who had been deceived by him and exiled to the deepest part of the quantum sea.

Every time, after observing the world represented by a leaf, Su would walk to the lake like he was doing now, quietly watching the back of his best friend.

But this time...the development of things seemed a little different from what Su expected.

When he walked to the lake, he cast his gaze towards the calm water.

The next moment, the completely unexpected, even absurd scene made Su seem frightened, and he suddenly widened his eyes which had been tightly closed.

“This is…” He opened his mouth wide, and the calm and indifferent expression disappeared from his handsome face as if it had never appeared in the beginning, leaving only astonishment and disbelief as if he had seen a ghost, “Alicea?!”

Su was not the only one who felt astonished and incredulous after seeing this unnatural scene.

For Kaiwen, who was exiled to the deepest part of the quantum sea and had been standing silently like a sculpture inside another Sumeru mustard seed created by Su, everything happening before his eyes also made him feel a sense of absurdity, as if he was watching a third-rate drama.

Be it Su who created the Sumeru mustard seed, or Kevin who was trapped at the bottom of the Quantum Sea by the Sumeru mustard seed, these two members of the Thirteen Heroes of the former civilization had never thought that in this isolated space, at the bottom of the Quantum Sea which should be impossible to be reached by anything except the Second God's Key, there might be the possibility of other visitors visiting.

Compared to the Sumeru mustard seed where Su is now, the Sumeru mustard seed where Kevin is imprisoned has long been no longer what it should be under his influence.

Whether it was the Bodhi tree, the sky, or the earth, they were all completely covered by a deep and silent blue. The air became turbid due to the lack of wind, and the sunlight was blocked by the chaos in the depths of the quantum sea, so the vibrant light naturally could not reach this world bubble.

After all, this was an underwater kingdom that existed originally to seal up monsters. In the end, it would be assimilated by the monsters and become their stomachs, and would appear dead and poisonous. This was something that Su and Kevin had already anticipated.

But even such a dead and cold scene could not conceal the fairy lady's beautiful smile that was as beautiful as flying flowers.

"Hi! Long time no see!" Alicia suddenly appeared in front of Kevin and waved her arms. Her pleasant voice full of liveliness and vitality easily dispelled the cold atmosphere around them. "I'm here to play with you! Kevin!"

"..." Kevin looked at the smiling Alicia in silence. His lips moved stiffly but he couldn't say anything at the first time.

It’s not that he was so shocked by seeing Alicia that he lost the ability to speak, but... Kevin, who has been staying in this world bubble, has not spoken for 1,500 years.

Although Kevin had met someone with whom he could have a conversation not long ago, at that time he did not use sound but rather his thoughts to conduct the conversation.

Suddenly he was asked to communicate in a normal human way, using his vocal cords to make sounds, and for a moment he was really unable to react.

In order to regain the ability to speak, he moved his lips, which were so stiff that they were difficult to control. After a moment of adjustment, he spoke: "...Who are you?"

When she heard Kevin's first question, Alicia's smile froze.

"Alas..." She sighed with an extremely exaggerated expression, as if she was hurt by Kevin's words. "Even Kevin, who was as unshakable as ice, has been worn away bit by bit after 50,000 years? He even forgot the appearance of his former deputy who he used to talk to about anything."

Looking at Alicia's beautiful but depressed face, Kevin hesitated for a moment and shook his head: "...I don't have the impression that I have ever talked about everything with my deputy."

"Hmm~~" After hearing Kevin's hesitant words, Alicia raised her head and made a sound of surprise and joy, with the ending tone rising slightly, "So, our number one really still remembers the lovely fairy lady! And, when you saw me just now, were you secretly sad in your heart?"

"I didn't." Kevin denied it with a straight face.

"Wow! Wow--wow--wow--!" Looking at Kevin's serious and rigid, yet unnatural expression, Alicia's eyes seemed to twinkle with stars. "Did you see this expression? Eden! Sakura! Aponia! Hua! Kevin, who looked so cold and indifferent as if he had lost his emotions! He really values ​​everyone!"

Eden? Ying? Aponia? Hua? Kevin was stunned for a moment because of the four names that suddenly popped out of Alicia's mouth. Although it was difficult to see any fluctuations on his expressionless face, Alicia still accurately captured Kevin's emotional changes.

Then in the next moment, along with the sudden appearance of a dark hole in the Sumeru mustard seed, four women who were extremely familiar to him walked out of the dark space holes in front of Kevin with different expressions, and stood shoulder to shoulder with Alicia.

"Ellie, I know you feel very happy to see Kevin, but you'd better not tease him too much." Eden said helplessly in her gentle voice, "Don't forget, the ultimate purpose of our coming here is not to be friendly to Kevin."

Can't be called friendly? Kevin's expression changed slightly, but he did not choose to interrupt the conversation between the women at this time. Instead, he lowered his eyelids slightly and silently calculated his current state.

As the strongest warrior of the previous civilization, Kevin has no shortcomings in any of his abilities, including his meticulous observation skills.

Although when Kevin saw these four comrades who were once quite familiar to him, especially when he first saw Alicia, his emotions did inevitably fluctuate a little, so much so that he was not willing to face reality for a moment.

But after so much time, his thinking patterns and empathy had been away from those of normal humans for too long. So, it only took a moment for Kevin to come out of the shock and disbelief of reuniting with his comrades.

After his sanity returned to his brain, the first thing Kevin had to do was to confirm whether these five comrades who suddenly appeared in front of him and could be said to have been brought back to life were real or fake.

It was obvious that even though he didn't know what happened specifically, after taking a look, Kevin was sure that the five heroes in front of him... were undoubtedly his once very familiar comrades.

After confirming their authenticity and hearing Eden's words, Kevin immediately did the second thing he was going to do.

"Hey? What's the matter?" As if she didn't notice the sudden heavy atmosphere on the field, Alicia blinked mischievously, "Even if Kevin doesn't want to listen to us, it won't affect our former friendship, right?"

"And..." A confident smile appeared on Miss Fairy's face, "——With Kevin now, even if he doesn't want to listen to us, he can't stop us from doing what we want to do."

"?" What does this mean? Kevin frowned, but suddenly his eyelids jumped.

As dark holes suddenly appeared, girls with strong auras walked out of the holes in different postures.

Although Kevin hasn't felt that there is anyone among these people who is stronger than himself in his prime...but first of all, he is not in his prime now. Among them, Kevin clearly feels that there are some who are slightly stronger than himself who is not yet in his prime.

Even if he was in his prime, facing so many warriors who were only slightly inferior to him, he would probably find it difficult to gain any advantage.

After comparing the strength of both sides, Kevin, who knew that he could not resort to force, asked, "How did you get here? What is your purpose in coming to me?"

Before Kevin could get an answer, suddenly, a space hole opened and a handsome man with flowing gray hair appeared.

"Oh? Su?" Seeing the gray-haired man who suddenly appeared, Alicia's eyes lit up. "I didn't expect you to come here too. Have you been quietly watching over Kevin in the Second God's Key? My, what an enviable steadfast friendship."

"..." Kevin silently looked at this close friend who once exiled him to the deepest part of the quantum sea.

There was no anger or complaint in his eyes, nor did he feel any extra emotion because Su was standing next to him. What he felt was just pure confusion.

Kevin was not dissatisfied with what happened fifteen hundred years ago. He had long known that Su would stop him. Similarly, Su also knew that Kevin would not hold a grudge against him because of this. Although Su had never dared to appear in front of Kevin due to his inner guilt, when Kevin was really in trouble, he would still stand by Kevin without hesitation.

Kevin is still Kevin, and Su is still Su. What happened fifteen hundred years ago has no impact on their friendship. These two men are still the close friends who are willing to die for each other's lives without hesitation.

“… You’d better stop laughing at me, Alysia.” Su, who suddenly appeared in the Sumeru mustard seed and came to Kevin and stood shoulder to shoulder with him, couldn’t help but let out a helpless bitter smile. He sighed, “Although when I used the Thousand Worlds One Vehicle to observe other parallel worlds, I had imagined that maybe… we were also the ones being observed by others, but when I actually encountered this situation, it was really hard for me to face it with a normal mind.”

"Parallel world?" Kevin frowned. "Aren't they the comrades we know?"

"No, the possibilities of parallel worlds are endless, and among these possibilities, there is also the possibility that the two worlds will be exactly the same." Su shook his head, "At least, Alicia, Aponia, Eden, Ying, Hua... whoever they are, they are the same as our former comrades."

Chapter 4: Differences (k)

Just as Kevin was chewing on Su's words, a clear voice, which was sharp yet polite, suddenly interrupted the conversation between the two heroes.

"You are still as sharp as ever." The person who spoke was Tianyuan Qiying. She took two steps forward to separate herself from the crowd behind her while keeping a certain distance from the five Yingjies standing shoulder to shoulder in front of her. Her dignified and heroic face was covered with a gentle smile. "It's been a long time since we last met, Senior Su."

Su looked in a daze at Tianyuan Qiying, who suddenly spoke and interrupted the conversation between Yingjie. After being stunned for a while, he could not help but open his eyes again.

"I see..." Su's eyes were beautiful, with gorgeous and seductive purple-red irises and noble and gorgeous fiery golden pupils. He stared at Tianyuan Qiying's friendly and upright face, and a smile of relief and satisfaction suddenly appeared on his face that was too beautiful to be a man's. "Although I am a complete loser in Kevin's matter, it seems that my choice is not completely in vain."

Su closed his eyes again and nodded gently to Tianyuan Qiying: "Hello, successor. Although I am not the Su you know who has walked all the roads, if it is helpful to you, it is okay to treat me as him and communicate with him."

Kevin took a deep look at Tianyuan Qiying.

Unsurprisingly, the original ancestor of the Kaslana clan felt a very familiar powerful force in her.

"A fully awakened Kaslana Stigma?" Kevin looked at Tianyuan Qiying, nodded gently, and commented in a calm tone: "You are very good."

Although it was just such an ordinary conversation, after hearing Kevin's evaluation of Tianyuan Qiying, except for Su who had just guessed everything, Kevin who saw the essence of Tianyuan Qiying's power at a glance, and Hua [Yun Mo Danxin] who already knew Tianyuan Qiying's true identity because of Fu Hua, the other four heroes present couldn't help but widen their eyes.

Alicia, Eden, Sakura, and Aponia all turned their heads and looked at Tengen Qiying with somewhat surprised eyes.

Although, a week ago, Theresa's call called all members of the Hyperion to gather in the conference room. It was also at that time that everyone knew the essence of the Hyperion and had a basic understanding of their companions.

But even so, for some relatively private matters, except for the fairy lady Alicia who has a fun-loving nature, no one would carry a loudspeaker and publicize it everywhere in the Hyperion.

Among these things that were deliberately concealed, the true identities of the two Yulandels were also included.

On the basis that everyone hides their own privacy, not all members of the Thirteen Heroes know everything about each other.

As a result, except for a few Fu Huas, none of the thirteen heroes on the Hyperion even knew about Kevin and the Kaslana clan.

In the minds of these heroes, Kevin is Kevin, the chief of the heroes who bears the inscription of salvation, and not the so-called [Kevin Kaslana].

And now, Kevin actually expressed such a rare evaluation as "You are very good" to a little girl whom they were not very familiar with?

The first person to react to Kevin's comments was our lovely fairy lady, Alicia.

"Oh my God." She blinked her bright eyes and showed a rather surprised expression, "That Kevin, can actually praise others so directly?"

In response to Alicia's overly exaggerated reaction, only this time, Eden, Aponia and Sakura all nodded involuntarily to express their approval.

Seeing the extremely brave reaction, Su's face showed a somewhat subtle expression. He shook his head with a dumb smile: "Looking at your reactions, it seems that you still don't know much about the identity of this successor."

"You know?" Hearing Su's calm words, Alicia was surprised, but she quickly reacted: "Yes! Speaking of which, why does Yulandel know Su? I remember that she was originally a Valkyrie of destiny in this civilized era?"

"About this matter, I'm sorry, to be honest, I don't know the details." Su was a little helpless after hearing Alicia's question. "The only thing I can confirm is that from Miss Bianca's attitude towards me, if the development of things is no different from what I expected, then... she should have passed the test I set."

“Yes.” Tianyuan Qiying nodded and hesitated for a moment: “But… in my world, Senior Su, you…”

Su smiled, and he opened his eyes slightly, revealing a relieved expression: "In the end, along with the Sumeru mustard seed, it sank into the quantum sea, right?"

“……”Tianyuan Qiying pursed his lips and nodded silently.

"It doesn't matter. I had anticipated this outcome, and this choice also left a cause for you to reap the fruit in the future." Su said calmly, "As Kevin's blood relative, you are carrying a weight that shouldn't belong to your age. If I can be of some insignificant help to your path, my choice will not be meaningless, and that's enough."

The moment Su's words fell, the air fell into silence again.

Just now...what did Su say?

Alicia, Aponia, Eden, and Sakura, four heroes from the previous civilization era who claimed to have seen every kind of scene, all stopped thinking at this moment.

He said...Yulandel, is Kevin's blood relative? And Kevin didn't seem to refute it.

In other words...is this blonde girl actually Kevin's descendant?

That Kevin actually has a child! ?

The first person to recover from the downtime was Alicia.

After knowing that Tianyuan Qiying was Kevin's descendant, Miss Fairy suddenly turned around and walked to Tianyuan Qiying's side in two steps.

"Hmm..." Then, she put her hands behind her back, walked around Tianyuan Qiying's body and observed her carefully, while making an ambiguous sound in her mouth, "Hmm..."

“Um…” Tian Yuan Qiying, who was somewhat at a loss because of Alicia’s gaze, scratched his golden hair and asked somewhat at a loss: “What…what’s wrong? Alicia-senpai?”

"Senior?" Alicia's eyes lit up, but she suddenly felt a little conflicted. She bit her thumb and whispered to herself, "Well... although it's a nice title, but if I'm called a senior, doesn't it make me look a little too old?"

Alicia's voice was very soft, but with Tianyuan Qiying's hearing, it was not difficult to hear such a low whisper. Hearing Alicia's mumbling, she couldn't help but reveal a somewhat embarrassed expression.

On the other side, seeing the helpless look on Tengen Kiei's face, Raiden Mei [Herser of Thunder] couldn't bear it anymore, so she covered her face with her hands, walked to Tengen Kiei's side, and patted her shoulder.

"Don't pay too much attention to what Alicia said." In the confused gaze of Tianyuan Qiying, the Herrscher of Thunder said expressionlessly, "Although she is undoubtedly a good person, but... this guy's personality and overly free style of doing things are really hard to comment on."

"Hey! Miss Fairy heard it!" Alicia raised her head suddenly, pouting her thin red lips in dissatisfaction, and put her hands on her hips, "That's really an excessive evaluation, Mei, have you been too cold to me recently?"

"If I don't treat you a little more strictly, with your free-spirited personality, I'm afraid you will immediately follow the enemy's lead." The Herrscher of Thunder rolled his eyes and said with a bit of tiredness: "In that case, it would be better not to give you the opportunity to act freely from the beginning. I think your colleagues should agree with me."

"Huh?" Alicia was stunned and subconsciously turned her gaze to look at Abonia, Eden, Ying, and Yun Mo Danxin.

She asked tentatively, "You don't think so, do you?"

"..."Except for Yun Mo Danxin who had an expression as if he was looking at a child, Eden, Aponia and Sakura all silently averted their eyes from Alicia's sight.

There seemed to be a bolt of thunder in the sky. Alicia showed a look of shock and said aggrievedly: "You...you guys..."

At this moment, a frosty voice suddenly interrupted Alicia's words.

"Have you had enough fun, Alicia?" The person who spoke was Kevin. He looked at Alicia with an extremely cold look that suppressed his emotions to the limit, then crossed his arms across his chest, pretending to be indifferent to everything in front of him: "You came to me aggressively, it shouldn't be to perform such an absurd drama for me."

The situation suddenly became stiff.