The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

If he could easily defeat this Ruler of Corrosion, there would be no need for Velvi to go to so much trouble to hand over those dark crystal flowers to him.

She had already made a wrong judgment due to her incomplete understanding of the Thirteen Heroes, so this time, Mei Raiden, who believed that her brain was not as good as Weiwei's, made up her mind as early as when she left that space of consciousness... to hand over her thoughts to others after a long absence, and to transform herself into a sharp sword just to complete the task assigned to her by Weiwei.

"Hmm? Why are you angry?" At this moment, Alicia suddenly leaned forward a little, bringing her face closer to Raiden Mei's: "Is it because of how I addressed you? Although you got angry before, you wouldn't be so angry, right? Do you hate me that much?"

At the end, Alicia put on an exaggerated expression as if she was about to cry, slightly narrowed her left eye, and half-opened her right eye to peek at Raiden Mei's reaction.

Mei Raiden's breathing became heavier again, her eyes twitched slightly, and her voice was low: "Why did you become her appearance?"

"Does Mei care about this? I have to think about this carefully." As she spoke, Alicia pondered for a moment with a complicated expression, then clapped her hands as if she had an idea, and gave an extremely confident answer, "Of course it's because I am Alicia~"

"..." For a moment, Raiden Mei's thoughts froze.

Although her excessive anger caused her vision to darken uncontrollably, at this moment, her brain was so calm that even Raiden Mei herself felt a little strange.

It turns out... after anger reaches a certain level, thinking will calm down again?

"Ah, don't look at me like that, my dear Mei." But just when Mei's thoughts calmed down again, Alicia seemed to have read her thoughts and made a loud exclamation, abruptly interrupting her thoughts, "Well, to show my sincerity, I'll introduce myself again."

"My name is Alicia. As you can see, I am a beautiful girl who lives up to my name." Alicia smiled gently and pointed to her cheek. "Of course, you can also call me... the twelfth Herrscher of the current civilization era, that is, the Herrscher of Corrosion?"

"Heh, you finally admitted it?" After hearing the other party's self-introduction, after this Herrscher who looked exactly like Alicia admitted his identity, for some reason, Raiden Mei suddenly felt relieved deep in her heart.

Maybe it’s because...if the other party continues to deny that she is the Herrscher of Corrosion, perhaps, after spending some time together, she will begin to doubt Weiwei’s judgment.

——After all, putting aside this sudden incident, no matter how you look at it, the girl standing in front of him is undoubtedly Alicia herself.

"Why is it so hard to admit this?" Alicia pointed to her cheek. "Not all Herrschers are your enemies, my dear Meiyi. You should know this very well, right? I have never thought of hurting you, and in fact, everything in the paradise has not disappeared at all. Don't you think so?"

"Everything in the paradise has not disappeared?" Raiden Mei snorted coldly, the sarcasm in her eyes was evident.

"Of course. After all, whether it's Qianjie or Kevin and the others—" Alicia pointed to the center of her brow, "—they are all still here safe and sound. Would it make you feel a little better if I said this?"

"Feel better?" After trying her best to suppress the urge to exhale fragrance, Mei Raiden took a deep breath of the cold air of the amusement park. She recalled the scene of Padufils turning into ashes in her arms, and the scene of Vilvi's body gradually shrinking into an engraving. She roared in anger: "You invaded this place, manipulated everything, and wantonly trampled on the last traces of these heroes left in the world... Padu and Vilvi died in front of my eyes, but you said... they are still here safely?"

"..." Were the special effects of Vivi a little too strong? Looking at the lightning arcs on Mei's body, Alicia swallowed quietly and was silent for a moment, "Well, it seems that no matter how I explain, in Mei's heart, I am already an unforgivable villain. Since you want to regard me as an enemy anyway..."

"...Qianjie, I'll leave the rest to you?"

"...?!"

Hearing the two words from Alicia's mouth, Raiden Mei's pupils suddenly contracted.

How could it be... that when he was trapped in Weiwei's consciousness space, the man who was like a raging fire had actually been swallowed by the Ruler of Corrosion?

“Hahahaha – is it finally my turn to perform?”

In that voice filled with restlessness and expectation that Mei Raiden could hardly understand, the world was ruthlessly ignited.

The blazing flames seemed like a second sun that suddenly rose above the ground, dyeing the dark sky a blood-red color.

Mei Raiden suddenly looked up and looked at the man who was wrapped in flames and falling from the sky like a meteorite. Her expression became more solemn than ever.

“Hahahahaha…hahahahahahahahaha——!!”

The roaring laughter was like a warning that the hunt was about to begin.

And in Mei Raiden's opinion, the intention of the Herrscher of Corrosion, who released the most manic Qianjie among the data she had eroded, was so obvious that it couldn't be more obvious.

The most ferocious hound has been released. Now, you can prepare to start running away. Just like this, although it was using Alicia's face, it still sentenced me to death for speaking nicely just now.

The oppressive heat and overwhelming force made her back shiver slightly with the chill.

Will be knocked down.

Even if she was in perfect condition, Mei Raiden was not arrogant enough to think that she was a match for Qianjie.

Just as Mei Raiden was racking her brains to think of a way to break the impasse, Alicia suddenly spoke.

"Wait, Qianjie, please don't really hurt Mei."

——And she also said something that made Mei Raiden, who thought she wanted to kill her on the spot, stunned.

"Ah, you don't need to remind me." In response to Alicia's call, Qianjie, who came in front of Raiden Mei, stretched his neck and smiled happily, "Be thankful, Herrscher, only this time, I will pay attention during the battle and try not to kill you accidentally."

"...The Qianjie I know will not show mercy in battle." Raiden Mei said coldly.

Yes.

Although in terms of strength, the Qianjie standing in front of her was no different from the Qianjie she knew, but there was no doubt... Qianjie was not the kind of guy who would listen to others obediently.

In addition, if you look closely, Raiden Mei can easily notice the thick pink mist surrounding the person pretending to be Senjie.

That is undoubtedly a symptom of being infected by the eroding power.

“Oh——?” Qianjie said sullenly, “I didn’t expect you to know me so well. But unfortunately, I didn’t come here to fight with you.”

"I know." Raiden Mei opened her five fingers and took out her Herrscher armor. "It's not a battle, but a hunt, right?"

No...it was just a [joke].

Although he wanted to say so, since Mei Raiden had already come up with words in his style, Qianjie was too lazy to refute.

The flames that burned everything rose wildly in the dark night.

In an instant, in Raiden Mei's vision, Qianjie's figure wrapped in flames disappeared without warning.

Mei Raiden's pupils condensed, and she calmly raised her katana and used the blade to protect her chest without hesitation.

Accompanied by an explosion, Qianjie's fist and Raiden Mei's sword collided violently.

“Ugh——!” Along with a distressed sound, the corners of Raiden Mei’s mouth twisted.

Just as she had expected from the beginning, the battle of strength ended with her defeat. Although her knife-holding posture did not collapse, her body was still easily knocked away.

However, since she knew the outcome of the fight from the beginning, before taking the blow, Mei Raiden had of course made preparations to deal with it.

Even though she admitted that she was not as strong as her opponent, Mei Raiden still did not give up hope of winning.

——After all, whether from the perspective of a swordsman or a Herrscher of Thunder, strength has never been her forte.

The next moment after being knocked away, her body was instantly surrounded by dazzling lightning. Raiden Mei raised her head suddenly, and her pupils emitting sharp light drew two fierce tracks in the air. Her gaze, mixed with hostility and determination to win, broke through the night scene and pointed directly at Qianjie who was wrapped in flames.

The next second, the night sky, which had just been lit up by the raging fire of Qianjie, was quickly covered with dark clouds.

"Oh?" Alicia's eyes lit up. "I can actually see Mei giving her all here? This is really a pleasant surprise."

Although strictly speaking, controlling the weather is not a kind of power of thunder, but... the knowledge contained in the spiral engraving that Wilvi gave her included various backdoors to the vast data of Paradise.

Even if she couldn't do something like the Herrscher of Erosion who had the power to modify data directly, changing the weather so that it would be more suitable for the power of thunder she possessed was not something she couldn't do.

The cold wind began to howl under the night sky, and the thick dark clouds flashed with bright and distorted lightning. At the moment when the body that was flying backwards reached the highest point, Raiden Mei suddenly raised her palm, her expression as cold as a queen.

Several thick arcs of electricity broke through the clouds. Under Raiden Mei's extremely precise control, the flashing lightning seemed to be attracted by a lightning rod and condensed on her high-raised palm. Then, the arcs that were originally just broken lines turned into a sphere, and lost their original brightness, turning into a ball of mist-like condensation that was almost solid.

"Since you claim to be that man, then try to take this blow!"

At the command, the super lightning that was condensed by Raiden Mei to the point of almost becoming a substance fell straight down towards Jun Qianjie's body.

But in the next moment, after seeing the figure facing the lightning, Raiden Mei's pupils shrank slightly.

"Hmph." Qianjie raised his palm and took it with ease. The flash of lightning was packed with high heat and huge impact force. Then he followed the lightning and uttered a soft laugh at Raiden Mei.

It's like saying "gotcha".

Chapter 5 Green Kiana Green (k)

Although the super lightning that was caught was the one she controlled, when Raiden Mei's gaze met the two "eyes" on the Senjie mask that were like slits and burning with blazing flames, an indescribable chill rushed up from her spine to the back of her head.

It wasn't just his own attack. What Qianjie really grasped was his exact position in the night sky at that moment.

In less than half a second, the moment the thunder was caught by Qianjie appeared in Raiden Mei's vision. What appeared was an empty ground with only two deep footprints left.

Qianjie, who had just caught the super lightning, disappeared like a phantom.

Mei Raiden saw through Qianjie's intention, but was one step too late.

Although she is a Herrscher, Mei Raiden can still fly freely even in the sky where there is no support.

But even so, it was also because she couldn't use the force. Even though she was the Herrscher of Thunder, and she launched a full-strength attack with the help of the weather, she couldn't regain the speed she was proud of in a short period of time.

So, Mei Raiden could only watch as Qianjie disappeared on the spot like a phantom, and turned into a meteorite swimming upstream. He was covered in flames and approached her in less than a millisecond.

The scorching wind blew in her face, mercilessly burning the strong light of her visual system, causing Raiden Mei's vision to tremble slightly. What she saw was no longer the things in front of her, but the tragic scene of herself being burned to ashes by Qianjie's explosive blow one tenth of a second later.

At this critical moment, after foreseeing her own death, Raiden Mei suddenly closed her eyes as if she had given up all resistance.

Then, she tilted her head slightly, revealing the huge gun barrel with rising blood-red arcs.

No - that was not a cannon barrel, but a red dragon with its bloody mouth opened wide.

The reason why Mei Raiden closed her eyes was not because she gave up resisting, but to protect her visual system from the subsequent violent burst of bright light.

The next moment, a blood-red beam of light wrapped in electric arcs, like a huge searchlight, completely engulfed Qianjie's body wrapped in flames.

Although she shut down her visual system in time and was not hit directly by the light beam, Mei Raiden could still feel the strong light that almost penetrated her eyelids, and her cheeks became hot as if they were close to a stove.

When Kurikara used the thunder beam to bombard Qianjie's body, Raiden Mei closed her eyes and grasped her five fingers on the hilt of her sword with incredible precision.

She was well aware of Qianjie's power, and she also knew that ordering Kuligala to fight against Qianjie would be the same as ordering it to commit suicide. With Kuligala's lightning strikes alone, there was little hope of even injuring Qianjie.

But even so, Qianjie's body, which was rushing straight into the sky from below, eventually paused for a moment because of the sudden bombardment.

The next second, an extremely thick blood-red beam of light broke apart like a burst balloon, and after easily shattering the beam of light carrying the electric arc, Qianjie's posture was like a meteorite flying upwards, and it hit Kurikara's jaw mercilessly, forcing its wide-open mouth closed.

After being hit directly by Qianjie's fist which was filled with high heat and enormous force, Kurikara was unable to even let out a scream and lost consciousness powerlessly. The huge dragon body also fell heavily from mid-air because it stopped moving.

At the same time, realizing that the conflict was over, Mei Raiden opened her eyes again, and exerted force on the five fingers holding the hilt of the sword, aiming at Senjie's neck which was exposed due to the punch she had made at Kurikara, and drew her sword at Senjie who was close at hand without any gap.

The speed of the sword, the point where the blade landed, the timing when the enemy revealed a flaw, everything was perfect.

But, lost.

Faced with Mei Raiden's skillful surprise attack, Qianjie just did a very simple thing to neutralize her attack.

He raised his other arm, holding it upright to protect his neck.

Then, under Qianjie's arms, Raiden Mei's Herrscher weapon was shattered.

"Tsk——"

monster.

She was clearly the Herrscher, a creature different from humans, but at that moment, the word "monster" still flowed uncontrollably through Mei Raiden's mind.

At the same time, he shattered the lightning attack released by Kurikara and knocked down its huge body. In addition, he was able to shatter even his own Herrscher's armor head-on... If it wasn't a monster, what else could be able to do all this?

Although it was a scene that went beyond common sense and made people feel desperate, Mei Raiden, who already knew Senjie's true strength, simply smacked her lips and launched her final resistance without any hesitation.

After all - when it comes to monsters, I, as a Herrscher, am no less capable than others.

Specifically, even if the Herrscher weapons in her hands were shattered, even if her hands were temporarily paralyzed due to the violent recoil, she could still rely on her other pair of hands and another katana to deliver the final blow to Qianjie, whose two arms had been infused with power.

Along with the Herrscher's Divine Ring that appeared out of thin air, two ghostly arms that looked like ancient armor drew out the huge sword.

“Heh—” Qianjie raised his head slightly, and the crack on the mask covering his face, which looked like a crooked devil, let out a happy and heartfelt laugh, “Not bad, Herrscher.”

Facing Raiden Mei's unyielding resistance, Qianjie gave an unexpected and almost the highest evaluation -

"But, I've almost had enough fun—" With these words, which could be considered insulting, he put an end to this battle that he considered to be just a [play] but had almost pushed Raiden Mei to the brink of death, "—Fall."

"Varied--"

Following Qianjie's order, the semi-melted meteorites formed a dense meteor shower, covering the airspace where Raiden Mei was.

Although he saw the meteor suddenly falling from the sky, whether it was because of Qianjie's ferocious power, which caused his arm to fall into a paralyzed state when the sword he swung at was shattered; or because of the super lightning that he had previously controlled with all his strength and was unable to call upon the power of the Herrscher a second time in a short period of time, he was unable to effectively resist the meteor summoned by Qianjie.

Out of desperation, Raiden Mei could only forcibly control the two huge armored arms floating in the air, forcibly changing the trajectory of the heavy sword that was originally swinging towards Jun Qianjie's body, and placed them both above her head to resist this fierce and hot meteor shower.

Boom! Although she managed to defend herself from the meteorite's direct attack at the last moment, in the deafening explosion, Mei Raiden's body was still mercilessly smashed down from mid-air by the surging force of the meteorite group, and landed on her back.

"Ugh--" Under the impact force that was enough to instantly shatter an ordinary person's bones and muscles, Raiden Mei couldn't help but make a somewhat distressed sound. Before she could recover from the violent shock, a beautiful face with a worried look suddenly appeared in her sight.

“Mei, are you okay?” The Herrscher of Corrosion who had usurped Alicia’s identity squatted down with a look of genuine concern and stretched out his hand to her. “Really? I told Qianjie to hold back a little. It’s just a meaningless fight. Why are you two taking it so seriously?”

Hearing these endless words, Mei Raiden's eyes couldn't help but become dazed for a moment. Once upon a time, she thought that she might never be able to adapt to Alicia's somewhat nagging but quite unique free character. But when Alicia disappeared, she saw the Herrscher of Corrosion in front of her using Alicia's face to do things that only Alicia would do... an indescribable sadness and pain surged into her chest without warning.

"Don't touch me!" Because of the uncontrollable sadness, Mei Raiden waved away the hand that Alicia stretched out to her. She bit her teeth tightly and tried her best to exert strength on her body. She stood up shakily from the cracked ground with all her strength, "Don't use Alicia's tone... to talk to me like this!"

“But even if you say that…” Ai Lishia, whose hand was waved away by Raiden Mei, did not show any sad expression. She scratched her pink hair and looked a little embarrassed. “…But I am Ai Lishia herself. It’s too difficult for Mei to ask me to talk to you without using Ai Lishia’s tone, isn’t it?”

Blood pressure went up again.