The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

With a thud, along with the intense pain, Raiden Mei's vision suddenly became blurred. The events that happened not long ago suddenly crossed time and were forcefully stuffed into her mind in the form of records.

The scenes flashed quickly, showing the game between Velvi and [Hersher of Corrosion]; Kevin approved Velvi's plan and pretended to be dead and disappeared briefly as a surprise attack; Mobius saw through [Extreme Evil's] lies and took the initiative to join the Herrsher of Corrosion; Qianjie and the Herrsher of Corrosion incarnated as Alicia had a head-on battle... After realizing that it was the spiral engraving that intervened in her brain and displayed all the actions of the Herrsher of Corrosion in front of her, Mei Raiden suddenly woke up, breathing rapidly and covered in cold sweat.

At this moment, she was grateful to Weiwei from the bottom of her heart for the crucial help she had given her. While she was praising these thirteen heroes for being extremely reliable teammates, she couldn't help but feel secretly annoyed at herself for being so easily deceived by Alicia in front of her.

Why did I only realize such a simple thing now?

No matter how similar the [Alicia] in front of her is to the pink fairy lady she is familiar with, and no matter how many things she does, she is ultimately the Herrscher of Corrosion, the one who brings disaster and destruction to Paradise.

——And this is something Alicia would never do, nor would she expect to happen.

Mei Raiden raised her eyes which had become discerning and sharp again, and sat up again from the seat. Just as she was about to speak, she suddenly looked at Alicia's face in a trance and got stuck for a moment.

This guy...why does he suddenly have such an expression?

——It was as if he had been severely scolded by someone, but because that person's scolding was absolutely correct, his expression was mixed with grievance and resignation.

Mei Raiden's guess was correct. At the same moment when Velvet used the spiral engraving to stuff a lot of images that she wanted to show her into her mind, Alicia... was also scolded by Velvet.

You stupid fairy, just play your role as the final boss and don't cause me any other trouble! Do you think it's that easy for me to put those images into Raiden Mei's mind?

Perhaps it was because she had really put too much effort into the upcoming drama, and Velvi, who hadn't cursed for a long time, showed no mercy even when she was scolding Alicia herself.

After pausing for a moment to think, Mei Raiden quickly came to her senses. Although she was a little surprised why the Herrscher of Corrosion suddenly showed such a strange expression, after determining that she was her enemy, Mei Raiden would certainly not be shaken by such inexplicable things again.

She forced herself to ignore the look on Alicia's face, took a deep breath, and spoke in a calm voice, trying to lead the conversation again: "I admit that your acting skills are indeed impeccable. If I hadn't met you under such circumstances, perhaps I would have believed that you were indeed Alicia herself."

After frankly admitting that she really couldn't see through her opponent's true intentions, Mei Raiden didn't give Alicia a chance to speak. She changed the subject in a cold tone: "However, no matter how brilliant your acting skills are, you are not Alicia herself after all. What you do and the future you hope for can never be Alicia's own vision."

"Hmm... hehe..." In the active communication that Velvi had just made with her, Alicia already knew the picture that Velvi had shown to Raiden Mei, and of course she also knew what Raiden Mei was referring to at the moment. So after hearing Raiden Mei's assertion in an extremely firm tone, Alicia couldn't help but giggle a few times, but immediately stopped laughing, and then put on a fake helpless expression under Raiden Mei's twitching eyelids.

"Ah - ah - there's really nothing I can do about it." In a rather exaggerated voice, Alicia shook her head and sighed, then spread her hands, and her bright and flawless eyes blinked slightly: "I didn't expect that Alicia actually occupies such an important position in your heart, my dear Meiyi, you are too cute."

"..." The corners of Mei Raiden's mouth twitched for a moment. Although she still firmly believed that the Herrscher of Corrosion in front of her was definitely not the Alicia she knew, when she heard her words, Mei Raiden, who always felt as if she had experienced a similar thing not long ago, suddenly had a very bad premonition.

"Yeah, yeah, I know that in your heart, Alicia is special. You are angry for Alicia, and feel that Alicia's ending is unfair. You just hope that your good Alicia can have a better ending." Before Raiden Mei recalled the source of the sense of déjà vu, Alicia nodded to herself. Although it seemed that she wanted to put on a regretful expression, the corners of her mouth could not help but rise up, so that her expression looked extremely strange in Raiden Mei's eyes, "Oh my - this really makes me feel embarrassed from the bottom of my heart~"

"After all, I'm not the Alicia you know. All I can do is to recreate the relationship between you and Mei as best as possible based on the memories of Alicia and Mei's time together." At the end, Alicia was too lazy to put on a regretful expression. She smiled brightly, as if she remembered something very happy. "But don't worry! My dear Mei, Alicia's thoughts are my thoughts, Alicia's habits are my habits, Alicia's behaviors are my behaviors..."

"That's enough." Raiden Mei's face was grim, and she interrupted Alicia decisively. "The more you act like this, the more you remind me that you are not the Alicia I know. You try so hard to act like Alicia in front of me, and you emphasize the point that you are Alicia over and over again. You just want to use this method to defeat the only two things in Paradise that can threaten you."

"Oh?" Alicia tilted her head, "Really?"

"Hmph..." Raiden Mei sneered, "The memory of the Paradise of the Past cannot pose an effective threat to you. In this case, only I, who cannot be eroded by you because of the power of conquest... and the backdoor that Weierwei left in the Paradise of the Past, can effectively eliminate your existence. Am I right?"

"Hmmmm! That's exactly what happened."

“Tsk…” Although Mei Raiden had already made up her mind that no matter what the Herrscher of Corrosion in front of her did, she would never waver in the slightest, but seeing the Herrscher of Corrosion using Alicia’s face to make this expression as if coaxing a child, Mei Raiden still felt an unpleasant feeling of being despised, and couldn’t help but increase her tone again: “You defeated me with Thousand Tribulations’ data right away, trying to show me your overwhelming advantage in Paradise, and trying to take the lead in our conversation. I guess it’s because… in fact, you are not as invincible as you say.”

"Oh?" Alicia smiled, "Is that really the case?"

"You are the Herrscher of Corrosion, not the Alicia I know." Raiden Mei asserted softly, "As long as you are sure of this, it is not difficult to deduce these things. If you really have such an overwhelming advantage, then all you need to do is do to me again what you did to Qianjie once... defeat me and corrode me into your subordinate, instead of pretending to be friendly with me like you are now."

Mei Raiden paused for a moment, she placed her hands on her waist, clenched her fingers slightly, and reappeared the Herrscher's armor that had been shattered once, and then flashed out in front of Alicia at lightning speed -!

The blade of the katana drew a deadly trajectory in the air, and with a strike of thunder, it split the cabin where Alicia and Raiden Mei were riding into two parts from bottom to top.

In the shattered cockpit, the figures of the two girls separated, one above and one below, and in an instant they calmly stopped above the adjacent cockpit.

"Oh~" Alicia, who was standing on the upper side, put her palm on her forehead and looked at the cockpit that was cut open by Raiden Meiyi with some surprise, "Meiyi is obviously the Herrscher of Thunder, how can she do such a thing?"

"It's just that the paradise has been eroded by you, so the space is no longer as stable as before." Raiden Mei, who was standing on the other side, said coldly, "If I have to say it, I can do this thanks to you."

In the pitch-black night, the trajectory drawn by Raiden Mei's sword in the cockpit did not disappear, and the crystal blue data stream flowed slightly in the torn crack.

"I have always been curious about what Qianjie did to force you, who had been hiding all this time, to come out and face him in person." Raiden Mei said, "Although I had roughly guessed what Qianjie would do from his personality, now it seems that my guess is not much different from the truth. Since the paradise has been eroded by you and is gradually becoming a part of you, then, conversely, as long as you indiscriminately destroy the paradise itself, your power will of course be weakened as well."

"That's a very good guess. I praise you~" Alicia raised a finger, "But, there is one thing I need to remind Mei."

"Oh?" Raiden Mei raised her eyebrows.

Under the gaze of Raiden Mei, Alicia chuckled and snapped her fingers.

In an instant, the crack that Raiden Mei had just cut was suddenly covered by a layer of something like crystal.

As the crystal gradually cracked and shrank, the crack through which the data stream flowed disappeared without a trace, as if it had never appeared in the first place.

"It was originally a power that was obtained after the erosion. Although in terms of a single action, my power was indeed deprived of a part by your sword, Meiyi, don't forget that as the Herrscher of Erosion, I could always rely on the data in the paradise to increase my energy before I completely occupied this paradise." Alicia put on a teacher's expression and said seriously, "So, if we look at it from the perspective of [time], the power that Meiyi just weakened for me is not even as much as the power I gained during the time you slashed with the sword. The total amount of power has not decreased because of this."

"You want to remind me that physical combat has no effect on you, right?" said Raiden Mei.

"Well, you understand it quickly!" Alicia nodded, "You are worthy of being my good Mei!"

"..." Raiden Mei took a deep breath with a complicated expression.

Although she was wondering why the Ruler of Corrosion seemed to be teaching her how to defeat her, she originally thought that this might be another conspiracy of the Ruler of Corrosion.

But after thinking about this guy's continuous performance of Alicia, Raiden Mei suddenly reacted.

Could it be that... because this is what Alicia would do, the Herrscher of Erosion has to use this method to get closer to Alicia?

To be honest, when she first met Qianjie, the Herrscher of Corrosion had the opportunity to defeat her completely, but she didn't do so.

It seems that in order to perfectly imitate Alicia, the Herrscher of Corrosion must have been subject to quite severe restrictions.

When she thought of this, Mei Raiden felt uncomfortable again.

Although this might not be Alicia's original intention, even if the data has completely disappeared, Alicia is still secretly helping herself in her own way.

Then, I must not let these heroes down.

"Indeed, as you said, even if I weakened your power, the gap in power between us still hasn't narrowed." Maybe it was because she finally understood the behavior of the Herrscher of Corrosion. Knowing that because of Alicia's influence, she had to learn from Alicia during the battle and teach herself how to defeat her, Raiden Mei's tone was slightly relieved: "But at least at this moment, my goal has been achieved."

"Hmm? Does Mei have any other intentions?"

"Of course, you are not omniscient, nor invincible. Even if you eliminate the damage to the paradise space caused by the attack I just displayed, the impact of that attack... you can't completely stop it." Raiden Mei said, "Specifically, you can't stop others from noticing the changes in the paradise space caused by that attack. And now, those two spiritual perception fusion warriors in the paradise... who can be truly [omniscient] in a certain sense, of course, can't let go of this message, and now - the response has come."

In the distance, the pitch-black night scene was lit up with pure white light.

Chapter 4: Wei Weiwei is caught in the crossfire (k)

a few minutes ago.

"So, what I need to do next is to fight against Alicia together with Miss Mei?"

In the pure white space of consciousness, Ying asked Li Shubai with a somewhat embarrassed expression.

"If you are worried about Mei and Alicia's safety... then there is no need to worry." Li Shubai said, "Although Weiwei and Alicia have transformed the data space of Paradise to look like it has been eroded by the Herrscher of Corrosion, in fact, at least for now, for the sake of safety, we have not modified the underlying mechanism of Paradise."

"That is to say, even if you get injured during the battle... or even die, it won't be dangerous?" Sakura hesitated for a moment, "But, I don't think I can really do that to Alicia..."

"It's just acting, just pretend." Li Shubai spread his hands, "I know that because of the influence of the commandments, it's difficult for you to really show your hostility to Alicia... In fact, even if there were no commandments, you probably wouldn't be able to do it, after all, there are no poisonous pupae in the paradise. It was precisely because of this situation that I let Wei Weiwei, who should have left, continue to follow them quietly, so..."

Li Shubai pointed at the mask that Ying had taken out and put on his waist not long ago: "You only need to put it on and make as many cool poses as possible. As for the rest of the murderous intent and hostility, let Wei Wei use special effects to deal with it."

"This..." Ying glanced at the mask of the poisonous pupa, hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded: "I understand, I will try my best to complete the task."

Time goes back to the present, to the amusement park of eternal paradise.

Just strike a slightly cooler pose...that should be enough, right?

With this thought in mind, Sakura stood at the highest point of the Ferris wheel, her back to the full moon that was emitting a cold light. She tilted her face, which was covered with a poisonous pupa mask, slightly and turned towards the direction of Raiden Mei and Alicia, saying in a flat and cold tone: "Fortunately... I'm not late."

"Wow~" Alicia raised her hand excitedly, and waved to Sakura on the top of the Ferris wheel with the back of her hand facing inwards, "Sakura, your appearance is so cool! What is that white light? Can you teach me?"

"..." How should I respond to this? Can I say that I actually don't know what that is?

A few black lines appeared on Ying's forehead. She was speechless for a moment and finally decided to pretend that she couldn't see Alicia's antics.

"The last time, if we call it a fight, it's probably too far-fetched." She coughed and snorted, and said in a stiff tone: "So, let's start over, Invasion... Herrscher of Erosion!"

Although the tone was so blunt, when Mei Raiden thought of the miserable appearance she had shown not long ago, she thought that Sakura was just like her, and was also a little bit unrecovered from seeing the Herrscher of Corrosion's Alicia posture, so she didn't notice anything wrong.

"Be careful, Sakura!" Raiden Mei raised her voice slightly, "Not only in appearance, but her personality is also changing towards Alicia... For now, I can't tell whether this change is good or bad for us, but don't be confused by her."

"Uh..." Sakura was stunned for a long time when she saw Raiden Mei's bitter and vengeful expression. Then she silently turned her gaze to the innocent-looking Alicia and nodded. "I see. I have learned about most of the current situation through the data transferred by Su, but I still don't fully understand it."

"Data flow?" Raiden Mei's pupils slightly dilated, and her tone sank, "You mean, Su has also..."

"Now that things have come to this, we have no choice but to trust him." Ying nodded, "No matter what, he bears the title of [Sage]."

After the words were spoken, the atmosphere fell into silence again.

The cold wind was blowing in the night. Under the moonlight, the motionless Ferris wheel seemed to be coated with a layer of silver light and frost. The amusement cabin with the lights turned off reflected a sharp and clear metallic color. After the three people fell silent at the same time, the air nearby seemed to become a little colder.

The chill that penetrated their skin made both Alicia and Raiden Mei shiver slightly.

It was at this moment that the two Herrschers, who were more adept at frontal combat, experienced firsthand the difference between Sakura, the assassin, and them.

Whether it was the murderous intent that almost turned into substance and lowered the temperature of the air, or the faint smell of blood at the tip of their noses, they were all silently telling them that the [Poison Pupa] was making a comeback.

Of course, in reality, Sakura did not release anything like murderous intent or hostility. When real [Poison Pupa] members are performing their missions... they would not be stupid enough to let the target realize their murderous intent before the battle begins.

——She was just standing on the top of the Ferris wheel and doing nothing.

As for who caused the sudden coldness of the air and the smell of blood that appeared out of nowhere, it goes without saying.

"Why don't they make a move? How long are they going to stand there?" At the bottom of the Ferris wheel, Wei Wei, who was controlling the murderous atmosphere near the three people standing on the top of the cabin from a distance, quietly poked her head out of the dark cabin. She looked at the three people who were facing each other silently and yawned softly, "Hmm... I'm so tired. That captain is too bossy. Wow..."

At this moment, the steel pipe truss of the entire Ferris wheel suddenly shook violently, and the shaking cabin mercilessly threw Wei Weiwei, who had just stuck her head out, back into the pitch-black cabin.

Weiwei's petite figure was swallowed up in the darkness, just like being swallowed by a wild beast.

At the same moment when Weiwei was shaken to the point of dizziness, the three girls standing on top of the three cockpits attacked at the same time!

Mei Raiden moved from the bottom up, while Sakura moved from the top down. At the same time, the two of them, who were ready, clenched their swords in their hands and surrounded Alicia from above and below.

“Hey, wait! Wait!” Alicia looked around in panic. After hesitating for half a second, she realized that if she continued to stand there, she would probably be chopped into pieces by the two swords without mercy. Alicia made a determined expression, “Wuwuwuwu—you two actually surrounded a weak woman like me, you are too cunning! Too much! Really too much!”

She put her hands on her hips and puffed up her cheeks angrily, but her movements were not slow at all. Before the slash of Raiden Mei's cherry blossoms reached her body, Alicia lightly tapped her toes and jumped from the outside of the cabin to the circular truss outside the Ferris wheel with an elegant and extremely swift and flexible posture. Her hands covered with leather gloves and golden finger guards grasped a bow as gorgeous and brilliant as crystal.

While running on the steel support of the Ferris wheel, she turned around, raised the bow in her hand, and pulled it into a full circle in one breath. Then, she calmly launched a counterattack against Raiden Mei and Sakura who attacked her at the same time: "If you bully Miss Fairy like this, I will really cry."

As Alicia loosened the bowstring that was stretched to the limit, a trail of light emitting crystal clear light cut through the darkness and rushed towards the intersection of Sakura and Raiden Mei like a meteor.

The attack missed, and Mei Raiden and Sakura, who knew Alicia's true strength, were not surprised at all. The two of them, who met on the top of the cockpit where Alicia had just stood, exchanged glances briefly, and then nodded to each other.

The next moment, the two of them jumped away in opposite directions at the same time, avoiding the crystal arrows that Alicia shot at them. They also quickly found a foothold in the support of the Ferris wheel and moved in an arc-shaped trajectory to surround Alicia again.

Seeing Sakura and Raiden Mei chasing after her relentlessly and reaching the center bearing of the Ferris wheel first, Alicia pulled her bow again.

"Hey!" This time, three crystal arrows were released at the same time. Two of them locked onto the bodies of Raiden Mei and Sakura with incredible precision. The remaining one aimed at the gap between the two and flew into the void without aiming at anything.

In order to get close to Alicia's body as quickly as possible, neither Raiden Mei nor Sakura chose to dodge the oncoming arrow. Amidst two harsh sounds of metal clashing, Raiden Mei and Sakura each raised the katana in their hands, and the trajectory of the blade flashing in the air collided with the trajectory of the arrow without any surprise.

With the crisp sound of metal collision, the attacking crystal arrows were easily blocked by Raiden Mei and Sakura, and each of them changed its flight trajectory and flew out into the void where there was nothing to the side and rear.

But after knocking the two crystal arrows away, Alysia suddenly winked at the two people who blocked the two arrows: "Hide well, if you are not careful, you may really get hurt~"

Mei Raiden and Sakura were slightly startled, and then they both noticed the sudden light behind them.

Because there was no obstruction from Mei Raiden and Sakura, the crystal arrow that reached the target first quickly expanded and bloomed, and opened a flawless dome like a crystal flower on the upper side of the Ferris wheel, while the two arrows shot away by Sakura and Mei Raiden disappeared into the clear crystal plane a step slower.

“Miss Mei! Leave it to me!” The moment Sakura realized what Alicia had done, she suddenly stopped, turned around quickly, drew her sword, and attacked without reservation the pure white light that was folded by the crystal and split into raindrops: “—Disappear.”

The white light quickly permeated the nearby air, and in an instant, all the flying lights suddenly stopped.

After being forcibly deprived of the flow of time, the arrows that were originally flying at high speed were all frozen at this moment, suspended motionlessly in the air.

In an instant, a single strike of the sword destroys all things.

After freezing the space in front of her, Sakura poured all her strength into her sword without hesitation. The power of thunder from the Seven Thunders of Purification roared unscrupulously, controlling everything nearby in the blink of an eye.

All the arrows that were suspended in the air disintegrated and scattered, turning into harmless atoms that dissolved into the pitch-black air.

On the other side, Mei Raiden, who had received the instruction, ignored the light overflowing from behind her, and completely entrusted her back to Sakura. She further increased her speed, and then, in the surprised eyes of Alicia, she quickly shortened the distance between the two to the point where she could hit them with a katana.

Without any hesitation, the moment she arrived in front of Alicia, Raiden Mei mercilessly pointed the blade in her hand at Alicia's neck and flashed it out. The sound of the blade tearing through the air was extremely harsh.

But in the next second, accompanied by a rough sound of metal collision, the blade that tried to chop off Alicia's head was blocked by the bow handle in her hand that was as gorgeous as a flower.

“This bow is more than just pretty~” Ai Lishia playfully winked at Mei Raiden who was holding her bow handle with her sword, and suddenly let out an unexpected cry: “Ahhhhh——!?”

Although her first strike was blocked, Mei Raiden had no intention of stopping or putting away her sword. She turned around and slashed at Alicia's neck with the same posture for the second time, which was naturally blocked by her. Then the third strike followed.

The sword shadows, accompanied by dazzling lightning, poured down like a rainstorm. In just a few tenths of a second, Raiden Mei's sword and Alicia's bow had clashed with all their strength nearly a hundred times. Both sides were trying to overwhelm each other while touching each other.

For Herrschers, whose physical fitness and body structure are vastly different from those of ordinary humans, ordinary melee skills are no longer effective, and the essence of combat has returned to the simplest and crudest use of force to fight force. The continuous clash of weapons caused the steel beams wrapped with huge bearings under the feet of the two to twist at an extremely fast speed with a harsh sound, and the entire Ferris wheel was shaking, as if it was being pushed hard by an invisible giant.

Inside the cabin at the bottom of the Ferris wheel, the constant vibrations repeatedly caused Vivi to be thrown up from her seat and fall down. Vivi was so embarrassed that she had to cover the brim of her hat with both hands to prevent the magic hat from falling off uncontrollably.

She felt the continuous vibrations causing her butt to ache. A vein popped out on her forehead and she couldn't help but spit out Fang Fang's words: "...F**k, they did it on purpose! Beat me if they want! What are they trying to do by making such a big noise!"