The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

Chapter 4 Raiden Mei is increasingly blaming herself (k)

Although it stands to reason that, with the keen perception of the three women who were showing off their abilities at the center of the Ferris wheel, if they were in a combat state where all five senses were raised to the limit, they would be able to easily detect even the slightest movement within a few kilometers.

But it was obvious that they were limited to the interior of the paradise of the past. Vilvi, who held the Key of Corrosion and could use the power of Corrosion to modify the data of the paradise at will, and had also alienated the data of herself and the surrounding space to a state of almost complete transparency, was not within their perception.

Therefore, no one was destined to hear the angry curses of Weiwei as she was tossed around in the Ferris wheel cabin.

Brilliant bursts of lightning and deafening sounds of metal collisions continued to erupt in the center of the Ferris wheel. Raiden Mei had a cold face and sharp eyes, and she continuously struck Alicia with blows that were enough to kill her instantly.

But just as she continued to release blade slashes like a rainstorm without any gaps, in Raiden Mei's field of vision, for just a moment, Alizarinia's body suddenly became blurred, just like the picture displayed on a monitor with noise due to unstable signal or current.

At the same time, the sword in Mei Raiden's hand pierced through Alicia's blurred body without any hindrance, but Mei Raiden's expression did not improve at all because of the successful attack. Instead, it became more solemn and cold.

It doesn't feel right.

Although she did cut Alicia's body in half, Mei Raiden had no real sense of having hit anything. Instead, she almost dislocated her shoulder because the blow, which was infused with all her strength, missed. It was like when she was about to go down the stairs and thought she had reached the ground but missed a step and almost fell down on the spot.

In less than half a second, Mei Raiden quickly adjusted her shoulders and arms that had become disordered due to the wrong use of strength, but in less than half a second, an unknown impact suddenly exploded on her right shoulder! Her right arm, which had just adjusted its strength, fell into a state of temporary paralysis due to the unexpected attack, and her body also lost balance and plunged diagonally downward.

Mei Raiden frowned slightly, but was not at all panicked by the sudden situation. She didn't need to look back to guess that Alicia had used some means that she couldn't understand for the time being to suddenly do something similar to space transfer. It was precisely because she knew this that Mei Raiden knew that she must not give Alicia the chance to chase her and did not choose to look back immediately. Instead, she did not even look behind her and further increased her speed as she fell.

Sakura did not disappoint Raiden Mei's expectations. At the same moment when Raiden Mei quickly adjusted her direction, she used the power of the Instantaneous Sword and the Seven Thunders of Purification to dissolve the indiscriminate rain of arrows released by Alicia's Flawless Dome. Then she arrived at the center of the Ferris wheel where Raiden Mei and Alicia had just fought each other.

From a perspective that Mei Raiden couldn't see, Sakura and Alicia looked at each other and nodded slightly to each other.

"I'm sorry." Sakura gave a gentle warning in a voice that Mei Raiden couldn't hear, then picked up the Seven Thunders of Purification in her hand and stabbed them in a straight line towards Alicia's forehead.

Just as Sakura and Alicia were engaging in close combat, Raiden Mei, who was about to fall to the bottom of the Ferris wheel, suddenly raised her empty left hand upwards, grabbed the steel pipe that was standing horizontally between two supports, adjusted her direction according to the force of the fall, and then turned her body around in mid-air.

Wei Liwei covered her mouth and looked at the figure that flashed past above the amusement cabin, and the corner of her eye twitched slightly.

It was at this time, after readjusting her posture, above the bearing that had long been deformed beyond recognition, that Mei Raiden saw from a third-party perspective what Alicia had done to her in that instant.

Whether it's Sakura who bears the Mark of Moment, or Raiden Mei who is the Herrscher of Thunder, their expertise is speed. Sakura's speed is second to none even among the Thirteen Heroes, and Raiden Mei is the fastest among all the Herrschers.

Similarly, as warriors who specialize in speed, both Raiden Mei and Sakura possess extremely sharp perception abilities...even to a certain extent, they are comparable to the super-strong perception abilities of psychic perception fusion warriors.

But even they, whether it was Sakura who was fighting Alicia in close combat, or Raiden Mei who was observing the fight between the two from a third-party perspective... they could not see the trajectory of Alicia's movements at all.

To put it in a metaphor, if they were characters in a film or TV show, then Alicia would be the editor outside of the film or TV show.

The instant disappearance and instant reappearance was even more extraordinary than the space transfer used by the Herrscher of the Void that Mei Raiden knew.

The difference in power between Alicia and Sakura was already quite obvious. Even if Alicia had not used the power of erosion, Sakura would never be her opponent. In Raiden Mei's eyes, the reason why Sakura and the Herrscher of Erosion were able to deal with each other for a short time was not because she suddenly burst out with a stronger power than before, but simply because the Herrscher of Erosion was playing with its prey.

Despite this, Mei Raiden did not immediately choose to join the battle above. She had a sharp look on her face, her pupils moved slightly downward, and she stared calmly at the Herrscher weapon in her hand.

Although her appearance did not change, at that moment, Raiden Mei suddenly felt that her Key of Heaven's Strike... seemed to have undergone some unknown changes.

She knows her weapon very well. As a Herrscher's weapon, it is also a concrete manifestation of the power of thunder. The Key of Heaven's Strike certainly also has the power to release the power of thunder.

But even so... there is no way this weapon could have a Herrscher Core.

In other words, right after she was knocked away by the Herrscher of Corrosion, did someone replace her weapon with the Seven Thunders of Purification in Sakura's hand? After pondering for a moment, Raiden Mei quickly found the answer.

Is it the Wheel of Karma used by Su?

According to Su's description, the Wheel of Karma is an ability to reverse the enemy's attacks within his domain and use this force to strike back at the enemy.

And if this ability is used on teammates, then Su Ye can of course replace the Seven Thunders of Purification in Sakura's hand with her Key of Heavenly Strike.

Although she guessed the cause of the sudden change in her Herrscher's armor, Mei Raiden suddenly stopped rushing towards the battlefield between Sakura and Alicia, and instead took advantage of this brief gap to think at an extremely fast speed.

Since Su can already use the Wheel of Karma to exchange her and Sakura's weapons, it also means that the surrounding area has been successfully enveloped by the spiritual field opened up by Su.

Seeing how Sakura didn't waver at all and continued to deal with Alicia while holding the Key of Heaven's Strike which looked like the Seven Thunders of Purification, she should have expected all this.

...Of course, Sakura can also see what I can see.

She certainly understood that neither she nor herself was a match for the Ruler of Corrosion.

So... she gave herself the only means to actually cause harm to the Ruler of Corrosion.

Mei Raiden stood on the iron pipe that stood horizontally between the supports, holding the hilt of the knife tightly in her hand, with a stern expression, watching Sakura and Alicia's movements without missing any details, and quietly injecting her own power into the Seven Thunders of Purification.

From the moment the weapon in her hand was replaced by the Key of Judgment, Raiden Mei had already understood Sakura's intention.

If Alishia, who uses the power of erosion, has no flaws, then let Sakura create the flaws.

In order to take advantage of the gap created by Sakura, the moment Alicia reveals a flaw, he must seize that opportunity and strike a blow that is enough to break the stalemate and decide the outcome.

One second...the sword in Sakura's hand and the blurry shadow of Alicia crossed each other again.

Three seconds... Alicia's body flashed to Sakura's side and pulled the bow handle with ease. At the same time, Sakura was suddenly surrounded by crystal arrows that appeared out of thin air.

Three and a half seconds... The Key of Heavenly Strike, which had the appearance of the Seven Thunders of Purification, instantly flashed a dazzling arc of electricity. The bright lightning not only helped to repel all the crystal arrows, but also made Alicia's eyes narrow slightly.

Four seconds——

moment.

At the moment when Alicia narrowed her eyes slightly.

The boundless white light swallowed up the entire Ferris wheel in an instant.

The night breeze, the flow of time, and Alicia who was about to open her eyes again, were all brought into a brief but absolute [stagnation] by Sakura's special skill.

In an instant, a sword is slashed, and all things are in darkness, unfolding!

“——!?” In the boundless white light, Alicia suddenly widened her eyes.

at the same time.

During that brief [stagnation time], Raiden Mei's body instantly appeared behind Alicia at a speed almost as fast as moving through space.

Then, no surprises occurred.

Alicia had no time to react, and her body was completely cut in half by Raiden Mei's attack that fully released the Seven Thunders of Purification.

Got it!

Along with the piercing sound of thunder, Raiden Mei, who had completely released the dual power of thunder, felt the real feeling of the sword cutting into her flesh transmitted from the hilt to her palm, and just revealed a look of joy -

"Ah, great! You finally managed to chop me~"

——Her expression froze again the next moment because of the pleasant voice that suddenly sounded in her ears.

"Mei has finally grown to where she is today. That means the training that everyone gave you in Paradise was very effective. You can be happier~" Alicia smiled and touched the head of Raiden Mei who was standing there in a daze. Her words of praise were filled with joy from the bottom of her heart.

How is it possible? Seeing Alicia clapping her hands as if she was oblivious to the fact that she should have been chopped in half, and even happily raising her palm and touching her head as if it wasn't her who had just chopped her in half, Mei Raiden felt an indescribable chill rising uncontrollably from the depths of her heart up her spine, and she couldn't even organize any effective resistance to Alicia's head-patting killing move at the first moment.

"…Is that the end?" Sakura sighed.

Hearing this sigh, Raiden Mei suddenly came back to her senses.

She shifted her gaze to the cold-faced Ying, her pupils slightly dilated: "Ying...your body?!"

"Hmm..." Ying raised her right arm, which was gradually covered with a thick pink mist, and said calmly, "It seems that although the instantaneous slash of the sword just now successfully cut the opponent, it also made my body come into contact with the opponent. After all, it was still a little short. After all, we are facing the Herrscher of Corrosion, and this level of sacrifice is inevitable."

"..." Looking at the pink mist that quickly spread from her arm to half of Sakura's body in the few seconds of their conversation, Raiden Mei opened her mouth, lowered her face, and apologized in an extremely painful voice that was about to cry: "I'm... I'm sorry, Sakura."

Apart from sorry, Mei Raiden could not say anything else.

It's my own fault.

Sakura had done her best to do the best she could, but she...had let it all go to waste.

She successfully created an opportunity to deliver a full-strength attack to the Herrscher of Corrosion, but because of her own weakness, the gap created by Sakura slipped away.

The victory that was within reach...was completely shattered because he failed to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a surprise attack.

What Mei Raiden, who was completely immersed in self-blame and pain and lowered her head, failed to see was that looking at Mei Raiden's painful and self-blaming expression, Alicia and Sakura secretly glanced at each other, saw extremely embarrassed expressions in each other's eyes, and then quickly looked away.

"It's okay..." Sakura suppressed her guilt towards Raiden Mei and kept her tone as calm as possible. "When I learned about this plan, I also felt that one of the steps was unnecessary, but judging from the results... the development of the situation was not beyond his control."

"Huh?" Sakura's unexpected words made Raiden Mei, who was in a state of self-blame, shudder all over and quickly raised her head.

Then, light appeared before her eyes.

"Visitor, you have done very well."

A warm and soft tone suddenly rang in my ears.

“Sumeru Mustard Seed——!”

In an instant, Raiden Mei's body was completely engulfed by the light that appeared out of nowhere.

Watching Raiden Mei disappear before their eyes, neither Alicia nor Sakura was surprised. They wiped the cold sweat from their foreheads, looked at each other again, both breathed a sigh of relief, and a look of relief flashed in their eyes at the same time.

Chapter 4 Pre-performance (k)

The next moment, Raiden Mei's body was completely engulfed by the pure white light that appeared out of nowhere.

"Hurry up, Mei Raiden will be back soon, and all the actors are ready!"

Accompanied by a somewhat hurried shout, Li Shubai appeared beside Alicia and Ying, leading the memories of all the heroes that he had successfully transferred to the outside.

“Ah, hey, don’t be so anxious!” The memory of Alicia, who had already changed into the Herrscher of Man dress, carefully observed her flawless white cheeks with a small mirror and pouted slightly. “Without Eden to help me dress up, I can’t guarantee that my makeup will be exactly the same as at the ball!”

A little trivia.

Different from the Herrscher armors possessed by the Herrschers of the current civilized era, although she calls herself the Herrscher of Man, Alicia actually does not know what her true power is. The beautiful and pure dress she wears is not armor for combat.

So... without Eden's help, in order to put on this dress that looked and was actually difficult to wear, Alicia's memory really consumed a lot of energy, so much so that she didn't even have enough time to put on makeup on her face.

Li Shubai glanced at the memory of Alicia who was carefully applying foundation to herself, and said casually: "It doesn't matter, you look good without makeup. Meiyi is not the kind of girl who particularly likes to wear makeup, so it is unlikely that you can tell."

Alicia's face turned slightly red.

"Oh, is this a question of whether Mei can see it or not?" Unlike her original body, after hearing Li Shubai's praise, Alicia's memory rolled her eyes at Li Shubai. "It's the last dance, of course I want to appear in front of her in the most perfect posture possible. Captain, you underestimate the delicate heart of a girl."

Ok?

Alicia frowned.

captain?

"...I'm sorry that I'm a straight man who doesn't know how to put on makeup." Li Shubai sighed, "Forget it, let's not talk about this for now, where's Wei Erwei?"

“Here it is…” Wei Wei collapsed on the mini flying machine that expanded from the magic hat, rubbing her dizzy head as she staggered in front of the people. She said from the bottom of her heart, “It seems that if I have the chance in the future, I have to find a way to separate myself from the personality of a photographer… This job is really not something that humans can do.”

"...Who are you?" Li Shubai glanced at Wei Erwei who looked like an idle fish, and for a moment he couldn't tell which personality this was.

"Conductor." Wei Erwei answered Li Shubai's question concisely, and then yawned. "This kind of work should obviously be done by engineers and experts, but it seems that they have overused the divine key you gave them, and are now snoring in the depths of their consciousness. No matter how I call them, they don't respond... Baiwei, the scholar, and Benwo are not suitable for this kind of work. There is no other way, so I have to come out to take over..."

"...Thank you for your hard work." Li Shubai said from the bottom of his heart.

"I can't help it. This is the promise I made to her." Oh my, my - Weiwei made a helpless sound while turning her face slightly, and took a look at Alicia's body and memory with a smile on her face. "Although it is really hard, it feels good. Speaking of which..."

Halfway through her speech, Weiwei suddenly shifted her gaze to the unhappy Mobius and Qianjie whose face was completely covered by a mask so that no expression could be seen. She then glanced at Kevin who had no expression on his face, and the corners of her mouth rose slightly with joy: "It's okay for Eden and Aponia, but I didn't expect that even Kevin, Qianjie and Mobius were convinced by you? That means that next, there should be no need to waste effort to use Yu Duchen to imitate their images? How did you convince them?"

Li Shubai shrugged and smiled silently.

"Okay, okay, I won't force you to do anything if you don't want to satisfy my curiosity." Wei Erwei spread her hands, then took a deep breath, and suddenly stood up straight from her slumped body on the aircraft. She put her hands on her hips and said in an imposing manner: "Since you all appeared here, you should have learned about your next mission from Captain Li Shubai, right? Let's not talk about others for now, Qianjie, you..."

“Humph.” Qianjie snorted coldly and interrupted Wei Wei’s words without mercy: “It’s just a few lines to that Herrscher. I’m not so weak that I can’t accomplish something of this magnitude.”

"Oh, you look impressive. I'll believe you then~" Wei Wei smiled. "So what's next, Kosmo?"

"...I can't help it." Kosmo sighed. He turned his head slightly downward and looked at the girl who was as pure and flawless as a blank sheet of paper beside him. "Since Grayshu is willing to cooperate with you, then I naturally have no objection."

"Hmm? Kosmo, didn't we say that we should all stay together and encourage Mei-nee?" Grayshu tilted her face and said as a matter of course in her childish voice: "If Mei-nee is in trouble, I would also like to lend her my strength."

"..."

"..."

After hearing Grayshu's innocent words, everyone, including the two Alicias, fell silent at the same time, feeling somewhat guilty.

Well, is there a possibility that, for Mei, they are the so-called difficulties?

The heroes looked at each other, and in order to prevent the kind and pure Grayshu from being polluted, everyone decided to turn the page on this somewhat unpleasant topic.

"Ahem." Wei Erwei cleared her throat, drawing everyone's attention to herself, then raised her arms and clapped her hands, "Alright, alright, then I'll assign you your respective tasks. Kevin, Qianjie, the two of you, before Mei comes out from Su's place, work with me to find a way to clean up the scene of the paradise on the premise without affecting Xumi Mustard Seed as much as possible."

"Got it." Kevin nodded and said in a flat tone.

"Ha." Qianjie sneered disdainfully, "I am enough to handle this kind of thing by myself."

Wei Wei ignored Qian Jie's arrogant words and turned to look at Kosmo: "Kosmo, and little Grayshu, after Qian Jie and Kevin have cleared the scene in Paradise, the two of you and Alicia... I mean the living one, work together to rearrange the blank Paradise space. If necessary, I will pull out the engineers to help you."

"I understand." Kosmo nodded.

"Oh, great!" Grayshu suddenly waved her arms, looking very excited for some reason. "You can paint anywhere, right?"