K424 of the Collapse World

Facing Shirley's ultimatum, Fu Hua still had no reaction, maintaining her original fighting posture, lowering her head slightly, and not even looking at Shirley who was about to attack...

"Sorry, I spoke too much. Now that it has come to this, the winner must be decided in the end, right?"

The girl shook her head, and her blue eyes suddenly flashed with a purple light!

"Then I will..."

———! !

Without any warning, the church tower under Fu Hua's feet suddenly turned into powder! The impact caused the marble powder to fly up, emitting a series of circular silver-gray mists. Fu Hua's figure had disappeared on the spot. In Shiris's sight, the shattered tower below was covered with a layer of black curtain before it tilted, and then...

Bang————!

It was Fu Hua's fist, which had already landed on the girl's face. The distance of several dozen meters was crossed in an instant, and the terrifying recoil generated by the ground-stomping force even completely shattered the building under her feet, which was dispersed like light smoke and mist in the wind.

"Cun Jin·Open the Sky!"

This punch was heavier than any previous attack. Shilis's head suddenly tilted back, and her mind almost stagnated. She had no idea when Fu Hua came to her. Before the girl could come to her senses, the overwhelming fist shadows swept over! The continuous jabs that seemed to be exactly the same as the deadly force·splitting the sky, each of them had a terrifying power comparable to the previous one! Moreover, the speed was faster!

"Ugh... it's useless!!"

The energy barrier she instinctively built was shattered and disintegrated in the countless fist shadows in just a moment. The meteor-like jabs fell on her body again. Shilis gritted her teeth and filled her fists with energy. She swung forward at the same speed, trying her best to block the dense fist shadows! Miraculously, the girl actually threw a high-speed continuous punch that was enough to compete with Fu Hua in an instant! As a result, when the girl's defense was not completely disintegrated, her counterattack followed!

"It's over... Light Wings Unfold!"

The few tenths of a second gained in the fistfight were enough for the Wings of Light to burst out the terrifying energy contained in them. The light of ten thousand feet burst out from the crystal wings, and when it was spread across the sky, it changed direction with the girl's thoughts and shot out towards Fu Hua in front of her! Her figure was annihilated in these lights, and she was pushed by the beams to smash into the cathedral below. The strong light that competed with the sun and the moon soared into the sky, and everything covered by the light turned into nothingness! The headquarters of the Destiny in the illusion was directly penetrated by this blow. The remaining particle beams penetrated the floating island, crossed thousands of miles, and penetrated into the Mediterranean Sea below, shaking up huge waves

Being hit by such a terrifying attack, even Fu Hua in this state would not be able to withstand it, right?

Looking at the bright light below that never went out, Shilis's eyes relaxed and she breathed a sigh of relief. But the moment she relaxed, a crisp cracking sound came from behind her...

———Dang!

Purple crystal fragments flashed before my eyes, and the crystal wings used to launch beam attacks were completely destroyed.

Shattered! Shiris turned her head with great effort, looking at the red shadow that appeared behind her, her eyes wide open with disbelief, not understanding why Fu Hua, who had just been pushed into the abyss of light by the particle beam, could return to the battlefield unscathed...

(No... is it an afterimage?!)

Then, dense fist shadows attacked again! Shilis was about to fight it with the previous method, but she was horrified to find that this time, Fu Hua's fist shadows did not attack directly in front of her like before, but attacked from all directions at the same time! There was no room for any dodge, and there was no way to block it!

“Aaaaaah…!!”

Fu Hua's figure turned into countless afterimages, lingering around Shiris, splitting out even more countless jabs, like a 360-degree pile driver with no dead angles, surrounding the girl inside, and attacking every part of her skin...

Similar to Shilis's former Herrscher form, Fu Hua also has two energy-exploding fighting styles, namely "Mad Dragon" and "Thousand Stars". The former is to integrate all the energy into both fists, suppressing all enemies in front with almost unstoppable high-speed jabs. Fu Hua is currently unable to use the power of this state, and can only reproduce part of its power with the help of the Moon Wheel Armor; the latter is to evenly distribute the energy throughout the body, and while focusing on footwork, launch a series of attacks on a single enemy while moving at high speed. Although Fu Hua can still use this state normally, after losing the power, the power has been greatly reduced compared to before.

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Both are combo skills, but Crazy Dragon is a move to fight multiple enemies at once, while Thousand Stars is the opposite, it entangles a single enemy while moving to cause a devastating blow. The attack styles of these two moves are completely different, and they could never be used together, but in the "Fiery Wing" state, she has temporarily regained the lost power, and the accumulation of 50,000 years has returned to her body. For her now, any restrictions do not exist!

The fusion of Mad Dragon and Thousand Stars means that the Death Power and Sky Splitting's diffuse continuous punches that target groups of enemies can be concentrated on a single enemy! Combined with the high speed of the Thousand Stars state that is enough to generate afterimages, the increased power is not a little bit!

Fists attacked from all directions and landed on her body. In the increasing pain, Shilis felt as if she was thrown into a crusher or being bitten by countless poisonous insects. She was in the air, but she could not feel the slightest sense of falling. This could no longer be called a battle. It was a one-sided crushing. She could do nothing but endure the pain and struggle to support herself in the countless fist shadows surrounding her.

(It hurts... It hurts...! No matter what method I use, I must interrupt her attack immediately! Otherwise, if this continues...)

Shirley gritted her teeth, her eyes quietly turned golden, and her tattered clothes began to reconstruct in the golden light under the storm-like continuous attack. However, at the moment when the restraining force erupted, Shirley forcibly suppressed the impulse. The leaping golden light disappeared again, and round after round of jabs and heavy blows hit her again...

"Ahem...! Ugh! Don't..."

(No! I have already said that I will fight her in the illusion. If I take the initiative to break the illusion now, wouldn’t that mean I admit defeat? I can’t do that! But, besides this, is there any other way to break the deadlock...)

After the pain became numb, the girl's mind froze. She didn't know how many times Fu Hua had hit her, nor did she know how to break the current state of being beaten. She just continued to endure it, trying not to faint...

She suddenly wanted to cry. She had experienced countless battles, but had she ever felt so aggrieved?

Hillarys, who gradually gave up thinking, did not realize that Fu Hua's high-speed punch suddenly paused for a moment. Although she attacked again right after that, the force began to gradually weaken.

(Has this reached its limit? But, this level of attack is clearly not enough. There is nothing I can do. After all, I am not the "Red Kite" I once was...)

Fu Hua thought unwillingly, feeling Yu Duchen's rejection gradually increasing, she put down her hands helplessly, and countless afterimages disappeared in an instant.

Swah——

Suddenly, in Shirley's eyes, the constantly flying afterimages and the jabs in the sky suddenly disappeared. The girl stood there blankly, looking at the undamaged metal space around her, and her dull eyes turned to Fu Hua who was standing opposite her.

The broken ground and the burning Cathedral of Destiny seemed like a dream. Or rather, it was indeed a dream. Fu Hua used Yu Duchen's illusion to construct a dream in Shilis's spiritual world.

“Huh…?”

The girl tilted her head, and it took a long time for her to come back to her senses. Her sudden movement out of stillness naturally caught the eyes of the two people watching at the control console.

"Ha... Looks like it's over."

Otto smiled, stood up from the console and walked towards Shiris and Fu Hua.

"So, what was the outcome of the battle? Who was the winner?"

Looking at the girls standing on both sides, Otto had just finished speaking when Fu Hua suddenly swayed and then knelt on one knee, breathing heavily, her weak appearance could no longer be concealed.

“Huha…Huha…”

"Chi Yuan! Are you okay?"

Seeing this, Hill hurried down from the control console and tried to rush to Fu Hua. But her physical condition was not much better. She forced herself to stand up and almost twisted her ankle when she went down the stairs. However, she didn't care about these trivial matters at all. She staggered to Fu Hua and activated the minimum power of creation.

"Phew... Don't bother, Ciel. I just used up a lot of my mental energy, it's nothing serious."

Gently raising her hand to stop Hill from squeezing her strength, Fu Hua shook her head and looked at the silver-haired girl standing opposite her who was still silent, and sighed helplessly.

"You won, Shirley. In the Yu Duchen illusion where our powers were equal, I tried my best but failed to defeat you at the last moment. Although that move had not yet been fully unleashed, I had already exhausted all my strength. And you even held back a little bit, which is undoubtedly your victory."

"..."

"Huh...both your spiritual power and your true strength are much stronger than I thought. I admit my failure, Shilis. I will no longer interfere with your decisions, nor will I reveal your secrets."

"..."

"Siris?"

"Ugh..."

However, to Fu Hua's surprise, along with a slight sob, the silver-haired girl standing not far away suddenly trembled and lowered her head. From the angle where Fu Hua was half squatting, she could just see that the girl's watery blue eyes were full of grievances, and the mist was about to burst out of her eyes...

"Eh?"

"Woooo..."

She actually cried?

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"Woooo..."

The girl slowly raised her shaking hands and gently stroked her cheeks. But the place where she touched was smooth and tender, without the redness, swelling and scars she had imagined. Unlike in her memory, the Herrscher Spiritual Outfit on her body was not damaged at all. The gleaming black and gold dress was still so flawless, as if no attack could break its defense...

Before fighting with Fu Hua, the girl also firmly believed this.

"Siris?"

"Woooaa! Mud...don't come over here!"

When the girl heard Fu Hua's second call, she was startled and collapsed to the ground, holding her head with her hands, trembling and curled up into a ball.

After leaving the illusion, although all the pain in her body disappeared, those tormenting memories still lingered in her mind, and every time she recalled them, she was accompanied by a chilling fear.

The memory of countless fists and the excruciating pain that came like a tide had shattered all the confidence that the girl had built up in the past. Especially the pain, which had replaced the experience in the Helheim laboratory and became the girl's new nightmare...

Even in the Serenity Gem Fusion Experiment, when she was subjected to a spinal puncture with electrodes without anesthesia, it did not hurt her, she just felt uncomfortable and nauseous. But when she was hit by Fu Hua's fist, she felt an unbearable pain!

When she saw the culprit who caused all this, the fear in her heart was suddenly magnified infinitely. After the overreaction, even Shilis herself was a little dazed. The battle was obviously over, but why did she lose her composure like this?

Seeing this, Fu Hua reluctantly forced herself to stand up and spread her hands towards the girl to show that she had no hostility.

"Shiris, calm down, the competition is over, and you won."

Hearing Fu Hua's gentle voice that she could slow down, the girl raised her head hesitantly. But when she saw Fu Hua's hands, her pupils shrank sharply, and the scenes of being beaten by these fists reappeared in her mind...

"Woo woo... Ni Zou Kai! Don't come over here... Stay away from the nest!"

Sitting on the ground and moving backwards, the girl folded her hands in front of her chest, with a look of fear and strong vigilance in her eyes, staring at Fu Hua, who had a complicated expression not far away, and the corners of her dress began to move without wind. Obviously, the Honkai energy fluctuations had been released instinctively.

Looking at Shirley's abnormal reaction, Hill and Fu Hua looked at each other, and even Otto showed a surprised expression, and his understanding of the girl was refreshed again.

"Hey! Chi Yuan, what did you do to her?"

Looking at the shivering silver-haired girl huddled in the corner, Hill finally came back to his senses and questioned Fu Hua beside him in confusion. Hill had known Xi Lisi for many years, but she had never seen this girl look so embarrassed. She couldn't help wondering what Miss Chi Yuan had done to her to turn the once mature and reliable Miss Xi Lisi into a person on the verge of collapse...

"Uh... I didn't do anything. I was just fighting normally in the illusion.

Before, she was in very normal condition..."

Fu Hua was also completely confused, and looking at the silver-haired girl who was already crying, she was at a loss as to what to do.

"This, this, what should I do... I never thought that something like this would happen. Shirley, cheer up. Although Yu Duchen's illusion is indistinguishable from reality, they are indeed just illusions. My attack did not cause any harm to you at all..."

“But it will hurt!”

"Eh? So Yu Duchen's illusion is extremely realistic. When the illusion is attacked, there will naturally be corresponding pain. Is there any problem with this? When we fight normally, don't we also feel pain when we get injured?"

Fu Hua looked confused, still not knowing what the girl was afraid of. But Xi'er next to her thought for a moment, and a flash of realization flashed in his eyes.

"That... Chi Yuan, don't you know? Shilis's body has no sense of pain. She used Honkai energy to transform her afferent nervous system. When she was hurt in reality, she didn't feel the pain like we do... Could it be that you 'endowed' her with the sense of pain in the illusion and then beat her up?"

"Forehead......"

Fu Hua froze in her tracks when she heard Hill's strange voice. The strange incoordination during the battle was instantly explained. The girl had a lot of combat experience, but when she was attacked, she became obviously stiff, which only amateurs would have. Her desire to attack also gradually decreased during the battle. She was full of energy in close combat at the beginning, but ended up just defending... Was it all caused by the sudden return of pain?

The rules of Yu Duchen's illusion depend on Fu Hua's own understanding of reality. In her opinion, "being hit will hurt" is a matter of course. Therefore, when constructing the illusion, these feelings of pain are also given to the girl.

"So, the reason why she cried like this could be..."

"It hurts. Sigh... I really don't understand what you did to scare her like this."

Answering Fu Hua's question in silence, Hill slowly stood up and walked towards the girl in the corner. Knowing the reason why she became like this, Hill's worried expression disappeared. She felt distressed and wanted to laugh at Shilis. The girl who had never felt pain in battle was suddenly treated so "miserably", which was really hard for her.

When he got close to the girl, he felt the strong Houkai energy fluctuations, which were enough to turn ordinary people into dead soldiers. Hill couldn't help but sigh and raised his hand to gently place it on the girl's head.

"Okay, baby~ It's okay now, the pain is gone~"

“Wow… Is that Ciel? Please don’t use that tone of voice that you use to comfort a child. I’m fine. Wow… I’m sorry for making you see me in such an embarrassing state…”

"In my eyes, you are just a child. Pfft...cough cough, you can actually cry because of the pain, and you still dare to say that you are not a child?"

He held the girl in his arms, and said with a smile, continuing to stroke her head. However, Shirley did not see the smile that Shirley was trying to suppress.

"Oh... stop talking, it's really embarrassing..."

Under Hill's gentle comfort, the confused girl gradually calmed down, snuggling in Hill's arms, her cheeks slightly flushed. Seeing that Shirley's condition had finally stabilized, Fu Hua also breathed a sigh of relief and walked over here.

"Siris."

"Eh! Ugh... cough cough."

The girl shuddered and almost ran away again. However, she finally stabilized her fluctuating emotions, suppressed the strange and strong fear in her heart, raised her head and looked at Fu Hua. Because her legs were still shaking, she did not leave Hill's arms.

"Fu...you, you won't hit me again, right?"

"Don't worry, I won't. The mock battle is over, why would I want to hit you? Besides, in my current state, an attack in reality can't even break your defense, and it won't hurt to hit you here, right?"

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Looking at the still frightened girl with a helpless expression, Fu Hua shook her head and her eyes suddenly became serious.

"Siris, although this is your victory in terms of the result, you should have noticed your weakness, right?"

"Eh...what?"

"You are very poorly adapted to pain."

Recalling the girl's performance in the battle, Fu Hua nodded secretly, took out his square-framed glasses from his suit pocket and put them on, his expression becoming more serious.

If k423 were here, he would definitely know that the squad leader has entered the preaching mode.

"I'm afraid that my previous attacks were already unbearable for you. But you still managed to endure it with your fortitude, which shows that your willpower is quite strong. However, your low resistance to pain will be your biggest weakness!"

"But, but I don't feel pain in reality...

"

"That being said, you don't want to fight the Herrscher of the End? How can you guarantee that the Herrscher of the End doesn't have mental attack methods similar to mine? If she pulls your mind into a space where the pain is intensified, she can easily defeat you! Do you still think that you have the power to fight the Herrscher of the End?"

Fu Hua continued to speak seriously, looking at the girl who lowered her head slightly. She was about to use this opportunity to persuade her again to give up the idea of ​​fighting alone, but she saw the girl suddenly raised her head and stared at her with resentful eyes.

"If the Herrscher of the End dares to cast an illusion on me, I will use the power of restraint to tear the world she has constructed into pieces!"

"Eh......?"