K424 of the Collapse World

"Since you can observe everything in the world, you should know what I plan to do. Anyway, you have already made up your mind to be hostile to us. No matter what solution I come up with, I'm afraid you won't agree with it, right?"

"..."

"My decision is not wrong, of course, yours is the same, but both of us have reasons that we cannot give in. In this case, besides fighting to the death, do we have any other choice? Farewell, the final Herrscher, when the end comes, I will defeat you..."

Shilis let go of her hand and stopped paying attention to the woman, letting her fall from the sky. She was restrained by the power of restraint and could not stay aloft, so she fell directly into the bottom of the building, splashing a small cloud of dust.

The words that needed to be said had been said, and there was no need for Shilis to continue wasting time with the Herrscher of the End. If he just threw her down like this, she would surely understand what he meant. Since she had already lost, she should just leave the stage and let this farce end. This would be a perfect ending. Otherwise, Shilis wouldn't mind giving her another thorn.

"Even if this is the end... It was quite a commotion, to the point of completely demolishing the Oceania branch's research institute. But then again, the battle between Herrschers only destroyed a small research institute, which is a miracle."

In the final analysis, it was only because of the special situation of the Herrscher of Restraint. If it was a Herrscher of Thunder or Fire, the energy impact caused by the confrontation between the two sides would probably be enough to sink the entire New Zealand.

"Then what happens next..."

Shiris turned her head and saw Wendy, far away from the battlefield, floating in the sky on the other side. At this moment, her body was no longer overflowing with uncontrolled Honkai energy, and her eyes, which had been constantly disintegrating and gathering, had completely stabilized and turned into slightly shining blue diamonds, but her eyes were clear. The Herrscher energy that had been running wild and lingering around her turned into a gorgeous green dress in the Herrscher's instinct. Her arms and bare legs were also wrapped in decorative pure white bandages. With such a posture, there was no need to say more about Wendy's current state.

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"I......"

Staring blankly at her bandaged hands, Wendy's face showed a trace of confusion and worry, as well as relief for having survived. The moment she saw Shirley defeat her opponent, the strange energy that was gradually eroding her mind also disappeared. Wendy was completely relieved and then noticed the changes in herself.

“What… is this…?”

The fierce wind that almost swallowed her up just now was now like a docile kitten, completely under her control. When manipulating energy, she no longer felt the original sense of obstruction, and every wisp of wind seemed to have become her palm, which she could control at will.

This feeling of being reborn made Wendy feel as if the whole world had become light and airy. She even felt that her wind could drag the entire planet! While she was distracted, Wendy didn't even notice that a silver-haired girl had come to her side.

"Are you alright already, Wendy?"

"—!"

The soft voice that suddenly sounded in her ears made Wendy shiver from head to toe. She ran away from Shirley like a frightened kitten, bringing with her a gust of violent wind. In a flash, she had flashed to the other side.

"Eh......?"

Shirley stood there, her hair and clothes swaying rapidly in the strong wind. Just now, she only saw a green shadow passing through the space, and Wendy disappeared in front of her and appeared in another airspace dozens of meters away.

"You're amazing! Wendy, this speed...even my dynamic vision can't keep up! Excluding the Herrscher of the Void, if we only talk about speed, you should be the strongest among all the Herrschers!"

Shirley admired sincerely, thinking that she had only scared Wendy who was lost in thought. However, when she was about to approach the girl again, Wendy's terrified scream reached her ears.

"No! Lady Shilis, please don't come near me!"

At this moment, she suddenly remembered that she had hurt the silver-haired girl twice in a row. Fell from heaven to hell in an instant, Wendy hugged her head, looking painfully at the silver-haired girl with a puzzled expression, her eyes full of regret.

"I... I hurt you! I didn't want to hurt you at all, but my body was out of control... Please, don't come near me! Lady Shilis..."

Wendy covered her face with her hands, the wind around her became chaotic, and her body trembled uncontrollably. In her eyes, she had lost the qualification to stay with her. Whether it was intentional or unintentional, the moment she hurt this benefactor, she could no longer forgive herself.

I really want to snuggle in her arms like I used to... But what if I hurt Lady Shilis again...

Even though her mind was in chaos, the Honkai energy in Wendy's body only fluctuated slightly, but she was not out of control.

Seeing this scene, surprise flashed across Shirley's eyes, and then a smile appeared on the girl's face.

"Calm down, Wendy, everything is fine now. Your situation just now was just..."

"My lady, Sirius! I have become a Herrscher, right? That's why I attack you indiscriminately... While I am still conscious, please...!"

"Take a deep breath, Wendy. You have indeed become a Herrscher, but before that, feel carefully whether the Honkai energy in your body obeys your command."

Shirley said in a deep voice, and then she stopped talking and stared at Wendy who was not far away. Gradually, the girl calmed down a little, tried the method Shirley said, and a hint of surprise appeared in her eyes.

"Well... I can control it completely, but I just put you..."

"That was just some kind of external interference. Now I have solved it, and that situation will never happen again. Congratulations, Wendy. In this out-of-control Honkai energy, you unexpectedly mastered your true ability. Now you are indeed a 'pseudo-herrscher' like me!"

Using Honkai energy to keep herself afloat, Shilis slowly flew towards the girl on the other side. But on the other side, even after hearing what Shilis said, Wendy still looked a little hesitant.

"Stop... Please, Lady Silis, I'm afraid I will..."

"No, Wendy, believe in yourself, you won't hurt me, right?"

"But......"

"Besides, you can't hurt me... My power can restrain any Herrscher. I will never lose in a battle with my own kind. Don't resist your own power, Wendy. You have mastered it perfectly."

“Mmm… wuwu…”

Gently holding Wendy's hand, Shirley stroked the girl's cheek and wiped away the tears that slid down her face. Feeling the warmth of Shirley's palm, Wendy no longer resisted her heart, hugged Shirley tightly back, and sobbed softly.

Although being controlled by the Herrscher of the End caused a lot of trouble, the girl's talent completely exceeded Shirley's expectations. The moment she was freed from external control, she completely mastered her own abilities. In addition, the girl's kind and gentle nature also matched Shirley very well.

Such a good girl, in the development trajectory of the original work, was actually forced to become a self-degrading crazy Herrscher. Shiris could not imagine how this girl would be treated later if she did not interfere and let the matter develop on its own, and why she became so twisted...

"Your mission in the Oceania branch has come to an end, Wendy. Next, according to the order of the Destiny Organization, we should return to Saint Freya together. But rather than an order, I want to know, from your own perspective, whether you are willing to travel with me, a Herrscher?"

"Yes! Of course I am willing! Wendy... is she the same as Lady Shilis, right? If possible, please let me stay by your side!"

The girl's decisive answer was exactly what Shiris expected, and she nodded in satisfaction. In this way, Wendy's question came to an end.

The next moment, the silver-haired girl slowly turned her gaze and looked towards the blurry figure at the bottom of the airspace.

"Excuse me, is there anything else you can do for me...? The Herrscher of the End."

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Within Shiris's sight, in the ruins of the empty bottom floor of the building, the clone of the Herrscher of the End that she had just thrown down did not dissipate on its own as the girl had expected.

She did not release the restraint of the energy, so all the power of this clone remained suppressed. Because of the fall just now, her body, which had lost the protection of Honkai energy, was left with some scars, and her clothes, which were covered with dust, became a little torn. However, she did not care about her miserable condition at the moment, but just raised her head and looked at Shilis and Wendy in the sky with a sharp gaze.

"Now that things have come to this, what are you planning to do by staying in that body? Do you have something to say, or do you want me to personally send you off?"

"Nothing, I just want to stay and watch a good show."

As Shirley asked again, the woman shook her head, and her cold voice echoed in the huge empty space. She struggled to sit up, and she looked calm and composed, as if she was the winner of this battle.

"At this distance, you should be able to sense it, right? Something is approaching here at high speed... Well, this kind of weapon that uses fission reaction to generate high energy should be the strongest attack of human civilization at this stage, right?"

"What did you say?!"

Hearing the next words of the Herrscher of the End, Shiris opened her eyes wide suddenly. Without time to comfort the uneasy Wendy, she hurriedly expanded her perception to the limit to capture any high-energy reactions within a radius of hundreds of kilometers.

(The laboratory's Houkai furnace, the chemical plant in the distance, the power station on the other side of the river... and so on!

This is......?)

Filtering the energy sources she sensed one by one, Shirley carefully checked for dangerous reactions within her perception range. Just when the girl thought that the Herrscher of the End was deceiving her, a substance suddenly broke into her perception field, causing Shirley's eyes to suddenly become solemn!

"This reaction... nuclear weapons?! The target is undoubtedly the research institute here, and the direction of the energy source, the launch point is at the branch base in Australia? I see, is this the last farewell gift you left for me, Minister Caroline..."

The girl sneered and muttered to herself, and soon determined the source and nature of the attack. This attack from the Oceania branch, no matter how you think about it, must have been the work of the defecting minister.

Opening her eyes again, Shirley looked at the Herrscher of the End under the ruins, her eyes becoming intriguing.

"So, you stayed here on purpose just to remind me of this?"

"Rather than that, the one who launched this attack on you should be a human, right? Have you been regarded as an enemy by the human civilization that you are protecting, onee-sama?"

The Herrscher of the End asked back, without directly answering Shirley's question. For some reason, looking at the Herrscher of the End who had a blank expression from beginning to end, Shirley always felt that there was a hint of sarcasm in his tone.

"No, the reasons are a bit complicated. The ones who attacked me were just some villains among humans. Those pests that only cause trouble cannot represent the human group. But thank you for reminding me. Otherwise, I would be scared when the attack comes..."

The warhead carrying the nuclear weapon had already reached within a hundred kilometers above the New Zealand Research Institute, and was approaching the ground where the girls were at a speed of about eight kilometers per second. However, none of the three Herrschers present showed any fear.

"Lady Shilis, are our Herrscher bodies immune to nuclear weapons?"

Wendy looked at the calm and composed Hillis beside her, and although she was not panicking, she still asked with some concern. However, Hillis's answer made her stunned.

"No, even if our Herrscher's body is directly hit by a nuclear weapon without full defense, it will be vaporized without leaving any residue... No, maybe the Herrscher core can still be left?"

"Eh? That means..."

In the few short seconds that Wendy was stunned, this tactical nuclear missile had already broken through the troposphere, like a small meteor, gradually becoming larger and more clearly visible.

"Don't panic, Wendy. This kind of low-yield small nuclear weapon developed for large Honkai creatures basically uses a contact-detonated warhead in order to break the outer shell armor of Honkai beasts, and it will only be triggered by a higher impact force. So it will definitely not detonate at high altitudes, but will follow my energy fluctuations and fall directly on my head... Speaking of which, Caroline's movements are really incredibly fast. In such a short time, she actually used my energy reaction to make a beacon..."

Shirley complained with a smile, but before she finished her words, the cracked roof of the experimental building exploded! The strong flames that penetrated into the void instantly filled the dim space. Then, the huge warhead with a tail of flame broke through the shattered wall and rushed straight towards the silver-haired girl floating in the air...

"But, this kind of attack based on radiation and heat energy, do you think it will be effective against me?"

Pushing Wendy away from her, Shirley looked at the warhead that was hitting her head, and a thin layer of golden light covered her blue eyes. Invisible golden light particles shot out from her fingertips, penetrated the outer shell of the missile, and sank into the reactor inside.

The next moment, the invisible domain extended outward with her as the center, covering the space with a radius of more than 50 meters. When the missile entered the domain, the dazzling tail flame trailing behind it suddenly extinguished. Facing the missile flying at high speed, Shiris stretched out her hands and directly blocked the intercontinental missile with a length of more than 20 meters!

——Bang! !

The moment the warhead touched Shirley's palm, with a loud bang, the hard alloy shell suddenly became like soft dough, and it was flattened in the girl's hand. But in this restrained area, no matter how strong the impact was, it could not trigger an explosion. So, after Shirley flew more than ten meters with the impact force of eight kilometers per second, this completely deformed nuclear missile was completely intercepted by the girl.

"Huh~ Honkai fission bomb? It's not quite the same as the nuclear weapons I had in mind... but it's similar. The fission reaction required for the explosion requires energy. Even if it explodes, the attack effect is just free energy such as heat, which can also be eliminated by me... then, this kind of thing is meaningless to me."

Talking to herself, the girl casually tore open the flattened missile shell, tore off the fuse behind the warhead, then removed the built-in energy source and smashed the innermost reactor with one punch. After doing all this, she released the restraint field and threw the completely scrapped missile away.

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"Okay, the crisis is over... but this doesn't seem to be a crisis at all. So, Ms. Herrscher, you didn't stay here just to witness this boring outcome?"

"..."

The woman did not speak, but just stared at Shirley quietly as before. She fell silent again. At this time, the missile that the girl had just thrown away fell into the ruins on the bottom floor, making a loud noise, but it had been dismantled into pieces, so it naturally could not explode normally, and it was like an ordinary steel bar smashed into the rubble.

"I am surprised that you have understood your own abilities to this extent. If the power of this law can be further strengthened... perhaps you can really do it, onee-sama."

The smoke spread, and the woman's voice sounded again. This time, her voice was no longer as cold as before, but with a hint of helplessness.

The strength of a Herrscher is somewhat related to the amount of Honkai energy she carries, but it is more dependent on the Herrscher's understanding of her own abilities. Take the Herrscher of Lightning for example. If Mei could abandon her direct lightning attack and learn to use electromagnetic force to interfere with matter at the microscopic level, her strength would definitely change dramatically...

If Shiris was like this, sticking to her "Anti-Herrs" ability and not using the ability to suppress energy to remotely interfere with the nuclear weapon reactor, I'm afraid this Houkai fission bomb would take half of her life. In the Herrscher of the End's expectations, this is the outcome, but the silver-haired girl in front of her once again broke her prediction...

"Although resisting an advanced civilization is bound to lead to death, if it were you, perhaps you could really find a way out."

"So, you have approved my decision?"

"No, even so, I will carry out my mission as a Herrscher and continue to reset the world by allowing Honkai to happen, just as I did before. Although I have a little hope for you, it is not enough for me to agree with your choice."

"... After all the talk, the bottom line is that you still shouldn't fight. Forget it, just treat it as a test. If I can't even deal with a creature of a higher civilization like you, then I have no right to talk about resisting the suppression of a higher civilization."

Shilis shook her head and stopped playing word games with the Herrscher of the End. She opened her hands and a golden energy javelin appeared in her hands, aiming at the silver-haired woman below.

"We have talked enough, haven't we? It seems that you would rather have me help you than to leave on your own? Guess, will I use this javelin to pierce your head or your heart?"

Shirley said softly, her eyes had turned cold again. Although she was eager to dig out the secrets of this Herrscher of the End, she would not underestimate this strongest Herrscher who had destroyed human civilization countless times. Therefore, even if she caught the other party's clone, Shirley would not dare to tie her up and take her back to the Far East Branch for research. Who knows if the other party has any tricks up their sleeves? She was afraid that if something unexpected happened, Shirley would not bring this safety hazard to her base camp.

"It's useless. My nucleus is in the center of my chest, the same spot as yours. But since you're tired of it, let's end this conversation here."

Following these words, the Houkai energy in the woman's body began to dissipate rapidly. These were just suppressed, but the energy still in her body was dissipated again and turned back into free Houkai energy floating in the air.

"Did you destroy the nucleoid yourself..."

Shiris put away her javelin, looked at the silver-haired woman whose breath was gradually weakening, and released the energy shackles on her.

"By the way, before we part, let me tell you something good."

Hearing this, Shilis turned around again. The woman whose energy had almost dissipated stood up, and the golden color in her eyes gradually faded, eventually turning into blue eyes that were no different from those of the Kaslana family.

"you......"

"Don't worry about it. I will tell you about these things later. What I want to tell you now is something about your abilities."

Interrupting Shilis who seemed to want to ask something, the woman closed her eyes and her tone returned to its original indifference.

"When you deploy the domain, you seem to be unable to use the constraining force constructs? But that shouldn't be the case. Constraining energy constructs such as chains are meant to cooperate with the domain to capture targets that have lost their power, rather than splitting the ability into two parts and using them separately as you are doing now."

"this......"

"That's right. Even though you have invincible strength, your abilities are still incomplete. In other words, the eleventh Herrscher of the last era, the former Herrscher who handed over the Herrscher Core to you, her own abilities were incomplete. So, even though you inherited all her powers, you also fell into this misunderstanding."

"..."

"However, even with her limited abilities, your predecessor still managed to almost completely destroy the previous civilization by herself. When she was defeated, only three intact cities were left in the entire human race. Even the Twelve and Thirteen Herrschers who came after her could not achieve such an amazing record...

....Imagine, if you could master the true power of the Ruler of Constraint, how powerful would you be?"

"But... why are you telling me all this? What should I do to master all my abilities?"

"You have to figure it out on your own. Don't expect me, your enemy, to tell you... But having said that, I still said a lot of unnecessary things. I really think I mixed in some unnecessary things when I created this clone consciousness..."

The woman shook her head, and as the last trace of Houkai energy in her body dissipated, her body collapsed like a puppet with its strings cut, without a sound. Shiris couldn't help but think that when the rescue team arrived, they would probably register this body as an ordinary victim.

(Unnecessary things? Such an abstract statement. That guy, could it be that...)

"Lady Shilis, what should we do next...?"

At this time, Wendy, who was left aside, approached cautiously. Silis also put the matter of the Herrscher of the End behind her for the time being, turned around and took the girl's hand.

"It's all right now, Wendy. As for what's next, according to the agreement, our destination is St. Freya Academy in the Far East Branch."