K424 of the Collapse World

Inside the ruined temple, a dozen or so pillars were distributed around the altar in a certain pattern, and objects of various shapes were floating on the bases in the center of the pillars.

A gem similar to a bodhi seed, a fiery red crystal sword, a gorgeous lance interwoven with black and white, a crimson energy ball embedded in the rock...

Looking at some of the familiar things, Shilis stared blankly at the temple in front of her. She counted them, and including the empty pedestal at the innermost part, there were exactly fourteen pillars.

"This is... the Key of God?!"

Walking towards the center of the temple, Shirley bit her lips gently. Looking at the thirteen pillars of the God's Key left here, something that had been forgotten in the girl's mind was awakened again...

(The power of collapse is not bound by the physical laws of this world. Destruction does not mean the end of an era. Even if the reset is complete, the "seeds" of human will will still be preserved. As long as the humans who survive the reset find the "seeds" that contain the power of the Herrscher, they can also find hope for redemption...)

"Hope of redemption...?"

Silently reciting the knowledge that came to her mind, Shilis had unknowingly walked to the edge of the temple.

On a pedestal in front of her, a long sword with a black and red glow was floating in the air. The deep black and red on the blade seemed enough to devour even the soul.

The 12th Key of God, Jizo Mitsuhiro. Although it is Yae Sakura's sword, Shiris also knows its ability. It is called the Key of Corrosion, which can corrode and control all substances in the material world with Honkai energy. Whether it is biological cells, metals and inorganic substances, or even computer system programs, they can be corroded and controlled for the user.

In addition, it can also carry the user's own consciousness and project it onto other objects for easy control. The projection and control of consciousness can even cross different planes of space.

besides......

No, these are all the abilities of Jizo Yuhun. What else can it have?! Use the blade to cut people?

In the chaos, when Shiris saw the black long sword, she instinctively recalled the ability of Jizo Yuhun. However, the error in cognition made her fall into self-doubt again.

The next moment, unfamiliar knowledge emerged in the girl's mind again.

(The power of Jizo's soul can project the user's consciousness across planes onto other objects; and the Second God's Key, which controls the power of space, can tear apart the barriers of space and allow the holder to reach a new plane. If these two keys are used together...)

"...!!"

The moment this string of information came into her mind, Shirley froze in place as if struck by lightning. The breeze of doomsday swirled around the dust again, lifting the girl's veil and hem, staining the smooth satin with a thin layer of dust.

"I...what exactly am I..."

The true purpose of Jizo's soul emerged in her mind, and the girl's memory and cognition began to gradually connect, causing the overlapping parts of her memory to reappear. All the truth began to be revealed in her memory gradually...

527 "Newborn"

The coin fell on the stone ground, and the clear sound echoed in the church of the Destiny headquarters. Like the Valkyries who received the order, Charlotte also immediately realized the plan of the Destiny people. However, facing the powerful Valkyries who attacked like a wave, she could do nothing.

From the moment she stepped into the church, her fate was decided...

The Honkai energy that she had just mobilized with all her strength to protect Shiris disappeared in an instant! Without even a chance to show her surprise, Charlotte's body suddenly lost strength and she fell to her knees.

On her neck, the front of the decorative necklace glowed with a faint yellow light.

Feeling this familiar feeling, it was the feeling of powerlessness brought by the suppression of Honkai energy. In this brief moment, watching the Valkyries on the bench quickly surrounding her, Charlotte's pupils slightly dilated.

(The collar... is activated?! Why...)

Why did the soul steel restraint that Shilis used to control herself suddenly activate at this time? !

"The program has been cracked and the control terminal permissions have been modified."

At this time, a female voice like a mechanical synthesized sounded in the sky. Charlotte raised her head with difficulty and saw a blue-haired girl covered in metal armor floating above the altar, staring at her with emotionless peach-colored pupils. Claw-like metal wings full of technology were floating around the girl, and several cables were connected to her back, extending to the wall behind the statue.

In front of the blue-haired girl was an extremely complex operating light screen. At this moment, she seemed to have completed some operation, and casually waved her hand to slide the holographic screen up and closed, and turned her eyes to Otto who was sitting in the bishop's seat.

"Bishop Otto, this limiter that Anti-Entropy has imitated with a soul-like steel alloy can completely suppress the Honkai energy below a wave energy level of about 3776.47 hw. After testing, the theoretical maximum energy of the target individual is about 3500 hw, which can no longer pose a threat."

"Well done, Ella."

Otto nodded in approval, stood up from his chair, looked at the wolf-eared girl who was escorted to the side by two Valkyries, and smiled softly.

"Let me see... Codename 'Fenrir', one of the senior anti-entropy executors. Your ears and tail don't seem to be fake ones added for performance art. Interesting... But, as Miss Shilis's companion, why are you wearing a restraint device?"

"..."

There was no response. Otto's eyes fixed on the wolf-eared girl who was still at a loss, as if she had not yet realized what was happening.

In response, Otto sighed and looked away as if he had lost interest.

"Well, it doesn't matter...whatever happened inside Anti-Entropy has nothing to do with me."

"Why would a collar…what did you just do to me?!"

"Just now? Ella used the quantum data stream to hack into your collar control system and fully activated the suppression system, so you can't move now. If there are no other questions, can you please keep quiet?"

As he spoke, Otto slowly walked down the steps of the altar and turned his gaze to

He saw the silver-haired girl lying on the other side of the altar and walked over there...

Without Charlotte's support, the unsupported Shiris collapsed to the ground, her silver hair scattered on the ground. The Valkyries, led by Cecilia, surrounded the girl, and various weapons such as swords, spears, axes and lances were aimed at her vital points, and they kept going.

The order they received earlier was to subdue Shiris immediately after receiving the signal, and to kill her directly if necessary. However, the silver-haired girl who was the target of capture lost consciousness before they could take action...

A target who has fallen into coma should be considered subdued, right?

Holding the halberd and pointing it at the girl's shoulder, Maria opened her eyes, a sharp gleam flashing in her cold eyes.

(How dare you betray...)

However, before she could take any action, a slender hand suddenly grabbed the long shaft of her halberd!

"Stop, what do you want to do?"

Cecilia asked in a low voice, frowning. She saw clearly that just now, Maria was about to cut off the silver-haired girl's right hand with her weapon. If she hadn't stopped her, the blade of the halberd would have torn the girl's shoulder...

"She is too dangerous. Her limbs should be destroyed first! Then she should be tied to the stake and put on trial!"

Maria said coldly, intending to swing the halberd down again. However, the halberd she was holding did not move at all.

"......What do you mean?"

"Please don't hurt her."

"what?"

"The bishop only ordered us to capture Miss Shilis, and did not condone us to abuse her. Lady Maria, is this enough...?"

"..."

Maria gritted her teeth and looked at Cecilia, who was not going to let go. As far as she knew, the "Cecilia" in front of her was just a special clone made by Otto, but looking at the silver-haired woman's appearance in her memory, she was unable to say "get out"...

"She has betrayed the Mandate of Heaven... Under the guise of an alliance, she secretly dismantled the command system within the various branches of the Mandate of Heaven. Humph, the Bishop has mercifully forgiven her husband, but she still dares to do such a thing. It is unforgivable!"

As Maria talked about the "reason for action" she got from Otto, her emotions began to become uncontrollably agitated.

"Her conspiracy with Anti-Entropy has been discovered by the Bishop. Why do you still want to protect this despicable betrayer? Could it be that... you can't bear to do it to "yourself"? !"

"What......?"

"Don't play dumb with me! How could you not know that this traitor lying on the ground has the same genetic origin as you! You are all clones of Cecilia Shaniat, but you have inherited different memories! Or... are you also going to betray destiny like her, fake!"

Cecilia was her sister and the spiritual pillar that kept her going. Maria admired her sister more than anyone else. After learning the news of Cecilia's death, she fell into pain and despair for a while. But this also made Cecilia's glorious image of defending the world and dying in battle forever fixed in her heart.

Because of this, Maria would never allow the great image of Cecilia, the "Saint of Destiny", to be tarnished by these inferior copies!

527 "Newborn" >>

Seeing Cecilia's confused and flustered expression, she felt a sharp pain in her heart again. Maria knew that the silver-haired woman in front of her was just an empty shell without any memory. She was destined to not understand her feelings...

"Be quiet, the bishop is here."

"Shh..."

Maria, who was about to say something, shut up after hearing the Valkyrie's whispered reminder. She shook off Cecilia's hand that was holding her halberd and glared at her fiercely. Maria turned her head and fell silent again...

A few meters away from the Valkyries, Otto, who had already walked down from the altar, looked at the silver-haired girl lying motionless on the ground with a slightly subtle expression.

"This is really... I originally thought that defeating her would require an extremely heavy price. I was also prepared to face sacrifices and disasters, but I didn't expect... Ha, is this an unexpected surprise?"

The unconscious Silis was motionless, defenselessly pointed at by these deadly weapons. As long as Otto gave another order, the girl would be destroyed in an instant.

The opponent he originally regarded as a great enemy, won without fighting in such an ironic way. Even Otto felt a sense of absurdity at this inexplicable result.

"Humph, betrayers are unforgivable! And a ridiculous impostor like her... That's right, their defeat was doomed from the very beginning!"

"Hmm~ Maybe it's the Herrscher core's fusion rate problem? Miss Shilis's Herrscher core should have been implanted through experiments at a later stage. Who knows what strange problems the core of a Herrscher born in such a half-baked way will have?

But no matter what, this is definitely our victory~"

After Maria's speech, Mu Se Hui Huo also made a half-joking comment. Looking at the brown-haired girl standing next to her, the S-rank Valkyrie's expression became a little complicated.

His best friend, Aisha Lopez, was reborn with the help of Silis. Although he lost his original memory, the fact that he was indebted to this girl would not change.

But now, before she could repay her debt, she was already on the opposite side of him. She could only sigh that things were unpredictable...

Cecilia stood in front of Shirley in silence, with the tip of the Black Abyss White Flower pointing at the girl's chest. She was only a few months old, and her past memories were like a blank sheet of paper. She naturally didn't know that Shirley's body was, in a sense, her daughter's body.

However, although she knew nothing, Cecilia had an indescribable strange feeling. There seemed to be a voice in her mind saying that she must not hurt this girl...

To Cecilia, after all, Silis was just a Valkyrie whom she had met once. Now she was being besieged for treason, which was what she deserved. Why did she have such a strange thought?

No one noticed Cecilia's abnormality. The Valkyries stood quietly in place, waiting for Otto's next order.

Otto, who was being watched by everyone, raised his head after a brief silence and scanned the Valkyries present with a majestic and confident look.

"Everyone, I'm sure you've already heard about the cause of this incident. This Miss Shilis, as a special envoy of the two major organizations, Anti-Entropy and Destiny, and holding the honorary title of S-level Valkyrie, betrayed our expectations! Using the power and position I granted her, she openly split our forces in the Australian branch and massacred our comrades!"

“Actually…!”

"Unforgivable!"

"Is this really the case, Your Excellency?"

"..."

Looking at the angry Valkyries, Otto closed his eyes and lightly threw out the lies he had already woven.

"After the truth was revealed, she even tried to blame her sins on the World Serpent... Humph, even if she has her own thoughts, she is still just an inhuman Herrscher after all."

Having said that, Otto turned around and looked at Cecilia who was standing right in front of Shiris and waved at her.

"Ms. Shanyat, have you mastered the use of the Sixth God Key?"

"Yes......"

"Very good. Although Silis Kaslana is guilty of heinous crimes, she is still valuable to us. Now follow my orders, use the power of the Black Abyss to destroy her spinal nerves, and then lock her up in the S-99 isolation area of ​​the Helheim Laboratory and inject her with active liquid soul steel. When she regains consciousness, I will interrogate her personally."

"......Yes."

After hearing Otto's order, Cecilia hesitated for a moment and nodded heavily. Although she still had doubts in her heart, she could not disobey the bishop's order.

Under the cold eyes of Maria and other Valkyries, Cecilia slowly approached the girl who seemed to be sleeping on the ground, turned the lance in her hand upside down, and aimed the purple-black tip of the abyss at the girl's cervical vertebrae...

(Feel sorry......)

The fluctuating gaze quickly gathered, and the resolute expression of a Valkyrie appeared on Cecilia's face. The black abyss fell, and the corrosive mist wrapped around the lance roared out!

Even Cecilia cannot completely control the power of withering that decomposes everything. However, if she can only destroy the spine without harming the life...

——Shhh! !

However, the fully activated Black Abyss White Flower did not fall. Before it destroyed the girl's spine, a small hand grasped the tip of the gun filled with black mist.

The black fog that was powerful enough to wither all things could not even break through the slender hand that was glowing with white light!

In Cecilia's astonished eyes, the girl lying on the ground had opened her eyes without knowing when. Her pure and flawless blue eyes seemed to see through everything...

"You actually took advantage of others' sleep to attack them. Is this the way of knighthood?"

"you......?!"

No longer suppressing the power of the Black Abyss White Flower, the roaring black mist roared out! However, facing Cecilia's astonishment, the girl's eyes remained calm. The withering mist of the Black Abyss never tore apart the flawless light of creation on the girl's body...

Even Hill might not be able to use the energy of the Herrscher of Death to such perfection.

"Well, let's put the small talk aside for later, Miss Cecilia. Now... Otto Apocalis, you really gave me a surprise. However, you didn't show such an expression at this time 'last time'~☆"

528 Overlap of Reincarnation

As he looked into the calm eyes of the silver-haired girl, Otto's ominous premonition gradually grew heavier...

Although he had never underestimated the power of the eleventh Herrscher, this time he was preparing to target Shiris.

The trap was his to win! In Otto's plan, defeating Shiris and then destroying Anti-Entropy was theoretically impossible to fail after countless calculations.

Otto's plan was to defeat Shirley by force and suppression. Therefore, the girl's abnormal coma, although unexpected, did not disrupt the plan.

From the beginning, whether or not Shirley fainted, Otto's next move would not change. The analysis of the Herrscher of Constraint's abilities had been completed, so even if the girl revived at this time, there was no chance of reversing the situation!

But......

(What’s going on? She was only unconscious for a few minutes, but the look in her eyes is completely different from before…)