K424 of the Collapse World

Putting her left hand behind Xing's back, Shiris cautiously

He mobilized his own power, allowing a small amount of Honkai energy to seep into the holy marks on the girl's back.

Soon, Shirley couldn't help but exclaim.

"what?"

"Sister Shilis, what's wrong?"

"The energy is indeed much greater than before, and the intensity has also increased significantly, as if it has evolved..."

Feeling the feedback of her perception in disbelief, the image of the stigmata gradually took shape in her mind.

Although the incomplete outline looks a bit abstract, it can still be seen that it is a retro circular clock pattern...

Well, combined with Xing's ability to interfere with the local flow of time, this shape of stigmata is quite consistent with her ability. However, isn't the pattern of Xing's stigmata a distorted pointer? Just like the sword she created with her ability, when did it become a whole clock?

Could it be that Xing's training triggered the potential of the stigmata? However, her current energy intensity was several times higher than before, far exceeding the normal increase.

Moreover, I don’t know if it’s my illusion, but I always feel that the energy operation mode of this stigma is 70% similar to my Herrscher energy...

"Sister Shilis...is there anything I can ask?"

Shirley hadn't spoken for almost two minutes, and Xing felt a little uneasy, but out of trust in her sister, she still stood still, letting the girl's palm rest on her back.

Hearing Xing's voice, the girl finally came back to her senses.

"It's okay, Xing... I'm just a little surprised that your growth rate has exceeded my expectations. Xing's current strength is probably comparable to that of the S-rank Valkyrie of Destiny."

"really?"

Hearing Shirley's sincere praise, the girl immediately smiled.

"For Sister Shiris, Xing can become even stronger!"

"Well, I believe you."

Shirley said softly, denying one of her guesses in her heart.

It should be just a coincidence. After all, the Herrscher Core is the symbol of the new Herrscher. In this girl's body, there is not even a pseudo-core that resembles a Herrscher. There is only pure and powerful Houkai energy...

Shirley made a decision secretly.

(It seems that I need to find Cocolia to learn about the X-10 experiment later...)

712 Methods of Curing Erosion

Meeting Xing by chance in the medical department was just a small episode on Shiris's journey.

Xing's stigmata mutation was definitely not normal, but what Shilis could sense was also quite limited. In order to confirm the more detailed situation, she could only use machines to conduct a deeper test. Perhaps Cocolia also thought of this, so she asked the girl to go to the genetic testing station for testing.

After all, the X-10 experiment that gave Xing extraordinary powers was also from the pre-civilization technology of the World Snake. Therefore, if we use technological instruments to check, we should be able to find something.

In any case, any unfounded speculation is meaningless before Xing's condition is thoroughly confirmed.

After bidding farewell to Xing, Shilis continued to move forward in the original direction...

After all, this is her next goal.

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Room R0330 of the ICU ward in the medical department is where Wendy is.

In the ward filled with electronic medical equipment, a girl with countless IV tubes and cables on her body lay quietly on the bed, breathing softly in the sound of the electrocardiograph. It was hard to imagine that this sick and thin girl was the Herrscher of Wind who was once a match for thousands of men on the battlefield.

After the Herrscher War, most of the wounded in the Far East Branch have begun to recover, but this girl has not been out of danger for a long time...

In the deadly battle with the Herrscher of Fire, only two people were unfortunately infected by the erosion of the law of destruction.

One was Shirley, and the other was Wendy.

Although Wendy was not as deeply eroded by the fire of plague as Cialis, the area of ​​injury was larger than Cialis's. At that time, the desperate Herrscher of Flame used a self-mutilating fighting method, hugged Wendy's body tightly and activated the power of the Herrscher's Law. The fire of destruction that broke out at zero distance burned a large area of ​​her skin...

The irreparable damage caused by the destruction of the law took away Wendy's wings, and bound the girl who had just regained her freedom not long ago to the hospital bed again.

Fortunately, Wendy, like Cialis, was eroded by the Law in the form of a Herrscher. Therefore, after she was released from the Herrscher state and restored to human form, the deep red cracks left by the fire of the plague turned into dim white lines...

However, her situation was obviously different from that of Shilis.

"Please..."

Looking pleadingly at the caregiver beside her, the weak girl tried hard to raise her hands, but her limbs were fixed to the edge of the bed, so she was destined to be unable to complete the action.

"Please...Yuko, could you please give me another shot?"

In response to the girl's request, the nurse

He shook his head again.

"No, Miss Wendy."

Although there was embarrassment in her eyes, the nurse still firmly refused her.

"Ms. Wendy, you can no longer use nerve paralysis drugs! If you continue like this, your nerve centers will be completely necrotic!"

"Woo..."

Wendy dropped her hands helplessly, her pale and haggard face full of pain. Looking at the white lines covering her skin, she clenched her teeth as if enduring something, and her breathing trembled slightly.

“It hurts…it really hurts!”

It was as if the body was immersed in boiling water, and the burning pain came like a tidal wave. Although the pale engravings had faded from the fiery red of the flames, the pain they brought was no less than the pain of being burned just now...

Her torture began when she regained consciousness two days ago.

The worst thing is that this kind of pain cannot be relieved by conventional means, just like it is a phantom pain from the mind. Ordinary painkillers have no effect at all. Only very strong paralytic psychotropic drugs can temporarily make her fall asleep and avoid the pain in the unconscious state...

But as the nurse said, this drug is not meant to be used frequently.

"Yuko, save me..."

The girl sobbed softly, her shaking hands clenched into fists. She was bound by the shackles and couldn't even curl up. But there was no other way. In order to prevent Wendy from moving around and damaging the cables and infusion tubes on her body, the medical department could only use restraint tools to fix her body and set up an induction-type soul steel limiter to prevent Wendy from losing control and becoming a Herrscher.

"I'm so sorry, Miss Wendy..."

Looking at the girl in pain, the nurse looked away reluctantly. All she could do, besides watching the feedback from the medical equipment, was to hold the girl's hand tightly.

"Don't give up, you will get better... We will definitely find a way to heal your body..."

But in fact, she could not relieve the girl's pain, nor could she cure her disease. Even the most advanced medical technology was powerless to stop the erosion of the laws, so the doctors of the Far East branch were naturally helpless.

Although the white marks that cannot be detected by instruments do not look terrible on the surface, the fact that Wendy is getting weaker and weaker is indisputable...

——Dongdong

At this moment, there was a gentle knock on the metal door. The next moment, before the two people inside could respond, the electronic door of the ward opened with a click.

"excuse me."

The silver-haired girl whispered, closing the door and walking towards the bed.

"Excuse me, who are you...?"

Logically speaking, those who can access the Far East Branch's ICU must have a certain level of authority, but seeing such a young silver-haired girl, the nurse stood up with some doubt. However, as the girl raised her hand to call out the terminal screen showing her identity information, she immediately swallowed the second half of her sentence.

She was indeed a big shot in the military... She had never seen an S-class Valkyrie with the rank of general in her life.

Shirley glanced at the nurse and nodded slightly in greeting.

"Thank you for your hard work, Ms. Kobayashi. Please go out for a while. I have something to talk to Wendy about."

"Yes, Ms. Kaslana."

The nurse nodded without hesitation, bowed nervously, and walked out the door. However, when she passed by Shirley, she noticed that on the back of the right hand of this silver-haired girl, there were white lines exactly the same as Wendy's!

(Is she also...?!)

Her pupils shrank, but she did not show her surprise. She just paused slightly, then quickened her pace and hurried out of the ward, leaving private space for the two girls in the ward.

Hillary didn't care about the nurse's opinion. She stood in front of Wendy's bed, looking at the frail girl with complicated feelings.

"Lady Shilis... why are you here?"

When she saw Shirley come in, Wendy held back her tears, endured the pain in her body, and forced out a miserable smile.

The terrible thing about this kind of pain is that it lasts forever. At least for a short period of time, Wendy can use her willpower to control the pain and barely concentrate...

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"Why did you come here so suddenly? I'm not ready yet..."

Wendy was just about to say some polite words as usual, but at this moment, Shirley suddenly reached out and tore off the restraints on her limbs!

"Lady Shilis...?"

"Sorry...Wendy. I should have come to see you sooner."

Shirley sat down on the bed and slowly lifted Wendy up, letting the girl lie in her arms.

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When she heard Wendy crying through the door, Shirley realized that the situation might not be what she thought.

When Wendy wakes up

, Theresa had visited her, and according to Theresa, the girl's recovery was quite optimistic. But now it seems that it was probably just some kind of illusion...

"I thought your symptoms were much milder than mine, but I didn't expect it to be like this."

"Eh? It's not that serious... Other than a little pain, it's not a big problem. You don't have to worry about me like this."

Wendy blinked her eyes and spoke as if nothing had happened. She didn't know that the unconscious spasms in her body in pain had exposed what she had tried so hard to hide...

Looking at this stubborn girl, Shirley remained silent for a moment and gently raised her right hand.

"The erosion process of destroying the law is very painful."

As she spoke, she pulled up the sleeve of her right arm, revealing her skin which was also covered with white marks.

"Lady Shilis! What is this...?!"

"I understand how you feel. This feeling of your soul being gradually eroded... I can feel it as well."

"..."

Wendy opened her eyes wide and looked at the white mark on the silver-haired girl's arm. She was so surprised that she even forgot the pain for a moment.

(Lady Shiris actually also...!)

Wendy could see that the white marks on the girl's right arm were denser than those on her body, especially on her palm. The criss-crossing pale lines almost covered up the original color of her skin.

"this......!"

When Shirley gently unbuttoned her shirt and showed Wendy her chest pierced by the fire of the plague, Wendy screamed in shock. She was absolutely sure that Shirley's condition was definitely much more serious than hers...

"Wendy, I have never treated you as an outsider, and the same goes for Kiana and the others. So, you don't have to endure this pain alone."

"..."

Listening to Shiris's gentle voice, Wendy bit her lip, finally took off her disguise, and sobbed in the arms of the silver-haired girl.

"Well... it hurts... it really hurts..."

"I'm sorry, I should have come here two days ago."

Holding the crying girl, Shilis comforted her softly and carefully unplugged the instrument cable connected to the girl. In her opinion, these things had no effect on the erosion of the law.

After wiping away her tears, Wendy calmed down a little. "Lady Silis... I don't understand how you can endure this pain? Your condition is obviously worse than mine..."

Looking at the silver-haired girl whose body was covered with the markings of laws, Wendy showed a puzzled look.

"Moreover, being corroded by that energy, I can't use any strength at all, and I'm even getting weaker... How do you maintain your ability to move?"

"Because I interfered with the erosion process using the law of constraint."

Shiris explained simply, but seeing the girl frowning and not seeming to fully understand, she sighed softly and continued.

"You may not know that even though only the other half of the Herrscher's body is affected by the Law, the two forms of the Herrscher are of the same origin, just like the relationship between light and shadow. Rather than light and shadow, the two forms are too closely connected, so the erosion of the Law will also penetrate and affect this half of the human body."

As she spoke, Shilis pointed to her chest.

"However, the Herrscher of Restraint is a special Herrscher. Unlike ordinary Herrschers, whose law abilities are relatively independent, my law of restraint can interfere with the laws of other Herrschers. Therefore, I use the power of restraint to limit the destructive laws in my body, so that they can only stay in my Herrscher body and cannot spread everywhere."

After hearing this, Wendy gradually understood.

"I see. So Sirius-sama can move normally in human form... But since the two forms are of the same origin, Sirius-sama's Herrscher body is being eroded, so there will be problems with her human body as well, right?"

"..."