K424 of the Collapse World

Kevin originally thought that Otto Apokalis was the "Son of God" of this era, but now it seems that person should be the experimental subject K424 in front of him - that is, Shirley Kaslana.

Perhaps, she can really create a miracle for mankind. Even if the probability is only one in a thousand, it seems worth taking this gamble... isn't it?

The silver-haired girl lowered her head, her lifeless eyes completely obscured by her falling hair.

"That's it..."

"Although Xing Maer did not fulfill the agreement, the core of time she left behind is still the key to manipulating the laws of time. Therefore, I can regard it as she has fulfilled her promise."

"..."

"Shiris Kaslana, if you are willing to assist the Stigma Project, then I can return the core of the Herrscher of Time."

"...Is that what Xing hopes for as well?"

"Yes."

"..."

The silver-haired girl lowered her head and said nothing. No one knew whether she was thinking about Kevin's advice or simply immersed in sadness...

This is all her own choice...

Her soul was shattered by the backlash of the law of time. Even the power of the Ruler of Death cannot save her, right?

I will never see her again...

Otto stared at the two people in front of him, with an inexplicable deep meaning in his eyes.

Listening to the conversation between Kevin and Shirley, he almost understood the relationship between the Herrscher of Time and the two of them. Although Xing Maer had died, from Kevin's words, her remaining time core could still be used to explore the mysteries of the law of time.

So…there is hope!

"Mr. Kevin, excuse me for interrupting."

After thinking for a moment, Otto finally spoke again.

"I also feel deeply sorry for what happened to Xing Maer. But the dead are gone, and no amount of remembrance will help. Ending the collapse is still our top priority."

As Otto spoke righteously, his eyes accidentally swept over the black box in Kevin's hand.

"Since the World Serpent's Stigmata Project needs assistance, the power of the Destiny Organization can be used by you, and the conditions... Haha, I'll just say it directly. I want to have the right to use part of the Herrscher of Time's core. What do you think, Mr. Kevin?"

"..."

However, Kevin ignored Otto and continued to look at the silver-haired girl, waiting for her answer.

"Well... the lady's opinion should take precedence~"

Otto smiled calmly, sat back without any embarrassment, and together with Kevin, turned his gaze towards the silent silver-haired girl...

However, the next moment, under the gaze of the two men, Shilis suddenly stood up and turned directly towards the exit of the meeting room.

"No need... Leaving the Herrscher Core is Xing's responsibility to the World Serpent. I have no right to take away what she has decided belongs to her."

With her back to Kevin and Otto, the silver-haired girl wiped her cheek with the back of her hand, hiding the choking in her voice.

"The Core of Time belongs to you. It's up to you to decide how to deal with it, Kevin."

The girl continued to walk forward, and when she approached the door, she paused slightly...

"No need for return. Since this is Xing's last wish... I am willing to assist the World Serpent in the Stigmata Project. But at the same time, the Far East Alliance will not give up the transfer plan that is being implemented. Otto... Don't forget this!"

Leaving these words behind, the girl suddenly pushed open the heavy metal door and walked towards the far end of the passage without looking back.

A trace of crystal water splashed quietly onto the deck of the battleship...

774 The Last Seal >>

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The Herrscher chosen by Honkai is not permanently bound to the identity of a Herrscher.

Take the First Herrscher as an example. Walter Joyce, the original First Herrscher, passed on the Herrscher Core to Joachim Nokianvirtanen before his death. The First Herrscher recorded by the Will of Honkai became Joachim, the successor, who later became the leader of the Anti-Entropy Alliance, Walter Young.

According to the collapse system

The rule is that each time a Herrscher descends, the sequence of collapse will inevitably break out in the order of one to fourteen unless there are special circumstances. Moreover, for a long period of time after the birth of each Herrscher, basically no new Herrscher will appear until the previous Herrscher loses the connection with the will of collapse...

However, from the moment Shiris was promoted to the Ruler of Constraint, the original rules were completely broken.

The Herrscher of Constraint can suppress and weaken all forms of energy, and his ability to restrain Honkai energy is several times greater than other energies! This Herrscher, who seems to be born to be a rebel, was originally a product of Honkai technology used by Honkai to counter human civilization. In essence, he is still a killing tool of Honkai's will. However, when this Herrscher really devotes himself to humanity and uses this power to fight Honkai in return...

Then, I'm afraid no Honkai creation can defeat her!

Based on the judgment of the Honkai system, this is undoubtedly a so-called special case. In response to this, the Honkai system also produced a series of stress measures, but whether it was the simultaneous birth of multiple Herrschers, the shortening of the interval between the Herrschers’ advents, or the change in the order of sequential Honkai, these changes were all defeated by the human civilization that held the power of the Herrschers without exception.

So far, because of the variable of the Herrscher's Restraint, the thirteen Herrschers who were supposed to descend one after another every hundred years have all appeared in just four years. And now, the last difficulty that human civilization will eventually face is already in sight.

After the thirteenth sequence collapse is over, the last test from collapse will come unexpectedly...

——The Herrscher of the End.

However, there is still a small prerequisite for the final Herrscher to come.

After all the Herrschers appear, the Herrscher of the End will receive the true order to be cleared and descend into this dimension...

......

The First Herrscher...Walter Young/Eseline Levicius, currently alive.

The second Herrscher...Diana Kaslana, is currently alive.

The third Herrscher... Raiden Mei, currently alive.

The fourth Herrscher... Wendy, her body was badly injured, but she was still alive.

The fifth Herrscher... Nina, is dead.

The sixth Herrscher...Sil-Fleia, is currently alive.

The seventh Herrscher...Chloe, is dead.

The eighth Herrscher... Bronya Zajcek, currently alive.

The Ninth Herrscher... Lanresa Elva, is dead.

The Tenth Herrscher...is nearly annihilated.

The eleventh Herrscher...Silis Kaslana, survived.

The twelfth herald is... unknown.

The Thirteenth Herrscher... Xing Maer, is dead.

......

That’s right, because of the changes in the rules of Honkai, when the Honkai Will sensed that Yaezakura was deliberately interfering with the arrival of the Herrscher of Corrosion, the Sequence Thirteen Herrscher of Time appeared before the Herrscher of Corrosion.

In other words, the conditions for the advent of the Herrscher of the End have not yet been met, and there is still one Herrscher of Corrosion from the previous sequence missing...

The power of Honkai should have increased with the power of civilization, but now, with the rebellious Herrscher joining the side of civilization, using the power of Honkai to help humans fight against the invasion of Honkai will. Therefore, when both sides of the confrontation are Honkai, the power of civilization itself has slowed down its growth rate...

Because of the proportional relationship between the two powers, the power of collapse cannot be strengthened enough. Today, the universal disaster phenomenon caused by collapse can no longer threaten the current stage of civilization.

But with the active intervention of Honkai Will, this situation will never last long...

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On the coast of the Saint Freya ruins, a girl with long cherry-colored hair sat on the edge of a reef, staring blankly at the long sword in her hand that was emitting black mist.

Although the naked eye cannot see clearly, these black particles with the Houkai factor have already covered the whole body of the cherry-haired girl...

Feiyumaru looked at the girl who was getting weaker and weaker, his eyes filled with unbearable anxiety.

"Big sis! Are you really okay, big sis?!"

"..."

"Put the knife down quickly! If you keep going like this, you will really..."

The worried and panicked voice echoed in her ears. Yaesakura's fox ears twitched listlessly, but she still held the Jizo Soul tightly in her hand.

Indeed, there is not much time left...

Her original intention in making this choice was to absorb the corrosive energy to become a qualified Herrscher, delay the arrival of the next Herrscher, and buy time for the severely damaged Far East Branch to recover.

But now, she found that... she seemed to have underestimated the "devil in the box" five hundred years ago.

What can resist the force that takes "erosion" itself as its law?

775 Source: Corrosion Herrscher

Everything has its origin, and the collapse also originated from a certain place in this dimensional universe.

A place, created subjectively by some will, implanted as a conceptual disaster phenomenon into a certain galaxy in the Milky Way...

Before being activated, as a concept existing independently of the solar system, the rules woven by Honkai had already copied the original laws that constructed the universe and divided them into thirteen different parts, which were respectively given to the thirteen Herrschers selected by the Honkai system.

Any Herrscher who wields these powers has the power to interfere with the rules.

However, even though these splitting laws and the ultimate origin are the same, from a microscopic perspective, the differences between each law are huge.

Matter, elements, energy, consciousness... the finely divided powers of the Herrschers seem to have nothing to do with each other. But there is no doubt that pushing any of the laws to their limits will touch the essence of collapse...

Although the powers of the laws mastered by the first to ninth sequence Herrschers are different, the nature of their energy and the form of driving a single law are basically the same.

However, starting from the tenth, the Herrscher's form of existence and the nature of his power will be completely different from all the Herrschers before the ninth sequence.

The Tenth Herrscher, a special Herrscher known as the "Thousand Herrscher", for the first time transformed a single Herrscher into a legion of one thousand Herrschers, and in order to target the over-concentrated power of human civilization, they were dispersed to every corner of the world...

The eleventh Herrscher, the "Anti-Herrscher" who possesses the power of restraint, her uniqueness needs no elaboration.

The Thirteenth Herrscher is an ultimate Herrscher who can interfere with time at will and change the future of cause and effect. Regardless of anything else, the most basic concept of the law of time alone is enough to distinguish her from other Herrschers.

The difference between those before and after Sequence Ten can be seen from the Herrschers who have already descended. And the Twelfth Herrscher who has not yet appeared is also an extremely special existence.

When the twelfth sequence of Honkai breaks out and the Herrscher of Corrosion selects the qualified and descends, the person who becomes the Herrscher will neither gain any power nor be able to communicate with the Honkai will. Both their body and consciousness are no different from ordinary people.

However, the reaction of the Houkai energy that eroded the Herrscher's body revealed without a doubt that he was a Herrscher...

Generally speaking, at the twelfth sequence of the collapse of civilization, human beings' fear and hatred of the collapse have reached their peak. At this time, facing a weak girl who is determined to be a Herrscher but has no fighting ability, it seems unnecessary to say what choice people will make.

What's terrifying is that the awakening of the Herrscher's true power begins the moment his original body dies...

The Herrscher of Corrosion has no entity at all. It uses corroding energy as its law, and is essentially an ultimate virus with self-awareness. At the moment of the Herrscher's death, this pure corrosive power will lose its limits and be driven by a crazy soul to take revenge on civilization.

"..."

Looking at the dark red lines on her arm, the cherry-haired girl silently put the wrist guard back on, then pinched the hilt of Jizo Yuhun and stood up shakily.

The erosion of the Honkai will gradually destroy a living being in the order of body, mind, and soul. In this process, the Honkai energy will invade the cells of the organism, send pheromones of the Honkai will to the host through the "network" of the Honkai, cut off the control of the original consciousness and continue to interfere with it, and finally turn the body and mind of the organism into a puppet of the Honkai will...

However, the Herrscher who holds the power to erode does not need such a systematic process.

From the moment Yaezakura actively absorbed the energy of Jizo's soul and absorbed it into her body, the law of erosion had already permeated her body.

Moreover, it cannot be reversed.

In the dizzy feeling, the voice of Hiyomaru seemed to echo in her ears, sometimes far away and sometimes near. However, relying on her excellent body coordination, Yaezakura still managed to maintain her mobility and kept herself as far away from the people around her as possible.

The Herrscher of Corrosion will be sublimated after the death of the original Herrscher. Yaezakura's current state is no different from the latent Herrscher of Corrosion, and the concentration of Honkai energy is even higher than that of the Herrscher of the normal state...

"Don't worry, I'm fine."

Looking at her friend who was full of worry, the cherry-haired girl forced a smile on her pale face and gently tapped the cluster of tails behind her waist with her fingers.

"But big sister..."

"Although we don't belong to this era, but... I am willing to protect the world that Kallen wants to protect."

As Yaezakura spoke, an invisible translucent barrier enveloped her body, isolating all the Herrscher energy that was escaping from her body inside the barrier...

Because of the nature of corroding the Herrscher, as long as the Herrscher's original body is not dead, the Ultimate Virus as the main body will not erupt. In other words, as long as Yaezakura maintains this state while ensuring safety, the arrival of the next Sequence Collapse can be almost infinitely delayed.

When the energy that erodes the Herrscher is too full, it will also harm the Herrscher himself who has not yet sublimated, prompting him to awaken his true power after his death.

However, Yaezakura is not so easily defeated by Honkai erosion. With the current energy intensity of the Herrscher Honkai Energy, it would take at least several months to corrode her to death as a pseudo-Herscher.

775 Source: Corrosion Herrscher >>

In the completely abandoned site of Saint Freya, she didn't have to worry about any unlucky person getting close to her and bringing the virus that corroded the Herrscher out of this sea area.

Of course, this is only a theoretical situation. The Honkai Will can actively control the progress of Honkai. Facing Yaezakura's deliberate interference, it is impossible for it to remain silent...

Boom——! !

As if a prophecy had come true, a huge wave suddenly appeared on the sea surface not far from the cherry-haired girl, as if something was rushing up from the sea...