K424 of the Collapse World

"...We will convey your reply to Councillor Aniot of the Kaslana family."

Finally, the leading woman nodded expressionlessly and did not waste any more words on this topic. The negotiation recorder covered the entire process, so even if the mission failed, she would not have to bear any extra responsibility.

Therefore, when the team was leaving, the female leader no longer confronted Asakura Miyuki, but instead gave her a respectful and apologetic smile and waved her hand kindly.

Even though she is a special type of Valkyrie who is far away from the front battlefield, she still has the highest respect and admiration for her colleagues who defeated the Herrscher, even though the relationship between the two sides is not harmonious due to some historical issues...

............

A moment later, watching the transport plane escort quietly set sail after being parked for less than half an hour, leaving Hyperion in the twilight, Asakura Miyuki took a deep breath, hugged the silver-haired girl behind him and sat back in the transfer cabin.

"Senior Asakura, do we need to report the visit of the headquarters executive officer to the commander of the Infinite Tower?"

"No, Ms. Himeko is very busy right now, and it's not important anyway."

Taking her gaze away from the glass window of the cabin, Asakura Miyuki shook her head lightly, then disbanded her team members and continued to stay alone in the deserted passage with the silver-haired girl.

The damage that the Far East branch suffered in the Honkai disaster was...very serious, so serious that there was no need for large-scale search and rescue work. Most of the Far East members were idle, which was in stark contrast to the overloaded medical department.

"Miyuki-sister..."

"Don't worry, Lady Shilis entrusted you to me, so I won't hand you over to anyone else!"

Looking at the girl who was hesitant to speak, Asakura Miyuki thought she was still worried about what happened just now, so she hurriedly comforted her, selectively forgetting that K476 had a very complicated identity.

Of course, she also failed to notice the gleam of brilliance in the depths of the silver-haired girl's eyes.

"No, Miyuki-nee... I, I actually want to ask you for a favor..."

However, before K476 could finish her words, a tall shadow suddenly loomed over their heads.

Asakura Miyuki, who had already noticed it, blinked her eyes. The visit of this uninvited guest was unexpected, but the other party's identity was not unfamiliar to her.

In the Far East’s sphere of influence, there is probably only one strong man with white hair like him.

"Siegfried Kaslana...Mr.?"

Although we are not strangers, we can only be considered friends of friends and are not familiar at all.

"Excuse me, ladies."

Siegfried nodded, with a forced smile, and sat down opposite Asakura Miyuki. Miyuki could clearly see that the man looked much more haggard than usual, and it was obvious that he had used the life-burning God's Key a lot in the recent disaster. But in the end, the reason for his extremely bad look at the moment seemed to be due to other things...

"Would you mind chatting with us for a while?"

"Ah? Um..."

Asakura Miyuki nodded hesitantly, but when she realized the word "we" in Siegfried's words just now, she suddenly noticed that on the other side of the white-haired man, there was a petite purple-haired girl who had followed him and sat at the edge of the transfer cabin. She was swinging her legs and looking at her with an ambiguous smile.

She seemed to not belong to this world, like a phantom with no sense of existence, as if she would turn into nothingness in the next moment...

After a brief hesitation, Asakura Miyuki finally noticed the girl's face, but before she could exclaim, another tall figure that appeared quietly caught her attention.

"Eh! Miss Bella?! Are you...are you guys...?!"

Before 945

evening

In the central area of ​​a prosperous city in North America, a tall building surrounded by administrative district buildings stands out from the surrounding low-rise buildings.

The United Nations headquarters building stands like a blue jadeite monument on the east side of Manhattan. Compared with the deliberately simple corporate architectural style of the Anti-Entropy headquarters, its unabashedly majestic and magnificent posture boldly declares the majesty of the world's largest intergovernmental international organization.

After all, the existence of the United Nations is known to everyone. It does not need to hide in the shadows and guard the civilization of humanity like the anti-Honkai organizations of the past.

A few months ago, this giant executive agency for international affairs did not need to deal with supernatural events.

However, as the surface of the Destiny Organization became more transparent, everything began to change...

"......Sir, the above is the resolution of the last session. According to statistics, the current member state satisfaction rate with the governance system of special organizations is only 23%, which is far lower than the forecast of the review team."

In a public office in the building, a young secretary in a suit and tie was reporting meticulously, handing a meeting report to the person in charge.

"I guess the places with the highest average opposition rates are probably Northern Europe and South America, right?"

Listening to the secretary's report, the white-haired old man sitting upright in the chair said lightly, adjusting his glasses. The fine wrinkles around the corners of his eyes could not hide his always sharp gaze.

"Those freaks of fate...even if they put themselves on a public platform, their dominance in local areas has not diminished at all. But it doesn't matter. As long as the decision-making remains the same, the simple support rate is not important."

Throwing the report aside casually, the old man picked up a communicator on the corner of the desk - it was not a common smart phone in the world, but a rare instrument that looked like those in modern science fiction works, with a frameless photon screen three-dimensionally mounted on the machine.

But in one particular organization, it is the most common communication device among employees.

Anti-Entropy - an alliance organization that unconditionally absorbs all valuable institutions. In the early days, it only relied on the qualitative change of strength caused by numbers to compete with the Mandate of Heaven. The connection between them and the United Nations is much closer than that of the lonely giant beast of the Mandate of Heaven.

"The Anti-Entropy Organization's North American headquarters was devastated by yesterday's sudden collapse incident. Has the authenticity of this news been confirmed?"

"Yes, all external facilities of the Anti-Entropy Headquarters, as well as more than 90% of the underground areas, were destroyed in the incident, with tens of thousands of casualties. Currently, it is being claimed that the explosion was caused by improper handling of industrial raw materials."

"Oh, it seems those freaks don't always get away with it unscathed."

The old man sighed with a hint of surprise, but there was no trace of surprise in his tone.

"Don't spread this news yet. Just explain to the public that it is consistent with the Anti-Entropy Headquarters. This matter is different from the past, and there is no need to provide assistance or negotiate in advance."

"But sir...Anti-Entropy still has a strategic partnership with us."

"We have to wait for Anti-Entropy to explain the situation first. After all, in terms of the principle of public interest, the impact of the Honkai disaster is secondary."

——What are the main aspects?

Thinking of this subconsciously, the secretary did not ask this unnecessary question, and blocked the question in his throat.

For the senior executives in their position, the Honkai incident was no different from natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis, which were natural disasters that ordinary people were powerless to prevent. And like other natural disasters, the losses they caused were always acceptable. Although the damage could be large or small, most of the time the impact was not even as good as a gas leak, and it was never out of control.

After all, in the thousands of years of civilization fighting against Honkai, the human side has never failed. No matter how terrifying and desperate the Honkai frenzy was in the eyes of ordinary people, it eventually fell to those anti-Honkai organizations. Even the truth was unknown to the people around them, as if the final victory of civilization was a matter of course.

Therefore, the so-called international organizations in the surface world, although they know the existence of the Honkai disaster, all they need to consider are confidentiality of the incident, political assistance, military transactions, technological communication... and a series of cooperation matters that can be classified as "interests", or support work.

Anyway, no matter how many times, the apostles of collapse will eventually be defeated by those special supernatural powers, and in the end only limited losses will be caused, which will not affect the pace of the entire world at all.

In this case, what else is there to worry about except eternal interests?

——But can it really go on like this?

With the scrutiny and skepticism of young people towards the system, the secretary left Shangguan's office, thinking expressionlessly.

He did not notice that the one-way camera hanging in the corner of the wall suddenly flashed at the moment he turned around. The fixed bracket that should have been welded to the wall seemed to have an extra steering axis, and it gently twisted an imperceptible angle towards the direction of the door. The glass surface of the lens reflected the back of the young secretary walking away.

"......"

On the eve of 945's arrival >>

No one saw this scene. The camera should have fed back the image in the database, which always maintained the original image without any abnormality, recording the deserted corner of the work area.

After a moment, the monitor silently turned to the other side, completely covering the elderly official on the side and below. The bright lens continued to expand its focus, glowing slightly under the light, like a strange eyeball full of malice.

The same situation appeared at the same time in more heavily guarded high-level areas, spreading along the terminals of the network, maximizing the erosion factor of the command coordination...

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"The trial has begun."

The silver-haired woman who was sitting leaning against the suspended crystal stood up quietly at this moment. The dim luster of her golden-purple eyes bloomed again, and the energy that shook the sky was no longer suppressed by any will.

Even though the scale of this desolate imaginary world far exceeds that of the universe, the local space still collapses due to the annihilation of the rapidly expanding high-concentration energy, dyeing the already dim purple sky into an even gloomier dark world, and then distorted by her explosive will.

The seeds of destruction have sprouted, and the inertia of civilization will no longer exist. At this moment - there is no need to wait.

"You want to crush everything you once cherished into pieces in your palms?"

"Because this is the only way to redemption, I have never hesitated and will never regret it."

The silver-haired Herrscher muttered to himself in response to the voice that echoed in his heart.

At this point, the source of the thought rooted in her mind finally couldn't help but reveal its own existence.

However, the Herrscher knew of her existence from the beginning, and never considered her a threat despite her weakness.

"The only way? Whether it's destiny, anti-entropy, or the world serpent, there is never only one way to fight the collapse. Even Kevin's Stigmata Plan is a hundred times better than your passive choice!"

"But that is wrong after all. Even if I stop doing anything, time will witness their failure. And this time, I do not intend to leave any chance for the foolish struggles of mortals."

"Then you should admit that you are a fake created by the Honkai Will, because... the real you would never say such nonsense!"

The excited voice in her heart became louder, and the girl, whose soul had never collapsed, sternly rebuked, but the master of her will did not raise the slightest ripple.

“It doesn’t matter what I am now.”

"You are me, so you should know everything about my past. I once regarded the old man who helped me in times of crisis as everything in my life. I also regarded Kevin's grand ideas as my lifelong goal in my passion and generosity. I also made an agreement with Otto to go to the end of the quantum sea together, firmly believing in the path of salvation in the search for truth. But looking back, have the choices I made in the past ever led to a perfect ending of the end of collapse?"

"Even not long ago, I had clearly regained the memory of the past world line. Knowing all this, I still made such a vague and unrealistic plan, pinning my hopes on the completely unknown field, deceiving myself and repeating the same mistakes, trying to grasp the glimmer of hope of the ether anchor point, just to maintain those meaningless mortal desires?"

"Now, I have figured it all out. So, everything must change. Or do you still hold on to those vain plans, fantasizing about a happy ending where civilization can continue without shedding a drop of blood?"

"...So, you want to destroy it all yourself?"

"I won't deny it. I will use all my strength to try to annihilate all traces of civilization on the surface of the earth. No matter if it's a fully armed Valkyrie, an ignorant child, or an old, weak, or disabled person standing in front of me, I will treat them all equally. When the trial comes to a conclusion, if the power of civilization can defeat me at this moment, I will admit that they have the qualifications to upgrade and return the remaining body to you; if the civilization collapses and shatters under my power, it means that it is not the right time yet, and the civilization of this planet is not ready to challenge the laws of nature. I will end this era and leave hope for the new civilization of the next reincarnation - returning to reincarnation is not the end of human law. But if you rashly show your immature wings, you will usher in eternal damnation."

"Even if I have to sacrifice everything I value?"

"Even if it means sacrificing everything that I value as a mortal."

The Herrscher stretched out his hand and straightened out the distorted realm before him, as casually as if he were smoothing out a wrinkled piece of paper.

"Now, I am a Herrscher. Time and space open up paths for me, and the starry sky and the earth open their arms to me."

The rules of the imaginary world stabilized again, and the sub-space crystals were pieced together according to her will. Wherever the silver-haired god stepped, the crystals of power would be placed under her feet, forming an imaginary road leading to the end of the purple space.

"I am the Herrscher. The laws of the universe will submit to me and bring the gospel of rebirth to all living things."

Walking through the void, the precipitated crystals filled with Honkai energy shattered behind her, transforming into pure energy that filled the immortal Herrscher's body, allowing that energy that was infinitely close to eternity to continue to grow...

——Then, tear open the end of space.

Countdown to 946

clatter--

The precious fountain pen rolled down the tilted table,

Lying on the ground with a crisp echo, a few drops of ink splashed out from the damaged pen tip as it vibrated.

The employee of me company who was writing a report maintained a stiff posture of holding a pen at the desk, as if he was unaware that the pen in his hand had fallen.

The worker stared out the window—he didn't raise his head, but rolled his eyeballs upwards as far as he could, as if his body couldn't move anymore. He faced the window in front of him, and reflected the changes in the sky with his astonished pupils...

The cloudless sky was divided by darkness.

It was like cutting off the soft cream to reveal the dark baking pan underneath. Just as the plate must be larger than the cake itself, the sky, which should have been boundless, also lost its concept of infinity under this contrast, and was gradually occupied by the truly infinite dark universe behind it.

The pale blue reflection of the atmosphere is being stripped away bit by bit by some force, and the starlight of the Milky Way that cannot be covered by sunlight is gradually revealed from behind the fading blue sky...

Something was approaching from the depths of the stars in the universe. Even ordinary people with weak minds could clearly sense the unique and strong presence, and tremble at the oppressive feeling that came from the sky.

At this moment, no matter whether in the Far East or foreign countries, in villages or cities, no one raised their mobile phones to quickly capture the broken sky, no one talked loudly about the starlight appearing in the clear sky, and everyone was staring at the alien nebula that was eroding the blue sky.

On the other side of the planet, people in Europe and Africa also gazed at the other side of the sky dyed with black, which spread from the east to them like ink stains dripping on rice paper. Believers knelt down one after another, worshiping the nebula in accordance with their most instinctive reverence. The fear deep in their blood made them sure that it was a sign of the coming of the gods.

After all, even at a distance of tens of millions of kilometers, the oppressive aura that grips the hearts of mortals has not weakened in the slightest.

The whole world is silent here.

—Do you want to sound the alarm?

The anti-entropy observer at the sentry post sat in the cockpit, holding the mecha joystick tightly with both hands, relying on the familiar weapon keys to comfort himself. He stared blankly at the collapse of the sky, and after a few seconds, he showed a helpless and confused smile.

With such a scene, I’m afraid the entire Far East... no, at least the entire Eastern Hemisphere can see it clearly. What kind of reconnaissance alarm is needed?

bump--

Sure enough, the next moment he saw the deputy director of the Defense Department break open the door, rush out of the outpost hall with a blue face, and stagger towards the military building next to the base island.

As far as he could remember, the cold-blooded senior leader had never lost his temper like this.

For the people of this world, any supernatural phenomenon can only be explained by collapse. So, how outrageous a Herrscher of the Collapse could be to bring about a surge of power that is enough to cause the sky to collapse, the sun and the moon to retreat, and directly cover the entire planet?

The warrior's fiery courage had begun to crumble. True, he had once charged into battle in a Titan mecha, torn a bloody path through the hordes of Honkai creatures, and experienced countless life-threatening situations, as if fear had abandoned his spirit.

He also firmly believed that he would never be afraid of any strong enemy again.

However, if the enemy is not a silicon-based monster, but a "god" comparable to the starry sky and universe, even if he is schizophrenic and completely insane, he will not think that he can drive a lump of steel to burn a hole in the sky.

Even in the Second Honkai War, when human civilization was closest to extinction, the strongest Herrscher of the Sky was merely living in the sky and throwing meteorites. It was never the sky itself that fought desperately against the power of civilization!

But now...

The man's palms, which were tightly gripping the joystick, became increasingly slippery. Not only his palms, but his entire body was already soaked with cold sweat.