K424 of the Collapse World

Looking down at the broken mountains and rivers beneath the clouds, the tiny urban settlements no longer had any buildings left, and some were even left with only a few burning embers. The devastating natural disasters came indiscriminately, and no trace of civilization could survive the fleeting divine punishment.

"Civilization... can only reach nirvana when it is on the verge of destruction... Uh——"

"Alright, alright, why am I wasting time talking to a puppet that just follows orders? I've heard all these self-deceiving rhetoric so many times that my ears are callused... Do you really have to give yourself a legitimate reason before launching Honkai?"

The fingers pinching her throat suddenly tightened, squeezing the silver-haired girl's whisper back into her throat, forcing her to swallow it. Xilin then brushed away the messy hair on her temples, continued to look at the girl's body in her hands, and frowned slightly.

"To be honest, I don't know how to comment on your behavior of wasting K's experimental subjects. Although they are all unconscious and soulless bodies, they are no different from dead people if left alone...

However, you gave them fragments of their souls, allowing them to obtain simulated personalities that are different from each other, but you also distorted their thinking and manipulated them like Yuri to be cannon fodder and go to battlefields everywhere.

I don't understand, since you are capable of doing such a terrible thing, why do you still need to follow Shirley's logic to find excuses for yourself?

Don’t you feel you are contradictory?”

She stared into the eyes of the silver-haired girl, watching the fire of life in those calm blue eyes gradually extinguish, but she could never see through the deep, dark soul of the person behind the scenes.

How could the unwavering will of the soul that is personally at the helm of the Honkai Will be shaken by mere words?

"My trial is... the choice of truth."

"Yeah."

The last glimmer of expectation in Xilin's eyes dimmed, and her cold inverted cross-shaped pupils no longer had any mercy.

"You... an abnormal individual who betrayed yourself... your end will be soon..."

"I am always waiting for your personal arrival, Ms. Herrscher. But now, the poor puppet lady has to go on her way~☆"

955 The End >>

Black light covered the girl without any struggle. The extreme gravity wave condensed the space into a dark solid state, which merged and swallowed the surrounding transparent space, and resumed flowing after a few milliseconds.

After a fleeting interweaving of black and white, of the two figures in the center of the halo, only the purple-haired girl was left. The silver-haired girl who was swallowed by the darkness had no body left, and only a few faint light spots like dust remained, swirling up in the wind field at high altitude, drifting, and finally dissolving into the spreading endless starry sky.

"..."

On one of the countless floating islands, a man with white hair and blue clothes raised his hand and brushed it across the sky, then clenched his palm with a solemn expression, as if he wanted to catch the dissolving light particles.

"Don't be so sad, Mr. Siegfried."

A petite figure with pure white skin appeared silently beside the man.

"Even if they are filled with soul fragments, they are ultimately just a thought of mine, a false existence born of an idea. Their broken wills cannot withstand any test, and they can only retain a little bit of their unique personality under the control of their original bodies - they are different from Diana and the real me."

"I'm sorry, but I just can't accept it so easily... Watching a child who looks like my daughter die in front of my eyes."

Hearing this, the girl raised her eyebrows, thought for a while in distress, and clapped her hands lightly.

"Then...why not think of them as biological weapons specially made by the enemy, whose purpose is to make you waver and unable to take action? Wouldn't it be easier to accept if you think about it this way?"

"Ah... If that's the case, then I'm afraid I'll die at the hands of those cute biological weapons..."

Siegfried's arms slowly dropped, but he still held his head high, his cheek still facing the starry sky above him - he was so tall that the girl standing next to him couldn't see his expression at all, and didn't know whether he was joking or really fell into pessimism.

So the girl kicked him hard in the calf.

"Hiss! What are you doing......?"

"Siegfried, I know you are emotional and indecisive, but there is not enough time for you to play with emotional sublimation now."

As she spoke, the girl looked at

Lightly indicated a direction.

"Besides, even if you have nothing to do right now, at least don't make others worry about you and become uneasy."

"...?"

Siegfried followed her gaze and saw a silver-haired woman with a worried and bewildered look on her face. The moment her eyes met his, she hurriedly looked away and hid behind a rock formation with her spear in hand.

"Cecilia..."

"I'm not interested in your affairs, and I don't bother to meddle in them. But even if it's for the sake of the other me over there, for her grand plan to end the Honkai, at least manage your own thoughts and emotions, okay?"

"I'm really sorry, Shirley... I will adjust these as soon as possible, um... the hidden dangers in my mentality."

Siegfried apologized as sincerely as possible, secretly glanced at the silver-haired girl who had a cold expression and was as delicate as a doll, and couldn't help but break the stiff atmosphere and take the initiative to talk to her.

"By the way, Shirley...what is your current condition like? Sorry, I still don't quite understand..."

"Ah, I have already explained this question a long time ago, right? Although the me in front of you - Experimental Subject K476 carries the so-called main consciousness, I don't have the personality will of the triple soul, and I don't have the human thinking factor, so I am naturally incomplete. In short, you don't have to think of me as the Shiris you know. I can't do anything now."

"But your power is genuine, right? That kid...even Xilin suffered at your hands. If we encounter more clones like that in the future, we can still fight side by side like before, right?"

"According to Xiao Xilin, the Ruler of Constraint is still unaware of my existence... or rather, she is still not sure that I am the original consciousness that was missed. So according to her plan, I cannot appear in the perception range of the clone in any form, nor can I get close to the reborn Ruler of Corrosion. Contact with either of them may make the Ruler behind the scenes alert."

The girl yawned with her hands covering her mouth, and seemed to have seen through Siegfried's awkwardness of trying to find a topic to talk about in order to avoid embarrassment. She turned around and left the slowly descending floating rock mountain.

"Anyway, we can only trust her now."

956 Collapse Stage

After the Herrscher's Ring behind Xilin disappeared, it broke free from the rock and soil in the field of gravity and fell back to the ground under the gravity of the earth, roughly filling the potholes and depressions left over from the previous battle when the mountains and rivers were uprooted, turning them into a rocky hill shaped like a hill.

This is the mountain range in the far east. The area within a thousand miles where the battle broke out has become a veritable no-man's land. Ninety percent of the wild animals in the wilderness and mountains were wiped out in the aftermath of the battle between the Herrschers. The only "living things" left are probably those thick-skinned and thick-fleshed Honkai creatures.

However, they were buried hundreds of meters underground along with the fallen rocks and should not be able to drill out on their own.

"...Speaking of which, there's absolutely no need for you to make such a fuss."

After the silver-haired girl said goodbye to Siegfried and left alone, she walked out along the earth and rock gullies of the battlefield. After a few steps, she saw a familiar figure next to a pile of tall wind-eroded rock formations.

The purple-haired girl was hanging in the air with her arms folded, her body slightly tilted, leaning against the air wall, looking at the approaching silver-haired girl, and slowly descending.

"The energy and precision of the laws of those clones are so great that with your strength, you can win with just the power of space. I don't quite understand why... you are always obsessed with destroying the terrain on a large scale in battle?"

"Because fighting like this helps to relieve my mood~☆ Humph! You definitely can't understand how bad my experience of dealing with the Destiny Anti-Entropy World Snake has been these days, especially that green-faced Kevin, who dared to use me blatantly and even admitted it openly..."

When facing the short silver-haired girl, Xilin obviously took off all her usual disguises, and came to her side casually with her hands under her head, and walked side by side to the flat ground at the edge of the gravel pit.

When treating "yourself", there is no need for so many red tape.

"You waited for me here just to complain?"

"Of course not... Hmm? That can be considered one of the purposes. After all, I have to maintain my image as a Herrscher, and I can't complain to Bella and the others, nor can I tell these things to the Siegfrieds. What if they see how upset I am and scare away these two rare allies?"

The broken rock surface was reshaped under Xilin's feet, extending into a stable and flat land. Even the small hills with a drop of dozens of meters were leveled, forming a path full of incongruity in the gravel river, extending all the way to the abandoned city in the distance.

It was obvious that she only needed a short-range teleportation to fly out, but she insisted on using this more energy-consuming and troublesome method. This only proved that she really liked to make a scene - in the physical sense.

"Have you really decided on that matter? I mean..."

"Don't underestimate my awareness. Do you think I'm as indecisive as some people?"

Xilin interrupted the girl and raised her head proudly.

He raised his head and glanced to the side with a slightly dissatisfied look.

"Are you really not worried about the girls of Saint Freya? Not to mention those Valkyries who are strangers and have no relatives, and those little Herrschers who are capable of protecting themselves, but your Aunt Jizi and Theresa are still in the Far East Base. If I remember correctly, that was one of the first areas to be attacked by the Herrschers of Corrosion..."

"do not worry."

The girl shook her head without hesitation.

"The Far East Branch has Jizi and Jiuxiao here, and Theresa's injuries will be healed this morning. I believe in their abilities. Saint Freya is capable of clearing the Herrscher of Corrosion on her own, and can also handle the attacking clones independently. There is nothing to worry about."

"What if something unexpected happens? If you ask me to, it's not impossible for me to go back and save a few mortals..."

"Considering the results, the matter here is obviously more important. As long as we can successfully deal with the Herrscher that occupies my body, the derivatives of the Herrscher's power will naturally dissipate."

"Hehe...Okay. If it was you in the past, you would have put down everything at hand to keep them safe. How could you be so rational and cold-blooded like you are now? But looking at it this way, the cold-blooded you now is more pleasing to the eye~"

Looking sideways at the girl walking side by side, Xilin raised her eyebrows slightly. From the girl's eyes, she could not see any emotional fluctuations, and it seemed that she did not care how many people Saint Freya knew, nor did she care what kind of things they would encounter.

The current "Cilissa" is such an existence. Although I know what happened to her, this state is still a bit strange...

Noticing Xilin's gaze, the girl revealed an intriguing smile at the corner of her mouth.

"Alas... Actually, in my current state, it doesn't matter whether I'm on the Civilization side or the Honkai side. I can even roll the dice to decide which side to join. But now, the Herrscher who calls herself Silis on the Honkai side wants my life, so I can only choose to help you. But - I didn't expect that Miss Silin, who has threatened to destroy the world many times, actually plans to become a hero to save humanity?"

956 Collapse Stage >>

"Isn't it because your damned Asasi has overflowed into my brain? We all used the same body in the beginning, and your early memories and thoughts have already soaked the other parallel consciousnesses. How could a weak Herrscher personality like mine, who has been abandoned by Honkai, be spared?"

"Like Diana?"

"I almost forgot that she is one of 'us'. Tsk... I still don't want to admit that my genes will breed that kind of silly and cheerful optimist..."

Xilin snorted lightly, but suddenly burst out laughing.

"Hehe... Because you were forced to choose humanity because you were hunted by the Herrscher, you still care about your own life, don't you? Just from this point of view, your so-called absolute rationality doesn't seem to be so absolute."

"I never said anything about absolute rationality. I just lost the will of two souls and the goal of moving forward and striving... Compared to absolute rationality, I am now more like a lost otaku who has lost all hope and can't get excited about anything. As expected~ People can't live without dreams, no matter how small the dream is..."

The girl looked into the distance, but was suddenly blocked by an impatient hand.

"You know, the way you talk to yourself when you sigh is really stupid and boring, and it makes people want to interrupt. I want to know, has anyone ever complained about the way you sigh before?"

"Eh... it seems like there was. Someone did say something similar a long time ago, but I can't remember it clearly. I'm afraid it was an experience from another world line..."

Seeing the girl's thoughts drifting away again, Xilin sighed helplessly and turned her gaze back to the long path in front of her.

Before I finish the remaining chores, I should stop chatting with this stupid "me"...

Vienna, Austria, is a city suspended in the sky above the Danube Canal. The eternal floating island where the headquarters of Heaven's Mandate is embedded in the sky is slowly sliding down from a fixed height...

With the full-scale invasion of the Corrosion Ruler, the floating island has lost its most important anti-gravity system and levitation force field. At the same time, the collapsed insurance system can no longer support this urban island with a radius of tens of kilometers. The sky base, which symbolizes the eternal immortality of destiny, can no longer maintain this symbolic meaning.

The huge floating island lost its optical camouflage and was completely revealed, and slowly fell, but the ordinary citizens below had no time to pay attention to this spectacle falling from the sky. The factor of the Herrscher's erosion spread unhindered, and had already permeated the world's major cities and settlements along the Internet. Only a small amount of erosion factor was enough to control a large range of electronic machinery and turn it into part of the collapse...

"Destiny...Destiny's robots are killing people!!"

"How could these divine machines suddenly go out of control? Where have all the Valkyries of Destiny gone?!"

"Omnic Crisis! This is an Omnic Crisis!!"

"I've already said those messy things.

Armed groups cannot be trusted! Everyone, run away...”

"..."

The shattered streets were filled with all kinds of chaos, with rebellious mechas and out-of-control sentry guns indiscriminately attacking everything within range. These heavy firepower weapons developed for large Honkai beasts were simply impossible for the Valkyries stationed in the city to contend with, let alone defending the city, and even protecting themselves was in jeopardy.

On the slowly falling floating island, the remaining Valkyrie troops are struggling to fight against the out-of-control cluster of divine machines. Even if the remaining control system of the floating island can barely allow the island to land safely, if the Valkyries fighting against the divine machines are defeated, the base with multiple Houkai reactors will still not be spared...

Then, a certain bishop hiding in the dark finally couldn't sit still anymore.

"Bianca, go help the Valkyrie troops in the headquarters. The Swift I's landing glider has no electronic equipment. Now that the barrier has been lifted, you can evacuate directly from the edge of the headquarters."

"Yes, Lord Bishop."

Without saying anything nonsense, the Valkyrie in golden armor rushed out of the door of the Thousand Worlds One Carriage, dragging an arc of light towards the floating island that was getting bigger and bigger in the sky.

Otto looked at the city that was heading towards destruction, shook his head helplessly, closed the hatch of the Second God's Key again, and drove the space-transportation train into the void.

"It's earlier than expected... If the trial is really just a cover, I'm afraid there is no other choice."

In this stage of collapse, if humanity still has room to breathe, the remaining civilizations will unconditionally unite, at least on the surface...

Therefore, it is not yet time to abandon the identity of the Bishop of Heaven's Destiny.

957 Origin

Sleep, sleep...

When you wake up again, the world will still be beautiful.

The evergreen forest, the birds singing the praises of life, the fish swimming in the pond... everything will return to its original state. The end of the cycle of destruction is the beginning of a new life, and your obsession is just a grain of sand in the passing era.

Please rest in peace, no need for pain, no need for sorrow...

Go to sleep...

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

In the distant past, when the cycle of civilization changed again, in a land where time and space stopped flowing, a silver-haired female god stood on the surface of an empty planet and sprinkled the last handful of dust on a small mound of earth, completing a simple tomb.

She buried the last warrior who had fought till the end of the era and never gave up on the final battlefield, allowing his indomitable will to return to this land, awaiting the fate of meeting him again in the next reincarnation.

"This is the first time... a mortal has penetrated the defenses of the Herrscher and injured the incarnation of the god blessed by the will of Honkai."

She whispered as she stood in front of the grave of her former enemy, touching her palm to the small mound of earth.

"You are really strong... In the past, those fragile civilizations that set foot in the universe but were only superficial could never let me strike a second blow, let alone a confrontation of equal strength. But you have done what countless civilizations have not been able to do..."

As she whispered, she seemed to have returned to the moonless night when the final judgment came. The human civilization on the verge of extinction was already a candle in the wind. People fled in all directions to save their lives, and could no longer gather any decent forces. In the end, the only thing that stood in front of her, the Herrscher of the End, was a small resistance force that could be called a mob. Under the leadership of a young human, they launched an unpredictable charge towards the sky.