K424 of the Collapse World

979 Three Souls

The moment they were covered by the spreading starry sky barrier, Xilin and the conscious girl's perception fell into darkness.

The moment they were drawn in, they roughly knew what was happening. It was a special Herrscher of the End that appeared directly in the imaginary passage, and a huge body instantly constructed with void energy, directly merging the two of them into it.

The two girls continued to fall in the endless darkness. Faced with this unknown situation, no matter whether they had different opinions or not, they could only hold each other's hands tightly to avoid being separated in this strange space.

Perhaps, this place can no longer be called "space", because Xilin, who controls the power of the void, cannot use the power of the Herrscher to cause any interference effect here. The black domain of annihilation without a trace of light is as ethereal but solid as a solidified dream.

The feeling of weightlessness continued, and time and space seemed to have no meaning. The eternal dark realm was enough to slowly wipe out the consciousness of any living being in the eternal time. In the girl's feeling, her thinking and perception were slowly becoming numb, and even the concept of thought itself began to blur, as if the whole person was being dissolved and assimilated by this darkness...

Ah, that's right. The Herrscher's semi-energy body is a creation of Honkai energy, and the power of the Herrscher of the End is the ultimate power created by integrating the laws of all the Herrschers. Isn't it normal that it can assimilate energy creations that are weaker than other Honkai laws?

Of course, this is different from the situation just now. If it is just a Herrscher of Constraint transformed by the Law of the End, then after merging itself, the fusion of two consciousnesses of the same level will affect each other's essence, just like when you mix sugar water and salt water together, you can easily get a solution that has the properties of both and tastes salty and sweet.

But if it is a true Herrscher of the End, which is no different from a high-level life form, it will not allow the souls of each other to merge when absorbing other consciousnesses. When the souls of low-level life and Herrscher of the End come into contact, it is like pouring ordinary clean water into molten iron. The former will only be easily evaporated by the high temperature of the latter, and will not mix like salt water and sugar water.

One's own Honkai energy will be swallowed up by the infinitely dense energy body of the Herrscher of the End, and the remaining consciousness and soul will be shattered and eliminated like evaporating water, and ultimately nothing will be left.

Is this my end?

There is no success or failure, just like a moth chasing after a flame, trying its best but destined to perish...

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

correct......

Is that stupid pufferfish still by my side?

Is her hand still intertwined with mine?

By the way, what does it feel like to shake hands?

Feeling? Feeling... How strange, what does this word mean...

strangeness......?

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

The impressionistic memory images gradually disintegrated, and the deepest knowledge and common sense in the memory continued to become more and more blurred. The girl was still trying to keep her thoughts flowing, but she had almost forgotten why she should keep thinking.

Why do we insist on maintaining our own identity amidst the assimilation of consciousness?

Why should I endure the pain of mental detachment?

End this

Isn't it natural to endure an endless torture, calmly accept being devoured by higher-level life, and turn your humble and insignificant self into nutrients for the great existence?

Why even...

The gradually crumbling will constantly impacts the fighting faith engraved in the heart. And how long can the faith, which has lost even the memory of the meaning of existence and is broken to pieces, persist in a place where time and space do not exist?

Degeneration and defeat were the outcomes that were destined for her the moment she was thrown into this dead and silent dark area.

If nothing unexpected happens...

enough!

Since this meaningless soul is already a mental torture, why should I add to my own suffering?

As long as I give up the meaningless struggle and let the remaining consciousness melt into this eternal hell, the real me will be able to break free from it and find happiness, right?

Just make...such a small decision.

The girl loosened her hands unconsciously, letting go of Xilin, who had long lost her deep consciousness, and opened her arms towards the darkness that embraced her, completely exposing her long-guarded heart to the erosion of the end.

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The dark void rushed towards the girl's soul, and in a moment it was enough to crush this fragile little consciousness and turn it into pure energy for digestion and absorption.

However, before that, within the huge entity of the End, there was an independent will that was parallel to the entity of the End, and its gaze always followed the girl.

She will definitely not sit back and watch all this happen...

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The next moment, the dark substance that looked solid but actually looked like fluid suddenly stagnated as it poured into the girl's thin energy body, and was gradually covered by a layer of dim rusty light.

The time imprint embedded in her soul, which had been suppressed by the law of the end, resumed operation due to some interference, pausing the energy of the end that could not have been affected at this moment.

The world where time and space do not exist is given the concept of time by the laws at this moment.

Faintly, a voice quietly came into the girl's mind when she stopped thinking.

"I will never... let you fail..."

"My ■■■......"

Whose voice?

I can't remember clearly...but it's very familiar, as if in a long lost memory, this voice always lingers in my ears...

As the echo in her ears became clearer, the silver-haired girl's stagnant consciousness began to waver. She suddenly realized that her vision was no longer pitch black, and a soft glow was reflected in her field of vision, blooming in all directions like stars surrounding the celestial body.

"This is......"

She looked at the points where the stars converged in all directions in confusion. The pictures formed by the interweaving of light and shadow showed a series of familiar plots. Fragmented memories flowed through her eyes like water, flashing in front of her eyes one after another as the trajectories of the stars changed, and then, with the girl's position as the top, a tower of galaxies intertwined countless times formed under her feet and fixed on the dark realm.

"I remember now. These are my memories... all of them. In the same dimension, the branching world lines that were caused by the fluctuations of the timeline. I have clear memories of every world line I have ever had..."

Looking at those memory scenes that were distant but enough to give her a glimpse of the whole picture at a glance, the girl lowered her head and muttered to herself. Then she was suddenly stunned, turned around quickly, and grabbed Xilin who was about to float out of the Star Dome Tower.

Only after experiencing it can you know how terrifying the solidified energy of the end is. In short, you must never come into contact with it easily again...

Pulling Xilin, who had a dazed look in her eyes, to her side, she looked at the purple-haired girl who was unable to think for a moment, thought for a moment, then raised her hand and slapped Xilin twice on the face.

“Ouch! What?! What happened?”

"You know what? If you stop thinking you'll turn into stone."

Looking at Miss Xilin who was suddenly awakened, the girl gently and gracefully withdrew her hand, straightened her wrinkled sublimation dress, and spoke slowly.

"Welcome back to this world, my friend. If there was time here before, you would have been in a daze for centuries. Of course, so am I."

"What's with the Stone Age... Why did you hit me all of a sudden? Also, why do you sound like Otto when you talk? It's so uncomfortable to hear..."

Xilin touched her swollen cheek and glanced at the girl beside her unhappily. But the next moment, she jumped up in shock at the sight in front of her.

“Eh~~! What the hell is going on?! Stars… Is this the universe? Where is our planet? Has the Earth exploded?!”

"Um...you really don't remember what happened?"

"Eh? I remember... we were fighting the Herrscher of Constraint. Oh yeah! She suddenly said a bunch of nonsense and turned into a real Herrscher of the End. Then her body suddenly grew bigger and swallowed both of us..."

"It seems that your memory is still good.

Clear. That's right, this is the unknown substance formed by the precipitation of imaginary energy in the body of the Herrscher of the End. Can it be regarded as the organ of the Herrscher of the End?"

The girl who had lost her mortal will said lightly, without any panic of being in trouble.

At this time, she didn't know that an uninvited visitor had already arrived at the bottom of the Starry Sky Tower.

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Tick ​​tock…

A drop of water quietly dripped onto the terminal's motherboard casing, but the high-intensity mechanical temperature evaporated it instantly, leaving only an inconspicuous water stain on the mechanical casing.

Rita didn't know that cold sweat was already breaking out on her palms as she gripped the controller.

It is now 21:37 European time, which is usually the time when night falls, which matches the starry sky above our heads perfectly.

If it were any other time, she would definitely take Bianca with her to enjoy this rare night view. In Europe, where industrial pollution is rampant, it has been a long time since there was a night with stars like this.

It would have been a very beautiful night if it weren't for the woman's face staring at the surface.

The brown-haired girl stared at the terminal screen, using the machine screen to monitor the silver-haired woman's every move in the night sky, ready to respond to attacks from outside the universe at any time.

The controller in her hand is the battleship's particle fission missile launch command key, and it is also the only means for this destiny battleship to deal with large-scale targets at present.

Not long ago, the Anti-Entropy Moonlight Throne launched an interception attack on the palm of the Ruler of the End before the launch of the new strategic missile of Destiny, and successfully prevented the palm from touching the surface.

When will the Herrscher of the End attack next time? And will she use this simple and crude touch attack next time?

But can the fission and fusion weapons that humans are so proud of really stop the final punishment of Honkai?

have no idea......

Everything is unknown.

No one knows what the Herrscher, whose size far exceeds that of the planet, will do next.

"…at fifteen minutes and forty-five seconds, there was no apparent movement of the target."

"Received. Continue to maintain full scan monitoring."

Rita briefly replied to the monitoring station's scheduled communication, her eyes always focused on the Herrscher on the screen. At this moment, as the commander of one of the remaining flagships, she was wearing neither the captain's uniform of Tianming nor her usual iconic maid outfit.

The Valkyrie sitting on the bridge was only wearing the inner lining operating suit of the Valkyrie armor. Her messy short hair was stained by the previous battle. Her usual refinement and elegance were completely gone.

This unprecedented disaster took away all the elegance of the maid. The calm smile on her face could no longer be seen, and her heavy and solemn tone was no longer as friendly and gentle as usual.

Despair spreads rapidly in the fear of the crowd, and the iron will cannot stop the coldness that penetrates deep into the bone marrow. When there is no hope of victory in the dark future, even if the protesters have an unwavering spiritual leader and a great goal that they cannot shirk, the spiritual power possessed by mortals is by no means eternal.

Even Rita could only watch her courage gradually drain away in the corroded sense of despair, and everything in her sight gradually turned gray...

Would things have been different if Bianca had been here?

"Without density or mass, the aether meter cannot determine her size, the induction ray cannot measure her distance from the earth, and even my Herrscher core cannot capture the resonance of the Herrscher's Houkai energy..."

Sitting among countless huge technological creations, Iselin looked up at the sky where light and darkness were intertwined, and threw some instrument in her hand into the distance.

The machine broke into a pile of blue light before it even hit the ground, and dissipated in the wind.

"I totally cannot understand how this mistake that completely disregards the laws of physics can create a four-dimensional entity and interfere with this dimension."

The mental fatigue that had not yet been relieved fermented into an increasingly irritable mood in the girl's heart, which burst out along with the oppressive feeling in the air.

Obviously, a Herrscher whose size is comparable to that of a star would be more difficult to deal with than a Herrscher of Corrosion who is completely out of control.

Iselin, Walter, Siegfried, Mei, Seele, Bronya and other fighters who could still be connected were now on the deck of the Moonlight Throne. Listening to Iselin's complaints, the others who were not knowledgeable enough had no way to join in the conversation, and the stiff atmosphere continued to solidify on the battleship in the sky.

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Although we still cannot contact the Far East Branch's base terminal, considering that the influence of the Herrscher of Corrosion has disappeared, the companions who stayed there should be fine...

Siegfried looked around and took a step closer to Iseline with a wry smile.

"As I recall, the ability of the Ruler of Reason is to understand and reproduce, right? In other words, if Dr. Iselin can see through the true nature of that super-sized Ruler, she can create an identical Ruler of Reason?

"

"Mr. Siegfried, I'm not in the mood to joke right now. Humph... But even if I live until the moment my sanity is worn out, I still can't understand the existence of something like that."

Glancing at Siegfried, Iselin gently massaged her bloodshot eyeballs, and her pupils once again transformed into orange-gold gear patterns. In the blink of an eye, blue light particles of structural energy surged like a wave, creating more mechanical creations in the airspace around the Moonlight Throne.

By perfecting the prototype of future technology with one's own strength and installing the basic rules of the Key of God on it, perhaps he could cause some damage to the Ruler of the End.

After all, she seemed a little afraid of the Holy Judge of Heavenly Fire...

Looking at her current strongest creation, Iselin sighed softly.

The advanced technology that does not belong to this era is enough to travel the entire dimensional universe without restrictions. A few years ago, it would have been easy to crush the Destiny Organization. But to be an opponent of the Herrscher of the End, her evolution stage as a Herrscher of Reason is far from enough...

The huge woman who seemed to occupy the starry sky like a projection was still standing clearly at the limit of the sky's boundary, silently looking down at the blue planet which was as big as an apple to her.

The strongest ruler who can judge everything in the world with a wave of her hand, what would the world look like when reflected in her eyes?

If we say that at the beginning of its advent, the Herrscher of the End, whose self-consciousness has not yet fully awakened, is like a "giant baby" born out of thin air in the universe, exploring the vast empty space in front of it in ignorance.

Even if he could sense a hint of danger from the spark of destruction, as a child with no ability to distinguish, he would not easily let go of the only toy in front of him...

Bronya, who seemed to be in a daze, suddenly looked stern.

"The Herrscher has taken action."

The gloomy atmosphere was instantly torn apart by the warriors' sharp spirit. Mei was the first to spread her lightning wings and soar into the air. The purple lightning light reached the outermost part of the atmosphere in an instant.

"Wait, did she just move?"

"Stupid uncle, don't forget that light also has a propagation speed. The visual image and the reality millions of kilometers away are not happening synchronously!"

Although the silver-haired Herrscher in his sight had not made any move, upon hearing this, Siegfried hurriedly drew out the Key of God and was about to combine his two guns into sword hilts, but the change came faster than he could move.

A finger that has far exceeded the speed of light in the four-dimensional limit, but has not destroyed the structure of space at all, fell rapidly from the starry sky, breaking through the atmosphere of the planet in just a moment, carrying with it the hot air flow caused by friction and burning, like a rapidly enlarging black dot, instantly occupying the original color of the starry sky...

If the palm pressing down before was just a slight caress, then this time the finger poking down was with the intention of poking a hole in the "marshmallow", resulting in using two points more force.