K424 of the Collapse World

Slightly concentrating her perception, she easily found traces of civilization on the surface. Countless cities and settlements were located between the north and south poles of the planet. An enormous amount of civilization information was being used.

All of a sudden, it flooded into Shilis's mind, allowing her to grasp the general information of the entire world civilization within a few milliseconds...

She saw the chaotic flow of people in the streets, countless mortals looking up at the sky above their heads, anxious shouts and chaotic collisions;

She saw halls and temples of strange shapes, and priests in gorgeous robes kneeling before the altars, mumbling obscure scriptures;

She saw the two armies fighting each other, more and more soldiers looking up at the sky, and the fierce battle gradually subsided;

Similar situations were happening in different countries at the same time. In addition, she also saw giant apes and flying dragons living in the depths of the snow-capped mountains, rock snakes and giant lizards entrenched in the valleys of the mountains and rivers, and trees in the forest with limbs and faces that looked like humans, communicating with birds and beasts on the branches that spoke human language without any obstacles...

1001 Recasting Ceremony >>

(Okay... I think I understand what happened)

Half a second later, Shiris ended her mental scanning state and retracted her mental energy that easily covered the entire planet into her body.

(First of all, my overall strength has been increased to an unprecedented level. The specific process of this change is still unclear, but the cause and conclusion should be as I expected...)

The girl felt the strange and surging energy in her body, and an unprecedented broad vision came into view as the last hazy trace of consciousness dissipated. If what happened just now happened to her in the past - not the degraded body like K476, but her peak period as K424's sublimated constraint herrscher, this kind of extreme precision mental perception that simultaneously reads the molecular level information of the entire planet would be enough to make her brain explode in an instant.

The power that completely surpasses that of a perfect body hermit. In Shiris's knowledge, only one kind of existence possesses such power...

(Secondly, this is definitely not the world I originally lived in... Not to mention the completely different cultures and races, even the mass and density of the planet are different from those of the Earth)

Turning her eyes to a small settlement somewhere, her vision easily crossed tens of thousands of kilometers of sky and took in the details of the interior of the settlement.

(Humanoids with pointy ears, humanoids with long tails, and non-humanoids with blue-green skin... Intelligent creatures on Earth are not that diverse)

The girl blinked her eyes and subconsciously raised her hand to clench it. With this action, the free elemental elements in the air gathered in her palm, and in the blink of an eye, the girl completed the molecular reorganization and structural fusion, turning into a small mirror that she held in her hand.

"It's okay...at least I'm still who I am."

Looking at her own face in the mirror, Shilis saw a face that was more like a loli than a girl, which was exactly the appearance of the replica when she and Xilin entered the imaginary channel not long ago.

So I am still k476......?

But why did he suddenly come to this inexplicable world? And how did he steal this power that might have come from the Herrscher of the End?

Her increasingly clear and agile thinking ability enabled her to quickly come up with a solution to the problem.

The girl slowly clenched her palm into a fist.

This new power should be able to tell me the answer...

In fact, the ultimate power of the first twelve conventional Herrschers was probably enough to cause mountains to collapse, the earth to split, the sea to break, and rivers to split, to wipe out or strip away a piece of civilization on land. As for the ultimate scale of the strongest law, it would not exceed the scale of a planet.

Although the Herrscher of Time is an exception, her ability to interfere with time is still limited. No matter how much Honkai energy she consumes, she can only make tiny adjustments on the axis of the four-dimensional time domain. She cannot achieve true time travel, nor can she intercept and edit a dimension of space-time.

But now, for Shiris, this kind of thing can be achieved with just a thought.

And the next moment, she did just that.

(It’s time to find out.)

As the dark golden domain covered everything in the air, the shackles of the laws of time and space were easily shattered by the girl's will. The one-way time axis was forcibly changed, and the course of the world began to reverse under her gaze.

If it was just a local reverse flow on a planet, even without using the power of time, she could still simulate the reverse flow of time in the material world by interfering with the trajectory of molecular motion. However, in the previous confrontation in the non-material realm, if she wanted to know the truth, she had to use this strongest power...

Soon, the silver-haired girl immersed in the golden barrier re-expanded her mental power, repeating the actions she had taken a few minutes ago to scan the world in reverse. The real Shilis watched quietly on the side, the future self who started the time reversal, looking down at all the actions of the past "self" on this timeline from a higher dimension. Before the girl took subjective actions in this world, when her consciousness was hazy and she had no perception of the outside world, Shilis slowly stopped the reversal of time, and made time completely stop at a certain moment.

"really......"

Watching the broken imaginary energy reassemble in the sky,

Transformed into a huge silver-haired woman that occupied most of the sky, Shilis' eyes narrowed slightly.

This should be the legendary Herrscher of the End, right? This must be the reason why ordinary people looked up at the sky before...

So, how did the Herrscher of the End turn into fragments in the normal time domain?

Shirley stretched out a finger and pointed at the air in front of her. As ripples of time and space spread out, her field of vision shifted. Somewhere inside the Sea of ​​End Consciousness, the confrontation between pure white and darkness appeared before her eyes again.

From the perspective of a bystander, she watched the moment when "herself" caught another silver-haired woman in the dark energy. After a brief thought, Silis resumed the flow of stopped time...

Then, with a little surprise, she saw the real final scene.

The silver-haired woman caught by "himself" was directly dissolved into pure black energy, and was instantly absorbed and assimilated by the girl who was close at hand. Afterwards, the spiritual energy space that lost control of the other master perfectly merged with the only spiritual body. The dark space immediately turned into pure white, and then collapsed, revealing a bewildered silver-haired girl in the imaginary fragments in the sky...

(I... really devoured the soul of the Herrscher of the End?!)

1002 Body and Soul & The World Bubble's Vision

Now that the conclusion has been reached, it's time to end the game of playing with time.

Shiris watched as the timeline began to replay the history of a few minutes ago. In order to avoid the causal collapse of the space-time paradox caused by the encounter between herself in different time domains, she erased the intercepted timeline without hesitation.

Thus, the dark golden world affected by the power of the law of time was covered by the second, deeper time domain. Shiris superimposed the time power and regressed the world to the state before "herself" used the time reversal at a higher level of time and space, thus erasing this world line that did not exist in the first place and returning to the original time and space coordinates.

"So, I am now the Herrscher of the End..."

As her mind became clearer, the nature of powers and foreign knowledge that were far beyond human imagination but could be understood by her slowly emerged in her mind.

There is no doubt that this is the instinct of the Herrscher of the End to control the laws of the universe. Shiris has only reached the limit of the Herrscher of Constraint. She has only a superficial understanding of the powers of other Herrschers, and she cannot comprehend so much knowledge of controlling the Honkai Impact by herself.

The principles of all things, the order of time and space, the reality of mass and energy...

The worry in the silver-haired girl's eyes gradually disappeared, replaced by a hint of confusion.

Why could a weak self devour the soul of the End? Even though she had become the Herrscher of the End, Shiris could not understand the principle of this phenomenon. After realizing this problem, she did not waste time thinking about it, but quickly shifted her attention to herself now.

If I cannot analyze the cause of the change of the energy of the end, it means that my power is still incomplete. So, I will put aside the process principle that I cannot analyze for the time being. Since becoming the Ruler of the End is a foregone conclusion, I should first deal with the remaining problems that I may have.

So, start self-examination...

The girl put her hands together, and after a brief touch, a calculation program that mixed multiple laws and spiritual energy had been constructed between the separated palms. In the blink of an eye, dense streams of faint light energy spread out, like countless halos of magic circles, covering the girl's body.

The moment a human being completes his sublimation as a Herrscher, the impact of the collapse on his consciousness may reshape his personality. As for me, from a pseudo-herrscher to a final Herrscher, whether the essence of my consciousness has been interfered with by the collapse needs to be carefully confirmed...

(First, memory and thinking... simulate the normal memory process of the conscious body. Well, recall and recognition operate normally, there is no trace of memory modification, and the thinking mode is no different from the self in memory)

(The second is cognition. Retrieve all cognitive impressions and compare them with the records of souls that have not yet faced the end... Confirm that there are no abnormalities)

There is indeed no problem with cognitive ability. He does not regard humans and fungi as the same species, nor does he have any additional cognitive imprints specific to the civilized circle.

As for feelings...it seems there is no need to test them.

The girl just briefly recalled the past, then stopped the information extraction and analysis procedures, and the data energy flow surrounding her body quietly dissipated.

The official duties in the early days of Anti-Entropy, the daily life of Saint Freya, the little things with her companions and comrades, the days and nights when the three sisters slept in the same quilt... These vivid experiences have always been her most precious memories, and have not changed until now.

Yes, nothing has changed at the level of consciousness. There is no such thing as "changes that one is not aware of". The law of the end means the extreme of the unit dimension. Even if there are still some defects, it is impossible to make mistakes by obtaining information from the objective historical records of past world lines with the highest authority of four-dimensional space-time control.

"In other words, I seized the power of the Herrscher of the End in my original soul form, and I still maintained my original state of consciousness, without being affected by any of its properties?"

Shirley looked at her palms, feeling the endless energy in her body, and in the midst of doubts, she remained calm.

With a calm and unwavering heart, he whispered to himself.

...no change at all?

The next moment, the girl's brows suddenly furrowed and the corners of her mouth twitched slightly.

"What the hell is this?!"

It is because she possesses the corresponding knowledge of the power of the end that she knows how ridiculous such a situation is!

It’s like people in the world of cultivation who practice for thousands of years and finally complete their journey to become immortals. After entering the extraordinary realm, their minds haven’t changed at all. They still care about the daily necessities of life like ordinary people and are trapped by the seven emotions and six desires. Is this normal?

This is not normal, absolutely not normal!

Even if I, as a weak person, devour the Herrscher of the End, after the two souls are merged, the huge soul of the End will crush the tiny "Ciris" and build a new soul consciousness. Even if the new soul is dominated by "Ciris", the soul of the Herrscher of the End will inevitably greatly affect his original personality, at least he should have an extra cognitive memory of unknown origin out of thin air...

1002 Body and Soul & The World Bubble's Vision >>

But there really is nothing.

Even if this is a pie-in-the-sky plot, the inevitable subsequent impact of the power system cannot disappear. The Herrscher of the End is no different from the incarnation of the gods, and its divine authority is to maintain the balance of civilization of the Tree of Imaginary Numbers. Although the Herrscher of the End in this world has been modified by the enemies of the outer domain and is different from the original Herrscher of the Tree of Imaginary Numbers, its inherent divine authority... or mission, is no different from those of the Source Herrschers.

She had seized all the power of the Herrscher of the End. This divine authority, which was equivalent to a curse, was destined to be integrated into her soul, polluting her mind and distorting her will... Perhaps Shiris could overcome this curse of the end with her own strength, but overcoming and resolving it was different from not having it at all.

I have no intention of destroying the world at all.

There was no feeling of being restrained by any will. Except for this powerful force that made her feel a little overwhelmed, everything seemed to be no different from the final spiritual space.

Unless... the Ruler of the End doesn't want to attack civilization itself!

This hypothesis flashed through her mind for a moment, and was then decisively discarded by Shirley.

If it is true that Herrscher of the End does not want to attack civilization, and the consensus between the two parties leads to the current state of Shiris. Then, even if the constraints of divine authority and the subsequent corrections of the Honkai system are ignored, the soul of Herrscher of the End will inevitably leave a mark in his consciousness, existing independently of Shiris's memory and in parallel - that is, the concept of soul fusion mentioned earlier.

Given the size of Herrscher of the End's soul, Shiris would definitely be affected by the parallel memories. Unless her soul and Herrscher of the End's soul were 100% similar in form and nature, and the two were assumed to be one when they merged, so there was no impact on consciousness.

(Haha... Doesn't that mean that the Herrscher of the End and I share the same soul? Oh, that's enough. There should be a limit to my wild imagination...)

Shiris rubbed her temples and threw this messy analysis into the trash can of discarded information in her mind.

Forget it. It's a waste of time to think about this unsolvable problem again and again. So, just jump to the next step...

——What is the situation in this inexplicable other world?

She had used her mental power to scan the surface of the planet and could conclude that this was definitely not Earth. Even if she had been trapped in the body of the End for tens of thousands of years and the world had entered the next era, the mass and density of a planet could not be so wrong!

The girl launched another mental scan, and instantly took the world into her perception. The huge mental energy did not stop after spreading across the globe, but continued to spread outward, surging to the outer layers of the sky.

(Let me see which galaxy this is... eh?)

Shilis raised her eyebrows, and a look of understanding instantly flashed in her eyes.

I see......

She had only scanned the surface of the planet before. If she had expanded her mental power a little further outward earlier, she would not have had the third doubt.

There is no exosphere in the atmosphere here. After passing through the outermost light bubble that looks like the outer wall, the outer part of the planet is not normal space, but energy turbulence that leads directly to the quantum sea!

"Is the world a bubble...wait, what's that over there?"

The perception energy that spread to the outside world suddenly discovered an abnormal coordinate.

At the edge of the world bubble, Shilis scanned a huge hole. The hole was not an empty quantum sea, but a larger real space. It was as if a hole had been broken and then connected to another space layer with the same rules...

However, how can a world bubble remain stable if a big hole is poked in it?

With new doubts, Shirley did not control her mental power to explore further, but immediately activated the power of space, teleporting herself to another place on the planet and directly arriving near the abnormal coordinates.

Anyway, distance is not a problem, so you might as well observe what it is with your naked eyes.

She raised her head.

She looked at the "hole" in her spiritual perception. And with this glance, the girl, whose consciousness had been so strong that she could not show her emotions, showed a look of astonishment from the bottom of her heart for the first time since she awakened as the Herrscher of the End...

1003 The Dragon Who Became a Brave Man

There was a huge hole in the sky - literally.

After initiating a space transfer and bringing herself directly to the abnormal coordinates, Shirisi saw, without surprise, the "hole" that led directly to the outside world.

"this......"

Looking at those things in the sky, she was speechless for a moment.

The space hole embedded directly in the clouds is like the inside of a folded space in a whirlpool, covered with countless completely different scenes - this description may not be easy to understand. To put it simply, it is like a large screen in the monitoring room that is divided into countless blocks, and the entire screen image is added with an inward-rotating and twisted special effect, which is the hole in the sky that Shirley saw.

The most eye-catching position in the center seemed to be a vast ocean. There was a strange sense of distance between the airspaces, and she could sense a familiar energy in the pattern at the core...

Regardless of its nature, at least this is how the hole appears visually. At the edge of the hole, like the cracks of a broken mirror, each fragment of the sky divided by the web-like cracks reflects an adjacent world surface.

Unlike the kaleidoscope that Theresa saw in the axis world, what Shiris saw in the branch world bubble was a huge vortex in which countless worlds were pulled by the core, and the world bubble she was in was one of them.

Speaking of which, in the world bubble where the concept of the universe does not exist, there is no clear sense of distance between the fake sky and the stars. The whole thing looks like a slightly modified map.

But this strange hole is a bit too much, as if something somewhere else is directly covering the area that belongs to the sky - just like someone using Photoshop for the first time, without considering the influence of spatial volume position and light and dark sides, and directly cutting out another pattern and pasting it to the position of the sky in the original image.

Although Shiris really wanted to complain, "What the hell is this?", in fact, she had already understood the essence of these spatial phenomena within a few tenths of a second after seeing these broken mirrors.

(World bubbles, anchor point transfer, multiple superimposed spaces... So that's it, someone broke the unspoken rules of the parallel world)

The world bubble of the quantum sea was forcibly captured by a leaf of the imaginary number tree, and with this leaf world as the root system, they jointly constructed a dimensionality-reduced version of the "pseudo-imaginary number tree".

The source of the axis is undoubtedly the world where Shiris herself is...

Shirley rubbed her head and looked at the rice-sized ocean in the Axis World with a bit of stomachache. Although that world had been completely changed by hundreds of isotopic worlds, as long as she slightly focused her perception of the end energy, she could find people and things that she was familiar with.

"It's troublesome..."

It was not difficult to destroy the spatial rules of imaginary numbers and quantum. Shiris could think of no less than twenty ways to achieve this with the technological level of the 21st century in that world. The simplest one was to use the Eye of the Abyss, a true quantum converter.

However, Shiris relied on the huge computing power of the End Body and the knowledge of space laws to find the method, which is basically impossible for mortals in that world to think of. Unless they are like her, using foreign knowledge that does not belong to that civilization...