K424 of the Collapse World

"The potential of the mind, the stirring of the soul, the determination to do whatever it takes... Even for a moment, the will and emotions that you disdain are enough to widen the gap between mortals!"

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Before the infinite energy's restorative power began to work, Shiris swung her fist again, and with this slight advantage, she smashed the head of the Herrscher of the End into pieces with one blow. She ignored the countless energy bombardments that the opponent launched in counterattack, and stretched out her hand to tightly grasp the opponent's dissipated beam of the End energy.

After eliminating the possibility of peaceful coexistence from her mind and no longer having any hope for the original beginning and end, the moment of choice before Shirley was revealed.

A lot clearer.

(They want to trap me here and make me watch them destroy the things I hold dear...)

(In this case, they are enemies, enemies that must be defeated at all costs!)

Shirley turned around and looked at Yuan Yishi who was watching from the other side of the space layer. She was sure that the guy in the outside world could not intervene in the battle here for the time being. If she wanted to interfere, she would have to break the blockade of space, but in this way, the space confinement on Shirley would also lose its effectiveness.

Just as the girl expected, the human-shaped shadow outside the space just looked at the two fighting parties indifferently with an unfathomable calm expression, and it seemed that he had no intention of intervening.

(Then just wait and see... This is the only trick I have left, as you may have predicted!)

The next moment, the energy particles that automatically flew towards the reorganized remains of the End were attracted by the hand of Shiris that was holding the light beam.

At the same time, in the spiritual realm at the level of the sea of ​​consciousness, the images of the two spirits no longer had a clear boundary, and the two that converged at the edge began to blend...

"Are you happy? The power that was stolen from you will soon be returned to you, its rightful owner."

Shirley spoke softly, the entity tightly suppressing the energy of the Law of the Herrscher of the End, but the spirit in the sea of ​​consciousness gently caressed the cheek of the Herrscher of the End, allowing the boundary between the souls of both sides to become blurred without being moved.

"Resistance is useless. This body of the End is one of the conceptual bodies you differentiated. Even if our consciousness recognized by the virtual tree will remain unchanged forever, I, who became a parallel individual of the End through the connection of the virtual tree, ultimately have the same origin as your existence - our two incomplete demigod bodies are longing to return to wholeness."

As Silis spoke softly, the spirit's other hand also touched the Herrscher of the End's cheek. The next moment, the hands that had just been caressing each other like lovers suddenly and cruelly tore the spirit in front of him into pieces!

"But this time, it's my turn to be on top!☆"

Shirley's eyes narrowed maliciously, and her phantom in the spiritual realm suddenly exerted force, forcibly swallowing up most of the crushed phantom in front of her, just like the sesame oil and chili oil mixed together in a bowl of soup, unable to distinguish each other.

As the winner who took the initiative to fuse, Shiris naturally had the initiative to act.

As long as the other party's spirit and strength are weakened to the limit before the fusion, it will be possible to overwhelm the other party's consciousness within a certain period of time after the fusion and become the dominant one of the fusion body.

(It’s really unpleasant to have my own clear consciousness tainted again. But as long as I can reverse the disadvantage, it’s not unacceptable as the price of victory...)

Shiris thought quietly, but her movements were mechanically repeating the violent and cruel actions, tearing the spirit and body of the Herrscher of the End into tiny pieces, forcing this unilateral fusion to be executed.

Under the premise that the power of both sides is completely equal, the effect of taking the initiative can be enough to support a decisive subjective action - just like when the Herrscher of the End was initially pulled into the gap dimension created by Shiris, he was bound to break through the shackles and strike a blow to reality.

She wanted to seal the Ruler of the End within her own body, at the cost of the eternal struggle between the two consciousnesses, to temporarily reverse the one-to-two disadvantage, so that she could free up her hands to deal with the Origin of the End and the End in the outside world.

(If this is what you want, then next, let me experience the glory of the true God... provided you have it.)

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"...It seems that you have finally made up your mind."

In the sea of ​​consciousness of the two Herrschers of the End, the spirit of the girl, whose features had become so blurred that they could not be seen clearly, suddenly made a sound at the last moment.

Hearing this, the still clear spirit of Shilis blinked.

"Oh wow? It's a medical miracle. The mute actually started talking on his own initiative."

Shilis's expression was slightly disturbed, but she did not stop plundering the other party's spirit.

The fusion continued, and the lower bodies of the two spirits had overlapped and were indistinguishable from each other, while the part from the waist upwards was still separated.

At this moment, the two spirits, which were close yet distant, looked like conjoined twins with congenital deformities.

"Strange, your mind doesn't seem to be scattered at all... You don't seem to be worried about your situation? It seems that this is indeed a development that you predicted?"

"..."

"Why are you silent again? It's very rude to ignore others' words... But whatever. Now that things have come to this, I don't care what I can get out of you. Anyway, the moment the fusion is completed, all your memories will become information that I can easily obtain in the mental space."

As she spoke, Shilis leaned forward slightly, wrapped her arms around the neck of the End Spirit, slowly lifted up the other's chin, and stared at the cheek that was so faded that it was difficult to maintain its shape just a few inches away.

"I remember the last time we merged, I was too weak to be swallowed up by your divine power, and my soul fell into the sea of ​​consciousness of the end and slowly dissolved... But fortunately, with their help, I managed to escape and took away half of your power of the end."

“And now, I’m

You are stronger, and even broke the mental balance in the instant before the fusion, completely surpassing you. So this time, I will be the one taking the lead as the consciousness - it will only be you who will be thrown into the deep sea of ​​consciousness. "

The spiritual body of Herrscher of the End completely overlapped with that of Shiris, leaving only a few double images as proof that the soul of Herrscher of the End still existed. As this battle, the outcome of which had already been determined, gradually came to an end, the chaos outside their spiritual realm was gradually dispelled, and the perception and control of energy returned to their peak.

The two opposing root energies of the virtual tree were thus integrated, and the power of the end that no longer consumed each other was naturally grasped by the only individual end at this moment.

"Come to think of it, your origin is indeed that time travel, right?"

Shirley asked casually as she surveyed the sea of ​​consciousness that was gradually integrating and gradually pushed the Herrscher of the End to the deeper consciousness platform.

"With the help of the retrospection of the Honkai system in my body, a second personality was born out of nothing from my sea of ​​consciousness, and seized the body of K424 when I was completely unprepared. Then, it led the "Shiris Madness Incident" that ran through the entire Herrscher War. Let's call it this for now. After all, in everyone's eyes, 'Shiris' at that time was like a brain flooded with water, doing all kinds of inexplicable things..."

Recalling those bad memories not long ago, Shirley's spirit flickered several times, and emotions of embarrassment and shyness filled the consciousness platform, adding a touch of humanity to the temple of theocracy.

"Anyway, the consciousness inside K424's brain at that time was you now, right?"

Faced with this question, the Herrscher of the End did not deny it.

"Yes."

"Oh......~"

Shirley looked at the remaining shadow of the spirit in her hand with interest, and then asked the second question.

"I remember that you once firmly believed that you were the real 'me' - the real Shilis. I wonder what you think now? Do you understand your true nature?"

"Even if my essence is part of the Herrscher of the End, I am still Shiris, and that has not changed."

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"Don't be so stubborn. The spiritual power condensed by becoming a god should be able to cure the confusion of your remaining self-consciousness, right? Taking a step back, even if you can really be regarded as another me in the philosophical sense, do you think that at this point, we can still have a relationship like Xi'er's inner and outer personality?"

Shilis shook her head.

"Impossible! We are destined to be enemies - if there was any possibility of a peaceful solution, this war would never have happened in the first place."

Facing the silence in the sea of ​​consciousness in response, Shilis sneered.

"You are Shilis? Then tell me, what is your relationship with the former Ruler of the Endless? Since you have decided to join hands with her to destroy civilization, are those high-sounding speeches you made about the civilization trial in the imaginary space also your true thoughts from the bottom of your heart?"

"..."

"Want to keep pretending to be dumb? It's up to you. I've already said that once the initial integration is completed, everything you've experienced will become my memory, and everything you've concealed will be exposed. Once I've browsed through all your memories, there will be no need for this kind of conversation."

The ghost images of the spirit body returned to normal, and Shirley's complete spirit body opened its eyes again, carefully controlling the balance of the sea of ​​consciousness and sealing the part of the consciousness of the Herrscher of the End.

“——And this is exactly my purpose now.”

The next moment, Shiris, who thought she would not get a reply, suddenly heard the voice of the Herrscher of the End sounding from the abyss of her consciousness.

"From the moment I received my old memories, I have been waiting here for you... to take back what is yours."

She just said this, letting her consciousness be filled into the infinite depths of the sea of ​​consciousness. Although the consciousness of the end is eternal, she has no intention of splitting again or fighting for the control of the conceptual body, and just obeyed the suppression of Shilis and sank.

The Herrscher of the End, who had never shown any emotion, now spoke in a soft and relaxed voice, as if relieved.

"...Thank you for making her happy."

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At the same time, in the battlefield between the stars of the World Ring, the six virtual tree god skeletons that were fighting with the coalition forces of civilization stopped their activities without any warning.

The countless gears and spikes that were waving high suddenly stopped as if the pause button was pressed. The accumulated law energy and force field also dissipated in an instant, as if the laws implanted in them had been pulled out of the universe.

But the war did not stop. Countless Honkai beasts, like space junk filling the starry sea, continued to attack the coalition's positions like raging waves. Even though the abnormality of the divine skeleton wiped out the Honkai side's advantage, these irrational killing monsters remained unmoved.

After all, they are creations of the Honkai system itself and will not be affected by the withdrawal of the power of the Ruler of the End.

"Target is silent! The flank observation system alarm is lifted."

"The Thirteenth Army has begun its counter-encirclement and suppression offensive!"

"The interference source of the observation system has been eliminated, and the orbital strike satellite is about to be sent.

"Mark..."

The situation of the battle that was originally hopeless was quietly overturned. No matter what the reason for the abnormality of the divine skeleton was, the defense forces on the civilization side would never let go of this opportunity.

"..."

At a certain edge of the battlefield, Kiana panted slightly, watching the spirit projections around her instantly disintegrate and collapse. The desperate situation on the cruel battlefield before seemed to be just a dream. Facing these fleeting energy particles, the girl seemed to see a dim silver shadow on the horizon, and could not wait to sink into the star field of the other dimension.

"She left...why?"

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Where should I begin this story?

At the beginning of the cycle of human civilization... no, it should be earlier than that, in the ancient universe when the concept of "civilization" itself did not yet exist.

As the Ruler of the End, the origin of the four-dimensional universe, the girl knows everything she should know.

The beginning of all this was before the origin of the multiverse, when the root concept body, which was the only thing in the only world and was named the "Tree of Imaginary Numbers" by later generations, truly became a tree.

The moment the "Tree of Imaginary Numbers" becomes the Tree of Imaginary Numbers, the essence of the tree sinks to the deepest part and becomes the "roots"; the original material energy born from the roots becomes the "trunk"; the concept of rules given to matter and energy becomes the "branches"; and under this premise, the infinite universe and multiple worlds born in various parts of the branches are the "leaves".

Naturally, as countless planes of existence that are similar to each other but not identical under the same root, they are just like leaves growing from the same big tree.

The huge and complex high-dimensional world is like a full and large green leaf, located closer to the trunk, with more abundant nourishment and growth environment.

In contrast, those low-dimensional worlds with simple rules and small size are the young leaves and buds at the end of branches. They are far away from the roots of the imaginary tree and cannot get sufficient nutrients like the high-dimensional ones, but they will not fall off the branches casually and deviate from the concept of the imaginary tree.

The concept of time given by the branches to the leaves makes the universe born from them begin to rotate and weave. All the derivatives quietly born under the rules of the virtual tree grow together with the leaves, enriching the details of the leaves with the accumulation of time. Over time, the virtual tree becomes as lush and dense as a real tree, and in the endless time in the future, it will extend its branches and leaves to a wider void...

During this period, the concept of "civilization" was also born among the leaves.

The earliest civilization, like other derivatives in the virtual tree world, was part of the leaves of the virtual tree and existed in every corner of the countless leaf worlds. It equally enjoyed the energy gifts from the roots and continued to grow and develop.

They started fights, killed each other, plundered each other, turned other derivatives of their own world into usable resources, and even invaded other worlds. As the evolution of civilization's energy utilization ability went further, the quiet and dead universe became more active because of their existence.

Just as the concept of time is endless for the branches and leaves of the imaginary tree, the development and expansion of civilization is also infinite. They open up their own development paths based on the diversity of existence, and then use this to become strong enough to cross the barriers of rules between "branches" and interfere with the dimensions of other branches...

Up to this point, the Tree of Imaginary Numbers has not given any corresponding indication of the existence of civilization.

Perhaps the virtual tree has consciousness, but it certainly does not have so many so-called good and evil, right and wrong - the concepts and morals of intelligent life are just constraints imposed by civilization itself and cannot be used to measure greater things.

After all, to the imaginary tree itself, civilization is still an extremely insignificant thing, just as humans do not care how many cubs the microorganisms in their bodies have just given birth to. As long as civilization is still a derivative of the world of branches and leaves, the imaginary tree will not care how much territory a civilization has expanded or how many of its own kind it has destroyed.

This period when civilization development was not restricted by any restrictions was the golden age of Xushu civilization.

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But the infinite desires and creativity of the individuals that make up civilization - intelligent life - are destined to prevent them from being content to stay within the scope of activities in the leaf world.

Finally, when a high-dimensional world civilization closest to the trunk developed to its peak and tried to interfere with the trunk and touch the "roots", the Tree of Imaginary Numbers was no longer silent.

Perhaps it was the arrogance of mortals that angered the will of the virtual tree, or perhaps it was just that civilization that triggered the virtual tree's own immune system. In short, the Wanqianye world occupied by that high-dimensional civilization faced an attack from the virtual tree itself for the first time.

There was nothing much to say about this conflict, not even enough to call it a war. The civilization that the Void Tree considered harmful, along with the Ten Thousand Leaf Worlds that carried it, were directly cut off by the branches. The fallen leaves lost the energy supplied by the roots and soon withered completely in decay.

The "harmful substances" that corroded the roots were thus destroyed, but all concepts of civilization were also marked by the roots.

As the roots implanted rules into the automatically evolving branches for the first time, the virtual tree began to regularly prune its branches and leaves indiscriminately from this time on.

Everything was born from the virtual tree

If the civilization of the Leaf exceeds a certain threshold, it will be attacked by the rules of the Void Tree itself. At the very least, all traces of civilization in the Leaf World will be destroyed, and at the worst, the Leaf itself will be uprooted and left to decay and die.

This phenomenon has different names in the countless civilizations of the multiverse, but in this world, most people call it "collapse".

In this way, the virtual tree world ushered in an era of coexistence of civilization and collapse. Although civilization has never stopped researching the roots of the virtual tree, they all lost everything in the baptism of collapse without exception.

Civilizations that are powerful enough to cause collapse are basically high-dimensional civilizations close to the origin. Those civilizations in the low-dimensional leaf world, including human civilization on Earth, are generally unlikely to be regarded as a threat by the virtual tree.

But this does not mean that the low dimension is safe. The collapse does not prohibit civilizations from killing each other. The low dimension will still be interfered by other foreign civilizations...

Simple violent oppression cannot stop the pace of civilization; the desire of intelligent life to evolve is infinite.

Powerful high-dimensional civilizations can interfere with the root cause and naturally can also observe and study the collapse.

After the decline of the golden age of civilization, a civilization that was about to face the sanctions of Honkai but tried to fight against Honkai made a deep study of the nature of the Honkai phenomenon of the virtual tree, and launched its self-made Honkai law weapon into a low-dimensional civilization within the observation range. It also wrote a reset program into the fake Honkai system, and studied the nature of Honkai through repeated experiments, trying to find a way to defeat Honkai.

As the essence of the collapse, the concept called the Herrscher of the End, when the fake collapse first came to Earth, chose a pair of ordinary twin girls...

Their story begins here.

The Herrscher of the End, who had transcended the shackles of time and space, stood on the other side of the broken galaxy, stared at the only silver-haired girl in the crack space, and smiled.

"No matter how many years have passed, and no matter how many phantoms my overflowing thoughts have been torn apart, I will never forget everything about you... Sister Lilith."

The scattered pieces are put back together, can I hear you calling my name once again?