K424 of the Collapse World

"I won't fight you, Sister Lilith."

The moment she said this, she had already decided to abandon the shackles of Honkai duty and obey the will of her dearest one for the last time.

(No matter how hard it is to accept... after all this, I don't want to become your enemy.)

Suddenly, she became more open-minded.

As a mortal soul, he endures almost eternal loneliness and makes all the efforts he can to see Lilith again at this moment.

How could I, who had already fulfilled my wish, punch my beloved blood relative?

That's fine.

Even if the final result is to die together, the brief encounter is also the proof that the wish has come true.

There is nothing that can be done about it. This is not as a fragmented personality that only knows how to obey and indulge herself, but as a complete soul with independent thoughts - this is the choice that the real Sister Lilith would make.

Maybe next time, try to use Lilith as

If she erased all the memories of other people, she could turn back into the sister who only loved her... But unfortunately, there was no time to start over. As Sister Lilith said, no living being other than the true God could resist the wear and tear of the soul.

I have managed to stick to my original intention for trillions of years with my fragile mortal nature without changing. I have tried hard enough...right?

At the very end, it's okay to give in to your stubborn sister a little bit~

Looking into the silver-haired girl's resolute eyes, Tiana smiled with relief. At this moment, she wanted to pour out her thoughts and express her feelings, let her loved ones know her choice, and resolve the hostility between the two sides by giving in.

But just before she opened her mouth—

"That's a great help, Tiana."

The silver-haired girl not far away appeared beside her in the blink of an eye. As she said that, the fighting spirit that was enough to make the stars tremble disappeared.

"What...?"

Tiana looked at the silver-haired girl in a daze as she held her in her arms and rubbed her hair. Her terminal consciousness and thinking were stagnant for a while.

(What’s going on… Why isn’t Sister Lilith surprised at all? Didn’t she just decide that this battle was inevitable? Why did she accept my concession so easily?)

(Mind reading is ineffective against the Herrscher of the End of the Same Level. Could it be that my emotional factors have spread out? No, my consciousness has not been out of control until now, and the defense line of the spiritual realm is working normally...)

Before Tiana finished her brief thought, the gentle voice echoed in her ears again.

"To be honest, this is easier than I expected. I thought you would be more stubborn now, and I would have to fight hard like before to solve the problem, but I didn't expect that you would even skip this step."

Looking at the girl's wide eyes and hesitant expression, Shiris pinched Tiana's soft face while holding back her smile.

"It seems that I am not the only one who has changed over the past few hundred million years."

1046 Ice Release >>

"Wait...wait a minute! Sister Lilith!"

Although she couldn't stop this intimate behavior, Tiana still tried hard to break free from the girl's hands and seized the opportunity to ask her questions.

"I don't understand... Didn't Sister Lilith just say that there must be a fight between us? But you look like you already expected that I would take the initiative to give in..."

"No, no, I didn't expect you to give in right away. Didn't I tell you that my original plan was to fight you first?"

Shrugging indifferently at Tiana's question, Shirley grabbed the girl in front of her again, raised her body slightly, and used the fake height advantage to press Tiana into her arms again.

"A fight?"

"Yes, we will fight first, and then we will gradually understand each other during the fight, and convince you with our determination. This is my original plan."

"this......"

"What does it matter? We are all immortal ultimate beings, so no matter how hard we fight, nothing will happen. Besides, I think that fighting at the same time can speed up the exchange of opinions compared to just talking. Isn't that what we did when we quarreled before?"

"..."

Tiana couldn't help but hold her forehead. Well, although they did occasionally argue before, and there were fights that affected several star systems, she had to admit that her sister's violent tendencies had become more serious than before.

"But sister, have you ever thought about what would happen if you can't convince me?"

"What does it matter? We won't be fighting for thousands or hundreds of years. Even if I can't convince you directly, as long as I solve the root of your worries later, won't it be over? For me, the worst case scenario is that I can fight with you while dealing with things in reality."

"The things I'm worried about? Do you mean..."

Tiana frowned slightly, and soon she opened her eyes wide again.

"Sister Lilith, the power of high-dimensional civilization, even the Herrscher of the End who is close to the true God, cannot resist the real high-dimensional attack. Even if you regain the power of the End, it is probably just one of their observation projects. If they have decided to purge the civilization of this era and start the reset, how can you fight them..."

Tiana was asking seriously, but suddenly she remembered something and burst into laughter.

It was strange. She had clearly prepared to die, and failure was an inevitable outcome. But now, listening to the girl's casual words, she seemed to be infected by her inexplicable self-confidence. Tiana found that she was actually looking forward to the girl's fantastic self-destructive action.

How naive...

Seeing Tiana's performance, Shilis naturally knew what she was thinking. In response, the silver-haired girl just raised a finger and pointed to the empty depths of the universe.

"But at least, we are sandwiched between high and low dimensions.

They should not be able to hear this conversation between the two."

Following Shirley's movements, a dim star ring emerged in the void, which was obviously the world ring that merged with the quantum sea world bubble in reality. The bubble of the myriad worlds that was originally as bright as starlight was imprisoned by the time law preset by the girl, and not even a glimmer of light could escape.

——Without affecting the current spatial structure, Shilis opened a one-way observation point for the real world.

“…Otherwise, there wouldn’t be such a situation in the outside world.”

She raised her hand and pointed to the center of the World Ring.

"Those high-dimensional civilizations put their artificial laws of collapse into the four-dimensional universe. As superiors, they used the collapse disaster of this world as an experiment and just recorded the reset process of civilization indifferently. How high and mighty they were before, but what about now?"

Shirley looked at the bright full moon in the stagnant star ring, ignoring the dark golden shackles of time and eroding the solidified space with pure white light.

It was clearly an unknown energy that was enough to subvert the laws of time, and could make Herrscher feel threatened even though they were separated by a parallel dimension. But when she saw this scene, Shiris's expression was filled with a hint of sarcasm.

"Look, the high-dimensional life that claims to be an observer has now come down to actively interfere with the low-dimensional life. It's just like a human being who has ignored his identity and got into the experimental dish of a little white mouse... What do you think this means?"

1047 Causes and consequences

According to known information, high-dimensional civilizations created an artificial collapse system and released it into the four-dimensional universe in order to observe the positive proportional relationship between natural collapse and the strength of civilization. Through repeated experiments, they obtained more information about the imaginary number tree and the collapse system, and made full preparations to fight collapse in advance.

To put it simply, they use the four-dimensional cosmic civilization such as the Earth to simulate the outbreak of the Collapse, and thoroughly study the laws of the Collapse so that their own civilization can survive the Collapse disaster in the future.

Although it is unknown how much reference value the collapse of the four-dimensional universe has for the fifth dimension or even higher dimensions, the cross-dimensional civilization observation experiment, at first glance, is as outrageous as watching microorganisms fight under a microscope and learning their strategic arrangements. But in any case, as both are virtual tree civilizations, this approach obviously puts both the experimenter and the experimented party in an extremely hostile position.

Considering the gap in dimensionality, this situation is understandable. The strong dominate and exploit the weak, which is also natural from the perspective of the law of the jungle. Even if the human beings on Earth find these real enemies, unilateral condemnation is meaningless.

Well, that's all for the introduction. The civilization of the four-dimensional universe is far from reaching the standard of the virtual tree's balance. The focus of Shilis has never been the true collapse system of the virtual tree's origin, but the source of all evil behind the disaster of this world.

Since the purpose of the experiment is to collect information about the Honkai, it means that all situations after the outbreak of the Honkai have their observation value, including the Earth civilization's desperate All Worlds Star Weaving Plan, and even the betrayal of the Herrscher of the End after his awakening of his own will. These are all means of resisting the Honkai that higher-dimensional civilizations can refer to, and are all invaluable experimental data.

But now, why is it like this?

However, faced with the situation at this time, the high-dimensional observer did not let it develop freely, but chose to actively interfere with the situation in the real world, even at the cost of exposing its own existence...

"They would rather reset the experiment than let this situation continue. Does this mean that the situation we have created has already touched the vital point of this high-dimensional test site?"

The moonlight that eroded the law of time expanded steadily outward. Shirley was looking at the increasingly bright moon with a calm expression.

She was able to perfectly control her own power, and naturally could calculate how long this out-of-body law could block the strange moon.

"So far, their actions have been what I expected."

"Sister Lilith..."

Beside her, Tiana seemed to be hesitant to speak, then she closed her half-open mouth and listened quietly to what Shirley said.

"You know, I am different from you now. I was stripped of my power and then sublimated from a mortal to the Herrscher of the End. In the process, I got rid of the control of the artificial Honkai system and returned to the Honkai origin of the Imaginary Number Tree. As you can see, observers cannot interfere with my behavior, nor can they monitor your information through the crack universe I created."

Shilis paused and continued.

"Their control over artificial Honkai Impact is not absolute, and their ability to interfere with the four-dimensional universe is also limited. This explains why the observers can't wait to actively interfere with reality when the situation is still unclear... That's right."

Suddenly remembering something, Shirley raised her hand and pointed at the glowing moon at the other end of the space.

"As I said earlier, our information in the gap space is concealed from the outside world. Observers don't know your current situation, so they will naturally think that we are still fighting with all our strength. So, if I am right, this is why they suddenly took action - to deal with a small problem that could cause a big disaster in advance."

"No matter how you look at it, the miniature world tree created by Otto's capture of the world bubble is not a problem for Gao Wei. The only thing that Gao Wei is afraid of right now is me, who is out of the system.

The Herrscher of the End has returned to his origin."

1047 Causes and consequences >>

The girl pointed at herself with her thumb.

"I have to say, these guys are very alert. Just like the origin of the fire. They know very well what will happen if they leave the small flame on the mountain. In reverse, this also means that my flame can ignite their most fatal weakness, so they hurriedly took advantage of the opportunity of our battle to step into reality and want to destroy the civilization of the present world in advance."

"Destroy civilization? Sister Lilith, are you......"

"Well, you guessed right. The Herrscher of the End of the Man-Made Collapse System is like a bug in the Virtual Tree program. It can continue to exist even if the target civilization perishes. But now I have obviously left the artificial system of the higher-dimensional civilization."

Shiris nodded and continued Tiana's words, the haze in her eyes flashed away.

"Now, I am a regular Herrscher of the End who descended to rely on the current civilization, and I maintain my existence by relying on the mission of the Broken Messenger to destroy civilization. If civilization is destroyed prematurely, it means that my mission as a Herrscher is completed. I guess the result will be that I will return directly to the Void Tree, or fall into a deep sleep... In any case, they will benefit from it."

"..."

"But unfortunately, now that I've seen through it, they can't carry out their little plan anymore."

The girl clapped her hands, bringing the topic to an end.

"So... Sister Lilith, what are you going to do?"

"I'm going to face the high-dimensional observers. It's rare that those bastards are willing to come out on their own initiative. I can't let go of such a good opportunity."

Hearing this, Tiana smiled gently.

"That's the expected answer... Sister, is there anything I can do for you?"

Tiana clenched her fists. Unconsciously, her position had changed from hostility to approval. Obviously, she temporarily agreed with the girl's point of view, believing that she could subvert the observer's control.

Once upon a time, I was one of the countless creatures in the four-dimensional universe civilization...

If the previous decision from hostility to neutrality was emotional, then the decision from neutrality to actively offering help at this moment was based on rational judgment.

Shirley had convinced her to accept this do-or-die battle.

"You don't have to do anything. I know you have a way to resist the system's control to a certain extent, but judging from the current situation, the possibility of a direct battle is very low. After all, the observer is not a fool... In short, you staying in this place where no one can find you is the greatest help to me."

As Shilis spoke, she faced the full moon in the center of the world ring and walked towards the nearby fault interface.

Tiana looked at the girl's back as she set off resolutely and murmured in a low voice.

"Sister Lilith, if you fail, I will follow the agreement and project the world you cherish into the deepest part of the quantum sea, and then..."

She did not conceal the volume of her voice, and when Shiris heard her whisper, she slowed down her pace.

"Agreement? It's the deal you made with Otto... Hehe, don't worry, I promise that things won't go that far, and our civilization will continue. Whether it's a higher dimension or a collapse, no one can decide our fate without authorization."

With her back to the silent Tiana, the girl's voice echoed in the silent sea of ​​stars.

"One day, the civilization of the observer will pay the price, and human civilization will put an end to these billions of years of blood and tears..."

She gently pushed open the space door that separated the two worlds.

"So before that, I will not let everyone's efforts so far come to a dead end."

1048 Road

The dark golden barrier that makes time stand still is firmly maintained within the dimensional range of the World Ring.

At the boundary of material space outside the high-dimensional gap, the vast interstellar fleets from the civilizations of all worlds occupy an area of ​​the universe like an asteroid belt.

The expeditionary force that was supposed to rush to the front line day and night was trapped in frozen time and space like a mosquito frozen in amber under the influence of the laws of the vast realm.

Meanwhile, the lone figure of a silver-haired girl passed across the outer ring of the border, leaving behind the only hint of different color in the solidified gold.

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In the Covenant flagship, which was coated with a layer of dark gold by the laws of time, Kevin stood in front of the electronic holographic board with his arms folded. He was also locked by the laws of time and space. Even though he was a sculpture that blended into the dim background, his upright and resolute figure was still full of a strong sense of presence.

Shilis strolled across the bridge of the Glorious Covenant and stopped in front of the white-haired man.

"It's been a long time since I've seen such a hesitant look from you."

The girl looked into his eyes. The moment before those icy blue eyes were frozen, the man seemed to be thinking about something. Under the slightly frowned brows, the eyes that seemed to be still firm were already full of cracks in Shirley's eyes, as vulnerable as half-melted broken ice.

"Without the Stigmata Project that I put all my determination into, I have become as indecisive as before..."

Facing this world snake leader who is both an enemy and a friend, the girl turned her head helplessly.

go with.

"That's right. Even the will of a hero cannot withstand the betrayal of fickle faith."