K424 of the Collapse World

When the pre-civilization era collapsed, Kevin made a promise that "humanity will definitely defeat Honkai" and focused wholeheartedly on this sole goal. At that time, the prerequisite for the continuation of human civilization was to defeat the natural enemy, Honkai. Defeating Honkai was undoubtedly equivalent to saving the world.

However, as the secrets of Honkai are revealed one by one, the mastermind behind the scenes surfaces, and "saving the world" is no longer a goal that can be achieved by simply defeating Honkai.

The existence of high-dimensional external enemies makes this simple goal no longer simple, and the complex process becomes even more complicated.

From the moment Shiris fought for human civilization as the Herrscher of the End, the vow to "defeat Honkai" completely lost its meaning.

"I'm sorry to ruin your path, but it doesn't matter. It won't make any difference what I'm going to do next. The Inscription of Salvation has long been too heavy for you, so you might as well give it to me now."

She walked past Kevin, her petite figure brushed past the white-haired man, and then disappeared without a trace.

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In the still space and time, the girl's figure shuttled between the expeditionary fleets.

During this period of non-existent time, Shilis came to the familiar people one by one, quietly watching what they experienced in the previous moment frozen in time.

At the front of the fleet, she saw Bianca fiddling with video in the transport ship's communications room. The triumphant Valkyrie was using the Void's energy communications technology to communicate with her friends far away on Earth. Her aura had returned to normal at this moment, as if the fierce battle just happened.

Kiana stayed beside Bianca, secretly looking at the blonde girl sitting next to her without making any expression, her expression full of hesitation as if she wanted to say something but couldn't.

Shilis naturally knew what this girl, who had realized the truth about herself, was struggling with at the moment...

In the core area of ​​the fleet, she saw Bronya in the center of the crowd. The Space Marines surrounded the petite Herrscher girl like stars surrounding the moon, throwing her high up again and again. The gray-haired girl had a helpless expression on her slightly red face, and she accepted the sincere blessings and praises from her comrades with a wry smile.

Also in this place, Seele was squeezed at the edge of the cheering crowd, trying to reach out to Bronya who was not far away. I don't know if she was trying to help her sister, or wanted to join in the activity of lifting and throwing high.

Shiris smiled slightly, picked up the terminal that was falling in mid-air, took a photo of the two girls' embarrassed expressions, and put it back in mid-air...

1048 Road >>

In a transport ship's onboard laboratory, she saw the still worried Iselin. The Herrscher of Reason did not join the carnival of victory. She shut out others and stayed alone in her own completely transformed laboratory, repeatedly testing her ever-strengthening structural capabilities.

In the next room, Wendy was dealing with requests from a group of spellcasters with a bitter face. These energy sensors from the magical world were attracted by the unique fluid energy of the Wind Herrscher, and hurried to ask for advice while Wendy was resting on board the ship. Many people even began to invite the girl to join their school and invite her to study a new spellcasting system.

Shirley tilted her head, not knowing how to complain about this academic exchange scene that was full of incongruity.

Finally, behind the main fleet, she saw Diana resting in the medical cabin of the support ship. The Herrscher of the Void, who had overdrawn her strength many times on the battlefield, was already exhausted and fell into a deep sleep shortly after the battle. More than a dozen groups of medical staff took turns to stay around her, carefully taking care of the exhausted Herrscher girl.

But even so, Fu Hua and Mei never left her side. They sat on the left and right sides of the bed, accompanying this girl who smiled warmly when she fell asleep.

Here, no one thinks that the Herrscher is the embodiment of disaster. The Herrscher girls from Earth have become heroes admired and respected by countless people.

Silis paused for a moment and headed to the next person she met...

With her extraordinary perception, she can easily find people she is familiar with among the crowd and move leisurely among them, completing this one-sided reunion in a flash.

In the time-stopping domain of the Law of Time, Shilis has unlimited "time" to accomplish what she wants to do. When she returns to the real universe and sees the expedition fleet, she makes this decision on a whim.

Although it was meaningless, she still wanted to look at these familiar faces again, stand beside them, and recall the stories she had experienced with them before facing the final test.

"During the time when I was suffering from dementia, I caused a lot of trouble for everyone. I wonder how they will view me now? Can they... forgive me?"

There were not many acquaintances who joined the expedition fleet. Many friends, including Tesla Einstein, stayed on the Earth in the world ring axis coordinates to support the normal operation of the All Worlds Alliance.

If I go back to Earth, I'm afraid I'll have to repeat this process hundreds or thousands of times...

The girl shook her head, denying the voice in her heart.

"As expected, whether it's explaining or asking for forgiveness, I should wait until the last trouble is dealt with before going back to meet everyone formally."

She turned around and looked at the huge interstellar fleet stagnant in the sea of ​​stars, putting away the sadness that came with her longing.

"I'm not saying goodbye to anyone because I never left."

In the world ring where time and space are stagnant, no one else can hear her voice.

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At the same time that Shiris returned to the World Ring, the strange moon stopped radiating light that eroded the law, and only maintained its own pale glow, independent of the control of the law of time, waiting for the return of the original Herrscher of the End.

The girl, who had completed her tour, calmly stepped into the situation she had brought about. In an instant, her figure appeared on the moon, and she walked onto the mirror-like, bright and smooth surface of the moon and came to the ruined palace.

The stone base that was destroyed by Diana was intact, with a white human figure sitting on it, just like the back of the moon observed by humans for the first time.

The next moment, the motionless pure white human figure quietly changed into his own appearance, just as the appearance seen by those Herrsers who had met the gods in the past.

But in response, Shilis just sneered.

"Don't give me that. You know why I'm here."

As soon as she finished speaking, the surrounding scene began to change dramatically with her feet as the center...

1049 Shiris's Condition

The stars in the girl's eyes went out.

It was like erasing the stars in a painting, leaving only the pitch-black universe as the background. The many worlds that had been shining around the moon dimmed along with the disappearance of the pure white human figure, and turned into a pitch-black space with nothing in it.

The ground beneath his feet was no longer a spherical planet, but had become a completely flat and boundless plain. The horizon where black and white met in the distance was so endless that even with the Herrscher of the End's super vision, he could not see the end.

In the blink of an eye, the world before my eyes became nothing but black and white, except for myself.

Consciousness cannot extend to the outside world through the darkness of the sky. Matter that does not belong to this dimension forms the boundary of the sky, just like being placed in an upside-down bowl. The solid ground under feet has become an absolute solid with no gaps. Matter is no longer composed of atoms, and the principles of all things seem to be rewritten here.

At first glance, such a change seems like the entire dimension has been restored by some force in one click, and all the original things and rules of the universe have disappeared, returning to its original appearance before the creation of the world.

Considering the unfathomable unknown power of the higher-dimensional civilization, if anyone saw this scene, they would probably believe the above speculation and think that the world they are in has been easily deleted like a game save file.

"Humph......"

However, Shirley was very clear that there was no change in the world outside the moon, and the changes she saw were only changes in the moon itself.

(How cautious... But indeed, this is the correct way to deal with the Herrscher of the End. After all, I am not Tiana who is restricted by the rules at this moment.)

Even as she thought this, the girl's expression softened.

Because she was sure that the initiative of this inter-dimensional dialogue was in her hands!

Matter between different dimensions cannot directly interfere with each other. Under normal circumstances, if life in a higher-dimensional universe wants to communicate with Shirley on the same level, it must pull Shirley into its own higher-dimensional world, or reduce its own dimension to Shirley's four-dimensional world.

But for some reason, they did not choose these two most direct and simple methods, but instead took a compromise and more troublesome method.

A huge amount of resources is spent to create a gap dimension between high dimension and low dimension as a platform for dialogue between the two sides, rather than allowing one party to easily enter the other party's home turf.

The reason for doing this is very simple - because they are facing an End Ruler who is not subject to any restrictions.

The power of collapse is proportional to the strength of the civilization. This basic rule is valid for any civilization above the virtual tree.

As a Herrscher of the End recognized by the Origin of the Void Tree, the moment Shiris enters the five-dimensional universe, her form of existence will be instantly upgraded under the blessing of the Origin, gaining the knowledge of the laws and energy power of the five dimensions, and becoming the Herrscher of the End corresponding to the higher-dimensional universe.

The concept of the existence of the Herrscher of the End is to be the strongest Herrscher who announces the end of civilization. This also means that her power range will change from crushing four-dimensional civilization to becoming a nightmare for five-dimensional civilization.

There is no need to say what will happen if an End Ruler with independent thinking, who regards higher-dimensional civilization as an enemy, enters their world.

Therefore, high-dimensional observers will never take the initiative to let Shirley enter their high-dimensional universe. On the contrary, even if they reduce their own dimensions and enter the four-dimensional universe where Shirley is, even if they only use consciousness projection like communicating with Tiana, facing a Herrscher of the End who can perfectly manipulate all energy in the current dimension and knows all the rules like the back of his hand, the moment the barrier between dimensions is opened, the Herrscher of the End has the opportunity to actively invade the high-dimensional universe at the other end of the channel.

Under the influence of the virtual tree, it was upgraded to a higher dimension.

The Herrscher might format Shiris's own consciousness as well. Regardless of whether the girl would do this or not, the high-dimensional observer had already prevented this possibility and taken a safe approach.

But in Hillis's view, the fact that these advanced civilizations did not launch further attacks but instead started a dialogue as she wished was already a sign of weakness.

(Tiana, as the Herrscher of the End created by your experiment, has always remained mortal. Even after I was stripped of my power, I was not made into a true God Herrscher of the End like a law. Perhaps you are collecting some data, or perhaps you are just trying to better control the behavior of individual Herrschers... However, why didn't you think about what kind of variables would occur when the emotions she had accumulated for billions of years were completely released?)

(You thought she would do her best to hold me back, and then give you the opportunity to launch the destructive weapon that resets human civilization? Wrong, in the different space I created, she is no longer constrained by the rules of the collapse system. From the moment she was truly convinced by me, you have already gone too far.)

(The power of the essence of high-dimensional civilization is difficult to reach low-dimensional. Forcibly launching it will only lead to your own destruction. The disaster of collapse is nothing more than the divine power you stole, and now I have taken it back... Come and show me, what else do you want to do?)

1049 Shiris's Conditions>>

The girl leaned back and sat on the crystal throne that was constructed synchronously with the power of reason. She gently placed her left leg on her right leg, held her chin with her hand and looked straight ahead.

About three meters ahead, a translucent white shadow materialized out of thin air. It looked like a polymer of multiple overlapping human-shaped phantoms, bloated and deformed while maintaining a basic human shape.

"I guess I don't need to introduce myself?"

Looking at the multiple phantoms in front of her, Shilis asked in a deep voice. Her tone was normal, without any hostility.

"...Confirmed, codename Lilith-261027, current recorded name Silith Kaslana, fifth test site pseudo-god construct, high-level connector of the Imaginary Tree."

A clear voice came from the group of humanoid phantoms, which moved forward slightly, bringing out countless unsynchronized ghost images.

"...I'm surprised you've made it this far."

Another voice came from the pile of ghosts, which seemed to be an observer consciousness that was quite familiar with Shirley, but before it could continue speaking, another different voice sounded.

"You usurper from the lower realm, please state your demands. You are qualified to negotiate with us."

After this voice, the observer's phantoms fell into silence for a while, taking this sentence as a collectively recognized negotiation language.

Shilis slowly sat up straight.

"First of all, I want to make it clear that I do not represent the Imaginary Number Tree. I represent the Myriad Worlds Civilization at the Anchor Point of the Four-Dimensional Universe Galaxy."

"As you can see, I have become a special Herrscher of the End, possessing human thinking abilities and not controlled by the Fake Honkai and the will of the Void Tree."

The girl stared at the pile of double-image polymers and could feel countless eyes scanning her up and down.

"I don't want to say too much nonsense to you. There is no reason why you can't think of what I can think of. Right now, Tiana, the former Ruler of Eternity, can no longer be used by you. Under the rules of the four-dimensional universe, your dimensional creations lack the assistance of Honkai and will have no chance of defeating me."

There was no questioning voice, so the girl continued speaking.

"My request is simple, that is to stop the Honkai experiment and leave our world."

"Otherwise, I will retaliate against your civilization."

Looking at the vaguely fluctuating double image, Shirley paused for a moment and suddenly smiled.

"Ha... don't you believe it? Do you think I can't enter a higher dimension on my own initiative?"

"You are actively controlling the scale of civilization development, and evading the judgment of collapse time and time again by taking advantage of loopholes, and I already know all of this. Let me guess, can I return to the tree of imaginary numbers, and then descend into your dimension with my own will, so that the collapse will come to your civilization in advance?"

"I know that if I do this, there is a high probability that the virtual tree will directly wipe out the imprint of my personality, but do you dare to bet on how likely it is that I can preserve my self-awareness, undergo a second transformation, and invade your world with the power of the origin of collapse?"

"..."

"I guess you don't dare to bet."

High-dimensional civilizations use the human universe as experimental material, so they will naturally not allow the experimental material to threaten themselves, nor will they regard a civilization far below themselves as an opponent. To them, low-dimensional civilizations in the infinite universe are like small ants, and they can never be placed on an equal footing.

However, if the experiment goes wrong, it may lead to the destruction of the entire civilization by an "ant plague". In that case, the normal choice would be to abandon this fatal experimental project.

From the perspective of a high-dimensional civilization, no one would allow the entire world and a nest of ants to perish together in order to study something that is not that important. Even if there is such a madman among the observers, other observers will not let him do whatever he wants, not to mention that he is in a high-dimensional world where collective consciousness supervision is likely to be completed.

dimensional universe civilization.

"Leave this universe, permanently give up control of the artificial Honkai terminal 'Moon', and stop interfering with the progress of all galactic civilizations. In this way, I will live in peace with you for the time being."

"It's a compromise or a fight to the death. Choose."

The girl did not finish speaking her mind at once, but remained silent, waiting for the observer's answer.

(What would you do? No matter how you think about it, accepting the conditions should be the right choice.)

The girl quietly clenched her fists.

(Or... did I still misread your value logic and underestimated the importance you attach to this Honkai experiment?)

1050 Invitation

Three seconds passed and Shiris did not receive a response from the observers.

"..."

The Herrscher of the End and the higher-dimensional life, both of them have a thinking speed that exceeds the speed of time in the current space. In theory, any decision will be made in an instant.

Given that Shiris has already put forward the conditions, such a pause is intriguing.

Although she proposed a choice between two options, Hillarys already knew that the previous negotiations could no longer become an ultimatum.

No response means that the observer will not accept any of the two conditions. And then, whether they bargain on this basis or change the subject and put forward other negotiation conditions, at least it can be confirmed that they are not going to give in easily.

The girl sighed in her heart and gave up the idea of ​​making further verbal threats.

If high-dimensional observers could be scared off so easily, then this conversation would not have existed in the first place - their calculation ability is countless times stronger than the most advanced computer in this world. What Shilis, the Herrscher of the End, can currently do is probably already within the scope of their calculations.

This isn't a negotiation between gangs, and continuing to make harsh remarks is just a waste of breath.

(Okay, let me see, your confidence comes from... huh?)

Shirley's brows suddenly frowned, and her fingertips tapped on the armrest of the throne. A "click" sound echoed in the silent space.

As if awakened by the clear knocking sound, the observers refocused their attention, but failed to meet Shirley's gaze.

"Humph."

The silver-haired girl's slightly dissatisfied gaze passed the observer's shadow and went to the farther distance behind the opposite side.