K424 of the Collapse World

"Houkai Beast... No, it should be a large machine driven by Houkai Furnace. Could this be the Valkyrie of the Far East Branch?"

Xing squinted her eyes and looked in the direction of the energy reaction. After a while, large and small spots of light began to appear in the distance. It was obviously the Destiny airship and a dense group of carrier-based aircraft, rushing towards this location at high speed.

Judging from the energy intensity that Xing could feel, this large number of troops should be carrying a lot of powerful lethal weapons.

"...I have bad intentions, but that is only natural. After all, I am essentially a Herrscher, and I have openly betrayed my destiny and joined the World Serpent. It is not surprising that I have attracted the attack of the Valkyries."

Xing exhaled. After a moment's thought, she cancelled the maintenance of the pointer sword, and drove the energy to fly in the opposite direction of the troops. With the skill of time and space acceleration, she left the Far East Branch troops hundreds of miles away in the blink of an eye.

"Although we can clarify the current situation by negotiating with them, there is no guarantee that the Valkyrie will not directly drop a fission bomb on us... Let's avoid the official forces for the time being."

Xing muttered to herself, suppressing the dissipated Herrscher energy, hiding her own fluctuations, and flying low and slow like a seabird.

"There is no response from any Herrscher nearby. I don't know how everyone is doing. Where is Sister Shilis..."

"In short, act carefully. Hide yourself first, and then slowly figure out what happened in this world."

While thinking, Xing quickly decided on a plan of action and began to move towards the Far East land in her memory...

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Meanwhile, Saint Freya dispatched the troops.

"...Report, the unknown Herr's reaction has disappeared!"

The information from the scout fighter was displayed on the command ship's bridge display board, and the commanders of each unit looked at each other in bewilderment. They were prepared for a fierce battle, but no one expected that the powerful Herrscher would actually avoid the battle and escape!

The blonde woman sitting in the commander-in-chief's seat picked up the communication report and looked at the blurry remote scanning image on the screen. Her eyes flickered and her expression became a little hesitant.

"Ms. Cocolia..."

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The adjutant looked at Cocolia who was in deep thought and was about to ask for instructions on the next course of action, but before she could open her mouth, the blonde woman's gaze became sharp again.

"Continue tracking. The Herrscher's destination may be the former Far East Continent. Send the information to the Changkong Provisional Government. Notify the Haiyuan headquarters to assemble troops and request assistance from the Shenzhou garrison in the search."

She said it firmly, throwing aside all the random thoughts in her mind.

During this special period of the decisive battle between civilization and collapse, Cocolia did not have any extra thoughts. Although she was once a radical anti-entropy activist with a very bad reputation, now, as one of the temporary security leaders of the Far East Branch, she only wanted to protect the pure land of her hometown for the daughters of the expeditionary force before they returned.

"Continue marching, expand the search range to 2.5 distance outside the flank, and make sure to lock on the unknown Herrscher's moving direction!"

"Roger that!"

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From Xing's confusion at the beginning of her rebirth to her avoiding the Far East troops and deciding to take action, the pair of eyes on the moon saw it all.

"Choosing to hide and gather intelligence? How cautious. As expected, Xing is no longer a child since she acted on her own at that time. Well, if she can hide her Herrscher energy well, she can obtain most of the media intelligence since the advent of the Doom from the citizens in any intact city."

Shiris lazily sat on the moon, using her extraordinary perception to peek at the area where Xing was, muttering to herself and commenting on the girl's actions.

1054 "Mortals" and Law-Bearers>>

After completing the existence of that girl and grafting her time and space to the present moment, Shirley was still a little worried, so she made sure that she would not encounter any accidents, and by the way, see what Xing would do when facing a completely unrecognizable world.

"...But if she had stayed to face the Far East Force, Cocolia over there would have been able to tell her directly about all the changes in the world so far. What a pity, Cocolia almost could have been the first person to welcome Xing back."

Shirley lay down on her side with her head supported, watching Xing easily sneak into the port of Canghai City and enter this relatively intact city, and she couldn't help yawning.

It seems that Xing completely missed the chance with Cocolia this time.

"But that's normal. They don't have a God's perspective. Xing's actions are reasonable and cautious. If I were to be resurrected in a strange world after my death, I would probably be as cautious as her..."

"It's just that it looks like she'll waste a lot of time gathering intelligence."

Shilis originally wanted to refer to Xing's choice to decide how to return to Saint Freya. But now, Xing insisted on slowly obtaining information and avoiding official forces. Shilis naturally did not intend to spend several days spying on Xing, so she could only start to decide on the way to return immediately.

After all, now that everything has come to an end, Shirley has no intention of staying on the moon as Chang'e. Since Tiana has temporarily left the real universe to go to the Quantum Ocean to deal with the remaining spatial structure problems of the mini imaginary tree of the Star Weaving Project, Shirley seems to have nothing to do except return to Earth and return to Saint Freya.

"Should I go back directly? However, I have done so many wrong things before and caused so much trouble for everyone. It feels a bit awkward to go back directly with such a shameless face... Or should I find a place to hide and 'accidentally' release energy fluctuations and wait for them to find me? No, this will cause a lot of unnecessary trouble. It is better not to add extra workload to everyone."

Shirley hesitated for a while, shook her head helplessly, and put the question behind her for the time being.

After all, there are more important things right now——

"Rather than worrying about the trivial matter of saving face, it is better to seal yourself first. With the demigod body of the Herrscher of the End, it is enough to change the material world unconsciously. This way, I can't interact normally with other people. So..."

Shiris closed her eyes gently.

But her vision did not become dark as she closed her eyes. As part of the moon gradually came into her eyes, her field of vision began to expand outward, like a camera launched at high speed, quickly expanding from the surface of the moon to the macroscopic Earth-Moon system, and from the fused earth to the realms of the inner ring of the world tree, taking in the microscopic universes in the form of world bubbles, and continuing outward until the entire world ring was in sight. Only then did Shirley open her eyes again.

At this time, she had already arrived outside the space of the World Ring, and her huge body in the form of the Ruler of the End occupied half of the Milky Way, just like the posture when the Giant God of the End appeared in the world at the beginning.

But now, the girl's translucent body has almost merged into the starry sky and can no longer be observed by mortals. She is like a goddess made up of the starry sky, holy and flawless.

She looked down at the tiny solar system and the ring of the world, slowly stretched out her hands that had turned into stardust, and held the galaxy of all worlds belonging to civilization in her palms.

"My final body will become the strongest barrier for this world, protecting it from the threats from the depths of the universe until you can set foot on the more distant starry sky.

 …”

The goddess of the starry sky murmured silently, then closed her brilliant eyes that were made of stars, and fell silent.

When Shiris opened her eyes again, she returned to the moon inside the ring. At this moment, she had been stripped of her power and spiritual knowledge as a god, and became an ordinary pseudo-herrscher in the form of an incarnation.

The method of self-sealing that Shiris thought of was to place the main body as the Ruler of the End outside the world and deposit the self in the incarnation.

"Although it is a seal that can be broken with a thought, it at least prevents the unconscious divinity from leaking out. As long as the incarnation's rationality does not collapse, the main body can be stably maintained in its slumber by self-control... I hope that the Eldar from some world bubbles and the Old Gods from the outer universe will not come to cause trouble too soon."

After slightly adapting to the brain area and computing ability of a mortal, Shirley felt the body attributes that had been edited in advance, but couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.

“Although the Honkai disaster is over, and I don’t need to maintain too much strength to return to civilized society, but will it be insufficient to only retain my earliest pseudo-Hershersman-like strength? There are still many strong people comparable to Herrscher in the Ten Thousand Worlds. If I encounter any accidents, won’t I be beaten out of my final form in a matter of minutes?”

The incarnation's thinking and computing ability returned to that of a mortal. Shilis was not quite sure why she had given the incarnation such limited strength a few minutes ago. But now, looking at the bottomless bubbles in the star ring, her anxiety about insufficient strength broke out again.

"Hiss... Do you want to change it a little? It doesn't need to be too strong, just the power of the Herrscher period is enough... Wait, the Herrscher's ability is too limited and easy to be targeted. Why don't I edit a brand new power system for myself? Well! I can refer to the form of magic in the fantasy world, and then it will be both practical and ornamental..."

Silis sat on the moon and muttered. Just as she was excitedly thinking about tearing off her character card and resetting her parameters, her limited perception in the avatar form made her fail to notice that a figure had appeared behind her and quietly reached out to her shoulder...

"babble--!"

Suddenly, she felt someone holding her shoulders from behind. The thoughtful Shirley was so frightened that her whole body shuddered, activating the long-dormant fighting nerves in her body.

Subconsciously, she rolled forward to break free from the hand that had no power at all, and instantly bounced up and assumed an attacking posture with a ferocious expression, like a frightened cat with its fur standing on end.

Then, her eyes met the silver-haired girl behind her who had her right hand half-raised and a slightly strange expression on her face.

Diana...well, the ability of the Herrscher of the Void does allow her to appear and disappear mysteriously.

The girl's mouth twitched as she thought about it, but she and the other person fell into silence at the same time.

a long time.

"..."

"..."

"Um...Sister Shilis?"

1055 The Reunion of the Two

Although being found by her companions like this was one of the scenarios she had initially envisioned, Shiris did not expect that she would be discovered so quickly after losing her divine power.

(——I’m not ready to face you yet!)

Just as Shirley was at a loss and thinking wildly, Diana, who came across the space, reconfirmed her judgment based on her instinct and familiarity with people close to her.

"That's right! It's really... Sister Shiris!"

"..."

It is not a puppet clone driven by fragments of consciousness, nor is it a mimic personality created by a defective soul. The silver-haired girl in front of her, wearing the uniform of Saint Freya, whose appearance and temperament are exactly the same as those in the Far East Branch period, is undoubtedly the sister Shilis that she is most familiar with!

However, despite being overjoyed, the mature young Herrscher did not take any further action rashly.

She didn't understand why the real body of Shiris, whose sanity was eroded by the Honkai and who committed a series of puzzling and out-of-control behaviors and eventually disappeared, suddenly appeared in such a place?

But it doesn’t matter. If she is really the original sister Shilis, then she will definitely be willing to answer my questions, right?

"..."

"..."

At this moment, on this piece of lunar soil coated with layers of silver by starlight, on one side was a silver-haired girl who was on a combat mission but unexpectedly found her relatives, and on the other side was a silver-haired girl who did something wrong and dared not go home but was suddenly found by her family. They exchanged glances silently, and after Diana briefly broke the silence, the atmosphere became tense again.

Diana was waiting for Hillary's answer, but Hillary hadn't figured out how to answer at the moment.

Looking at the expectant and slightly nervous expression of the girl opposite her, Shirley couldn't help but shrink her shoulders, feeling the confusion brought by the unexpected situation for the first time in a long time.

After all, a few minutes ago, she was still the omniscient and almighty Herrscher of the End. Within the scope of the World Ring civilization, it was impossible for anything beyond her expectations to occur.

Now, back to the human perspective, with the level of the pseudo-heresy

's information processing ability, and once again facing a situation of equal communication between people, this is a considerable challenge for her now.

So, Diana suddenly activated the time-space jump after she sealed herself? No... That's not the question. The most important thing now is how to complete this reunion with Diana...

(My consciousness was dominated by Lilith's personality, and during the period of transition to the Herrscher of the End, I did a lot of unreasonable things and hurt many close friends. It can even be said that I provoked the initial chaos of the End War and implicated countless innocent people... What do you think of my behavior? How does Diana view me now?)

(Will they hate me? Will they forgive me? If I return to Saint Freya, will everything really be the same as before?)

The girl was thinking anxiously, and under the sudden guilt and pressure, she and Diana's eyes met with each other and they were a little evasive.

As the Ruler of the End, she overlooks all civilizations from a divine perspective and decides the future of the entire universe with her own hands. Naturally, she can accept everything she has done and face these merits and demerits as calmly as a true god.

As she sealed her divinity and returned to humanity, the delicacy and sensitivity of a mortal girl also returned to her. She will examine everything she has done with human values ​​and will have to face the mental torture brought by this humanity.

This was a fact she suddenly realized.

(what do I do......)

If the will attached to the incarnation could be reconnected to the main body, Shiris would definitely be able to come up with countless perfect solutions in an instant, and she would not even be troubled by these inner troubles from the beginning.

However, since she has decided to live as a human again, the girl will not break her promise easily.

Otherwise, wouldn't the promise I made to Tiana before become a joke?

"...Um, Sister Shilis?"

(So, should I try to resolve the misunderstanding? Explain everything that happened to me and immediately tell her the truth about the tree of imaginary numbers and the higher-dimensional civilization? But... with so much information, is it really appropriate to use these words as an opening statement when we meet again? It's like I can't wait to shirk responsibility and make self-justifications...)

Shirley bit her lip, her increasingly drooping gaze began to wander and her concentration began to scatter.

"......Sister Shirley~" (shaking her hands)

(But if Diana really minds what I did before, or is even angry enough to be unable to forgive me… If that’s the case, then before everything is explained clearly, any other words will only hurt and irritate her again…)

"...Really, Sister Shiris~!"

(Can it be that I can no longer integrate into human society? As the Ruler of the End, I am a god who saves the world, but as a human, I am a sinner who brings chaos. Returning to being a human again means that I must distinguish between the two identities. Then, my original sins can no longer be offset by my merits and demerits...)

The girl was so upset that she couldn't speak at all.

She didn't even realize that she had almost completely lowered her head, her eyes moved away from Diana, and she could only see her own toes.

(If the person on the other side was Otto, I could at least laugh and ridicule him, recounting the sins we had committed. Sigh... If I could have met Rita or Raven, my less familiar allies, and casually said hello and did some social rehabilitation training, I wouldn't be in such an awkward situation now... But the first person to come up was Diana, what should I do?)

1055 The reunion of the two >>

(What should I do to...)

"......I say~~Sister Shiris!!"

This time, the sudden sound in her ear finally woke the distraught girl up. She raised her head hastily, and in front of her was Diana's delicate face, puffing her cheeks and staring at her angrily.

At some point, Diana had walked up to her during her trance.

Their eyes met, and Shirley subconsciously wanted to avoid it, but Diana pressed her cheeks with both hands, forcing her to look into the eyes of the girl in front of her.

"Okay, are you done yet?"

"I... Ugh...?!"

Without giving Shilis a chance to reply, Diana, with an unhappy look on her face, rubbed the girl's face hard, turning her subsequent remarks into a series of inarticulate whimpers.

"So what are you doing? Sister Shilis, even if you don't want to talk now, there's no need to be like this! We just met and didn't even say hello, and you're just sitting there talking to yourself!"

"Mmmmm...Dean...please rub my dick..."

Shirley wanted to resist, but found that she no longer had the power of authority and the physique of a Herrscher. Her current physique was roughly equivalent to that of a mortal, and was no match for the Herrscher of the Void in his prime.

So, Shilis, who was shorter than Diana, was defeated by her own family without any chance to fight back.

My sister was ravaging me. My original entanglement and worries were thrown behind my mind along with the slight stinging feeling on my face. At this moment, I only thought about how to escape from this furry white ball.