K424 of the Collapse World

(Ugh... I shouldn't have restored my body's pain...)

Hillarys, who was struggling to hold on despite the discomfort, was thinking about whether she should use the same method of getting angry to fight against Diana's clutches, but the next moment, as the hands on her face suddenly loosened, she was suddenly hugged by the silver-haired girl in front of her, and her whole body was surrounded by soft warmth.

"But, that's great..."

The girl whispered in Shilis's ear, her tone full of genuine joy.

"Sister Shilis, I finally found you~"

"..."

After a brief hesitation, Shiris let out a soft breath and hugged Diana's back without reservation.

"Thank you...I'm sorry for making you worry."

In the end, were my previous thoughts just my own worries? Yes, even if everyone would hate me and not forgive me, they would never abandon me or any of their companions. I should have thought of this earlier...

While she was thinking, Diana's increasingly choked voice did not stop.

"...I don't know what other people think, but whether it's me and sister Kiana, or Bronya and Seele, or Wendy and Bella, or Dr. Iselin...the purpose of everyone joining the expedition is not only to protect civilization, but also to search for the whereabouts of sister Cialis. No matter what the price, we must snatch you back from the Herrscher of the End!"

"That's great... Wow... I didn't disappoint everyone, don't you think? Sister Shilis..."

"Thanks a lot."

Patting Diana's back gently, the two separated after a long hug. Shiris looked at the crying girl who was half a head taller than her and tried to change the subject.

"But, Diana, how did you find me? As far as I know, shouldn't you be in the Alliance's expeditionary force, on your way to the outside world to defeat the Herrscher of the End?"

"When the expeditionary force of the Alliance of All Worlds arrived at the outermost layer of the World Ring, we saw the people left behind in the Edge World Bubble who had received the Holy Mark, but we did not find any trace of the Herrscher of the End. The top leaders disagreed on this and delayed issuing follow-up combat orders. Because of the mobility of my spatial ability, I was assigned the task of returning to the Axis Zone in advance to search... Then I discovered a strange Honkai fluctuation on the moon that looked a bit like a Pseudo-Hershers. I remember that the Honkai creatures near the Earth had been swept away a long time ago, so I was a little concerned and wanted to come and confirm it..."

"I see."

Shiris couldn't help but shake her head and smile bitterly. It seemed that after sealing away her Herrscher power and most of her special powers, she could no longer completely block her aura.

And in the quiet starry sky, the reaction of this Honkai energy is as obvious as a lighthouse in the dark night in the eyes of the Herrscher.

What a bad idea! Even if Diana didn't come, I would be found by the Earth's satellite in no time...

Diana wiped her eyes calmly, then suddenly remembered something and quickly grabbed Shirley's hand.

"Oh, by the way, Sister Shilis! What happened before? What happened during your disappearance? How did you come back? Do you know the inside story of those strange things related to the Herrscher of the End?"

Hearing these questions that should have been asked at the very beginning, Shirley smiled and sat down on the ground in the dust of the lunar soil.

"Ah~ This is a very long story. Are you sure you want me to start telling it now?"

1056 The truth of the world so far away

Just as Diana said, when the expeditionary force of Ten Thousand Worlds arrived at the edge of the World Ring, facing the unchanging outer universe, the Ruler of the End, who was regarded as a great enemy, was nowhere to be found.

These coalition soldiers who came here with the awareness of death would inevitably feel a little overwhelmed when faced with such a situation, no matter how firm and fearless their will was.

The ultimate enemy of civilization just disappeared inexplicably?

The initial goal had not yet been achieved, but the situation had already deviated from the original plan. As a result, the high-level officials of the various worlds, who already held different opinions, naturally had differences. Some people proposed to stay in the outer ring area to observe; some people wanted to continue the expedition to the starry sky; some people questioned the authenticity of the information Otto said; and some people wanted the coalition to disband and return to their own worlds to fight on their own.

As for these high-level officials who showed their attitude, other people who were also eligible to attend the meeting also had different reactions. Some people stood aside and watched coldly, some were enthusiastic about the disputes, and some were worried about it...

"Sister Bronya, everyone...why did it become like this? Is there really nothing we can do?"

"It's no use, Xi'er."

The silver-gray girl shook her head. In the intelligence room at the rear bridge of the Glorious Covenant, she could see the high-ranking officials of various worlds arguing endlessly on the light screen, the officers of various levels with different expressions in the flagship assembly cabin, and the grassroots soldiers who were slightly confused.

Finally, she just looked away and patted the blue-haired girl's head.

“Here, we

Just a fighter, not a leader."

"But, everyone trusts us so much, they should be willing to listen to us..."

"I've said it before, Seele. In their eyes, no matter how powerful we are, we are just trusted comrades, not commanders in charge. We have neither the ability nor the power to end this dispute. Unless Seele wants me to use the power of the Herrscher to 'eliminate' our differences directly..."

"..."

Seele pursed her lips slightly, wanting to say something but stopping herself. Of course, she definitely didn't want Bronya to use the power of the Herrscher to forcibly distort the will of others. Regardless of whether it could be done or not, such an act itself was a betrayal of others. Besides, Seele also knew how insignificant her words would be in front of hundreds of millions of people.

"Well~ After all, humans can't be united forever. Although we, who come from different worlds, can temporarily put aside our prejudices and work together for a common goal, if this sole goal begins to become blurred, then nothing can maintain this fragile union."

Wendy looked at Xier who looked lost, shrugged and smiled at her.

"Well, don't worry so much. Even if there is some chaos, as long as the Herrscher of the End appears, these elite troops can instantly return to the fighting state. And if the Herrscher of the End really disappears, doesn't it mean that the people here don't need to make more sacrifices?"

"No, she still exists."

Wendy's words, pretending to be lighthearted, to lighten the mood, but before they took effect, Kiana's serious voice rang out.

"The Herrscher of the End has definitely not disappeared. I can still feel a certain connection between her and me. But why... would she hide her tracks? With the power she has demonstrated, I don't think the strength of the Allied Forces can force her to temporarily avoid the edge..."

Kiana said, but her tone became hesitant. The formal interview with the Herrscher of the End had made her aware of her identity and sensed the original power of the End. But as the ceremony was forcibly interrupted by Shiris, her perception of this aspect became minimal.

No matter how you think about it, the reason why the Herrscher of the End suddenly disappeared could only be that Shiris did something again, right?

Because of a series of reasons before, some things about Shirley have become a taboo topic for everyone. But now, Kiana suddenly realized that when they decided to fight against the end and save Shirley, they never seriously considered the impact that girl could have...

Kiana was considering and wanted to tell her other companions about her guess. But at this moment, her anti-entropy terminal, which had not received any new information for a long time, suddenly received a message sent by the cross-border network of Void Wanzang.

News from me company?

President Raiden Ryoma should be assisting the doctors of Anti-Entropy with post-disaster resettlement work. Why did he suddenly contact me on the expeditionary force's side through the Void Wanzang network?

Is there some emergency?

Before Kiana opened the message, the same prompt tone was heard on the terminals of Seele, Bronya, Mei, Wendy, Iselin and others beside her.

Dr. Iselin, who had the fastest hands, was the first to draw the message panel.

"Traces of the Herrscher of Time's activities were discovered in the Far Eastern Inland Sea... What the hell?! Didn't Xing already..."

When she saw the first line of words, Iselin was shocked. This kind of wide-eyed expression full of girlish cuteness had not appeared on her face for a long time, but no one else present paid attention to it.

Because they all saw the exact same short message.

Everyone was in stunned silence for a full five seconds, and the first one to react was Raiden Mei.

"Where's Diana? Didn't she return to Earth? Hurry up and ask her about the details!"

"Diana's location coordinates don't seem to be on Earth yet..."

"What about the Destiny Headquarters and the Abyss Base? Is there any news from Bishop Otto?"

"There is no relevant information at the moment... Wait, Mr. Otto seems to be planning a special search operation targeting the moon..."

Ignoring Mei's urging, Iselin skillfully controlled the terminal panel and glanced through the intelligence of various bases on Earth. She discovered a lot of suffocating abnormal information.

Most of them are highly encrypted information, but these codes are meaningless in the face of her power as the Ruler of Reason.

"Simulation of the 'testing ground'... the basic logic of the final constraint content... high-dimensional observation inference... this, this, this... damn it! I now feel that it is more likely that there is a threat inside the world ring!"

Without explaining to anyone else, Iselin hurriedly pushed open the door and ran to the command area. She drove the acting commander, Penglai Temple Jiuxiao, out of the captain's room. Under the latter's confused gaze, she forcibly took over control with her identity as the new leader of Anti-Entropy and vice president of the Far East Branch.

"Tell Mr. Kevin that Hyperion has applied for an early return! Prepare to start the warp drive... What? Approval? No need! They should have received the news from Earth. There is no time to explain further!"

"Did you hear that, Ai-chan?

?! I told you to activate the warp! Now! "

"..."

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While the top leaders of all parties were arguing in the data conference room, the members of the Axis World received heavy news one after another. In a non-Alliance World Bubble's external team, an unremarkable starship gradually deviated from its patrol orbit and quietly left the star field where the expeditionary force was located.

1056 The truth of a world so far away >>

"Car, car..."

A creature that looked like a tank-class Honkai beast lay in front of the observation window, with its ears drooping limply on both sides of its head, as if it was reluctant to leave the huge combined fleet behind it.

An orange-haired girl leaned against it, staring blankly at the metal ceiling with empty eyes.

In the not-so-large control room of the cabin, a girl with the same silver-gray curly hair as Bronya yawned, glanced at the small dining table next to her, and casually adjusted the starship to automatic navigation mode.

"Hey, witch, although you are the acting boss chosen by everyone, are you sure it is really appropriate for us to leave without saying goodbye? Is the threat of the Herrscher of the End really gone?"

Hearing this, the brown-haired woman who was being addressed put down the teacup in her hand and responded with a faint smile, her every move as elegant as ever.

"I believe in Lady Stargazer's ability. This is a conclusion she made herself, so there is no need to question it."

As she spoke, she turned her gaze to the green-robed, silver-haired girl sitting on the other side, who also puffed out her chest with pride.

"Well, the stars don't lie. Based on the astrological signs here, I can be sure that the 'source of disaster' that threatens the survival of the New World Ring no longer exists."

"But didn't I say that this forcibly pieced together little world tree could..."

"Ah, that's right, Brownie. This has also been solved. The star veins of the World Ring that could collapse at any time... the unstable space structure you know as the World Ring, were suddenly repaired and reinforced by an unknown force. There is no possibility of self-destruction anymore."

"How can this be..."

"Haha~ I won't lie about this kind of thing. In the old Huang Empire, the only people who would question the authenticity of the Sage King's stargazing technique were those vulgar people who only saw the sky from a well and the young people who didn't know the real thing."

Mr. Stargazer waved his feather fan slowly, and admired the surprised expression of the hacker girl with great satisfaction. However, the next sentence of the hacker girl made her face fall.

"Then, Mr. Stargazer, who knows everything, can you tell me, this ignorant young man, how the problem was solved? Why did the Herrscher of the End suddenly disappear? What is the so-called source of the disaster? And what repaired the flawed structure of the fusion world?"

"Uh......"

"..."

The girl in green robe slowly lowered her head.

"Actually... I don't know either. This is quite strange. According to common sense, the stargazing technique inherited by the Huang Empire should be able to see everything in the past and the future, and it was the same until we intervened in the Ten Thousand Worlds Alliance. But I don't know when it started, the stars here can only see clear and brief results, and the truth hidden in the process is completely unknown. Forcing an interpretation will only show irrelevant phantoms..."

This was indeed something that had never been seen in stargazing. Whether it was the true source of the disaster or the missing Herrscher of the End, no information could be obtained from stargazing. The only thing she could know was her conclusion just now - the crisis of the world's survival had been completely resolved, and there would no longer be any factors that threatened this world ring in the universe she knew.

(Irrelevant phantom...)

Recalling the scene she saw from the stars a few minutes ago, the irregular shining galaxies clustered outside the world ring. Observing it according to her interpretation, it was as if she saw a pair of slender hands reaching out from the void, vaguely supporting the outermost layer of the entire star ring, as if the entire universe was holding this small literary star ring in its arms.

Although this abstract picture is incredible, in the eyes of Mr. Astrologer, this is not information from the stars, but just an inexplicable illusion.

"Huh? You don't even know? Tsk... Wait a minute, when you were stargazing just now, we were inside that small world tree, right? From inside that alien space, you can only see the stars of those worlds, not the starry sky of the universe, which affects your judgment, right? Just like what the poem says, it seems that... the distance, height and lowness are different... just because you are in this mountain or something like that, you should understand what I mean, right?"

"Don't underestimate Huang's secret technique! No matter where you are, no one can escape from the starry sky. With the art of stargazing, you can know the whole picture by glimpsing a corner. This kind of voyage through the quantum sea has never affected my observation before, right? As a fellow traveler, it seems necessary to teach you some basic knowledge of stargazing, such as the waxing and waning of the sun and the moon, the constellations of the stars..."

"Ah, no, no, no... Dear Mr. Stargazer, your stupid student has no more questions, please stop reading!"

"Humph, this kid is incorrigible."

Look at Brownie covering his ears

Begging for mercy, the green-robed girl raised her head proudly, declaring herself the winner of the argument. The brown-haired woman at the side always had a gentle and doting smile on her face, and did not join in the conversation.

He sat down to watch the stars, but the doubts in his heart arose again.

"Strange, this shouldn't happen unless..."

She guessed various possibilities and eliminated them one by one, until only a few most likely estimated truths remained.

But she thought about it and finally stopped analyzing further.

According to that person, the stargazing technique passed down from generation to generation in the Huang Empire has already touched the edge of the law. Then, the only thing that can hinder the observation process of stargazing is a greater and more mysterious force.

If the truth behind the stars comes from an existence that cannot be looked at directly, then how can she see the real process with her little trick of peeping into the secrets of heaven?

The girl suddenly felt a sense of fear.

Maybe I can see the result only because of His tacit approval...

Do gods who protect mankind as described in myths and legends really exist?

"It seems that I am still a long way from reaching the deeper aspects of the world..."

She whispered to herself, looking through the window on the side of the ship at the bright star rings moving further and further away behind her, her eyes sparkling.

Next to them, the discussion among fellow travelers continued.

"...Speaking of which, what about Xia? I remember that she seems to be still on the planet in there?"

"Isn't Delta here too? Her ship is no worse than ours, so we can just bring them back together~"

"..."

............

The starship came from the void and left in secret, slowly sailing away into the distance and disappearing into the depths of the universe.