The civilization before the collapse, heroes and heroes are reborn with me

Chapter 106 Choice

"Oh, it seems that Kiana has decided to stay behind. Does Mei want to take this opportunity to contact Absurdism and seize the authority of the Herrscher of Thunder?" Alicia said as she stood on a high building and watched the battle not far away. "And it seems that Absurdism is also paying more attention to defending Kiana?"

It is not a difficult task for Kiana to defeat the skeleton of the virtual tree, but Mei's weakness happens to become her helper at this moment. Absurdism seems to have judged Kiana as the main target. The flowing electric light is basically chasing Kiana. At the same time, in addition to those ordinary skeletons of the virtual tree, there are also skeletons of the virtual tree with some authority of the Herrscher of Thunder.

And their target is Kiana.

"Absurdism... maybe I sensed that aura from Kiana." Feng said calmly, "After all... it is made up of my memory scraps. Even if it is my memory scraps, it is inevitable that there will be some 'special treatment' for her."

Alicia: "..."

Fifty thousand years ago, Zhongyan and Feng were fighting to the death, and Zhongyan's apostles repeatedly tried to kill Feng. Fifty thousand years later, even though Absurdism was just a piece of memory discarded by Feng, he still remembered to strangle Zhongyan. In a sense, is this also considered reincarnation...

After a moment of silence, Alicia continued, "So, in this case, will fate turn around according to its original trajectory? Will Mei obtain the authority of the Herrscher of Thunder and become a true Herrscher of Thunder?"

"Heh..." Feng's mouth curled up slightly, and his tone became a little playful. "From the current situation, Kiana has attracted most of the firepower of Absurdism, which has indeed bought time for Raiden Mei. Whether she can pass the test and successfully seize power from Absurdism is a question. On the other hand... Ellie, do you think Kiana really has no other plans?"

Alicia was stunned. After thinking for a while, she looked at Feng and said, "Feng, you mean, Kiana is going to..."

"Even if Mei Raiden successfully absorbs the authority of the Herrscher of Thunder, it doesn't mean that the authority of the Herrscher of Thunder can't be seized again. In terms of control over the authority of thunder, Kiana might be stronger than her at this stage." Feng said, "The struggle for the authority of the Herrscher is essentially to be won by the stronger one. Mei Raiden is the essence of the Herrscher of Thunder, and was once a Herrscher of Thunder who had not yet fully awakened. But what about Kiana? She has the Conquest Gem, the incarnation of the authority of thunder that the Second Herrscher separated from the 'Cocoon'."

This is just like the Tenth Herrscher who will appear later and can plunder the authority of Herrs weaker than them. This "weakness" can refer to the mental state or the physical state. Bronya's physical fitness is not up to standard, the Herrscher of Knowledge is in a state of confusion and not knowing the way forward, and she was also defrauded by her own mother. These make them "weak" and thus the authority of the Thousand Herrschers is seized.

At that time, Mei's physical and mental condition were at their peak. So, the Thousand Herrscher could only be beaten and have his defense broken in front of Mei.

Just like now, if Kiana was in a weak physical condition and had hardly used the power of the Conquest Gem, it would be fine, then she would indeed be no match for Mei. But the Kiana now is no longer the girl in the original time and space who insisted on fighting even though her body was on the verge of collapse. In the battle for power, Mei has no advantage at all.

It's just that if Mei seizes power from Absurdism before her, it will weaken the power of the Conquest Gem in her body, but it will not be enough to make the Conquest Gem disappear completely - if Kiana does not take the initiative to give up the fight for power.

To put it bluntly, even if Mei successfully obtains the power, Kiana can once again take the power of the Herrscher of Thunder away from her.

As long as Kiana is willing, then Kiana can do it.

This is Feng's absolute confidence in the child he brought up. He believes that Kiana now will not be inferior to Mei in the Thousand Herrscher period in the original time and space in terms of willpower or physical condition. But can Mei now catch up with her in that period?

In terms of willpower, Mei may still be in a period of confusion. In terms of physical condition, she has lost the Conquest Gem for quite some time. When Kiana was training with her, she also did a lot of training on the power of the Conquest and Disease Gems in her body.

Unless Kiana lets go in the end or she respects Mei's choice to give up the Conquest Gem in her body, Feng can't think of any way Mei can win.

Speaking of which, he still felt that something was not right. What went wrong that made Kiana seem to have no feelings for Mei now?

Kiana here.

"If it's just a skeleton used by the Void Tree, even if it has a little authority of the Herrscher of Thunder, it's just a stronger soldier." Kiana looked at the two alienated "Nihilists" in front of her with lightning all over their bodies. These two are the big guys.

The reason why it has to be put in quotation marks is because they are not true nihilism. The six virtual tree god skeletons are independent of each other. Even if there is a gap in strength, there is no situation where one can directly create or control another. The alienated nihilism in front of us should be the simulated appearance of the "tentacles" of absurdism invading reality.

After all, the essence of absurdism is the impurity of thinking, which means that the nihilism it imitates is only similar in appearance, and even distorted in some places.

For example, the blade of the greatsword in his hand became jagged, and the hand not holding the blade grew claws and the other hand, and the core that was supposed to emit purple-red light was also twisted into dark purple.

At the same time, judging by the surrounding situation, some abilities that originally belonged to nihilism have not been completely inherited by the current absurdism, otherwise it might really cause a lot of trouble.

In addition to these two alienated "nihilisms"...

Kiana raised her head and heard a whistling sound coming from the air, but she could only see a purple lightning that seemed to be passing by the sky.

No, those are not simple purple lightnings. They seem to be conscious beings. Rather than lightnings, they are more like thunder balls.

Suddenly, a ball of lightning flew towards Kiana. Kiana slashed it with a sword without hesitation. The flame of the Holy Judge of Heavenly Fire pierced through the ball of lightning. As the ball of lightning was pierced by the flame, the outline of the outer armor of the virtual tree skeleton suddenly appeared around it, and then it shattered and fell to the ground.

"A completely invisible imaginary shell?" Kiana quickly determined the nature of the thunder ball. It was also an alienated virtual tree skeleton born from the power of absurdism, and in essence it should be considered a part of absurdism.

Kiana was not panicked by this invisible enemy, because unfortunately, she had the imaginary authority of the Second Herrscher, and could use the authority to gain imaginary vision and directly see the appearance of those alienated virtual tree skeletons.

"It does look like an Advance-level Honkai Beast, but it's much larger than an Advance-level Honkai Beast. The sharpness of its wings plus its speed make it very suitable to describe it as being able to cut through iron like mud."

However, there will be no problem as long as you can see what they look like. If you can't see what they look like, you won't be able to judge their attack range, and it will be difficult to avoid them.

In addition to those mutated Hollow Tree Skeletons similar to the Charge-level Honkai Beasts, Kiana also saw mutated Hollow Tree Skeletons similar to the Tank-level Honkai Beasts. Together with two mutated "Nihilisms", this lineup looked quite decent.

After fighting for a short while and figuring out the characteristics of these enemies, Kiana didn't plan to continue wasting time.

"As expected, it's better to end the battle quickly..." Kiana raised the Skyfire Greatsword in her hand, and flames seemed to light up in her pupils. "This is the first time I use this move in actual combat. Although the light of this flame will not be visible to the other side of the earth, it is enough to eliminate all of you!"

"Heavenly Fire... unsheathed!"

At this time, two people who were watching the game had already put on sunglasses.

"Is this the Skyfire that you mastered before you asked Kiana to come over? Well, it does look quite similar. However, it seems that the power is a little bit off. If it was a little stronger, Mei who is not far away might also be within the attack range. Did you teach her this or did Kevin teach her this?"

"We should have taught a part each."

"Hmm... let me guess. Kevin taught Kiana how to use the Skyfire Judgement, and you taught her how to use the Plague Gem in her body to precisely fine-tune the Herrscher Core inside the Skyfire Judgement? After all, you and Kevin are both Herrschers and Skyfire Judgement's old partners, right?"

"You're right."

After receiving Feng's affirmative answer, Alicia smiled smugly, then looked at Kiana and said, "So, rather than saying that this attack was the unsheath of the Skyfire, it's better to say that it was a miniature explosion released by Kiana using the resonance between the Plague Gem in her body and the Skyfire Judgement. In other words... Kiana can release the Skyfire a second time, right?"

Feng nodded again to express his affirmation, and added: "But it will still take some time before I can release it the second time."

Theoretically, the Unsheath of Skyfire belongs to the zeroth rated power of Skyfire Holy Judgement. Just like other God's Keys, after the zeroth rated power is activated, the Herrscher Core will enter a silent state for a period of time. However, the Plague Gem in Kiana's body is equivalent to the Herrscher Core of Flame of modern civilization, and the essence of the zeroth rated power of the God's Key is to maximize the authority of the Herrscher Core to realize the most real power that originally belonged to the Herrscher. Therefore, in the hands of Kiana who has mastered the power of the Plague Gem, after Skyfire Holy Judgement releases a Skyfire Unsheath that is not a full-strength attack, under the mediation of the Plague Gem, the silent time of Skyfire Holy Judgement will be greatly shortened.

The shortened time depends on how much force Kiana exerts in this attack.

After Kiana used the Holy Fire Judgment to annihilate the absurdism that surrounded her, she looked at the Holy Fire Judgment thoughtfully, as if she understood something...

Sure enough, the difference between having the right weapon and not having the right weapon is huge. Suddenly, it was like I had borrowed the Black Abyss White Flower from Bianca to play with.

She shifted her gaze in the direction of Mei, and just as she thought and Mei said, Mei rushed towards the absurdism in the form of a stone slab, jumped down from a tall building, and clearly targeted the purple core of the stone slab, wanting to seize the authority of the Herrscher of Thunder from it.

Kiana stretched out her hand, ready to open a sub-space gate in the direction where Mei fell, and teleport her to her side before she touched the purple core, but soon Kiana realized that the power of thunder from the purple core of the slate interfered with her own imaginary power.

She withdrew her hand and prepared to go directly to where the absurdism was, but soon she found that although her previous attack had eliminated the absurdism that surrounded her, absurdism was obviously not so easily defeated by her attack, and the alienated "nihilism" appeared in front of her again.

Moreover, they look much stronger than the two that he had killed with one blow before. The swords in their hands have become dual-wielded, and two "hands" with sharp claws have grown on their waists. It can be seen that absurdism has abandoned the monster sea tactics and started to shift from "quantity" to "quality".

"It's really troublesome..." Kiana whispered.

She had just used up Skyfire, and although the time interval until the next release would be short, she still had to wait for the CD.

Just as Kiana was thinking, "Nihilism" rushed straight towards Kiana. After avoiding the attack, Kiana judged that she really couldn't ignore it and go to Absurdism in the form of a slate.

Because of the interference of the surrounding power of thunder, the teleportation ability of the Ruler of the Void was also blocked. If he ran over, this "Nihilism" had obviously been strengthened in all aspects, especially its mobility. He was afraid that he could not outrun this guy, so he could only get rid of him first.

"However, this time Alicia came with Feng. Even if Feng doesn't care about what happens to other people, Alicia will definitely care. Mei... should be fine." She thought so, and immediately calmed down and concentrated on dealing with the enemy in front of her.

She has more or less understood why Mei insisted on taking the risk, but she is not quite sure how determined Mei is. After all, the authority of the Herrscher of Thunder is not the same as that of the Herrscher of Reason. Once one loses to the dark side of his heart, he will be controlled by Honkai.

Trust is one thing, and not wanting others to sacrifice is another.

As long as I can seize the authority of the Ruler of Thunder in Mei's body before that, Mei will be fine. This is the safest plan.

It is true that saving the world has never been the responsibility of one person, but not everyone can shoulder the responsibility of saving the world. In a sense, is her future her fault?

She remembered the ruins that caught her eyes when she returned to Changkong City, the desperate cries of the people who fled in all directions when the continent sank, and the warriors who never returned before the Constraint Array.

Chapter 107: Elegy for the Sinner

"here it is……"

Mei opened her eyes and found herself in a blank space. She remembered that she had just followed the voice in her heart and jumped towards the purple core...

"Hehe...you really are not afraid of death." A voice sounded behind her. Mei turned around suddenly, but saw another herself.

"You are... the Herrscher of Thunder?"

"It seems that your brain is still intact." The Herrscher of Thunder crossed his arms and stared at Mei coldly, saying, "Do you know what you just did? What if you made a wrong bet? What's the difference between this and committing suicide?"

Mei was silent.

"You know how huge the gap between you and Kiana is. The place you have to try your best to reach is just a step that she has stepped on before." The Herrscher of Thunder said sarcastically, "You said that you want to stand at the same height as her and fight side by side with her. But before the Battle of Destiny, what could you do without my help? After the Battle of Destiny, even with my power now, what have you done?"

Mei looked at the Herrscher of Thunder, and her heart calmed down. She stopped being silent and said, "It's better to be able to do something than to try your best and still be unable to reach anything."

"Ha... do something..." The Herrscher of Thunder looked into Mei's eyes, "How do you know what you can do?"

"Only by becoming a Herrscher again can I at least have the qualifications to talk to her now and truly understand what she is carrying." Mei said calmly, "I want to know why she chose to bear all this. I want to know everything she sees when I stand at her level."

The Herrscher of Thunder seemed to have heard a joke. She suddenly laughed out loud. She looked at Mei and said, "Becoming a Herrscher? Mei, you want to make me laugh to death? What are you? You are just an ordinary person! The real Herrscher of Thunder, the queen who controls thunder and lightning, is me!"

"Maybe, but I want to try it too." Mei said.

"you……"

"I may die, but I still have a chance of winning." Mei slowly raised the sword in her hand, "Only if I win, I will have the qualifications to move forward."

"Idiot...Aren't you afraid of death?"

"...die? Didn't I die once during the third collapse, when you were born?"

Mei has already adopted a fighting stance, her eyes are firm and she does not retreat at all. For her, she has no choice at this moment. She does not want to fall behind everyone, and she also wants to continue fighting with everyone.

What kind of person was Mei Raiden in the past? Before her father went to prison, she was the object of flattery by everyone. Her father was always busy with official duties, and she had no idea how many birthdays she had spent alone. At that time, she felt that she had found her life when she was in school.

However, after her father was imprisoned, those who once tried to curry favor with her, her "friends" all kept their distance from her. Only then did she realize that they only approached her because of the name "Raiden Mei". They never cared about what the person behind the name "Raiden Mei" looked like.

But it’s ridiculous that I have been working hard for the “me” that they compliment me.

Those were her darkest days. She had to learn to live alone, cook alone, and go to and from school alone. The once high and mighty "Queen of Thunder and Lightning" ended up living like a shadow.

It was at that time that Kiana appeared in her life.

She approached him without any purpose, just saying something: "You are so beautiful and powerful, why are you always alone?"

Mei later figured out the reason why she approached her in the beginning. Maybe it was because of the similar loneliness between the two of them. She was admitted to Chiba Academy with excellent grades, but she also had no background. Her carefree appearance made those classmates feel too vulgar.

Although Kiana herself probably didn't care about all this, she didn't seem to plan to make any friends in Senba Academy from the beginning, and she... was probably just an accident.

Not long after that conversation, the third Honkai broke out. She passed through numerous obstacles and came to herself who had become the Herrscher of Thunder, pulling herself out of the darkness.

To this day, she still remembers the smile of the girl who held her hand when she regained consciousness.

Are you afraid of death? To be honest, for her now, death may not be such a scary thing. She is more afraid that she can't do anything. She has only so many friends, but they have all passed away before her.

Bronya is the next generation of Herrscher of Reason, and Wendy is the Herrscher of Wind. The stronger they are, the more dangerous the dangers they face. In the Battle of Destiny, she was instantly defeated by the Second Herrscher and her core was taken away, while Wendy fought with the Second Herrscher for a long time and persisted until Teacher Himeko came, and she almost had her core taken away. In the Battle of Abyss City, her opponent became Angelica, who was also a Herrscher, and that was also a dangerous battle.

It can be imagined that this is the case with Wendy, and Bronya’s future will also be like this.

Not to mention that the Ruler of Reason has the precedent of Mr. Walter. For the sake of humanity and fighting against the Honkai, Mr. Walter has time and again put his own life and death aside. The will of the Ruler of Reason has never been cut off.

And Kiana... she returned to the Shaniyatt family. Regardless of the good and evil of the Shaniyatt family, their will to face death in the fight against the Honkai is unshakable. To them, the life of an ordinary person is simply a luxury. She heard from the principal that the average age of the Shaniyatt family was only forty years old, and almost all of them died on the battlefield.

She felt that she could almost see what path Kiana was taking, and she was afraid that Kiana would end up on that path like the rest of the Shaniyat family and never return.

However, since I am not a Herrscher and do not have any extraordinary abilities, I can only watch them move away from me one by one, and then disappear without a trace without knowing when, and I am powerless to do anything.

So why did she have to take this path? Was this the only path left for her? Why couldn't she just accept her mediocrity and be an ordinary student at St. Freya's?

She couldn't do it, she thought.

Because her heart had actually been closed a long time ago. Even though she had opened it to others before, after having experienced deception, she was no longer willing to trust anyone other than Kiana and the others.

Because she was a coward. Without Kiana and the others around her, she didn't even have the courage to approach other people.

"If...wanting to go with her is a sin...then what's wrong with me being a sinner!"

The Herrscher of Thunder looked at the girl in front of him and did not sneer at her, but fell silent.

"Ah……"

The Herrscher of Thunder also raised the sword in his hand, and lightning flashed on the blade.

Mei rushed towards the Herrscher of Thunder, the sword light intersected with the figures of the two, and what was beyond Mei's expectation was that the sword she swung clearly hit the Herrscher of Thunder's sword in her eyes, but in her feeling, she did not cut anything, and the sword seemed to have cut through the air.

"...You may sound nice, but Kiana outside may not listen to you." The Herrscher of Lightning said with his back to her, "She has always been so arrogant. She is so arrogant that she wants to save everyone. Naturally, she has never taken seriously the idea of ​​others wanting to do something for her..."

Mei turned around and looked at the Herrscher of Thunder, but the Herrscher of Thunder's figure had already begun to gradually disappear.

"...Since you have made such a big promise, let me see if you can fulfill your words and tear her arrogance to pieces and make her face you squarely."

After saying this, the figure of the Herrscher of Thunder completely disappeared.

At the same time, the entire space seemed to vibrate and then shattered.

In the outside world.

The Absurdism in the slate form began to vibrate, and the color of the purple core in its center began to dim. The Absurdism in the form of Nihilism that was fighting with Kiana was also affected. Originally, as long as the Absurdism in the slate form existed, it could continue to regenerate, but at this moment, its regeneration speed was slowed down.

Mei emerged from the purple core, with lightning flashing in her purple pupils. She turned her head to look at the huge absurdism, and the lightning in her hand gathered into a katana. A huge armored arm also appeared behind her, picking up a katana as well.

"Chidori, draw your sword!"

As lightning flashed, cracks appeared on the body of Absurdism, and then the cracks grew larger and larger until it was completely cut in half and shattered.