Nicholas is also a seasoned veteran; if it were the latter, probably no one would be foolish enough to oppose Karen.
Kaslana has always been a rule-abiding citizen, and if some soldiers were to fight to the death to stop her, she might temporarily compromise for various reasons.
Kaslana would never harm innocent people; everyone knows that.
Su Xin landed and smiled meaningfully; he knew exactly what Nicholas was thinking.
Kaslana can't hurt people, what does that have to do with me, Su Xin?
That cowardly fellow must be on the top floor of the building. It's too boring to just fly there. I need to let him know that I'm getting closer and closer, and that a butcher's knife is hanging over his head and slowly falling down to bring him despair.
Feel the fear of life before you die.
"No unauthorized personnel are allowed to pass through. Please return, Saintess." The soldiers looked at Karen sternly, hoping she would understand and temporarily withdraw.
But Su Xin didn't take it seriously and continued forward. When Karen walked in front of the soldiers, they instinctively took a step back, their bodies involuntarily wanting to move away.
Soon after, a loud shout suddenly came from behind: "Help! Karen has escaped! She has escaped the execution platform! She has been possessed by a demon! Someone, catch her!"
Su Xin was stunned, her eyes narrowed slightly, a hint of cold light flashing in them.
He patted the soldiers on the shoulder and said casually, "I'm leaving this place to you. It was a wise decision of yours not to try to stop me with force. No, I have something to ask you. You don't need to answer, just nod or shake your head."
The soldiers exchanged glances and remained silent.
Su Xin sighed and unfolded Judah, revealing all 108 weapons eager to be used.
The soldiers immediately became much more obedient, nodding repeatedly, no longer showing the same intention to stop Su Xin from advancing.
"Alright, Nicholas's on the top floor, right? That ugly old guy. I'm going to use some weapons to make him experience the joy of ascending to heaven."
"Pfft!" The soldiers couldn't help but laugh. They thought about how Nicholas, who was usually high and mighty and bossy, was being made a mess of by some strange weapons. It seemed quite gratifying.
After seeing the soldier nod, Su Xin took his hand off the soldier's shoulder, took Judah and walked into the castle. No one on the first floor came forward to stop him.
"Damn it! A bunch of idiots, letting us down at the crucial moment!" Watching the scene from the top floor, Nicholas crushed his wine glass, gritted his teeth, and pondered a solution.
Nicholas was not happy; he saw hope in his personal guard!
The guards approached the soldiers, drew their anti-Honkai beast firearms, and said something similar to what they had said before: "Kallen, escape! She's been possessed by a demon! Quickly, catch her with us! Does anyone know where she went?"
Clearly, their confidence stemmed from their control of the fire-based weaponry, as they had been confined to a closed area for many years and paid little attention to the rumors about Karen circulating outside.
Someone might be able to defeat a 100-meter-tall Honkai Beast in one move? Just kidding. Even Schicksal can't develop a super-powerful firearm.
Such estimates are just hearsay, and the rumors are becoming increasingly outrageous.
The soldiers looked at each other, almost wanting to laugh.
Pointing to the attic behind him, he said, "She didn't escape; she's inside. You can go in. We have orders."
Another soldier cleared his throat and added, "We've been ordered to hold this position!"
"Then Karen goes in?" the guard asked, puzzled.
"Go in openly and honestly."
"Why didn't you all stop her?"
"Because we're not stupid."
"We'll settle accounts with Bishop Nicholas for your dereliction of duty once we've got Karen under control!"
"No problem," the soldiers readily agreed.
After that, he allowed the royal guards to enter.
At this moment, Su Xin is on the fourth floor, out of a total of seven floors.
Each time Su Xin went up a floor, she would deliberately make a lot of noise to let Nicholas at the top know where she was, but he couldn't do anything about it and could only watch helplessly as they got closer and closer.
Fifth floor, sixth floor
Nicholas panicked. He frantically opened the window, glanced down, and saw that it was high; jumping would surely mean certain death.
On the sixth floor, Su Xin clashed with the guards. The sound of gunfire gave Nicholas a glimmer of hope, but then he saw one guard after another running out of the building like madmen.
It was impossible for Karen to dodge enemy fire in such a confined space! Not to mention being mowed down by so many people!
“I originally thought you had more tricks up your sleeve, but it turns out you only went this far.” Su Xin’s voice came from the other side of the door.
The next second, the door shattered into pieces, bursting into thick dust and sending sand and gravel flying everywhere.
In the hazy smoke, a pair of dazzling golden eyes were clearly visible, with red light flickering within them. The moment Nicholas met their gaze, his entire body suddenly stiffened, his mind went blank, and when he opened his eyes again, he found himself in a place he had never been before.
An endless expanse of white bones turned into sand, surrounded by boundless darkness, without end.
"Where? You're taking me somewhere?!" Nicholas was horrified by Su Xin's unprecedented methods.
Su Xin gazed longingly at the surface of the moon, opening her mouth but then nothing came out.
Finally, he let out a long sigh before uttering the word.
"The final battlefield".
"The final battlefield? You mean, Kallen, you Saintess of Destiny, do you know what you're doing?! The Kaslana family will be disgraced because of your antics today! You will lose the people's trust in you!"
Nicholas tried to struggle, but when he placed all his hopes on Karen's final act of mercy, he saw only Karen's arrogant and disdainful eyes.
"You did nothing wrong, so from beginning to end today, you are the only dead person."
“If I didn’t consider Karen’s faith, I’m afraid that you and everyone related to you would die in the ugliest way under the execution platform, like human fireworks, exploding.”
"What do you want in return for letting me go?!" Nicholas admitted defeat. If he couldn't even handle his own guards, then resisting was laughable. He might as well kneel down and beg for mercy.
As long as there is even the slightest chance to survive, as long as there is hope to live, he doesn't believe that Karen can be on guard even when she's sleeping!
"Let you go? Sure, I personally keep my promises the most. Let's play a game. If you win, I'll spare your life and promise not to hurt you again. How about it? Let's go." Su Xin's cunning smile terrified Nicholas, but he had no other choice now.
"A game? If I win, you'll really let me go?"
"Of course, I swear. I know you're in a hurry, but don't rush, let me tell you a story related to the game first."
"In the long run, several warriors rushed to the place, sacrificing their lives to continue human civilization, leaving the Herald of the End in the place for half a day."
"The rules of the game are simple. You just need to withstand the full sensory experience of any warrior on the field, and you win. Isn't that easy? As long as you can endure it for half a day, you can survive." Su Xin finally revealed his true colors.
Upon hearing the game rules, Nicholas felt a surge of hope.
Even if it's painful, you can grit your teeth and persevere for half a day!
Better than death!
"Okay, you do it."
Once the Taixu Sword Heart reaches its ultimate state, its function is similar to that of the Feather Crossing Dust. In addition, Su Xin herself possesses conscious power, but is limited by Kallen's body and cannot use the Herrscher power.
However, it can be released through a certain medium, such as the Perfect Void Sword Heart.
"Alright, time is precious, let's begin. Remember this well, the soldier's name is Su Xin."
Chapter 83: The Unanswered Question
"Su Xin? Why do I need to remember a name? Anyway, half a day is enough." Nicholas gritted his teeth, his old body trembling. He didn't know how much pain he would have to endure next, but as long as there was hope, it was easy for a person to persevere.
"You have the right to choose not to remember."
"I'm telling you this without forcing you to remember my name, Su Xin. I'm free to come out. Now, experience firsthand what it means to suffer as millions of people do."
You will be unable to live, and unable to die.
"So-called hope will turn to ashes in half a day and be lost in confusion and despair."
"No one can hear your wailing, no one can witness your ugliness."
"That includes me."
Su Xin turned around, and in Nicholas's eyes, Su Xin's figure became increasingly dim, as if a dream was fading away from his sight.
"Your name? Aren't you Karen?! No, wait, my body?" Nicholas felt a sudden lightness in his body, and when he came to his senses, he found that he was actually in his younger body.
How foolish! Forty years ago, my body was definitely many times stronger and more resilient than that old body, and it would have been much easier for me to endure!
She calls herself Su Xin, is that a name from China?
Could she be thinking about that soldier, Su Xin? Maybe, perhaps, but what does it have to do with him?
"Just you wait and see. I've lived for so many years; how could your willpower possibly compare to that of a mere weaned girl?!"
"A mere half a day, nothing at all."
As soon as he finished speaking, Nicholas's vision spun, and he saw a headless corpse with bright red blood gushing from its neck before the headless body stiffened and fell to the ground.
Wait for that body.
What do you think?
I only have one head?
I'm going to die?
"Haha! That was just a hallucination?" Nicholas was so frightened that he quickly reached out and touched his neck, only to find it completely unharmed and breathe a sigh of relief.
The next second, something was wriggling inside both hands, rapidly devouring flesh and blood, and rushing straight to the brain.
"Well!!"
Nicholas snapped back to reality and realized that he also had hallucinations, and that there might be some kind of flesh-eating monster inside his body.
"Hallucination, hallucination, don't be afraid, it's okay."
It hurts so much, but I can bear it.
Nicholas was unaware of the Honkai energy emanating from that one person; each time he felt it, it would increase exponentially until all the Honkai energy on Earth converged within him.
The body is constantly eroded, broken down, disintegrated, then reassembled and repaired, in a continuous cycle.
One person's death could certainly be tolerated at the level of collapsing energy, but what about ten thousand, or even tens of millions of people?
Su Xin didn't know if Nicholas could hold on. He just sat on the seventh-floor seat, watching as Nicholas reached into his mouth, all the way down his throat, and then desperately dug his throat out with his fingers, breaking his hyoid bone.
The tongue lay scattered in a pool of blood, and bloodstained teeth were embedded in the ruptured eyeball.
In reality, Nicholas couldn't even make a sound, so Su Xin couldn't judge the extent of his persistence.
I only vaguely heard some mundane words a few minutes ago.
It had only been a few minutes since he left, and Su Xin had thought that he should at least have said something for help before despairing.
I never intended to lose my will to live.
The pain of being corrupted by Honkai is determined by the magnitude of the Honkai, and is no less than the most cruel and vicious torture imaginable in human history.
One day, on a whim, humans threw a mouse into a half-full glass of water in a gleaming laboratory, wanting to see how long the mouse could survive without drowning.
The poor mouse sank straight into the water, but in its fright, it immediately floated to the surface and tried to climb back up from the edge of the cup.
However, the surface of the cup was too smooth, and it was unable to escape its predicament.
One minute, two minutes, five minutes, ten minutes
The mouse was exhausted, and its paws were too weak to paddle.
The scientists stood by and watched, making no attempt to retrieve the mouse. The mouse continued swimming, paddling slower and slower, its head occasionally sinking into the water before it would quickly surface.
When it decided to give up after fifteen minutes, the scientists took it out. The mouse greedily breathed in the air and gradually regained its strength. But its good fortune didn't last long. The scientists threw it back into the water glass, and once again the mouse struggled desperately, hoping that the humans would retrieve it again.
Just as it was about to drown, the scientists pulled it out, let it dry and rest for a few minutes, and then put it back into the cup.
The ending of the story is unimaginable. The mouse kept swimming desperately in the water, struggling to stay afloat, convinced that someone would retrieve it, until night fell, the sun rose the next day, and night fell again.
It struggles for about sixty hours at a time before it completely despairs, gives up on life, and sinks forever into what is called "
Later, any mouse thrown into the water glass, without human intervention, could only survive for a maximum of fifteen minutes.
Fifteen minutes and sixty hours, huh? For a dying creature, that's too long.
Nicholas will not die in this environment. The so-called half-day is actually countless half-days. Even if he persists in merging all the Honkai energy of the Earth, what awaits him is not what he hopes for.
A deeper despair.
Under the attack of the end, the cycle of death and rebirth repeats itself endlessly, until it becomes impossible to remember or think.
They will forever fall into the abyss.
Just as Su Xin said at the beginning, "No one can hear your wailing, no one can witness your ugliness."
Su Xin had no idea how Nicholas had changed in the illusion, nor was he interested in seeing his ugly state; it would only disgust him.
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