Chapter 221 The Herrisher Attacks

"Woo-wu-wu-"

The blood-red light was flashing, but Mikael stood under it in a daze, without saying a word or making any movement.

"Can……"

He clenched his fists. At the moment when the alarm sounded, there were urgent footsteps outside the door. He seemed to remember something, smashed the cabinet and the door to pieces, and rushed to the corridor, but only I saw Hua Yuan's back.

Although she was far away, the words she muttered reached Mikael's ears accurately.

"I have what I can do...I have what I can do..."

Mikael slightly raised his hand towards her back, but he was unable to keep her away.

It wasn't until the back figure completely disappeared that he started walking again, and faster and faster - he jumped straight out of the accommodation area, and the moment he landed, he stepped on the hot asphalt road and ran towards the sunflower garden.

"Don't...don't...don't...don't!"

His whole body was wet with hot sweat, dripping on the asphalt road, making it even more sticky, making it almost impossible to walk.

Mikael simply jumped off the road, ran into the flower bed, roughly separated the sea of ​​flowers with his arms, and murmured Himihu's name.

Gradually, he finally saw the flash of fiery red isolated in the sea of ​​flowers. The tips of her hair were gradually stretched by the tumbling airflow, and they were entangled with the flowers. After seeing this scene, Mikael's movements slowed down. , he changed his posture and approached Himihu with a more vigilant posture.

"Mikael?"

Himihu turned her face sideways, and the bridge of her tall nose was outlined with a golden edge by the glow. Mikael looked past her to the armor plate higher up - it was early in the morning, and the simulated weather system should not emit such a color.

But then the corner of his eye caught sight of the sunflower buds beside him. Those ugly buds that should not have been deflected were slowly turning, facing the armor plate forward and upward... There, There is a different kind of sunset.

Mikael instantly understood that if the alarm system had not misjudged, and if the power of the Seventh Herrscher had not changed compared to history, then this light might not be an abnormality in the simulated weather system, but - the armor plate was heated, The color that appears after almost melting is almost like the sunset.

When his eyes returned to Himihu's face, his expression was already a little complicated.

He had just felt it, and there was no Herrscher-level reaction in Himihu. She was not the Herrscher of Fire.

"It's okay if it's not...it's okay if it's not..."

But...since the Seventh Herrscher is not Himihu, then who is it?

As soon as this doubt emerged, it was drowned by the ocean of joy.

So, before Himihu had time to react, Mikael hugged her tightly.

"It's okay if it's not...it's okay if it's not..."

He kept mumbling, making Himihu a little confused. She just patted the former's shoulder gently, and then gently distanced herself from him with a hint of embarrassment.

Mikael also realized that his behavior was somewhat excessive. While wiping away tears mixed with sweat, he squeezed out a wry smile and shouted eagerly:

"Captain, what time has it been and you are still here watering the flowers? Hurry up and follow me to the shelter - ugh!"

He grabbed Himihu's wrist, but he couldn't pull her body.

Himihu's smile became gentler, but her tone was also extremely decisive.

"I'm not leaving, I'm not going anywhere."

Along with her words, the entire underground space shook violently. Mikael's pupils were instantly filled with fiery red. He and Himihu looked up and saw a series of dents in the armor plate high up. Then, Five or six streams of flames spurted down, forming brilliant cross-shaped sparks in mid-air.

Mikael bit his lip, struggled a few times, and begged again:

"Captain, don't be angry. Staying here will only lead to death..."

"Then just die here."

"Team……"

Mikael didn't expect Himihu to say such cold words. He froze on the spot. Himihu took this opportunity to withdraw her wrist. Even though the remnants of the armor plate above her head continued to fall, she still held the kettle and idly Watering the flowers in the garden.

The ground beneath his feet kept shaking, and some sunflower rhizomes had already dug out of the ground, but Himihu didn't care, but watered each flower bud carefully and numbly.

"It is precisely because of the inevitable death that I want to die here, in the flowerbed planted by my own hands, rather than in a small and closed shelter. In the end, even the body will be crushed by the collapsing stones, and finally be with other people." The minced meat will be mixed together, or they will be eaten by them after they become dead soldiers."

"boom!"

"roll!!!"

There was an explosion above his head, accompanied by a roar that was all too familiar to Mikael.

In his horrified eyes, huge cracks appeared in the thirty-third armor plate at the top, and then with the overwhelmed "squeak" sound of the special alloy, the "sky dome" collapsed, and a hot stream of flames penetrated the sky. The distance between it and the ground drew a huge cross in mid-air that occupied the entire line of sight, and finally crashed into the artificial lake not far away.

The waves rolled out from the lake, but as soon as they were thrown into the air, they were vaporized by the rising heat wave and turned into clouds of accumulated white steam.

"Captain! Are you okay?"

Mikael turned his head. As early as the moment when the armor plate collapsed, he was standing in front of Himihu. The collapse could condense a fragile barrier, but it was not enough to block the aftermath of the flame flow.

However, the flower beds everywhere were in trouble. Sparks with long tails continued to streak in the air. Just for a moment when the stems and leaves shook slightly, all the sunflowers and the dark brown soil turned into burnt gray.

The obsidian-like asphalt road began to flow towards the fields on both sides, soon revealing the roadbed underneath.

"Such a terrifying destructive power..."

"Whoosh!"

The air in front of me burst into invisible ripples, and a small black dot shot out from a farther direction and hit the edge of the dry lake embankment. The charred soil was naturally not enough to offset the impact, so the black dot Like an iron plow, it dug huge ravines in the ground until it stopped right in front of Mikael.

White mist is constantly rising on the charred skin, and a series of open wounds on the body are filled with fiery red flesh. If the chest is not still rising slightly, it would look like a completely unrecognizable charred corpse...

But Mikael recognized him and his companion at first sight:

"Thousands...thousands of calamities?"

Mikael leaned forward slightly to touch his body, but his hands were clenched together.

"Mikael."

Himihu glanced at the ruined flower garden. She shook her head, threw away the kettle, and called Mikael's name instead.

"team leader……"

Mikael turned to her with a frown, but his eyes drifted to the side unconsciously.

"Go ahead, Michail."

"..."

"You can't solve any problems by always losing your temper."

"I didn't...well..."

Mikael lowered his head guiltily.

"But I... I just feel that since I can't do anything and only have such a powerful power, I might as well give this power to a more suitable person... Since I..."

His cheeks turned twice, sometimes looking at the big hole in the sky, sometimes at the scorched earth aside, sometimes at the thousand calamities at his feet.

Tears fell on the scorched earth bit by bit, but turned into wisps of white smoke in the sound of "Zirazilla".

"Since every struggle I make will bring more harm to the people around me, then I just don't want to..."

"You know, Michail."

Himihu suddenly held his cheek and looked at him tenderly.

"Every time you and Ellie call me captain, I feel a little ashamed. I think that I have taught you nothing, let alone have the ability to protect you... It was like this in Irkune, in the sky It was like this when I was in the city, and it was like this later at the base of Fire Chasing Moth... I couldn't do anything, and this thought always existed in my mind. "

"No, Captain you..."

Himihu gently pressed Mikael's lips, signaling him to listen patiently to what he had to say.

"And now, I still can't do anything, can't I? Mikael, I lied to you. I didn't really want to die here. As a person, of course I also have my own desire to live, but I don't I am willing...I am not willing to be helpless every time the Herrscher appears, so I can only be here, watching from a distance, and watering water in vain, because this is all I can do. The only thing...but...boy, you are different!"

Himihu smoothed the strands of hair stuck to his forehead with his thumbs.

"You can change everything, you can save everything, you have this power, you have this possibility, you don't have to stay here and wait to die like me, do you understand?"

"But, I haven't been able to do anything before."

"No, what matters is not whether you can do it or not, but that you have the possibility to do it all. Possibility, this is something that countless of us pursue and cannot achieve, but you have it. Because I don't have this possibility. , so I can only water here, because you have this possibility , so you have things you should do, you have things you can definitely do... Of course, I am not forcing you, no one will force you, just like after you close that door, Mei just lets Even if someone gives you medicine, Aili won't forcefully drag you out, right?"

Mikael raised his head in shock - it turned out that Himiya knew everything about her.

"Kid, you are already an adult. You should think for yourself, decide for yourself, and ask yourself what you want to do most now. Mikael, I have always been guilty of having nothing to teach you. , I can only tell you this - don’t let yourself regret it!”

"boom!"

In the huge explosion, the outer layer of the pyramid-shaped base was flattened.

Mikael was trembling all over, and he didn't even need to turn around to look. Just with the smell of barbecue in the air, he could feel the oppression of death.

Himiko patted Mikael's face gently.

"What are you still doing?"

Even though Mikael's eyes were still confused, her eyes gradually became firm.

She took two steps back and dragged Qianjie's body up.

"Leave the thousand calamities to me, Mikael, do what you think is right."

Mikael turned around following her words, sluggishly and slowly, crossing the stiff scorched earth, and walked step by step towards the headquarters.

He could feel it - the Herrscher was heading there too.

…………

"Damn it! Thirty-three layers of armor plates were pierced in one go!"

"The energy response of Qianjie has disappeared! The Herrscher is coming to the headquarters..."

"boom!"

"The superstructure is completely gone! Repeat! The superstructure is completely gone!"

"Damn it, does the Herrscher this time represent the ultimate destructive power?"

The violent vibration slowly disappeared, and Mei slowly climbed up from under the table at the command position in the situation room.

"Ahem!"

There was smoke and dust in her trachea, which made her feel extremely uncomfortable for a while, but she still asked hoarsely: "Prometheus, have Kevin and Alicia arrived at the designated location?"

Where even Prometheus couldn't see it, she lowered her hand below the table and rubbed her fingers meaninglessly. Beads of sweat had already fallen down her fingers.

"Get them both to the ground quickly!"

"Doctor, do you mean to decide the outcome on the ground? I have reservations about this. From an absolutely rational point of view, the multiple armor plates in the base can better limit the extreme power of the Seventh Herrscher. The destructive power, and on the ground, I don’t think either of them has a chance of winning, IMHO.”

Although Prometheus raised objections, he carried out Mei's decision to the letter.

She believed in Mei's decision and believed that Mei would definitely give a reasonable explanation.

"It's very simple. While the armor layer inside the base limits Herrscher's damage, it also restricts the performance of Alicia and Kevin."

"Is it because of the Sixth God's Key?"

May didn't answer, but Prometheus thought he had captured the key.

Indeed, if it were a purely destructive weapon like the Key of the Third God, it would be okay, but for the Key of the Sixth God, if it really comes to the moment of last resort, use the rated power to completely release the power of the Sixth Herrscher [Death] …

In fact, there is a second explanation. It is almost impossible to have survivors in the superstructure, but more of the Fire Chaser personnel are concentrated in the base further down. Once the Herrscher invades here, there will be no place for everyone to take refuge. place, then the losses will inevitably be more severe.

However, in Prometheus's knowledge, Mei should not let these factors affect the battle decision-making.

So the previous explanation is more likely.

"However, to be on the safe side, let Dr. Mebius, Velvet, and... Hua get ready for battle. Sakura also informed her, although if I remember correctly, it will take her at least four hours. Rush back to headquarters."

"Yes, without Mikael's space power, the Second God Key alone cannot teleport Sakura back out of thin air."

Mei silently wiped the sweat from her palms on her white coat, then folded her hands in front of her chest, twirling her fingers around the ends of her hair like Mebius did...

"You mean, at this time..."

"Regardless of whether Mikael can fight or not, we must try to utilize the core of the First Herrscher - after all, according to Dr. Mebius and Mikael, it is a [living] core."

Mei did not answer immediately. She closed her eyes gently, and when she opened them again, she had already made up her mind - "Okay, let's send the First Herrscher Core to the Situation Room."

"Doctor...what you mean...is..."

Prometheus' speech was a little stuck for a moment. It was not because there was a problem with the network connection, but because there were some explanations in her emotional module that could not form a logical and self-consistent explanation, resulting in a slight downtime.

But Mei's attitude was also very determined, "Bring it, Prometheus."

"Well, as you wish, Doctor."

Prometheus does not yet have a physical body. Of course, as an artificial intelligence, she does not need limbs in the physical sense. Mechanical arms and robots that can be called anywhere can become her limbs.

And now that manpower is tight, calling Prometheus is far more efficient than calling ordinary humans.

But Mei waited for a long time and did not wait for any further reaction from Prometheus. Just when she was about to ask, a slightly doubtful voice from Prometheus' machine sounded:

"Doctor, the core of the First Herrscher...is missing..."

Mei pursed her lips and looked a little confused: "Prometheus, what did you just say?"

"The core is gone. The core of the First Herrscher is gone."

"..."

An unknown fear surged into Mei's heart.

…………

"Is this the headquarters of Fire Chaser? The memory left by this body has changed too much, but are the people who built this place stupid? Such a conspicuous and technological building looks important no matter how you look at it. Target?"

The Seventh Herrscher stood in front of the ruins of the base's superstructure and sniffed gently, obviously very satisfied with his masterpiece.

He does have some deeper residual memories of this body, but because he died for so long, those memories are too fragmented and lack timeliness.

His character seemed more like he was influenced by Lezlen. Along the way, he never stopped talking.

Besides, what he said was not the truth.

The reason why he was able to locate the Fire Chasing Moth base in an instant was not only because of the eye-catching nature of this building, but also because of the special characteristics of his body that allowed him to feel a wave of energy at the bottom of the building. Connections across space and time.

"Oh... is he the traitor? No, the core's condition seems a bit... oh, is that so? This guy is so heartless that he actually keeps this kind of thing outside his body... Tsk, tsk, tsk, then... Let [the other you] take care of it for you..."

He patted his chest gently. Suddenly his ears moved slightly and he quickly turned sideways. A crystal arrow flew past his sleeve. If he had not made any movement just now, he would have been hit through the chest.

Yes, the chest, not the position of the heart, shows that the visitor is quite familiar with the Herrscher's body structure.

What's even more deadly is that the crystal arrow seemed to trigger some reactions in the body, causing his thoughts to become temporarily confused.

"Tsk, is that traitor's residual consciousness so strong?"

Just as the tail of the arrow missed him, there was a burning sensation behind him.

"Hmm? Doing whatever you want to do?"

There was a surge of flames behind him, and soon the fire sword, which was hundreds of meters long, was wrapped around him.

"That's it?"

The corners of his mouth curled up, and a green arc of lightning danced in his gray eyes.

"That traitor really left behind a perfect body."

The sound of thunder rang out, and green thunder light rushed out first, and then the dark mud gradually spread.

"boom!"

There was thunder and fire, and the violent explosion raised black smoke. Kevin flew out of the smoke in a panic, and the Shirter he held tightly in his hand broke again.

"How can this guy have the ability of Shesha!"

With a move of his hand, he switched strategies, and ice ridges all over the sky fell like raindrops, but the smallest one was as big as a car.

"Huh? Are you doing useless work again?"

To disappoint Kevin, those ice edges were all sublimated into water vapor by the scalding heat wave before they got even ten meters around Herrscher, leaving nothing behind except the white mist intertwined with the thick smoke.

"Does the ice and snow of the emperor-level Honkai Beast also want to freeze the flames of Herrscher? How ridiculous!"

Kevin rolled in mid-air and landed. Seeing this, he did not panic, but slightly raised the corners of his mouth——

"Hmph—Alicia!"

"What!"

A black shadow silently emerged from the smoke and suddenly appeared behind the Herrscher.

"Don't be too proud! Herrscher!"

She tucked the huge lance under her arm and launched a charge just like Himiko had done countless times before.

At this distance, the Herrscher had no time to react.

He had just turned around when the tip of the lance touched his chest.

He was also able to see clearly the pink figure that gave him the fatal blow.

And Alicia was able to see the Herrscher's face clearly.

"Alicia!"

"Mikael!"

The lance slipped slightly at the last moment and pierced the Herrscher's abdomen half an inch below his chest.

"No, no! If Mikael became the Herrscher, how could he invade from the surface? How could he use Shesha's ability... No, no, Shesha, that was not his previous body! It turns out that That’s it!”

Ellie reacted almost immediately. Even if the tip of the spear deviated from the intended target, it was not a big problem. As her Honkai energy poured into the Sixth God's Key, the tip of the spear penetrated deeper and deeper into the Herrscher. Cells in the wound also undergo rapid apoptosis.

"boom!"

The Key of the Sixth God directly pinned the Seventh Herrscher to a broken wall.

"Oh, you dare to pretend to be Mikael?"

Ellie gave a sarcastic smile. She was confident in the power of the Sixth God's Key. Even if the Seventh Herrscher had Shersha's regeneration ability, according to Mebius's past experience, this would take at least dozens of minutes. In more than ten hours, this period of time is enough for the Fire Chaser Moth to deal with the Herrscher, which means that the victory or defeat has been decided.

But is it really so?

"Hehe...hehehehe!"

Looking at Kevin who was surrounding him, the Seventh Herrscher did not panic. He even showed a weird smile:

"Hey... it's true. This body was a little weak when facing the monster just now, and it can't even use half of its strength when it encounters you... It's really pitiful..."

Ellie frowned. She somewhat understood what the Herrscher meant, so a strange emotion arose in her heart for a moment - it was the subconscious left in Mikael's body that was blocking the Herrscher, and she also knew that... The Herrscher is unable to exert even half of his strength. This effect is of course due to...

"Mikael...it turns out...no, in fact, I have always known that in your heart..."

Even the dilapidated subconscious in the body that has been abandoned for a long time can restrain 95% of the Herrscher's power...

But then came more and more doubts - what does the Herrist mean? He said these words...

"The pitiful words you said are not just making excuses for your failure, are you?"

Kevin asked sarcastically as he wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand.

"Ah? So that's how you understand it?"

Dark blood gushed out from the corners of Herrscher's mouth and wounds, but he was not anxious at all, nor did he have the consciousness to face death head-on.

"Actually, the half-strength I'm talking about refers to my own strength. Well, since you two are so difficult to deal with, you have to use other means. Hey, this strength will match my own strength. Yes, that’s incredible. Half a percent is enough to end everything.”

A golden light suddenly flashed across the Herrscher's wound, pushing out the apoptotic cells along with the Sixth God's Key.

Ellie stepped on the ground to stop her body's tendency to retreat, and said incredulously: "The power of space, how is this possible? No, this is Mikael's..."

The hollow in Herrscher's chest flashed with blue light, and his flesh and blood had returned to its original state.

"Are you ready to accept the power you once relied on?"

The heat wave surged, Kevin stretched out his hand suddenly, the biting ice and snow collided with the flames, and there was a stalemate for a while, and even gradually pressed back in the direction of the Seventh Herrscher.

But...

"I told you, we have to use some other means."

Until he was gently patted on the shoulder, Kevin felt the spatial fluctuations belatedly.

The ice covered his shoulders and quickly rushed back towards the Herrscher, but the Herrscher just smiled.

"Which is better, the ice of Pavanti or the ice of the Fifth Herrscher?"

"What!"

…………

Mikael ran along the melted asphalt road, and a series of explosions came again in the distance, but due to the terrain, he couldn't see what was happening farther away.

"Damn it, damn it, damn it... There's no time to get the core!"

That's right, this is Mikael's only chance. Only the Herrscher can defeat the Herrscher. He must recognize himself again and regain the power of reason and law...

"Wait a minute!"

He suddenly stopped.

"Once you become a Herrscher, there is no possibility of reversal. Your body will establish a connection with the Tree of Imaginary Numbers. As long as you are willing, you can become a Herrscher again even if you lose your core."

"Yes! Why didn't I think of it before!"

Mikael tried to establish contact with the Herrscher's core again. At this critical moment, he thought that the core should be able to feel his urgency, so...

But he was disappointed. After he handed over the core before, he could still feel the specific location of the core with the connection, so he also knew that the core was finally handed over to Mei.

But when he calmed down and felt it again... he couldn't find the core at all...

"Did someone become the Ruler of Reason? No, even if that's the case, I should have some perception... Could it be!"

Before Mikael could think about it, a sense of crisis suddenly flashed through his mind. He immediately fell to the ground with his limbs and his jaw slightly open.

The next second, the mushroom cloud caused by the violent explosion rushed straight to the armor plate above his head, but after finding that it could not penetrate, the airflow returned again, and the transparent ice wall gradually climbed along the mushroom cloud, as if trying to wrap it up, but it only lasted for two or three seconds before it completely collapsed.

The violent shock wave swept across the entire underground city, and a dazzling golden light flashed between heaven and earth, followed by deep darkness.

When Mikael lifted the soil and stood up again, the whole land was like ripples on the water, with circles of round gullies.

"The explosion just now was..."

Mikael felt a sense of familiarity from the energy fluctuations.

"No... won't it...?"

Suddenly, a black spot in the sky was falling rapidly, and it was getting bigger and bigger.

"Bang!"

The broken Surtl fell from the sky and stuck in front of Mikael.

"Kevin... Kevin!

…………

"Tsk, nothing more than that."

The Seventh Herrscher looked at Kevin who struggled twice in front of him but couldn't stand up, and shook his head slightly.

He glanced at the pink crystals not far away, forming a flower bud, with green vines wrapped around the outside, and the Sixth God Key and Alicia were suspended in the crystal.

"Do you still need to protect the Sixth God Key at this time?"

The Seventh Herrscher shook his head.

"Hmph, put an end to you... Hmph... Um... Uh ah ah!"

He suddenly held his head and groaned, and after a while, he finally regained his composure.

"Tsk, it was like this when I faced that monster and those two ordinary people before, and it's like this again now. How many times will your subconscious mind, a traitor, stop me! "

The Seventh Herrscher glanced at Alysia, turned around and jumped into the vertical well of the base.

"It doesn't matter. If you can't do it, then don't do it. Destroy the last hope of this world and kill all the humans except for it. Even if there are only a few left that the traitor cares about, humans can be considered biologically extinct. "

As for the Sixth God Key, it's just a bonus, it doesn't matter whether it exists or not.

What he didn't expect was that -

"Oh, the core of this traitor, as long as he doesn't show hostility to these people, how come his synchronization rate with me is so high? Does he hate himself so much?