Chapter 332 The End and the Beginning

No one knows why the long-dead Herrscher core can beat like a heart again. Just like, no one can explain why the Seventh God Key, which originally needed two hours to charge, was fully charged again in less than half a minute after use, and the power is still accumulating in excess.

Perhaps there is only one explanation -

"For the one I love."

For the one he loves, he bet everything on himself, including his future, his present, his past, and his life.

The mad rush into the Seventh Herrscher core, which became the material for burning everything, was not only the drop in the bucket of Honkai energy, but also the blood and bones squeezed out of Kevin's body.

And whether all this is for the world, it is no longer important. At least he thinks, at least he can be sure, at least he clearly remembers at this moment who he will swing the next sword for.

Blood quickly slid from the corner of his mouth, zigzagging on his skin. If it weren't for this bloodstain, no one would have noticed that he was covered in wounds, and even his skin and flesh were torn into small pieces the size of a fingernail.

As if responding to his determination, the sword of Jiemie also broke apart inch by inch due to overload. If it weren't for the Herrscher core providing the most basic centripetal force as the energy collapse point, the entire sword would have ceased to exist at this moment.

Mikael would naturally not watch Kevin accumulate strength.

Yes, that's right, he certainly hoped that Kevin could defeat him here, so that this civilization that had long lost its future could transcend the established cycle and move towards the real future. This is what the heroes want, even what Alicia wants, and Mikael also wants...

However, this is not the optimal solution that he can accept, so of course he hopes that Kevin can defeat him and kill him here, but he hopes to get the future that is the optimal solution for him, even if the price of doing so is to bury all his past here!

"Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-"

Every time he breathes carelessly, the entire universe will be filled with the harsh sound of pulling bellows.

But there is no air in the universe, and these sounds are not so much emitted by vibration as directly drilling into people's minds.

He raised his hands, as if he wanted to hold the moon the size of a chicken egg in his hands.

But when a red light flashed, the long spear transformed from imaginary branches spoke to itself between him and the moon, so he changed his mind.

He stepped back slightly and made a bow-drawing action out of thin air, just like Alicia had done before.

The imaginary internal energy in the spear surged out, stretched into a golden arrow, but soon dyed with lingering blood red.

The arrow was not aimed at Kevin, because Kevin was too small to be a target.

The moon, the size of a chicken egg, was just right.

"This is... the last blow. But Kevin, I'm faster than you..."

Kevin had just used the Holy Fire Judgment after all, and even though he achieved extremely fast charging in a nearly miraculous way at this moment, he knew that it was impossible to severely injure Mikael with ordinary rated power. He had to use more powerful power and turn everything he had into materials... to touch that only possibility.

In this case, it is not difficult to understand that Mikael launched an attack one step earlier than him, right?

He narrowed his eyes, as if he was aiming, although... there was no need to aim at this distance, although, his attack was just simulating the operation of the bow and arrow, and whether it could hit or not had nothing to do with aiming or not.

Is he hesitating?

No, he was just waiting for something.

He was waiting for someone, a third person to make a decision about "what to do" at this moment.

And the pink feathers slowly falling in front of him told him that she had finally made a decision.

Mikael slowly raised his head and looked at the vast universe covered by the black and red light circle. The next moment, the center of the light circle was broken like a cloud, and a tiny spark grew bigger and bigger. In the blink of an eye, it turned into a firebird with its wings spread and swooping down.

"Hua..."

The firebird hit the invisible barrier head-on. Strangely, Mikael did not use the power of space to condense the imaginary barrier.

Or, rather than saying that it was the manifestation of the power of space, it was actually the embodiment of Mikael's subconscious mind isolating himself from the outside world.

The firebird easily shattered countless layers of barriers, and was finally stopped by the last layer without a doubt. But this is just an appearance. In the spiritual world that cannot be seen by the naked eye, Mikael took the initiative to tear off the last layer of barriers, allowing Hua's attack to fall into reality.

"Mikael!"

"Snap!"

As if someone snapped their fingers, the flames that devoured everything split to the sides. Hua's consciousness, which fell with the firebird, gradually became disconnected from the raging sea of ​​fire, and re-condensed into the appearance of a girl, and finally landed lightly.

"This is..."

Hua stared at her feet, the flames gradually dissipated, revealing ripples like the surface of the water, and the water reflected the bright and gorgeous galaxy that was completely opposite to the real world.

Then, she also saw the reflection of Mikael.

"You..."

"Hua. I'm sorry."

Hua bit her lip and sighed:

"You...you...what's the point of saying this now, Mikael? Apologize...can an apology solve any problem? Can an apology bring people back to life? Mikael, what exactly are you going to do?

"No, I'm not questioning. I understand that the pain you have caused us and the pain you have inflicted on yourself are actually exactly the same. But each of us only needs to bear one share. You need to The sum of all the pain, but even so, you still did it, why?”

Hua wanted to know the answer to this question, but not just because of curiosity.

"You told me that if you hold a lot of things in your heart, it will only become more and more uncomfortable until you forget what you really want and who you really are."

"That's true, but..."

Mikael smiled helplessly:

"Hua, unless you become the world itself, otherwise, even in the end, you will inevitably be limited by the rules of the world itself. Yes, we are born with shackles, even if we become gods, it is the same. Therefore, some words, some Things, I can only think about but cannot say——

"Just like those vague dreams that seem to hint at the future, as long as I tell people, that future will not happen. I don't even dare to let these thoughts stay in my heart. So, I really Can't say.

"I can't ask for your forgiveness, but at least today... I didn't kill anyone."

Hua's frowned brows trembled, and then quickly relaxed.

"Hua, please believe me again - do you remember the promise I made to you? My mind has never changed."

"hehe."

Hua smiled bitterly:

"It would have been nice if you just gave us such a brief explanation before..."

"After all, this is the spiritual world, so I can say more...well, at that time, I was indeed not calm enough."

"It's a little late for you to say this to me now, Mikael."

Hua shook his head again:

"When I leave this space of consciousness, my current memory, as well as the previous memories, will be burned clean, and I will not remember anything. Yu Duchen may record it, but it is no longer my memory."

Hua closed his eyes in pain. When he opened them, everything in front of him had become hazy and blurry, almost completely reduced to simple sketch lines. He only heard Mikael's vague voice:

"It's okay, Hua. The loss now is just to regain it in the future..."

The following words could not be heard clearly, or maybe Mikael's words ended abruptly there.

Then, she fell into deep darkness.

Yu Duchen's first rated power hit, and Mikael's pupils were confused for a moment, as if he really didn't know what he was doing or what he wanted to do. Even the bow arm condensed with energy was at this moment. Disappeared, and the imaginary internal energy shrank back into the spear.

"Vilvi, now!"

There was no need for Mei to remind her. At this moment when she was risking everything, Velvet suddenly pushed the retro joystick of the Moonlight Throne to the end, and the pointer on the instrument panel instantly rotated to the 200% extreme position.

"Hey... a perfect shot, but the curtain call is too careless, isn't it? There is no chance to say goodbye to the audience at all."

Velvet chuckled twice, and almost at the same time that the huge beam of light hit Mikael, the flames ignited by the overheated engine swallowed her and the entire Moonlight Throne together.

The dazzling light beam hit Mikael's neck and almost merged directly into his body, just like an inconspicuous needle piercing it, without causing any real damage. But the next moment, Mikael hugged his head without warning and let out a painful cry:

"Ahhhhh!!!"

The three pairs of light wings behind him exploded silently, blood-red liquid spurted out from the snow-white neck first, and then the purple Honkai energy followed the path opened by the blood and spread into the dark universe and dispersed. Countless branches sprouted out, just like a rapidly growing tree. In just a few seconds, it even extended to hundreds of millions of kilometers away, intersecting with the heat energy on the surface of the sun.

However, on the screen in front of Mei, Mikael's energy response was only reduced by 30%.

"After all... there is no chance of victory at all..."

Although all this was just a counterattack before retreating in the plan, when the result was actually revealed, it was still a bit unacceptable.

Especially after experiencing so many sacrifices...

"However, it's enough. At least you won the future with this blow, right?"

Mei nodded instinctively, and then she realized belatedly - the voice just now was neither her own nor Prometheus, but another very familiar voice.

"That's true..."

Mei San laughed twice.

"Kevin, the rest is up to you!"

A large amount of Honkai energy was lost. As Mei expected, the powerful but extremely fragile time power was completely unable to be maintained at this moment. Mikael's own consciousness had not even been freed from the constraints of Yu Duchen's first rated power. He struggled to break free, but the core of the Seventh Herrscher was filled to the brim with all kinds of energy, almost bursting open. So, Kevin finally got his only chance.

"Skyfire... unsheathed!"

There was no need to make any fancy moves anymore. Kevin simply raised the big sword in front of him. Then, in silence, blazing flames swept out with Kevin as the center. The whole moon was set on fire in the blink of an eye.

"Cough cough cough..."

Kevin actually fell to his knees this time.

If possible, he didn't want his end to unfold in such an awkward manner, but now he didn't even have the only thing that could support him. He turned over and lay flat on the ground, letting the cold blood accumulate under his body. He turned his head and looked at his right hand——

The familiar hilt of the sword is still in his hand, but the sword body has almost disappeared. Fortunately, the core position is still there. Mei and the others should be able to repair it...

From Kevin's perspective, he could see Mikael's huge body slowly falling backwards, and blood and a large amount of Honkai energy were still pouring out from his neck. But if you look carefully, it is not difficult to find, Many of them are flowing back into Mikael's body in an extremely slow manner.

Did he really succeed with that blow? This should be no problem, but which step did it take?

Kevin was completely unable to keep his consciousness clear, and the dark parts in his vision were getting bigger and bigger.

What step did you take? It doesn't seem to matter, as long as Mei...can survive.

But, at the last moment, I really wanted to hear her voice...

"Mei...live..."

Kevin murmured, wanting to listen to May's voice one last time in the mental communication network.

But he didn't hear anything. Did they leave the moon?

No! wrong!

An ominous premonition filled his mind. Kevin could hear Su's rapid breathing due to habit when running, and the sound of the God Keys collected by Su colliding with each other, but he could not hear any sound from Mei.

Finally, with a "bang" sound, it seemed as if Su pushed open the door of the headquarters.

"Ho...ho..."

"thump!"

Sue seemed to kneel down.

Kevin's heart tugged suddenly, and he squeezed out a little strength from nowhere, and he jumped up.

"Su! What's wrong...What's wrong with Mei?"

"Kevin...can you still move?"

"I...I can."

"You... better... if you can, Kevin, you'd better come here in person."

In terms of universal rationality, Su actually said nothing, but precisely because of this, Kevin's last fantasy was shattered.

He stumbled and ran, faster and faster, faster and faster...

There was only one word in his mind:

"plum!"

The lunar soil underfoot was already charred black, and no trace of the original silvery gray could be seen at all.

The land was completely cracked, and the cracks revealed the purple color eroded by Honkai Energy.

New Atla, which humans have spent several years rebuilding, is now in ruins again, but compared to violent destruction, there are too many burn marks on the edges of the fracture.

These are not devastations that are ultimately caused, but are done by him, a human being, Kevin.

But what does this have to do with him?

He just wants to see Mei, he just wants to see Mei again, even if it's a corpse, he wants to see her again! Such thoughts gradually occupied his entire mind. If he stopped to think rationally, he might ask himself:

Do you want to see Mei’s body or don’t want to see Mei’s body?

But what is rationality?

From this perspective, he was destined to be disappointed - when he staggered into the ruins of the headquarters, he only saw Su.

Neither May nor Prometheus was missing.

He didn't know whether to cry or laugh for a moment.

After all, missing means endless possibilities, although Kevin also knows that in this case, there is no difference between missing and death.

But...looking at the command post reduced to ruins, who caused all this?

"Ho... ho... ho ho ho..."

Kevin was crying and laughing at the same time, and his body slowly slid to the ground. He didn't even notice that Su was standing next to him.

What's this?...

What a thing!

He struck that blow so that she could survive. He staked everything on her and was determined to sacrifice.

But he survived, but May was gone—thanks to the blow he'd delivered for her.

"Kevin..."

Su called his name, but ultimately said nothing.

He thought about it, and there was nothing he could say at this time.

He just thrust a terminal into Kevin's hand.

"This is……"

"I found it in a soul steel box. It should be what Mei left for you."

"Hoo..."

Kevin bit his lip, took the terminal left by Mei, pressed the only button, and soon a voice came from inside:

"No. 17? Is this okay?"

"Well, doctor, please hurry up, we don't have much time."

"Huh... Kevin, when you hear this recording, I will probably be gone. But please... you must live well. Haha, I also left something for you... As, The hope of transcending the end in the future, be sure to listen carefully to the next words!”

Kevin didn't listen any further.

No need to listen any more, Kevin thought to himself.

He turned off the terminal and stood up again under Su's surprised gaze.

He still had 50,000 years, enough for him to listen to this recording over and over again.

…………

"Um...ah...ha...hey! I'm so tired! Sister Weiwei ran too far, we went around half the moon!"

Pado dragged Weiwei's "corpse" over with a staggering step, and arranged it in a circle with the other eleven. She clapped her hands, glanced at Mikael habitually, and then turned her head away with a complicated expression.

In the middle of this circle of corpses, Mikael was lying naked on the ground, no, to be precise, he was nailed to the ground by a red two-pronged spear.

His eyes stared blankly at the lifeless earth in the starry sky. If you look closely, you can see the ebb and flow of the planet that is gradually recovering its blue color, and you can even imagine the ethereal and illusory sound of the waves.

He suddenly felt that he was no different from Mikael in the past -

Can the constant reincarnation, reversal and reversal of time make up for the mistakes that have been made?

Killing a person and then reversing his time back to the state before the killing, commonly known as resurrection from the dead, does it count as killing the person?

The answer is obvious.

Mikael's chest rose and fell slowly, ignoring the wound on his chest.

Paddo stood there. She had finished all her work and was free for a while. She didn't know what to do. She could only stare at Mikael and the monotonous fields and ruins around her.

Suddenly, she felt a small sound at her feet. She looked down and saw that it was Mebius sitting up.

Her consciousness was still a little fuzzy at first, as if she was trapped in the paradox caused by the reverse flow of time and couldn't get out.

She just stared at the charred earth in a daze, and Paddo stood beside her, not daring to breathe or move.

Mikael certainly noticed her movements, but he didn't respond.

Until a long time passed, perhaps a few days, or maybe a few years, or decades.

It was not until the concept of time gradually blurred in the unchanging space that Mebius finally remembered everything. Her pupils gradually changed from the red cross back to their original state, which meant that she was completely free from the influence of time.

Then, her eyes tilted downwards, and it was hard not to notice Mikael's figure.

She didn't say much, but crawled to Mikael in a wooden manner, pulled out the spear stuck in his chest, and then slowly sat on Mikael, strangling his neck with both hands.

Salty tears dripped onto Mikael's lips, his pupils trembled, and then slowly raised his right hand and gently placed it on Mebius' cheek.