Chapter 607: The Object of Mikael's Favor

"boom--"

The earth was trembling, and the dazzling ring of light in the sky was also trembling. The fine stones and blue dust were suspended in the vibration, making people hold their breath unconsciously.

"Second Herrscher, no... Siren, return your power to me quickly!"

With her eyes closed tightly, the girl's consciousness sank into her heart in an instant. What appeared in front of her was the familiar night in the academy, and the arrogant figure floating high in the air.

"There's something wrong with you!"

There was a hint of impatience on the face that looked exactly like hers, and then he waved his hand nonchalantly.

"I said it at the beginning, I'm just a spectator watching a show. Why do you expect me to lend you my power?"

"because……"

Kiana thought she could say those words firmly, but when she looked directly into the eyes of the Second Herrscher, she couldn't say anything.

Is it to save his comrades?

But those people are not the companions of the Second Herrscher, they can even be said to be enemies.

To save the world?

But the last Herrscher who clamored to destroy the world seemed to be her. Although she kept saying that the gods had deceived her, her attitude of being a "human being" clearly meant that she would not care about saving the world, which was extremely boring to her.

Is that just to save yourself?

If she, Kiana Kaslana, dies here, the Second Herrscher will also...

Will he really die?

The Herrscher's consciousness has always been carried by the Herrscher Core. In other words, even if Kiana dies, the Herrscher in the core can still survive.

What's more, the other party said not long ago that after the gods betrayed her, there was nothing in the world that she cared about. Even if she really had to face death, she wouldn't be too panicked.

Kiana was speechless.

There really is nothing you can do about her...

Kiana lowered her head silently.

But she can't give up here yet, definitely can't give up here...

Someone must be waiting for her to return, and the sins she has committed must be washed away with her own hands.

If you don't go back, someone will be sad. If she doesn't go back, those who were hurt by her in the past will never get her apology and compensation...

"Why?"

The tall figure spoke again, but Kiana was stunned.

"Why? Why do you want to save the world? Why do you want to apologize to these humans?"

"Is there...what's the reason for this? If we don't save the world, will we destroy it? It's not like those..."

"World? Human beings? Is this the world, this kind of human beings?"

"..."

"Aren't you awake yet? Look at the ugly appearance of human beings in my memory. For the so-called artificial stigma technology, our children can be treated as samples that are worse than livestock. And at the cost of this blood The artificial stigmata developed through research prevents most of the Valkyries from surviving beyond the age of forty - well, it doesn't matter, because not many Valkyries can retire alive. "

"But... this is necessary, in order to fight against Honkai..."

“Isn’t a necessary evil an evil?”

"..."

Kiana was speechless.

To be precise, it is impossible to refute - when this depressing thought emerged in her mind, it brought another light to her, but it was blurred in the blink of an eye. After all, she could not grasp the flash of light in her mind. past things.

"Look at these humans again... forget it, let's just talk about it. That little girl, I admit, she is indeed miserable, and she even reminds me of myself, but so what? What harm did she suffer? One place was given by you..."

"I...I shouldn't have gone to Tianqiong City..."

"You're done, right? You have to go somewhere, not Tianqiong City, but also Canghai City. That girl may not suffer, but a little boy in Canghai City may also face such a tragic fate . In the final analysis, their suffering has nothing to do with you, but they did nothing wrong. If you do something wrong, you must find a source of your suffering, so they find you. They also know that you are innocent, but they need someone who can let them vent their extreme emotions. This is what this group of people wants. True face. Do you want to save such a human being? Do you want to apologize to them?"

"certainly."

Kiana answered without hesitation.

"Why?"

The same question, but she didn't know if it was an illusion. Kiana saw the corners of the Second Herrscher's mouth slightly raised for a moment, and then pressed it down again.

Her eyes wandered twice, and Kiana quickly replied:

"Everyone was injured because of me, so of course..."

"You? Just you?"

"..."

"I understand, you are K423, Kiana Kaslana, and I am the Second Herrscher."

Kiana's mind suddenly went blank.

But soon, she replied firmly again:

"No, you actually know it very well. Although I always call you Xilin, but... they also said it just now. In fact, we are all Xilin, but what I get is probably the good side of Xilin. , and you have shouldered for me the memories that led Sirin to fall into evil..."

"Stop being so smart!"

"..."

"You are also easy to deceive. You believed just a few random words. How can good and evil be separated so easily? You used to sleep in class every day. After class, you would think about eating the food made by Mei. You stayed up late at night to play games with Bronya secretly, and ordered takeout for midnight snacks. You got up early in the morning and stayed in bed again... Is this also the good side?"

"..."

Kiana frowned, looking at the Second Herrscher who was reporting her dark history like a treasure. Perhaps because she was facing the same enemy at this moment, she actually felt that the other party was much more pleasing to the eye. Perhaps it was not impossible to become a companion...

What a pity. It would have been great if she had discovered this earlier.

"But...even though you said that, I absolutely cannot give up just like that."

"You——"

"My stinky dad taught me not to give up, Aunt Himeko also taught me not to give up, my aunt, Mei, Bronya, Seele, they all like the way I don't give up, even Mikael once said so...I don't know if it's useful to just go on like this, but...since everyone says not to give up, then I think this must not be wrong! So..."

"..."

Kiana slowly knelt in front of the Second Herrscher.

"As a viewer, you don't want to see only boring plots next, right? Give me the power for now, and let me fight too."

"What if I refuse?"

The corners of the Second Herrscher's mouth trembled and pulled open.

"Then I'll decide the winner with you here."

The Second Herrscher's smile disappeared.

This idiot...is serious.

No, I said she's an idiot, how could she not be serious?

"Okay, I'll give it to you."

"I'll take the power from you at the risk of my life, because I...eh?"

"Do you want it? If not, forget it!"

Kiana stared in amazement at the power that was flowing into her body. Although it was not all of the Second Herrscher, it was already more than she could originally control.

"Let's make it clear in advance. Even if you gain power from me, you can't get rid of the restraints immediately."

Looking at Kiana who was laughing foolishly because of regaining power, the Second Herrscher attacked without hesitation:

"The chains that bind you and the cross are all created by God using the power of [restraint]. Remember the Key of God in the hand of your dwarf aunt? When the rated power is released, it will generate a barrier that lasts for one minute. All Honkai energy in the barrier is invalid, and the Herrscher will directly fall into a state similar to the suffocation of ordinary humans. Its chains have similar effects, but the efficiency is much lower."

"How do you know so clearly..."

"Because I have been through it."

"..."

"But the ones that bind you, you can see from the color that the efficiency is lower than those chains. As long as you use Honkai energy to hit repeatedly, maybe... you can get rid of it?"

"Maybe?"

The Second Herrscher disappeared in time, and it seemed that there was nothing else to say to Kiana.

Everything in the mental world collapsed with the departure of the Second Herrscher.

Tiny stars gradually grew larger in the dark purple night sky until they formed white spots like mosaics. These white spots expanded to all the buildings and plants around them, and then everything fell off like old wallpaper, leaving only a void for Kiana.

Then, this void was gradually filled with the colors of reality.

Coincidentally, when reality returned to Kiana's sight, she saw two familiar figures again.

One was Guinevere, who had been around her from the beginning, and the other was a doll... Although it looked no different from other dolls, Kiana's intuition told her that it was Wendy.

"Failed?"

Wendy asked.

"Ah...ah...it seems so."

Guinevere scratched her head awkwardly, and she looked exactly the same as when she made a small mistake and was criticized on weekdays.

"Then kill them quickly, and then control the power of the void, and there will be no one in this world who can stop us."

"Well, I think that it is better to let the consciousness of the Second Herrscher revive than to let us weak reptiles control the power of the void, so... let me try again..."

"..."

Wendy did not reply for a while.

Kiana narrowed her eyes and carefully observed the movements of the two people. Taking the opportunity when they seemed to be arguing, she began to try to use the power of the void to mobilize the extremely weak Houkai energy that could respond to her and began to attack the chains that bound her.

"Forget it, it doesn't matter if we talk about this later."

The puppet's head rotated 360 degrees, and then shook its head in boredom.

"Why do you still look so ugly? Hurry up and become like [us]. When we start fighting, be careful that we don't hurt you by mistake."

"Fight? Impossible, impossible! I've even asked the gods to guard the gate for us. Do you think those stupid humans can still enter the theater?"

"Gods? No wonder the puppets that were placed at the gate retreated without any warning. Ha, could it be that you didn't have any way to wake up the Second Herrscher from the beginning to the end, and just used her as bait to lure those stupid humans and gods down?"

"What do you think?"

"It is an unforgivable sin to deceive the gods."

The doll danced and took a step closer to Guinevere.

"No."

Guinevere silently stood between Kiana and the doll.

"I didn't deceive God. I just prayed to Him again after being saved by Him. I prayed to Him to help us win the chance of victory in this war. What's wrong with that?"

"Hmph, it sounds like you are very close to the gods..."

"Ah, probably so."

Guinevere twisted her waist and spread her hands.

"After all, He answered my prayers twice in succession, but you, who are in the same base, actually asked me to inform you of the existence of God... Does He really like you? Does He really value you? He really loves you. "I think... maybe He loves me more?"

"Don't go too far!"

The doll made a "click, click" sound and assumed a [乆] pose.

"Is it too much? Then I would like to ask, what are your intentions when you encourage everyone to execute Kiana immediately over and over again?"

"What do you mean? The Lord God is helping us fight, but you want to stab him in the back?"

"Eh? Eh! How did you come to this conclusion, Senior Wendy?"

Guinevere put her hands behind her back and twisted her fingers continuously, but a flawless smile appeared on her face facing the doll.

"How could it be? I am a loyal believer of the gods! I was the one saved by the gods myself. I was the only one given the power of death by the gods. I was also the only one who dragged the gods into this war. Man...how could I betray the Lord God?"

Click it - click it -

Every joint of the doll was shaking violently until it was twisted. If it weren't for this, Kiana would never believe that the doll's face, half covered by the black eye patch, would convey anger under the extreme distortion. emotions.

"What do you want to say? Do you want to say that God favors you more than me? Hahaha, it's really ridiculous, I don't know what to say! I know what you are thinking, but you'd better put away your stupid stupidity right away. Thoughts! I am the first believer in God, the first in a thousand, and the leader who dominates everyone in this theater! This will never change!"

"Ah - ah - are you sure, Wendy-senpai..."

"Stop calling me by that name!"

"Just think of it as a code name, otherwise no one can tell the difference. But..."

Guinevere smirked and turned sideways, pointing at Kiana with her thumb.

"But, the first believer of the god should be her, right?"

"If you would like your ranking to be moved back one place and become one thousand and one, I have no objection - the bottom seat of a thousand people."

"It doesn't matter. I think one thousand and one sounds much better than one thousand. It feels like listening to a story. But..."

"Can you speak without so many twists and turns? It's very tiring to listen!"

"Oh oh oh..."

Even as the expression on the doll's face became more and more terrifying, Guinevere smiled unfazed.

No, it could be said that her weird smile never stopped, like a human skin mask, covering up her true expression all the time.

What is she hiding? Kiana was thinking hard while controlling the Honkai energy - it felt like holding in her urine until her bladder was about to explode and then being asked to urinate all in a trickle into a small beaker. , it’s really painful!

She didn't know if the doll noticed this abnormality, but the intuition in her heart pressed on her nerves, making her involuntarily hope that the doll would ignore this.

After all, seeing two enemies arguing in front of her, or when she was trying her best to break free, it was hard to say that it wasn't a pleasant thing to watch - if it wasn't Mikael who was blocking everyone at the outermost level.

"I just want to repeat the question - Senior Wendy, why are you so eager to kill Kiana?"

"You're done today, aren't you?"

The doll yanked the two pairs of golden horns on her head and pulled as hard as she could, but no matter how much the wooden blocks that made up her body groaned, she still... failed.

She is trash, trash who can't even take off these ugly horns on her head.

"Senior Wendy, compared to you, I may indeed be more favored by the gods."

Guinevere's fingers trembled twice, separated from her back, and then crossed and closed in front of her chest, making a pious look.

"Compared to me, you, the self-proclaimed Leader, seem to be less pious to the gods, right?"

"What did you say!"

The puppet tried to pull off the horns again, and failed again as expected, but this time it did not stop there, but punched Guinevere.

Guinevere tilted her head, her fist grazed the hair on her temples, and was held firmly by her backhand.

"Am I wrong? Leader? You were so eager to kill Kiana that you even deliberately blurred the line between killing and controlling her power during the trial... No, you didn't even mention that at all... Our Leader, what are you thinking about? Ah, I forgot. Lord God destroyed the entire Salt Lake City base, but they chased after him so quickly... Who told them the coordinates of the Dominion Theater? No, are you the so-called mole? "

"I love you()!"

Just as the two Herrscher individuals were about to grapple with each other, suddenly, there was a much lighter vibration than the one that shook the world before, forcing the two of them to cast their sights in the same direction.

They were no longer [ordinary people], and the two quickly figured out that the vibration came from inside the theater.

The doll suddenly grabbed Guinevere's collar:

"Didn't you say that the gods blocked the door? What's going on? That's the direction of the door!"

"Who knows?"

Guinevere looked away guiltily.

"Master God only said to guard the door. If the other party falls from the sky or comes in from other directions, he should... not care, right?"

"Why didn't you say this just now!!!"

"..."

"I will reconstruct the terrain of the entire theater, and you lead the other individuals to block the intruders——"

"Huh? You trust me so much?"

"I……"

The puppet's expression struggled for a moment, and its face turned cold again.

"Okay, okay, anyway, I can mobilize the whole world directly with my will, so let's use this place as the battlefield. You also stand next to me and you are not allowed to go anywhere."

Guinevere's cheeks twitched twice as she was lifted in the air, and she nodded obediently. So the puppet's hands were released and she was directly allowed to experience landing on her butt.

“Oh, it hurts, it hurts——”

"Hurry up and change this body so it won't hurt anymore."

"No, no, if you change the doll's body, you won't be able to use the power of death given by the gods."

"Why do you always have an excuse? I'm the police——"

"boom!"

Before he finished speaking, this could be said to be both an assembly hall and an altar. Of course, the scientific name should be called the round platform in the center of the theater, and there was another huge vibration under the circular platform.

Then, several broken dolls were thrown up, followed closely by a small flame.

That's because of the distance. Across a thousand meters, the long red hair spread out really looked like leaping flames.

"Kiana!"

"Woo-"

Jizi dragged the sword on the ground and charged quickly. As time passed, she felt that the sword was getting heavier and heavier, and the black above her sight was gradually expanding.

She doesn't have much time, but she should have time - there are only two enemies!

In the blink of an eye, half of the thousand-meter space had been crossed, and both the doll and Guinevere were just standing in front of Kiana, silently looking at Himeko who rushed up.

"Click——"

"Bang!"

No longer caring about hiding, all the Honkai energy was concentrated on the golden chains that bound her lips at this moment. As Kiana jerked her upper and lower jaws, the chains scattered into countless pieces with crisp explosions. fragments.

Red liquid gushes out from between the lips and teeth, and when the tongue rolls around, it is filled with the sweet taste of blood. But Kiana didn't care about this at all, and she had no time to care about it. She struggled to lean forward, her neck stretched to its longest length, and shouted desperately to Jizi to remind:

"Above! Himeko! Look above!"

"ha?"

She responded in confusion. Before she could raise her head, Ji Zi leaned back without hesitation, pressed her heels against the ground, and plowed out two depressions about ten meters long on the hard stone platform. With this reaction force, She retreated hundreds of meters away in one breath, jumped a few more times, and almost returned to her original position.

Only then did she have time to take a breath and then look up at the sky.

Under the aura of the solar eclipse, silver threads hung down from the deep and dark sky. Dolls fell from the sky and landed in front of her. Layers upon layers blocked the only way to Kiana.

And this was just the beginning. In the gaps between the dolls, the space was torn apart by golden light spots and eroded into small black holes, and countless strange creatures emerged from the holes - maybe they couldn't. They are called creatures because they also have silver threads on their bodies that connect directly to the sky.

"Damn it, what are these... these guys actually created an army for me!" (End of Chapter)