Chapter 667 The Last Battle

Twelve thousand kilometers above the moon, on the top of the blood-red cross, a man is sitting silently on a chair, his lifeless eyes focused on a node in the empty space in front of him.

The height and size of the cross itself are here. Although the diameter of the platform on the top is only a little more than one-tenth of the height, it can be set against the dark and deep universe, and it seems endless and never-ending.

It's like human civilization and human stories. Compared with the history of the earth, the life span of the universe is not worth mentioning. They will continue to multiply and will eventually usher in the real end one day, but even those who have lived for 50,000 years and experienced everything that can be truly called "civilization" so far cannot capture the end of mankind with their own eyes.

But there is no need at all.

The man sat here, waiting quietly.

For this moment, he has waited too long, too long, too long, too long.

But the painting at the beginning of the story is as clear as yesterday.

"When a story ends, people always remember its beginning. Mikael, are you also remembering your original self?"

A voice that had not been heard for a long time sounded in my mind, with a mechanical beauty unique to artificial mental retardation.

"Why are you suddenly willing to talk, Prometheus?"

Mikael opened his mouth, but a gentle voice came out, which was completely different from his cold face.

"I just want to know what a human would think when his life has entered the countdown."

"Thinking about something..."

Mikael raised his head, his eyes through the deep and lightless black curtain, and countless pictures flashed before his eyes.

He seemed to see the warm lights coming from the low wooden houses on both sides, illuminating the footprints left by walking alone in the snow, the footprints of a person alone.

He seemed to see the girl with her fist raised, and heard her shouting in his ear, she was shouting for him to come back.

He seemed to see the burning snowfield, the arrogant second Herrscher floating in the air, and then heard a naive and immature voice declaring that he was a Herrscher fighting for humanity, a moth chasing fire.

He also vaguely heard thunder, and heard the desperate girl crying in her ear, but he could no longer respond.

He saw the black raindrops falling from the sky, symbolizing all the sins, washing away the filth on the earth.

He saw the soldiers gathering on the islands nervously, fearfully or numbly, but being ruthlessly swallowed by the sea tide swept by the hurricane.

He saw the ice and the fire intertwined, the ice wrapped around the fire, and the fire roasted the ice outside, and finally the cold boy picked up a ball of fire from the ground, and the gloomy boy held a watch in both hands and stopped talking.

He saw the black fog of death spreading in the dark streets. People were still obsessed with the sounds of nature on the glorious stage, but they had turned into dry bones. In the end, under the lonely moon, only cold corpses and unfulfilled promises were left.

He saw the flames that burned the morning sky to dusk, and the sharp roars resounded through the sky. Sadness, anger, and despair were no longer important. Even love was no longer important.

He also saw a room full of the smell of books. When he walked into the living room, the smell of breakfast and the sound of the girl humming a song came from the kitchen. She asked him to wake up their daughter, but he knew clearly that it was just an illusion.

He saw the tall mecha moving forward continuously. It was a masterpiece of human beings' painstaking efforts, but it turned into a broken blade in the blink of an eye, and some people could only watch the entire continent sink and could do nothing.

He also saw the flames that burned the entire sky and island in half. What was jumping in the flames was the girl's determination and courage, as well as rebirth.

Of course, at the end, we must see the station that still exists 50,000 years later, where two foolish young people said goodbye sincerely, but deceived each other, just for a chance to die.

Time has passed too long.

It is time to put a final period on a story.

"A person often has to make many decisions in his life, and the happiest decision should be the opportunity to choose how to die. Just like me now."

"I don't understand."

After all, what Mikael got from his sigh was the cold and ruthless answer of Prometheus 17.

But... is it really cold and ruthless?

"I don't understand. You clearly said that you made a very happy decision, but I can feel your sadness and fear - you don't really want to die, do you?"

"Of course, everyone is afraid of death. But it is precisely because people are always afraid of death that death, a common thing in the universe, becomes meaningful."

"What does this mean?"

"It's very simple. It is precisely because people are afraid of death that will make everything meaningless that they will pursue making death meaningful."

"..."

No. 17 seemed to be down, and Mikael did not explain anything.

Looking at the Hyperion flying towards him like a small grain of sand in the dark, he raised his hand and gently supported the red spear beside him.

"The time has come. This is the person who devoured the tyrant in the sky. This is the declaration left by Walter Joyce, but it is inexplicably suitable for now."

It seems that nothing has been done, but there are already a large number of rubble-like asteroid fragments flying over the gray-white moon rocks and flying towards the Hyperion. They are gifts from the asteroid belt that have been prepared for a while. Let’s give a salute to the birth of the new term.

Mikael closed his eyes, not paying any attention to the battle in the distance.

Because he knows that those three children... no, the pace of human beings today will definitely not stop here.

He just closed his eyes, obviously not asleep, but his life so far was constantly playing in his brain like a dream.

Until...there were footsteps in front of me.

"Mikael, we are here."

Among the three people standing side by side, Mei took another step forward, drew her sword and pointed it at Mikael.

Twelve thousand meters above the surface of the moon, there is no air at all, but just lip-talk is enough for everyone to communicate.

"It came earlier than I expected."

Mikael's eyelids moved, as if they were open, and then as if they were still closed.

"Don't you know that the transfer of the final power also takes time. It is not wise to start a battle with me now. Keep waiting. When all the final power is transferred to Kiana, you will be able to win without a fight. . This kind of thing, even if Alicia doesn’t say it, Otto’s brain should be able to analyze it.”

"Of course we understand this. But if we have reached this point, but we don't even have the courage to fight you. I believe she won't like such an ending, and the victory won by that method will not be overturned. You admit it.”

The corners of Mikael's mouth were pursed and raised slightly, but he seemed to be a little regretful.

He opened his eyes immediately, and his blood-red cross-star pupils looked seriously at the three girls standing in front of him:

"Is it really good for Kiana to become the Herrscher of the End? With the current situation of the earth, it can no longer bear the power of the End. She needs to learn to control her power on the moon like I did back then. For you, this may mean a separation of eight years, ten years, or even longer, doesn’t it matter?”

Although these times are too small compared to fifty thousand years, but comparing the ages of the three girls in front of me, even the eldest Mei is only twice as old as this time.

"Of course it doesn't matter, we all have enough time for each other."

This question was answered by Kiana instead of Mei.

"Yes, there is enough time. But what does that long time mean to you? You must protect mankind forever, and protect them for thousands of years, ten thousand years, even hundreds of thousands of years, millions of years are just This is the beginning, for which you will inevitably have to go through endless battles. You will look at familiar people - Siegfried and Rita. , there are more familiar people leaving before you, and this is just the beginning. You will suffer wear and tear in endless time, especially...Mei and Kiana, as [Shiyuan] and [Shiyuan]. Eventually, if you want to regret it, you will find that you can't even commit suicide. What will you think at that time?"

"The time has not come yet, maybe we will regret it then. But at least now, we have clear goals and firm beliefs. So much for boring temptations - if we are just scared by the imagined future If we don’t dare to move forward, it means we are nothing more than that.”

Mei changed the position of holding the knife. The only thing that remained unchanged was the tip of the knife pointed at Mikael.

"It seems that, at least at this moment, your faith is unbreakable."

Mikael finally stood up holding the spear.

He moved slowly, and it took him some time to straighten his rickety body, like a dying old man.

"Then, in the end, it's up to me to personally test whether you have the strength to match this belief."

After the words fell, no more words were needed, and the battle was about to break out.

It was a battle that could not be captured by the naked eye. Only one red and two purple rays of light could be seen rapidly intertwining and colliding. Bronya did not rush into the battle group from the beginning, but was reloading. Under the leadership of Xiaotu, he floated to the sky above the platform. His pupils quickly turned into blue gears. In just a moment, he calculated the possible route of the red light, and then launched a saturated fire bombing towards the corresponding position in advance.

The blue beams of light that fell like a rain curtain formed the wall behind Mikael. Mikael had to stop his maneuvering, turned around and swept the spear in his hand, just in time to catch Mei and Kiana. The sword came back at the same time.

However, the above is only a perspective obtained through the Hyperion and even its broadcast. For the four Herrschers present, two Finals, one Origin and one Truth, this battle took less than one second. It's been going on for nearly an hour.

For the first time, Mikael was not frightened by Bronya's gunfire and chose to rush directly through the wall of fire. As a result, he himself was almost unscathed under the protection of the imaginary barrier, but the dense beam emitted by the floating cannon obscured the line of sight, and the dense energy of the cannon beam made the space unstable, and the perception of the power of the sky It was also on the verge of failure, and the three of Meiyi established spiritual communication with the Herrscher of Knowledge as the hub. In this way, Bronya shared Mikael's location, so that he immediately broke through the fire wall. He directly collided with Mei Yi's unstoppable sword.

That was a knife covered with the power of origin. Kevin, who was in a normal state, could not guarantee to break the imaginary barrier without releasing the full power of Skyfire. It was not even broken in time. It was cut in half like a knife cutting water, and even Mikael behind the barrier was cut in half. Even if the roots of the imaginary tree turned into a spear and blocked Mei's knife light at the last moment, Mikael's body was almost completely cut in half from one shoulder to the other waist.

At this moment, if the power of the Sixth Herrscher is used, the damage to the body can be repaired quickly, but it takes time after all. During that not-so-long time, Mikael naturally cannot exert his full strength.

And such a flaw is undoubtedly fatal in front of Kiana, who also has the power of the end.

At least, he can't die like this.

Needless to say, the flow of time gradually stagnated, and then turned back. Kiana immediately tried her best to stop it. The stalemate of the two powers of the end quickly stopped time in place, unable to move forward or backward.

But it was the first time that Kiana used this power in battle, so even though she cared a lot about the girl who was closer to Mikael in terms of space, she only reacted after the power was activated.

However, at this time, Mikael's spear was already stabbing Mei.

During the time stopped by the End, even if the Herrscher core would not be affected by time, the body that the Herrscher used to move in reality would be. During the stopped time, only the two Ends could move, and even the Origin was no exception.

Mei could only watch the tip of the spear getting closer to her, but she couldn't even shrink her pupils.

Kiana could move, but she couldn't catch up at all.

So the next moment, Kiana began to actively reverse time, and Mikael followed suit. The two Ends' powers merged into one, tacitly reversing time to the moment when Bronya's artillery fire fell.

"I really can't underestimate you. This can be regarded as the most dangerous battle I have experienced since I mastered the power of time."

This is true. Although I have experienced more thrilling battles, and even more than once, I have been reborn after being in danger of death. But since I have the power of time, coupled with his original love of using the power of reason and the power of death to exchange injuries for injuries, even the heroes are helpless.

Because no matter how hard you rack your brains, when facing an opponent who can master time, the levels of both sides are already unequal.

The only solution is to let the power of both sides return to the same dimension, just like now.

So, the second round of battle began, followed by the third and fourth rounds, until a whole hour passed in the blink of an eye.

In fact, unlike the power of constraint, the power of time is not only used to offset. In the battle between the four, time is still constantly going back, because once it enters the state of time stop, Mikael will force Kiana to actively go back in time in a similar way to the first round.

As long as the two power holders make a consistent decision, the dial of time will also be turned.

Until... the 2854th round.

Bang——

The red gun body blocked the swords of the two girls at the same time, but the two girls did not intend to retreat at all, because Bronya's artillery fire was rolling towards this side.

"Good cooperation, but do you want to experience the feeling of being bathed in the artillery fire of the Herrscher of Truth?"

The shackles of gravity suddenly fell, and when Kiana and Mei reacted, they could no longer escape. Theoretically, Kiana could use the same power to offset it, but the time she became the end was too short, and it was not easy to master the power of time. Obviously, she did not have more energy to pay attention to the other powers that she should have been able to use.

The blue beam of the floating gun hit without hesitation. Even though she knew that Mei and Kiana were also within the range, Bronya did not stop. The intensive bombing lasted for three minutes, but when the dazzling light faded, there was not even a shallow bullet hole left on the bloody platform, and Mikael and Kiana each built an imaginary barrier, and the three of them were unharmed in the artillery fire.

"Bang——"

The moment her vision returned to clarity, Kiana raised her gun and fired without hesitation. The bullet containing the power of the end broke through the protection of the imaginary barrier without any suspense, but was dodged by Mikael with a tilt of his head.

It was not unexpected that they would fight hand to hand, and even Bronya temporarily gave up her position of fire support and joined the battle with a blue spear.

The weapons kept colliding, and the cooperation of the three people was seamless, but in front of Mikael's roaming spear, they did not get much benefit for a while.

"Damn, didn't the squad leader say that Mikael's close combat skills were very rusty?"

In the mental communication, Kiana couldn't help complaining.

"Ha? You believe what Old Antique said? Maybe Mikael let her win when fighting her? I still remember when I was born, I had all the martial arts of Old Antique, but I was still knocked down by him in just a few moves."

"Why didn't you tell me this earlier, Herrscher of Knowledge!"

"You didn't ask! Besides, how could I know that Old Antique would give such misleading information... But don't be impatient, two fists can't beat four hands, don't you realize that he is about to collapse?"

After all, the power of the end is constantly flowing to Kiana. In other words, Mikael is the one who is being hollowed out.

That power is not just a vehicle of time power, but actually has real energy.

Under the ebb and flow of one another, even though Mikael's concealed fighting skills caught the three of them off guard, as time went by, the advantage did continue to tilt towards the three of them.

In particular, the time they have experienced is not just the few minutes observed on the earth so far. It can be said that behind every second of their battle is hidden hundreds or thousands of times of time. If you convert it, this battle is really The duration may have exceeded seventy-two hours.

And this time is still flowing at an irreversible speed.

The initiative is in Kiana's hands, and now she is the one who is looking forward to constantly going back in time. In this way, it is equivalent to accelerating the process of Mikael's decline.

Sure enough, Mikael's speed is gradually slowing down. From time to time, unprotected attacks leave deep or shallow wounds on his body. His strength is also gradually weakening. The same attack intensity was still weak a second ago. If you can block easily, the next second you can barely do it, and the next second you have to give up blocking and dodge instead.

"What a great opportunity! The advantage is mine!"

There was no need to communicate in mental communication. The three of them tacitly speeded up the attack frequency just by looking at each other.

Seeing that the mutual attack and defense fell into defensive counterattack, and now it is difficult to support even the blind defense... Feeling the increasingly empty body, Mikael's scarlet eyes narrowed, and he quickly swung his gun and swept the three generals. The people were forced to retreat and distanced themselves.

"Not bad. Both the coordination and tactics are qualified. Then, it's time to enter the second level."

"Second level? Are you changing the game boss stage?"

Bronya couldn't help but spit.

Mikael didn't answer, just threw the spear in his hand into the sky, then snorted and closed his eyes.

The cross as the platform for the decisive battle shook violently. The trio thought that the cross was about to collapse and quickly flew into the air to avoid it, but Mikael took this opportunity to jump off the edge of the platform.

"What is he going to do!"

The red spear chased after Mikael, and soon floated with his body in front of the intersection in the middle of the cross.

"Not good! Kiana, Mei, Bronya! There is a large amount of Honkai energy pouring out of the final crater, which cannot be measured..."

"No, that's not Honkai energy, it's imaginary internal energy."

Theresa was interrupted and corrected by Otto midway through her reminder, but it was already too late.

The forked spear tip had pierced Mikael's chest, nailing him firmly to the cross.

It seemed like endless blood instantly turned into a waterfall and poured out. The amount of blood seemed to be able to cover the entire surface of the moon, and the imaginary internal energy spurting upward from the bottom of the cross was mixed with the falling blood.

So, before the blood completely fell to the surface of the moon, the restless imaginary numbers caught it and lifted it up. They wrapped around the huge cross like snakes and tornadoes, and were then dyed into bloody imaginary numbers. The inner energy flows and is fabricated along the cross, and finally merges with the entire cross into a huge cocoon.

Boom——

Even without air, you can still hear the throbbing heartbeat.

Because the heartbeat does not come from the cocoon, but from the Herrscher core of each of the three.

Then, the naked giant with pale skin emerged from his cocoon, with a holy golden crown floating on top of his silvery gray hair. He opened his indifferent eyes, and the bloody cross-star pupils in them were much deeper.

"This...is this a joke?"

The giant was half as tall as the cross, and the moon was as big as a basketball in his hand, not to mention the three girls who were the same size as ordinary people.

"There's no way to do this, right? Wait, his gesture - he wants to crush the earth!"

"Don't worry, leave this situation to me. Kiana, you watch the opportunity from the side, I will create opportunities for you."

Ai Yi's voice suddenly sounded in the mental communication, and what he said was incredible.

"Wait, what are you going to do..."

“Oh, correct me – it’s not me, it’s [us].”

The universe is dark. No matter how many stars there are, the tiny points of light cannot fill this dark and cold space.

But at this moment, the universe is really illuminated.

Countless bright stars shone brightly throughout the night, and then fell like a bursting river of stars. Even the huge Mikael couldn't help but temporarily look away from the trio - he slowly raised his head, but then He quickly narrowed his eyes at the burning light.

And when he raised his hand to try to block the falling stars, the first star had already fallen on his forehead.

The starlight dissipated into nothingness when it came into contact with the pale skin, like melted snowflakes, but it did seem to cause a little pain.

"Ai Yi, what on earth is this..."

Meiyi stared blankly at the falling stars, and suddenly felt something, but a strong sadness surged in her heart.

"These... part of these are the desire of people on earth to transcend the end and the yearning for a better future. But I alone cannot do this - what really makes all this happen, and these stars What’s more, it’s the power from outside the world.”

"Outside the world?"

"Yes, that is the wish of everyone who sees this story. No matter what form they see this story in, whether it is through games, animations, novels, or just a dream... Of course, it is undeniable that some beings see all this through normal "observation" means, but under the guidance of a certain force, the beauty in the hearts of all those who see and experience this story temporarily breaks through the barriers of the world, crossing a distance farther than the definition of time and space itself to come here, just to offer their own strength."

The falling galaxy rushed down, and Mikael put down the arm that he had raised to block it at first. He opened his arms and bathed in it to his heart's content.

More and more blood marks appeared on the pale skin, but they were quickly repaired until an extremely bright star pierced his neck.

His head tilted to one side, and blood spurted out from the cut neck, rushing all the way towards the sun.

His body began to fall in the empty space, and until this moment, the trio was still looking at the scene in disbelief. They seemed to be frightened by this sudden help, so that no matter how the other end of the mental communication reminded them, they didn't have time to do anything in the first place.

Until... a familiar male voice sounded in the minds of the three of them.

"Mei...

"Kiana...

"Bronya...

"Do it."

That was Mikael's voice.

"Analysis! The most concentrated point of energy is at the center of the eyebrows... Kiana, target the center of the eyebrows, use the power of the Second Herrscher on him! "

Theresa's voice came a step too late. Golden light bloomed in Kiana's hand. She pursed her lips and shot a bullet at the giant's forehead.

There was no sound of gunfire, but Kiana knew she had hit the target - the tiny black hole that suddenly appeared tore a hole less than one meter long in the giant's forehead, and then Mikael's body came out of it.

He closed his eyes tightly, his body leaned back like a giant, his long hair fluttered in the universe, and the whole person seemed to be defenseless.

As early as Kiana fired, Mei had already turned into lightning and rushed out.

She was mumbling something in her mouth, whether it was prayer, scolding or confession, she herself didn't know the specific content.

It's just that she had rushed in front of Mikael, and then the long sword wrapped in lightning was unsheathed again.