hum~
The clock sounded, and the hands turned again, cutting off its wings at the root.
The huge dragon wing smashed to the ground, but Benares suppressed the pain and stretched out the other half of his wing.
"How could it be so fast?" Less than three seconds had passed from the appearance of the monster to the cutting off of Benares' wings. Such a huge monster did not show any delay at all, accelerating in an instant and stopping in an instant, completely violating the law of inertia.
Unlike the original nihilism, under Su Jue's guidance, Otto glimpsed the deeper imaginary tree, and the nihilism born was even more terrifying, far beyond the limit of the judgment level. Even though Kiana, as the Ruler of the Void, would not be affected by the deceleration of time and space, she was not able to resist it in this state.
After three consecutive kills, Nihilism began to plan new moves. The gray field became heavier, and the plants covered by the field began to decay.
It disturbs the time in this space, thereby accelerating itself.
Kiana, who controls time and space as one, finally realizes the true nature of this monster, but unfortunately, even though she can see through the nihilistic moves, she cannot stop it.
"No, there must be something I haven't noticed."
The pain all over her body was filling her brain. If it weren't for Yu Duchen protecting Kiana's consciousness, she would have fainted by now. However, the city was still rising, the light column was getting stronger and stronger, Benares was seriously injured, and a strong obsession supported Kiana to continue walking.
Blood spurted out from the wound, and the body that had just recovered weakened again. Kiana stared at Nihilism closely and forcibly mobilized the power of the Herrscher.
"Just give me a little more time."
The Sword of the Sub-Void appeared in his hand, and the golden eyes of the Herrscher became brighter and brighter. The space-time domain shrouded in gray around him finally became clear under the power of the Herrscher of the Void.
She saw the gears constantly turning in the nihilistic body.
Click, click.
The gears continued to spin, but just before Kiana found the key weakness, the pointer stopped turning and Nihilism was fully charged.
In an instant, the golden roulette wheel covered the entire field, and twelve pointers emerged from the void, each representing a time scale.
Spin, chop, and move at high speed.
Wielding the Sword of the Sky, Kiana blocked the first pointer and, with the help of the power of the Herrscher, cut it off directly.
However, at the moment of being cut off, countless cracks suddenly appeared in her body. Kiana was horrified to find that her time seemed to be stolen. The Herrscher state that could originally last for two minutes was directly shortened by a quarter, and the wounds on her body were the signs of acceleration.
Even the Herrscher can be affected?
No, it is the energy of the hour hand that causes harm to oneself.
But this energy is invisible and unfeelable. Once Kiana continues to attack, the time will be shortened again. If she does not attack, these hour hands will actively attack her until she completely loses her ability to resist.
Now she is in a complete dilemma. Nihilism will not give Kiana the chance to hesitate. The hour sword slashes out, and Kiana can only use her own ability to create space deceleration to resist the opponent's time acceleration.
With a bang, the Sword of Sub-Sky blocked the opponent's attack.
efficient!
But before Kiana could raise hope, the two pointers beside her suddenly shattered, and the invisible energy took away her time again. She only had more than 20 seconds left in the Herrscher form.
Kiana, who was disrupted by this sudden change, was directly cut by Nihilism and flew backwards again.
If it were only nihilism, Kiana would have a chance of winning now, but those hour hands were like bombs that would explode at the slightest touch, making it impossible for her to move her hands and feet.
What should I do?
Just when Kiana was at a loss, the voice of a young girl suddenly appeared in her mind.
"Your Majesty...thank you for finding Bella again."
The girl's voice was tired, as if she would die at any time. The voice was so strange, yet so familiar.
Kiana finally realized that it was Benares.
"and many more."
Roar!
The dragon roared loudly. This was the first time Kiana heard Benares's voice like this. The huge body soared into the air and pounced directly on all the hour hands.
Click.
All the hour hands shattered in an instant, Benares roared, spewing out the last light, bombarding nihilism into a brief stiffness.
But after enduring so much decay over time, her body was stripped of its vitality. The huge body of the Honkai beast actually began to break down, its solid shell lost its luster, its sharp claws began to fall off, and even its only remaining wings were covered with cracks, eventually breaking like porcelain.
Under Benares' desperate cover, Kiana finally found the core of nihilism. She poured all her energy into the gears. The overloaded energy shattered the time machine into pieces, and countless gears began to dislocate and twist.
Finally, everything returned to calm.
The gray area disappeared, Kiana defeated the powerful enemy, but she couldn't be happy.
She walked up to Benares and gently stroked her dragon head. Tears overflowed from the dragon's eyes and fell into Kiana's hands.
"My Queen, can you call my name again?"
"…Bella."
"Bella's here."
The cross beams of light in the sky were still spreading, and the burning flames ignited the sky.
Leaning on the motionless Benares, Kiana gave a miserable smile, but in the end she still failed to catch up.
Chapter 217: Kuligara
"Su Jue, in 30 seconds the Key of God will reach the boundary between the quantum layer and the imaginary space. You only have two seconds."
Otto's voice came from the headset, but Su Jue seemed not to hear it. He stood alone at the highest point in Changkong City, closest to the hole, overlooking the entire city.
His eyes kept wandering around the ruined land, trying to find that figure, but unfortunately the city was too chaotic and the light beam of the experiment was too bright. Kiana's shadow was submerged in the light like a faint candlelight.
Didn’t you come?
Obviously, he had deliberately sent Kiana away, and things were clearly going according to plan, but at this moment, Su Jue inexplicably felt a little regretful and reluctant. Just like a suicidal person still longing to see his family before dying, just like before committing a crime, he still hoped that someone would stop him. Su Jue was also looking forward to the girl saying goodbye to him.
He had no idea what this thought was and could only attribute it to the cost of emotion.
"Su Jue! Answer immediately!"
The sound in his ear seemed very noisy. Su Jue, who was a little upset at the moment, directly cut off the connection and threw the headset into the ruins.
This action really made the well-educated Otto a little angry, but just when he was about to call on Youlan Dell to forcibly control Su Jue, the terrifying force directly fell into the channel of Thousand Realms and One Vehicle, tearing a deep crack in the membrane of imaginary numbers.
Obviously the experiment did not fail. On the contrary, it became easier due to Su Jue's precise control.
"..." The words he wanted to say were stuck in his lips, and Otto swallowed them back. Although he didn't know what Su Jue was up to, since the other party was honestly following the plan, it didn't matter if he got a little angry.
"The experiment continues."
With the help of Su Jue, Qianjie Yicheng successfully arrived at the imaginary space and began to establish the final coordinates.
However, Su Jue’s job this time is not as simple as opening the door, but he also has to maintain the stability of the space channel.
As the Plague Gem exerted its full power, Su Jue's body temperature rose sharply. The ground where it had rained was evaporated in an instant, and every breath he exhaled was filled with a scorching hot breath.
At the same time, his skin gradually became dry like a rotten tree, and the blood flowing out of his body instantly turned into coagulated patches.
The collapse energy of the entire Changkong City turned into a vortex, constantly converging towards Su Jue, and finally turned into a raging flame that burned the barrier of the imaginary space.
Gradually, the ground began to melt, and the flowing magma spread along the buildings.
After taking a final look down at the city and not seeing Kiana, Su Jue stopped waiting and rushed into the sky like a flying meteor and crashed into the mirror-like hole.
Click.
The space was shattered, and countless fragments carrying a huge amount of information overflowed from the imaginary space and the quantum sea. Su Jue grabbed one of the fragments, and in an instant his mind was filled with countless information.
However, Su Jue was well prepared. The shared brain of the Thousand Rulers allowed him to handle this situation easily and immediately sort out the information carried in the fragment.
She was a witch holding a lantern. Even across the world, Su Jue could vaguely smell a hint of rosemary. The thorny vines and resting irises were as tempting and dangerous as poisonous snakes.
Obviously, this person should be the Lost Rosemary.
However, Su Jue was not looking for her, but a higher-level existence who could help him reach the Tree of Imaginary Numbers.
Su Jue must have his own purpose for spending so much time and even giving up the puppet [Su Jue] to help Otto with the experiment.
In addition to the ultimate goal of getting rid of the control of the Honkai Will, another important goal is the experiment itself. Now the main body is still a long way from the imaginary number tree, and this distance cannot be crossed by itself, so he deliberately helped Otto advance the progress of the experiment.
In comparison, helping Kiana can only be considered a incidental goal, an attempt by the Ruler of Domination to taste some emotions.
In the turbulent space channel, countless quantum shadows surged out like a tide, and Su Jue wielded his sword to kill them one by one. In the dark and deep space, only a few golden beams of light fell from a distance.
That was the light of the Imaginary Number Tree. Su Jue even saw the Domination Theater hidden near the Imaginary Number Tree.
“……”Otto must not find this.
While Su Jue and Otto continued to intercept information, Kiana, who was accompanying Benares, also regained her spirits.
She hugged Benares and said goodbye to her softly. "Goodbye, Bella."
The memories from Sirin gradually returned, allowing Kiana to truly accept the existence of Benares, but now it was too late.
After saying goodbye to Bella, Kiana stood up and ran towards her final goal. She did not notice that when her tears fell on Benares, a tiny silk thread began to grow like a vine.
After a long time, Benares had completely stopped moving, and the silk thread was finally woven.
The interweaving of silk threads forms a cocoon, or an egg.
The sleeping silk cocoon sways from side to side, like a lullaby in a baby's cradle.
As the silk cocoon melted like snowflakes, a strand of lavender hair fell out, revealing the delicate girl sleeping quietly.
This is Bella's consciousness.
A long time ago, Su Jue had tampered with Benares and hid the core of a thousand people in its body. The reason why Su Jue was able to control the direction of the dragon before was because he used the core to simulate the breath of the Herrscher of the Void.
After Benares' death, the core became a seed, forcibly extracting Bella's consciousness from her body, and she was reborn through Qianli's incubation.
As long as nothing unexpected happens, Bella will be able to be resurrected again in the form of a doll.
Provided there are no surprises.
In the quiet square, the broken hour hand suddenly jumped. In an instant, the damaged buildings began to slowly recover, and time began to flow in reverse. Everything was going backwards, and the broken puppets reassembled.
Nihilism, who was killed by Kiana, was completely resurrected. Although he was much weaker, it was fatal to Bella who was hatching.
Nihilism stood up again and immediately locked onto Bella, raised the clock sword in his hand high, and then slashed it down suddenly.
Click.
In the quiet space, debris fell piece by piece, and dense cracks continued to spread along the clock sword, eventually breaking completely.
The swirling lightning kept jumping on Nihilism's body, paralyzing it.
"Fortunately we made it in time." Mei Raiden breathed a sigh of relief. Mei, who was worried about Kiana, returned to the city again. However, when she was halfway through the flight, Liuli reminded her to come for the rescue, and she managed to save Bella.
The sound of lightning and blades rang out, and Nihilism, who had been killed once by Kiana, was chopped into pieces like a toy. Mei put away her blade and looked at Liuli and Theresa, who were one step behind her.
"Now how to do?"
"The deceased Benares was Kindred's property, and its consciousness was preserved by us, so it naturally belongs to me. However, her body still contains extremely strong power, and it is perfect for her to be your companion Honkai beast."
"But, this child is Kiana's after all..."
"After this trip, you and her will never meet again. Don't you want to have something as a reminder of your past?"
Mei was silent, but had to admit that she was indeed convinced.
With his fingertips lightly touching the dragon corpse, the power of conquest began to deconstruct Benares' body, and finally under the power of the Herrscher of Thunder, he was born in a brand new posture.
"Wake up, Kurikara."
Chapter 218 War
As the Thousand Worlds One Vehicle continued to advance, massive amounts of information flowed into the Destiny database. Nearly 10 billion GB of data was waiting for the Soul Steel computer to calculate, and more than 5000 special disks prepared by Otto were already mostly full.
So far, the experiment has gone smoothly, but Otto is still frowning because he has not found the key information he wants - a parallel world where Kallen really wants to live.
The tree of imaginary numbers was lush and leafy, and each leaf represented a world. But what made him desperate was that even though he had observed several parallel worlds before, he still couldn't find a way for Kallen to survive. Just like the convergence of the world line, Kallen in each world seemed unable to escape the destined fate.
"Karen, I will let you live even if it costs me everything." Otto has said this to himself countless times in the past 500 years. But this world is so cruel, the more you seek the truth, the more you will find that humans are so weak.
Human power has its limits after all, unless one transcends humanity.
The image of the young Herrscher suddenly flashed through his mind, and Otto suddenly had a guess. Perhaps he had already realized this and took the initiative to choose the identity of Herrscher?
Just as the experiment was progressing steadily, the warning equipment placed outside the Changkong room suddenly detected hostile information.
"Your Excellency, a large number of unidentified mechas are approaching. I guess they belong to the World Serpent."
