"Hen, what's the situation?"
Kevin interrupted the conversation just in time.
"I will arrive at the target point in about five minutes. I will then activate the [Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment]. Do you... have time to evacuate?"
"Honestly, not very good."
Hen's voice also became steady, without any more joking in it.
"It's smarter than we thought, and it's always thinking about leaving... I'm even doubting whether it's still the Herrscher we know. But luckily I can still restrict it, and it should have time to leave within the specified time."
"it is good."
"But Kevin."
"Yes."
Kevin was always willing to listen to Hen's instructions. After all, he had received a lot of care from Hen in his early years.
"Even if I don't evacuate, you have to activate the [Key of God] as planned."
"........."
"You don't mean to?!"
"We can't accept it continuing to destroy us. The Eye of the Sea is our hope for resolving the Honkai at this stage. If we let it escape again... its revenge will be too much for us to bear."
“… Yeah, I understand.”
Kevin was silent for a while, and finally agreed with Hen's point of view.
"mark!!!"
"Stop howling, Kosmo."
Xi Wang's calm and slightly disdainful voice came.
"That old man Hen has already made up his mind, and you can't change him now."
"...What did you just say about me?"
"Old thing."
Xiwang repeated it in a clear and calm tone.
"........."
Hen was a little stunned for a moment, and even wondered if he had heard it wrong... Fortunately, he came to his senses immediately and avoided the attack of the Herrscher again. He even wanted to try to fight back under the pressure, but failed.
Not to mention Hen himself, everyone else on the line was silent as well, wondering if they had just heard it all.
"...Captain Wang?"
Desdobia's voice sounded cautiously in the communication...for some reason she felt that Xiwang seemed a little angry.
"Hen, did you use that?"
Without paying attention to other people, Xi Wang just asked this, and his tone seemed calm.
"Of course I used it, why not?"
It would be a waste if he didn't use a good thing that could increase his chances of survival. He has to face the Herrscher alone!
"very good."
Xiwang turned the topic to other people.
"Dobia, can you still hold on?"
"Yes...Yes! My fighting power is not that high, so I can still hold on for a long time!"
Desdobia could vaguely guess what Xiwang was going to do, so she responded firmly and quickly.
"Kevin, if we want to postpone the attack, how long can we do it at most?"
"I can give you a minute."
Kevin responded.
"And if a special situation arises, I will activate the [Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment] according to the original plan. After all..."
"No need to explain, that's it, we all know the reason."
Xiwang interrupted Kevin mercilessly.
"You don't have to be like this, Wang. Besides, how can you get here in such a short time..."
"Shut up, Old Deng."
"Why was it demoted again?"
Hen didn't know whether to laugh or cry for a moment. He could sense that Xi Wang was really a little angry.
"You don't have to risk saving me... and maybe I can evacuate normally? Don't make it seem like I'm doomed..."
"The attitude you used before doesn't support the point you're making now."
Xi Wang coldly exposed Hen's lie.
"…and I agreed before that I would come to rescue you…at least verbally."
“…I was just joking at the time.”
When Xiwang reminded him of this, Hen remembered the agreement that Xiwang had made with him before, and felt helpless.
"Then I'm serious."
"You're making me feel really embarrassed, you know that?"
Hen smiled bitterly.
"I'm ready to ask you and Kosmo to take care of Grayshu for me..."
"Look, you are ready to sacrifice yourself."
"…Are you trying to trick me?"
"Shut up, Old Deng."
Xiwang repeated the name again, causing Hen's breathing to stagnate...mainly because he could sense the anger in Xiwang's words.
He was really a little angry.
"Su, come and take my place."
"……Ugh."
Su sighed during the communication... He should have realized this earlier. After all, Xi Wang's mental condition was very wrong, and now Hen had undoubtedly touched something in his heart.
"You will be held accountable by the Fire Moth if you do this... Wang, you should know how the Fire Moth's top management thinks of you, right?"
"It doesn't matter. The bigger problem is that you don't come to take over."
"... Never mind. Go ahead. I'll be right there."
Su shook his head and prepared to leave... He was not going to stop Xi Wang, nor did he want to stop him. On the contrary, he wished Xi Wang could do it.
"You guys are really embarrassing me..."
"Shut up, Old Deng."
Xi Wang interrupted Hen again.
"Live well, or I will speak ill of you in front of Grace."
Chapter 38 What are you doing, Kevin?!
pat-
I opened the candy box, fed myself a candy, felt the sweetness in my mouth, and then...
click-
With a sound that made people's teeth ache, the candy box was squeezed and deformed in Xiwang's hands, and the sugar remaining inside was shattered under the huge force.
He doesn't need this now. Even the familiar and favorite sweet taste can't calm his mood at the moment.
bang——
There was a dull sound, as if an underground water pipe had burst somewhere nearby. Between the broken walls and ruins, surging water broke through the obstruction, gushed out from underground, dispersed in the air, and then fell again due to gravity.
One place after another, soon, a small circle of "rain" formed around Xiwang.
I can feel the genes belonging to [Gabriel] being active in my body, and the fragrance of lilies lingering at the tip of my nose.
Following the scent of the flowers, you can shift your gaze and see a bunch of lilies placed on a broken wall not far away.
He walked forward and picked it up, but the moment he picked it up, the lily quietly disappeared and turned into dots of blue as water.
There seemed to be the sound of a joyful horn in my ears, and also like the whispering voice of a woman.
The [Gabriel] gene in the body began to stir, and the surrounding water became more and more abundant. The "rain" that originally only stayed around Xi Wang also expanded outward a little unknowingly.
The gold in his pupils expanded a little more, and the three remaining "lines" on his body also surged rapidly like a torrent.
Correspondingly, the aura on Xi Wang's body became more and more dangerous, and closer and closer to the Honkai beast - [Gabriel].
But none of this matters anymore.
"This direction... Yeah, that's right."
After confirming the direction, the surrounding water began to gather along Xiwang's line of sight. Tiny transparent water droplets quickly gathered together, eventually forming a blue "river" in mid-air that continued to meander forward.
Taking a step forward and walking into the blue "river", Xi Wang's figure was swept away by the rapidly flowing "water" and disappeared from the spot in an instant.
The water scattered around, after a brief stagnation, seemed to react and followed the direction of Xiwang.
Like a school of fish swimming in a designated direction, like sea water flowing along an ocean current.
Not until Xiwang's figure went away did the azure "river" quietly disappear into the sky.
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“Ha…ha…has this guy realized the danger?”
Hen was panting heavily while dodging the attacks of the Herrscher in a panic.
The pressure on my body was getting heavier and heavier, and it was becoming more and more difficult to move. I could have found time to try to fight back, but now I could only be suppressed unilaterally.
Although this result was not surprising to Hen, because he was indeed no match for the [Ninth Herrscher], the reason he was able to hold him back for so long was probably because of the [Ninth Herrscher's] contempt and playfulness, as well as his good skills.
Don't think that the [Ninth Herrscher] will run away when it encounters a fusion warrior. Even if it really chooses to stay and fight against a fusion warrior, it will run away after fighting for a while. If it senses multiple fusion warriors, it will leave directly, making it look very timid. However, the [Ninth Herrscher] itself is very strong and difficult to deal with, otherwise it would not have messed up the entire Mu Continent.
It can actually suppress many fusion warriors and even show a crushing posture, but it simply does not want to get into a confrontation situation. It has more things it wants to deal with... such as destroying cities, killing humans and so on. It is a waste of time to confront such "inhuman" fusion warriors.
If you meet a fusion warrior you can beat, just fight him for fun, then kill the other ordinary people. If you meet a difficult one, just leave, it's no big deal.
To put it simply, it is a Herrscher that only fights in crushing situations and situations where it has an advantage. It can fight in evenly matched situations, but there is no need to, and it will just run away in situations where it is at a disadvantage.
Simple and effective, yet feels extremely difficult to deal with.
Only now... well, it seemed to realize that it had fallen into a trap, so it began to show its strength in an attempt to crush the annoying guy in front of it.
"Hey, why don't you fight?"
Finding that it did not attack him again, Hen, who was hiding behind the cover, adjusted his breathing and shouted loudly.
"Are you out of energy?"
"…Take that thing away and I won't kill you."
"Oh, you can still talk."
Hen's voice rose slightly, as if he was laughing.
"And you said you won't kill me? Don't act like my life is in your hands. You haven't taken me for such a long time...Pfft!"
Before Hen could finish his words, an inexplicable and powerful force pulled him out of the shelter and dragged his body into the air.
"Your life is in my hands now."
Looking at Hen who was under its control, it said coldly.
"What? Don't play anymore?"
