Chapter 170: Cold Sea of Fire
"Whoosh--"
The cold wind formed a vortex between the Herrscher and Kevin, and the heavy snow spun and fell to the ground.
The two of them only confronted each other for less than a minute, and the entire airport was covered with knee-deep snow.
"Where is the First Herrscher?"
"Hmm?"
The Herrscher looked past Kevin and looked at the airport building behind him. In front of the French window on the second floor that was frozen into long cracks, she saw several familiar figures.
The First Herrscher, Alicia, Mobius, Seele, and...
Under the influence of his subconscious, the Fifth Herrscher could not help but lose consciousness slightly.
"Good opportunity!"
Kevin's left hand was hanging by his side, and suddenly he clenched it. In contrast, the ice surface at his feet bulged into pieces of prisms, pressing towards the Herrscher with overwhelming force.
"It's useless."
The three Herrschers present whispered at the same time.
Facing Kevin's attack, the Fifth Herrscher just raised his toes slightly, and in an instant, the ice surface within a radius of thousands of meters also surged, and the waves of ice instantly collided with each other.
The broken ice crystals flew everywhere, smashing the floor-to-ceiling windows on the second floor of the airport into fine spider-web-like cracks. Mikael simply constructed an imaginary barrier and blasted the windows from the inside to better observe the battlefield, and to prevent the glass from exploding inwards in the future and hurting himself.
"Vilvi, how strong is the current Honkai reaction?"
"The Honkai reaction in the airport area is still more than 9999HW. The instrument cannot give specific data. Maybe you can... feel it yourself? Oh, right! Don't you need to use the God Key to teleport Qianjie to your side? His ability perfectly restrains the Fifth Herrscher. I even think he can solve the battle within three or two hits."
"No need."
Mikael uttered the word lightly. After all, Kevin was the Fifth Herrscher, which was his promise with Mei and a step that humans must take. He believed that Kevin would win. Of course, even if something went wrong, the existence of him, Ellie, and Mebius was enough, and there was no need to fill in the thousands of disasters.
In contrast, on the originally stalemate battlefield, the fifth Herrscher was fighting Kevin in a simple and unpretentious manner. Suddenly, her vision darkened and she instinctively retreated. The next second, a huge black ice ridge hit her original position.
"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"
The Herrscher seemed to have sensed it long ago. She just twisted her body slightly and retreated hundreds of meters in an instant, taking advantage of the situation to avoid dozens of black ice crystals dropped by Kevin.
"I seem to remember, you are Kevin, right? The new captain of the first team of the Fire Moth, Kevin?"
With the snow dust raised by the collision of the ice wave just now blocking his vision, Kevin had already circled behind the Herrscher "unnoticed" and just heard what the Herrscher had just said.
His attack was uncontrollably delayed for a moment, and even the flames on Surtur dimmed a little. Then, just as he gathered his strength to swing the broken sword, the Herrscher gently turned his body, and his palm quickly swung an arc in the air, and Surtur and the dancing flames on it were easily frozen.
"I'm sorry."
The Herrscher still had the leisure to apologize first, and then reached out to Kevin, who had a bad attack and quickly dropped Surtur and retreated.
The index fingers of the two people brushed past each other, and Kevin couldn't help but reveal an ugly smile.
The next moment, dark ice spikes grew around his palm, and the fifth Herrscher turned sideways at this time, but he was already unable to avoid it, and his shoulder was instantly cut open.
But she also smiled.
The blood of the Herrscher splattered, and even hot white steam rose from the wound. Kevin was still immersed in the excitement of the previous successful attack, until the blood-red beads pierced his body and the pain flowed back to his brain, and he realized that it was the Herrscher's counterattack.
Then, more blood overflowed from the wound of the Herrscher and flowed back to the ice spike that Kevin stabbed. With just one encounter, the thick ice spike was dyed red and climbed up Kevin's arm.
"Tsk!"
Kevin knew that something was wrong, and the black frost surged out from under his skin and collided with the blood-red again. At the same time, the recovery ability brought by the fusion factor began to appear, and the small wounds on his abdomen and shoulders began to recover rapidly, and they were healed in just a dozen seconds.
The situation seemed to be in a stalemate again. The Herrscher grasped the ice spike and directly cut off the thorn head, then swung it back and threw Kevin towards the airport building.
A distance of more than a thousand meters passed in an instant.
"Boom!"
Kevin's body left a long trail in the snow, and finally crashed into the imaginary barrier in front of the airport building.
A circle of ripples appeared on the imaginary barrier, and then quickly disappeared.
A large amount of snow dust was thrown into the air, and then fell down one after another, piling up a small mountain on Kevin.
"Hey, Mikael, is this what you said--no need?"
Vilvi mocked silently.
Mebius rarely spoke in agreement.
And Alicia imitated Mikael, holding her chin, thinking: "Kevin... Why does it feel like he didn't use his full strength?"
Kosmo silently stretched out his hand and stuck it on the invisible imaginary barrier.
Ten seconds passed, and Kevin still didn't get up.
So the Herrscher no longer paid attention to him, but once again cast his eyes on the second floor of the airport building.
[First Herrscher, are you still not going to take action? 】
【She is looking at me... She is looking at me... Anna... She is looking at me...】
Kosmo quietly took two steps back.
[Anna remembers me...she remembers me...she still wanted to get close to me, but I backed away and rejected her...]
【That must be the case! That must be it! 】
【She still remembers me! No, I’m going to ask clearly——]
[I’m going to find her to find out! 】
【Who is she...and...】
[You promised to give me... a birthday gift...]
After making sure that the other people's eyes were focused on Herrscher, Kosma's thin figure kept retreating and quickly disappeared into the shadows.
"Kevin? What happened? According to the calculation results given by No. 0, the Fifth Herrscher who just experienced a bitter battle with Da Zi Zaitian should not be your opponent."
"I'm fine, May."
Kevin pushed aside the snowdrift buried in his body and stood up slowly. There are no injuries on his body, which invisibly confirms Mei's statement - it is not yet known whether the Fifth Herrscher in his heyday is stronger or weaker than Kevin, but given the ebb and flow of one and the other, Kevin's current data should be Stronger than the Fifth Herrscher.
In the first wave of tentative confrontations, both sides would naturally not use their full strength, but Kevin should not hide his clumsiness to such a disadvantage.
There is only one possibility.
And how could Mei not know what her big boy was thinking...
"Mei, listen to me, this Herrscher...she seems to have human consciousness."
"..."
Mei had already seen the scene through the transferred battlefield video. Although she was equally surprised by it, when she thought of Mikael's existence and Zero's calculations, the Herrscher had human consciousness... It seemed that this should have been the case. It's only possible.
But after all, she is different from Mikael. Mikael has always stood clearly on the side of humans, and the Fifth Herrscher... although she has human consciousness, she has no tendency to help humans...
Besides, Mikael should have made the same judgment. Otherwise, based on the calculation of the "Mikael's Character Behavior Orientation Model" established by Mei, there is a 93% chance that he will long for the emergence of a Herrscher who fights for humanity like him.
But the reason why he has no reaction now, Mei thinks, is either because he has fallen into the 70% possibility, or because he has already tried to contact the Fifth Herrscher and got a negative answer on that matter.
"Kevin, whether you believe in Mikael or the Fifth Herrscher, you should have your own standards in your mind."
Of course Kevin doesn't know this, but... But if the Herrscher really has human consciousness, doesn't it mean that he is also destroying a human being?
He was hesitating in his heart, but the difference between him and Mikael was that once the latter hesitated, he would not act rashly.
But Kevin was obviously confused and hesitant, but he still instinctively did what Mei said.
"Bang!"
He punched the Herrscher's temporary ice wall, and the ice wall shattered instantly. Under Herrscher's feet, countless ice edges were ready to go. As soon as the barrier was broken, they would shoot out and kill Kevin. Tie up like a hedgehog.
But all the ice edges failed. Kevin used the reaction force to flip over in mid-air and landed in the snow not far away.
Shirter, who was frozen into ice, had long been buried in the snow. Fortunately, Kevin had a good memory and pulled it out immediately.
The sword ignited fire again, and the flames recast the broken sword body, and continued to stretch until it exceeded a hundred meters.
"it's over."
May asserted.
"It's amazing!"
Ellie made a comparison in her mind - when she faced the Third Herrscher, she could only condense the 100-meter-long flaming sword with the complete Shirter in her hand, but now Kevin only has Broken Sword can do this... Doesn't that mean she's not even as good as Kevin now?
When she thought of this, there was inevitably a look of worry in her eyebrows.
Looking at Mikael again, the latter just couldn't help sighing.
[The Fifth Herrscher is bound to die. Even if she really has the possibility of regaining her humanity, she is bound to die. 】
[Because of Kevin, because the first attack of the Fire Chaser Fusion Warrior must be a clean victory. 】
[Only by inspiring people can we carry out this plan. 】
[For this reason, a Fifth Herrscher who "may" have hope of recovery is just a chess piece that must be discarded. 】
[Mei, is this your plan? 】
Kevin waved the sword with difficulty, and the upright sword slowly tipped over, cutting through the dark clouds, and pressing towards the Fifth Herrscher.
A strange smile appeared on the latter's face. She could struggle, resist, and even have time to escape - if Mikael didn't take action.
But she didn't choose to do this.
So what if Kevin is defeated? She was still no match for Mikael.
Why not try another way?
Using this body's more familiar method - [killing] humans does not necessarily mean destroying them physically...
So she turned her head, and the familiar young figure appeared at the gate on the first floor of the airport.
Mikael's imaginary number barrier separated the inside and outside of the building into two worlds, even the sound was isolated.
She could only watch as the boy anxiously slapped the invisible barrier, and watched as he clung to the barrier and shouted, the white breath he exhaled covering the barrier with mist.
So she smiled what she thought was a gentle smile, turned her back to the flames that burned everything, and ran towards the boy.
The figure was getting closer and closer to Kosmo.
She smiled and held out her hand to him.
Just like she did in the ruins not long ago, she reached out to him.
But after all, there was a tiny distance between them that could never be crossed.
There was no blood, and from then on, in Kosmo's nightmare, there was only a cold sea of fire.