Chapter 85: Mikael's Death

As the Third Herrscher finished speaking, the other half of the light wings rose from her back, and her waist-length hair grew rapidly until it was long and trailing on the ground.

The bangs on her forehead moved, and two huge purple ghost horns rose from the top of her head. There was a bit of purple in her scarlet eyes, and the areas around her eyes were also dyed with purple eye shadow.

Honkai can do this!

If his appearance doesn’t change, what kind of Herrscher is he?

"run!"

Mikael only had time to say this word to Mei and Sakura before the Third Herrscher held his shoulders and dragged him on the ground at an extremely fast speed.

From Sakura's perspective, she could only see a purple line drawing a horizontal line in front of her eyes, as if dividing the entire space into two. When she realized what she was doing, there were still two Herrschers in front of her?

The next moment, the entire world was flooded with purple lightning, as if there were no other colors in this world except the oppressive dark purple.

"boom!"

A monstrous fire suddenly erupted in a more distant place, and then, raging tongues of fire rushed through the streets. The rubble closest to where the two Herrschers were fighting was burned, leaving only charred land within a radius of more than ten kilometers. .

As a result, the entire Changkong City was dyed blood red again.

Suddenly, there was a huge explosion accompanied by fire and dust that filled the sky, causing people's eardrums to hurt even though they were hundreds of kilometers away.

The explosion was so violent that Mei had just pulled Kevin, who seemed to be unscathed, out of the rubble. The invisible shock wave was like an invisible big hand, sweeping across most of Changkong City at will, hitting all the broken walls that still had some height left. The walls were all flattened.

When the broken building collapsed, Mei instinctively pushed the unconscious Kevin under her body. But with the friction between the blade and the sheath, the collapsed broken building was instantly cut into thousands of small pieces, and fell on the ground without any force. On Mei.

Each of the two girls took one of Kevin's arms and dragged him aimlessly through the broken streets.

The fires and thunder and lightning in the distance lasted for a long time. Under the cover of dark clouds, Changkong City was already as dark as the night when the stars had dissipated. Coupled with this color rendering, it seemed that the entire city had been immersed in bright red blood.

Where to go?

Sakura suddenly tightened her grip on the long knife in her hand, and the scabbard cracked.

"plum……"

"What's wrong?"

Sakura hesitated to speak, she knew what her mission was - to protect Dr. Mei, that's all.

To be precise, the order from the headquarters is:

"Protect Dr. Mei at all costs. Even if there is no living person in Changkong City, Dr. Mei must still be alive."

Sakura believes that her biggest advantage compared to Mikael and Ellie is the strict obedience brought by being born in a poison chrysalis.

But now, she can no longer carry out this task.

Her heart was beating rapidly, her hands and feet could not stop being numb, and even her breathing was not smooth.

Sakura had experience, it was just a rush of adrenaline from the nerves.

The last time I encountered this situation was the last time... The last time I was worried about Rin because I knew about Honkai, and I was so worried that I couldn't sleep all night.

She is not too worried about Ling now. The hell involved in the third collapse does not include the city where Ling is. but……

"call……"

She let out a breath and closed her eyes. Half of the things that popped into her mind were Ling and the other half were Mikael...

"cherry."

"Um?"

"If you really want to help Mikael, then go ahead."

Mei pushed up her glasses on the bridge of her nose, "You have already wiped out a lot of the Honkai Beasts in Changkong City. After the explosion just now, there were not many remaining Honkai Beasts and they were all buried in the ruins. In short, , just go ahead with peace of mind..."

Mei knew that what she said was not accurate. Under the collapse, where could there be an absolutely safe place?

She just couldn't bear to see Sakura so entangled, so she just found an excuse for her.

What's more, it's unreasonable no matter how you look at it, for Sakura's fighting power to be wasted on an insignificant person like her?

She looked at Sakura again...

Where is Sakura around?

The sea of ​​​​fire gradually dried up, and both Herrschers had already used their full strength to attack. The Honkai energy and physical strength had no time to recover, and the battle suddenly returned to a close-quarters fight.

Unextinguished flames danced on the fiery red sword blade, which constantly came into contact with the purple sword snaking around the Thunder God, triggering more than ten explosions in an instant.

"Traitor, don't you have any abilities of your own?"

The Third Herrscher didn't seem to care, but when his eyes glanced at the unreal Shirter, he couldn't help but feel lingering fear.

"Stop talking nonsense...today...here...only one Herrscher will die..."

Mikael dodged the Herrscher's attack sideways, and swung his sword flat with his backhand, but was also easily dodged by the opponent.

His state was very wrong. Every time he spoke a word or two, he would pause for a moment. To be honest, he felt that his body was really overwhelmed. The bones and meridians all over the body are twitching, and the body feels like a balloon filled with water. It has been stretched to the limit. There is not even a tenth of a piece of rice paper behind the outer wall, and it will explode with the slightest touch.

But the battle will not stop just because he is in poor condition.

As soon as he finished speaking, the two of them sped up at the same time. Golden light spots intertwined with purple light, which were the afterimages left by the battle between the two Herrschers.

After experiencing the failure in Canghai City, the Third Herrscher's reaction ability seems to have improved a lot. At least at this point, Mikael no longer has a clear advantage.

Moreover, a battle process as fast and exciting as the second stage of Flying Thunder God is almost no longer possible after the Third Herrscher becomes vigilant.

Suddenly two figures collided with each other. The collision between Shirter and the Thunder Blade caused the two sides to retreat due to the reaction force. Mikael suddenly reached out and pointed at the Third Herrscher.

"Um?"

Before it could react, a strange touch suddenly came from its feet.

"boom!"

The Third Herrscher was instantly blown away by the mine constructed by Mikael. It rolled twice on the ground, and suddenly a blue light lit up around it - it had fallen into the minefield.

A series of explosions engulfed it in the next second.

"whispering sound!"

It flew upside down from the smoke and dust, trying hard to flap its light wings, but only a golden light flashed above its head. Mikael jumped out of the rift in space and slashed at it with a sword.

"Enough!"

It hurriedly blocked it with its thunder blade, but the huge force directly smashed it into the scorched earth beneath it.

"Enough!"

it shouted.

Mikael ignored him. Before he landed, he bent his bow in mid-air, and flying flowers belonging to Ellie appeared in his hands.

But the bow was not equipped with a pink crystal, but a soul steel arrow. The crystal was an ability unique to Ellie. Even though Mikael spent several months researching, he could not construct a special arrow with the same ability. crystal.

"go!"

Before the Third Herrscher could turn into electromagnetic waves and escape, the soul steel arrow hit the palm of its left hand, pinning it to the ground. Then, dark green thunder and lightning exploded from the arrow, directly paralyzing half of its body.

It, the Third Herrscher, the Herrscher of Thunder, was actually paralyzed by a mere thunder and lightning!

The anger was so overwhelming that it didn't even think about it - where did this power of thunder and lightning come from?

But there was no need to think about it, Mikael had already charged forward with a big sword——

"Enough!"

"Rumble......"

The purple wave rolled back, completely submerging the two Herrschers.

The thunder drowned out all the noise, and the thunder light also took away all the colors.

It seemed like a long time before the sound of breathing returned to my ears again, and a familiar light appeared in front of my eyes.

"Hahu...hahu...hahu..."

Mikael gasped for air, inserted the stel into the ground, put the hilt of the sword on his waist, and barely managed to stay standing.

The blood on his forehead flowed into his eyes, blocking his vision. He narrowed his eyes slightly and wiped away the blood with his thumb.

"That's it, right?"

The Third Herrscher stood nearly a hundred meters in front of him. Her left arm was severed, but otherwise she was otherwise uninjured.

Unlike Mikael, there were all kinds of fine blood marks all over his body, as if if the wind blew any harder, he would disintegrate into a pair of tiny pieces of flesh.

"Pooh!"

Mikael spat blood on the ground.

"It's not that Lili doesn't work hard, how can he mechanically achieve super powers..."

Herrscher of Weakness - Mikael really tried his best, he was even shocked that he could do this.

After all, even if the Second Herrscher did it himself, he might not be able to move to an unknown location two thousand kilometers away in an instant.

And he just used his own authority to forcefully fire a core that did not really exist. He actually succeeded in doing this and still had the strength to fight until now. Even he himself felt that this was like an unreal dream.

But the pain told him that this was reality - pain, and every cell in his body was emitting uncontrollable pain as he gasped.

"It's so strange... you were just a little bit away from becoming a perfect Herrscher... It's a pity... you are still human..."

The Third Herrscher shook its head, its voice as usual, cold and without any unnecessary emotion.

It stretched out its right hand and touched the left shoulder. White smoke instantly appeared from the wound. The flesh and blood on the surface of the fault was roasted to a crisp, and the blood naturally stopped dripping.

Mikael looked at the scorched earth around him and the Changkong City that no longer existed...

Taking advantage of the opportunity for the Third Herrscher to stop the bleeding, he gasped for breath. His brain had begun to have various hallucinations due to lack of oxygen.

He felt like he had been completely squeezed dry, like watermelon dregs that had been beaten a hundred times with a wall breaker, and could no longer squeeze out even a little bit of strength.

Even something as simple as standing seems to be a kind of numbness, as if it is just relying on muscle memory to stand still.

"If you can't hold on, why not just fall down... Why do you have to hold on? Let yourself be more comfortable at the last moment, isn't it?"

There was a voice in his heart that kept echoing, and with its whispers, the muscles in Mikael's body began to relax, and he was about to collapse.

But the muscles tightened on their own, always maintaining a standing posture.

"Why bother?"

"What is the reason that supports you in fighting and keeps you standing even at this point?"

"I don't know...hehe..."

In his daze, he seemed to think a lot and saw many phantoms.

At the beginning, it was Alfred, it was Harris, it was Carol, it was Celia’s mother, and it was one after another ordinary people who couldn’t even be named.

No matter what their fate is, they will eventually turn into a speck of dust from the pre-civilization and be blown by the wind of time to a place so far away that no one who comes after them will even know of their existence.

But they still existed, undisputedly existed, blooming full and passionate like flowers - this is the reason for his struggle: to continue the truth that these ordinary human beings "existed" from generation to generation. Go on until eternity...

Then he saw Kevin holding a sky fire with his back turned to him, Hua holding an oil-paper umbrella isolated in the rain, Su with all the oil in Xumi Mustard Seed and the lamp dying out, and Grace Xiu with no news among the stars...

He was like that, and so were they, burdened with countless hopes and countless sins, walking step by step through a journey of 50,000 years.

Of the two people who are still alive in the end, one is worse off than dead, the other is dead and reborn, and reborn and dead...

He saw the hard-spoken Mebius with a soft heart, Mei who gradually grew from youth to maturity, the elegant and desperate Eden, Aponnia who could see through fate but was always teased by fate, and who was obviously a coward but was brave in the end. Pado, who seems to be smart but actually has a closed heart, Qianjie, a lunatic who just wants a family, and Kosmo, who finally became a hero...

They will be buried with this era and turned into a piece of data in the paradise of the past. But in the end, even this piece of data will no longer exist and can only survive in his fading and blurring memories.

But now, those vague memories have turned into flickering lights in the darkness, pointing the way forward for him, a fire chaser.

"No! None of this will happen! Alicia said that your stories will one day become a light for others to move forward... So I am here, and I am here to prove to you that you did it! And... …”

Since every battle has been won, and since all the processes are beautiful... then Mikael must try his best to win a perfect ending for each of them - this is the reason why he fights for it. .

Finally, he saw Alicia and thought of this girl who had been with him from the beginning of the story.

"Hi! Miss me?"

"..."

"Don't keep staring at me silently... Hey, you don't like me, do you?"

"Alicia... you said that you hope that I can transcend the end of the Fire Chaser and create the future that you failed to create. You asked me to keep moving forward. You asked me not to be sad. You will always live in my life. In memory... No, no, no! I'm here, I'm not going anywhere, I can either be buried in the past with you, or move into the future with you, there will be no other choice!"

"I won't stop here! Alicia... I still want to fulfill my agreement with you..."

"Besides...it starts with you and ends with you...no matter what happens, I will die in your arms...hehehe..."

In the end... he still habitually used a joking tone to cover up everything. This may be the mark Alicia left on him.

Alicia - this is the reason why he fights. Just these four words are enough.

But is that all?

No no no!

This is his reason for fighting, not his reason for standing.

The reason why he wants to keep standing - "Because I am a human being, and I also have the self-esteem of a human being... No matter what, I can't fall down..."

For dignity, to prove his human identity - this is the reason why he fights and stands.

So, he used all the strength in his body and shouted: "Third Herrscher! Come!"

He raised the sword high, but the huge weight soon crushed him, causing him to fall to the ground. It took a lot of effort to slowly get up.

The Third Herrscher's eyes narrowed. It was not as relaxed as it seemed. After hearing Mikael's last cry and seeing his state of exhaustion, it was not anxious, but slowly, step by step, moved towards He approaches.

Its eyes are not entirely focused on Mikael, but before taking each step, it will take a look at its own feet.

Fortunately, Mikael seemed to have no strength to struggle anymore, and he didn't even have the strength to construct even a landmine.

He even lowered his head and was as angry as a gossamer.

The two Herrschers, who could have destroyed the world, approached step by step in the strange atmosphere.

As the distance approached, Mikael's silent chanting also reached the ears of the Third Herrscher.

"8.1, 7.8, 7.5, 7.2..."

What does this number mean? The Third Herrscher doesn't understand.

"6.3, 6.0, 5.7, now!"

Mikael suddenly raised his head, the gear version of his pupils spinning rapidly, and his whole body emitted a bright golden light.

The space between him and the Third Herrscher quickly collapsed to a point with extremely large mass. Although this could not keep up with the black hole, the huge attraction still attracted everything around the collapse point.

The distance is too close!

With the reaction speed of the Third Herrscher, there is no time to escape!

But...even if he can attract it, what can Mikael do?

The Third Herrscher doesn't understand.

In Mikael's current state, this space collapse point has already condensed his last strength. Now, he is afraid that even Shirter cannot maintain it!

Sure enough, Mikael's empty hands were absorbed by the space, and the two Herrschers collided without any preparation.

The last thing Mikael could do was to use his last strength to wrap his arms tightly around the Third Herrscher.

And suddenly a blue light bloomed in front of his chest, countless Honkai energy continued to converge towards the core, and the overflowing purple lines spread on the two Herrschers - this was the manifestation of Honkai energy eroding the body, and the Herrscher's adaptability to Honkai energy should have been infinitely close to positive infinity!

And inside the core, Honkai energy continued to collapse inward to the limit like a supernova about to explode, and then the entire core began to fusion change. Once the fusion was completed, the core would be transformed into pure Honkai energy and then explode.

"This is... Do you want to die!"

The third Herrscher shouted nonsense, it never expected this kind of fighting method of mutual destruction!

The level of Honkai energy in the core is not small, at least enough for the Herrscher to hit a full-strength attack, and the power of so many equivalent Honkai energy after fusion increases exponentially. Once detonated, not to mention the third Herrscher, the entire Far East will be wiped out!

"3..."

The third Herrscher's right hand hurriedly reached for Mikael's back.

"2..."

Its fingertips dug into Mikael's flesh, and then the whole hand reached into his chest from behind.

"1..."

It was over.

The continuous thunder and the dark clouds over Changkong City all dissipated.