Chapter 96 His Reunion with Her

Mikael was awakened by the dazzling light, but everything around him made him feel like he was in a dream.

He is trapped.

Trapped in a gem that was only slightly larger than his body—no, that might not be a gem.

He can't feel the thickness of his body, yes, thickness. A certain dimension of the three-dimensional space has been taken away. Now he is not even a paper person - paper also has thickness.

But maybe it's also possible that it's not that his dimension has decreased, but that the dimension he's in has increased. Since low-dimensional creatures cannot imagine the existence of high-dimensional creatures, shallow consciousness will actively lower its own dimension to make everything around it clearly visible.

Of course, it is more likely that the so-called dimensions are just nonsense: this is a space separated from the real world, and all human measurement methods do not exist here, so even dimensions "do not exist".

But before he could think this through, he began to fall irreversibly—why again?

He was no stranger to falling. In the past few years, he had had many outrageous and not outrageous dreams, and many people who should and should not have appeared in his dreams.

But the only thing that remains unchanged is that he will experience falling in every dream.

He once secretly went to a psychiatrist behind Allie's back, and the other person's explanation was: "Falling means a helpless state of mind. When a person falls, he cannot take any effective means to save himself and can only watch himself. Towards destruction... Sao Nian, have you been under too much pressure recently?"

"bite!"

This time, he did not fall into the ocean, but the gem that restrained him fell on the hard ground and broke into countless pieces in an instant. The fragments contained a dazzling and cold light, reflecting everything around him pale.

Before he took the initiative to do anything, his body floated up on its own, as if it were a balloon - as if his body did not exist, but was just a light soul...

oh! He finally remembered what happened before.

The Third Herrscher took it out of Mikael's body the moment before the core exploded. As long as it was a little later, the fusion in the core would be completed, and then the entire Far East would disappear from the map.

The same is naturally true for the Lawyer.

But Mikael has no regrets. This was just a part of another plan. Now, according to the plan, he only needs to wait for Mebius to input Honkai energy into his body, and then he will fuse it in advance. Resurrected under the influence of sand factor...

When I wake up, if I'm lucky, Irregulars has been solved. If there is any accident caused by Shesha's variable, his resurrection will be enough to offset it...

In this case, the third collapse will be over, and Mikael can start to think about it...

Forget it, he didn't dare to set the flag casually anymore, he could only say: I hope so... I hope so...

He stood quietly, waiting for Mebius to wake him up. Obviously, since consciousness tends to move faster than matter, it takes longer to pass than outside...

But this time was too long, and there was nothing he could do anyway. He lay on the ground bored and let his consciousness begin to flow quietly.

Unsurprisingly, he thought of the words of the Third Herrscher:

"You're not exactly a Herrscher."

What does this mean?

He confirmed that there was no other consciousness or personality in his body, so how could he be an incomplete Herrscher?

Mikael shook his head quickly, refusing to fall into such meaningless thinking.

He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he felt that the "ground" he was lying on did not seem to be static, but was flowing. However, this flow was so slow that he didn't gradually feel it until he calmed down and thought.

He quickly sat up and sat up, but he was surrounded by a vast expanse of white with no reference. How could he tell whether he was still or in motion?

He could only look down at his body, but was surprised to find that his image was always changing. From the skinny child in the orphanage, to the black mist that symbolized the Herrscher's consciousness, to the current self...

He doesn't have a fixed shape, or in other words: he doesn't know what shape he should be.

Suddenly, a small black spot appeared not far away. Mikael waited quietly. The black spot continued to enlarge, and finally revealed its original shape: a familiar corpse-the corpse of the Second Herrscher.

A chill suddenly arose in my heart. If he could have a physical body, the hair on my hair would have exploded by now - where on earth is this!

He always thought this was his consciousness space, so he acted so calmly, but how could the body of the Second Herrscher appear in his consciousness space?

And if this is not my conscious space, then where is I?

Is it the world after death?

No...he can't just disappear!

Mikael began to run wildly, running wildly in the endless white, running in a direction that he did not even know.

"Uh-huh!"

He suddenly covered his head and fell to the ground, and strange images began to appear in his mind——

At the beginning, he was suspended in the air, controlling the rail gun to attack the headquarters base of Fire Chaser...

"This...is this the perspective of the Third Herrscher?"

Then, in the dark and narrow tunnel, he saw the Third Herrscher.

"Hmph!" He instinctively wanted to attack, but the body didn't seem to belong to him and didn't obey his orders at all.

"What the hell is going on?"

The image soon broke off.

Mikael got up in a daze, but saw another small black dot not far away, and he started running wildly again.

"Third Herrscher?"

The image of the little black dot gradually became clearer, and Mikael shouted unconsciously, and then quickly covered his mouth.

But the Third Herrscher was confused and stood motionless, as if he hadn't noticed him at all.

"Good opportunity!"

Mikael tried to punch her, but his fist stopped in front of the Herrscher, unable to move forward.

Even so, the Third Herrscher didn't react at all.

"This is indeed the consciousness of the Third Herrscher, but you cannot attack it, as if something is protecting it... Could this be the legendary... place where the Herrscher's consciousness meets - the deepest part of the Herrscher's core? ?”

If this is the place where the Herrscher's consciousness meets... If this is the place where the Herrscher's consciousness meets!

He ran like crazy. In this white world where he couldn't tell the direction, he firmly believed that since this was the place where the Herrscher's consciousness met, they would definitely meet here... As long as he didn't give up running, As long as he doesn't give up searching, he will definitely meet her!

"Alicia!"

But until the figures of the Second Herrscher and the Third Herrscher disappeared, until only Bai without a trace of emotion was left in the world, he was still shouting at the top of his lungs:

"Alicia!"

The screams merged into the boundless world, and then reflected back from far away, echoing repeatedly in Mikael's ears.

"Alicia...where are you!"

That familiar pink figure seems to have never existed in this world.

Could it be... could it be that this is not the intersection of Herrscher's consciousness, but the real world after death? Mikael was unwilling to admit that he had made a mistake in judgment.

Because he can't stand it.

It's not that he can't stand death... Yes, he just can't stand death, he can't stand this kind of death, he can't stand dying without changing anything, he can't stand dying without saying goodbye to Alicia...

In that case...she will be sad...

No...he actually just didn't want to lose her.

Even though he was not very willing to admit it in his heart, even though he feared that future countless times, even though he said countless times that he wanted to change her destiny, in the final analysis, all the starting points were actually his selfish and wishful love. .

At this moment, he was finally willing to admit it.

He just likes Alicia, he just loves Alicia...

But, does he still have a chance to tell her these words?

He squatted down silently and covered his face in despair.

Suddenly, a gust of breeze enveloped Mikael, bringing him the fragrance of flying flowers. He felt something in his heart. He opened his eyes and looked forward. More and more pink petals were swirling and flying, as if there was a huge flower. The cherry trees grew behind him, and the flowers bloomed and faded, trying to dye the entire world into her favorite color.

Behind you?

He suddenly looked back, and Alicia was right there, not close but not far away.

When their eyes met, her eyes widened imperceptibly, and her upper lip wrinkled slightly. These small movements were captured by Mikael, and a thought suddenly popped up in his heart - she...

This idea was so bold and unbelievable that Mikael just glanced in that direction and his whole body trembled uncontrollably.

But before this thought could be extended, Ellie put her hands behind her back as usual, narrowed her eyes, tilted her head, and said with a well-placed smile:

"Hi! Are you looking for me?"

As that extremely familiar voice flowed through his mind like a clear spring, Mikael's mood also calmed down, and all despair, all sadness, and all excitement were left far away... …

He only has eyes for her now.

"Ellie...hey hey! It hurts!"

Alicia gently twisted Mikael's ears, and hugged him tightly under his surprised gaze.

"Mikael... Idiot! Don't do this next time... At least, you have to tell me first..."

Is it choking? When he came back to his senses, his shoulders were wet with Ellie's tears.

"You guessed it all?"

Mikael asked a little nervously.

Ai Li gently hammered his shoulder to tell him to be silent.

After a while, she let go of her hand and took a half step back, still squinting her eyes to cover up the traces of crying just now.

"Oh! Oh! You don't seem to be surprised at all that I appear here!"

She directly skipped the topic just now. The words seemed to be jumping off the topic, but her voice gradually became calmer - after all, what she was going to talk about next was not an easy topic.

Mikael bit his lip gently, and then he realized that Ellie was not ignorant, and she probably already knew the reason why he was able to appear here.

"You should have felt it a long time ago, but I...I have been hesitating and doubting my identity until I felt your call and appeared here. After all, I have no core in the first place, and I have nothing in the second place. Awesome power..."

"Ellie..." Mikael was about to speak, but Alicia put her index and middle fingers together and lightly touched his lips.

"I'm not the one who needs comfort...Mikael, actually what I want to know more is...what do you think of the Herrscher?"

"I..." As soon as Mikael uttered a syllable, Alicia's fingers pressed his lips lightly, suppressing the words he had not yet conceived.

"Actually, you have been in conflict, right? On the one hand, you are glad that you have the power given by God in such an era, but on the other hand, you are afraid that this power will eventually devour you...right?"

Mikael gently held Ellie's finger, moved it away from his lips, then poked Ellie's cheek, and said in a dumbfounded voice: "You have the nerve to talk about me, you are actually talking about yourself, right?" !”

"No, it's not the same... I... don't feel that I have power. But since I appear here, it means that I am indeed the Herrscher, but... just..."

"Okay, I understand." Mikael gently held her hand.

"I probably know why the Third Herrscher said that I am an incomplete Herrscher."

"Eh!"

Mikael smiled and spoke unhurriedly:

"Actually, my initial plan was to rely on the Shesha Factor to achieve resurrection, because at that time I thought that my consciousness should not exist in the core of the Herrscher, but be stored in the brain like ordinary people."

His guess is not without basis. In the actual civilization of the original plot, both possibilities existed - after Walter's core was taken out, his consciousness was stored in the Herrscher core, and the reason why he thought this was The deepest part of the Herrscher's core is where the Herrscher's consciousness meets, which is what Mei said when Klosten met Kiana.

As for consciousness existing in the brain, the same is true for Mei. After her core was taken away by the Queen, both her personality and her personality still existed in her brain and did not go away with the core.

"The boundary here is the gap between a fully awakened Herrscher and an incomplete Herrscher."

"During the battle in Changkong City, I have been infinitely close to the fully awakened Herrscher, so my consciousness is naturally biased towards the Herrscher and is stored in the core, but in the end, the infinite closeness is still 'not reached', so even if My consciousness is in the core and I can’t do anything.”

"Ellie, I used to think that the Herrscher was just strength and power, and human beings were my biological definition. In other words, I don't recognize myself as a Herrscher. I hope that I am a human being - just a human being. . Until now, I can't say whether this idea is right or wrong. In Mebius's eyes, it is definitely wrong. She would think that the concept of human beings should not be so narrow, and in the eyes of some people, That’s even more wrong, because they think humans are just what they are now.”

Ellie lowered her head and leaned beside him, listening to him quietly.

"But now I suddenly feel that it doesn't matter. I am the Herrscher - this is a fact that I cannot escape and cannot argue with. But so what? Even if some humans do not recognize me, other Herrschers do not recognize me, and they have no regard for me. What does it matter? - What I cared about in the first place was actually you, Alicia. What I wanted to fight for was also you, and those who recognized me, and the world that recognized me - me I firmly believe that one day, people in the world will accept the Herrscher who fights for human civilization.”

"Before this, I had been worried that the so-called 'god' would try to reverse my consciousness after discovering my betrayal, but if he really wanted to do this, why would he have tolerated us for so many years?"

"Ellie! God allows us to resist! In other words, God may never regard people as His enemies - if there is a God."

"Then we can accept our identity - the Lawyer, the Apostle of God, you can call it whatever you want. We just need to follow our hearts and do what we really want to do - that's it. I am willing to save this The world, I want to save this world, and for this reason, I am willing to become the Herrscher.”

"Yes, I am a Herrscher, and I am also a human being, and I am a Herrscher who fights for mankind. I am willing to accept myself like this, I am willing to accept people who die because of me, and I am willing to accept people's criticism and hostility towards me... I think To become a fully awakened Herrscher as a human being, I must recognize the side of myself as a Herrscher, bear the sins I should bear, and bear the expectations I can bear, in order to exert the true power of the Herrscher."

This is the space of consciousness, and there is absolutely no possibility of lying. The words spoken here must come from the absolute sincerity.

And as the tone of Mikael's last word disappeared, his appearance gradually became fixed. It was Mikael today, and this was him.

As a result, the entire world no longer seems to be monotonous white, but has a faint blue light - the core of the Herrscher.

The core of his Herrscher is not a dead thing, but more like a living thing - in fact, it is his subconscious and all his potential.

Mikael could hear "it" cheering, every particle that made up "it" cheering, "they" cheering that he finally recognized himself and "them".

So the core in turn recognized Mikael.

Ai Li suddenly buried her body into his chest, feeling the warmth and beating inside.

"Then do you know what I'm thinking about now?" she asked.

"Me too?"

"Hahahaha!" Ai Li covered her mouth and laughed uncontrollably in his arms.

After a while, her laughter gradually subsided. She put her arms around Mikael's shoulders, stood on tiptoes, and whispered in his ear:

"You don't need to, and shouldn't, bear all this alone. So what if you're a Herrscher? Am I not also a Herrscher? Since we're all Herrschers, we should stand together forever - Alicia wants to be with Mikael forever."

"So... even if we reach the end of the world and there are only two of us left, neither of us will be alone again."

"Aili..." Mikael was moved, "Then, help me once. Help me get to 'that place', I have some questions I must ask."

Aili was stunned for a moment. She didn't know how Mikael was going to get to 'that place', but because he was Mikael, Alicia believed that he could do it, and he would definitely do it.

The two people's consciousness began to intertwine, not just a simple intersection - they were sensing each other's connection with 'that place'.

That was a gathering interval for a single Herrscher, but with the help of Ai Li, as long as the intersection of the two was obtained, they could reversely locate 'that place', the source of the Herrscher's power - the imaginary tree.

"Found it!"

The extremely rich Houkai energy surrounded Mikael, coating him with a layer of dark purple, close to black outline. In the blink of an eye, the silver-gray hair that was neither long nor short had grown to the waist, and kept flying with the ups and downs of energy.

He spread his hands flat, his eyes had turned blood red, and the color of the gear-shaped pupils was slightly darker, just like coagulated blood. As his eyes moved, he stared at the golden gem that suddenly appeared on his palm.

The next moment, he disappeared from her sight.