Chapter 97: Authority

The red sand buried countless relics and ruins. In the distance, there was a big tree emitting golden light. It was connected to the dark purple sky and was so conspicuous among the red sand.

The first time Mikael landed, he knew that he was definitely not wrong.

The scene in front of him was not the real appearance of the "Imaginary Tree", and even whether it was tree-shaped was still debatable.

The reason why it appeared like this in Mikael's eyes was just to cater to Mikael's senses-he subconsciously felt that this place should be like this, so it was like this.

Because this is an imaginary space outside the real space, size, length, order, speed, all human-defined dimensions do not exist here, but because the consciousness of "human" has reached here, this originally unrecognizable space can also be abstracted and understood.

Mikael was a little far from the Imaginary Tree, which was normal. The result obtained by taking the intersection of two Herrscher sets naturally had a large error, but it didn't matter. He just walked. In the outside world, in the space around Ellie and the third Herrscher, except for consciousness, all movements were suspended by him with the power of space, so time lost its meaning of existence - he had enough time.

Moreover, in the process of gradually approaching the Imaginary Tree, no creature appeared to stop him in any way - at the moment when the "Honkai Will" did not exist, there was only a silent sea of ​​sand, a boy seeking answers, and a chaotic consciousness, that's all.

But he himself was a little confused. He looked back at the footprints behind him that were gradually annihilated in the dust, wondering...whether the footprints he left behind would overlap with a man in the distant future?

He came to the Imaginary Tree with a hint of confusion.

The tree didn't speak, and he didn't speak.

He just gently covered his palm on the thick trunk, and the light it emitted was warm and dazzling.

"What exactly is power? Why can I make a Herrscher core with power? Now Herrscher cores are not reusable, so can I refer to the original core and my own core to make a core with the same power and can be used completely by me?"

He did not say his question, but only asked it in his mind.

But when he asked the question, he got a response almost instantly-

A lot of knowledge was forced into his mind, and the action was rough and ruthless, but not stingy at all.

So, the question he did not ask was also answered.

"What exactly is power?"

It is the extension of the law that maintains the stable and orderly operation of the world. When the rules of the world are increasingly broken, the power becomes stronger, except for a special power... Of course, all these powers are only one billionth of the power of a certain existence. The so-called Herrscher's power is not even the whole of a certain law in a world...

However... once the power is possessed, it is irreversible-the channel connecting the imaginary tree cannot be closed, and the power naturally cannot be taken back.

But it doesn't matter. As I said before, if there really is a god, then He would not care about these powers.

"So, I can construct a core that can exert a small amount of power when there is already a second Herrscher core, and the current civilization can continue to give birth to new Herrschers when there is already a key to the God of the previous civilization - because the power in the world is not something that the existence of the Herrscher can divide up."

So... the answer to the remaining question is actually very simple:

"As long as I want, then I can."

Because he, the power of the Herrscher of Reason, is that special power.

This power is both a manifestation of collapse and a manifestation of human civilization, that is, it represents both entropy increase and negative entropy. Whether the world is orderly or collapsed, his power will only increase, not decrease.

Previously, he just didn't dare to imagine the power of this power, and he couldn't achieve full self-awakening.

But now is different.

"Thank you."

Mikael turned around silently.

The Tree of Imaginary Numbers did not answer.

The wind of distant time blew from the depths of the sea of ​​sand, so the leaves fluttered, and the sound of "rustling" echoed in Mikael's ears.

The next moment, he had disappeared from this world, leaving only a pair of deep footprints in front of the tree of imaginary numbers.

Time was frozen - that's what the third Herrscher thought.

But no matter how she thought, the fact was that she could still think, but she couldn't do anything.

Who did it?

I don't know.

It's just that her enemy seemed to be in this image - she couldn't make any moves either.

But suddenly, as if she blinked, what she saw was a different scene.

She was able to move, but there was no one in front of her.

The sky was red, and the ground she stepped on, the body of Shesha broken into two pieces beside her, and the half of the fire-chasing moth base in the distance all turned into lime. Upon closer inspection, you can see honeycomb patterns - like a world built of regular hexagonal building blocks.

"Long time no see... Hey! You're covered in burns... You look like a monkey with skin all over your body. You're so ugly, aren't you?"

The voice came from behind, and the Third Herrscher turned around quickly. If she remembered correctly, the voice was...

Sure enough, it was that traitor.

The First Herrscher core that should have been in her body was also missing.

"Is it the power of space?"

The Third Herrscher is not sure, but her previous injuries to her waist and abdomen have not healed properly, and she was severely burned by Ellie's attack. Compared with the situation in Changkong City that day, the situation between her and the traitor It seems to be reversed.

But since the traitor was so complacent that he did not attack her immediately, she would not miss such a good opportunity to escape.

slip!

Before Mikael could even say the second sentence, he heard a thunder, and the Third Herrscher had fled into the distance.

He curled his lips and combed back his hair, which he was not accustomed to because of the sudden lengthening. Really, when someone returns as the king, he hasn't had time to pretend properly. Can't you wait until he finishes speaking before running away?

So he lightly snapped his fingers, and the Third Herrscher returned to where he was in an instant.

"Um?"

The Third Herrscher stared at Mikael in surprise. Why was she back where she was?

"No need to make unnecessary efforts. This is the imaginary number space, which does not exist in the real world - and it was transformed by me, intercepting a very small area of ​​the imaginary number space. In this space, all the powers are under my control , or...I am the god of this space."

"Just you?"

"Just me...don't you believe it?"

Mikael raised his eyebrows, and stretched out his hand to the Third Herrscher very politely, holding it with his five fingers. The Third Herrscher instantly felt that he was wrapped in the space around him, and he could not help but "push" towards him. Mikael, just when her body and Mikael's fist were about to touch, he loosened his imaginary fingers, waved lightly, and an invisible ripple rippled through the space, Mikael's The long hair fluttered back slightly, and the Herrscher's body instantly arched into a shrimp shape and flew backwards at extremely high speed.

Now that he had taken action, Mikael didn't seem to want to talk anymore. He stretched out his index finger and pointed it in the direction of Herrscher's inverted flight. Countless lavender imaginary number crystal cubes instantly appeared in the space there, and the imaginary number crystals quickly surrounded Herrscher. Stacked, submerged, until finally accumulated to form a large ball with a diameter of more than a kilometer.

The ball hung high in the blood-red sky, seeming to fill the vacancy of the moon.

"it's over?"

Mikael himself didn't believe this.

Sure enough, the next moment, the huge thunder pillar tore a huge mouth directly on the "moon", and its momentum continued unabated, rushing towards Mikael like a raging river.

In this regard, Mikael didn't even make any move, and saw a huge rift opened in the space in front of him, swallowing up all the terrifying thunder pillars, and then spewed out from the rift in the space behind him. The "big river" was here It was cut off everywhere, but it didn't stop the flow, as if the water had been cut off by a knife.

In addition to the Thunder Pillar, the ones who could be swallowed were the Third Herrscher, who also transformed into electromagnetic waves. She appeared from the space rift behind Mikael, and her purple sword stabbed directly at the unsuspecting Mikael.

"You are simply lying. You do not have complete authority over this world. You only have control over space! The power of thunder and lightning is still in my hands!"

She is also a Herrscher, but she doesn't believe that this traitor has the ability to crush her... How is this possible!

It was obviously him who died in Changkong City not long ago! Why!

The Third Herrscher roared in her heart, and the speed of the blade tip became slower and slower in her eyes.

"Hurry up! Hurry up! Go a little further!"

A dazzling arc of lightning exploded from the blade, almost hitting Mikael's hair, but that was the end of it.

Just like in the external space before, the space around the Third Herrscher was frozen.

Then, the space around her was torn open in a circle, and four Archon Spears were quickly shot out, sealing her limbs and torso.

As if he knew what the Herrscher was thinking, Mikael whispered in a low voice: "Indeed, since I used the authority of space to intercept such a small part in the imaginary space, it can even be said to be a creation, so my space authority is this The world's spatial authority itself, as for other powers... I don't have any of them, such as lightning, fluid, cells, consciousness, etc. If I faced you in your heyday, I might still be in a hard fight, but you have been seriously injured... Oh , by the way, the power of thunder and lightning in this world will soon be obtained..."

It has been seven years. It has been almost seven years since he became the Herrscher of Reason. He is just a pig. He has done nothing in seven years, and the accumulated abilities are enough for him to crush this new Third Herrscher.

It's just that he failed to complete his self-awakening before, and he didn't dare to believe that he could do certain things, so that all this huge potential was accumulated in his subconscious and could not be used.

But things are different now. Before the next Herrscher is born, he can say responsibly: "If nothing else happens, I will be the most powerful person in the world."

But the Third Herrscher couldn't accept it.

He couldn't accept his death in the hands of a traitor, let alone his former defeated general.

She still has a chance!

Not a chance to defeat Mikael, but to die together with him!

"Ah! Go to hell! Traitor!"

A fierce purple light bloomed from her chest. She was imitating Mikael from Changkong City, trying to accomplish the feat of killing both of them by detonating the core of Herrscher... But...

The spatial authority of this world is in Mikael's hands.

He hooked his fingers, and an invisible hand tore open the chest of the Third Herrscher in the air, pulled out the core and handed it to Mikael's hand. Then, before the Herrscher could leave his last words, the Spear of Archon It shattered together with the surrounding space, dividing the body of the Third Herrscher into five equal parts.

Before he could finish this, the imaginary number space began to collapse.

Everything made of regular hexagonal "little building blocks" began to collapse, revealing the bottomless abyss underneath.

"To deal with a seriously injured Herrscher, the duration is less than two minutes... It's enough. After all, my strength will still grow."

"Then, let the quantum sea swallow you up, Herrscher."

Looking at the familiar scene in front of him, Mikael suddenly felt a little sad...

"It would be great if I could exchange you for the girl in the distant future to come back..."

He quickly shook his head again. This kind of melancholy was meaningless and this idea was not correct.

This girl was also a living human being before she became the Third Herrscher, and she also had people she loved and people who loved her.

Now all this is gone.

In this war with Honkai, humans have never been the victor.

"Okay! Call it a day!"

Mikael stretched himself and was about to leave. Suddenly, a strange feeling of being spied on came to his heart. He immediately followed the source of the feeling and looked to the horizon, but there was nothing there, and he had not had time to think deeply. , an idea has popped into my mind:

"Oh... maybe that chaotic consciousness glanced at me... It's not a big problem..."

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From the perspective of Alicia from the outside world, the Third Herrscher, who was bound by space together with her, disappeared out of thin air. Just over a minute later, Mikael suddenly appeared on the spot.

Ally's eyes suddenly became frightened. Of course, Mikael was not affected by the constraints of space, so he twisted the corner of his mouth and stretched out his sinful hands towards Ally.

He rubbed his fluffy hair, poked his cheek, and then said softly:

"For the next period of time, no matter what happens, you stay here and don't leave... don't move around, I have my own arrangements."

"Wait! What do you mean!"

After saying these words, the sense of restraint in the space disappeared. Ellie was about to rush forward and give him a hug, but with three crisp sounds of "ding dong", three gems, one blue, one gold, and one purple, fell on her. At feet.

Before she could bend down to pick up the gems, another huge shadow was cast at her feet.

She raised her head, and it was the belated arrival of Zhuhuo No. 1.

She instantly understood what Mikael had just said.

Honkai was temporarily resolved, and humanity won another victory, but they didn't--next, there would be an internal fight that neither she nor he wanted to see.