The Fire Chaser of the Collapsing World

"Alicia!"

Shouts merged into the boundless world, reflected back from far away, and echoed repeatedly in Mikael's ears.

"Alicia... where are you!"

That familiar pink figure never seemed to exist 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 is unwilling to admit his lapse in judgment.

Because he can't stand it.

It's not that he can't bear death... yes, he just can't bear death, can't bear this kind of death, can't bear to die without changing anything, can't bear to die 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 is not willing to admit it in his heart, even though he fears that future countless times, even though he said countless times that he wants to change her fate, in the final analysis, all the starting points are actually his selfish and wishful thinking love .

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

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

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

He knelt down silently, covering his face in despair.

Suddenly, a gust of wind enveloped Mikael, sending him the fragrance of flying flowers. He felt something in his heart, opened his eyes and looked forward, and more and more pink petals were swirling, as if there was a huge The cherry tree grew behind him, and the flowers bloomed and withered, trying to dye the whole world into that, her favorite color.

behind?

He looked back suddenly, and Alicia was there, not near or far.

When their eyes met, her eyes widened imperceptibly, and her upper lip wrinkled slightly. Mikael captured all these small movements, and a thought suddenly popped up in his heart—she...

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

But before this idea could be extended downwards, Ellie put her hands behind her back as usual, narrowed her eyes, tilted her head, and said with a proper smile:

"Hi! Are you looking for me?"

Accompanied by the familiar voice flowing through his mind like a clear spring, Mikael's mood also calmed down, and all despair, all sadness, and all excitement were thrown far away... …

He only had her in his eyes now.

"Ellie... ouch! 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 already wet with Ellie's tears.

"You guessed it all?"

Mikael asked with some trepidation.

Ellie tapped his shoulder lightly to keep him quiet.

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 that I'm here!"

She directly skipped the topic just now, and her words seemed to be jumping off, but her voice gradually calmed down—after all, what I was going to talk about next was not an easy topic.

Mikael bit his lip lightly, and only then did he realize that Ellie is not ignorant, and she probably already knows the reason why he can 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, and I have nothing Great power..."

"Ai Li..." Mikael was about to speak, but Alicia put her index finger and middle finger together and tapped lightly on his lips.

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

"I..." Mikael just uttered a syllable, and Alicia's fingers lightly pressed his lips, pressing back the words he hadn't conceived in advance.

"Actually, you have always been contradictory, right? On the one hand, you are glad that you have the power bestowed by God in this era, but on the other hand, you are afraid that this power will swallow you in the end... right?"

Mikael gently grabbed Ellie's finger, moved it away from his lips, then poked Ellie's cheek, and said dumbfoundedly: "You still have the nerve to talk about me, but you are actually talking about yourself !"

"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 a Herrscher, just... 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 said 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 groundless. In the original civilization, both of these possibilities existed—after Walter’s core was taken out, his consciousness was stored in the Herrscher’s core, and the reason why he thought it was The deepest part of Herrscher's core is the place where Herrscher's consciousness meets, which is what Mei said when she met Kiyana in Kolosten.

As for the existence of consciousness in the brain, Mei is also the same. After her core was taken away by the queen, both the appearance personality and the Herrscher personality still existed in the brain, and did not go away with the core.

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

"And during my battle in Changkong City, I have been infinitely close to the fully awakened Herrscher, so my consciousness is naturally biased towards the Herrscher, stored in the core, but the infinite approach is still 'unreached' after all, so even if My consciousness is in the core, and I can't do anything."

"Ai Li, I used to think that a Herrscher is just power and authority, and human beings are 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 that this idea is right or wrong. In the eyes of Mebius, it must be wrong. She would think that the concept of human beings should not be so narrow, but in the eyes of some people, That's even more wrong, because they think humans are just humans now."

Ellie bowed her head and leaned against him, quietly listening to what he said.

"But now I suddenly feel indifferent. I am the Herrscher—this is a fact that I cannot escape and cannot argue with. But so what? Even if some humans don't recognize me, other Herrschers don't recognize me, what about me? What does it matter——What I care about at the beginning is actually you, Alicia, and you are the one I want to fight for, and those who recognize me, and that, the world who recognizes me—I I firmly believe that one day, people in the world will also accept the Herrscher who fights for human civilization."

"Before this, I'd been worried that the so-called 'god' would try to re-wild my consciousness after finding out about my betrayal, but if she really wanted to do that, why did she indulge us for so many years?"

"Ellie! God allows us to resist! In other words, God may never see people as her enemies—if there is a God."

"Then we can accept our identities—herrscher, apostle of God, whatever you call it. We just need to follow our heart 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, for this reason, I am willing to become a Herrscher."

"That's right, I am a Herrscher, and I am also a human being, and I am also a Herrscher who fights for mankind. I am willing to accept myself like this, to accept people who died because of me, and to accept people's criticism and hostility towards me... I want to To become a fully awakened Herrscher as a human being, I must recognize my side 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, there is absolutely no possibility of lying, and 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, it seemed that the whole world was no longer monotonously white, but filled with a faint blue light—the core of the Herrscher.

His Herrscher's core is not a dead thing, but more like a living thing-in fact, it is his subconscious mind and all his potential.

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

So the core also recognized Mikael in turn.

Allie suddenly buried her body in his chest, feeling the temperature and beating inside.

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

"Me too?"

"Pfft ha ha ha!" Ellie covered her mouth and laughed uncontrollably in his arms.

After a while, her laughter gradually subsided, she hugged Mikael's shoulders, stood on tiptoe, and whispered in his ear:

"You don't need and shouldn't bear all this alone. So what if you are a Herrscher? Am I also a Herrscher? Since we are both Herrschers, we must stand together forever——Alicia wants With Mikael forever."

"If so... even if we go to the end of the world and there are only two of us left, then none of us will be alone again."

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

Ellie froze for a moment, she didn't know how Mikael would go to 'that place', but because he was Mikael, Alicia believed that he could do it, and he would definitely do it.

The consciousness of the two began to intertwine, not a simple intersection - they were perceiving each other's connection with 'that place'.

That is a collection interval for a single Herrscher, but with the help of Ellie, as long as the intersection of the two is obtained, it can be reversely positioned to 'that place', the source of the Herrscher's power - the tree of imaginary numbers.

"found it!"

The extremely rich Houkai can surround Mikael, coating him with a layer of dark purple, which is infinitely close to the black outline. In the blink of an eye, the silver-gray broken hair that was originally neither long nor short has grown to his waist, accompanied by With the ups and downs of energy, it keeps flying.

He spread his hands out flat, his eyes had turned blood red, and the gear-shaped child holes were a little darker, resembling coagulated fresh blood.In the blink of an eye, he stared at the golden gem that suddenly appeared on the palm of his hand.

The next moment, he disappeared from her face.

Chapter 42 Authorities

The red sand is buried with countless relics and ruins. Farther away, there is a big tree emitting golden light, which is connected to the dark purple sky, so conspicuous among the red sand and dust.

The first time Mikael landed on the ground, he knew that he was absolutely right.

The scene in front of me is not what the "Tree of Imaginary Numbers" really looks like, and whether it is even tree-like is open to question.

The reason why it looks like this in Mikael's eyes is just to cater to Mikael's senses - he subconsciously thinks that this should be like this, so it is like this.

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

The distance between Mikael and the tree of imaginary numbers is a bit far, which is also a normal situation. Naturally, there will be a lot of errors in the results obtained by taking the intersection of two herrschers, but it doesn't matter, just go, the outside world, Ellie In the space around the Third Herrscher, except for consciousness, all movements are suspended by him with the power of space, so time loses its meaning of existence—his time is enough.

Moreover, in the process of gradually approaching the tree of imaginary numbers, no creature appeared to stop him in any way-at the moment when the "will to collapse" does not exist, there is only a silent sea of ​​sand, a person looking for answers A boy, a chaotic consciousness, nothing more.

It's just that he himself was a little confused. He looked back at the footprints behind him that gradually disappeared into the dust, and wondered... Will the footprints he left overlap with a man in that distant future?

Just like that, he came to the tree of imaginary numbers with a trace of confusion.

The tree does not speak, he does not speak.

He just lightly placed his palm on the thick tree trunk, the light emitted by it was warm and dazzling.

"What exactly is power? Why can I make a Herrscher's core with power? Now that Herrscher's cores are not reusable, can I refer to the original core and my own core to make out a core with exactly the same power? power, but also the core that can be fully used by me?"

He didn't say his question, he just asked it in his mind.

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

A large amount of knowledge was forced into his mind, and the actions were rough, ruthless, and stingy.

So, the question he didn't 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 become more and more broken, the power will become stronger, except for a special power...Of course, all these powers are nothing more than a certain existence A fraction of the power, the so-called Herrscher's power, is not even the whole of a certain law in a world...

But... Once the power is possessed, it is irreversible-the channel linking the tree of imaginary numbers cannot be closed, and the power naturally cannot be taken back.

But it doesn't matter, it's the same sentence, if there are gods, then she doesn't care about these powers.

"That's why I can construct a core that can exert a small amount of power when I already have the core of the second Herrscher, and the current civilization can continue to give birth to new Herrschers under the condition that the god key of the previous civilization exists—— Because the authority in the world cannot be divided up by the existence of 'Herrscher'."

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

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

For he, the power of the Lawer of Reason, is precisely that special power.

This kind of power is not only the embodiment of collapse, but also the embodiment of human civilization, that is, it represents both entropy increase and negative entropy. No matter whether the world is orderly or collapsed, its power will only increase and will not decrease .

Previously, he just didn't dare to imagine the power of this power, and he couldn't fully awaken himself.

It's not what it used to be.

"Thank you."

Mikael turned around silently.

The tree of imaginary numbers did not answer.

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

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

Time is frozen - so the Third Herrscher thought.

But no matter what she thought, the truth was, she could still think, but not move.

who did it?

do not know.

It's just that her enemy seems to be in this image too - she can't make any moves.

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

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

The sky was crimson red, the ground she stepped on, the body that had been broken in half by Shesha Sand beside her, and the half of the Flaming Moth base in the distance, all turned lime gray. Honeycomb pattern - like a world built with regular hexagonal blocks.