Honkai: Fire Moth Herrschers-Chapter 225: Like a Beast

"Mooo————"

The monster stood upright on its two feet, towering two to three hundred meters tall. Its lower jaw gradually opened to an obtuse angle in a series of bone-cracking sounds, and a roar, both deep and piercing, reverberated through the entire sky and earth.

"Whoa—this... what is this? Mobius!"

Elysia crossed her arms in front of her, struggling to withstand the huge shockwave created by the roar. Behind her, the scorched earth, which had been rippled like waves by the Seventh Herrscher's attack, was gradually flattened by this shockwave.

She forced her eyes open, staring intently at the monster Mikael had transformed into. It was nothing like a human—its entire body was covered in a stiff, grayish-brown skin, with blue light flowing through the bulging veins on its muscles, just like [Vishnu].

Its chest, abdomen, shoulders, and other vital parts were covered with blue-black ice armor like [Parvati]'s.

The tips of its fingers were replaced by sharp, slender, black keratin, with green electric arcs flashing from the cracks in the keratin, obviously derived from [Śeṣa]'s power.

And in a series of tearing sounds, a pair of openings ripped open on its back, and then, a pair of transparent cicada wings spread out. The veins on the wings also emitted a golden light, which was a characteristic of [Yaksha].

But it also retained human characteristics. It still stood upright on its lower limbs like a human, and its facial features were not much different from those of a human, and you could even see Mikael's shadow.

Perhaps it was an illusion, but Elysia felt that the protruding scarlet eyeball turned slightly, aiming the snake-like vertical pupil at her.

"Mobius, what did you do to Mikael!"

"Well! Rather than saying what I did to him, it's more accurate to say that this is his true form."

"True form, you mean a Herrscher?"

No, it definitely wasn't a Herrscher. Besides Mikael, Elysia was undoubtedly the person in this world who understood Herrschers the best. A pure Herrscher simply didn't possess such power. Moreover, Mikael's core was still on the Seventh Herrscher.

The answer was obvious—

"An MANTIS Warrior!"

"That's right. In my words, it's 'Artificial Cascade'. In Mikael's own words, it's 'Collapse (Cascade)', which is—the true appearance of an MANTIS Warrior. It can actually be even uglier, but this body, as a former Herrscher, has such a strong adaptability to Honkai energy that it entered such a perfect, almost human-like Collapse state... Ahahahahaha—actually for you..."

"Okay, Mobius, now is not the time to talk about this."

Mei seemed to know something about Artificial Cascade, so she promptly interrupted Mobius, because what she was going to say next was not related to the battlefield and shouldn't be said at this time.

The roar of the monster, or the existence that could still be tentatively called Mikael, gradually subsided. It turned its gaze back to the ground, and the pair of scarlet eyes filled with tyranny began to search for its prey.

It quickly found the Seventh Herrscher. No, rather than saying it actively found him, it was attracted by the Seventh Herrscher's arrogant laughter:

"Hahahahaha! Traitor, didn't you claim to fight for humanity! Look at yourself now, between us, who is more like a human and who is more like a monster!"

White steam emerged from between Mikael's clenched teeth, and then he took staggered steps towards the Herrscher.

"Hahahahaha!"

The Herrscher's laughter didn't stop. He had every reason to be proud. His taunt just now wasn't just sarcasm.

With the occurrence of Artificial Cascade, the First Herrscher Core seemed to be affected, but the impact was unbelievably beneficial to the Herrscher—his synchronization with the First Herrscher Core had actually exceeded eighty percent, reaching a near-perfect level.

What did this mean? Even this Herrscher Core, which in a sense upheld the belief of "fighting for humanity", regarded the current Mikael as [Honkai] rather than [Humanity], or even himself!

"Ha—"

The Herrscher opened his arms, facing Mikael directly. As the hair in front of his forehead fluttered, the scorched earth that had originally been burned, like the ashes left after burning paper, glowed red again.

"Yah!"

A "sizzling" sound came from under their feet. Kevin and Elysia raised their feet, and saw that the iron nails at the bottom of their boots were tending to melt in this temperature.

And at this time, the ground was still in the form of embers, not yet completely revived!

"Kevin, Elysia! Above!"

The two looked up and belatedly heard the roar of a helicopter.

And just as they jumped onto the helicopter, the ground, which wasn't flammable, began to rise with flames.

The flames rose and fell, like the sparkling surface of the sea. As the Herrscher waved his hand gently, under the traction of the airflow, this sea of fire surged, rolled, and rushed towards Mikael from all directions.

"Mooo————"

A long roar sounded again. Mikael crossed his huge arms in front of his body, and then waved and tore them to both sides. The cyan-frost cold current unexpectedly overwhelmed the power of the Fourth Herrscher. The sea of fire, which had just seemed invincible, was like a flickering candle in the wind, tilting violently to one side until it was completely extinguished.

"How... how is that possible!"

The Herrscher's legs were deeply embedded in the ground, leaving deep marks like two iron plows.

He disbelievingly stretched out his hand towards Mikael. A scorching stream of flames, like a ribbon, shot out along the direction of his arm.

Mikael's response was crude and primitive. He raised his right hand like a beckoning cat, facing the direction of the incoming stream of flames, and swung it down heavily. He didn't even use [Parvati]'s ice power.

Just the air wave from this swing shattered the seemingly surging stream of flames. The Herrscher constructed multiple Imaginary Number barriers in front of him, hoping that they could block this pure airflow attack, but even the Imaginary Number barriers were easily torn apart by this blow.

The Herrscher's body was swept up by this airflow and suddenly lifted into the air, and then continued to roll backwards in mid-air, until he crashed headfirst into the underground city's outer wall more than twenty kilometers away.

His limbs twitched twice, and finally fell limply. When he finally pulled his head out of the crack in the armor plate, he saw Mikael in the distance gradually speed up, and finally sprinted towards him.

The Seventh Herrscher constantly used his powers. On Mikael's path, streams of flames surged from the ground up, and explosions formed thousands of meters high fiery crosses, but each time Mikael was able to leap out of them almost unscathed, and then continue to run wildly.

Seeing the tiny burn marks remaining on Mikael's skin, the Seventh Herrscher's eyes were bloodshot:

"No! No! How is this possible! Without the Herrscher Core, how can you have such power!"

Hundreds of [Lances of Longinus] easily pierced through space. Mikael waved his hands, seeming to want to sweep away these annoying "toothpicks", but the [Lances of Longinus] penetrated Mikael's palms like projections, piercing into his huge torso. He was forcibly stopped by this force, and even stumbled back two steps.

But before the Seventh Herrscher could be surprised, as blue light emerged from the wound, the flesh and blood squirmed slightly, and even devoured the [Lances of Longinus], which were Imaginary Number creations!

"Impossible!"

The Seventh Herrscher crazily shot out countless spatial ribbons covered with flames towards Mikael's shoulders. The ribbons had the speed to cross space, but they all stagnated slightly in front of Mikael, as if they were frozen.

And taking this opportunity, it grabbed the ribbons, regardless of the pain caused by the flames burning his palms, or perhaps it didn't know what pain was. It brutally pulled the Seventh Herrscher over, and then delivered an uppercut, sending the Seventh Herrscher, who was only the size of an ant to him, into the dilapidated "sky".

"Boom!"

A barely perceptible humanoid hole was smashed into the ceiling. Then, in a series of "cracking" sounds, dense spider web-like cracks spread rapidly along the series of large holes previously left by the Seventh Herrscher and Kalpas's battle to the entire "sky".

Then, the sky collapsed, and a real, sunset-like glow泻下 from the outside.

But if it was a glow, the temperature seemed a bit too high.

Mikael squinted his scarlet eyes and stared at the blood-red "sunset" above. The muscles of his upper and lower eyelids twitched, and the reflection of the "sunset" in his pupils became larger and larger.

"That's..."

Having dodged countless pieces of armor plating falling from the sky, the airflow around the helicopter finally returned to normal, allowing the aircraft to hover steadily in mid-air. Elysia couldn't wait to stick her head out. She was the first to notice the movement above. No, no one could ignore the gradually falling "sunset."

"Analyzing from the Honkai energy reaction, this should be the Herrscher's final blow."

Mei held the tablet, glanced at the scene outside the cabin with the corner of her eye, and analyzed淡淡.

So Elysia's worried gaze fell back on the beast that was constantly roaring towards the sky...

"Mikael..."

Kevin leaned against the porthole, his mouth half-open, staring blankly at the flames falling from the sky. For some reason, his heart started beating fast again, not because of excitement or fear, but because he felt a deeper, soul-level resonance.

Only in a corner that no one noticed, the small, chibi version of Mobius leaned on the stretcher, looked at the sky full of glow, and chuckled softly. I don't know if she was questioning Mei's assertion just now.

But there was no doubt that they were all just bystanders, unable to bring about any change to the battle.

The only thing that might be useful at this time, the 2nd Divine Key, had not been fully recharged because it had used its rated power.

And in the beast's pupils, before the falling skyfire, there was a small black dot bathed in flames.

Their eyes met. In those eyes that were originally from the same source, one was left with only extreme anger, and the other was left with only extreme tyranny.

Therefore, there was nothing more to say—

"Heavenly Fire!"

"Mooo————"

That skyfire was like a real supernova. First, it rapidly expanded outwards, expanding to almost completely cover the tens of kilometers large hole collapsed from the sky. The firelight was so bright that it was blinding.

But in the next second, this skyfire began to collapse rapidly inwards, shrinking into a "black hole" with a diameter of less than two meters in less than a second, slightly glowing with fire.

"That's the power of the Herrscher of the Void!"

I don't know if it was intentional or unintentional, but the Seventh Herrscher's final blow actually used the spatial power that was most proficient in the muscle memory in the core.

And that's not all. Next, purple and green lightning snaked from the edge of the black hole, which was the power of the Third Herrscher.

Finally, a hurricane swept through, but instead of extinguishing the fire, it fanned the flames, causing the flames that had already been compressed to the extreme to surge into a towering sea of fire again.

And at this time, the second hand of the pocket watch in Mei's hand had only ticked two or three times.

"Except for the power of the Fifth Herrscher, which is contrary to fire, the Seventh Herrscher can actually integrate five kinds of powers to such a perfect degree. Is it a coincidence in despair? Then, Mikael, you... No, under Artificial Cascade, is this still Mikael's consciousness?"

Mei gently raised her hand and touched the frame of her glasses. Only she herself felt the trembling of her fingertips.

Trembling, yes, Mikael's whole body muscles were also trembling. Its body gradually leaned back, facing the burning sky fire, but the trembling was definitely not from fear.

"Die!"

With the Seventh Herrscher's shout, the sky full of fire fell from the sky, as if to burn everything on this land clean.

With the blessing of spatial power, the skyfire fell to the ground, without going through the so-called "space", and naturally without spending the so-called "time". It seemed that the fire did not fall from the sky, but surged from the ground.

And Mikael's hundreds of meters tall body was instantly submerged in the flames.

"Mikael!"

Kevin grabbed Elysia, who almost jumped down, again. Her struggling movements tilted the entire helicopter to one side. In order to maintain balance, Hua in the cockpit could only yank the control stick, tilting the fuselage towards a place farther away from the battlefield.

And in the center of the battlefield, the flames did not scatter after falling to the ground, but under the guidance of spatial power, continued to rotate around Mikael's body, and then flowed back upwards, surpassing the ground, and continuing to dash towards the sky, until it broke through the clouds, unfolding a huge fiery cross in the sky at an altitude of 10,000 meters, so large that perhaps people all over the Eurasian continent could see it.

And in places that humans have not yet observed, the crustal compression movement of the South Asian subcontinent and the Eurasian continent even showed a brief reversal under this blow!

Swept by the aftermath of this blow, the ice and snow of the entire Central Asian plateau began to melt rapidly, and the mountain peaks within hundreds of kilometers were leveled in an instant.

"Under such an attack, no creature can survive. Thank me, Mikael, I gave you the most decent way to die—like the heroes in your human mythology, nailed to a cross by evil villains and burned at the stake. Hahahahaha!"

The Herrscher covered his heart, and blood continued to flow from his seven orifices—even by the standards of a Herrscher, the power used in that blow just now had completely caused irreversible serious injuries to his body, and it could even be said that he was at the end of his rope.

But it didn't matter. In his eyes, as long as Mikael's existence was erased, it would undoubtedly be the greatest victory, even if they perished together.

"Elysia! Give me a hand! I can't hold on anymore!"

This was already the umpteenth ice wall that Kevin had constructed around the center of the impact. He didn't even have time to despair—his power not only had to protect the helicopter he was in, but also to protect the base and the shelter.

Even with Vill-V's assistance, the 2nd Divine Key, which had not been fully charged, could still play a limited role. It was still stretched thin in the face of the aftermath of the Herrscher's attack.

Hearing Kevin's shout, Elysia颓然 stretched out her hand, and covered a thin layer of pink crystal on the ice wall in front of her.

"Elysia, there's still the base and the shelter... Uh!"

Kevin turned his head and saw Elysia smiling with her mouth open, mechanically constructing meaningless crystal walls in front of her.

"...Ely! The base is about to collapse!"

He didn't have time to think about Elysia's mental activities. If she didn't help, no one in the Fire Moth members in the base would survive!

But at this moment, the shockwave of the Herrscher's blow suddenly slowed down.

Kevin's pupils shrank, and a light flashed in Elysia's eyes—through the translucent ice wall, they could see a thick layer of ice and snow rising from the ground, climbing along the cross. In just a few seconds, the aftermath of the impact could no longer be felt in the underground city.

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"This... No matter how you look at it, this power is a bit ridiculously strong, right?"

Mei could no longer pretend. She gasped for breath and quickly wiped the cold sweat on her face with the sleeve of her lab coat.

"Mobius, the price of this power..."

"Don't ask me! I don't know everything!"

For a moment, Mei couldn't figure out whether Mobius's so-called "don't know" was out of revenge for interrupting her earlier, or whether she really didn't know.

After all, this level of power was completely beyond the imagination of humans, right?

The Herrscher's blow just now, if it weren't for the fact that this place was located on a plateau, sparsely populated, and in a zone of plate tectonic activity, if it was in the Far East, or in Australia, it would be enough to destroy the entire continent, and even cause the plate to split!

Even so, there would probably be a headache-inducing earthquake period after the war.

And the power brought about by the Artificial Cascade of the four Honkai Beast ICHORs dominated by [Vishnu] could even resist and suppress this power...

No! This was not just suppression!

A trace of fear flashed in Mei's eyes, because she clearly saw that the base of the cross was shrinking at an extremely fast speed. This was not as simple as suppression. It was [Vishnu] ICHOR factor devouring the energy of the Herrscher's blow!

"The devouring of [Vishnu]... has a limit, right? Does it?"

Mei asked uncertainly.

But no one could answer her. Infinity was an unquantifiable standard.

Moreover, as [Vishnu] ICHOR factor became more and more efficient, everyone noticed this phenomenon.

In less than a minute, the 10,000-meter-high cross was completely devoured.

In the white steam brought about by the melting of ice and snow, the giant, whose body had expanded to a height of 1,000 meters, slowly walked out, unharmed except for the broken pair of thin wings on its back.

"How could... this..."

The Herrscher, who had wanted to see Mikael's ashes, did not expect such an outcome.

Only then did he feel his weakness, and... the passing of the last trace of power in his body.

His consciousness gradually fell into darkness, and then the power of space could no longer be maintained. His eyes closed, and his body began to free-fall.

"Thump—"

"Thump—"

"Thump—"

The Herrscher's consciousness dissipated, but his heart was still beating, as if nothing could stop this body's desire to continue living.

Even though it fell from the sky and smashed into the dust, turning into a pile of minced meat like Mikael before.

But it could still feel the beating of its heart.

Although its heart had long been broken into pieces.

But... if there was no heart, where did the sound of the heartbeat come from?

It wouldn't think about this question, nor should it think about it, and it couldn't think about it.

Only its heartbeat gradually coincided with another powerful heartbeat.

"Phew—finally it's over."

Kevin sat down in the cabin, his whole body's combat uniform was wet and stuck to his body. The black fabric was covered with salt stains. He couldn't tell how many times his body had been soaked with sweat, and he couldn't tell whether the sweat was cold sweat or sweat caused by the heat wave caused by the Herrscher's attack.

But Mei's words made him nervous again:

"It's not over yet."

Mei looked at the towering giant, her eyes full of fear and worry.

Kevin's lips opened and closed meaninglessly. He wasn't stupid, especially in understanding Mei's words: "Mei, do you mean we still have to deal with this... But isn't he Mikael? Can't we just change him back?"

Mei didn't speak, but turned her gaze to Mobius.

But Mobius's reaction made her hair stand on end.

After all, she had never seen such a solemn expression on this senior's face, even though this expression appeared on her ten-year-old child-like face, which was really incongruous.

She said affirmatively: "Yes, it's not over yet."

As her voice fell, a black-green snake tail, tens of meters thick, suddenly broke through the ground beside "Mikael"'s feet. It quickly climbed along its legs, and soon completely bound Mikael below the shoulders.

"Crack—crack—"

Even at a distance of tens of kilometers, everyone could hear the sound of Mikael's bones gradually cracking under the pressure of the snake's body.

"Mooo————"

Mikael, in this state, let out a mournful howl full of pain for the first time.

"What's going on! Wait! Elysia!"

This time, no one had time to stop Elysia. They could only watch her jump to the ground, and then drag a long pink shadow, quickly running towards Mikael.

"One is more reckless than the other!"

Mobius bit her lip fiercely.

Mei patted the cockpit wall, and Hua steered the helicopter to follow Elysia from the side, slowly approaching the two beasts.

Mobius explained: "Obviously, since the Seventh Herrscher is using Mikael's former body, don't forget that there is also [Śeṣa]'s ICHOR factor in that body."

"The Herrscher has also entered a state of Artificial Cascade?"

Mei asked.

"I can't judge the Herrscher's state. He may be dead, or he may have consciously or unconsciously released this power—after all, this is just an instinct for MANTIS Warriors."

"Instinct, then why haven't I..."

Kevin pointed to himself. He didn't feel any urge to enter this state of Artificial Cascade.

"It's very simple. When you don't see the wound, you often don't realize the pain. When you don't know the existence of Artificial Cascade, you are actually relatively safe. And after that, Aponia imposed a discipline on all MANTIS Warriors without your knowledge, so that you wouldn't easily fall into this state. Cough, cough!"

Mobius's body had just been resurrected. After such a toss, she couldn't help but cough weakly.

"Why? This state is clearly very powerful?"

"Kevin, are you an idiot? Let me put it bluntly, after entering Artificial Cascade completely, we have no certainty of being able to awaken the original consciousness of that body. It's even unknown whether the original consciousness of the body can still exist."

Kevin turned his head abruptly and looked at the two entangled beasts.

Mikael kept stiffening his neck. The muscles in his neck and shoulders were constantly stretching, as if he wanted to get out of the snake's restraint.

When this effort proved futile, it suddenly lowered its head, opened its mouth wide, and began to tear at the snake's tail that had coiled to its chest.

Those teeth, which seemed no different from humans and were not suitable for tearing prey, rubbed against the scales of the snake's skin, creating a series of sparks.

In the end, the teeth were superior—Mikael tore off a large piece of flesh and blood, and the snake also slightly loosened the binding body with a mournful cry.

It was just this moment of opportunity. Mikael swallowed that piece of flesh and blood. As the blue light flowed through its entire body's blood vessels, its dislocated and broken bones recovered in an instant.

It first pulled its arms out of the snake's restraint, and then forcibly broke the snake tail wrapped around it, dragged it out of the ground all the way, and then casually threw it into the distance.

"Ah!"

A shadow suddenly fell over Elysia's feet. She hurriedly dodged to the side. The next moment, the giant snake, which was almost as thick as a ten-story building, smashed into the path she had originally been traveling.

The giant snake's body twitched fiercely, as if it had been seriously injured by this blow, but a more terrifying thing appeared—

"Mikael"'s blood-stained teeth spewed out puffs of white steam. Its lower limbs squatted slightly, as if confirming something, and then, it leaned down, its forelimbs on the ground, its hind limbs turned outwards, and it actually crawled towards the big snake in a beastly, swift, and crude manner.

The big snake felt the vibration of the ground and was about to raise its head, when Mikael's left hand had already grabbed the snake's head first.

The snake's body once again wrapped around Mikael, but this time it ignored it, just desperately grabbing the snake's head and slamming it into the ground, then grabbing it again, and slamming it down again, repeating this over and over—

Until the snake's body gradually softened and stiffened, until the snake's head "poof—" turned into various viscous liquids and splashed around, Mikael stopped contentedly.

"Dr. Mei, do we still need to go forward? This distance is already... ugh—vomit!"

Hua in the cockpit suddenly vomited violently. Mei and Kevin glanced at Mikael's condition through the porthole. Their bodies froze in place, and then the temperature of their bodies dropped rapidly. Finally, Kevin also grabbed Mei's shoulder and vomited.

Mobius looked at Mei's pale face. She wanted to make a sarcastic remark, but the bloody smell in the air was so thick that even she didn't dare to open her mouth—

Mikael, with his scarlet beast eyes, began to savagely devour the body of the big snake against its scaleless belly.

Or rather, it began to devour its own former corpse.

"Crack!"

The constantly chewing jaw of the beast suddenly paused, and then it spit out two cores into its palm. It stared at the two cores for a moment, and then, without hesitation, it crushed the two cores, which were like two grains of dust to it, with its index finger and thumb.

Then, it put its two fingers to its raised mouth, gently rubbed them, and the red and blue crumbs flowed into its mouth. Then, it continued to lower its head and eat.

The sound of blunt teeth rubbing against flesh and blood continued to come, along with the sound of bones being crushed and swallowed whole. Large pieces of flesh, blood, and internal organs were thrown into the air. A faint bloody mist filled the air.

The snake's intestines also flowed out of the gap in its abdomen, and were pulled over by the beast and stuffed into its mouth. sunset that was in the sky.

"Mooo————"

In the blood-red mist, the blood-red beast opened its blood-red mouth wide at the blood-red sunset.

In the bursts of roars, the beast's muscles swelled again, and even the blue-black ice armor that originally covered its body burst open, as if the armor was not "protecting" but "restraining" its power. In the end, even the keratin on its fingertips shattered.

"Mikael! Mikael!"

Elysia endured the bloody smell and kept approaching it.

Seeming to hear a familiar call, the thousand-meter-tall beast suddenly turned its body, grinned its constantly dripping teeth, and stared intently at the pink figure that was walking straight towards it without any hesitation.

It suddenly raised its head and let out an even more deafening roar, and then stretched out its hands towards Elysia, and took a step.

"Mikael! Are you responding to me!"

Even though every step the beast took would cause an earthquake, Elysia still didn't retreat. Hot tears rolled down her cheeks. She opened her arms to Mikael, who was walking towards her with the setting sun as the background, just as they had done countless times before...

"Not good! It regards Elysia as an enemy!"

Mei shouted in horror. Kevin also endured his disgust and jumped down, but the distance between them was too far to save her—

"Boom!"

The huge feet stopped the moment they were about to step on Elysia. The beast's arms also fell limply, and what fell together, and drenched Elysia, was the beast's blood.

When the last warmth of the setting sun fell below the mountains along with the sunset, the beast's movements also completely stopped—even the beating of its heart stopped.

The only evidence that it was still alive was the pair of scarlet eyes that were staring at its feet, and had not dispersed.