Chapter 2 No Longer a Witness

"Far... Far..."

Even without looking back, Mikael could feel that the light and warmth of civilization were gradually moving away from him.

Finally, he stopped on a hilltop overlooking the brilliant lights of Vostok City.

The Honkai energy floating in the air merged into his body one by one, condensed in his chest, gradually solidified, but strangely emitted a blue light.

Behind him, the excess Honkai energy scattered into the earth, merged into various organisms, and created countless Honkai beasts.

He turned his head, and there was no emotion in his eyes.

He looked at the sparse lights behind him, and then looked at the bright neon lights in front of him, waved his hand, and in the dark night, countless Honkai beasts ran wildly, making a dull sound like thunder.

"Beep beep! Beep beep!"

"Hello! This is the first team, I'm the captain, Hen."

"Hen! Where are you now?"

"Reporting to the headquarters, we have left Vostok-51 and are at an abandoned base in the suburbs of Vostok."

There was a noisy sound from the other end of the intercom, and after a while, a female voice that gave people goosebumps came: "Hen, the Honkai energy reaction near you is rising sharply, the magnitude has exceeded 1000HW, and it is still rising... The anomaly we captured before is not groundless."

"This... This..." Even though he felt that he was experienced, Hen almost didn't hold the intercom in his hand when he heard the news.

As a special task force directly under the United Government, their mission has always been to fight Honkai - this disaster that follows the development of civilization, and disguise the damage it causes as an accident.

But so far... no, before this time, the strongest Honkai reaction he encountered was just over 100HW, and the disaster caused by the Honkai took two teams like them, plus a mecha team, and a flight squadron to calm down.

So what will be born from the 1000HW Honkai reaction?

"Captain Hen, Captain Hen!" The original male voice came again from the walkie-talkie.

"A large number of Honkai beasts are detected approaching Vostok. In addition, Honkai energy is accumulating on the mountains in the northwest. The reaction intensity... has reached 1,400 or 1,500... It is approaching 2,000HW!"

Hen took a deep breath, counted the few ammunition, and began to wear exoskeleton armor.

Because they were using the public frequency, all the team members also understood the current situation and spontaneously began to prepare for battle.

"Headquarters, what is our mission?"

"As the outermost line of defense of Vostok, stop the Honkai beasts from advancing. The city of Vostok has been under martial law in the name of military exercises. You only need to hold on for ten minutes. In ten minutes, the flight squadrons from the Shenzhou region and the Far East region will arrive at the battlefield. In half an hour, the mecha troops will arrive."

"Hu..." Hen exhaled lightly and then cut off the connection with the headquarters.

"Did you hear it all! Get moving! Before the Honkai beasts come, search for ammunition supplies in the base first!"

At this time, Mikael... No, now he is the First Herrscher, his thin figure still stands on the top of the mountain.

A few dozen seconds later, gunshots rang out at the edge of the lights in the distance, and bullets drew straight trajectories in the darkness. Countless Honkai beasts fell, and countless Honkai beasts followed.

But until there was no Honkai beast around him, the First Herrscher still did not move.

He seemed to be waiting for something.

As an apostle of God descended on the earth, he should not and could not have human emotions.

So he didn't understand this kind of waiting, nor did he understand this kind of waiting.

Just like he didn't understand why this body didn't put down the cake in his hand until it was completely occupied by him, until the soul of this body was directly wiped out by a higher existence.

"Sasha", light footsteps sounded behind him.

"M... Mikael?" The First Herrscher didn't know the meaning of the name Mikael.

But he felt a familiar breath from the person who came.

He turned around, and it turned out that it was a beautiful girl with pink hair who had been following him quietly.

"What's wrong with you?"

The girl's voice was blown away by the wind.

She seemed a little excited and a little alert.

"Why did your hair grow so long? Oh, your eyes are red too."

"Why, are you too sad to hear that I'm leaving?"

"If it doesn't work, let's leave together?"

The First Herrscher never spoke.

He was not dumb, but the girl opposite, the girl opposite who was also an apostle of God like himself...

Why... she seemed... to have human emotions?

The girl kept talking in a language that the First Herrscher could not understand, while slowly approaching him.

The First Herrscher, who thought he had met his own kind, did not feel threatened.

"Hey! Is this cake... prepared for me?"

The girl happily took the cake box from his hand.

"You really understand girls' minds! Beautiful girls, of course, should be paired with sweet cakes... click!"

The moment the word "click" fell, a dagger slipped out of the girl's sleeve and stabbed directly into the heart of the First Herrscher.

"Dang", the dagger suddenly encountered an obstacle, bent to nearly 90 degrees, and broke with a "bang".

A steel plate appeared between the broken dagger and the First Herrscher's chest.

This is the power of the Herrscher of Reason.

Although he is the messenger of destruction that destroys civilization, he has to fight with the power of civilization.

Although Alicia failed to hit him, she did not retreat. Instead, she unexpectedly hit the First Herrscher in the face with a left hook.

"You! Give Mikael back to me!"

"Give Mikael back to me!"

"Mikael!"

"Give it back!"

"Me!"

Alicia's cry entered the First Herrscher's mind, just like a stone thrown into a calm lake, rippling circles of waves in an instant.

"Alisa!"

Mikael suddenly opened his eyes.

What he saw was a chaos, without light or darkness.

"Alisa!"

The once broken memory began to shine, and the familiar voice sounded in his ears:

"Visitor, your path will continue..."

"Go create what we have not been able to welcome..."

"The future!"

So there was light, and then there was darkness, and then time began to flow, and then Mikael saw his own world of consciousness.

His original position had been replaced by an indescribable mist.

And at the foot of the mist was the body of a child who looked exactly like him... no, exactly like the child named Mikael.

He understood instantly.

His occupation did not cause the consciousness of the child named Mikael to dissipate, but fell into a deep sleep.

While the collapse shaped the Herrscher, it erased the consciousness of the child Mikael, but did not expect that there was a third consciousness in this body.

"In that case..."

Mikael walked towards the mist step by step.

"Is this the consciousness of the Herrscher?"

"Since... since I can appear in front of her... then how can I be willing to be a witness!"

Outside of consciousness, the figures of Alisia and the First Herrscher were entangled together.

The First Herrscher can freely manipulate Honkai energy, and so can Alicia.

So even though it looks like a fight between children, every encounter between fists and feet is enough to instantly paralyze an adult.

The First Herrscher should not have fought in this way.

His power should be analysis-construction.

But he is a newborn consciousness after all, and he does not know how to play to his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, and he was soon dragged into a fistfight.

"Uh... huh?"

The First Herrscher's movements suddenly stopped, and the next moment, before Alicia's fist arrived, he suddenly slapped himself.

Then, the First Herrscher's left hand and right hand started fighting, followed by his left foot and right foot.

Until the roar of fighter planes came from the sky, countless bombs fell on the Honkai beasts, and while setting off a bloody storm, it also rendered the night as bright as day.

The First Herrscher lay dead, motionless.

No matter how strong he was, he was just a newborn consciousness, how could he defeat "Mikael"?

"M...Mikael? Is that you? Are you back?"

This was the first sentence he heard when his consciousness returned to his body.

It was also the heavenly sound that supported him in the endless years that followed.

The fighter plane dropped a bomb towards the top of the mountain, and the tail of the bomb rubbed against the air, making a harsh whistling sound.

"Ailishia, I'm back."

In the exploding fireworks, Mikael announced his return to Ai Li.

But the exploding fireworks did not reach the eyes of the two children.

In the chest, the blue Herrscher core finally formed, the gear-like pupils rotated, and the spherical barrier gradually condensed into a solid body, isolating all the fragments and flames from the outside.

This was the first time that Mikael felt that he existed so truly in this world.

Because he was no longer a witness.

But...the person who truly waded into the river of fate.