Chapter 280 Give It All to This Sword

"oh?"

Weiwei noticed Hua's gaze and smiled generously:

"It seems that he thinks you are qualified to get the key, right?"

Hua shook his head and nodded again.

She felt that things were not that simple. The feebleness of language had always been a principle that Mikael upheld. He would not place any hope in using a so-called epiphany to measure Hua's growth.

Instead of thinking that Mikael just told her something through Hua's past, it is better to say that he himself confirmed something through it.

As for the so-called key, perhaps he had confirmed her qualifications to carry it long before that - if he guessed correctly, it should have been that shallow hug not long ago. He said to her:

"Welcome to World Snake."

What exactly is the World Snake? He never mentioned it to Hua again, as if it was just a flash of inspiration in his mind, or it was a word that was meaningful only to him. He must use this word to It takes the act of confirming the word with his own mouth before he can make a certain determination in his mind.

This included dividing a small part of his consciousness and attaching it to her, and also confirming her qualifications to liberate Garuda's power.

Or perhaps, all the stories that happened on P-21 today were already finalized in his mind at that time.

As for Hua, as the owner of Garuda's power, he didn't find anything special except super memory and strong self-healing ability. However, Mikael believed that this was a power that could be liberated, and gave him Her key-such prophetic behavior has long been strange in Hua's eyes.

Therefore, she did not give any more explanation for Velvet's knowing question. She just nodded slightly and hummed.

"Tsk, he really has an incredible confidence in you... I have agreed in advance that the thing I am going to give you next is, in some ways, completely inconsistent with the key. Of course, that guy will only propose I asked for it and didn’t tell me what use this thing is for you...

"At this point, both me and Mei can probably guess the direction of the story he arranged, but I feel that as the maker of the [Key], I need to remind you - as a weapon, It does not have the huge destructive power of the past God Key. Considering the state of its corresponding Herrscher, it is more like an early experimental model of a mass-produced product.

"So, if you really want to use this thing to fight the Herrscher, I advise you to think about it carefully. Alas... Actually, if you ask me, it would be more reliable to just let you wear the Blank Key, but It is also understandable that the strongest is often not the most suitable..."

Hua didn't pay attention to Velvet's chatter, even though the amount of information she revealed was as large as ever.

But she didn't think she was someone who wanted to get to the bottom of things. If she really wanted to know the truth, it would be better to muster up the courage to ask Mikael directly after the matter was over.

What's more... there's no time.

She knew Captain Himiko's physical condition very well. After fighting for so long now, he should be reaching his limit...

She took the suitcase from Velvet without hesitation. It seemed that out of some intuition, she chose the longer one from the two suitcases at the beginning, and according to Velvet, this was the longer one. There must be a key to God inside.

Hua had been exposed to the Keys of Other Gods more than once during training. The weight of the suitcase was much lighter than expected. It was completely incomparable to the Heavenly Fire Saint and the Black Abyss White Flower. Of course, it was also obvious from the size alone. Coming out, the latter two are heavy as soon as they are picked up, as if to remind the holders of the heavy weight that the weapons in their hands have carried.

But the first feeling given to Hua by the thing in front of him was by no means heavy, but some kind of resonance from deep within his body, or in other words, a desire to possess it.

Although they were separated by the box, as soon as they made contact, Hua could feel a dull tingling sensation in his body, as if something was about to break out of every cell in his body - it was very similar. The pain I felt when I was growing bones when I was a child is just that the pain is radiated from the bone cells to the whole body.

She pursed her lips into a straight line and opened the box without hesitation. Two objects were quietly stored inside -

One is an all too familiar serum.

The other... was a yellow-orange sword that at first glance seemed to be made of bronze.

"This is……"

"How's the key to domination? Are you conquered by this genius' design? In order to match your origin, I specifically made reference to the sword style of ancient China!

"Also, although it looks like an ordinary long sword, I have introduced the PLUS version of the lottery system derived from the Key of the Third God! It can be transformed into various weapons that suit the user according to the user's needs. , Of course, you can also return to yourself when necessary..."

"No, Velvet..."

Hua interrupted her explanation:

"I mean, this core..."

"Huh? Oh? This, yes, it's what you think. The core of this God's Key comes from the first discovered Tenth Herrscher individual, numbered L10-001, or as you are more familiar with The name is Carol. Of course, from a strict point of view, this name cannot be used. After all, it is her body plus the consciousness of the Herrscher..."

Hua gently touched the dark red gem inlaid on the sword grid with his fingertips. In his mind, the whirring voice sounded through the thick and cold water curtain——

"Hey! Look at that girl over there, she's dressed so - rustic - oh!"

The memory didn't surge out like a floodgate, but just gently opened a corner, so Hua could confirm the source of this core.

Her vision suddenly blurred, she slowly grasped the so-called key of domination and placed it across her knees, but her eyes were already saturated with tears, she had no choice but to turn her head away and look at the still burning dark sea, as if tears were not left in front of others, it would not count as crying.

But she remembered what Mikael said -

"Don't suppress your desire, obsession, regret, and unwillingness for the past, because that is a part of you, others can't take it away, and you can't erase it.

"The real attitude of a person towards the past is not to indulge, nor to say goodbye, but to embrace. "

Does he think so every time he holds the Black Abyss White Flower?

Then... gently, hug it, let it become the motivation to keep moving forward and keep fighting.

Thinking of this, the soreness in her eyes stopped, and the world in her eyes gradually became clear.

The hot wind brushed across the exit she opened with her own hands - perhaps this wind also brushed across the emerald green grasslands of Bohemia, the white snow of Siberia, the yellow sea at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, and the black and purple wasteland at the foot of the Taixu Mountain, and finally lifted her hair on her forehead.

She was very glad that she could still think like this.

Suddenly, a small black object flew quickly in her sight, like a bird, but how could a bird survive in such an environment?

Perhaps, it was someone's soul that was The wind that lifted her hair must have brought her to the end of the world.

She reached out her hand, gently stroked the sword, and finally tightly grasped the hilt.

When she turned around, she saw the surprised sight of Mei and Wei Wei.

Without time to think, an unprecedented force surged out of her body in an instant, as smooth as a flood that had accumulated for many years in a dam, rushing thousands of miles, unstoppable.

Finally, she lowered her head slightly. The ancients of Shenzhou had polished bronze to use as a mirror, and she was doing the same thing now.

On the sword with patterns engraved on it, the face of a girl with white hair and red eyes was reflected. I don’t know if it was an illusion. She looked at her reflection on the sword and inexplicably remembered the feather that she had just grasped and disappeared.

“Is this... how I collapse? "

As the most qualified experimental subject in Mobius's hands, she certainly would not miss the surgery to give her the ability to collapse artificially, but just like most of the experiments she underwent, this surgery did not seem to bring any changes.

There is no doubt that artificial collapse, sacrificing human posture and even part of rationality in exchange for more powerful combat power, conflicts with Shenyin. Before this, Shenyin had always firmly imprisoned this power, so for other fusion warriors, they need to work hard to suppress the impulse to fall into the collapse state, which has never happened to Yu Hua.

But today, with the intervention of another external force, under the traction of another external force, the shackles imposed by Shenyin were temporarily broken--

In addition to the changes in hair color and pupils Outside, flames began to jump on her body, and a tingling sensation came from her neck. She straightened her neck, and the overactive Honkai beast factor overflowed from the skin of her left neck, like drops of blood dripping on her face, until it covered half of her left face.

The changes did not stop there. Her shoulder blades on both sides were slightly sore, as if something was about to drill out of them. Thinking of the appearance of Garuda, there was no doubt that it was a pair of wings.

At this moment, a strange syllable sounded in her mind. It seemed to have no meaning, but it seemed to be all-encompassing - the sound of God. After this sound sounded, Hua's form gradually fixed, and her body did not continue to transform into an inhuman posture, and the wings behind her never appeared again.

That sound did not improve Instead of collecting, it kept ringing in her mind. It seemed to be telling something, but Hua, who was anxious, had no intention of calming down to distinguish it.

Therefore, she did not notice a problem - the impact of the serum, just looking at Wei Weiwei's condition, can be seen that it cannot be eliminated so quickly. And the sword in her hand, the core of which is only one thousandth of the power of the Tenth Herrscher, how can it draw enough energy to cause her collapse?

Hua looked at the Key of Domination in her hand again. As she collapsed, this seemingly light sword also trembled and reshaped in the flames.

Suddenly, there was a weight in her hand, and the Key of Domination changed its form, wrapping her hands with a pair of not bloated, very close-fitting gloves.

It was as if - as if the Key of Domination had also tasted every drop of sweat she had shed in her boxing skills for more than ten years.

Of course, there was an extremely strange thought in her mind:

"Great... Mikael's first weapon seems to be a boxing glove..."

She turned her head, but this time it was not to hide her tears. Her eyes swept to her shoulders. Wings could not appear, but flames could still become her wings.

She grabbed the tube of serum, and the flames gathered behind her, condensing into a pair of lifelike wings, and then -

flew into the sky.

Mei closed her eyes. With her wisdom, she had already deduced the whole picture of the matter.

So, she just snorted indifferently and left a brief announcement:

"We won."

…………

"Tsk!"

Himihu turned her body, and countless pairs of dark hands crossed her side, twisting as if they had no bones, as if to hug her.

"Trouble! Ugh!"

Accompanied by a painful groan, the monstrous flames rose again. The thick, edgeless sword drew a perfect arc with the force of the waist, cutting off the flesh that was purely pieced together by the power of death. Burned down.

"You look really ugly..."

Himiko gasped for breath, the integrated body of the Tenth Herrscher in front of her, no, to be precise...

It is more like a huge polymer of flesh. Since the power of death he controls is too small, it is obviously impossible for the Tenth Herrscher to accurately control and integrate cells.

So it can only piece together various living individuals and dead stumps centripetally. What emerges is like a huge meat ball, covered with living and dead heads, and limbs flying in the wind everywhere. .

A handful of them were the parts that Himihu had just cut off, and they were pulled back again by their power, just like the wooden stakes in the forest that were chopped off by their roots.

Of course, this description is a bit too simple. From Himihu's perspective, even though she has seen countless bloody scenes in her more than ten years of fighting career, she still has a desire to vomit at this moment.

In particular, this desire to vomit overlapped with the desire to vomit caused by lack of oxygen, making her feel her stomach churning all the time.

Just as the Tenth Herrscher's attack had no effect, her counterattack seemed to have the same effect. Under the influence of the power of death, those severed limbs were restored to their original state in less than a second.

"Tch, I thought... I could... rest a little longer."

Himihu felt that his body was getting heavier. Regardless of the weakness of his limbs, it was his brain that was fatal.

Her vision dimmed and blackened, and she quickly shook her head twice, but instead of waking her up, it made her clench her teeth in pain——

The brain seemed to be disconnected from the skull. As her head shook, she could feel the brain matter churning between the skull bones like real paste.

"Hehehe...hahahahaha! It seems that this is the end of it for you."

The Herrscher also seemed to feel the urgency of time, even though it knew that the woman in front of it had truly reached the end of its strength, and perhaps it only needed one more probing attack like that just now to make her collapse from exhaustion, but...

After all, it’s better to be on the safe side.

As a result, more than 700 heads opened their mouths and let out dizzying and uniform wails. This did not have much impact on Himihu who was protected by Mikael's power of consciousness, but this was just a start.

Then, in front of the Tenth Herrscher, the space began to twist into a purple as thick as the night. Accompanied by bursts of thunder, the green wind howled, sending an icy chill, but corresponding to it, there was a burning... The flames in the entire sea area did not subside with the strong wind and severe cold. Instead, the fire increased even more, but...

Although it cannot be said that she is completely out of Himihu's control, after all, the power of fire that the two mastered at this time is incomparable, but it ultimately caused certain obstacles to her control of flames.

Can you avoid it?

This is Himiko's undisputed first reaction. No one wants to face this blow that combines almost all the powers of the Herrscher up to this point. But it's a pity, not to mention whether it can be avoided. After dodging, P- What to do with 21? What should I do with Dr. Mei, Weiwei, Hua and Aponya behind me?

Besides, Himihu soon ran out of options——

Under the dual effects of the power of space and the power of rock, the entire surface of P-21 rocks and soil converged toward the space collapse point in front of Herrscher, and Himiko could only insert nearly half of Shirter's sword under his feet. , and barely resisted the fate of being sucked away and crushed.

"Is there no way to retreat?"

She turned her head, and her long fiery red hair fell loose and flew uncontrollably, like flickering tongues of fire.

She closed her eyes, and the feather still lingered in her mind without saying a word.

"Sigh...Mikael, this time, I was fooled by you quite badly."

Himihu knew that her complaints could be heard by Michael thousands of miles away. But is that really a complaint?

There was no trace of blame in her words. If anything, it would be better to say that she felt relieved to let go of everything.

She touched her cheek, and the purple lines climbed up the right side of her face, almost touching her right eye. Even if the Tenth Herrscher died suddenly at this time, she probably wouldn't be able to wait for the moment of treatment...

"Then let me show you..."

Her voice was word by word, because every time she uttered a syllable, the fire around her body would increase by one point. Correspondingly, the purple lines on her body would also increase by one point, and the pain she endured would also increase by one point... …

"A warrior's final blow—"

A crimson light lit up in her eyes, and at that moment she drained out all the Honkai energy remaining in half of the Seventh Herrscher's core. As soon as Shirter pulled it out from the ground, flames started to flow along the sword. Roll it up to a length of hundreds of meters.

"Shilter, help me one more time..."

She allowed her body to be captured and pulled by the space collapse point, and followed this force to raise the hundreds of meters long flame sword high above her head...

"team leader……"

"Well?"

A hand covered her shoulder and pushed her back to the ground. Then, the owner of the voice hugged her from behind and pulled out half of the Herrscher's core from the blank key. Then Shilt The flames on you instantly turned into fire rain and scattered.

"Leave the rest to me."

"Are you...Hua?"

As soon as Himihu finished speaking, he felt a tingling sensation in his neck. Then, deep fatigue spread throughout his body, and he no longer had the strength to even move his fingers——

She knew the feeling well, it was the serum.

"Hua, you..."

"I said, leave it to me."

Hua's tone was obviously very gentle, but it also carried an unquestionable meaning.

Of course, after being injected with a dose of serum, Himihu had no room to struggle.

"You have destroyed your own teammates, you humans are so pretentious!"

The Herrscher mocked, and then, a huge earth ball with a diameter of a thousand meters, which was gathered by the space collapse point, was raised high, as if a pair of invisible hands raised it to the back of the head, and then slammed it down in front of the face.

"call……"

Hua let out a sigh of relief, and even laid down Himiko's body flat on the ground in an orderly manner.

It was obviously the first time that she faced a Herrscher-level blow alone, but there didn't seem to be any special fluctuations in her heart.

"Why must there be any special psychological fluctuations? You can ask Sister Eden. Many young actors tend to assume a very standard emotional change when they encounter major events, but this is wrong. .

"Most people have no psychological fluctuations at all when facing one thing. They experience things that are very important in the future with an empty mind or a normal state of mind - Prometheus stealing fire Can you really realize the punishment you are about to face and the changes that humans are about to undergo?"

Mikael's words were even replaying in her mind.

When she turned her head, the huge earth ball was less than a hundred meters away from the ground.

How long does it take for an object to free fall from 100 meters?

It only takes 4.5 seconds, not to mention that it is not in free fall.

And this time was only enough for Hua to close her blood-red eyes, clench her right hand into a fist, and tighten it on her psoas muscle as she had done countless times.

then……

"Cun Jin·Open the Sky!"

This formula has been repeated at least ten thousand times in the past ten years, but today, it is slightly different.

When she used her extremely small body to press her fist against the falling earth ball with relatively limp strength, unprecedented energy rose up from her body, turning the snow-white ends with bright red hair. The silk is lifted up and floating in the air.

Time seemed to swallow up this moment, until the blazing flames spurted out from the other side of the earth ball, shot into the sky, and rained down sparks all over the sky. Then, branches of this flame stream also poured out from other parts of the earth ball. The earth ball with a diameter of over a thousand and covering the sky was easily disintegrated.

"This...how is it possible!"

More than seven hundred people opened their mouths and wailed together. The Herrscher certainly knew the girl in front of her, but she never expected that this girl with no sense of existence and no achievements would become the biggest variable at this moment.

"It's just a poor imitation of God by humans. Why...why!"

Thousands of hands and feet rushed towards Hua. She quickly leaned down and easily picked up Himihu, who was much taller than her. When she looked up again, those scary hands and feet were already in front of her.

"Girl, you are a girl after all. Naturally, you cannot open and close your body like your senior brothers. You should be as light as a fly whisk."

Her father's instructions rang in her ears, everything seemed so familiar...

"I understand, this is the whisk step."

She tapped her toes, as if a whisk was really sweeping across the table. The dense tentacles brushed past her side, and due to inertia, they shot far away and could not be returned for a while.

"Now!"

Instead of retreating, she advanced. The wings condensed by flames spread out again, and she rushed to the Herrscher with a gentle wave.

There was still fear in the Herrscher's countless eyes, and his vision was filled with a fiery red light.

Behind Herrscher, Hua held Himihu in one hand and held the key of control made of Carol's core in the other hand, holding a sword flower in his hand.

Behind her head, the Herrscher's huge body had been split into two.

"Wait a minute, Hua, the Lawyer...the power of death..."

Himihu lay next to her ear, weakly reminding her.

Hua's pupils shrank and he turned around quickly. Sure enough, Herrscher's body had begun to heal again.

"It's okay...this way...just delay..."

But can everything really go as Himiko wishes?

"Hahahaha...hahahaha..."

The lawyer's laughter was a little loud and a little lonely.

"I really didn't expect that things would come to this point...but do you really think you can buy time with me?"

"What's the meaning?"

Hua pursed her lips tightly and frowned slightly.

"Hahahaha, thank you to the First Herrscher. Although he is a traitor, at least... he left behind the means to die together!"

Hua didn't know what it was going to do, but she could feel... No, maybe she didn't need to feel it anymore. As far as her eyes could see, the Honkai energy in the entire world was converging towards Herrscher, forming a huge one in the sky. swirl.

She didn't know, but Himihu had completely experienced the third collapse——

"Not good! It's trying to imitate Mikael's self-destruction core like he did during the third...collapse..."

"How did the Third Herrscher respond?"

"Take out the core..."

Hua's breath paused. Unless he was also a Herrscher, how could he sense the other person's core and separate it from the Herrscher himself?

Even if the location can be sensed, this method obviously does not apply to the Tenth Herrscher - there are nearly 800 Herrscher individuals and nearly 800 cores in front of him!

Even if you can take out dozens of them in a short period of time, it will not help.

what to do?

what to do?

what to do?

She had no confidence that she could survive such an explosion. But it doesn't matter. If she can't find a solution at this time, she won't be able to protect Himihu, Mei and Velvet.

Even an explosion of this magnitude may be able to cut off the connection between the deepest place and the intrinsic world!

Hua trembled and took a deep breath of smoke full of burnt smell.

Could it be that even if you gain the power you dream of, even if you can easily defeat the Herrscher, you still can't protect anything?

"call……"

She exhaled slowly, and her hyperamnesia almost allowed her to read through all her memories of more than ten years in one breath.

It also allowed her to discover something that had been overlooked before - the influence of the serum had not been eliminated, and the Honkai energy in the Key of Dominance was equally insignificant in front of the Herrscher.

Moreover, Mikael also said that the Key of Domination is just a [key].

When the key opens the door lock, the door remains closed, and external force is required to rotate the door handle and push the door open.

She didn't do this on her own, Hua knew that very well.

Then, there is only one answer.

"Mikael..."

Hua silently recited his name in her heart, and then, in her heart, the feather that had been floating once again transformed into the appearance of the person she wanted to see.

Although they had just met in the same place a few minutes ago, Hua felt as if they were a lifetime apart. She tilted her cheek to the left, pretending to straighten the braids hanging down from her temples, and also covered the marks left on her face.

But with the blessing of Garuda's collapsed state, she finally felt the difference in the "Mikael" in front of her.

"No, you are not him... No, you are not just a part of his consciousness."

"Um."

The man's answer was crisp and clear, or it could be said that he had been waiting here for a long time as a last resort.

"The Key of Domination is just a key, but you, Hua, you still lack a weapon."

He stretched out his hand towards the girl, and the feather he held in his hand gradually changed into the shape of a lotus, but when he handed it to Hua, it turned into a feather again.

The roots of the feathers were blood red, gradually turning into snow white, exactly the same color as the girl's hair at this time.

"The key to the eighth god, Yu Duchen."

Hua reached out to take it, but Mikael retracted his hand at this time.

"If you want to solve your predicament at this time, you have two options. The choice is in your hands - my body can phase shuttle over to solve this trouble. As for the restraint barrier, the surrounding cities have not been evacuated yet. Keep it safe. It is estimated that 1.2 million people will be trapped in the barrier, but I think that 1.2 million lives are worth it for you, the captain, Velvet, Mei and the deepest place."

Hua raised his eyebrows and opened his mouth in vain, as if he was meeting Mikael for the first time.

"I...I...tell me the second option."

"Yu Duchen, the first rated power."

"Give me."

she said.

Mikael shook his head. In the consciousness space, the flow of time was extremely slow, so he had enough time and absolute necessity to let Hua make a decision.

Although, he knew what that decision was from the beginning.

"Aren't you asking about the side effects?"

Hua sniffed her nose, pushed her lower lip upward, and then stared at Mikael stubbornly with blood-red eyes.

"Yu Duchen's first rated power can release an unstoppable blow, not only in a practical sense, but also in a spiritual sense. When the Herrscher's spirit is killed, he naturally does not have the ability to guide the core to collapse and self-destruct. The ability...but the price is that it requires burning memory.”

"Burn...memory?"

Suddenly, the person in front of her no longer looked like Mikael, but... exactly the same as herself.

"Are you really going to do this? Burn memories?"

Hua bit her lower lip lightly, "I want to do this."

"You will forget what you are trying to protect today, is that okay?"

"It doesn't matter." - As long as I really protect them.

"Don't you care that you forget the reason you finally understood and fought for?"

"I don't care." - Since I can understand the first time, I can understand the second time.

"You will even forget [yourself], everything you lost and everything you gained before... Doesn't it matter?"

"...It doesn't matter."

This time, Hua paused for ten breaths before giving the answer.

"You hesitated. Can you even accept losing all the memories of you and him?"

"..."

After a long silence, there were dry and pale words:

"I can accept it." - As long as he is still with me, our connection will not be severed.

The other woman shook her head to herself, "You still don't understand what your choice at this moment actually means. But before that..."

In reality, Hua still had her eyes closed, and a feather suddenly appeared in her hand.

All the voices in her mind, whether it was Mikael's or another one of hers, disappeared.

She felt a pool of fire in front of her, as if burning something.

If all the memories are burned, will the dream become transparent?

This question just emerged and disappeared.

And then...

Father's smile, father's voice, father's hand rubbing her head...

Carol's noise, the coolness and sweetness of ice cream, and the feeling of two hands clasped together...

Also, the figure who always followed him, unable to lend a hand when he was in trouble, and unable to keep up with him when he moved forward again...

All the past things were gone with the smoke rising from the flames.

Only an endless blankness remained in her heart.

But what does it matter?

For the first time in more than ten years, she clearly knew what she wanted to do - even if it was only for a moment.

"All the past things..."

"Give it all to this sword!"