Chapter 666 The Time for the Decisive Battle Has Arrived

"So... Alicia, why are you here?"

After gently patting Kiana's back, Mei turned around and asked curiously when both of them were calm.

Although the doll of Fairy Ai Li appeared in front of her, after spending a long time together, she could still detect the slight difference in tone and action between Alicia and Fairy Ai Li, not to mention that Ai Li did not deliberately disguise herself.

"Me? I am here to help you, of course."

"No, I mean... I mean, are the heroes all right?"

"Don't worry, it's okay, but after the Paradise of the Past was blocked, only I, the Herrscher of Corrosion, can come to the Eigenworld by possessing a doll."

"Is that so..."

"Ahem——"

Otto cleared his throat and interrupted the two people's reminiscence.

"Since Raiden Mei has returned to the original world, then Ms. Alicia... uh, I mean, Miss Pink Fairy. In my opinion, it's time for us to carry out the final plan."

"Ah, yes..."

Alisa did not hesitate when answering, but her eyelids drooped slightly.

"In a sense - to implement the final plan, this is the most important purpose of my coming here."

Mei opened her mouth, but said nothing in the end.

"So, as the former origin, can you now tell us how to reach the end of the world?"

"No!"

"Hmm?"

Ally smiled and shook her head.

"After all, I was originally just a memory, and I don't have the power of the origin. Even if I know where the road is, I can't open it. And there is no way to give the specific coordinates of the direction in the imaginary space. Only the person who has the power of the origin can feel the coordinates. In fact, Prometheus No. 17 could have pointed out the way, but now that Kevin and May are trapped in the paradise of the past, I can't contact Prometheus."

"But... Alicia, since you don't have the power of the origin, how did you pass the power of the origin to me?"

Mei looked at her right hand that had recovered as usual in a daze, and she had a vague premonition.

"Because Mei, your original power was not given by me. A long time ago, that power was entrusted to you. I am just a counterfeit of the previous owner of that power, helping you to remove the restrictions imposed on that power."

"Is that so... He has calculated from that time to now... Wait... So..."

"That's right!"

Looking at Mei's expression of enlightenment, Ai Li reminded softly:

"Just like many times in the past, the [key] to unlock the answer has always been with you."

Mei's lips moved, and then she took out a key with a cat's paw pendant from her pocket.

"This is what you gave me in the eternal paradise..."

"Hmm?"

Looking at the cat's paw-shaped keychain, Mei obviously thought of something again and took out a wrinkled map from her pocket.

"This is the treasure map that Padu gave me. She said that the treasure she left behind is marked on it... And this key, if I'm not mistaken, is not the key to the room where the typewriter is, but the key to the treasure left by Padu, right?"

"You're right, Meiyi!"

"And the treasure left by Padu was put into something else - something that can help us reach the end of the world, right?"

This time, Alicia no longer answered aloud, but just smiled and nodded.

…………

Ten minutes later, Meiyi came to a construction site in Brindi City alone.

With the power of thunder and lightning, she can turn into lightning and move at the speed of light, so there is no need to waste the opportunity to charge the second God Key.

Following the map given by Padu, it is naturally impossible to find the burial site of the treasure. Although the general territory of the two eras has not changed much, it is also a sea change to a single location.

Fortunately, Otto's Void Treasures also has a map of the Dusk Street in the former civilization Brindi City. After overlapping it with the current map and calculating the longitude and latitude, the approximate location was obtained.

That is the construction site where Meiyi is currently located.

Most of the human beings have been involved in the Stigmata Project. Even if they are gradually returning to reality, it will take some time. Therefore, there is no one else on the construction site except Meiyi, so she doesn't have to worry about the movement.

Although Paduo didn't bury the treasure too deep when she buried it, the movement of the earth's crust is not uncommon in 50,000 years, and the factor of soil accumulation must be taken into account. Both the specific location and depth are very different from those on the map. Fortunately, the efficiency of the Herrscher in digging the soil is not comparable to that of ordinary excavators. Meiyi soon dug up an aluminum box with a cat's paw pattern more than 20 meters underground.

Insert the key into the hole and twist it slightly. The box popped open by itself, revealing the objects neatly arranged inside.

Folded wanted poster with Paduo's photo printed on it.

Several Fire Moth uniforms full of holes.

A bottle cap with a crooked print.

A badge of a poison pupa and a mask that looks like a Honkai beast.

…These are just ordinary looking things, but to that girl, they are treasures that cannot be exchanged for any amount of money or gems.

Therefore, in the end, the girl did not choose even one of her favorite shiny things, but instead saved these rags in the eyes of others.

At that time, what kind of mood did Padu have when he buried all this... It is said that cats' intuition is quite sensitive...

It was just Mei Yi thinking randomly, and even this kind of thinking soon had to be interrupted, because Mei Yi found something at the bottom of the box.

It’s not something that Pado would bury.

It was a pocket watch, a pocket watch with Velvet's spiral engraved on it.

Mei took it out of the box and opened the cover. The hands on the dial below it always stayed at a certain moment without changing, and even the clockwork couldn't rotate.

Not surprisingly, this is what I was looking for.

Meiyi put the remaining items back into the aluminum box, put the aluminum box and the pocket watch into the pockets on both sides of her clothes, and quickly filled back the excavated soil. She soon turned into a bolt of lightning and returned to the meeting at Tianming Headquarters. room.

The conference room had been cleared, leaving only Kiana, Bronya and Alicia waiting for her.

"That's it, Alicia."

Mei handed the pocket watch to Ai Li.

"That's right! That's it!"

Fairy Ellie held the pocket watch in her small hands and explained in a low voice:

"After the battle with the end was over and I returned to the Paradise, everyone also knew the final decision I made. Velvet was not willing to accept that ending. Of course, no one could accept such an ending willingly... So she brought I made this device with a glimmer of hope, and continued to send certain signals to the cocoon of the end through the path I opened at that time, hoping to awaken the original part of Alicia's personality in the cocoon from now on. Look, this plan can be declared a failure, but it still has value -

"Mei Yi, you happen to be the Herrscher of Thunder. You should be able to find the way to that place through this signal."

Meiyi clutched the pocket watch tightly, closed her eyes and felt it carefully, and soon found it and opened her eyes with awareness.

"I found it."

She said this, but there was no joy in her eyes.

"Oh, why are you still looking so sad after you found it?"

Alicia smiled knowingly.

"So what if all of this is an arranged fate? Isn't what we experienced at that time also a fate that has been spun? Moreover, even if the tangible thread of fate is cut and countless individuals' personalities are intertwined, in the end Rewoven into an invisible destiny, what really matters is your will, Mei.

"Mei Yi, have you ever gone against your own will along the way? Aren't everything to this point achieved by your own will? The result itself has no meaning, it is the road to success. The process of results is a process in which every decision made due to one's own will gives meaning to the results.

"The important thing is, what I want to believe in this journey will determine what I can get when I reach the end. And even if the end is already doomed, I have to choose the process of reaching that end - someone once said But you, Kiana, and Bronya have done this without a doubt.

"So, what are you still hesitating about?"

Facing Alicia's smile, Mei pursed the corners of her mouth quickly, and her sadness dissipated inadvertently.

Then, Fairy Ellie floated to her side, took her and Kiana's hands respectively, overlapped them, and then pushed Bronya over.

"In that case, let's go!"

"Uh...have the conditions been met? But we still don't know how to concentrate all the power on Kiana, and Kiana's own power has not been restored yet..."

"Hmm! It seems that Yayi still needs some tips - listen up Yayi, the most essential point of Siyuan's power is to connect the powers of all Herrschers and combine them into one to reach the only true The end. Phew—it seems that you didn’t pay attention when I relayed the memories I saw in that space to you. I’m so sad.”

"No, it's not...it doesn't seem to exist in this section."

"Ah? No? Didn't that memory include the part about how we planned to defeat the Twelfth Herrscher in the end?"

"No...I'm sure not."

"Well, you know now."

Alicia smiled slightly, then raised her staff and struck each of the three girls on the head like a mallet.

"Okay, this is my blessing to you. Go quickly and see you there!"

"Um."

The three girls held hands and responded in unison, and then took a deep breath in unison.

Meiyi slowly closed her eyes and felt the [position] carefully. She seemed to see a road.

The roadside is full of thorns, and you will get stuck if you don't pay attention, but there are colorful flowers blooming on the thorns.

There are too many weeds growing on the road. However, depending on the height of the grass, you can still vaguely make out the footprints left behind.

Yayi held the two hands beside her and walked along the blurry road. The light and shadow in her sight became brighter and brighter, as if covered with a high-light filter. It was whiter than the light in the stigmata space. Those are more like a [dream].

Suddenly, a white light burst out, covering everything in sight, but the light was not dazzling, and people didn't react until there was only a pure white mass left in front of them.

When the light curtain dissipated like a tide, what appeared in front of the three girls was an ordinary station.

The track on the right was empty, but the bench on the left was still warm.

After all, this is an imaginary number space. Since then, time has never flowed here.

Mei leaned down and put her hands on the bench, silently feeling the warmth left by Mikael and Alicia.

She will be sad and moved by a story that spans a hundred and a thousand times longer than her own life so far, and gain the strength to move forward from it. Only humans can do this - if it is Alicia, she will definitely would say this in her ear.

"Mei Yi, what should we do next?"

Hearing the question from the girl next to her, Mei turned around slowly.

She opened her mouth, but before she could speak, she was overtaken by a voice that shouldn't exist here:

"What else do you need to do? We are already here."

"The Herrscher of Knowledge!"

Looking at the older girl coming from behind, Kiana was a little surprised.

The Lawyer of Consciousness didn't explain, he just raised his thumb and pointed behind him.

Soon, with the whistle blowing, the tram slowly pulled into the station and stopped, and the car parked in front of a few people was already full of people.

They are all...familiar people.

The door opened, the four people on the platform filed in, and the door slowly closed again.

The train began to move, from swaying, slowly and leisurely, to gradually becoming stable, and gradually elongating the surrounding light and shadow into straight lines.

"What's wrong with you three? Didn't we already agree to meet at this place? Do you think I'm joking?"

Elf Ellie floated in front of the three of them, but after thinking about it, she reached out and hooked the armrest above her head.

"No...we just..."

"Okay, don't talk, just feel it quietly."

Elf Ellie smiled and then handed her hand to Kiana.

The light outside the car window instantly turned pink. Through the corner of the eye, you could see an endless sea of ​​pink flowers. At the end of your sight, there stood a paradise that could not exist even in fairy tales.

Kiana swallowed, thinking of the stories Mei Yi had told her, her hands suddenly seemed to be carrying too much weight.

But she still gritted her teeth and raised her hand, then held Ellie's hand.

A force surged into the body, which was the power of erosion.

"I didn't expect that I could actually witness the ending you created as a witness instead of a bystander. So, you must work hard! Although I will also secretly cheer for Mikael behind your back—— Uh, shouldn’t I say this?”

"I understand what you mean, Alicia-senpai."

"I want to call you Miss Pink Fairy, or Fairy Ellie!"

"Uh... this is still too shameful..."

"Hmph! Even if you don't scream!"

Elf Ellie floated to the corner with her staff in her arms, her eyes closed and her head held high, her mouth pouted. She was obviously disappointed that Kiana didn't call out the title she expected in the end.

Kiana shook her head at a loss, still hesitating whether to obey Ellie, even though it was just this time, a short black-haired doll had already walked up to her.

"Guinevere?"

"Yo! Not bad, can you recognize it at a glance this time?"

The doll's lips curled up, and it also handed its hand to Kiana.

At the same time, the light outside the car window dimmed, and the tram drove through the dark purple sky, surrounded by broken masonry and a huge stage.

"I don't seem to have anything to say to you. Kiana, remember her words are also your own promise - go and make this imperfect world what you want it to be."

"Well, I will definitely do it."

As a result, the power of dominance also flowed into Kiana's body.

"Is it my turn next?"

There seemed to be the sound of crows passing by outside the window. When I glanced out of the corner of my eye, I saw a solar eclipse that was infinitely close to darkness, and a cross erected high in the square in the distance.

"Although there is still hatred between us that can never be resolved, the past remains in the past, but the people in the past may not be judged until the future. But at least this time, I will be your strength."

Otto put on his gloves, knowing that Kiana didn't want to touch him.

Thus, the power of restraint is completed.

"The next two are us!"

The train traveled to a silent island and endless ruins.

Anna pulled the expressionless Chen and stood in front of Kiana.

"We also wanted to participate in the final battle, but the bishop said that if we didn't become immortals, we would just go and deliver food, so... I'm sorry Kiana, handing over my power to you, this is the greatest we can provide you. of help.”

"It doesn't matter. With your support, I will never lose."

Anna and Chen stretched out their palms overlapping in front of Kiana, and Kiana also folded their hands with a smile.

Thus, the power of ice and the power of rock were also in place.

Boom——

A thunderstorm broke out, and the rapid raindrops began to beat hard on the car windows.

In the hazy and endless rain, you can vaguely see a messy steel forest and the black shadows of the Honkai beasts that slowly rise like mountains.

Of course, the most eye-catching thing is the blood-red lightning that flashes from time to time in the clouds.

"It looks like it's finally our turn."

Mei and Bronya, one smiling and the other standing next to Kiana with a paralyzed expression, each holding Kiana's hand tightly.

"When you wake up, the stupid Kiana will become the God of the Earth... If Bronya really goes to make games after retiring, she will ask you, the stupid one, to be the spokesperson."

"Okay, okay!"

"Kia---na--"

"Hey! Mei!"

"Hmm... That's it, it seems that there is nothing to say, who let us be together forever."

Kiana felt Mei holding her hand tightly, and then she smiled.

So, the power of the Herrscher of Reason and the Herrscher of Thunder filled the last void.

In a trance, the train came to the dazzling sea of ​​stars, and slowly stopped in front of a huge eyeball that looked like it was carved out of rock.

The eyeball was stuck in the broken space, twitching.

That was the cocoon of the end.

Suddenly, the carriage under her feet disappeared, and Kiana felt that she was falling.

She was not afraid, but just slowly closed her eyes.

Then, one hand after another was on her back, holding her up, pushing her forward until she reached the cocoon of the end.

The cocoon was still twitching, but between twitches, it slowly turned downward, and the broken cross-star pupils stared at the long team that walked in front of it.

Once, there was a person who walked in front of it alone, trying to change the world with everything he had.

That person was it itself.

Now, the new era has already arrived, but the one who walked in front of it is no longer [a person].

Kiana took two steps forward, but suddenly saw [herself] emerging not far away.

To be precise, it seemed to be a plaster statue that was exactly the same as [Kiana].

No color, no pupils, no expression, other than that, it was exactly the same.

"Kiana!"

Mei, who was no stranger to this, immediately stood in front of Kiana. Keli pulled the corner of her clothes, and Mei made way in hesitation.

Kiana glanced at Mei and then chuckled.

"Don't worry, Mei, no matter what it is, I won't lose."

Kiana took a step towards the statue.

But the strange thing was that there seemed to be a mirror between the two, and the statue also made the same movements as Kiana - just reversed left and right.

Kiana was stunned, but did not hesitate. She continued to stride forward until she was face to face with the statue, and then slowly raised her hand forward to touch it.

The warm and soft fingertips touched the cold and hard fingers. Kiana looked at the statue in front of her that imitated all her movements, and seemed to understand something.

So, she smiled and held it in her arms, just like she had done a few months ago.

The portrait also made the same move, and then, in the warm embrace, the portrait melted like an ice sculpture, and the remaining light also merged into Kiana's body.

Kiana straightened her body, looked up and silently looked at the cocoon of the end that had experienced countless years.

Then, the ends of her snow-white hair gradually turned purple.

"Kiana, are you okay?"

"Don't worry, Mei, I'm fine. Next..."

Hearing Mei's worried call, Kiana smiled and turned her head, revealing the pupils of the purple cross in her azure eyes.

"Let's go, the time for the decisive battle has come."