Honkai: Fire Moth Herrschers-Chapter 224: An Inhuman Form

"Boom!"

A violent explosion sounded, not from the Herrscher, but from the armored wall on the other side.

Cyan-white cold air rushed in faster than the stream of flames, slamming into the Herrscher from the side, and almost instantly freezing the scorching flames!

Dense fog instantly filled the entire combat command room. The Herrscher reached out to where Mei had been standing, while turning his head to look at the source of the cold stream on the left.

However, he neither touched Mei, nor could he clearly see who had launched that attack.

"Is it Sakura? Or the 5th Divine Key?"

The Herrscher's thoughts raced in his mind, thanks to the memories stored in the First Herrscher Core. He knew Fire Moth too well, and naturally knew every combatant of Fire Moth.

But before he could fully consider it, a sound of breaking air came, and even all the fog rolled back to both sides. So the first thing he saw was a pair of crimson eyes.

"You are—"

"Boom!"

The attacker didn't pause at all. He directly twisted the Herrscher's shoulder. The two bodies, with this inertia, directly smashed into the armored wall on the other side of the combat command room, creating huge dents and cracks.

"Mikael!"

Hua stumbled to her feet. With just a quick glance, she unhesitatingly called out his name.

But Mikael looked different now. Huge blue cracks had appeared on his body, making him look even less "human" than the Herrscher.

His feet were deeply embedded in the armored wall, and his hands were choking the Herrscher's throat, constantly trembling from excessive force. Hearing Hua's call, his eyes slanted slightly.

In those eyes, which were the same color as when he was a Herrscher, were not the familiar gear-shaped pupils—but beast-like vertical pupils.

"Watch out!"

Hua had no time to be stunned. She shouted a warning, but it was too late.

Mikael only had time to slightly turn his body. The sharp [Lance of Longinus] pierced his left arm. The spatial power completely shattered the wound, and along with the remaining small part of his arm, it flew over Hua's head and slammed into the armor plate behind her.

Blood rain soaked half of her body. Hua's eyes immediately became horrified—she saw Mikael stiffen his neck, his jaw trembling open, emitting a roar mixed with pain and anger.

His corners of his mouth were even cracked all the way by the traction of his muscles, revealing only two rows of sharp teeth hanging with blood. Then, from the gaps in his cheeks, puffs of white steam spewed out.

His hands didn't stop either. First, a headbutt directly stunned the Herrscher who was brewing the next wave of attacks. Then, he used his intact right hand to brutally and savagely punch the Herrscher's face.

"Bang!"

Half of the Herrscher's head was completely flattened, and his body was deeply embedded in the armored wall. Mikael held the wall with one hand, pulled out his feet, and regardless of the gurgling blood flowing from his tattered boots, he stomped on the Herrscher's abdomen.

The Herrscher constructed a blazing fire wall in front of him, but Mikael did the opposite.

A green arc of lightning flashed, and the armored wall exploded outward. After the fog of ice and fire in the combat command room had completely dissipated, everyone could only see the huge gap in the armored wall, and the explosions and vibrations constantly coming from the gap—each sound meant the shattering of an armor plate.

For the surviving people, the lucky thing was that this terrifying sound was constantly moving away.

"Where is he going!"

All the display screens had stopped working. Mei could only hold her broken glasses, close her eyes, construct a map of the base in her mind, and determine Mikael's location based on the loudness of the sound.

Her thinking was only a moment slower than Prometheus, who had access to all the base's information. They almost simultaneously announced Mikael's target—"Elevator!"

Naturally, it wasn't the conventional elevator Mikael had just used, but the rapid deployment elevator specially used to transport large goods and materials!

"He's crazy! With his current body..."

"Boom—boom—boom—boom—"

How many layers of special armor plating had been broken through, neither Mikael nor the Herrscher could say. In the melee, the Seventh Herrscher, who mastered six Herrscher powers, naturally regained the upper hand—

"Boom!"

The armored wall behind Mikael shattered under the load, turning into large pieces of metal falling down. In the face of their destructive power, which far exceeded the limits of biological flesh, this human-made alloy armor plating was as fragile as sheet metal.

The Herrscher continued to exert force, choking Mikael's neck, but he could no longer push further, because Mikael's body had broken through the last layer of armor plating outside the base and embedded into the rock layer of the earth.

Even a Herrscher had to have a certain respect for nature.

As for the flames emanating from his whole body, they were just offset by the cold air escaping from Mikael's body, so that along the way, they left lingering white steam.

The Herrscher's five fingers continued to contract. The skin on Mikael's neck had already burst open, which meant that the Herrscher's fingers had broken through Mikael's skin and deeply embedded into his flesh.

Perhaps influenced by Lezren's consciousness, seeing this situation, the Herrscher, who thought he had victory in his grasp, couldn't help but say a few words to show off:

"Do you know? Your—"

Before he could finish speaking, he saw Mikael's clenched teeth gradually loosen, and the corners of his mouth, which had been cracked all the way to his ears, twitch slightly.

Was he smiling? Or...

The Herrscher didn't understand the meaning of Mikael's expression, or perhaps—he didn't have time to understand.

He suddenly found that his hand couldn't exert force... No, it wasn't that his hand couldn't exert force, it was...

Was space frozen? No! It's freezing! It's [Yaksha]'s ability!

The Herrscher's heart trembled. He had unexpectedly overlooked this point. Since Mikael had somehow shown the ICHOR factor abilities of [Parvati] and [Śeṣa] earlier, he would naturally also have [Yaksha]'s!

How to solve [Yaksha]'s ability? He began to search Mikael's fragmented memories—ah! Right! The power of the Herrscher of the Void can...

In frozen space, even the concept of time was blurred. He didn't know how long he had been thinking, whether it was just a moment, or 0.1 seconds, several seconds?

And it took time for him to invoke the power of space—after all, the muscle memory in the core wasn't his own memory. Even if he imitated it, even if the strength of this power was so strong that he could almost run rampant, in the moment of life and death, he ultimately revealed this flaw.

When the golden light emerged from his body, when he was about to break through the frozen space, Mikael had already endured the pain, first using the sharp blade growing from his forearm to cut off the Herrscher's arm choking his neck, and then holding the Herrscher's shoulder, turning his body, pushing him all the way back, and finally pushing him to a platform.

Above the platform was a straight and narrow tunnel. Mikael glanced at the emergency launch button beside him. It was too late to reach it with his only remaining hand, and it was even more unrealistic to reach it. He didn't have time to think. He kicked out with his right foot and stepped on the launch button. The release of the restraining device at the bottom of the elevator platform and the lighting of the electromagnetic catapult track occurred almost at the same time.

Mikael only felt the upper part of his vision suddenly darken. A huge impact force came from above, making him almost unable to stand.

Only then did he feel a slight pain in his right leg. Mikael trembled his neck and gently lowered his gaze, only to find that his right leg had already been sawed off by the sharp burrs on the edge of the tunnel at extremely high speed, and was now nowhere to be seen.

And the reason why this pain was said to be slight was only because, under comparative perception, the pain caused by this missing arm and leg was not even one ten-thousandth of the pain caused by the forced devouring of [Vishnu] ICHOR factor, and the need to maintain a human form and maintain humanity as much as possible.

Not to mention, now there was also this huge overload...

Mikael struggled to turn his neck again. The Herrscher, who was being held down by him, also stiffened his neck and rolled his eyes, obviously, he couldn't fully withstand this huge overload either. Moreover, he was being held down by Mikael, his back constantly rubbing against the tunnel, creating a series of sparks.

Suddenly, the light in front of him brightened. Mikael's hand holding the Herrscher couldn't find a point to exert force for a while.

However, Mikael didn't have time to see anything or do anything. He and the Herrscher were thrown into the air by the huge inertia, and because of this inertia, the blood in his body was rushing to his brain. In an instant, Mikael could only see a blood-red in his vision.

His consciousness was also gradually worn away in this back-and-forth trauma of the brain.

"Is this the limit... Forcibly devouring the power of [Parvati], [Śeṣa], and [Yaksha] with [Vishnu] is only enough to contend with the Herrscher for such a short three minutes..."

"Mobius... In the end, I couldn't fulfill all your expectations..."

"Ding-ling-ling—"

"Uh!"

He heard a familiar and tiny sound. In the midst of a daze, he realized that it was the sound of the necklace left by Seele, tied to his right wrist, being blown by the wind.

"Seele!"

In a blood-red background, Mikael saw a small and blurry figure.

"Mikael-Oni-Chan, it's not time to rest yet..."

Where that voice came from, Mikael didn't know, nor did he have the mind to know. He just treated it as an illusion appearing in his mind.

Although he didn't understand why the illusion presented Seele's posture and Seele's voice, but...

"Yes! It's not time to rest... After my consciousness falls asleep... Before my consciousness falls asleep... I still have something I should do!"

The sound of the wind was endless. His body still didn't feel the pull of gravity, which meant that not much time had passed—or rather, time hadn't even started flowing.

That consciousness, which had gradually been on the verge of collapse, reunited again, so that his gaze was clear for a moment.

Next, he took advantage of this imprint left in his mind for a moment, stretched out his increasingly strong and powerful single arm, which grew in the opposite direction of the dissipating and disintegrating consciousness. Ice and snow continued to extend along his arm, eventually grabbing the Herrscher's ankle.

"Hahahahahaha!"

He swung the Herrscher's body in mid-air and rolled forward. He poured all his strength and all his consciousness into this moment, until he no longer remembered what he was doing, just relying on the inertia of his body to let go, flinging the Herrscher towards the distant earth.

"Whoosh—"

The Herrscher's body drew a black diagonal line in mid-air. As the tail of the diagonal line appeared in his vision, ripples of space spread out.

The Herrscher crashed back-first into the scorched earth. At first, his body and the ground made only a slight "puff—" sound, but the next moment, a huge roar like a continuous surge of waves.

At this moment, whether it was the Fire Moth members in the underground base, or the family members and civilians in the shelter, they all covered their ears, opened their mouths, and bulged their eyes to resist the vibrations that were so violent that they almost shattered the "sky" of this underground city.

The pink crystal wall didn't even last three seconds in front of the dust raised by this vibration. Fortunately, Kevin, who had been healed by the 6th Divine Key, constructed an ice wall in time, and Elysia followed up with a crystal wall... Deploying defenses backwards in this drum-type manner, until the seventh defense wall, finally barely blocked all the aftershocks of this blow.

Elysia immediately summoned a huge crystal pillar and climbed to the top.

"Ah—this is!"

What she saw was a huge hemispherical pit, centered on the former artificial lake, with a diameter of nearly one kilometer and a depth of nearly one hundred meters.

Kevin also climbed up. Before he could stand firm, he took a long, drawn-out breath—"Hiss—who did this? Is there such a powerful existence in the base now?"

Just in terms of the extent of the ground depression, the kinetic energy produced by that blow had already far exceeded that of general nuclear weapons. In Kevin's understanding, there was only one person in the entire Fire Moth who could possibly launch such an attack...

But, did he really have this ability at this time?

Elysia seemed to feel something. She suddenly looked up at the sky, where a black dot was free-falling.

The black dot grew larger and larger in her vision—not only the change in size brought about by the distance, but the black dot itself was also growing in size, until it fell into the pit, rolled along the pit wall for tens of meters, and was finally covered by the rising dust...

Elysia's heart trembled with the sound of the black dot landing. She had a bad feeling. Like Kevin, she naturally knew that only he in the current Fire Moth could achieve this level of individual destructive power, but...

"Beep beep—"

"Communication is restored!"

Kevin excitedly waved his fist. Then he heard Mei's voice: "Kevin, are you... Can you and Elysia transmit the image of the ground back?"

"Okay! Okay!"

Kevin checked. The combat recorder on his collar was still usable. But just as he lowered his head to check, Elysia suddenly jumped off the crystal pillar and rushed towards the pit.

"Elysia!"

Kevin and Mei shouted in perfect synchronization. He immediately stomped his foot and followed.

"Mei! That's Mikael, right? That's Mikael, right!"

"...Yes. But... Elysia, you need to calm down now!"

"Calm down..."

Elysia put her right fist on her heart. She silently repeated it in her heart, and then her footsteps became slower and slower, and finally stopped at the edge of the pit.

Mei and Kevin breathed a sigh of relief.

But just as Kevin, who was trailing behind, caught up with her, she suddenly jumped up again, trying to rush into the pit. Fortunately, Kevin constructed an ice wall in time to block her.

"Don't stop me, Kevin!"

"Elysia, trust Mei. She has her reasons for not letting you get close to Mikael."

Elysia turned her head and looked deeply at Kevin. The latter immediately understood the meaning of her gaze—if it was Mei lying in the pit now, would you stop?

What's more... Kevin turned his gaze to the center of the pit. The Seventh Herrscher, who had been beaten up, stumbled to his feet, using his power to simply replace his severely damaged body. He glanced at Kevin and Elysia from afar, and then took steps towards the pile of "minced meat" further away.

This time, Elysia really couldn't calm down. She just bit her teeth slightly, and the ice wall that Kevin tried to block her shattered in his shocked gaze.

"Elysia!"

Kevin could no longer stop her, but a rather young and weak voice just happened to connect to the communication at this time, and also stopped Elysia's steps towards Mikael.

"There's no need to go, Elysia."

"Mobius, what do you mean?"

"Heh! What kind of tone is that?"

Things had come to this point. The more anxious Elysia's heart was, the more impolite her tone would naturally be, especially since the other party was Mobius.

Her mood was extremely complicated, corresponding to the two results mentioned in Mobius's answer.

"If I say that even the Herrscher's current state is probably far superior to you and Kevin, you probably won't listen to this kind of persuasion, so..."

The Seventh Herrscher had already walked to a place less than a hundred meters away from Mikael, and raised his hand towards him.

"It's ironic, you traitor... Do you know that your core, your body, kept holding me back in the battle with your companions, preventing me from using my full power? Hehe... But the moment I encountered you, your core was able to achieve near-perfect synchronization with me. How much do you have to hate yourself..."

The Herrscher's words naturally didn't receive an answer. He carefully looked at what was in front of him, which was just a pile of minced meat—Mikael's body had already begun to disintegrate along with his consciousness the moment he fell.

Now, apart from being a little larger in size and having a strange blue color, it was no different from other corpses that had fallen from a high altitude—at least in the Herrscher's eyes.

So he just sneered twice, seemingly mocking Mikael, who had been betrayed by his own core, and seemingly mocking his own overthinking at that moment.

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But now, it's better to be safe—the hand he raised towards Mikael clenched tightly into a fist.

Then, bone-chilling ice spikes, scorching flames, and蜿蜒 lightning snakes surged out together. The three energies with different attributes triggered a violent explosion at the moment of intersection, and rolling smoke once again covered everyone's sight.

"Ah!"

Elysia suddenly covered her mouth. Mobius was naturally very dissatisfied with being suddenly interrupted. She spat softly and continued to speak:

"So, I'm telling you—there's no need to go. After all... the real battle is just beginning, and I also want to invite you to witness: the greatest experiment I, Mobius, have ever conducted. Let you see what a true MANTIS Warrior's..."

"Hey! Mobius, can you not plagiarize my stage script?"

"Vill-V! Is this the time for you to interrupt!"

However, no one cared about their bickering. Elysia and Kevin looked intently. When the smoke from the explosion dissipated, the minced meat belonging to Mikael, which was in the center of the explosion, was—unharmed.

"How is that possible!"

The Herrscher looked at this scene, slightly stunned, until he saw that where the smoke had passed, space also rippled like water. He realized that just now was... [Yaksha]'s ability to freeze space again.

However, when he realized this, the last chance had already been lost.

A blood-red eye suddenly opened in that pile of blue minced meat.

At the first sight of that eye, the Herrscher realized—that was not Mikael, that was definitely not Mikael!

Or rather, that was definitely not a look that a human could have! If the previous pair of eyes carried a trace of human rationality in addition to madness, the current pair of eyes, apart from desire, anger, and tyranny, did not have a trace of consciousness that should belong to a human.

The Herrscher just stood there for a few seconds. Suddenly, the sky darkened. He suddenly stumbled towards Mikael, but then stopped abruptly and began to run in the opposite direction!

His initial actions were naturally not out of his own will, but were attracted by a kind of gravity. He ran in the opposite direction of gravity, while looking up.

He saw that almost all the Honkai energy in this world had gathered in the sky, so dense that it almost blocked out all light.

Then, this Honkai energy quickly twisted, rotated, and converged into Mikael's body.

Even the Honkai energy in the Herrscher Core couldn't escape this traction.

And what was attracted was not only Honkai energy?

The ashes floating in the air, the loose soil on the surface of the scorched earth, all floated towards the sky at this time, and then converged towards Mikael.

After a short while, with a sudden and dazzling lightning flash, the vortex quickly collapsed and condensed, eventually forming a thick black fog within a few hundred meters of Mikael.

A spatial rift opened at the edge of the black fog. The Herrscher jumped out.

The surrounding air was also filled with a burnt yellow smog. He realized that there was no longer that strong traction in the black fog, so he gradually stopped running and looked warily at what was in front of him.

"Gurgle—"

A series of dull and indescribable echoes, I don't know if it was the breath of the life in the black fog, or the protest from its still-remaining abdomen...

"Crack-crack-crack-crack—"

That was the constant cracking of bones, which could only mean that the size of the guy inside was still growing.

As if to verify his guess, the black fog was still expanding outwards at a slow speed, until it completely covered the entire pit. The Herrscher had to jump out of the pit.

The expansion of the black fog stopped here. Now everyone's eyes were focused on this place, either nervous or expectant...

"Boom—boom—"

The earth shook twice.

Then, a strong and powerful heartbeat, through the black fog, through the air, was transmitted to everyone's eardrums.

At the same time, their heartbeats also began to beat with it.

"Thump—thump—thump—"

"Thump, thump, thump, thump—"

"Thump-thump-thump-thump-thump!"

Elysia covered her heart. The excessively fast heartbeat made her feel a little uncomfortable. Kevin beside her was choking his throat, almost unable to breathe.

Suddenly, the heartbeat stopped.

A mountain ridge broke through the black fog and towered, until the complete arched structure was exposed, until the head and limbs were revealed, the onlookers could believe that the mountain peak that had just towered was just the monster's spine...

And now, it stood upright, reaching the sky, and let out an inhuman roar in an inhuman form—

"Mooo——————"