You Are Me, and I Am You

Han Jiang grabbed the Plague Gem, and flames immediately surged from his palm.

The flames seemed intent on burning his very marrow away. The power within the core began entering his body, accompanied by the core's echoes.

Normally, this phenomenon would only occur after someone had fused with a Herrscher core to a certain extent. But Han Jiang had always been skilled at manipulating fire-element energy.

Han Jiang felt as though flames were burning all over his body. Even the air he exhaled carried sparks.

A Herrscher core was not an ordinary energy core. It was a passage connected to Imaginary Space. How much power one could wield depended on how much strength the host could draw from Imaginary Space.

There was a limit, too. Otherwise, the Second Herrscher would have only needed one Gem back then. Why would the god of Honkai have given her so many at once?

At that moment, Han Jiang experienced what Siegfried had once felt, except one was icy cold while the other was scorching hot.

But when you thought about it, winter's cold was much the same as midsummer heat. The pain came in different forms, but the misery felt the same.

As the Gem gradually began to fuse with him, Han Jiang saw more echoes from the core.

There were fragments from the previous era, fragments from around two thousand years ago, and he even saw Fu Hua from the previous era.

He also saw the final sword Kevin had swung at the previous Flame Herrscher.

The process was painful, not only because of himself, but because of outside interference as well.

Honkai would certainly not let Han Jiang take the Flame Herrscher's power so easily.

"Kiana..."

Han Jiang was already speaking weakly. He lifted an arm and said, "Move back a