Joining MiHoYo, the Savior Me Was Targeted by Elysia

"I'd like to see how many attacks you can block!"

The Queen stopped using tangible attacks like the Spear of Subspace or crystal blocks, switching instead to directly bombarding him with Honkai energy.

Every explosion of energy sent tremors through space-time, tearing apart everything around Ye Ming.

Though the shield could protect him, Ye Ming found it impossible to move even an inch, much less harm the Queen in the slightest.

"I have to trap her!"

Ye Ming glanced at the God-Slaying Spear in the storage compartment at his waist. The equation for victory had already been written; what he needed most now was an opening to attack.

He held his breath and closed his eyes, feeling the power of the Geo element flow through his body...

When Ye Ming opened his eyes again, his pupils had taken on the shape of Geo runes, and the streaks in his black hair had turned dark gold.

Then, amid the chaos overflowing with Honkai energy, a towering, immovable figure spoke in a deep voice:

"Tectonic Surge."

In an instant! A fierce, vast will descended from the heavens. The sheer pressure of the airflow swept every piece of debris from the ground.

Then, a massive meteor came crashing down, brutally suppressing the warped space-time and the leaking Honkai energy.

Holy shit! What kind of skill was that?!

Was he calling in an extraterrestrial civilization to attack?!

So this was Tectonic Surge?

It was not only the audience who stood stunned by the meteor. Even the Herrscher of the Void, who had always looked down on everything from above, had no choice but to raise her head and look up at it.

"Damn it!!"

Unable to take it lightly, the Queen had no choice but to temporarily set Ye Ming aside and unleash all her power.

She used every ability at her disposal—spears, butterfly wings, ribbons of light, dimensional voids—to meet the colossal stone head-on.

"Now!"

The power of the Anemo element wrapped around Ye Ming's body, unfolding a pair of Wind Wings for him.

Very soon, Ye Ming would be able to drive the God-Slaying Spear in his hand into Kiana's body.

"Urgh!"

But just as Ye Ming was about to touch the defenseless Queen, an overwhelming sensation of weakness swept through his entire body...

It was as though someone had cut the strings controlling a puppet with scissors.

"Why is this happening?"

It was not just the power of the Anemo element. Ye Ming's bones, muscles, and nerves all began to fail. Even his heart started beating erratically.

"No... I can't..."

Less than a meter remained between Ye Ming and the Queen, yet he could not cross even that short distance.

Stripped of his strength, he fell from the sky like a dead bird. The collapse the system had mentioned before...

It had come at the worst possible time.

Thereafter, If There Were No Torches... (Third Update)

Because time stood still within the Time Corridor, no matter how much damage Ye Ming sustained, it would stop worsening the moment he entered the corridor.

But if it could not worsen, that also meant it could not heal.

In the endless battles, every injury Ye Ming suffered meant permanent damage.

Because he had been injured too many times, with wounds varying greatly in severity, even the system could not estimate when Ye Ming's body would collapse.

But now... this was clearly the most ill-timed situation possible.

"Ha... ha..."

At that moment, the camera switched to a first-person view.

Through Ye Ming's perspective, the audience could clearly hear his ragged breathing and see his blurred vision.

They could even feel the scalp-numbing tinnitus that Ye Ming was enduring...

"Damned insect, are you trying to petrify me?"

The Queen had already shattered the massive meteor, but the Geo energy scattered by the impact had not been completely neutralized. Her lower body had been petrified, leaving her unable to move.

By all rights, the Herrscher of the Void should have been completely petrified, but her power as a Herrscher was simply too immense.

"You dare touch me with something so filthy!"

The Queen paid no attention to Ye Ming's abnormal state. She merely saw an opportunity and attacked him like a madwoman.

Unable to make any response, Ye Ming was swallowed by an overwhelming flood of crystal formations.

"Just... give me a little time..."

Ye Ming could feel that his body still retained some strength. If he could rest for a while, he could still rely on sheer willpower to recover enough strength to fight.

"If only... I had a few minutes..."

But the creator of the tragedy before him had no intention of stopping.

The relentless assault was not only destroying Ye Ming's body—it was also mocking his resolve to never give up hope.

In the end, the "few minutes" Ye Ming desperately needed never came.

"God, I have never prayed to you before."

The crazed Queen spread the wings of light behind her back, turning them into blades of flowing radiance that shattered Ye Ming's shield and pierced his body.

"If you truly exist, why do those who drive away the darkness always end in tragedy?"

The blades then transformed into spears of light, drilling relentlessly into Ye Ming's flesh and bones until they pierced straight through him.

"But if... there really is someone... who can hear my prayer..."

After his body collapsed and suffered one fatal blow after another, Ye Ming's will finally neared its breaking point.

The light in his eyes was about to fade completely, leaving only a blank void in his mind.

Then...

Within that snow-white nothingness, Ye Ming heard a voice...

—Do not pray in a world without gods.

Ye Ming remembered that voice. He remembered those words, too.

Who had said them to him? Why did they sound so familiar?

"Ah... I remember now..."

Slowly, Ye Ming opened his eyes.

"This... was something I said myself."

A white figure, as though its color had been faded away by time, appeared and knocked aside the Queen's strike meant to end Ye Ming's life.

As that person's form gradually came into focus, it revealed a face identical to Ye Ming's.

"Impossible! What is going on!?"

The startled Queen once again wielded her authority to distort time and space, but the more she did so, the more Ye Mings joined them.

They were all traces Ye Ming had left behind across countless timelines.

They possessed Ye Ming's personality and carried Ye Ming's convictions—one Ye Ming after another, existing only in the past.

"Why are there so many of him in this chaotic time!?"

The Queen knew that the temporal distortions in the Imaginary Space were the result of her abuse of authority.

But she could not understand why Ye Ming existed in so many timelines.

Yes. How could she possibly understand the stories behind all this?

"You never-ending pests! I'll kill every last one of you!"

Though the Ye Mings of the past could not remain for long, the Queen's attacks and the restoration of the distorted spacetime would eventually make them fade away.

But for Ye Ming, who only needed a few minutes to catch his breath... this was enough.

"Hey, me over there..."

The Ye Ming of the past looked toward his present self.

"What are you waiting for?"

"Ah... it's time."

Ye Ming forced his shattered body upright and answered his former self.

"Your dream..."

"My dream..."

"Is to light the road home for those who gave everything in the darkness."

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"You had long since resolved yourself..."

"I had long since resolved myself..."

"If this world no longer has a torch that can be lit for them."

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"Then you..."

"Then I..."

"Will be their..."

"Only light!!!"

Ye Ming's eyes erupted with a blazing intensity that seemed ready to shatter gods and fate alike.

In an instant, every phantom of the past seemed to answer a summons, merging into Ye Ming's body without hesitation.

The world lost all color, leaving only a brilliant beam of light that pierced through heaven and earth.

Within that torrent of light, Ye Ming shattered every obstacle standing before the Queen.

Because his past self had also borne grievous wounds, Ye Ming's injuries did not improve after the fusion.

Yet some energy that had long lain dormant within him was awakened by his fusion with himself from another timeline.

"Don't think you can get close to me again!"

Her extreme hatred for humanity... especially for Ye Ming, drew out all of the Queen's power.

Her authority, her Honkai, writhed, devoured, expanded, annihilated...

The entire Imaginary Space descended into hysterical madness!

"It's time to end this, Kiana."

Ye Ming opened spatial wormholes to redirect the rain-dense Void Lances, then unfurled ribbon-like wings to slice apart the massive crystals hurtling toward him.

"That's... my power?"

The Queen had never imagined that she had once used Honkai to corrupt Ye Ming, smiling as she watched him suffer unbearable agony.

But now, Honkai had betrayed her, assimilated by Ye Ming into his own power.

"How could I possibly... lose to a counterfeit like you?!"

Ye Ming and the Queen, Honkai against Honkai—both evenly matched as they unleashed earth-shaking roars.

Void energy rushing in opposite directions poured down like a black iron curtain, cleaving apart the heavens and earth of Imaginary Space.

Whose power was unstoppable?

And whose power could not be defied?