Here, at this moment, he was already capable of erasing the last stubborn trace of his humanity.
He snapped his fingers with his right hand.
The cultivation chamber exploded, green nutrient fluid spilling everywhere. Yet the shattered glass did not cut K423's skin in the slightest.
Because Apocalypse was going to personally strangle his own moonlight.
Apocalypse leaped up and stood amid the wreckage of the laboratory chamber. K423's eyelashes fluttered as her dazed eyes slowly opened. Her rosy little lips spat out nutrient fluid. Reacting to Apocalypse's movements, she turned her head, her sapphire-blue eyes looking toward the man standing beside her.
Her gaze was full of confusion, like a newly hatched chick.
Apocalypse could feel the stirring of his remaining humanity. Though only the last thread remained, its reaction was even more intense than before.
More intense than ever before.
Because on the path of extinguishing humanity, every bit of humanity erased strengthened divinity, yet also continuously stimulated what humanity remained.
But in the end, it was merely a final flash before death.
Even if humanity's resistance reached an unprecedented peak, it would afterward be swallowed by tidal waves of divinity. This was ultimately a fleeting resistance. Humanity could not resist the temptation of evolution.
Looking at the immobile K423, Apocalypse extended both hands toward her slender neck.
With only a gentle twist, her bonelessly soft neck would snap.
Apocalypse, with only divinity remaining, would become a true god.
He would not even need the authority granted by Honkai. Now, nearly divine, he could sense that the mere authority of Honkai was weakening his divinity and suppressing his innate power.
I, Apocalypse, possess the qualities of both the Imaginary and the Quantum. I have no need for Honkai's authority.
And Apocalypse finally understood.
Why, back then, he had