As Sabine Nicholas returned to reality, the light behind the final door gradually faded. The rift between reality and the dream collapsed, but Enoshia and Walter Yang remained inside the Herrscher of Frost.
Before them appeared to be a small river, except that it contained no water, only pure energy. After examining it with an instrument, Walter discovered that it contained both Honkai Energy and another mysterious energy somewhat similar to it.
At the end of their field of vision, the river split into two branches. The main channel, with its greater flow, and the smaller tributary headed in different directions.
"The energy inside the Herrscher is in complete chaos. Tesla and Ein should have reached the same conclusion and made their plans. Since everyone except us has left the dream, based on our previous speculation, they should all have returned to reality. The people outside should be taking action soon." Walter held an instrument created with the authority of the Herrscher of Reason in his right hand, carefully watching its constantly changing readings.
Enoshia only glanced at it before feeling her head itch terribly, as though a brain were about to grow inside it. As the Herrscher of Corruption, she had no language barrier. She recognized every single word on the instrument, but once they were put together, she had no idea what they meant.
Professional matters should be left to professionals. All she needed to know was that the people outside were about to launch an attack, and that she needed to be ready.
On the battlefield outside, the instant the black mist vanished, countless Ice Spears shot toward everyone again. They all acted together, doing everything they could to keep the attack from disturbing Sirin.
Sirin now stood high in the sky. Three points of light—blue, purple, and black—rotated around her, and the sky over all of Siberia abruptly changed color.
"I am a Herrscher, crowned with conquest. I can make lightning tear apart the heavens, and bring down the punishment of the stars and thunder."
"I am a Herrscher, wielding desire as my authority. I can make howling winds shatter the earth, while rushing clouds and roaring rain unleash an endless storm."
"I am a Herrscher, wrapped in tranquility. I can make flowers bloom across barren graves, as life and death cycle without a trace."
Lightning, violent winds, and decay. Three different powers intertwined and revolved together, ultimately becoming a lotus nearly as large as her body.
Using the authority of the Herrscher of Void, Sirin teleported the lotus, which had consumed more Honkai Energy than anything she had condensed since becoming a Herrscher, to the creature's side. Sirin had chosen the timing perfectly. The moment the lotus arrived beside it, the creature happened to open its huge mouth. How could it refuse something delivered straight to its lips? Without giving it much thought, it swallowed the lotus in one bite.
Hmm. Crispy, with a chicken flavor. Something just seemed a little off.
Several dozen seconds later, the Herrscher of Frost seemed to realize that it had just swallowed something extraordinary. It tried to spit it out, but it was already too late.
With a muffled boom, the lotus exploded inside it. The wounds torn open by the energy shock wave quickly healed, while the scattered energy was absorbed at tremendous speed. Several dozen minutes later, it had grown dozens of times larger, like a balloon filled with air. Although the Herrscher's movements had clearly slowed, there was no sign that it was about to self-destruct.
There were two pieces of news, one good and one bad. The good news was that, faced with energy right at its mouth, the Herrscher of Frost had swallowed it successfully without a second thought.
The bad news was that even though Sirin possessed four Herrscher Cores and had unleashed her full-powered attack, it still had not reached the limit of the energy it could absorb. Just as someone who ate too much might feel sick and vomit, the energy inside the Herrscher of Frost was now gradually leaking out.
Inside the Herrscher of Frost, the already turbulent river erupted like a flash flood. Though they had prepared for this, Walter, who existed through the Herrscher Core, was swept downstream when the Herrscher Core of Reason was carried away. The two were separated just like that.
"In that case, let's divide up the work." Although Walter Yang's situation was dire, he was the hardest person to kill among everyone here. For all they knew, even if everyone outside were wiped out, he might still sit up from the dead. Enoshia therefore had no concern for his safety whatsoever. Unlike Walter Yang, she followed the tributary and flew in the opposite direction.
After an unknown amount of time, the current gradually slowed, and Walter came to a stop. It was as if the river had washed him ashore. Ahead of him lay a vast lake.
"Although the energy gathered ahead isn't flowing as violently, its ability to break down matter is dozens, even hundreds of times stronger than ordinary Honkai Energy. If I think of this as a person, then I'm currently... in its stomach?"
He knocked on the ground beneath his feet. It was incomparably hard, yet possessed a certain elasticity, and was covered in a layer of slime that posed no danger to him. After examining it carefully with his instrument, he found countless tiny pores invisible to the naked eye in the walls. It really did resemble a stomach lining.
Destroying it from within while assisting the external attack and looking for a chance to escape was undoubtedly what he needed to do most right now. And his most powerful means of destruction was undoubtedly that move.
"Star of Eden, Zeroth Rated Power, Simulated Black Hole!"
Thank heavens, this time the Simulated Black Hole was not interrupted at all. It successfully opened, but compared with a real black hole, its actual effect was not merely somewhat inferior—it was worlds apart. The black hole before him was only palm-sized, giving off the impression of something "tiny, yet adorable." Forget light; even an ordinary person could probably escape it.
Walter Yang was not surprised, however. The Simulated Black Hole was not a real black hole, after all. His opponent was the Herrscher of Rocks, and in theory, anything Star of Eden could do, it could do as well. Countering his attacks as they came was easy. Whenever he increased gravity, it only needed to reduce gravity accordingly.
Even so, for the Herrscher of Rocks of the current era to counter the Zeroth Rated Power, which rivaled the power of the Herrscher of Rocks, would undoubtedly consume an enormous amount of Honkai Energy. Draining the Herrscher's Honkai Energy to restrain its movements and create the conditions for everyone else to deliver a fatal blow—this was what he intended to do.
Several minutes later, the Simulated Black Hole suddenly expanded, growing from the size of a palm to half Walter's height.
"Could the chaotic energy have imposed a limit on the Herrscher of Rocks' use of its authority? Or did the people outside do something?"
The next moment, the Simulated Black Hole instantly grew larger than Walter, with no sign of stopping. The lake-like energy, the stomach-wall-like ground, and everything around it were all sucked inside.
After some more time passed, Walter was astonished to discover that the scene before his eyes had changed. The unfamiliar surroundings had become the familiar snowy wasteland of Siberia.
Although they were some distance away, the few people from Schicksal had driven their weapons into the ground and were resisting the pull of the Simulated Black Hole with all their might, their faces twisted in pain.
Seeing that something was wrong, Walter immediately stopped Star of Eden. Nicholas and Shigure Kira, who had nearly been sucked inside, collapsed onto the ground, gasping for breath.
The Herrscher of Frost's enormous body, which had originally been as massive as a skyscraper, had been completely sucked into the Simulated Black Hole. Only a single Herrscher Core remained suspended in the air. Walter Yang recognized it at a glance: it was the Herrscher Core of the Herrscher of Rocks.
But... wasn't it a Dual-Core Herrscher? Why was there only the Herrscher Core of the Herrscher of Rock?
Siegfried's shout, like a thunderclap, jolted Old Yang out of his bafflement:
"The Herrscher got away!"
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