Magic Bullet II

The letter contained only two hastily written characters.

"Wait for me."

A high-concentration Honkai Energy beam shot straight at him, the noise reaching its maximum at that moment, and Lin's pupils widened as his palm collided head-on with the beam!

"Sizzle—"

Amidst the sea of blood, the golden chains cracked under the strain, and Prismatic Eyes struggled violently, reaching out her arm towards Lin.

Lin didn't stop. The next beam of light grazed his face, turning his right ear to ashes. Half of his face was charred black by the high temperature. Then, his right arm and right ear, which had disappeared, grew back in an instant. Before the Herrscher of Reason could react, he leaped up and kicked her squarely in the face.

"Bang!"

The Herrscher of Reason was transformed into a bullet and ricocheted into the collapsed ruins. The beam of light melted the rubble pressing on her body. Just before she was about to collide head-on with the falling Lin, the light in Lin's Prismatic Eyes shone at its brightest!

"Boom!"

Lin stood unharmed amidst the ruins, his aura emanating from pale golden particles. Around him, like a self-breathing protective layer, he separated himself from "the others."

The Herrscher of Reason crawled out of the ruins, her emotionless gray eyes meeting Lin's Prismatic Eyes, the characteristics of an anomaly displayed vividly in their eye sockets.

"Whoosh—"

Two figures moved rapidly one after the other through the ruins, like ghosts that could not be seen clearly. The oppressive Honkai Energy given an invisible life, and ugly palms were stretched out to the surroundings.

However, with each collision of the figures, the spreading Honkai Energy dissipated, and the area of their battle became smaller and smaller.

Because one of the energies was being gradually suppressed, the Herrscher of Reason's movements were much slower than at the beginning. She couldn't understand why her use of Honkai Energy was so slow, as if it were blocked. Even the most basic action of gathering Honkai Energy together and shooting it out was greatly weakened.

On the contrary, Lin's movements became faster and faster. His breathing became more even, and his expression became colder and more stern. However, the human part of his eerie Prismatic Eyes gradually diminished with each attack.

"Bang!"

In the end, Lin grabbed the Herrscher of Reason's head. His radiant eyes were so dazzling that even the blazing sun hanging high in the sky could not compare to him.

He raised his arm, his fingers twisting erratically, as if something inside him was about to burst out.

This also caused Lin to pause briefly.

The Herrscher of Reason's gray eyes ignited with color once more, just as she was about to retaliate—

"Sizzle!"

The arm pierced through the chest, and blood and chunks of flesh slowly slid down the fingers.

"..."

Lin calmly grasped the shoulder of the First Herrscher, whose eyes had lost their luster, and slowly and forcefully withdrew his hand from her body, discarding it on the ground as if throwing away a useless piece of trash.

Open your palm, and a gray Herrscher Core floats quietly in the center.

It fell silent.

The one near my ear.

The surrounding area.

The world.

In my heart.

All of them, all of them, all of them, all of them—

Complete silence.

He finally poked his head out of the Red Sea and breathed in the fresh air deeply.

What should we do next?

Oh right, there are humans nearby, so...

Suddenly, he clutched his chest and gasped for breath, his Prismatic Eyes flickering erratically.

Lin wearily raised his head again, looked around at the mess, and limped away.

He wants to go back.

Someone is waiting for him; he must go back.

He will not break his promise; he will give the innocent young girl a proper wedding.

She...

I...

We will be safe and sound.

"Cough cough..."

The man knelt on the ground, his empty eyes plunging into darkness, and even the world before him began to flicker erratically.

Even one step is fine, just take another step...

"Clatter."

The sound of footsteps, whose footsteps were unknown, pounded heavily on the ground.

It shook my soul.

"Forest..."

Lin heard a familiar voice. He lifted his face, which was stiff and unable to move, and his lips trembled as he said, "Elysia?"

"Splash."

The rain will accompany this person.

Another ghost appeared before him.

Elysia's phantom was washed away by the dark rain, and the person who blended into the darkness, wrapped in ugly bandages, looked down at the disheveled man.

"Splash."

A golden cross stands behind her.

It is like judging an unforgivable sinner.

Chapter Twenty-One: The Magic Bullet Part Two

Yan Luo looked down at the man lying on the ground. His once iconic black hair had turned completely silver-white, just like hers, as if telling the story of the strange changes that had taken place in his body.

She had so much to say—so much she should have said—but she cut to the chase and said coldly, "I can help you now."

"..."

"You can stay here forever and live with that person, just like you were always in this world. I will be responsible for suppressing the Pseudo-Herrscher Core in your body. Apart from the Herrscher of Reason outbreak this time, it will take a long time for the Honkai of this world to occur. The people you know will live, grow old, get sick and die normally."

"Even if one day everyone you know leaves you and you no longer want to live, I can help you find liberation."

"In exchange, you can no longer return to your original world."

Lin did not respond; the body lying on the ground appeared to be a corpse.

He only moved when a small puddle of rainwater had formed on his chin, his hoarse voice piercing through the heavy rain. "What other options are there?"

"There is no other choice." Yan Luo ruthlessly shattered his illusions. "You want to go back to see her one last time before leaving? Impossible. You either stay here completely, or... die."

Yan Luo, gave him time.

She used what she considered the gentlest method: now Lin only needs to give up everything he originally insisted on, and they won't have to fight each other. Lin can live like an ordinary person, and she can try to believe that "Lin" can really change.

There will be no more hypocritical "heroes," she will no longer cry for help in her heart, and everything will return to normal.

Just one word from Lin.

As long as he doesn't try to find a way back to his original world in the future.

"I let you stay in this world for three whole years so that you could see that even without you, the world would remain the same, and the people you know would not have any problems."

"While you were still in your world, did you manage to prevent those around you from having to sacrifice anything?"

"Besides the process, has the result changed in the slightest?"

Yan Luo's tone hardened, her face contorted with rage. Pointing at the man in the mud, she roared, "Now! Not now! Get up again! You lying liar!"

"..."

The silver-haired girl stared at the man, and when he stopped moving, the fierceness in her eyes faded, replaced by an unusual tenderness.

"Staying here is the best outcome for her, for you, and for me."

If there's nothing else to say, then goodbye.

Yan Luo took one last look at Lin, then turned to leave, but behind him, he heard a soft, wet sound of someone getting up.

"..."

"..."

The last vestiges of tenderness vanished, replaced by a chilling cold that filled his pupils.

The Prismatic Eyes, capable of freezing time, quietly rotated within the curtain of raindrops, meeting the gaze of another pair of Prismatic Eyes.

"Three years ago, you were thinking of committing suicide to stop yourself from becoming Herrscher," Yan Luo mocked. "Now you want to use this body, which could trigger a massive Honkai at any moment, to return to your own world and cause mass casualties?"

Lin coughed twice, then looked up without the slightest hesitation.

"I want to go back."

Yan Luo scratched his head helplessly and sighed, "You really are..."

"Bang!"

His neck was gripped with tremendous force, and his head was slammed to the ground. The cold-blooded man pronounced his death sentence.

"He deserves to die."

"Boom!"

A giant hole appeared in the sky above where they were, and then the two figures disappeared into the light curtain that descended from the hole.

The heavy force made Lin hear the cracking of his bones, and his icy expression vanished instantly as he crashed into a "shard".

Where is this...?

This is a space filled with bizarre shapes, with platforms pieced together in a way that defies all logic, making it impossible to distinguish up from down from left from right. For example, he is currently "fallen" on one of the fragments, but from his perspective, the fragment he is on is completely opposite to the fragment where Yan Luo is standing.

Simply put, Yan Luo appears as if he is hanging upside down above his head.

A completely disordered space...

A fragment flew past him, and Lin saw a human among the fragments.

Is this... the Quantum Sea?

Before Lin could continue thinking, Yan Luo had already shot towards him like a bullet. Lin raised his arms to protect himself, but he was still blasted away by the terrifying impact.

"Bang!"

Yan Luo gripped his right wrist with his left hand, stretched it out, and coldly watched Lin struggle to get up. He then reached for the golden cross behind him.

"Click".

Pulling the lever, a spike popped out from the bottom of the cross and pierced the ground, while the sides slowly unfolded, revealing twelve pure gold spears pulled by golden chains. In the eerie space, the sacred cross now stood behind her like a giant instrument of torture.

"Splash."

The chains clanged as Lin finally saw their true form and understood what had sealed him and Prismatic Eyes deep within that sea of blood.

Yan Luo placed her hand on the emblem in the center of the cross, her Prismatic Eyes lit up, and the spears and chains on the cross began to stir, automatically pulling out one by one under her control.

Even though he didn't know what a cross was, Lin felt an unprecedented sense of crisis at this moment.

Don't get caught.

"Bass!"

The chains shot out like bullets, and Lin quickly retreated, but the chains held fast to him, like wolves that had smelled blood!

Lin had no weapons; he could only watch helplessly as the chains that had instilled a sense of crisis in him gradually closed the distance between them.

There's no way—?!

Lin's eyes darkened, and he swung his right arm to ram the chain!