I'm Not a Flame-Chaser

Lin silently swung his sword, and the two weapons collided repeatedly on the empty floating island. The vibrations and friction illuminated their identical figures.

"Bang!"

Lin gripped the hilt of the sword Jizo Mitama reverse and made a precise diagonal slash, leaving a bloody mark on Jiu's face. But immediately afterward, a tremendous force came from his abdomen, sending him flying.

At this moment, some Herrscher of Domination saw the battle between the two targets and excitedly rushed over, intending to wipe them out in one fell swoop.

Jiu's pupils trembled, and he glared back at the group of Herrscher with gritted teeth and bloodshot eyes. "Don't get in my way!"

"Splash!"

Chains shot out from beneath her feet, piercing the heads of the Herrscher who couldn't dodge in time, and then Jiu charged towards Lin again without looking back!

"Bass!"

"I should be asking... is destroying human civilization necessary for you?" Lin kicked the spear away, and Jiu parried it with both hands gripping her sword. Lin seized the opportunity and pierced Jiu's shoulder with his sword!

The chain pierced Lin's ankle and dragged him away. The two fell heavily to the ground, both panting heavily as they stared at each other.

"Heh... How many times have you asked this pointless question..." Jiu couldn't help but laugh. He rarely showed any emotion, but now, with blood smeared at the corner of his mouth, he laughed without any attempt to hide it. "Besides destruction... what else do I have? To Herrscher, isn't this everything? Look at these imitations created under your plan..."

"They are not doing this to protect, nor for justice, nor even for destruction; they are simply venting."

"Without reason, without purpose, without goal, they even retain human nature, but in your eyes, are they more human than I am?"

Coral's "Reversal": Chapter Twenty-Three - The Invisible Herrscher

Even though Jiu, a complete Herrscher, had been fighting in the space for quite some time and was showing signs of fatigue, she was still able to keep up with Lin, who was not in a good condition as well. The two, who had been fighting since 50,000 years ago, were still fighting for their respective ideals that could never be reconciled.

"Even among the Herrscher, there are still beings like Kiana who protect humanity." Lin dragged his pierced right foot and thrust a spear through Jiu's left leg.

"Even among humans, there are still beings like the Herrscher of Domination who harm their own kind." Jiu swung her sword and cleaved Lin's helmet in two, leaving a long, bloody gash on his face.

"Why do you always choose destruction... without even making the slightest attempt?" Lin struggled to pull off his helmet, while Jiu pulled out the spear from her leg. Above them, Kiana and the Herrscher of Domination, but at this moment, they could only stare at each other, for any moment of distraction would cost them their lives.

"How many people have I killed?" Jiu revealed his blood-stained teeth. "You know very well. You don't want me to understand you or choose another path; you're just doing something you yourself know is useless."

"If... my birth was a mistake, then I can only continue down this path of mistake."

"Lin, only you can correct this mistake, so either kill me before I kill you, or wait for this civilization to meet the same fate as yours."

The battle resumed, neither able to persuade the other nor ever considering understanding each other. They were like monsters venting their anger, tearing at each other's souls with abandon.

"Bella, go downstairs and find Lin!"

Kiana shouted to Bella, who was manipulating lightning to fend off the surging tide of the Herrscher of Domination.

"But..."

Bella hesitated. Her abilities were very effective against groups of enemies, and if she left, the defenses would likely shrink or even be breached.

But when she thought of the man who had rescued her from her frozen state in the consciousness space, she nodded and prepared to transform into a dragon and fly down below.

"Boom!"

But then another deafening roar came, not from overhead, but from the west. A dark shadow crackling with lightning landed not far from them, and Kiana's eyes widened in shock as she glanced at it.

"Mei!"

When the smoke cleared, Raiden Mei appeared, looking exhausted and covered in wounds. Her Herrscher armor was shattered, and the lightning on the giant blade she wielded and the sword in her hand flickered dimly. She turned her head and was surprised to see Kiana: "Kiana?"

Mei of Herrscher of Domination, only realized she had been tricked after being surrounded after entering the rift. Then, she was in a similar situation to Jiu, being engaged in a war of attrition by an endless number of Herrscher of Domination. Even though she was ten thousand times stronger than these people, they could revive ten thousand times to slow her down.

Moreover, among them are...

"What a touching reunion, but the thought of two Herrscher reuniting just makes me feel disgusted."

A familiar voice rang out from the direction Mei had flown from. A figure quite different from the other Herrscher of Domination floated in the air, covered in crimson armor. He held the broken blade of a greatsword in his left hand and the blade form of the Third Divine Key, the Seven Thunders of Retribution, in his right.

As the host among the Herrscher of Domination, and also the most active Herrscher of Thousand People, Ito Kyō grinned, looking down at the people on the floating island, then his gaze fell on the two fighting on the next level, lingering for a second on the Prismatic Eyes figure.

"Is it you? The individual who possesses the core of the Herrscher of Domination!" Kiana gritted her teeth and clenched her fists as she scolded him when she saw the fiery red covering his body and the broken blade on his left hand.

"Hehehehe... Individuals? We are a whole, there are no individuals." Ito Kyō waved the Seven Thunders of Retribution, and the pitch-black lightning fell between the group. They reacted extremely quickly and scattered. The terrifying power turned the world in front of them into black and white.

"Boom!"

Possessing the complete Herrscher Core of Flame and the Seven Thunders of Retribution, he is indeed no longer an ordinary Herrscher of Domination; he now possesses the powers of three Herrscher.

Even though he is far inferior to Mei, a single and complete Herrscher, in terms of the use of his abilities, his ability to resurrect infinitely makes him more terrifying than any other Herrscher.

"Whether we are human or Herrscher is completely irrelevant! What we are is also completely irrelevant!" Ito Kyō raised his hand, pointed at them, "The Herrscher of Domination is merely this emotion, this desire. It controls the power of the Herrscher and also controls human behavior! We are nothing more than the vessels through which it is released!"

"Even if we don't exist, it won't disappear! It exists behind all disguises. As long as you wear a mask, as long as 'we' are not 'us,' you can become the Herrscher of Domination!"

Jiu is right. They are neither human nor Herrscher. They are... an emotion, an abstract concept, a chaos that has taken on a physical form.

Ito Kyō charged down from the sky and swung his sword at Kiana!

Kiana's heterochromatic eyes narrowed, and she raised the Spear of the Void above her head. Almost the instant she raised her hand, a terrifying heat emanated from it!

"Boom!"

Kiana!

Seeing Kiana's figure engulfed in flames, Mei drew her sword without hesitation and swung it at Ito Kyō. The Herrscher turned around menacingly, and the other Herrscher of Domination rushed forward to block Mei's path, forcing her to fight back.

"Call out!"

A beautiful figure flew out of the flames. Kiana, with her hair and clothes still on fire, rolled on the ground a few times to extinguish the flames. She immediately got up, her golden eyes suddenly widening, and a long, imaginary object crashed down from above Ito Kyō's head!

The Herrscher of Reason also attacked from the side, wielding a heavy, bladeless sword. Fu Hua followed closely behind, catching the sword thrown by the Herrscher of Reason. The Great Void Sword Qi leaped from the tip of the sword, while Seele and Bronya blocked Ito Kyō's retreat.

"..."

With nowhere to retreat, Ito Kyō glanced at the situation and stood there without offering any resistance. He was struck by the Herrscher of Reason's sword onto the Imaginary Creation, and then beheaded by Fu Hua's sword.

But the eerie smile on his flying head remained unchanged.

"Quickly retrieve the Divine Key!"

Fu Hua, who was closest, reached out to grab the Seven Thunders of Retribution that were falling to the ground, but just as her fingertips were about to touch them, the Seven Thunders of Retribution vanished.

"Bang!"

A figure wreathed in lightning and fire crashed into the Herrscher of Reason. Caught off guard, the Herrscher of Reason was sent flying on the spot, and a line of fire and lightning struck the Herrscher of Reason in mid-air.

"Hmm—"

What happened?

The Herrscher of Reason was not the resurrected Ito Kyō, but another Herrscher of Domination!

Like Ito Kyō, he was covered in fiery red armor, held weapons in both hands, and had an exaggerated, wicked smile on his lips!

After Ito Kyō was defeated, the Herrscher's power... was transferred.

Coral's "Reversal": Chapter Twenty-Four - If you can't accept it, you can't move forward.

"What on earth is going on with these guys?!"

The Herrscher of Reason had suffered considerable damage, landed on the ground, clutching her torn and bleeding body as she watched in astonishment and disbelief as the Herrscher of Domination passed their powers among themselves.

"Be careful, their abilities can be transferred between each other!" Mei swung her arm behind her back, unleashing a thunderous roar that cleared a path through the enemies in front of her. She rushed to Kiana's side at top speed.

"Hateful..."

Seele's gaze kept shifting between the pit where the forest had fallen and the Herrscher of Domination wielding the broken sword and the Seven Thunders of Retribution.

"Boom!"

Bronya's resurrected giant cannon blasted the enemy to ashes, but the Herrscher next to her immediately struck him with lightning.

"Crack!"

Fu Hua flicked her two fingers, and the energy bursting from the Great Void Sword Qi cleaved many enemies in front of her in half. But what followed was a giant flame that descended from the sky, the flames erupting like a volcano!

Bella and Mei unleashed lightning together, but were slashed in the back by a sword blade from behind, causing them to bleed profusely.

The group gradually became unable to resist the attacks of the crazed monsters. No one knew who or where they would launch a deadly attack with their terrifying Herrscher Authority.

All the Herrscher of Domination were smiling. Each of their smiles seemed different, yet they also seemed to be the same. Their laughter was uneven, yet so similar.

Kill one and two more rush up; kill two and a whole bunch of them rush up!

It was like an encirclement, or a sacrifice. With nowhere to retreat, the people could only shrink back more and more, but the Herrscher of Domination possessed three Herrscher Authority, continued to assault their defenses.

"Huff... huff... huff... Let's retreat... Kiana..."

The heavily wounded Herrscher of Reason spoke laboriously to the silver-haired girl leaning on the Spear of the Void.

They could no longer resist. The endless enemies and their limited stamina made it impossible to defeat them; it was simply a pipe dream.

The only way to escape is for Kiana to open the portal.

"No..." Fu Hua said, panting between fighting off an enemy, "If we retreat, they will attack ordinary people, and they can travel to all parts of the world through this space, causing terrible casualties in a short time... Kiana, you guys go, I'll hold them off."

Bronya stood up from the ground with trembling fingers, forcing her eyes, which were soaked with blood, open. "No, I... I won't leave, we can't abandon our Class President."

"I... will never abandon anyone again." Kiana's fingers trembled as she brandished the Spear of the Void, her teeth clenched. "Absolutely not!"

"Yes, we've had enough of what we have to give up to survive." Mei knelt on the ground, looking at the Herrscher who were grinning maliciously while wearing eye patches. The blade in her hand had dimmed to almost no light, but she still stood up and continued to swing her sword.

Bella stood silently beside Kiana, following the Queen wherever she went.

"That sounds nice, but it doesn't change the fact that you're Herrscher!"

Ito Kyō's voice suddenly appeared. He flashed out from among the Herrscher of Domination, and slashed at Kiana with his broken sword. Kiana used all her strength to block the Spear of the Void in front of her.

"Smack!"

But this time, the Spear of the Void was cut in half by the Broken Sword.

Kiana!

Mei's call seemed to vanish in an instant, as if from a great distance.

Kiana knelt on the ground listlessly, the gruesome sword wound running from her right shoulder to her left abdomen. As the blood dripped and congealed before her eyes, her azure eyes lost their luster.

Ito Kyō roared menacingly.

Mei's heartbreaking cry.

The Herrscher of Thousand People laughed maniacally.

Everything was frozen in time before my eyes.

It's happening again...

Kiana always thinks of the sky on the day she lost Himeko.

The bright blue sky and sea appeared dull and lifeless in my eyes.

The cries for help from the people of Sky City, the fearful eyes of the members of Anti-Entropy.

Nothing has changed.

Even though she saved the people of Sky City, there were still people she couldn't save.

Even though she wanted to change the world as a human, she could not escape the vortex known as the Herrscher of the Void.

"You... are the Herrscher!" Ito Kyō's mocking words echoed in my ears.

But for some reason, Kiana remembered the masked man in Sky City who coldly made her do some incomprehensible training.

It didn't seem like they were trying to help her suppress her Herrscher consciousness at all; instead, it seemed like they were trying to provoke her, to provoke the thing inside her.

Why...

"Ha, that man is always doing useless work. Even if he teaches you fighting skills, you'll still be that little girl who can't find her mother."

That sound...

Kiana opened her eyes and saw "another version of herself" floating in mid-air, looking down at her from above, on the shattered glass floor.

The Herrscher of the Void.

The Herrscher of the Void, with her golden eyes, looked at Kiana with the same mocking smile as the Herrscher of Domination, making no attempt to hide it.

"Come on, give me your body, you weakling, you can't protect anyone at all~" The Herrscher of the Void's pretty face, which was the same as Kiana's, was covered with a completely different eerie smile. "I'll kill all those scum who offended me, and then kill everyone you care about, just like I killed that woman."

"Especially that man who dared to provoke me, I will crush every bone in his body right in front of you, and let his screams be the accompaniment to my world destruction!"

"Of course... I'm not asking for your permission."

The Herrscher of the Void pointed her finger, and three Spear of the Void appeared behind her, shooting towards Kiana!