Apologizing to Ms. Raven / The Nameless One's Second Collapse ...

"You can't go out without doing XX."

... This seems to be another familiar plot.

Chapter Thirty-Five: An Apology to Lady Raven.

"The scream just now..."

"Hmph, someone's already fallen victim."

Compared to the panicked or confused others, Chrono seemed much more indifferent. Both of Chrono walked recklessly through the jungle, neither intending to look for others nor for treasure. He wanted to solve the problem directly at its source, namely the forest and the Herrscher of Erosion.

He didn't know what Lin was planning, and he didn't care. As long as he defeated all those who claimed to be his enemies, everything would be resolved.

Chrono didn't know how Vill-V's head hadn't exploded yet, with so many people in it, but he couldn't stand being with that other version of himself for even a second longer. This foul-mouthed bastard with bipolar disorder really made him want to kick him in the face.

"Hey! Lin! You're nearby, right?"

Chrono kicked the tree in front of him away, and the tree trunk turned to ashes as it fell to the ground.

He sneered and shouted, "Your purpose must be related to this fake guy next to me, right? Then hurry up and come out so we can have a proper fight!"

From the Previous Civilization to the present, Chrono has never fought Lin. He would fight others whenever he had the chance, but Lin always managed to cleverly avoid him.

Even though Lin was pitifully weak in Chrono's eyes, only capable of using some petty tricks and relying on external objects, Lin's battle record was quite impressive, which aroused Chrono's strong interest in Lin.

He didn't care what methods Lin used; only final victory would prove everything.

Thinking of this, Chrono could barely contain his impulse. The battle with Raiden Mei hadn't satisfied him, and he wondered what kind of performance Lin would give after defeating Raiden Mei...

"This space is made up of my chaotic memories, and it changes with my emotions, so the emotions and feelings of those who enter will affect the things they encounter here."

Wearing a helmet, Lin slowly walked out of the woods. It has to be said that Chrono's thinking ability and his ability to control his emotions were not matched. He immediately realized Lin's purpose.

Lin had previously told Mei that this place was similar to a rudimentary, unfinished version of Imaginary Tree. After being adjusted by the Herrscher of Erosion's abilities, it was actually a compressed version of Imaginary Tree, and it was very stable.

"So I really can only fight you."

Both of them revealed bloodthirsty smiles beneath the Chrono Mask.

"However, you're alone; we have two people here."

One of the Chrono fixed a menacing gaze on the other, saying, "Why don't I just take care of this imposter first, Lin?"

"Need not."

Lin shook his head casually. "I have two people here too."

A smiling, blue-purple-haired girl emerged from behind the forest and stood beside him.

"Oh? That's good, both of them are here now."

Beneath the mask of Chrono, an uncontrollable heat, like molten lava, began to radiate outwards. His hungry eyes fell upon the two of them. "Then hurry up... and come at me together."

"To tame a wild beast, you need a whip, Lin. You can't do it bare-handed!"

The Herrscher of Erosion casually tossed the Black Abyss White Flower to Lin. This was naturally not a real Divine Key, but with her ability to manipulate data, replicating a fake with the appearance of the Black Abyss White Flower and some of its abilities was no problem at all.

At this moment, the two "beasts" had also broken free of their shackles, and like volcanic lava, they burned away the surrounding area and roared as they charged towards the two.

"When did Anti-Entropy build a Hyperion?"

The hooded woman sat on the rooftop, chewing on unpalatable dry rations, observing the situation of Anti-Entropy through binoculars. If she wanted to, moving around near the Anti-Entropy base would be no problem at all, but infiltrating inside would be quite difficult, so she could only observe the situation from a distance.

However, Raven didn't find any trace of the man during this time. He didn't even go out. Could it be that he actually took off his mask in Anti-Entropy and she couldn't recognize him?

Impossible. That guy's aura is too unique. Raven couldn't possibly be mistaken.

Thinking about this, Raven recalled his previous guess.

Forest?

Both Lin and Kevin are taciturn, but their temperaments are completely different. Kevin is like a block of ruthless ice, while Lin is like a gun ready to pull the trigger at any moment.

But Lin isn't Flame-Chaser, and the Flame-Chasers of the Imaginary Tree all agree that he's dead. Surely they can't all be lying to him?

Raven chuckled self-deprecatingly. She was still a mercenary, and her conversation with Lin back then was now a thing of the past. She wondered how the young lady and Lin were getting along. When she left, the young lady seemed to dislike Lin quite a bit.

Forget it, there's no point in constantly reminiscing about the dead. Let's focus on the present.

The Raven continued to observe, and then she discovered something new. She lowered her body and used the surroundings to conceal herself.

Theresa, the former head of the Far East Branch the Schicksal, walked out of the Anti-Entropy base. She looked a bit strange. Why was she dressed like a Shenzhou person and holding a feather fan?

Theresa seemed to be observing as well, surveying the environment around Anti-Entropy, which appeared completely undefended in the Raven's eyes.

Strange. She's a former S-rank Valkyrie from Schicksal, so why do her movements seem like those of a complete novice in combat? Is she patrolling her own territory without any vigilance?

After a while, "Theresa" went back, and a few seconds later, she came out again.

What happened? Why did she change her clothes in just a few seconds?

Dressed in a gothic-style dress and stockings, "Theresa" stood in the shadows. She frowned at the sunlight in the distance, then scanned the surroundings with her scarlet eyes.

Raven kept a low profile; she felt she had almost been discovered, as the other person's gaze had been deliberately sweeping around her.

Suddenly he became much more alert, and his demeanor and movements were completely different from before.

After staring in the direction of the Raven for a long time, Theresa returned to the base. The Raven breathed a sigh of relief. It wasn't that she was afraid of Theresa, but she was currently right in front of the enemy. If she were discovered, she wouldn't be able to escape without suffering heavy losses.

"Call..."

The Raven exhaled, and then her hair stood on end.

It's too quiet.

As she exhaled, the sounds of the wind and falling leaves disappeared, and she could even clearly hear her own heartbeat.

Raven's years of experience licking blood from the edge of a knife made Raven instantly draw her weapon and stab backward, but she only stabbed halfway before she heard a crisp metallic clang, followed by a numbness in her arm, and a pitch-black fox mask and a pair of cherry-pink animal ears flashed terrifyingly before her eyes.

"Is there something you're up to, sir, acting so suspiciously in someone else's territory?"

A chilling tone, filled with murderous intent, fell along with the kodachi.

Chapter Thirty-Six: The Nameless Ones Second Collapse.

"Boom!"

A terrifying heat wave erupted from beneath his feet like a fountain. Even though Lin managed to dodge it, the heat still burned his skin until it curled up. The life force of the Abyss Flower surged from the handle to heal his body, but the crimson humanoid figure gave him no chance to catch his breath and charged forward again.

Lin had never fought against Chrono, but he had read Chrono's battle records. In terms of absolute strength, he surpassed most people. Those who could easily defeat him were mostly beings with conscious abilities. Among the few who could defeat him in a head-on confrontation, only Kevin and the Herrscher of Binding were recorded.

Now that Chrono has entered a state of Artificial Collapse, let alone counterattack, the destructive power and range of its every move are already making it difficult for Lin to keep up.

"Hey! What's wrong, Lin! Is that all you've got? This isn't nearly enough to have any fun!"

Lin's Black Abyss attack was accurately dodged by Qian Chrono, who appeared to be in a frenzy but was actually calm. The energy that came out with his backhand turned into a ring of fire, and Lin used his other hand to block it with Abyss Flower to avoid being hurt.

Unaffected by the verbal provocation, Lin glanced at the battle between another Chrono and the Herrscher of Erosion while dodging. Compared to Lin's struggle, the Herrscher of Erosion seemed to be handling the situation with much more ease, and victory should only be a matter of time.

It seems that all we need to do is persist and go to the Herrscher of Corrosion to solve another thousand tribulations...?

This is the area Lin designed to execute his plan, but he cannot control everything at will. The underlying logic here is that strong emotions will affect things within the area. Since Chrono has a strong desire to fight Lin, Lin has no way to win except by defeating him head-on.

"Where are you looking?!"

The hoarse roar invigorated Lin, and he instinctively used two guns to shield himself, but a tsunami-like surge of heat swept in, blocking all his escape routes.

"Boom!"

Lin smelled the burnt flesh on his body and felt suffocated by the loss of air. He tried his best to resist with the power of the Black Abyss White Flower, but he still couldn't stop the surging force that sent him flying. Absolute violence was on full display at this moment.

It crashed heavily to the ground, large chunks of charred skin peeling off to reveal bloody subcutaneous tissue.

"Cough... cough cough..."

With his vocal tract burned, every breath Lin took made his lungs and throat itch and hurt.

The burning Chrono looked down at the fallen Lin in the distance, clenched their fists, and their eyes were filled with nothing but anger.

"Is that all you've got? How disappointing, Lin."

Lin used the Black Abyss and Abyss Flower to prop up his body, which was on the verge of falling apart, and got up from the ground. His eyes, filled with blood, were swollen and painful as he stared at Chrono, who was slowly walking towards him.

He understood the source of Chrono's feelings for him.

For this homeless man, Lin was the one who destroyed his home, but Chrono's feelings for him were not just hatred.

The days spent in the sanatorium were real, and the fact that the sanatorium was destroyed is also real.

The days spent with them were real, and the betrayal was also real.

This man, who is always angry, only wants to end everything through fighting, whether he kills Lin or Lin kills him, to settle this grudge that should have ended long ago.

"Come on, Lin!"

Chrono spread his arms, the flames on his body burning ever brighter, turning half the forest into black earth and dyeing half the sky crimson, and shouted at the forest, "No matter where your future is, now, I will destroy it!"

The helmeted man stumbled as he removed the malfunctioning Black Box from his head, spitting out a mouthful of steaming blood. He wiped his mouth, tearing off a piece of skin.

She raised her head and whispered to Chrono.

"... No matter what the future holds, I will take you there."

"..."

This time, Chrono didn't say anything. His face, covered by flames, seemed to still be wearing that mask, concealing his past and his emotions.

The being known as Chrono manifests as an ever-burning flame, intensely intense, preventing anyone from glimpsing his inner thoughts.

If you want to see the real him, then extinguish this flame.

So, let's go.

Although he didn't know if it would work, Lin chose to trust the research findings of Mobius and Vill-V.

At the same time, I also choose to believe in myself.

The roar of the monster in his mind grew louder and louder, like a wild beast that had been imprisoned for a long time seeing the dawn outside its cage.

The areas where the skin had fallen off began to itch, and some dark golden "threads" emerged from under the skin, quietly forming a net that wrapped around his arms, making his hands look less like human hands and more like two animal arms.

The dark pupils were tinged with a deep, dark gold, and the beastly eyes reflected the stopped Chrono.

"Oh? Artificial Collapse? I see... Hahahaha... Come on, Lin, put on a show for me!"

Upon seeing Lin transform into a half-human, half-beast form, Chrono burst into laughter, excited and thrilled, waiting for Lin to complete his preparations.

Compared to last time, due to the more frenzied Honkai Beast inside him, Lin's beast-like symptoms were more obvious. Almost half of his body had transformed into a beast form, with a thick tail swinging out from behind and slamming heavily against the ground. His feet were also severely deformed and thickened, with explosive beast legs deeply embedded in the ground.

The dark gold threads wrapped around his throat and chin, forming a mask-like structure before stopping their spread.

"Gurgle... whoosh..."

Some low gurgling sounds swirled in his throat. He opened his mouth, revealing sharp teeth that gleamed with a ferocious cold light. He reached out and grasped Hei Yuan and Abyss Flower, who seemed tiny compared to his current height of over two and a half meters and terrifying limbs. He stared directly at Chrono, who was now shorter than him.

There was no dialogue. The raging Chrono was completely quiet at this moment, and the ferocious Forest showed no signs of losing control.

The Herrscher of Erosion, whose battle was nearing its end in the distance, caught sight of Lin, paused for a moment, and then revealed an interested look.

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"Boom!"

Both surged forth simultaneously, unleashing their full power in Chrono, sending terrifying heat waves outwards, turning everything within a radius of several thousand meters into scorched earth in a flash!

But the heat didn't cause any ripples when it hit the beast-like monster. The dark golden half-beast grabbed the fireman's neck even faster than Chrono, and slammed him heavily to the ground while the latter was still in shock!

"Bang!"

Spiderweb-like cracks spread outwards as the earth trembled!

"Roar!"

With Lin Benneng's roar, he lifted up the ground, his inhuman strength tearing up the surrounding ground and trees, covering Chrono under it as if building a house!

"Bang!"

After a few seconds of silence, an energy burst forth, shattering the massive landmass, and the excited, panting fireman appeared amidst the dust.

"Good! Excellent! This is what a battle should be like! Let the blood continue to burn! Boil!"

Chapter Thirty-Seven: Chrono, Out.

The two mindless monsters rampaged across the scorched earth. The dark golden threads cut into Chrono's body like invisible blades, but the closer they got to his body, the higher the temperature became. His internal temperature even exceeded the heat he emitted, and the threads melted as soon as they entered his body, preventing them from causing deeper wounds.

"Hahahaha!!"