The Twelve Trials Starting from Zero

The light cannon exploded, and an even louder explosion resounded across the boundless ice plains.

Immediately centered on Su Qi, a massive shockwave swept out in all directions, lifting up the snow and ice on the ground and turning them into a white tsunami like an avalanche, spreading outwards and spraying into the sky, engulfing an area of ​​ten miles.

This man... is so strong...

Seeing that the person in front of her had only flicked his finger, and that a brilliant light cannon, like the sun falling, exploded before her eyes, and that a tsunami of snow waves surged into the sky, and that the raging winds and snow waves from the outside world were all blocked by some mysterious force and bypassed her, Karen was shaken to her core.

Are humans this powerful 500 years from now?

Amidst her surprise and doubt, a glimmer of hope arose within her. Perhaps, humanity now possessed the ability to contend with the Herrscher of the End.

A moment later, the swirling snowflakes had mostly fallen, and the surrounding area returned to calm once more.

Su Qi withdrew his hand, looked up at the Herrscher of the End in mid-air, and said with a mocking smile: "(σ???)σ boxer briefs boxer briefs... Is this what you call the difference between a mortal and a Herrscher of the End? Completely useless, little brother."

The Herrscher of the End sneered, "Heh, haven't you realized it yet? It's your own problem."

"The problem lies with me?"

Su Qi was slightly taken aback, looked at himself, and suddenly his expression changed drastically, "What?! How is this possible?"

Before he could finish speaking, his body suddenly went limp, and he knelt on one knee. His veins bulged all over his body, and he looked up at the Herrscher of the End with a pained expression. His eyes were full of disbelief as he said, "You bastard... what did you do to me? With my resistance, it should be impossible for me to be corrupted by Honkai energy, but now... how did you do it?"

"Hey, what's wrong?"

Karen, who was behind him, was startled when she saw this. She quickly stepped forward to help him up, asking anxiously, "How are you? Were you injured in the attack just now?"

I originally thought that the other party could stand up to the Herrscher of the End, but now it seems that I might die here with him today.

"Cough cough..."

Su Qi's face turned deathly pale, and he coughed up a patch of crimson blood from his palm. He then looked at Karen and said weakly, "Miss Karen, I originally planned to go home and get married after completing this mission, but now it seems that this is the end of my life... So could I ask you a favor? Please go to my hometown and find my fiancée, Roselier, and tell her that I have died on the battlefield. She doesn't need to wait for me anymore; she should just find an honest man to marry."

At this point, she shakily pulled out a card from somewhere. "Also... I haven't paid my party dues for this month. This is my credit card; it contains my life savings. Could you please pay it for me?"

Before Kallen could reply, the Herrscher of the End coldly said, "No need for trouble. You two will both die today, but..."

As he spoke, he frowned slightly and looked at Kallen, "Why was he corrupted by the Honkai virus, but you are fine? Oh, I see, it's that mysterious power similar to telekinesis protecting you."

While attacking, he secretly activated the power of the Twelfth Herrscher, the Herrscher of Corruption, which can transform Honkai energy into a kind of corrosive virus and spread rapidly through the Honkai energy particles that are ubiquitous in this world and can only be effectively blocked by Soul Steel.

This Honkai energy virus is undetectable before infection. Even Valkyries with implanted Stigmata and high adaptability to Honkai energy are difficult to resist. Once completely corrupted and transformed, they will mutate into assassins or Honkai beasts, which are driven by the virus spreaders, making them extremely terrifying.

However, now, the psychic energy that had been completely enveloping Kallen could block Honkai energy just like Soul Steel, and even more effectively, so Kallen was not affected.

"But it doesn't matter... as long as we can take him down, let alone a mere Valkyrie, even if all of humanity attacked together, it would be futile."

Despite their confidence, the Herrscher of the End remained wary of Su Qi, whose origins were mysterious and whose methods were ever-evolving. Now, if Su Qi were eliminated, even the previous generation of humans wouldn't stand a chance against the Herrscher of the End; how could this generation of human civilization, still in its infancy, possibly turn the tide?

"Then farewell. To fulfill the expectations of the gods, I must quickly send you off to your final resting place before proceeding to deliver the ultimate test to human civilization..."

As he spoke, he raised his hand again, preparing to completely erase Su Qi and Karen from the world.

Oops!

Faced with this desperate situation, Karen's heart sank, but she did not have any intention of giving up.

We absolutely must find a way to stop the Herrscher of the End! We absolutely cannot allow humanity to perish! But the difference in combat power is absolute; we have absolutely no chance of winning, unless…

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck Kallen, and she thought of a possible way to defeat her opponent. Without hesitation, she spread her arms to shield the frail Su Qi behind her, looked up at the Herrscher of the End, and shouted, "Otto, stop right there!"

The Herrscher of the End paused slightly, then laughed. "It's no use. Otto, that clown, has already suffered a personality breakdown due to despair. Now, there is only me, the Herrscher of the End, in this world. There is no more Otto Apocalypse."

"wrong!"

Kallen glared at him, facing the immense pressure of the Herrscher of the End without fear, and said, "The Otto I, Kallen Kaslana, know is not such a coward! Otto, how long are you going to slack off? Stand up right now!!"

The Herrscher of the End frowned slightly, a large amount of Honkai energy began to gather in her hand, and her expression seemed a little strange as she said, "It's no use saying anything. When God told him the truth of the world and made him realize that his goal of resurrecting Kallen was absolutely impossible, he was already a useless person! So no matter what you say, it's futile. Otto Apocalypse's life was meaningless, and naturally, he had no reason to exist."

"No, of course it's necessary! Because he's the person I love, how can I let him just disappear without a trace!?"

The Herrscher of the End: "!?"

A certain autistic green person: "!?"

A sickly, one-punch strongman: "!?"

"And what about gods!?"

Karen continued loudly without pausing, "We, the chosen ones, are inherently rebellious against the gods. Why should we listen to the one-sided story of that evil god?! Are so-called gods absolutely correct?! Are gods omniscient and omnipotent?! Weren't you the one who despised gods the most? Why did you bow down to Him? Why did you believe His words so readily? Didn't you persist for five hundred years? Why... why did you so easily abandon me... abandon Karen Kaslana, because of the enemy's lies? Is that all your feelings for Karen are?!"

After speaking in an almost shouting voice, Karen immediately blushed and began to pant.

After a moment of deathly silence with only the howling wind, the Herrscher of the End suddenly froze, her expression changing drastically.

"Damn replicas!"

A blinding light suddenly burst forth, illuminating his distorted and ferocious face.

The next moment, the Herrscher of the End unleashed her fury, and a colossal beam cannon with a diameter of over three zhang (approximately 10 meters) pierced the sky, illuminating heaven and earth, and in the blink of an eye, it blasted towards Kallen.

Is this the end?

As the light cannon seemed to fill the heavens and earth, sweeping in, countless fragments of memories flashed through her mind like a revolving lantern, and she prepared herself to face death once again.

Otto... I hope this time... you won't disappoint me again...

She sighed inwardly, awaiting the moment her body would turn to ashes, but...

boom!

A burst of light exploded, the earth shattered, and a massive shockwave rippled outwards, spraying a huge amount of mud and snow in all directions. Karen felt as if countless thunderclaps were exploding around her, the sky was splitting and the earth was in chaos, but she felt no pain anywhere in her body; she was still alive.

How is this going?

She opened her eyes with some confusion, and what appeared before her was a figure that was not tall, but appeared very imposing against the backdrop of the surrounding environment. It was Su Qi, who should have been sick and dying at this moment.

"well done."

Su Qi did not turn around, but simply waved his hand, and a mighty wind swept out, instantly calming the surrounding chaos.

He then looked up at Otto, who was in mid-air with a complicated expression and had once again successfully suppressed the return of the Herrscher personality, and smiled, "As expected, it's more satisfying to smash Otto than to smash the Herrscher of the End. You've done me a great favor."

Before she could finish speaking, her figure flashed and suddenly disappeared from Karen's sight.

The next moment, a sonic boom erupted, a whirlwind raged, and Su Qi's figure appeared in front of Otto in mid-air as if by teleportation. The fist he unleashed rapidly magnified in Otto's eyes, filling the entire world.

die! !

At that moment, he seemed to see a huge, blood-red character for "death" occupying his entire field of vision. An extremely dangerous premonition swept through every cell of his body like an electric current, stimulating all the survival instincts within his body.

He had a premonition that he would die if this punch landed, so he absolutely could not take it head-on.

Time, stop!

At the critical moment, Otto's pupils contracted slightly as he activated the ability of the Thirteenth Herrscher, the Herrscher with the least information and the most mysterious background to date.

The thirteenth Herrscher is known as the Herrscher of Time. Her abilities include rewinding, pausing, and fast-forwarding time. However, even the Honkai Will admits that it cannot interfere with the laws of time on a large scale, so the thirteenth Herrscher's time abilities naturally have their limitations.

Although he can control time, the object of his control is not the external world, but himself. In other words, he can only apply his time-manipulation abilities to himself, and this ability consumes a great deal of Honkai energy; the greater the alteration to time, the more Honkai energy is consumed.

Therefore, even Otto, as the Herrscher of the End, whose Herrscher core's Honkai energy extraction speed and storage capacity are stronger than all Herrschers combined, does not want to use this ability rashly. However, corresponding to the massive consumption, its power is also second to none among all Herrscher abilities.

At this moment, Otto is using his ability to accelerate his own time.

One time, two times, three times... As he accelerated time, speeding up his mind and body, Su Qi's movements, which were originally so fast that they were almost impossible to react to, quickly became slow, eventually coming to a standstill like the surrounding myriad images, like an insect frozen in amber.

Otto then quickly turned around and came behind Su Qi, reaching out to press on the back of the latter's head—Otto knew that Su Qi's body was extremely tough, and ordinary attacks probably wouldn't be able to injure him. In addition, time abilities could only be applied to himself and could not be extended to external attacks, so he planned to get as close to Su Qi as possible, and once time resumed its flow, he would use the Herrscher of the Void's ability to directly tear his body apart through the spatial rift.

The next moment, with a thought from Otto, time resumed its flow.

The Herrscher of Time is a fictional concept, but higher-dimensional civilizations have actually appeared in the official comics. Edison used an interference device from a higher-dimensional civilization to temporarily withstand Otto's Honkai Fission Bomb...

Chapter 74 Tearing Apart the Green Ones of the End

boom!!

The instant time resumed its flow, as Su Qi unleashed a punch, the surrounding air instantly exploded like water, transforming into countless turbulent currents that surged and spread outwards.

Under the cover of this enormous sound, Otto's mind raced, and he prepared to unleash the Herrscher of the Void's power to tear Su Qi apart. But then, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind... No, he couldn't just kill him so easily... What technology couldn't accomplish might be easier with magic. If he could study his abilities, perhaps he could find an easier new way to resurrect Kallen!

However, before that, his body and mind must be weakened to a point where they can be easily controlled, otherwise there will be no way to proceed...

Otto suddenly changed his mind, so he slowed down his attack slightly. Then, the Herrscher of the Void's Tear Space was replaced by the Herrscher of Death's Withering Ray, in order to weaken the opponent's physical body to the point where it was not even as weak as an ordinary old man.

But the next moment, a thick, black beam of light shot out, passing through Su Qi without any hindrance; it was merely an afterimage. Immediately, another extremely dangerous premonition rose in his heart, and the aura of death enveloped every cell in his body.

Time speeds up!!

Without hesitation, Otto used the Herrscher of Time's power to accelerate his relative time once again, causing everything around him to come to a standstill. He then turned around and found that Su Qi had appeared behind him at some point, and Su Qi's fist was less than ten centimeters away from his body, almost killing him with a single punch.

How is that possible? How could this guy be so fast? Or did he hold back at the beginning, and only unleashed his power when he was in dire straits just now?

Recalling how he had almost been killed, he couldn't help but feel a lingering fear, and subsequently became even more wary of Su Qi.

We need to speed things up and prepare even more thoroughly; this time, we can't give him any more time to react...

Thinking this, Otto once again circled behind Su Qi and placed his palm on Su Qi's back. This time, he planned to use the abilities of multiple Herrschers simultaneously, including the Herrscher of Void, Herrscher of Rock, Herrscher of Lightning, Herrscher of Wind, Herrscher of Ice, and Herrscher of Fire, determined to severely injure his opponent in one blow.

But just as he was about to restore time to normal, Su Qi suddenly turned around and grabbed his wrist.

Here we go again! How can he move freely under these circumstances?! Does he possess time-related abilities or resistance? Or... is his natural speed enough to catch up with me even when I've used multiple times the time acceleration?!

Otto was startled, but remained calm. He immediately activated the Herrscher of Time's power, further increasing his relative time flow. Thirty times, thirty-five times, forty times… He increased the time acceleration several levels in one go, and the Honkai energy stored within his body rapidly decreased like water being pumped out by several pumps simultaneously, but…

Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his right arm, as if his entire arm had been torn off from his shoulder. Because the two of them were moving so fast, the action was completely silent. Only the blood inside his body gushed out as time accelerated, but it immediately slowed down as soon as it left his body, turning into countless red blood droplets that solidified in mid-air.

Don't stop, keep accelerating!

Otto suppressed his shock and horror, ignoring the pain from his severed arm, and frantically activated the power of the Herrscher of Time, accelerating himself as he retreated rapidly.

However, it was to no avail. Even though he had increased his time flow to fifty times in a short period of time, Su Qi was still unaffected and rushed forward at a speed that was even faster than his, and then... grabbed his left arm and forcibly tore it off once again.

Otto grunted, still ignoring him, and accelerated time seventy times, continuing to retreat rapidly.

Then Su Qi rushed forward again, grabbed the right leg, and tore it off forcefully with one more pull.

That bastard!

Even a clay figure has some temper, let alone Otto, who has stood at the pinnacle of the world for five hundred years? The opponent could have made a more effective attack and displayed greater speed, but deliberately accelerated little by little like this, tearing at his limbs, clearly to humiliate him.

Naturally, he was furious and wanted to retaliate tenfold. However, the bigger picture was more important, and even if his limbs were torn off, the Herrscher of Death's abilities would easily restore them. So, he ultimately suppressed his anger with reason, forcibly calmed himself down, and continued to retreat with a cold expression.

Then, when he accelerated his own time to more than a hundred times, his last leg was finally torn off by Su Qi. The dignified Herrscher of the End was actually torn into a human stump by a human.

What shocked Otto even more was that even at this point, Su Qi's speed still surpassed his own, and he remained completely at ease, seemingly able to accelerate indefinitely alongside Otto. On the contrary, Otto himself was experiencing a recovery rate in his Herrscher core that couldn't keep up with the consumption, and the Honkai energy reserves within were almost depleted.