I am the former civilized hero.

"It's probably because the progress is too fast. In the original world line, there was a five-year gap between the third and eighth Herrschers, but I have reached the tenth Herrscher in just two and a half years."

Ryan muttered to himself, but this is in line with the setting of Honkai: 'the faster the civilization develops, the stronger the rebound', just like human civilization has developed for thousands of years before the First Herrscher came. From this point on, the confrontation between the two sides has been growing steadily.

But this steady growth encountered a turning point in the period of the third Herrscher, which was the beginning of Ryan's arrival on the stage. Then the fourth and fifth Herrschers saw some changes which were still within the normal range. Things started to go wrong with the sixth and seventh Herrschers, and the eighth Herrscher period caused the curve to climb even more steeply.

"The Eighth Herrscher was originally the Herrscher of Consciousness, but ended up becoming an alienated version of the Herrscher of Thousands. Looking back now, it was just the time when I controlled the Fire-Chasing Moths, assembled the Thirteen Heroes, and changed the world beyond all recognition!"

Ryan absolutely does not believe this is a coincidence, because the answer is very simple:

He saved a lot of time, which objectively led to an explosive growth in the progress of civilization. You have to know that the light super-transformation surgery took a full four years to succeed from the original world line starting from the third Herrscher, and it was won by Kevin's gamble of his life.

But Ryan had already created thousands of fusion warriors in half the time, and he was also exploring the Quantum Sea, developing the Key of God, and so on. Without internal friction, civilization was like a rocket engine, climbing madly.

So according to the setting that 'the faster the civilization develops, the stronger the rebound', you humans can cheat, but you can't use Honkai Impact?

The alienation of the Herrscher, the unknown authority, and the skyrocketing difficulty have really pushed the targeting and resilience to the limit.

"Which one is it?" Ryan closed his eyes and let his thoughts wander.

Emotionally speaking, he was similar to Qianjie. His murderous intent was almost at its limit and he couldn't wait to rush to the battlefield and wipe out all enemies like a whirlwind.

But I have to hold back. As the old saying goes, Honkai can fail a thousand times, but humans cannot fail even once.

Hearing footsteps, Ryan raised his head slightly and saw Abonya coming down from the second floor. The woman smiled gently, indicating that the children were asleep, then walked into the living room and took a shawl from the shelf.

"It's cold at night, don't be too anxious." She gently put the shawl on Ryan's shoulders, still looking calm, "Impatient is the enemy of reason, that's what you said."

Ryan was not actually impatient. He was the type of person who became calmer the bigger the situation became. However, he still accepted Aponiya's concern.

He gently patted the nun's soft hand, looked into her watery blue eyes, and said calmly: "Don't worry, even if the Herrscher has a trump card, he can't defeat Kevin and the others. You should know that they are not ordinary warriors."

Aponia nodded slightly. Even though the fate of Kevin and others had been distorted by Ryan, she could still see clues.

"Their fate will not end at this moment. Also, do you need me to take action?"

The tone of compassion, the face as kind as an angel's, but Ryan knew that the words were like the devil's whisper.

Aponia's ability cannot deal with the Herrscher, but for humans it is the supreme divine language. Just one sentence is enough to make people cross that boundary.

"It's not time yet. At least the problems caused by the collapse are still within the response plan. At least..." Ryan paused and saw that the Skynet map on the screen gradually blurred and finally lost all information, as if it was covered by an iron curtain.

"I want to know what their trump card is."

......

The sound of the missile falling was echoing, and the Honkai energy warhead released a round fireball. Within this range, all trees and reinforced concrete buildings were annihilated.

"It looks like a falling meteor. It's really pretty."

Calis raised his head and saw that this originally deserted city had completely turned into a sea of ​​fire. A large number of houses that were already full of cracks collapsed, raising dust all over the sky. However, the sky was covered with a layer of black fog until a meteor broke through the clouds.

The Iron Curtain has risen, and this largest city in South America is not as dangerous as Fire Moth imagined. At least as far as Calis can see, there is no Honkai beast.

The dense barrage of bullets was more like some kind of venting, making the air hot, and due to the energy friction, it produced an aurora effect.

He didn't admire it for too long. He jumped off the roof, pushed open a hidden door, and walked down the slope. There was a different world inside.

Digging a hole is not a difficult task for a tireless creature like the Honkai Beast. Except that it is not so delicate and the layout is not very scientific, its scale is not much smaller than the Fire Moth Headquarters.

The real underground fortress was only shaken slightly by the explosion on the ground. Looking around, it seemed that there were countless huge passages large enough for cars to drive through, like the mouth of the abyss. No one knew what was inside, and only various strange noises could be heard.

Some sound like the friction of arthropods, some sound like the whirring of bellows, some emit white smoke, and some stones are corroded.

A large amount of Honkai energy crystals were scattered everywhere, sparkling and translucent, adding a touch of decoration to the depressing underground.

Calis chose one and walked straight down the slope, not knowing how far he had gone underground before he stopped for a moment.

An iron door blocked the way ahead, without any guards. An emotion called 'fear' arose in his heart. He held his slightly trembling left hand, and just as he approached, the door slowly opened.

What came into view were countless corpses, all of which were Honkai beasts with missing limbs. They had returned here from other passages and did not need to waste time regenerating, so they could be directly recycled as waste.

From the Temple Beast, the Honkai Emperor, to a Judgment-level Honkai Beast with three of its four heads smashed, and even disabled fusion warriors and captives, the corpses piled up into a small hill, and at the top of the hill, a blood-red figure was feasting on the food.

Calis licked his dry lips and suppressed his pounding heart.

From the very beginning, the Herrscher never thought of escaping.

Chapter 6: My name is, the Ruler of Constraints! (K)

When I saw the huge red mouth swallowing various bodies and was scanned by the blood-red eyes, a trembling feeling from the soul came over me.

This feeling was very strange. After spending a long time with the Herrscher, Calis found that he could not describe him as "crazy" or "cruel" because the Herrscher did not have such feelings at all.

They can laugh, they can hate, but when you look into their eyes you can only see the purest reason.

They are just a group of robots that instinctively move towards a target, and they can't even describe what the target is. At least I guessed what Honkai wants.

Calis did not feel proud at all, because these things were not important to the Herrscher, just like all creatures related to Honkai ignored life and death. Putting himself in the other's shoes, he could only see what the other party was going to do at the moment.

So he nodded slightly to the people eating, walked around the hill and went deeper.

"It seems that the Ninth Herrscher has failed. The Fire Moth has been strengthened countless times after being controlled by Dr. Ryan. Such a powerful Herrscher didn't even have the chance to see him."

This is a good thing for humans, but it is very cruel for him. Calis is not naive enough to be able to clear himself, and he knows Ryan and May very well.

Squeeze out all the usefulness, then behead them with one blow. At most, they can be quick and swift in doing it. Trying to cleanse themselves or atone for their sins is suicide. They have no choice but to take the most dangerous and difficult path.

So at this moment, I can't show any abnormality. Fusion warriors are not so precious anymore.

The cave was deep and hidden even deeper underground. Apart from the sound of bodies being torn apart behind him, it was extremely quiet. He walked into the deepest part and saw dozens of figures looking at him at the same time.

There were old and young, male and female, some even wearing Fire Moth uniforms, but their movements and expressions were surprisingly consistent. They glanced at him and then dispersed.

The Thousand Rulers actually left so many dominant entities here?

Calis raised his eyebrows quietly and nodded as usual. He had been here for several months, but he had not had much communication with the Rulers. The other party's attitude was very strange, neither trying to win him over nor rejecting him. The only order he had given in the past few months was the hunt for Ryan not long ago.

I really feel like a piece of air. Instead, Dr. Damian has more contact with them. His laboratory is actually in this deep place.

His curiosity lasted for a while, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Dr. Damian in a white coat coming out.

"It's a real pleasure to meet 'one of my kind' in a place like this."

"The hunt is about to begin, and you will be in charge of the fusion warriors. It just so happens that I have some new products recently." Damian had a blank expression on his face, as if he had been assimilated by the Herrscher, and he just clapped his hands.

Following the sound of footsteps, five figures walked out from the deep darkness. They were over two meters tall, wearing some kind of leather military coats, with large chunks of Honkai energy crystals on their bodies, and tubes as thick as forearms connected their brains from their backs.

It's another new product. No wonder the Fire Moth is determined to kill you.

Calis looked around thoughtfully. There were not many normal people around him now. The confidants he brought with him had undergone various transformations and looked like neither human nor ghost. The only complete Dark Pupa had suffered heavy losses.

But this is inevitable. The humans brought here will either die or become a new race between humans and Honkai beasts.

“Is he Poison Number?” Calis recognized that the nearly three-meter-tall monster was a member of the Dark Pupa, and was once a high-level fusion warrior.

"Well, the guy who played with ice caused his genes to collapse. He couldn't be saved, so he simply became a rare material. After modifying his gene sequence, I developed this new product. Praise this place. Living in this high-Honkai energy environment for a long time will indeed have an impact on humans at the genetic level, just like the natural selection in nature. The weak will be eliminated, and the strong will be blessed."

Damian finally showed some excitement, and spoke very quickly. It didn't seem like he was discussing or asking for opinions, but rather showing off.

"The dusk monitoring plan is correct, but it's a pity that the time is too short. If it is extended to several decades, perhaps more special individuals will be born!"

Calis knew he was talking about Twilight Street, the long-abandoned plan, because they saw the results. Four of the people around Dr. Ryan were related to Twilight Street.

"No need to go so far. Let's get over the current problem first. How are you going to use this new product?"

"How to use them is your problem. I'll just explain one thing." Damian patted the warrior beside him, making a metallic 'bang bang' sound. "Once activated, they can burst out with very powerful force."

"Just tell me how powerful it is."

"The Poison will triple its output. These four can approach the level of upper-level fusion warriors, but the flaw is that their genes will collapse within 48 hours. You have to be careful. This flaw can only be adjusted after I figure out that thing."

Armed at once, are they preparing for a quick victory?

Calis was very smart and grasped the key point immediately. He was also curious: "What is that thing?"

"The information that the Thousand Herrschers brought back from the central database is called the Stigmata Project. They are indeed better than me. They actually found this method." Damian's tone became distorted, mixed with jealousy and excitement, tearing his hair and talking to himself:

"Beyond physical transformation, directly reaching the soul level, why did Dr. Mei choose to fight? It is obvious that with me, civilization can successfully cross the end. How stupid, presumptuous, and arrogant..."

Callis was not interested in this kind of mumbling, but he found that the doctor could no longer be communicated with. He had fallen into a certain obsession and his mental state became increasingly abnormal. He gradually changed from a rational and intelligent person to an irrational monster.

I felt like I was in a mental hospital, watching incomprehensible performance art every day.

He glanced at Damian who was mumbling to himself, then looked at the disappearing 'mountain of meat', and slowly raised his head.

"If we can't win on the battlefield, any obsession is useless. The Fire Moths are suppressing us with all their might. There's no time to think about these trivial matters."

"We can win."

A clear voice sounded, and Calis was slightly startled. He looked down at the deepest part of the cave, which was pitch black, and gradually a faint light appeared.

A girl with a good figure came out, her fair skin emitting a faint glow, light blue hair, a slightly childish face, and purple eye shadow. Wasn't this his subordinate Freya?

In the last hunting battle, she was hit by Hua's punch and was sent back to recuperate.

"Were you also transformed by Damian?"

He was a little annoyed at first, but then he knew there was a problem. She was naked, but the oppressive feeling that belonged only to the Herrscher made people consciously restrain their desires.

"Froya, why are you......"

"This name is a thing of the past. If you must have a code name to distinguish us and avoid that kind of low-level trouble, then—"

The girl stopped, stared at the blond man with emotionless purple eyes, and raised her hand slightly.

"You can call me the Ruler of Constraint."

......

kill!kill!kill!

Let the flames of killing consume everything and release all the power!

A ball of fire was raging in the jungle, forming a winding curve. All the roads it passed were set on fire and then turned into ashes.

Qianjie roared in a low voice. He had been holding it in for too long. He was deceived, fooled, and used by that bastard...

Do you think I don't know?!

The hand knife pierced through the large shield of a Centaur Emperor-level Honkai Beast, and tore it to both sides with force, tearing the half-meter thick armor shield into pieces, and then a huge spear appeared in front of him.

It was fast and powerful, just like a knight charging, but Qianjie did not dodge and just headbutted him.

boom!

The remaining flames scattered, and the centaur, which was as tall as a three-story building, was blown back, with its hind legs stuck in the ground. Before it could adjust its balance, a fist hit it directly on the forehead.