Herrscher of Reason's Arknights

"Talulah!!! Tell me!"

The sword whistled, its thin blade clashing with Talulah's longsword time and time again.

"Destruction is only for the next rebirth. The land after the fire will be more fertile. This world needs to be reshaped."

Talulah parried Chen Huijie's attack with her sword, then quickly sheathed the overly long sword. The mechanism charged up again, and with her right hand gripping the hilt tightly, a powerful strike was ready to slay anything in front of her.

"----absurd!"

Chen Huijie gasped for breath. The dragon's bloodline possessed extraordinary power and explosive force, but that was only effective against people of other races.

Her opponent is also a dragon, a dragon girl named Talulah.

The two fought fiercely, neither gaining the upper hand.

But time waits for no one, and Talulah is clearly stalling for time, since time is on the side of Reunion.

"You're insane! You're absolutely insane! War only destroys everyone! The war between Yan and Ursus will destroy everything! There's absolutely no way this damned nonsense about 'making the land more fertile after burning' is true!"

He pointed the sword at his sister.

"Turn back, Talulah. Turn back now, stop in the core city, it's not too late..."

"...From the moment I embarked on this path..."

The girl stepped forward, the mechanism in the scabbard spun rapidly, and the longsword was like a cannonball being fired!

Talulah gripped the hilt of her sword and channeled the immense force of her attack into a devastating slash.

"—There has never been a 'turnback'."

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"Left! Right! They're everywhere, all around us!!"

"----boom!!"

The purple ripples released by the girl were like a net that could spread out anywhere, in any space, at any time, and unleash deadly weapons to shred everything in its path.

They are everywhere; any direction can become a point of attack for the opponent.

However, the entire space belongs to Yelena.

The entire underground space was completely covered by a thick layer of ice, and the extreme cold was enough to kill most life activities.

That was a cold so intense it was deadly to life.

The air, cold and damp, carries a purplish glow of Honkai energy.

"It actually froze everything around it. The dumbest method is also the most effective... Whose idea was it? Yours? Or... hers?"

Sodium chloride looked at Yelena's mutated right eye, the meaning of which was self-evident.

Although Yelena was still being chased around by her older sister, she was becoming increasingly difficult to deal with.

The surrounding air belonged to Yelena, though she couldn't use methods meant for killing mortals to suppress Sodium Chloride's respiratory system. After all, Herrschers didn't need oxygen.

However, all moving objects in the air are within her perception range.

It's a perception radar that's even better than vision; it can "see" everything that passes through the air.

"She was forced into it. Doesn't she have any self-awareness about doing something like this?"

When the attack temporarily stopped, Yelena's feet made a hissing sound as she slid along the ice tracks into a corner of a huge, empty space.

The original load-bearing pillars have all broken cleanly; if it weren't for the ice layer holding it up, this place would probably have collapsed long ago.

After one fight, the bottom layer was basically completely dismantled.

"Why do this, sister? Why do you have to take the longest route to do something that you could easily do with just a reach of your hand?"

The heat from the explosion was slowly melting the surrounding ice, and the ice crystals falling from the air turned into cold rain, pouring down into the frigid space.

"There are always some people who have to take responsibility for this or that, and there is always someone who has to be the bad guy."

Sodium chloride simply replied indifferently, its icy eyes devoid of any emotional warmth.

"But that day, my sister said she hoped I would be the one standing here."

"With your strength, sister, all of this is within your grasp. With your power, there is no one who can stand in your way when you want to do something."

If my sister wanted it, there would be no need for such a huge undertaking as to break a core city out of Ursus's control and launch a war by crashing into Lungmen.

Looking at her silent sister, Yelena continued.

“Those diaries, those cities that never existed, those names I’ve never heard of and those people who thought they were Agor, those wars that I’ve never heard of and that don’t exist in history! Those things are like they are now, started by my sister, like a villain who wants to destroy the world.”

"Start wars, incite disasters, just like what is happening now. Become all kinds of evil people."

why?

Why do we have to do this?

What exactly is it? I've always wanted to know what my sister is chasing after. I really want to know.

"The day you leave home and look down on everything from high above, your sister probably knew that day would come, which is why she wanted me to be here."

Why must I bear the label of a bad person? Why does my sister have to be the bad person?

"...Have you finished asking?"

"You don't want to talk about it, do you? Are you keeping everything to yourself? Or did I guess right, which is why you're choosing to remain silent?"

Yelena's triumphant grin was reflected in her golden eyes.

"It's been a long time. Have you become more perceptive?"

"Speaking of which..."

Suddenly, the ominous color in sodium chloride's eyes slowly faded, revealing its original blue-gray pupils.

Those slightly unfocused eyes seemed to pierce through the frozen space, gazing into the past.

It seems that people always take changes in their surroundings for granted.

Only when that thing completely no longer matches one's memory will one belatedly realize that a very, very long time has passed.

The girl who cried out in despair in the woods is no longer recognizable as the girl she is now.

In the blink of an eye, that tiny, skinny girl, who seemed barely big enough to sit on a chair, is now as tall as me. Her long, silver hair and slanted bangs make her look completely different from the girl I remember.

Sodium chloride is still sodium chloride, but the white-haired little rabbit in front of me is no longer the same little rabbit it used to be.

Have you grown up yet?

However, no one heard these words.

No need for that kind of thing.

She is who she is; she is just an office worker who longs for a peaceful life.

He has a slight interest in killing, but it's harmless.

No one has ever been able to stop her from doing what she wants.

You don't need others to understand you, nor do you need to make others understand you, to achieve and obtain the desired results.

It's that simple.

"So what if the interesting conclusion is true, and so what if it isn't?"

The girl adopted an attitude of "I won't say anything, what can you do to me?" and purple ripples spread around her once again.

"I will make my sister vomit it all out, without missing a single one."

Amidst the billowing smoke, the electrical system of the entire underground floor was slowly failing, and the lights went out one by one.

Like a series of falling black gates, they squeezed the space for survival, and also resembled a stage about to close.

"A good idea, but unfortunately not now."

"Sodium chloride said calmly, and snapped its fingers."

Yelena, of course, knew what her sister's actions meant.

Purple ripples crashed over like ocean waves! Yelena rushed towards her sister at top speed.

Her long reach advantage is limited to long-range combat. Although all her strength was taught to her by her sister, she must now rely on close combat to achieve victory in her current domain!

Just stick it on, and leave the rest to fate.

However·····

"Sure enough, when too much water is added, it always makes people misunderstand one's true level."

At the moment the fingers snapped.

A golden domain instantly bloomed, a vast divine realm that encompassed everything around it.

Everything within that area was frozen in that very moment.

"Heh, I am the Herrscher of Space and Time. Just because I don't use it doesn't mean I can't."

Stroking Yelena's face and looking at her frozen in mid-air, sodium chloride chuckled coldly.

Of course she would let Yelena be the savior, but not now. The play is not over yet, and she needs the right script to be played out at the right time.

Before that, the girl opened the gate to imaginary numbers; she needed to find the final piece of the puzzle belonging to this tedious script...

Chapter 387 [Battle of the Core City]

Rhodes Island has entered the core city, and if the Reunion Movement's conspiracy is not stopped, none of the Infected can continue to survive.

At that time, once branded as instigators of war, the living conditions for the infected would only worsen.

In other words, Rhodes Island cannot survive without defeating the Reunion Movement.

So even though only a few squads managed to storm the city, each squad clashed fiercely with the Reunion Movement forces in various locations, leaving corpses everywhere.

There are members from the Reunion Movement and members from Rhodes Island.

Now, the area around the stone coffin, which should have been a battlefield, is deathly silent.

This is the only way to the sarcophagus, and it is also the purpose of Kal'tsit's journey.

Rhodes Island deployed five squads, divided into three groups, to block reinforcements, decapitate the Reunion Movement leader, and destroy the core city's energy system. If any one of the five groups succeeds, this tragedy will be prevented.

Even if dividing troops is a major taboo in military strategy, it is worth it.

However, the plan has now changed slightly.

"You want us to guard the gates and disrupt the Reunification Movement's plans, right?"

Two groups of people were gathered in front of the stone coffin gate.

The silver-haired Elafia stood in the biting cold wind, with dozens of guerrilla members wearing heavy armor behind her.

That was the result of Rhodes Island's continuous contact with the guerrillas, because the actions of the Reunion Movement were enough to threaten all the infected. Once the collision occurred and the war was started, the infected would not even be able to protect themselves.

In order to fight for their own land, Rhodes Island successfully recruited the guerrillas.

"Yes, this is what we agreed upon. We will handle the bridge and power room of the core city, while you will hold off the reinforcements from the Reunion Movement."

"Alright, in two hours, whether we succeed or not, we will retreat. I don't want my soldiers to perish with this city."

"Of course, two hours is not enough for our event, we don't have that much extra time."

Alina nodded and spoke to the shield behind her.

"Alright, soldiers, let's go, for our own destiny!"

Looking at the route guidance displayed on the terminal in her hand, Kal'tsit looked up at the deep underground passage.

The gate, which was originally sealed with cast iron, is now wide open, torn open by some unknown external force, creating a gap large enough for three or four people to pass side by side.

Has the Reunion Movement entered the scene first?

So far, nothing unexpected has happened.

The most normal course of action for the Reunification Movement is to send personnel to guard the energy core.

A fierce battle is likely to take place there.

Of course, planning is everything before a battle, unless war breaks out.

All the plans were just a piece of paper when the war started, and no one could predict what would happen next.

Everyone is swept along in the torrent of fate, rushing forward and never able to stop.