7. Giving Up Everything for One Person
Ling was a little surprised: "Can you still hold on?"
Or is it that Kiana doesn't want to believe that the person she loves deeply is a demon?
"Void Archives" appeared in his hand, and Ling once again avoided the swift attack from Yulandel.
"Then I'll add some spice to it for you, Mimicry Fenghuang Down!"
Red feathers fell from the sky.
Kiana saw everything.
She saw Ling conducting inhumane human experiments, and she saw countless individuals exactly like herself.
She saw Ling's careful planning to meet her. From the very beginning, her meeting with Ling to their final love was just a play planned by him.
Kiana was completely disheartened, and taking advantage of this gap, the consciousness of the Herrscher of the Void took over her body.
Although the Herrscher of the Void now only has two cores, her size far exceeds that of the Second Honkai Eruption period.
This is all thanks to Ling's training of Kiana, so that the power contained in this body is enough to perfectly bear the authority of the Herrscher of the Void!
"Full of power...Human, to thank you for resurrecting me, I will grant you the most magnificent death!!!"
The Herrscher of the Void immediately recognized Ling, the one who had killed her, but feeling the surging power in her body, she began to swell.
Ling blocked Durandal's attack casually and inserted a strange device into the ground. It was called the "Herrscher's Staff"!
The ability of the Herrscher's Staff is to use a special electromagnetic field to interfere with the connection between the Herrscher's core and the imaginary space, distorting the "channel" between the two in a short period of time, and controlling the Herrscher without killing them.
The Herrscher of the Void was subdued in an instant and fell to the ground.
Durandal was also trapped by the water flow and unable to move. Finally, she was controlled by Fenghuang Down and fainted.
Just when Ling was about to take the two of them away, a person who surprised Ling stood in front of him.
"That's it, Ling!"
"I didn't expect you to come out... So it was Su who did it?"
When Ling saw Kevin, he quickly understood everything.
Presumably, the truth that Durandal knew was also told to him by Su.
Su has great talent, so it is not difficult for him to know these things.
As expected, I should have killed him right then and there... But it doesn't matter; it just takes a little more effort.
"Stop your crazy plan!" Kevin inserted the "Judgment of Shamash" into the ground, blocking Ling like an insurmountable barrier.
To this, Ling's reply was just simple words: "I refuse."
Facing Ling, Kevin did not dare to be careless at all and directly showed his strongest attitude.
"Artificial Cascade Brahma"!
The golden cube in Ling's hand began to change, and it also turned into a "Judgment of Shamash" in his hand.
"Who is better, the first of Flame-Chasers or the fourteenth of Flame-Chasers?"
There was a bit of madness in Ling's eyes, and no one could stop him!
Genius and mediocrity.
"Savior" and "Preservasion".
"Ice" and "water".
Brahma and Leviathan.
"Judgment of Shamash" and "Void Archives".
This battle took place at sea.
It is both Kevin's home court and Ling's home court.
Kevin has his own beliefs, and Ling also has his own obsessions.
This battle was earth-shattering, and every collision was as powerful as a full-strength attack from the Herrscher.
Even with an extra 50,000 years of growth, Ling still couldn't suppress Kevin head-on...
Is this what mediocrity is? Is this... fate?
Ling's eyes were extremely cold: "Go to hell!"
Kevin lay on the ice, with the Mimicry Judgment of Shamash stuck in his cheek.
He could even feel the scorching heat from the Judgment of Shamash on his neck.
Ling did not kill Kevin, not because he showed mercy or out of consideration for his comrades.
Having stained his body with countless bloodstains, he didn't mind shedding the blood of his former companions. He didn't do it simply because it was meaningless to do so.
After everything restarted, everything... made no sense.
Kevin couldn't stop him anymore.
Ling returned to the Schicksal headquarters, followed the anchor point, used the "Cosmic Juggernaut Inverted Horizons", and took Kiana and Durandal to the place where Otto arrived.
He saw the "Tree of Imaginary Numbers", surrounded by countless possibilities belonging to Otto, but they had all disappeared.
New branches continued to extend outward from the "Tree of Imaginary Numbers", and Ling saw the world line created by Otto.
As a price, Otto's existence has been completely erased.
But...this is not the "Tree of Imaginary Numbers"!
This is just a simple projection of the "Infinite Tree" in the Originworld.
The real "Tree of Infinity" is hidden in a place that is even more distant and unreachable.
Ling went straight past the "Tree of Imaginary Numbers" and headed deeper into the cave.
He had been waiting for this moment for a long time, and he had imagined this path countless times.
This road may not be far away.
It's just the persistence of a person who has been dead for more than 50,000 years.
After an unknown amount of time, Ling finally touched a solid barrier.
He put the two of them down and released Fenghuang Down's control over them.
Almost instantly, the two of them came to their senses and kept a distance from Ling.
"Come, my 'lover', Kiana Kaslana; my favorite student, Bianka Durandal Ataegina."
"Behind me is my destination. This is your last chance!"
Ling stood upright with his hands open, ready to accept the judgment of the two girls.
The Herrscher of the Void suddenly covered her head in pain. After a struggle, one of her eyes turned into a deep blue eye that symbolized hope.
"Ling, no matter what you do, I will definitely stop you!!!"
Kiana attacked Ling like crazy, and countless sub-sky spears shot towards him.
"Teacher, I can't let you turn this world upside down like this!"
Durandal raised the "Black Abyss White Flower" in her hand and rebelled against her gorgeous teacher.
The power to penetrate imaginary numbers and the power to break imaginary numbers gathered together and attacked Ling.
Ling did not resist at all, spread out his hands, and calmly accepted the arrival of death.
"No...don't!" Kiana's mind flashed back to the scene of the two of them together, even if it was fake...
She regretted it at that moment, and her arms stretched out weakly towards Ling.
But it was too late.
The energy poured out without reservation, destroying Ling's body.
Ling died, but...the barrier was also opened.
The path to the core of the "Infinite Tree" is beyond the reach of Honkai, and all Ling can do is... give up everything he has.
To get to that...place.
Kiana cried heartbreakingly, while Durandal hugged her with heartache.
"Ling, I hate you, I hate you!"
But Ling could no longer hear.
He floated forward, and soon, a huge object like a heart appeared in front of him.
"Is this... the Infinite Tree?"
He had a premonition that if he could just touch it with his hands, he would be able to realize the vision that spanned fifty thousand years.
Just reach out to it...
However, a hand got there first and grabbed his hand.
"Ling, you can't do this~?"
He would never forget that sound.
Ling originally thought that no one could stop him, but he forgot about the only person in his heart.
"Elysia..."
He looked back, her slightly curly pink hair had a refreshing fragrance, under her smooth side bangs were a pair of beautiful eyes as bright as stars, and between her lips and teeth there was a charm that could not be described in words.
"Phew, luckily I made it in time. I spent some time asking Eden to put on some makeup. How's it going? Ling...are you stunned~?"