Chapter 1284 Passage
Realizing there was no way out, the Herrscher of Fusion let out a silent yet soul-shaking shriek. The sea of azure fire suddenly contracted and condensed, transforming into a huge and distorted humanoid silhouette.
It attempts to mobilize connections with the hundreds of thousands of consciousnesses it has imprisoned in slumber, using those fragile souls as shields and bargaining chips.
However, what responded to it was a sudden, warm golden light that spread across the entire battlefield area.
The light was not dazzling, but like an invisible film, gently enveloping the world. Wherever it touched, the Honkai energy in the air seemed to be purified. The flickering blue flames between the brows of the citizens who were controlled by the Herrscher and fell into a deep sleep were now coated with a golden film, and the connection between them and the Herrscher's main consciousness became blurred and weak.
Meanwhile, Fu Hua stood in a corner of the battlefield, countless fine, yet solidified, crimson-gold feathers emerging from the void behind her. As if possessing life, they drifted towards the twisted humanoid form condensed by the Herrscher. Each feather trailed a faint golden tail, weaving a vast, intricate net in the air.
These avatars of Feather Dust did not directly attack the Herrscher's core consciousness. Instead, like the most precise probes, they began to attach themselves to the surface of its body, which was composed of countless chaotic thoughts, analyzing the composition and connection of each fragment of consciousness.
The Herrscher struggled, activating the backup "containers" scattered around the battlefield—animals infected or controlled by it beforehand, low-level undead, and even some abandoned mechanical creations—that had not yet been completely isolated by the golden domain. As long as one container survived, it could transfer a portion of its consciousness and preserve the embers of its power.
however--
"Full firepower, coordinate lock, saturation attack—fire!!!"
On the communication channel, Dr. Tesla's excited, almost distorted voice boomed with commands.
The next second, the sky was illuminated.
It wasn't sunlight, but countless ultra-long-range railgun beams, high-energy particle beams, and guided missiles raining down like a meteor shower from the Anti-Entropy mobile fortress tens of kilometers away! Their target wasn't the Herrscher itself, but all the targets marked as "abnormal life reactions" on the periphery of the battlefield!
Boom! Boom boom boom boom—!!!
The continuous explosions resembled a grand fireworks display, bursting into dazzling fireballs at the edge of the battlefield. Whether it was the infected rats lurking in the ruins, the low-level Honkai beasts hiding in the rubble, or the dazed, staggering newbie warriors, all were reduced to dust under the precise and ferocious barrage of fire.
The "Wide-Area Vital Sign Anomaly Scanning and Rapid Response Firepower Allocation System" shared by Velvi demonstrated astonishing efficiency at this moment. The Herrscher's attempts to disperse and escape were completely cut off.
What made the Herrscher even more desperate was that outside the already unbreakable barrier, another, even stronger barrier quietly closed in.
That was the "Mental Stasis Barrier" jointly constructed by Su and Aponia. The invisible barrier was woven from pure and vast mental energy, not a physical obstacle, but a "dead end" at the level of consciousness. Any attempt to cross this barrier in mental form would be like hitting an infinitely extending mirror maze, where consciousness would be infinitely refracted and diluted, ultimately losing itself in the echoes of self-awareness.
The Herrscher's twisted humanoid body suddenly expanded, and the ghostly blue flames burned wildly, attempting to violently impact the golden domain and the surrounding spiritual barrier.
What greeted it was a blade of light, like a sword traversing space, that flashed past the "joints" of the Herrscher's expanding body, leaving dozens of deep cracks that revealed the "core".
Weakened in this way, the Herrscher's impact was like an egg hitting a metal plate, instantly disintegrating and being torn apart. Its massive aggregate of consciousness was ripped into hundreds of fragments of varying sizes, each wrapped in a cluster of ghostly blue flames, scattering in all directions like a school of startled fish.
But the Herrscher is ultimately an aggregate of consciousness, and physical dismemberment cannot completely destroy it. As long as a fragment escapes, it will eventually return.
The fragments instinctively searched for weaknesses in the barrier. They quickly discovered an anomaly: inside the near-perfect mental stasis barrier constructed by Su and Aponia, at the boundary with the inner realm, there was an extremely fine, regular "gap." This gap was not a loophole, but rather more like... a reserved "channel interface."
Near that crevice, besides the powerful beings that terrified it, stood a human with a completely different aura.
It was a white-haired man with his eyes tightly closed, his brows furrowed, and his body trembling slightly, as if he were under immense pressure. Compared to the dazzling spiritual energy around him, which shone like stars, this man's spiritual fluctuations, though resilient and intense, were noticeably "weak."
It's a flaw! It's the weak point that these humans had to set up to maintain this complex, multi-layered barrier! This man's spirit is the "node" connecting the inner and outer barriers, and also the point of greatest pressure and easiest to break through!
This judgment formed rapidly within the chaotic consciousness of the Herrscher fragments. Without hesitation, the largest fragments, along with dozens of smaller ones around them, like ants discovering honey, turned and pounced towards Siegfried!
They easily broke through the first layer, the seemingly secure golden domain—it was indeed a pre-reserved passage! Then they crashed hard into the second layer, the mental barrier maintained by Aponia and Su.
This time, the sense of obstruction was significantly reduced. It seemed that the mental barrier at this "node" had made adaptive adjustments to connect with the inner barrier, and the defense was not absolute.
But it was still just a little short; the Herrscher was blocked.
Enraged, the Herrscher transformed herself into a thread, doing everything in her power to touch the man who was so close to her.
This time it succeeded.
It touched the man's body.
Without pause, all the fragments, like weary birds returning to their nests, surged into Siegfried's sea of consciousness, guided by the mental fluctuations!
However, the moment they entered, the Herrscher fragments realized something was wrong.
This human mind... is not a closed spiritual world, nor is it as chaotic and fragile as those ordinary people who are easily eroded by it. It is more like a meticulously constructed, extremely complex "crossroads" or "transportation hub"!
Countless "channels" composed of pure spiritual energy and emanating different auras extended in all directions from Siegfried's consciousness as the core.
These intruding fragments of the Herrscher were immediately captured by the attraction and guiding force naturally emanating from these passages, which were aimed at "chaotic consciousness"!
