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There is no specific color that can be used to describe it, and even satellites cannot clearly determine it.
It was unimaginable what it would become, and no one could stop it in the slightest; all they could do was witness this miraculous event unfold.
Only Cocolia, who was in the outer command room and completely immersed in the situation, was able to witness all of this—the sudden divine punishment that enveloped the mechs of Changkong City and destroyed them in an instant.
—It's lightning.
With just a wave of her hand from that Herrscher in Changkong City, the world was instantly shrouded in darkness. A silver dot fell, and the descent of the dragon-serpent winding across the sky destroyed all of her proudly armed forces.
The girl hadn't stopped yet.
The monster didn't even breathe.
The turquoise pupils reflected the despairing monster staring back at them tirelessly through the virtual screen.
“Jiang Cheng is still in a coma. If I can’t save him, if he dies here…” Raiden Mei grinned, but her voice was devoid of any emotion. “Then I will torture you little by little in the most miserable and desperate way until you can’t even die.”
"Your father is still in my hands. If you don't want him to suffer..."
The woman in the green military uniform had completely lost her composure. Her act of slamming the table had become a way to cover up her guilty conscience. Her anger and dissatisfaction... precisely confirmed her emptiness without any real confidence, and confirmed that her purple eyes were almost completely empty with anger.
"Ah... If you hadn't said it, I would have almost forgotten, forgotten that you and I were originally enemies who absolutely could not tolerate each other's existence."
The girl smiled calmly, it was impossible to tell whether the dominant force at this moment was the Herrscher personality or the unbridled ego. Only her eyes grew colder, as if the lightning in the sky had completely shed its hesitation and confusion, transforming into a pure natural disaster that only knew how to tear everything apart and flash its light.
"Consider this a warning. This is the address I found on your computer; the location is Siberia."
"Right?"
The Queen of Lightning tilted her head with an innocent and romantic air, her soft hair swaying naturally in the shadows, and fragments of lightning scattered in the air, like stardust falling leisurely.
Judging purely from appearances, no one could equate this girl, who just seemed to be spreading her arms wide in the storm and venting her anger, with lightning.
Cocolia's body trembled slightly, as if she instinctively sensed unease, like the waves stirred up when a seagull flies over the sea.
Fish and shrimp living in shallow waters can detect this ripple, and thus begin to stir, fleeing in all directions, creating more and more subtle ripples.
"What do you mean?"
"It's just a small warning."
The girl didn't respond, nor did she bother to acknowledge the fear hidden in her words. She simply closed her eyes gently, feeling the power flowing through her body.
The weakness and inadequacy of power are essentially due to one's own resistance and denial—denying this power, denying the idea of destroying the world, and even more so, denying the core of being a Herrscher and denying one's identity that is above humanity.
However, that will never happen again.
Raiden Mei will not repeat the same mistake.
All hesitation vanished from her suddenly opened eyes. She raised her arm, and deep purple lightning flashed from her fingertips, like a sudden burst of layers of gunpowder clouds, liquefying and pressurizing the terrifying power that humans could not touch or control onto her seemingly slender and white fingers.
Even this mere outflow of power, the seemingly insignificant scattering of lightning, could easily illuminate the thick, dark clouds that enveloped the entire city, which appeared to be on the verge of the apocalypse, revealing a grandeur befitting a god. And now, what the Queen of Thunder was about to unleash was—
All of them!
then……
—The real thunder has descended here!
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Chapter 35 Mei: Cocolia, you're so weak! [3k]
What kind of immense power could defeat a god?
What kind of folly would it take to think that one can rival the gods?
At this moment, right now, now.
Cocolia witnessed the arrival of a miracle—reflected in her green pupils were the Titan mechs that had just been prepared enough to destroy a nation, reduced to smoke in an instant, and the endless, unrestrained thunder from the sky. Now, this unbridled terror had unleashed an even more insane act of destruction.
The information from the orphanage has not yet been relayed, and even the most loyal subordinates need time to gather intelligence.
But the Herrscher of Thunder had already sent that scene over—it was recorded the instant of destruction.
That was an orphanage.
The orphanage has been torn apart.
Perhaps we can continue to fantasize that this is a false message from the Herrscher of Thunder, that she couldn't do such a cruel thing, that she's just a weak and incompetent person, a piece of trash who doesn't even dare to fight back when bullied. But the traces left by the lightning tearing the earth have spread from Raiden Mei's direction to the ends of the earth, leaving a huge scar on the whole world. The liquid that melted after the ground was burned is still boiling.
The power of the Herrscher has never been so clearly displayed—perhaps all the destruction that humanity has caused to Earth so far is far less intense than the roar of this thunderstorm.
Even without careful observation, it's almost impossible to tell whether the glowing, liquid-like substance within the torn marks is liquefied lightning or the melting of plastic and steel.
"how?"
—The Thunder Queen remains as mad as ever.
It clearly caused such horrific destruction; it's clear that even if this attack had been avoided in the middle of the attack, it would have inevitably harmed innocent people.
The girl, who would normally grieve over the disasters brought about by being forced into Herrscher status by others even though it wasn't her fault, is now acting so recklessly.
It was as if it were demonstrating its power, its authority, and the immense wounds this world had inflicted—even the satellites in the sky were instantly hacked, projecting images onto the screen in front of Cocolia in a clearer way, allowing this arrogant and self-important guy, who thought he could control the Herrscher, to witness why the Herrscher was called a calamity.
"Jiang Cheng told me how to deal with you, and I understood. So now it's not your turn to threaten me with my father, but if you don't want to die here, you'd better take your mecha and get out of Changkong City!"
If Jiang Cheng wakes up and sees that I haven't resolved this small matter yet, I'll definitely be disappointed. —Although I must ask Jiang Cheng for specific solutions.
This is why they squander their power and use physical means to drive out all foreign things.
Ahhh...
Is it that powerful?
Cocolia almost collapsed into the chair. All the confidence and arrogance that had once supported her body were now shattered and trampled under her feet.
Why...
What gives this guy the power to do this?
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what……
I'm lying down again.
Once again, Jiang Cheng returned to that familiar space of consciousness, feeling as if he were lying down. He raised his arm and quietly placed the back of his hand on his forehead.
A slight smile crept across his lips, a sarcastic mockery of this familiar and monotonous scene.
Weak.
inability.
They seem so ordinary and mundane in an absolutely peaceful world, with little ability to resist any crisis. They dare not buy a house, dare not fall in love, and are even afraid of the opposite sex. How much more so in this world where the wickedness of the lower class and the survival of the fittest are no longer concealed?
If it weren't for his profound understanding of his own ordinariness and mediocrity, most people would probably have gone insane from this incompetence.
"Why... am I the only one who is so useless, without even a little bit of talent or ability?"
It only takes a little bit...
"—Your Excellency Jiang Cheng, you have done very well."
My self-loathing was interrupted before I could finish speaking.
A space of consciousness that should belong to only one person has been forcibly squeezed into by entirely new voices.
—That was Du Mingya's voice.
There is no need to worry, no need to be hesitant, and no need to worry about others intruding on one's consciousness... The boy who knows everything already knows that after obtaining the Stigmata, he will be pulled into the Stigmata Space, and one day he will meet Yae Sakura and Rin, the previous generation of Herrscher of Corruption.
He didn't even lift his head, nor did he care to see if the surrounding scenery had changed to Yae Village. He simply raised his hand and swung it numbly.
In fact, there's no need to look up anymore.
She is coming.
She was already standing there, right beside him, and all he had to do was open his eyes—the simplest thing in the world—to see Miss Yae.
Her slender waist bent slightly, her left hand gently pressing down on the long skirt that barely covered her thighs, her right hand lifting a strand of hair. In that dreamlike scene of cherry blossoms fluttering in the sky, there were her bright and clear eyes, as if the most delicate petal of spring had fallen into the shimmering lake.
From a bottom-up perspective, one can just see that the hills are clearly more magnificent than Raiden Mei's, something that no ordinary person could possess.
This is probably the small difference between a naive young girl and a slightly more mature girl.
The shrine maiden's outfit she wore was clearly not a proper style. As she raised her hand, her smooth, jade-like armpits were revealed, continuing along the white edge of the fabric. Next to that was the whiteness of her body, which was even softer than that purity. The subtle pressing of her arm made this scene even clearer.
The faintly visible edges of her side breasts and armpits stretched out several prominent breast tufts, making large swaths of snow-white, warm flesh almost overflow from the edge of her bodice.
The former most popular character in the Honkai Impact world has now appeared before my eyes, the third avatar I've encountered since arriving in this world.
"You've really done a great job."
"Your Excellency Jiang Cheng."
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Worried that tragedy would unfold before her eyes, worried that her beautiful happiness would be shattered, and even more worried that the story of mutual love would be lost because of one person's regret, she even took the initiative to step forward as a successor in the Stigmata, to search for and comfort the girl who indirectly killed her, emphasizing this once again.
"You've done better than countless others by choosing to shield Mei from the attack at the last moment. In my memory, most of the people I've met are the kind of people who would hurt those around them when a crisis comes."
"If you are worried about your lack of power, then perhaps I can help you."
"Although my strength is insignificant compared to Miss Mei, I can still handle some small matters."
The emotions contained in those cherry-colored eyes were not feigned or deceptive; their earnestness was undeniable—they would do their utmost to help if they agreed.
Maybe the world isn't so bad after all.
At least there are many people who are genuinely kind to the extreme.
Jiang Cheng agreed without hesitation, but as he put his hands down on the ground to support his body and was about to get up, he felt a tingling sensation all over his body, as if something had flowed through his entire body in an instant.
Beside the girl who was bending over and looking at him, within his sight, a fox appeared out of nowhere, defying the laws of nature—its mouth agape, as if it were speaking.
Its entire body is covered in pink fur and red branding, with faint circular magatama decorations visible. Most of its body seems to be hidden, making it impossible to see its full appearance.
The upturned, alluring fox eyes, the sharp teeth occasionally peeking out from the open fox snout, and the face adorned with vermilion highlights perfectly embody the fantasy of a fox.
Judging solely from its expressiveness, it is both alluring and imposing; if it were placed in a novel or game, it would at least be a mid-game elite boss.
"Yae Sakura, just how despicable are you?"
"He was just killed, and then immediately gave his power to someone else."
"And don't forget that girl named Mei, she's the same kind of person as me."
"Aren't you worried about giving him your power... Oh, so you're planning to have this Jiang Cheng kill that monster like me with his own hands?"
That doesn't fit the fox's description anymore.
The methods of seduction were crude and incompetent.
At least in this single tactic, despite being of a higher level than even a teenager, she displayed no elegance or allure whatsoever. Yae Sakura, the one being manipulated, remained unaffected, even straightening up and gripping her long sword, her fighting spirit instantly ignited.
Ahhh...
"—You're overthinking it."
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Jiang Cheng's head, which he lowered subconsciously, met the eyes of the boy lying on the ground who seemed to have given up completely. The boy's brown eyes, tinged with cherry blossoms, were filled with flowers of composure. In the end, Jiang Cheng did not choose to sit up. He lay there quietly and relaxed, and joined in the conversation.
"If I have the power, I will definitely help Raiden Mei, because even if I put everything else aside, I am essentially the kind of person who would kill everyone else as long as the people who are important to me are doing well."
"I'm a very biased and selfish ordinary person. I don't care about grand principles or macro-level issues. If it's someone I don't even know, even if they're from the same human race, they're just a number to me. But if it's someone I know... even a dog is more important than other humans, let alone Raiden Mei, who saved my life."
"Ring... If you had had this awareness before, you wouldn't have ended up being killed."
“I remember your sister was planning to take you away, but you stubbornly chose to stay where you were.”
The boy calmly stared at the giant fox head that had already leaped in front of him. Without any room for questioning, he offered his eyes, which were tinged with cherry blossoms and also pink, and softly uttered the truth that would definitely enrage the creature in front of him.
“It was because of your idea that your sister, Sakura, died, while Aponia… she has lived to this day.”
"What do you mean? She's still alive?!"