Honkai: It’s broken, I have become the Herrscher of Corrosion?

Following Eden's curtain call, Mei returned to the lounge again. This time, Enosia handed her a glass of colorless drink. Mei drank it all in one gulp. At first, she didn't think it was any different from plain water, but after savoring it carefully, she found that it had a different taste in her heart.

"I think you know something about Eden's final outcome."

Mei was silent, but she understood that since only Hua, Su, Kevin and Grayxiu had clearly come to the present civilization, there would naturally be no surprises in the ending for the remaining Ying Jie.

"Based on your expression, I think... your guess about the true ending of the heroes and the process of reaching the ending may be a little different from the actual situation. Be patient and keep reading... maybe you will find the answer."

Mei entered the next node. She was still dressed in the uniform of Senba Academy. Her location was still in Changkong City, but not near Senba Academy, but at the seaside.

"Huh? That's..."

Mei looked into the distance and saw a strange shining spot in the sky.

Suddenly, accompanied by a crackling sound, purple lightning spread out in all directions from that point. As a Herrscher of Lightning, Mei Raiden knew exactly what this meant. She immediately looked around and then hid under a building that looked relatively solid.

Soon, accompanied by a loud “boom”, a terrifying shock wave engulfed all the people who stopped around out of curiosity, or who just happened to pass by.

When the surroundings became somewhat normal, Mei carefully poked her head out and saw a creature with lightning and asymmetrical wings floating in the air. Her surroundings were already in ruins. Although she couldn't use the power of the Herrscher here, Mei had been the Herrscher of Thunder for so many years after all. After just one look, her intuition told her that this Herrscher of Thunder from the previous civilization was not at the same level as her.

"If I had this much power when I awakened in Changkong City... I'm afraid that before Hyperion and the others could arrive here, Orchiddale with the Black Abyss and White Flower would rush to Changkong City and kill me..."

"Um?!"

The birth of the Herrscher of Thunder not only razed most of Changkong City to the ground in the first place, but also triggered abnormal activities in the sea water. Huge waves of a hundred meters high crashed onto the shore, sweeping away entire buildings that had already become ruins.

However, all of the above was just the beginning of the third collapse. Soon, a large number of collapse beasts of all levels appeared on the streets of Changkong City.

When the great collapse comes, it often only takes a moment for a city to go from peaceful days to doomsday.

Seeing the Honkai beast approaching, Mei, who was just an ordinary student at Chiba Academy, had no choice but to flee. Along the way, she saw shocking scenes everywhere. Many people who were buried under the ruins and not yet dead, because they could not move, either watched themselves being crushed into a bloody mess by the passing giant Honkai beast like being run over by a steamroller; or they successfully attracted the attention of the Honkai beast and watched themselves or their loved ones being torn to pieces by the Honkai beast. Along the way, broken limbs and humans infected and dead were everywhere.

Seeing this scene, Mei immediately recalled the scene when she was running around in Doomsday City in Changkong City shortly after she met Kiana and Bronya.

"Kevin and Mei should also be in Changkong City right now. I wonder how they..."

Speak of the devil, and here comes the devil. Just when Mei didn't know where to go next, a figure jumped down from a building not far away. Kevin jumped down from the building holding Mei in a princess hug, and the two landed smoothly. Judging from their attire, they seemed to be on a date.

Before they could catch their breath, a nearby tank-class Honkai beast immediately locked onto them as its target and rushed towards them, dragging its massive body that was taller than a building.

And Kevin, from somewhere, pulled out an epic weapon... ...a baseball bat.

Faced with the tank-class Honkai beast that could crush them to death at any time like an elephant crushing ants, Kevin, who had not received any military training, looked at Mei. Although his legs were trembling, he rushed forward without saying a word. Like the protagonist in a kung fu movie, he jumped up and kicked the tank-class Honkai beast in the body.

Then, a scene that made Mei dumbfounded appeared. Kevin, an ordinary senior student of Senba Academy, kicked the tank-class Honkai beast away with one kick.

Seeing that his attack was effective, Kevin immediately gained confidence, and threw away all his fear of Honkai Beast, and continued to pursue the victory. He quickly rushed to the side of the Tank-class Honkai Beast, and with the momentum of "Rules are meant to be broken", he swung the baseball bat at it.

Under Kevin's continuous beating, the Tank-class Honkai Beast had no power to fight back. After a few minutes, it actually died under Kevin's unsystematic attack.

Kevin, on the other hand, still looked full of energy. After beating away all the assassins who wanted to approach Mei, he pulled his hand and ran away.

"As expected... people's physiques cannot be generalized..."

Mei said this after watching Kevin's one-sided slaughter of the tank-class Honkai beast in amazement.

Then, she immediately ran in the direction Kevin left. With Kevin leading the way, Mei only needed to avoid collapsed houses and long-range Honkai beast attacks. Although she could not use the power of the Herrscher, Mei felt that following Kevin was much easier than when she fled in Changkong City.

This reminded her of her time at St. Freya's Academy. Her gaming skills were not that high and she couldn't achieve any good results playing alone. But as long as she connected with Bronya or Enosia, she would be able to gain points with the help of the big guys.

Of course, now Mei Raiden understands that Bronya's victory is due to her skills, while Enosia... obviously relies on cheating. Using the power of the Herrscher to play the game, as long as she wants, she can always win the first place in the server.

About half an hour after the third collapse, the Far East's state machinery finally started to move. While asking for help from the Fire Moth, the country's most advanced weapons were immediately sent over.

Facing the various new types of missiles that were locked onto him in the air and getting closer and closer, the Herrscher of Thunder took a cold look at them and then snapped his fingers.

With her as the center, an electromagnetic barrier appeared that covered the entire Changkong City and its surrounding areas. Once the missile entered it, it became completely blind.

The Herrscher of Thunder stood there motionless, watching the missiles launched by the Far East government, turning the people of his country into ashes.

"If the opponent is a Herrscher of Thunder, the best way is to...solve the problem in close combat..."

Mei was sure that her second personality had shown mercy in Changkong City for Kiana's sake. Otherwise, once the large-scale electromagnetic barrier was opened, Himeko's Nexus system might not have started yet, and the entire Hyperion would be paralyzed and fall into chaos.

"Teacher Jizi..."

Recalling Himeko Murata, a feeling of melancholy came over Mei's heart.

"Teacher Jizi, Kiana has grown up a lot now and has been reunited with her family. No matter what, she will never..."

Thinking of Cecilia who [came back from the dead], Mei suddenly realized something.

"Wait a minute, the principal seemed to have mentioned that during the decisive battle at the Sky Destiny headquarters, Enosia had contact with Teacher Himeko before she died."

"Since she was able to save Senior Cecilia, who was already destined to be killed in the Second Collapse, using the power of erosion and the technology of the World Serpent, does that mean that Teacher Himeko is also..."

"boom!"

The explosion in front interrupted Mei's thoughts and brought her back to the third collapse of the previous civilization.

The deafening sound of the explosion and the sound of the blast that threw her to the ground made her realize that the Herrscher of Thunder was nearby.

As she struggled to get up from the ground, her worst thoughts became reality:

Due to the chaos in Changkong City, Kevin lost his direction in extreme panic while escaping with Mei. The two of them did move away from the Honkai beasts, but ended up getting closer and closer to the Herrscher of Thunder until he noticed them.

Kevin looked at the thunderbolt that struck him and took a few steps back subconsciously. Looking at the strange-looking girl in the air, he couldn't help but be distracted.

"Kevin, she should be the culprit who caused this great collapse, the Third Herrscher."

Mei pushed her glasses open. Even though she knew that at such a close distance, the Herrscher of Thunder could take her life at any time, she was not very scared.

Maybe it was because of her extremely rational character at critical moments; maybe it was because she knew that being afraid was useless; maybe it was because she understood that the Herrscher of Thunder could take her life in an instant, which was a relief in this doomsday; maybe... because of Kevin's performance just now, she had a little unrealistic fantasy in her heart.

Obviously, even though they were both facing the Herrscher of Thunder, it could be seen from Kevin's face that he did not have such rich psychological activities.

"It's very powerful, but we can't escape now, we have to take action. Anyway, just do it!"

After such a simple thought, Kevin swung the baseball bat, jumped up, and swung it towards the Herrscher of Thunder.

The Herrscher of Thunder obviously had not expected that this seemingly very immature human in front of her would not wait to die like the others or pray to God, but would dare to take the initiative to attack her, so she did not make any defense.

Kevin hit the Herrscher of Thunder on the waist with a stick, knocking her away. The Herrscher of Thunder was knocked into the ruins dozens of meters away, and struggled for a long time before getting up.

"He was hit head-on by a baseball bat, but nothing happened. Damn, this Herrscher is just as hard to deal with as they say on the Internet."

The Herrscher of Thunder flew into the air again, stretched out her right index finger towards Kevin, and with lightning leaping at her fingertips, an electromagnetic cannon was quickly fired.

"Hey, try this!"

Kevin's fighting spirit had been ignited at this time. Facing the electromagnetic cannon shooting at him at high speed, he had no intention of dodging, but instead swung the bat.

Then, Mei, who was not far away, widened her eyes again, because she clearly saw that the electromagnetic cannon that could have penetrated a building was directly hit away by Kevin like a baseball, and the explosion blew a crumbling building next to it into pieces.

However, Mei's surprise did not come from Kevin, because after spending so much time with the World Snake and the Paradise of the Past, she was convinced that Kevin was the strongest warrior of the previous civilization. The most fundamental reason was not because of the Honkai Beast Factor in his body, nor because of the Holy Judgment of Heavenly Fire.

It was because he was Kevin. If the other conditions were applied to Padofelice, even if she could still live, she would obviously not be able to be like Kevin, to stand shoulder to shoulder with the gods with a mortal body.

What really surprised Mei Raiden was that the ordinary-looking baseball bat in Kevin's hand could actually withstand the attack from the Herrscher of Thunder head-on without any sign of damage.

"Enosia, what on earth is going on? What on earth is that baseball bat in Kevin's hand?"

Time stopped again, and Enosia's figure reappeared.

"Ah, Mei is still so attentive. I thought that at this point... it should be until the third collapse of the previous civilization is completely over, I will not have the opportunity to appear."

"Is there really something wrong with that bat?"

"Mei, do you remember that at the last node, Mei was going to Mu Continent with Kevin to attend an academic research meeting?"

"Because until now, your attention has been on the Third Herrscher, or the Third Collapse itself, you didn't notice that the Third Collapse occurred after that incident."

"What! I thought..."

"You thought I was going to let you sit through that seminar? Mei presented a paper on quantum mechanics at that seminar. Are you sure you won't fall asleep like Kiana?"

Mei suddenly realized something:

"Since this is a seminar attended by top physicists like Mei's father, the people from the Fire Moth Chaser should also be present..."

"So, the Fire Moth had a keen eye for talent and discovered Kevin's miraculous physique. In order to make friends... or to lure Kevin into the Fire Moth, they gave Kevin an advanced weapon disguised as a baseball bat..."

Enosia spread her hands:

"Look, Mei didn't even read this part, but she has already guessed more than 90% of the content. Isn't this efficient in exploration?"

"But... Mei is wrong about one thing. What Kevin is holding is indeed a baseball bat."

"But...it is also the first anti-Herring weapon invented by Velvet."