Chapter 82: The most beautiful youth in this world (New book, seeking support)

Missiles descended from the sky like a torrential rain.

This was the rain of destruction sent by the Fool.

The heavy missiles of Schicksal were far more powerful than others; each one was enough to instantly turn a small town into a sea of fire, and at this moment, a full thousand were about to fall simultaneously!

"Lord Bishop, could it be that you are..."

"It's not real, this isn't real!"

"No, I don't want to die! Someone, save me!"

"Dad, Mom, ah, ahhh!"

The Valkyries of Schicksal had also fallen into a panic. At this moment, they realized they had been treated as expendable pawns by Otto Apocalypse.

Their existence served only to keep the Herrscher of the Void in place until these thousands of missiles could fall.

Otto: "As an unprecedented multi-core Herrscher, how could your destruction be mediocre? Let these hundreds of A-rank Valkyries and three S-rank Valkyries be buried with you, Herrscher of the Void. No need to thank me, hahaha~"

Cecilia lowered the Abyss Flower.

Siegfried's Shamash fell to the ground.

Theresa and the Oath of Judah had already fallen silent.

Even though they were all S-rank combatants, they could absolutely not survive against so many missiles.

This wide-area saturation strike was intended to completely destroy this area, and once they had all turned to charcoal and everyone was dead.

Only then would Otto reappear to pick up the four remaining Herrscher cores from the desolate land.

【If it were only me, I could still escape.】

Bai Ge made a judgment in an instant.

If he were alone, he could hide in the Imaginary Space inherent to the Herrscher of the Void and reappear calmly after the missile rain had finished falling.

But he was the only one who could make it in time.

Cecilia, Siegfried, Theresa, and Xilin—at least half, if not more, would not be saved in time. Moreover, the Imaginary Space was actually a very harmful environment for ordinary people.

The Imaginary Space was saturated with Honkai energy; ordinary people would turn into zombies or Honkai beasts within seconds.

Since that was the case.

The answer to what he should do was already obvious.

When Bai Ge opened his eyes again, his magnificent golden pupils stared directly at the storm of destruction falling from the sky. His existence was like an inextinguishable fire burning fiercely in the heavy rain.

"Imaginary Barrier, Ideal Fluid Shield, maximum scale, activate—!!"

He flew toward the sky.

The youth's hands, held high, seemed as if they would prop up the entire sky. This was his choice; Bai Ge chose to face the destruction descending from above head-on!

This posture was as magnificent and tragic as a moth flying into a flame.

"Herrscher of the Void, what are you doing!"

"Everyone, get down immediately!"

"Bai Ge, are you going to—!"

"Master, your core will break if you do this!"

The voices of the others reached his ears, but Bai Ge had no time to care at this moment.

He exerted all his power, channeling all his Honkai energy into the power of protection, turning his body into an absolute defensive line to intercept the thousands of missiles.

"As expected, you really would stand out."

In Schicksal's combat control room.

Otto stood up excitedly, knocking over his chair.

His gaze was fixed intently on Bai Ge on the screen, who, mercilessly, detonated the missiles in mid-air just before they could be shifted by the space portals.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom—!!!

The sky over Siberia was blown open.

It was as if thousands of suns had appeared in the sky.

"Damn it!"

Bai Ge cursed loudly.

If intercepting a missile that hadn't exploded was a small matter—after all, no matter how dangerous an explosive was, if it hadn't detonated, it was just a hunk of iron, and teleporting it took no effort.

But on the contrary, intercepting a missile that had already exploded required dozens of times more Honkai energy.

Bai Ge could only grit his teeth and hold on.

In the past, the first Herrscher of Reason, Welt Joyce, had constructed a shield to protect all of Manhattan, but even a single Honkai Fission Bomb had completely drained his power.

And now, although Bai Ge was a four-core Herrscher whose strength far exceeded Welt Joyce's, he was facing all of Schicksal's heavy missiles! Among them were over a dozen Honkai Fission Bombs alone!

【I can hold on, I can still hold on! The Ideal Fluid Shield won't be broken easily, and with the Imaginary Barrier isolating the excess blast heat, it'll be fine!】

"Yaahhhhhhh!!!"

"............"

Everyone stared blankly at the sky.

The Herrscher youth who had blocked all the missiles for them looked like a child of only fourteen or fifteen, yet he was currently facing this world-ending crisis all by himself.

He had protected everyone, even those who had been his enemies until just a moment ago.

The Valkyries knelt on the ground one after another. They looked up at Bai Ge in the sky, their weapons already dropped, their hearts filled only with bitter guilt and repentance.

"No, Bai Ge, please..."

Xilin watched Bai Ge with tears streaming down her face.

She tried hard to reach out toward the sky, but no matter what, she couldn't reach the youth.

Bai Ge's overly radiant figure at this moment made her heart ache so much she couldn't breathe. If she could, she wanted more than anything to bear these sufferings in his place.

"Just a little, a little more!"

Blood flowed from Bai Ge's eyes, ears, mouth, and nose. His body was already at the absolute limit of its limits.

Even though the Herrscher gems were connected to the Imaginary Space and could extract endless Honkai energy from it at any time, Bai Ge had already pushed the output of the four cores to the maximum.

Cracks appeared on all four Herrscher cores, just like Bai Ge himself, who was already falling apart.

"... Herrscher of the Void, truly admirable."

Otto watched all of this with a serious and solemn expression.

Reality was truly a messed-up thing.

The Herrscher who should have destroyed the world was protecting humanity, while the Schicksal organization, which held the creed of 'fighting for all that is beautiful in the world,' was currently bombarding the most beautiful existence in this world.

This heinous man was dazed.

Otto looked at the self-sacrificing Bai Ge on the screen and suddenly thought of the most beautiful existence in his own heart, his only saint, Kallen Kaslana.

Exactly the same.

Truly exactly the same.

They were both good people with noble and kind characters, both were powerful, and both were heroes who burned themselves to save others when disaster struck.

They clearly had the power to escape, yet they both disregarded their own lives to block disasters for others, and even... they both died because of Otto.

This point was also exactly the same.

"............"

At this moment, Otto hesitated.

He superimposed Bai Ge's figure with Kallen's.

Fate seemed to have placed that day from over five hundred years ago before this Fool once again.

At this moment, this rational villain truly felt an impulse to abandon the plan and stop the attack; Otto really didn't want to kill the saint a second time.

However.

"Sorry, Herrscher of the Void. In the end, the one I loved was never some saint, but Kallen. It was I who harmed Kallen back then. To make up for that one mistake, even if I have to commit more mistakes, even if I have to kill you, who is exactly like her, I will not stop."

He didn't love some saint; he loved Kallen Kaslana. That woman was his lifelong selfishness.