"Damn it. Teacher Shun is fighting outside, yet I'm stuck here unable to do anything." Mei angrily pounded on the invisible wall in front of her.
Ever since the Third Eruption occurred and the Herrscher of Thunder awakened from her body, Raiden Mei had been trapped in this space. Besides her, there was another person who looked exactly like her.
"Stop wasting your strength. Instead of banging on the wall there, you might as well sit down and rest."
After hearing the other her's advice, Raiden Mei stopped the originally useless banging on the wall. With her current strength, it was impossible to break this barrier.
Not everyone was Seele, who could smash open the gates of the Sea of Quanta with seven punches. Even Seele had used the power of her Stigmata. The current Mei was still just an ordinary person.
"Then, who are you? The so-called Stigmata Will?" After calming down, Raiden Mei also began guessing the identity of this person who looked identical to her.
"Why guess that? Couldn't I be the Herrscher consciousness?"
"Because Teacher Shun mentioned four names when he saw the me outside: me, the Stigmata Will, the Herrscher consciousness, and Him."
"I don't think the one I can communicate with is the so-called Herrscher consciousness or Him, so it can only be the Stigmata Will."
Actually, this was also what Raiden Mei hoped for in her heart. Compared to the Herrscher consciousness that wanted to destroy the world according to what Shun had said, the Stigmata Will that came from the power she originally possessed was much better.
"You've gotten smarter? Did that guy outside bring about this change?" The Stigmata Will pointed at Shun, who was clearly visible from their perspective, and said.
"Teacher Shun only told me some things I should know, such as the existence of Honkai, and you."
"Yes, yes, I know. But what can you do? You can't do anything. Other than watching that guy outside kill your Teacher Shun and then go destroy the world, what else can you do?"
Mei fell silent. Yes, although her will was now much firmer than before, in essence she was still the same weak Raiden Mei. In the real world, she was not the Wolf who severed immortality she was just an ordinary girl, Raiden Mei.
"No, there is still one way. Lend me your power. Teacher said the power of Stigmata is very strong strong enough that only a Herrscher can suppress it. Otherwise, Dad wouldn't have implanted the Conquest Gem in me. So as long as I can get your help…"
"Why should I?" The Stigmata Will's single sentence blocked what Raiden Mei wanted to say.
Yes, why should she lend her power? Although the Stigmata originated from Raiden Mei's power, the Stigmata had her own independent consciousness. If the Stigmata was unwilling to lend her power to Raiden Mei, then…
"The weak me from the past is already dead, so… even if I have to take it by force, I will possess your power." A seemingly rusty katana appeared in Raiden Mei's hand. This was the realm of consciousness after all; doing this was not difficult.
"Oh? Looks like you're going to play rough?" The Stigmata Will couldn't help but laugh. "Then come. Before that guy dies, defeat me, seize my power, and then go help him!"
"Raiden Mei, entering the fray." Raiden Mei held the katana in front of her, assumed the starting stance, and charged toward the Stigmata Will.
A katana also appeared in the Stigmata Mei's hand. She assumed the same starting stance as Raiden Mei and met the attack.
At the same time, as the battle inside Raiden Mei unfolded, the battle between Shun and the Herrscher of Thunder outside continued.
"Tsk, there's no way to defeat this guy at all. I'm missing one decisive move." Shun narrowly used Thousand Pounds once again to divert an attack from the Herrscher of Thunder.
The only big move Shun could use Taixu Sword God, had already been used to deal with the Herrscher of the Void who had emerged first. His current mental state simply could not support using Taixu Sword God again.
Although he could force it, after using it Shun would most likely suffer brain death. Therefore, even if he couldn't win, even if he had to run away, Shun could not use such a method that injured the enemy by a thousand while damaging himself by ten thousand.
He could not fall here. It wasn't that he was afraid of death. He believed that even if he suffered brain death, he could still be saved. But how long would he lie down this time?
Later, Otto would come out causing trouble again, the Herrscher of the Void would awaken again, and would Aunt Himeko have to sacrifice herself again? Then what had he changed by coming to this world?
The Herrscher of Thunder's attacks still came at him like a continuous tide. Although they still couldn't pierce Shun's defense.
Wait, why did the attacks stop? No… there must be something strange when things are abnormal. Shun sensed something was wrong and immediately rolled sideways to the left.
A blue beam of light pierced through the spot where Shun had been standing at sub-light speed. Shun dodged hastily, but his right shoulder was still pierced by the beam.
"This f**** even brought out a high-energy particle beam?" Shun recognized at a glance what had pierced his right shoulder. An attack at 200,000 kilometers per second he had only been able to dodge it because he had predicted it in advance.
Given the distance between him and the Herrscher of Thunder, such a short distance was equivalent to instant cast a true zero-frame startup. Moreover, the gravity field strength that Thousand Pounds could create was not enough. It was fine for diverting lightning, but it could not distort light. Therefore, he had no way to block the Herrscher of Thunder's beam attacks.
Weren't you supposed to be an illiterate Herrscher? How did you even manage to create a high-energy particle beam?
It was over. His right arm was basically broken. Although Abyss Flower was continuously healing his arm, it would take some time before his right hand could return to its previous state.
The radiation carried by the high-energy particle beam should have already begun destroying Shun's DNA, so recovery was even more difficult. Abyss Flower was only a pirated version. It couldn't repair DNA like the genuine Abyss Flower and could only crudely accelerate Shun's cell division. The key problem was that the cells at Shun's wound were most likely already mutated.
Was he really going to die here? The Herrscher of Thunder had already evolved from the stage of crudely using electromagnetic induction to using electromagnetic force to accelerate charged particles. She had become a humanoid particle collider.
Moreover, the Herrscher of Thunder's output power far surpassed those particle colliders that built tunnels dozens of kilometers long just to accelerate a few particles.
Who knew what other tricks the Herrscher of Thunder, who had evolved into a particle collider, could come up with? Shun wouldn't even be surprised if she turned around and released a gamma-ray burst and turned herself into the Hulk.
This time, he really was going to flip over… For the first time since becoming stronger at Misteln's place, Shun felt such powerlessness again.
Anyway, he couldn't let the current overpowered Herrscher of Thunder go outside. With her current combat power, no one could stop her once she got out.
Moreover, the current Herrscher of Thunder was only in a semi-awakened state and not fully developed. Once she went outside, absorbed the remaining Honkai energy, and evolved to her complete form, her combat power would rise by another large margin.
This was also a disaster caused by the butterfly effect Shun himself had created, so he could only solve it himself, even if the price was brain death from using Taixu Sword God.
He had to knock the Will of Honkai offline and let the real Raiden Mei return.
"Hm? Why does it feel like I heard my name in your heart?" At this moment, a familiar voice like a warm spring breeze sounded in Shun's mind.
"Don't worry, I'm here." A purple mountain lily emblem suddenly appeared beside Shun, bringing a familiar person with it as they appeared before Shun.