"Misteln? It's actually you! Where have you been? I couldn't find you alone, so I kept having Gray Serpent look for you."
Shun never expected that there would still be a glimmer of hope at a time like this. If Misteln joined in, they might be able to defeat the Herrscher of Thunder. Psychic types were just that unreasonable.
At the same time, he also noticed that the Herrscher of Thunder's movements had stopped. She was probably pulled into a dream by Misteln, similar to the principle of Fu Hua's Fenghuang Down illusion realm.
"Gray Serpent? Heh, he really is playing both sides. When did you return to the real world?" When Gray Serpent was mentioned, Misteln's voice couldn't help but carry a trace of anger.
"I've been back for a few months. Actually, I only stayed in the Sea of Quanta for less than a day." Upon hearing Shun's words, Misteln's anger toward Gray Serpent grew even stronger.
She had spent months traveling across the seven continents and four oceans basically everywhere. Except for some places that Gray Serpent had already "checked," she had searched them all, but she never found Shun. Yet Gray Serpent had always known Shun's whereabouts and simply refused to tell her.
If not for the sudden outbreak of the Third Eruption, when Gray Serpent hurriedly told her that Shun was in Nagazora City and asked her to come save him, she would probably still be playing hide-and-seek with anacondas in the jungles of South America right now.
"After I came back, I heard that you left Tibet to look for me. I felt that what I could do alone was limited, so I had Gray Serpent look for you. He actually lied to me even though he didn't find you."
Thinking of how every time he asked Gray Serpent whether he had found Misteln, Gray Serpent would always put on an "I tried my best" expression, Shun had actually believed him.
Shun really hadn't expected that this guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes who had always been respectful to him would deceive him. It seemed he had trusted this guy too much.
"Let's not talk about that. Shun, stop the Imaginary Re-normalization and let me in. I have a way to help you deal with the Herrscher of Thunder." As a Reason-type, that is, an Imaginary creation, Misteln was also completely countered by Shun's move. The only reason she could talk to Shun now was because she had left a mental imprint on him long ago.
"But if I stop the Imaginary Re-normalization, the Herrscher of Thunder will be able to reconnect to the Imaginary Space again." Shun had gone through so much trouble to drain the Herrscher of Thunder's blue bar. If he gave up now, wouldn't all that effort have been in vain?
After thinking for a while, Shun sighed and said, "…Forget it. I trust you." Even without releasing the Imaginary Re-normalization, the best outcome Shun could achieve was mutual destruction with the Herrscher of Thunder.
If he trusted Misteln, perhaps they could achieve a better ending.
Thinking of this, Shun no longer hesitated. After Misteln canceled the illusion realm, he lifted the Imaginary Re-normalization seal on this world bubble.
In the next moment, the Herrscher of Thunder, whose surrounding lightning had decreased, instantly returned to her full peak state.
Correspondingly, Shun's Cosmic Juggernaut could be used again. With spatial abilities restored, as long as the Herrscher of Thunder could not unify the four fundamental forces with electromagnetic power and then use gravity to affect space, she would be unable to attack him.
Even if the Herrscher of Thunder could control gravity with electromagnetic force, Shun still had higher-level Imaginary conversion. Unless it was the Herrscher of the Void, no one could attack him.
At the same time, without the slightest sadness for Shun having the Imaginary Re-normalization, the next one to arrive on the battlefield was, Misteln.
The white-haired figure holding the mountain lily banner silently appeared before Shun.
"Ara, Misteln, long time no see. Tell me your plan. It can't be that after I lift the Imaginary Re-normalization, I can still only stare blankly, right?"
"Wait." Misteln only said this.
"Wait for what?" Shun asked in confusion.
"Wait for the other battle to end." After hearing Misteln's explanation, Shun also understood what she meant. Was it on Mei's side? But the current Herrscher of Thunder was not controlled by the Stigmata Will, so who was she fighting?
Wait, she couldn't be fighting the Stigmata Will inside, could she…
"I can understand that the girl's body also has a natural Reason-type and that they are fighting. I can see it. Once the girl named Raiden Mei wins that battle, have her attack the Herrscher of Thunder from the inside. Then I will control the Herrscher of Thunder from the outside, and you will cut off the connection between the Herrscher of Thunder and the Honkai consciousness."
"Wait, I can understand Mei and the Stigmata Will attacking the Herrscher of Thunder from the inside, and I can understand you using psychic power to control the Herrscher of Thunder, but why can I cut off the connection between the Herrscher of Thunder and the Honkai consciousness?"
Shun thought to himself: If I had that ability, why didn't I know about it? If I knew I was that OP, would I still need to use Taixu Sword God at the cost of brain death to blow up with the Herrscher of Thunder?
"I have seen it with my own eyes, more or less." Misteln looked at Shun with a half-smile. "Your Stigmata can touch the Origin. You can cut off the Honkai consciousness's control over the Herrscher from the root."
The topic had shifted to something Shun couldn't understand again. It was certain that Misteln had seen him before, but Shun had no memory of it. When he asked Misteln, she wouldn't say.
"Just use the power of your Stigmata to touch the Herrscher of Thunder's Core." Misteln honestly told Shun how to do it.
Although he still didn't understand, he had no choice but to trust Misteln for now.
Just as the two of them were fully focused on discussing how to deal with the Herrscher of Thunder, the Herrscher of Thunder gave them no chance to catch their breath. She instantly went all out, erupting with terrifying power that made one's blood run cold! For a moment, the sky was filled with surging purple thunderclouds like raging waves, almost covering the entire world bubble. The terrifying pressure emitted by these sky-obscuring thunderclouds was far stronger than when she first appeared, suffocating like the arrival of doomsday.
Various lightning bolts and high-energy beams bombarded Shun's barrier, but with the help of spatial folding and spatial teleportation, these attacks were mostly transferred elsewhere by Shun.
It seemed that in front of the Herrscher of Thunder with infinite blue bar, anything outside the defense range would probably be decomposed into atoms.
"Aren't you going to treat the wound on your shoulder?" Misteln asked. As far as she knew, the radiation from such a high-energy particle beam was astonishing.
"Your right arm has already lost sensation, right…" Even though Abyss Flower had already sealed the wound, the newly grown cells had no normal function. Later, it might even cause Shun to develop acute radiation sickness.
"Life and death are fated, wealth and honor are in heaven. I can't just cut off my right arm right now…" Right now, only Abyss Flower could treat his injuries. He didn't know if he could borrow the real one.
Suddenly, the Herrscher of Thunder's attacks stopped. A red lightning bolt burst out from her body. It was Mei! It looked like she had won the battle against the Stigmata Will.
Lightning rampaged through the Herrscher of Thunder's body. Misteln and Shun exchanged a glance and understood each other's meaning.
"Expound the concept, release it into empty illusion!" Misteln waved the banner in her hand, and a purple array in the shape of a mountain lily rose from beneath the Herrscher of Thunder's feet, restraining the Herrscher of Thunder who still wanted to quickly adjust her state.
A spatial fluctuation came from in front of the Herrscher of Thunder. Shun activated Imaginary conversion, passed through the electromagnetic barrier the Herrscher of Thunder used to protect herself, reached out with his left hand into the Herrscher of Thunder's chest, and touched the purple gem.