In the entire Golden Court, Sakura was always a special existence.
For Ryan, he never felt that he was very attractive, or that every woman should fall in love with him. That would be both foolish and conceited.
Sakura was not like Hua, who had the accumulation of years. She was also different from Elysia, whom Ryan had not actively approached. As for Mobius, there was no need to mention her. The mess between the two of them could never be sorted out.
Feeling the warmth on his lips, Ryan thought back for a moment. He had known Sakura for more than three years, and his greatest feeling was a kind of subtle tacit understanding.
When he was cooking, all he had to do was reach out his hand, and the seasoning he needed would be accurately thrown into his palm. When he was thinking, all he had to do was slightly frown, and a pair of fair hands would be placed on his forehead, gently massaging it.
When he returned to his room, tired, a cup of hot flower tea was already brewed, and the sorted documents were next to it.
The girl was like the spring rain. Her presence was usually low, but when he thought back, she had already quietly seeped into every aspect of his life.
"I'm not as slow as Hua, and I don't like to show my presence like Mobius." Sakura took her hand away and stood up straight. "But I know what I want, and that sense of security and hope can only be brought by you."
These were sincere words, and Ryan himself was a bit embarrassed by the flattery.
"Am I that great?"
"Yes. At least you are stronger than anyone else."
"Just because I'm strong?"
"Not just that. Also, that innate sense of tacit understanding."
Her eyes were sharp and not at all confused. As for how much of the tacit understanding was in it, there was no need to delve into it. It was a complex emotion made up of a sense of survival, security, gratitude, and spending a long time together.
In short, they just clicked.
Feelings are something that can't be explained. Just like how Mobius initially wanted my body, and now...
It seems she still wants my body?
Ryan smiled. He placed his hands on Sakura's shoulders and used a little force. There was no resistance, and a soft body was hugged into his arms. He then lowered his head, and as a gourmet and a little-known chef, he carefully savored this matcha cake.
It was soft and delicate, with a faint fragrance. With the movement of his lips and teeth, the cake gave him the illusion of a lychee.
It was gradually warming up. It was juicy and tender, and it was fighting back clumsily and fiercely. Unfortunately, it was quickly defeated, just like peeling off the hard shell of a lychee, with only the soft fruit left.
The neon lights were flashing, and music was echoing. The entire amusement park and the entire city seemed to only have the two people embracing each other.
After some unknown amount of time, the satisfied Ryan finally looked up, appreciating a wonderful picture.
The girl's face was flushed. Her pair of long fox ears were trembling non-stop, but her eyes were tightly fixed on Ryan, stubbornly refusing to look away.
"Thank you for the treat. Let's let this tacit understanding continue forever."
Thump.
Sakura subconsciously raised her hand and punched Ryan in the chest. This punch was not light. The penetrating force broke a layer of ripples behind the man, as if it had cut the surface of the lake in two.
Cough, cough. I got a bit carried away. I shouldn't say cheesy love words.
Ryan rubbed his chest. Even this 'pouting' was so in sync. It happened to be right at the edge of my injury.
The fox ears finally stopped trembling. Sakura finally moved her gaze to the area behind Ryan. She slightly raised the long sword at her waist, and her tone was full of hope:
"May I ask, until when?"
Ryan didn't answer immediately. He reached out and grabbed the hilt of the sword. With the sound of a dragon's roar, the long sword was unsheathed and, with a roaring thunder, slashed behind him, completely cutting the surface of the lake in two.
"Of course, until the end of the world!"
Swoosh—
The sword mark made of lightning cut through half of the amusement park and half of the city, all the way to the mountains in the distance. Sakura's eyes widened. She saw the mountains on the horizon disintegrate into dust in her pupils. She saw a beam of lightning connecting the sky and the Earth.
A single slash was even more powerful than my full-force attack after using the human collapse?
The violent shockwave and muffled thunder only came after, piercing through the afterimage in front of them and making the pink hair flutter.
Feelings are very complex, but they all have a very simple foundation. For Mobius, it was the unknown. For Hua, it was the passage of time. For Elysia, it was sincerity. But when this terrifying slash pierced into her heart, and she looked at the hovering sword with its flickering leftover electricity, the answer was already obvious.
Unrivaled power. Endless power. This had an absolute attraction for her, who had been killing and struggling to survive all her life.
This way, I won't lose it easily. This way, I can be like a torch and dispel the darkness that wants to swallow me!
Ryan felt the hot gaze on his back. He flew forward along the canyon he had cut and reached the other end of the city in a few seconds.
The end of this 'canyon' showed a V-shaped slash mark. It split the mountain in the middle in two and hit a large crystal sphere. Energy scattered to both sides, and in the center, there was a monster with half of its body buried in the dirt.
"It's rude to interrupt someone's date." Ryan saw a dinosaur-like head, and his expression became a bit more serious.
This Honkai Beast was already completely different from the information. Ignoring its scary appearance, its Honkai energy had increased from 3,000 to nearly 7,000 in just two or three days.
The speed of the big fish eating the small fish was so fast. Does this mean that the Honkai Beasts in northern Shenzhou had gathered into one and evolved? Does this mean that—
Roar!!!
An earth-shattering roar echoed in the night sky. The crystal sphere, which had a diameter of a hundred meters, shattered and turned into thousands of sharp blades that flew towards them.
It was an omnidirectional attack, but it was all stopped in front of Ryan. All the kinetic energy was bound and temporarily frozen. Then, the man raised his right hand and slapped it away.
Gravity counterattack.
Thump—bang, bang, bang...
Instantly, from a standstill to an extreme speed. The sky was filled with dense bullet marks. Hundreds of smoke pillars rose and were then buried by another huge black shadow.
"With this size, it feels like a monster..."
Ryan slowly looked up and saw the Honkai Beast, which had been lurking in the ground, stand up. It revealed its blue-black scales and a huge body of over two hundred meters.
It had short front limbs, a thick tail, vertical ridges all over its back, and a huge mouth that could swallow a destroyer. It was a bit similar to the legendary Godzilla.
For a moment, Ryan missed the Herrschers. At least the latter looked like a human, and most of them were beautiful. Even if this human aesthetic was full of deception, it was still better than a monster with 'destruction' written all over its face.
And just as he had guessed, these Honkai Beasts were different from the one in South America. They would run away first. If they couldn't, they would resist. If they couldn't resist, they would self-destruct, not even leaving a single hair behind.
"Why is it a bit dumber?"
As he was thinking, a three-colored light condensed in the distance. Ryan instantly moved to several hundred meters away.
Boom!!!
The night sky suddenly became bright. A thick beam of light turned the ground over, instantly creating a bottomless pit. Then, with a shake of its neck, it quickly cut horizontally until it hit the giant ice wall next to Ryan, which refracted it.
The dark clouds in the sky were pierced. The cold moonlight immediately shone down. Ryan glanced at the rapidly melting ice shield and then saw a black shadow covering him.
So fast.
The heavy body, weighing tens of thousands of tons, actually jumped into the sky. It spun around and, with all its might, swung its huge tail over.
Bang—boom!
An air ring exploded in the sky, completely tearing the clouds apart. Another pillar of smoke shot up from the city center. The buildings in its way were all smashed with a huge hole.
"Are you alright, Ryan?" Sakura rushed into the dust with her sword and saw that Central Park was completely gone, replaced by a huge pit.
The man in the pit was unharmed. He had some lingering electric sparks on his body. He frowned and lowered his head, deep in thought.
"So that's it. No rules of authority, no strange techniques, just pure brute force?" Ryan, after personally experiencing it, found that the 'Beast' was especially clumsy. Its intelligence was also not very high. It acted entirely on combat instinct.
This was a bit crude compared to a Herrscher, but Ryan didn't underestimate it.
Such purity meant less intellectual scheming. A qualitative change through a quantitative change. When it passed a certain critical point, this kind of straightforward attack would be very threatening. For example, if the Herrscher of Binding had not thought about anything and just charged forward, the casualties would have been more than just a little.
"Interesting. It really gives me a sense of novelty." Ryan looked up and saw Sakura. He also saw the Honkai Beast that was charging fiercely behind her.
The other party really didn't have any intention of probing. It moved its two thick hind legs, flattening everything in its way, and charged straight at them.
"Cover me, Sakura."
Ryan didn't waste any words. If it wanted to clash head-on, would I be afraid of it?
Authority of Fire. Unleash.
Just as Sakura swept to the side, a blazing giant sword cut through the dust. It also had no technique. It just cut through the city, the ground, and the world from the front!
Boom—
The ground trembled. The already crumbling buildings instantly disintegrated. Then, a sea of fire spread out in all directions, incinerating everything it touched.
But the monster brushed past the blade and walked through the sea of fire. Its speed didn't decrease at all. It just charged straight in until it was stopped by a burning giant palm.
Thump, thump, thump.
The heavy footsteps that made the ground tremble began to slow down, leaving behind a series of lake-like footprints. It was clearly stunned for a moment. It raised its thick, short neck and saw a blazing giant, over two hundred meters tall, pressing on its shoulder. Its left hand turned into a blazing giant whip and lashed out fiercely.
"What kind of special effects movie is this? Am I still on Earth?" Su happened to catch up to the battlefield. His squinted eyes instantly widened. The team members behind him all had dazed expressions.
The blazing giant and the monster were wrestling. The blazing whip clashed with the giant tail. They seemed slow, but they both had immense power.
Each collision caused a terrifying shockwave. All the buildings were crushed like building blocks.
The giant beast pressed the blazing giant down. It gathered a ferocious energy ball in its mouth, and the moment it shot it out, it was slapped in the face by a giant gravity palm. The Scarlet stream of light it shot out first carved a ravine in the ground, then it shot into the distance, cutting a mountain in half along the way, and finally exploded into a pillar of fire on the other side of the mountain range.
It really didn't have the ghostly and invisible nature of the Herrscher of Binding, but in terms of visual impact, it was even better.
"Let's go. Let's go help." Su took a step forward, looking at his hesitant subordinates, and showed a gentle smile: "Don't worry. Without the Herrscher's ghostly nature, every bit of our strength can be of use."
Crystallized skin?
The blazing whip hit the giant beast's chest, but it itself exploded into sparks. Ryan saw the crystal that was like a breastplate, and his expression became more and more serious.
Besides this crystallization ability, the Honkai Beast had nothing but energy. It was so straightforward that he was a bit unaccustomed to it.
Why is a Herrscher a more advanced being?
The crystal skull slammed down, forcing a path to open. It finally stopped in front of Ryan, and then its short front limbs turned into blades and stabbed at him frantically.
"It's because they can control a rule and use one point of energy to unleash ten points of effect."
Authority of Domination. Threads.
Ryan's fingers moved slightly, restraining the giant beast's front limbs. He floated out of the flames and looked at the pair of ferocious eyes. He then lightly snapped his fingers.
Gravity superposition.
The giant beast, which was about to stand up, was instantly pinned to the ground. The out-of-control blazing giant quickly disintegrated, as if a red lotus flower was closing and surrounding him.
Flame burst.
The third authority manifested. A pillar of fire connected the ground and the sky. The high temperature distorted the air. The molecular-level melting was enough to incinerate all things.
The Honkai energy was consumed rapidly. Even so, the crystallized armor began to melt. It struggled to get up, bent its hind legs, and looked at the human in the sky.
With the full moon as the background, Ryan, in his white windbreaker, looked down at the opponent. Seeing it struggle to get half of its body out of the fire pillar, he showed a look of admiration.
"As expected of a Beast. It shows its original ferociousness to the fullest. But since you're just an animal—"
Ignoring the next round of energy balls it was gathering, a blood-red spear, like blood, gathered in his hand. Then, the Honkai Beast's body was stunned, and the ferociousness in its eyes solidified.
Psychic shock.
Su's psychic power was like an invisible knife. It pierced through the indestructible shell and dispelled its spirit. Then, a lightning bolt appeared. The light spread from its chest to its abdomen.
An instant cut!
The sword light came at the perfect time, splitting the wax-like crystallized shell in half. Then, Ryan threw the blood-red spear.
"You should obediently lie on the ground!"
A series of attacks followed one after another. Before the Honkai Beast could regain control of its body, its huge head had exploded into a cloud of blood. If this blood had life, it would have followed the out-of-control energy and covered the ground, causing the over-200-meter-tall body to shrink at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Whoosh.
Sakura suddenly appeared next to Ryan, staring warily at the blood-red mountain below.
"Are you alright?"
Ryan didn't answer until the last of the Honkai Beast's body dissipated. It only took a few minutes. Besides the craters that were created during the battle, no Honkai Beast could be seen, and the terrifying Honkai energy from before could no longer be felt.
Burp.
He let out a mouthful of stale air and showed a satisfied smile.
"Thank you for the treat."