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Chapter 229 - Chapter 228: The Truth of the 「Herrscher of Human」—Symmetry Breaking

Durandal warily had king and queen keep an eye on Su, then, like a curious child, she silently took two steps closer and knocked on Ryn's body.

"So hard... What did you do? Did you choose mechanical ascension like Overseer Otto?"

"Sorry, sorry, it's a hack I just thought of recently. I forgot to turn it off." Ryn patted the spot where the causality reversal had hit him and straightened his clothes.

"What? A hack?"

"Uh-huh. I was disgusted by that World Serpent executive, Misteln, I met before. Then I remembered a movie I watched with Kiana and decided to give it a try."

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Durandal and a distant Su fell into a strange silence, invisible crows flying over both their heads.

They were still completely baffled. What did watching a movie have to do with your body of steel?

"Wait a minute... Superman: Man of Steel??!" Durandal exclaimed in surprise.

"Yep. I used my Authority to alter the gravitational suppression on myself to simulate the gravity on Krypton, which is tens of thousands of times greater than Earth's. Then I used the Authority of Life and Death to modify my genes, adapting and evolving..."

Ryn created a gargoyle mask out of Honkai energy and put it on.

"There's a limit to human ability. The more one schemes, the more likely those schemes are to fail due to unexpected events, unless one transcends humanity... So... Durandal, I'm rejecting my humanity!"

"Sigh..." Durandal sighed and facepalmed. Ryn had completely ruined the tense atmosphere.

"Heh, Mr. Ryn certainly has a sense of humor..." Cold sweat trickled down Su's forehead. He felt rather awkward at the moment. Because he had absolutely no idea what Ryn and Durandal were talking about with this 'Superman' or 'rejecting humanity' stuff...

"So, are we still going to fight?" Ryn floated up above Su, looking down on him.

Ryn's cherry-red eyes met Su's. Unlike Su's relatively calm gaze, Ryn's eyes were already glowing red.

Superman's flight is achieved by using a bio-field to alter his own gravity; Ryn could do that with his Honkai field and Authority. Superman's heat vision converts stored solar energy into a red, high-temperature beam; Ryn could do that too, but by converting his internal Honkai energy into a powerful energy-impact ray.

"Mr. Ryn, there's no need for us to continue fighting... Whether through my 'Foresight' or personal experience, I am no match for you."

Su shook his head, having lost the desire to fight Ryn. After all, he was just an ordinary psychic-type MANTIS, an ordinary doctor, without the immense power of Kevin or Kalpas.

"However, there are still things that must be done..." Su turned his back to Ryn and Durandal and began to walk away.

The light of 「Celestial Wisdom」 rose behind Su. He activated a half-Human-form Collapse, then calmly looked at Ryn and Durandal.

"Second Divine Key, help me one last time..."

"Hah—" Ryn immediately fired his heat vision at Su. Durandal also swung her sword at him.

But before their attacks could even reach Su, Ryn and Durandal's forms shattered and gradually disappeared from Sumeru.

Su sidestepped Ryn's heat vision, panting heavily. Teleporting Ryn and Durandal away had consumed a considerable amount of his and the Second Divine Key's energy.

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Ryn was a variable, a potential key to breaking the stalemate, but Su dared not gamble on a variable. Su couldn't see through Ryn's existence, but he could see Durandal's existence very clearly.

Although all origins of Durandal across the three thousand worlds began from the girl's eighth year—what happened before she turned eight, Su couldn't see and didn't know. By the time he noticed her, he could no longer return to the real world and could only wait for Durandal's arrival in Sumeru.

But there was another thing that manifested in Durandal, and it was the reason Su was betting everything on her.

That was what Durandal possessed... something that, in the Previous Era, had only been born from Elysia: 「Symmetry Breaking」.

The 「Humanity」 that Elysia possessed was not because her Authority was 「Humanity」, but because of the miracle of 「Symmetry Breaking」 that occurred by chance within her, allowing her to escape the restraints of the Cocoon of Finality.

Elysia's Authority was not what the world believed to be 「Humanity」, but 「The Authority to connect to all other Herrschers」.

Finality creates projections of Authority; Origin gathers those projections in one place.

On the final stage, Elysia burned everything she was, passing the miracle that occurred within her—「Symmetry Breaking」—to the Herrschers of the later generations through the Authority of Origin.

The so-called "severing the threads of fate" was actually freeing future Herrschers from the [Restraint of the Cocoon of Finality].

And this is the truth of the Schariac 「Holy Blood」. The so-called 「Holy Blood」 is actually a mutation in the human bloodline caused by the 「Symmetry Breaking」 that Elysia passed on to later generations.

A [Herrscher Core] (Yang) is formed from the condensation of excessive Honkai energy (Heavy Yin). This process is a form of symmetry. Elysia bestowed her Symmetry Breaking upon the new era, causing this previously equivalent state of transformation to undergo symmetry breaking.

The transformation of a [Herrscher] in the Previous Era was, in fact, an equivalent transformation of symmetry. Excessive Honkai energy (Yang) plus a human with high Honkai adaptability (Yang) could only result in the equivalent transformation of a [Herrscher] (Yin) with the property of [Finality's Restraint].

But Elysia and the Herrschers of the new era combined excessive Honkai energy (Yang) with a human of high Honkai adaptability (Yang), and due to symmetry breaking, gave birth to a [Herrscher of Human]—one who has the form and power of a Herrscher but has, to some extent, escaped the [Restraint of Finality].

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The appearance of Ryn as a Herrscher made Su understand that Elysia's sacrifice had been successful.

But the appearance of Durandal, with a 「Symmetry Breaking」 that was not a legacy from Elysia but originated from within Durandal herself, combined with the mystery of her life before the age of eight, her unknown origins...

It made it very difficult for Su not to believe that Durandal was the key to fighting the Honkai, that Durandal was the "Elysia" of this era.

The mistakes of the Previous Era, the tragedy of Elysia, there was no need for it to be repeated with Durandal...

The miracle of Origin should not be the final, final swan song. As long as Durandal is allowed to grow and awaken the power of Origin, then defeating the Honkai would no longer be a distant dream...

Unfortunately, however, the Herrscher of the current era born with humanity, the "Elysia," is actually the other Kiana...

And the other Kiana... is the agent of the Cocoon of Finality—the Herrscher of Finality...

But Su could not perceive Kiana's existence...

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