Gu Chu's peripheral vision caught a streak of light flying from the Earth.
The moment it merged into that brilliant light, the intense light began to retract. The light rays transformed into visible silk threads, weaving into long silk ribbons that wrapped around the person in the light.
In space, only a cluster of scorching flames was burning. That was the robe on Shu's body. Endless splendor merged into that robe, making its already long tail even longer. Even in a vacuum, the robe was fluttering like a flame.
The moment the splendor retracted, Gu Chu fiercely rushed forward. But just as the thought of where he should attack was born, a sense of weightlessness suddenly came.
Almost subconsciously, Gu Chu was about to adjust his body's balance to resist the fall. But the next moment, Gu Chu suddenly realized that he was in space.
How could he, who was already in a weightless state, have a sense of weightlessness?
But at the same moment the thought was born, the touch of a physical impact threw him into confusion again.
He spread his limbs, lying on the ground in the shape of a large character.
He had to think for a while before he could confirm that he had indeed landed on the ground.
Behind him was a cold and solid ground, as smooth as an artificially poured cement road, but not so rough. Gu Chu turned his head and could even see his own reflection on the ground.
Gu Chu frowned, sat up from the ground, and began to look around.
Suddenly, he paused, then fiercely got up and rushed forward.
But time was obviously too late, or rather, Gu Chu's ability had already determined from the beginning that he could not escape.
Two stars in the dark universe collided with each other. They tore each other apart, merged, and finally cooled down in a scorching explosion, turning into a belt of rubble.
And Gu Chu was the funeral object that was torn apart along with these two stars... he almost was.
In the rubble, a piece of twisted flesh was rapidly growing and spreading.
But the surrounding scattered stars were shuttling and colliding with each other at escape velocity. Almost every second, colliding fragments would sandwich Gu Chu in the middle and crush him again.
But this was actually just a probability problem.
Theoretically, there was an absolutely safe position in this rubble belt.
So Gu Chu found that position. His body was quickly recast. His limbs were not yet fully formed. The first thing to be reproduced was his head.
At this time, there was still a trace of confusion in his eyes, but at least he had already come up with a solution for himself, and was temporarily safe for now...
No!
The confusion in Gu Chu's eyes quickly turned into solemnity, because the surrounding floating rubble had stopped moving at some point.
The whole world was like it had been paused, and there were no more changes.
The scene just now was like a very realistic video.
Play, pause... Gu Chu almost instantly predicted the possible development next.
Rewind.
The flying rubble began to reverse along the trajectory they had once flown. Large pieces of debris began to gather, turning into larger pieces and then brushing past each other, heading for the next larger combination.
A nebula was disintegrating, re-forming into two stars. And Gu Chu became the only forgotten individual in this videotape. Only the flesh and blood he had abandoned were constantly gathering towards his body, wanting to return to their original positions.
Gu Chu's face darkened as he removed the flesh and blood that were drilling into his body, and began to anxiously look around the surrounding scene.
Undoubtedly, this was the new method that Shu had used to deal with him.
This unheard-of method... he wanted to understand it, he wanted to master it, he wanted to come up with a theoretically existing solution.
The collision of stars... this was also within theory.
Watching the two stars that had returned to their original positions enter a paused state again, Gu Chu let out a wild laugh.
"It's useless! This move of yours can't kill me, and it won't be able to kill me in the future!!"
The next moment, the two stars exploded, just so abruptly.
The moment they exploded, Gu Chu's voice was obviously choked, and his eyes couldn't help but widen a little.
This is not scientific!
He didn't see any precursor, but the stars just exploded so abruptly!
The shockwave of the stars' destruction instantly turned him into dust, and along with the two stars, he became the basic particles of the vast universe.
But in theory—the existence of a Herrscher is recorded in the imaginary numbers. When the real numbers die, tampering with the imaginary numbers side can reflect the state of the real numbers.
In other words: the Gu Chu in reality was already dead, but Gu Chu used his power to rewrite the fact of his death in the imaginary numbers, so he did not die in reality.
This tampering was not absolute. When Gu Chu's figure reappeared, his pale face already showed everything.
The essence of the power was to tamper with the imaginary numbers to reflect the real numbers. Gu Chu's modification had already touched the underlying logic of the power, and even acting on the power itself was already a bug-exploiting behavior.
So this consumption... or rather, punishment, made Gu Chu feel very bad. He could feel that something had left him forever...
His vision seemed a little blurry... his body also had an unexpected sense of weakness...
It was as if his physical strength limit had been reduced.
This strange punishment was quickly thrown to the back of his mind by Gu Chu. He stood firm in the void and looked ahead with a ferocious smile.
"Shu! What other tricks do you have?! Cough cough—" he shouted, followed by a violent cough.
He knew that Shu could definitely hear and see.
Just with these two short moves, Gu Chu had already figured out what card Shu was playing this time.
This was a dream... that's why such an unscientific scene appeared.
Because dreams don't need logic... but a person's thoughts are ultimately limited. Even a wild fantasy will have an extreme number.
Gu Chu was now quickly collecting these redundant data. As long as he collected all the data in this dream, Gu Chu could replicate this dream...
At least in theory—he could do it.
An aura that was similar to this dream, but completely different, erupted from Gu Chu's body. Although it was only a small corner, it was also a place that this dream could not reach.
A smile appeared on the corner of Gu Chu's mouth.
He had guessed correctly. Although Shu had taken back his scepter, he had left his power over there. Just now, when he was rewriting his own life and death, Shu could have made him unable to recover with just a little interference.
However, the smile on the corner of his mouth soon froze, because in front of him, a giant about forty or fifty meters tall, with light bulb eyes and a blue crystal on its chest, had appeared at some point.
The giant raised its hand in his bewildered eyes and made a "ten" sign at him.
The next moment, the gushing light completely destroyed him and the simple dream world. And the ability to rewrite life and death was activated again. Gu Chu felt that his soul had been drawn out a little more.
His body became worse, but what Gu Chu was thinking about was the fact that his small dream had been so easily broken.
So that's how it is... the wildness of a dream doesn't need theory. It only craves imagination.
And his own power requires rigid theoretical support. A dream imitated in this way also does not allow his own imagination to exist.
So that's how it is... Shu didn't use so many abilities.
Was this his idea?
The stumbling Gu Chu once again propped up his small dream. And the next moment, he closed his eyes and did something that Shu had not expected.
Since a dream created by theory only has the existence of theory, then abandon that damn theory.
Let imagination once again dominate that boring life. Let the invisible future once again become the direction of life.
He once again abandoned his own power!
He abandoned the power of theory, and completely relied on himself to control the Honkai energy to replicate this dream.
This was not the power given to him by his identity as a Herrscher. This was his own talent, the power he was proud of before he became a Herrscher!
And this was what Shu was afraid of.
Undoubtedly, Gu Chu was a genius. He could quickly make judgments and give plans. At least in short-term decisions, Gu Chu was not inferior to Otto.
And in terms of decisiveness, Gu Chu was at a height that Shu could hardly reach.
Abandoning his power meant that he could not bear any attacks from the power. All his methods would be transformed from the [code] attack on the imaginary numbers level to the [expression] attack in the real world.
He was betting... betting that Shu didn't have enough power to attack him on the imaginary numbers level. He was betting that Shu didn't have the ability to take back his power before he completely mastered the dream!
He dared not!
Everything that happened in the vast dream was eliminated when it was a few meters away from Gu Chu. One person's dream could not affect another person's dream, just as the current Shu could not interfere with Gu Chu's dream.
And Gu Chu, who was once again separated from his power, only glanced at his Herrscher identity from a third-person perspective.
The dense information was like a string of hanging wish paper slips. And Gu Chu frowned, raised his hand to push away the theoretical possibilities, and accurately reached out to grab one of the "wishes."
Flipping open the wish paper slip, Gu Chu clearly saw the two words engraved on it.
That was the only possibility condensed from all the information accumulated since the beginning of this battle, and it was also his most desired need.
In theory—a Herrscher has another state that can make up for the numerical gap.
[Eclosion]
When the Herrscher of Theory is no longer bound by the rigid theories obtained from his own data, he will truly complete his transformation.
A climber doesn't need to know how high the mountain is. He only needs to know that the summit does exist.
Theory is never the means to get the result. It is the explanation of the process through the result.
As for how to explain...
A pair of wings suddenly opened behind Gu Chu. From this moment on, the Herrscher of Theory had taken back his complete wings. He had finally obtained the power to soar!
And at the same moment, a look of relief finally appeared on Shu's face.
"It's finally over..." Shu looked at Gu Chu, who was soaring in his dream.
The expression on his face was full of relief, and even a trace of gratification.
Because the moment Gu Chu completed his Eclosion, another Herrscher who had just completed her Eclosion willingly fell into the hands of the people who had allowed her to complete her Eclosion.
The feeling of being powerless was not good. At least in the desert at this moment, under the entangled chains, both the Herrscher of Binding and Bianka and the others felt this powerlessness.
But now, the scales of victory were slowly tilting towards the Herrscher. The three people on the field had already used up all their strength, but they still couldn't stop the Herrscher's movements.
And in fact, Rita and the others' assembly was already nearing the end. If they could delay the Herrscher's movements for a while longer, they might be able to launch the final attack before the Herrscher broke free.
But who else had the strength to intervene in this battlefield?
Everyone in the Snow Wolf Squad was unable to get away from the final assembly. They were all cooperating with Rita, trying to make Rita's assembly process not so difficult.
And the rest of the people...
"Kiana!" Mei also grabbed a chain, wanting to help.
But like Li Sushang, she didn't have any advantage in terms of strength. The help she provided was not even as much as Theresa releasing one more chain.
The Noah's Ark in the sky was also silent. The storm caused by Xiezhi's life had exhausted all the Honkai energy stored on the Noah's Ark. Now Bronya was anxiously operating the Noah's Ark to absorb Honkai energy in the air.
She could still maintain her sanity and knew that the results of what she was doing would be better.
Although it seemed that everything she was doing was meaningless now.
"Bang—!"
Bronya's fist suddenly smashed on the steering wheel of the Noah's Ark. The frustration that had been accumulating in her heart erupted at this moment. The floating light screens in front of her shook for a moment, and then returned to calm.
In Shu's team, everyone had their own fixed position. Shu was the absolute main force, and Kiana was the second strongest after Shu, and could often play a crucial role.
And Mei's position was also fixed... she had always been Shu and Kiana's support, taking care of their daily lives, speaking for the two who were not good at communication, and so on... it could be said that besides fighting, Mei was the one with the highest presence in the team.
But what about herself?
In this four-person team, only her position had been changing.
From the very beginning, she was the only one in the group who had received military training, so at the very beginning, she was the second combat force, and could even take on the positions of tactical commander and weapons consultant.
At that time, she was the only one in charge of firepower, and was also the one who was protected by everyone.
Even though she was stronger than Shu and Mei at that time, because of her age, the two of them instinctively protected her.
Later, Shu awakened the power of [Hope], and her combat power was accordingly postponed to the third position.
After getting those weapons and mechs, Bronya thought she could still help, but her experiences along the way told her that she had no chance to use those weapons at all.
She hadn't even been half as useful as Mei in the last few battles... she had even caused a lot of trouble.
And now? She was the commander of the entire field. Sirin and Frélle had both given their powers to her, and she also had the authority to mobilize the Chronicle of the Years and the Noah's Ark.
A full four powers. It could be said that all the assets of the entire team were already on her. But now? She was floating in the sky with the Noah's Ark, unable to do anything, and could only stare at the scene below.
She couldn't even control the Noah's Ark to land and join the battlefield like Mei!
The main commander of the battlefield... she was not worthy...