Event Horizon

*BOOM! *

Kouro's attack created a slash of purple flame that spread transformed into a 100 meter diameter energy slash and shot straight through destroying everything.

The energy slash begins to weaken after reaching a thousand Kilometers and disappears when it reaches 1,500 Kilometers.

This attack that Kouro released actually charged for not 2 minutes, but 30 minutes.

How did this happen?

It started when Welt created a Blackhole that seemed to be used to hold Sirin back, even though Welt's purpose in creating the Blackhole was actually to distort the time of the two of them.

In Einstein's explanation, "Black holes have a time distortion limit called the 'Event Horizon'. An object that passes through the 'Event Horizon' will experience time distortion. "

This plan was actually very risky for Welt as he would also be exposed to the 'Event Horizon' effect of the Blackhole he himself created.

Every 1 minute near the 'Event Horizon' would be 60-65 minutes longer than it should be.

And since Welt had held Sirin for 2 minutes it meant that the total time Kouro had was about 130 minutes or 2 hours and 10 minutes.

With this time, it can be calculated that Kouro fought fiercely against Bella for 1 hour and 30 minutes, after which he went to approach Welt and Sirin secretly while recovering for 10 minutes before finally charging his ultimate attack and waiting for the opportunity to attack.

...

Welt landed on the ground before spitting out blood.

"Did we... Successful?" he said quietly while looking at the scene in front of him where countless rocks floated and were burned by purple flames mixed with moon dust that formed a thick fog.

"You... Just raise the 'Flag'... " said Kouro looking at him with a flat expression.

Right after saying that, Kouro's expression suddenly changed, he instantly activated [Power Strike] and swung his Katana forward.

*Clang! * x 3

Three yellow-striped white spears were seen to have been split in half before Kouro.

Even so his expression at the moment looked completely solemn as he was unable to sense the existence of the white spears streaking towards him.

No, rather the white spear's speed was too high to the point that Kouro's body could not react, if not for him not deactivating his Herrscher form the spear would have already hit him.

"Argh!" The sound of Welt grunting in pain coming from beside him made Kouro immediately turn his head. He saw that a white spear had been lodged in Welt's chest.

"Mr. Welt!" shouted Kouro with a shocked expression.

"Don't worry about me! Focus Kouro! Urgh!" shouted Welt.

Welt then knelt down on one leg before spitting out blood.

He then stared at the white spear in his chest before gritting his teeth and holding the white spear before trying to remove it with a grunt of pain.

"Urgh!!!" Welt pulled the white spear out of his chest with a pale face before using his reconstruction ability to stop the bleeding.

After throwing the white spear aside, Welt with a pale face felt that his body had weakened, he also felt dizzy and his vision was blurred.

Seeing this, Kouro immediately summoned all of his clones, he ordered all of his elemental clones to charge forward.

[HP : 44,000/44,000]

[SP: 1,637/18,240]

[Fatigue: 56]

Kouro did not use all his SP because he had to protect the existence of Ji Xuanyuan and her twin or if there was an emergency like now.

"Mr. Welt! Let me heal you!" said Kouro before approaching Welt, he tilted his mask before taking out the SP potion that filled his 5,000 SP from the 'Inventory' and downed it quickly.

[SP: 6,637/18,240]

Why didn't he take out the Health Potion and give it to Welt?

It was because Welt was currently in a critical state so the Health Potion would be useless to him.

Kouro pointed his hand at Welt's hollow chest before activating his [Death and Life] authority and concentrating on healing Welt's chest.

It wasn't long before Kouro's expression seemed to change slightly as he sensed that his connection with his clones that he had told to charge forward had been severed which meant that all six clones were dead!

Behind the dust that was still flying with countless rocks was the silhouette of a person.

The person was seen stretching out her hand and signaling away with her finger and making the moon dust instantly split apart revealing the appearance of the person who turned out to be Sirin!

Sirin breathlessly stared at Kouro and Welt as one of her hands grasped something very tightly.

Beneath her feet were the six Kouro clones lying in a sorry state with their bodies covered in white spears.

"How is that possible? " Kouro muttered with a confused expression.

He had prepared his attack in such a way that Sirin could not parry, dodge, or run away from his attack.

But now? Sirin was seen standing in front of him without having the slightest bit of injury as if his attack had not hit her at all other than being a little tired.

Kouro quickly looked at one of Sirin's palms that was clasped tightly.

'Is what she's clutching don't tell me... Is a core fragment of the Herrscher of the End?' Kouro thought.

That means the authority of that core shard has the ability to evade his ultimate attack unharmed...

But what is the Herrscher of the End authority?

At first Kouro thought that the authority of the Herrscher of the End was absolute control over Honkai energy... But that doesn't seem to be the case.

Absolute control is likely just one of the Herrscher of the End's abilities...

'Think Kouro! How can Sirin avoid your attack! ' Kouro tried to remember and identify suspicious things at the moment he was about to unleash his ultimate attack on Sirin.

Kouro's brain worked at high speed under the pressure of Sirin's aura before his eyes suddenly shone brightly.

'The only thing Sirin needs to avoid my attack is... Time! She didn't have enough 'time' to evade my attack by teleportation or any other means. But she can now evade my attacks without getting hurt at all... That means Herrscher of the End's authority is related to 'Time'!'

Of course this was a good thing because he now knew the true authority of the Herrscher of the End.

But in a way, this also gave him bad news, Sirin who had the ability to manipulate 'space' and now had the ability to control 'time'.

Kouro did not know if the manipulation of 'time' had certain limitations given that the Herrscher core was now a fragment.

Can Sirin only speed up time? Or slow time down... Or maybe even stop time? Or maybe all of it?

Kouro didn't know, he could only hope that the fragment of the Herrscher core of the End only had one of the abilities... Kouro really hoped.

"Leave me... Kouro, you must see Ashborn and Higokumaru immediately... " Welt said weakly.

"Don't try to act cool! If I do that, you'll die! I won't do that!" said Kouro.

"Haah... Haah... Damn you guys... I almost died... " Sirin murmured with her eyes looking at Kouro angrily but with a hint of fear.

She still remembered it, the feeling of death as Kouro's Katana was about to hit her face, if it wasn't for her quick action of instantly using Herrscher of the End's core shard authority, she would have been dead by now.

As Kouro guessed, the authority of the Herrscher of the End core shard was [Time], but since the Herrscher core had been split so its authority was also split as well.

The Herrscher core shard in Sirin's hands only has the ability to accelerate time and gives her access to all other Herrscher authorities except Herrscher of Shadow and Herrscher of Humanity.

Sounds very powerful, right? Fortunately because the Herrscher core is a shard, Sirin can only access ¼ of the other Herrscher authorities.

Sirin was also really lucky that she wasn't given a Herrscher core shard that had the Herrscher of the End Persona.

Even so the Herrscher core shard can contaminate the user's mind subconsciously to search for other Herrscher of the End core shards.

Sirin was actually aware of this so she would not use the Herrscher core shard unless under duress like now.

"Kouro... If it wasn't for you being wanted by a 'God'... I would have killed you... " Sirin said calmly, her eyes glowing coldly.

The shards of the Herrscher of the End Core had begun to contaminate her mind, making her more ruthless, more rational, and more terrifying.

"But even if I can't kill you, I can still see your desperate expression as I kill that traitor!"

Right after Sirin said that, there appeared thousands of portals that issued white spears above her head.

Seeing this, Kouro's pupils shrank, he looked at the Welt who hadn't fully recovered before gritting his teeth. He turned to look at Sirin before placing both hands on the ground and activating the [Death and Life] authority.

Kouro made the ground move around him and Welt before changing the shape of the ground to be like a Turtle shell and for added safety, he then made as many protective layers as he could.

Sirin then pointed at them and simultaneously all the white spears above her head directly aimed at Kouro and Welt before finally saying coldly.

"Die."

*Swosh! *

The thousands of white spears simultaneously shot out at a very high speed due to the influence of the [Time] authority, this resulted in each white spear having a very high momentum.

All those white spears slowly destroyed Kouro's armor layer by layer.

Kouro who was healing Welt could feel his armor shaking violently as it was destroyed one by one.

*Clang! *

He broke out in a cold sweat but remained focused on healing Welt, he just hoped that Higokumaru and Ashborn managed to arrive on time.

Just when he thought of this, all his armor was destroyed revealing Sirin who floated in the air and stared at him with thousands of white spears above her head.

"You pissed me off Kouro.... Hmm... I thought the 'Gods' wouldn't mind if you got hurt as long as you're still 'Alive'." Sirin said coldly.

*Swosh! *

Thousands of white spears influenced by the authority of [Time] shot straight towards the two of them.

Looking at the thousands of white spears that were about to hit his body, Kouro's pupils shrank to the size of needles, he somehow felt time suddenly slowed down.

'Ah... This feeling...'

Kouro was no stranger to this feeling, the feeling when the reaper had put the scythe to his neck.

Right after he thought that, something appeared before him and protected him and Welt from Sirin's attack.

That something was a wall of shadows that strangely enough when Sirin's white spear hit the wall would instantly disappear as if entering another dimension.

"Looks like we're not too late. " Someone's voice sounded from his left side.

Kouro turned to look at Ashborn who was already beside him with Arahato on his right.

"[Kouro are you okay?!]" asked Higokumaru in a worried tone.

Looking at the two of them, Kouro let out a sigh of relief before nodding his head in response to Higokumaru's question and saying, "Thankfully, you guys arrived on time. "

Ashborn glanced at him before saying calmly, "Just focus on guarding Mr. Welt, Kouro. Leave the rest to us."

After saying that, Ashborn turned to look at Sirin who was currently staring at him and Arahato with cold eyes.

"The arrival of you two doesn't change anything. It only adds to the pests I have to clean up. " Sirin said calmly.

"Really?" asked Ashborn, he looked at Sirin with raised eyebrows before slowly removing his mask.

Sirin's eyes widened when she saw Ashborn's face.

With gray hair and the same face as Kouro except looking around his twenties with violet eyes that glowed coldly.

"Since you said it like that... Looks like I need to be a little more serious. "

Having said that a terrifying aura instantly erupted out of Ashborn's body creating a terrifying pressure that even made it difficult for Kouro to breathe.

"Wh-what!!!! I can't breathe! " Kouro in cold sweat stared at Ashborn's back with pupils trembling violently.

[The 'Fear' effect has been detected]

[The ability 'Unknown' has been activated]

[The 'Fear' effect has been removed]

After this notification appeared in front of his eyes, the suffocating feeling had disappeared from him allowing him to breathe normally again.

'This ability... Don't tell me [Bloodlust]?' Kouro thought.

This was the first time he felt the ability [Bloodlust] which was really similar to Haoshoku Haki from One Piece.

To think Ashborn had that ability let alone being able to make people asphyxiate, he had probably practiced this ability to the highest level.

"How do you think about... My murderous intent? You must remember that I will not be gentle like them. " said Ashborn with a cold expression.

Sirin, whose expression had changed to a cold sweat because of [Bloodlust], gritted her teeth at Ashborn's words.

But then the Herrscher of the End core fragment in Sirin's hand shone brightly before quickly dimming again.

This time, Sirin's expression turned cold and cruel again, her eyes quickly glancing at Arahato as if she could see Higokumaru before turning her attention back to Ashborn.

"So... Cowards and Imitators. You're just old stuff from the Previous Era and you think you can defeat me? Too naive!"

Tens of thousands of white spears appeared above her head aiming at Ashborn and Arahato.

Looking at Sirin who had transformed into something 'different' from the original plot he remembered.

Kouro glanced at Ashborn and Arahato before saying seriously, "I leave it to you guys and be careful of her. She has the ability to manipulate 'space' and can speed up 'time'."

"Don't worry, I'm strong. " said Ashborn before taking out a pair of black long knives including the blades and assuming an attacking pose, the shadows under his feet also began to move.

Arahato was seen taking out a 'Rifle' connected to its body before aiming at Sirin.

"Time to start round two. "