"It's my turn to save you." Loads gun

Kevin had left—watching the aircraft fading into the distance towards Europe, Lee, standing on the fortress wall, sighed softly.

The only obstacle was now gone, and it was time for her to show her skills.

"Lee, are you really going to do this?"

Aponia's gentle voice sounded from behind Lee, but there was no surprise on Lee's face, as if she had already known this would happen.

"Aponia, I always thought that one thing you said was very correct – no one in this world deserves to die, everyone wants to live."

Lee looked down at her palm, and then slowly clenched it. "But when there is not enough opportunity for survival, lives are forced to be divided into levels, with no choice. The strong are more worthy of living than the weak, the intelligent are more worthy of living than the foolish..... Lives that should be equal have thus become a ladder of mutual trampling."

"There are only 7 seats in The Great Hibernation. I can understand the practice of selecting the best for the continuation of civilization, but I cannot agree with it."

"Humanity will continue, but that absolutely does not mean abandoning the masses to preserve the few elites. All men are created equal. If we are to save, then we must save everyone."

Lee slowly turned her head. The white dress wrapped around her body, but her blue eyes were now stained with gold, with a golden heaviness and determination.

"If others can't do it, then I will."

".....But, I'm worried about you." Aponia opened her eyes, her gaze full of bitterness. "I have seen what you want to do, but it is too cruel for you."

"You shouldn't say that to a murderer, Aponia."

"Perhaps there is more than one way to solve this. If you discuss it with everyone—"

"Placing hope in others is a weak and meaningless act."

Lee interrupted Aponia's words and calmly walked past her, not even glancing at her again.

"I won't make the same mistake twice."

"Thank you for your cooperation. Now—[Die], Aponia."

She didn't bother with Aponia's fallen body behind her, because compared to what Lee was about to do, Aponia's death was insignificant.

She was going to kill all the remaining humans.

It was impossible for humanity to win. Even if all the remaining MANTIS Soldiers went to the moon to fight the Herrscher of Finality, the end result would only be a crushing defeat. Then, the remaining civilization on this Earth would be completely wiped out in the Herrscher of Finality's attack.

Vill-V's The Great Hibernation might be able to save some people, but how many could it save?

There were still 100 million humans. Only seven survival slots were meaningless.

So Lee's plan was prepared from the beginning. Since preserving the body required too much energy, then she would abandon the body—she would only preserve consciousness!

In the world of Honkai, consciousness could be matched with new containers. That is to say, as long as the consciousness was not completely dissipated, it could be revived in a new body at any time.

Therefore, as long as she could preserve everyone's consciousness and bring it to the next era, and then find new bodies for them and match them, it would be equivalent to saving everyone.

And as the Herrscher of Sentience, Lee could do just that.

But of course, such a plan couldn't be carried out simply.

The work of preserving consciousness could also be said to be forcibly pulling out the other party's soul from a certain perspective, so it was quite difficult. To complete this step, she had to wait until the other party's emotions were in an extremely agitated state.

It was fine when facing ordinary people. As long as the other party's emotions were in a certain state of fluctuation, Lee could act. But when facing strong individuals like MANTIS Soldiers, things would be much more troublesome.

Lee's first attempt was to preserve Ato's consciousness during the Ninth Herrscher incident – she wasn't the kind of person who would be mean to a friend who was about to sacrifice herself. She just wanted to make the other party feel hatred and dissatisfaction towards her, so as to preserve the other party's consciousness.

Of course, the same was true for Sakura before.

But it was easy to make a specific person have emotional fluctuations, but how could she make hundreds of millions of humans have huge emotional fluctuations in large quantities?

The answer was simple – Herrschers!

In the face of a Herrscher, every ordinary person, whether they were implanted with the steel seal or not, would inevitably experience great panic and anger, and this would be enough for Lee to collect these people's consciousness into the core.

And those high-quality ATs with stronger mental fortitude—ahem, MANTIS Soldiers, would, in addition to the Herrscher, also encounter even bigger surprises.

First, their good comrade-in-arms had become a Herrscher.

Second, the comrade-in-arms who had become a Herrscher went on a killing spree, destroying humanity's last hope.

Third, the comrade-in-arms who had become a Herrscher was also preparing to kill them.

For this, Lee didn't hesitate to attack in this form as a Herrscher!

As for why she came up with such a method..... Because Lee decided to use her previous experience.

As everyone knows, Shoko was heartbroken after Denji became Chainsaw Man and killed everyone involved in the birthday party. Because Makima, who witnessed all this, although she provided a lot of energy, all of it was contributed to Denji, not to her.

That scene was deeply engraved in Shoko's mind, so much so that even when it came to Lee, she still couldn't forget it.

Yes, a trusted friend suddenly going on a killing spree and killing all the other friends was definitely something that could make people's minds explode.

Since Denji could kill, why couldn't she?

When they saw other civilians and partners dying at her hands, and the remaining civilization of humanity being completely snuffed out by her, her dear sheep would surely burst out with enough energy to make her smile!

Anger, hatred, sadness – as long as it was a negative emotion that could provide her with energy, Lee wouldn't be picky!

However, Aponia's ability to see fate was a bit of a bug, which made her not get too much wool from her, she only got 500,000 points..... Hopefully, the other sheep could make up for it.

Fortunately, the other party's ability was also consciousness-based, and she specifically cooperated with her. Otherwise, Lee wasn't sure if she could have collected the other party's consciousness so smoothly.

The aircraft Kevin was riding in was specially made by Mei under Lee's control, and had extremely high Honkai energy isolation efficiency. Therefore, even Kevin, sitting inside, couldn't feel the situation here.

So, amidst the piercing sirens of the entire city, the Thirteenth Herrscher made a grand entrance!

And Lee looked at the city in front of her, her eyes full of determination.

Humanity, it is now my turn to save you!

Now, die!