Free Web NovelChapter 803: Chapter 712: A Glazed Dream (3)
The Swordsmith did not respond, only quietly watching Liuliyin, waiting for the girl’s next words.
"If I had been here, then none of that would have happened..."
"Time here is not eternal." The Swordsmith said, "I am merely the Anchor Point that sustains this space. One day, my Power will also dissipate, my life will come to an end. Maybe in ten years, a hundred years, maybe on some morning when you wake up..."
"I know what you’re uneasy about." the Swordsmith said.
"Yin, do you still remember your real name?"
Liuliyin felt dazed for a moment. In the long years of this space, in these decades she had spent with the Swordsmith, her memories of the outside world had long grown blurry. Mission, responsibility, anxiety were the shackles tying her to the present world.
"No matter how strong your people may look on the outside, no matter what kind of radiance they emit, they once hesitated too. Perhaps the figure you once looked up to was, a hundred years ago, even more lost than you are, more like a helpless child..."
"They lingered at the crossroads of choice, desperately needing someone to reach out to them and point the way forward."
"You’ve already shown yourself to be braver than she was." the Swordsmith said.
"And those people, no matter how uneasy, panic-stricken, and confused they were, in the end all shouldered that responsibility."
"Very unfair, isn’t it?" the Swordsmith said. "But Destiny is just that unreasonable and overbearing."
"Of all the people in the world, why does this mission have to fall on you? If you don’t do it, you’ll bear the curses of the world; if you don’t do it well, it’s the same."
"You have no option to run away." The Swordsmith lifted his head, looking at the tree blazing with red flowers all over the hills and wilds. "One day this space will collapse, and He will come for you."
"But before that." The Swordsmith looked back at the girl, a warm smile on his face.
"If you still feel wronged and unwilling, if you still have frustrations that need to be released, I will always, always..."
"Stay by your side."
Past life... this life. It was as if many people and things from different scenes overlapped.
"Time to go."
The gentle voice of the blonde girl pulled Liuliyin out of her memories.
The missing corner of her memories was slowly being filled in; she seemed to be on the verge of recalling something, Liuliyin thought.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Violent explosions rang out. Both sides of Huayue Tower were devoured by sweeping flames, startling the guests into screams.
As the smoke and dust cleared, the flames roared up, clinging to the dark bluish steel armor. A burst of red light flared as several towering silhouettes emerged.
They were five Divine Solver Titan units, representing the pinnacle of the heavy military-industrial field.
In an instant, hundreds and thousands of guns and cannons all swung in unison to aim at the blonde girl in the center of the stage. This was a trial of steel and blazing fire!
"Dark Gold Rose!" Inside one Titan, Li Mingqing’s expression was feverish.
"Li Mingqing, you actually dare show up in front of me?" Xu Xiaoyou turned her gaze slightly.
"They are..." A sudden stab of pain hit her head, and Liuliyin bent down in agony.
In that instant, the space of the entire city began to distort. The light, shadows, and prosperity from a hundred years ago shattered; war roared across the land, and the sky was dyed red with firelight. The faces of countless people rippled, the traits of the Insect Race emerging.
"Haven’t you been the least bit curious who she is?" Li Mingqing spread his arms in the cockpit.
"Dark Gold Rose!"
Noticing the frenzied collapse of the surroundings and the girl’s face growing ever more pained, Xu Xiaoyou suddenly realized something and snapped her hand.
"Shut your mouth."
"She is..."
Just as Li Mingqing was about to shout out the girl’s name, [Speech Prohibition] took effect. The area within a hundred meters centered on Xu Xiaoyou was instantly covered, and all existences of a Tier lower than hers were silenced!
"Swordsmith, take me away from here."
Liuliyin leaned against Xu Xiaoyou’s shoulder, her brows and lashes trembling slightly, as if enduring some immense pain.
Xu Xiaoyou didn’t say anything. The "Rose Destiny Armor" covered her entire body as the gigantic Destiny dice descended behind her, blazing golden lightning bursting forth!
Steam roared out; mechanical gears spun madly, tens of thousands of faces shifting at once. Lightning erupted from the faces of the dice like blades cleaving the night. Finally, all faces froze on the same number.
10000! 10000! 10000!
—Moment of Destiny!
Heaven and earth spun. Before Li Mingqing could react, the internal systems of the Divine Solver Titan all began to report errors, its barriers collapsing entirely. The blonde girl forcibly tore open the outer force-field barrier and stomped through the steel armor.
The Divine Solver Titan was blasted backwards at high speed by the girl’s Power, dragging a hundred-meter trail of scorching marks!
This Steel Barrier, said to be enough to withstand a full-force blow from a Prism Tier, did not last even a single second before the Dark Gold Rose.
"I told you, if you dared to appear in front of me, I would kill you."
Dammit...
Li Mingqing cursed inwardly.
He had still underestimated the other side.
If he could have one more chance...
Boom!
The Titan Li Mingqing was in exploded from the inside, the energy from the nuclear power reactor compressed by Xu Xiaoyou into a single point.
The violently expanding energy sharply contracted; Li Mingqing was wiped out with a casual gesture, not even dust left behind.
"Young Master!" Okber roared savagely.
A few more Forgetters piloting Titans rushed in, only to be destroyed by Xu Xiaoyou.
The hands of the clock froze in place. A golden figure streaked through the room at high speed; wherever she passed, each Titan rocked back slightly as if touched by a dragonfly’s wings, and then was consumed from the inside out by flames!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
This was a battle with no suspense whatsoever. The blonde girl crushed the Forgetters with absolute dominance.
A string of explosions echoed through the night sky. In the blink of an eye, Xu Xiaoyou had taken care of all enemies on the periphery and flashed back in front of Liuliyin.
She looked calm, merely a little disordered in her breathing, the dice behind her slightly dimmed.
"Swordsmith..."
The figure from her memories overlapped with the blonde girl before her, and Liuliyin felt everything was so unreal.
"Are you standing in front of me?"
Just then, several more Divine Solver Titans appeared, their barrage of cannon fire drawing closer from afar, the enemy’s encirclement closing in on them.
The violent shaking made Liuliyin clutch her head in pain once more. The illusory scene shattered completely, and the sight of ruined walls and rubble surged down the streets like rivers and seas!
"Who... am I?"
A terrifying pressure erupted outward from Liuliyin as the center. The surrounding buildings collapsed with a roar; several Divine Solver Titans were crushed into scrap, blood spraying!
Xu Xiaoyou was the closest to Liuliyin. The pressure bore down on her as well, making blood trickle from her nose and mouth; the "Rose Destiny Armor" flickered and wavered.
A buzzing in her ears and a muddy daze poured into her brain, dragging her consciousness into a quagmire.
Xu Xiaoyou shook her head, a [Peak Form] card of light unfolding in her palm.
All negative buffs were cleared, her state returning to its peak.
Xu Xiaoyou braced both arms before her, splitting the storm-like pressure surging toward her into two currents that blasted past on either side. The whole world roared and heaved!
The closer she drew to the girl’s direction, the faster her body was deconstructed, flesh and blood flying away.
One card, two cards, three cards—every second, Xu Xiaoyou used [Peak Form] to refresh her state, walking step by step toward the girl.
The raging wind was torn apart like a pair of hands; Xu Xiaoyou firmly grasped Liuliyin’s hand.
"Time to move."
