And just as the light shone brightly, Hyacine's voice rang out together with the explosive music!
"Coreflame...! Bestow upon us the healing rainbow!"
Beneath the shining light, those who were illuminated were not only the people on the battlefield, but also the viewers outside the screen.
The powerful female voice pierced straight through everyone's mind.
[You and I are weak like the reeds?]
All the oppression from before was swept away by the soaring music.
And as their spirits were released, on screen, the clouds covering everyone's heads were likewise melted away by the sun Hyacine had become, revealing the clear blue sky behind them!
The two combined brought the viewers an unparalleled sense of release!
This time, the audience could finally experience something more detailed and complete than Wildfire.
Starting from Aquila's third phase, the unease and despair in the viewers' hearts had been constantly built up.
It even used visuals of darkness swallowing everything in the shot to intensify that despair.
And all of this was for Hyacine's moment here. It was to make everyone feel Hyacine's thoughts and emotions at that very instant!
To experience the feeling of seeing light! This ingenious touch did not disappoint the audience.
At this moment, the atmosphere reached its peak!!
...
: Wccccc!!!
: So damn satisfying!!!
: My scalp went completely numb!
: Ahhh, holy shit!! This felt even better than actually landing the hit!!
: This scene!! This music!! It really feels like piercing through the gloom!
: When everyone fell into despair, with the visuals, sound effects, and all the hints, even I started feeling hopeless. Who understands that feeling of salvation after the light burst open?! Holy crap!!!
: Praise the sun!
: So cool! First Phainon, then Hyacine's explosion, such a small body, yet she has so much energy!
: I've got goosebumps nonstop! They just won't stop!
: I'm a little incoherent right now! It's both hype and moving!
: That hot-blooded feeling of the Star Rail storyline is back!
: Too fired up!!!
: Hope has arrived!!
: After struggling for so long, it wasn't only for the future, but also for Aglaea and the others! Wuuu! Charge!!!
...
The comments exploded, densely flooding past.
What the audience felt was not only hope, but also the meaning brought about by all the sacrifices of the past.
They subconsciously thought of Aglaea, and of the Chrysos Heirs who had given everything for this.
On screen, under Hyacine's radiance, not only was the gloom in the sky dispelled, but everyone, who had already been in poor condition, was healed as well.
Stelle, Phainon, and Dan Heng all stood up one after another.
The condition of their bodies being continuously eroded by the wounds from the black tide also vanished like smoke.
Under the radiance of the sun behind them, their will and condition were restored to perfection!
And not only that. Because Hyacine was drawing upon the power of the sky's Coreflame, the sun she had transformed into had also become a massive suppressive AOE weapon!
It healed allies, but dealt continuous damage to Aquila. This kind of damage was even more shameless, because there was simply nowhere to hide from it!
Below, Phainon took a deep breath. Feeling power constantly surging within his body, he raised his sword and pointed it at Seliose.
"The first and only god that Dawnmaker will slay-"
"...is you!"
Their odds of victory continued to rise! Now, the probability of defeating Seliose was already one thousand percent!!
Across from them, Seliose also seemed to be shocked by Hyacine's light.
After Aquila's divine body hung dazed in the sky for a moment, it curled up once more.
It was about to unleash that world-destroying attack again! This time, there was not even any wind-up!
Even though the clouds had been greatly weakened by Hyacine and only appeared behind Aquila, the falling meteor shower was still terrifying!
"We must stop them!" Dan Heng said urgently.
Having already suffered once, how could he possibly let it happen a second time?
Without holding anything back, Dan Heng clenched his left hand in the air and directly summoned his water arts, preparing to forcibly link with the water flow and attack Seliose from afar.
At that moment, in midair, Hyacine tightly gripped the Coreflame.
Just now, while connecting with the Coreflame, she had also sensed the existence of Solabis and Lunabis.
The two winged beasts actually had not gone missing! Rather, they had been deliberately sealed off by Seliose!
They were originally creations of the Sky Titan, and the original obstruction had been cut off.
But Hyacine had already grasped the Coreflame, and with its authority, she opened a path for the two winged beasts!
"Heroes..."
"Help us!"
In an instant! One yellow and one blue streak of light cut across the skies.
Amid countless falling meteors, they accurately found Phainon and Stelle, carrying them on their backs as they launched a fierce assault toward Seliose.
The camera followed the two winged beasts, racing toward the sky with them!
Meteor rain kept falling around the winged beasts. Most of it was intercepted in midair by Hyacine's power.
As for the others that blocked the way, the winged beasts tore them apart with their own strength!
After the two winged beasts returned, the greatest problem in facing Aquila was completely solved.
No matter where it hid, it was within everyone's attack range! This was the final blow! Seliose realized this as well.
She held nothing back.
The pupil that symbolized her, surrounded by Aquila's two heads, gathered all of its power, turning everything into a beam of light capable of tearing through all things!
It aimed at the two winged beasts and fired violently!
Amid the sky full of fire rain and explosions, the camera suddenly shifted into slow motion and split into three.
In the middle was Phainon.
After seeing the beam of light, he first froze, then resolutely pressed his lips together, his gaze not wavering in the slightest.
On the left was Stelle.
Her mouth was slightly open. Facing this strike, her pupils were filled with astonishment and unwillingness.
On the right was Dan Heng.
He instinctively took on a posture as if he were about to leap forward, ready to confront it with everything he had.
The shot, split into three fragments, suddenly changed again.
It became Hyacine, hands clasped together, eyes closed in prayer.
Storm and sunlight flowed around her.
The sky's Coreflame had become one with her.
Hyacine spoke. Her voice was completely different from its previous sweetness. It had become extremely solemn and heroic, filled with conviction and resolve!
"Hero of the sky-"
"-witness the will of humanity!"
She chanted with her eyes closed, then suddenly spread open both hands.
A mass of energy that had fused everything together gathered before her!
As she pushed both hands forward, it also turned into a dazzling beam of light, charging straight ahead and colliding with Seliose's attack!
Two beams of light collided.
After a brief silence, black-and-white impact frames instantly swept across the entire screen!
All kinds of colored light scattered outward from the point of explosion!
[Cleave the darkness, seize the light.]
The hopeful lyrics rang out together with the explosive scene!
Visuals. Music.
Direction. Meaning.
Everything was fused into this single strike.
The audience was completely conquered.
Without a doubt, this was another new peak for Honkai: Star Rail, following Wildfire and the other songs!
....
: So freaking amazing!!
: Again and again, every time we think it would already be good enough just to maintain the standard, MiHoYo still manages to break through our imagination! Break through the limits!
: Constantly surpassing themselves! It's really hard to imagine they could reach this level!
: More amazing every time!
: This is so damn hype!! So damn hype!!
: Absolutely terrifying! Where exactly is Star Rail's limit??
: The song is just too good!!
: I need the official audio the moment this episode ends!
: I have no regrets entering Star Rail in this life!
: After watching Amphoreus' story up to this point, this finally feels like a true grand spectacle!
: Using this explosively hype performance to bring the Flame-Chasing Journey to a close couldn't be more perfect!!
: While getting goosebumps, I was also thinking about one thing: after this, what will Amphoreus have to do to surpass this level of hype?
: This is already enough! Any more and we'll burn out!
....
The beam clash between Seliose and Hyacine, on screen, lasted less than a second.
That blue-white beam quickly pressed against Seliose's attack and pushed it back at high speed!
Under the increasingly intense music, the beam completely crushed Seliose's attack!
And at the same time, the camera split in two.
Stelle and Phainon, sent into the sky by two winged beasts, were on the left and right. Both stretched out their bodies and poured all their strength into their respective weapons!
Along with two uncontrollable furious shouts!
The flame spear, Dawnmaker and Hyacine's beam all smashed into Aquila's body together.
The three beams of different-colored light actually drew the shape of Amphoreus across Aquila's body!
Seen from afar. It looked as though the middle of a Möbius ring had been pierced through.
What did this represent? Did it mean that the endless cycle between Amphoreus' Titans and the Chrysos Heirs had now been severed?
In that brief scene, this was the only thing the audience could think of.
But that was already enough to satisfy them. And after Seliose was pierced through by this strike, she completely lost all ability to act.
Aquila's body was split into three, with no possibility of revival remaining.
Amid a field of white light, the music and sound effects gradually faded into calm.
At last, everyone clearly heard Seliose's voice.
"..."
"Children of humanity... you have overturned the judgment I once cast in disillusionment."
"Beginning with a lie disguised as a heroic legend, passed down for millennia, a grand epic of creation has been written..."
"...You are worthy of a new dawn."
These were the final words the Valkyrie left to them.
It was also the only time everyone communicated with Seliose.
But just as they could not touch the tragedy that had happened to Seliose a thousand years ago. These words merely placed a full stop at the end of this thousand-year-spanning history.
A false lie had ultimately given birth to real flowers. Within a deceitful history, true heroes had also grown.
Judging from how Seliose isolated the two winged beasts. Perhaps she had not truly been completely corrupted by divinity, or by the black tide.
The heroic epic she created was real. The slaughter she committed was also real.
Right and wrong, at this moment, all of it vanished completely with that white light.
While the Chrysos Heirs felt surprised and delighted, they also could not help feeling somewhat wistful.
But the audience had no such reservations. Their hearts were filled only with the satisfaction of witnessing a peak, iconic scene.
....
: We finally won!
: That was way too hard, oh my god!
: I can already imagine that after today's episode ends, this battle with Seliose is going to spread across the entire net!
: Top-tier! Peak!
: I want to see everyone praising this performance and this music right now!
: Hyacine's character has also been fully established through this battle!
: Exactly! Hyacine's final lines, and that heroic tone, were simply like a Valkyrie reborn!
: A descendant with no blood relation becoming the successor of the sky, and also a true hero, that really has so much flavor.
: The final bit of blank space left around Seliose was also very profound.
: This really is a perfect ending!
: As expected of a two-in-one episode. So satisfying!
: There shouldn't be any more twists, right? The final resistance is over too.
: After it ends, I'm going to properly rewatch this part!
: Although there were still many sad parts throughout the whole process, the dawn was real, and hope was real!
: So inspiring! The core of Amphoreus has always been so positive and uplifting!!
.....
The comments flashed by wildly.
The audience had already prepared themselves. They were ready to welcome the victorious return of the group.
However, logically speaking after such a grand scene ended. The camera should have cut to Stelle, Phainon, and the others, who had fought bitterly until now.
Everyone would encourage one another.
Then they would say a few reflections, elevate the meaning of this battle, and finally return to Okhema with victory, welcomed by the cheers of the people.
That was how it should have been.
But after the white light disappeared. What appeared before the audience's eyes was Cipher's cute and sly cat face.
The style changed abruptly! The sense of disconnection was too strong!
One second ago, it was still a peak performance with peak music, and then suddenly it turned into Cipher sneaking around and doing shady things.
What? You're forcefully cutting the camera at a time like this?!
The audience, still caught in their excitement, was completely confused.
At this moment, was there anything more important than that scene just now?
They felt extremely uncomfortable. It was like a plane taking off halfway and then suddenly crashing.
....
: No way, bro. I was still hyped up. Why did the channel suddenly switch?
: Why cut to Cipher?!
: The art style isn't even the same anymore!
: Damn it, let us stay hyped for a little longer!
: What's going on, MiHoYo! Why suddenly cut to the cat?!
: What do you mean by not letting me enjoy it halfway through?
: ?? Wait, what is Cipher wearing?
....
The audience was filled with confusion and frustration.
But Cipher on the screen was indeed dressed in a way they had never seen before.
She was wearing a pure white, sacred priest's robe. Judging by the style, why did it look like she was a priest of Kephale?