"Smells great..."
Ryn happily ate the grilled skewers. He had to admit, Janna's cooking was amazing, even if she didn't eat the barbecue herself.
After eating, Ryn lay on the ground and began to fuse with Janna's core.
During the time Ryn was fusing, Janna cleaned up the barbecue grill and then sat quietly by his side, waiting in silence.
A myriad of thoughts flickered in her eyes, her mind on unknown things.
Soon, Ryn had completely fused with Janna's core. The energy within his body was now much easier to control, with a precision so fine that Ryn himself didn't know what material it was composed of. With this... maybe he could become a physicist?
His power might have increased... or it might not have... After all, power needs a reference point for comparison. What could Ryn use as a reference point now?
Janna saw that Ryn was awake, but he was just lying on the ground thinking about something. After waiting for a while and seeing that he still wasn't getting up, Janna walked over to him, squatted down, and patted his face, interrupting his thoughts.
"Now that you've finished fusing with the core, hurry back to your own world. The longer you stay in the prime world, the more likely you are to be noticed by the Honkai. If that guy enters the stage early...
In short, those children still need to grow. They don't yet have the ability to break their own destiny."
"Break destiny...?"
"Hehe... that's right! Destiny! A laughable and tragic destiny..." Janna laughed self-deprecatingly, then her tone turned serious as she said to Ryn:
"Breaking destiny is simple: just introduce an external factor. But what makes destiny destiny is that some things are ultimately unchangeable. Even if there are a thousand mistakes along the way, the final result will still be the same.
Kiana has already awakened the Power of the Saintess. The next step after the Power of the Saintess is the Power of Finality. Neither she nor the current world can bear such power.
Her will is not yet strong enough. Once she goes on a rampage... I will kill her again, and Alaya will restart the world again.
You have already met that Kiana and Alaya, and the original Kiana still exists in the Stigmata Space... Although that's not so bad, there are already enough Kianas..."
"Uh... are you serious? The Power of the Saintess? The Schariac one? That thing can eventually become Finality?"
Ryn scratched his head. He hadn't realized the Schariacs were that strong. He always thought the Schariacs were just for show, and the real power lay with the Kaslanas...
"Of course not, what are you thinking? Kiana can transform the Power of the Saintess into the Power of Finality because this has always been her power from the very beginning. Ryn, you need to understand one thing: it's not that Kiana becomes Finality, but that Finality has always been Kiana."
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Janna: "There's no point in telling you all this. You're just a passerby. You don't need to know these things. Hurry back to your own world. This world is not very welcoming to outsiders."
After saying that, Janna placed Nana back in Ryn's arms.
"Although the part of Nana that belonged to my core is gone, it's still fine as an ordinary familiar. Its regenerative ability is quite good, and you've already tasted its meat, it's delicious. You can take it back and make all sorts of seafood products out of it, as a souvenir for people."
"Nana..."
Ryn looked at the soft little ball in his arms and fell into deep thought.
Ryn: "Are you really its master? Are you sure you're not its stepmother?"
"It can't talk, so it's useless to keep it."
Janna waved her hand with a look of disdain.
"Nana..."
"You cute little thing, your stepmom doesn't want you anymore! Then come with me~
It's a pity you're not fluffy, Kiana probably won't like you. But Mei and Kika should like you a lot, after all, it's an unlimited supply of seafood..."
"Nana..." Nana cried out weakly, it could already sense a dark future ahead.
After chatting with Janna for a while longer, Ryn opened a black hole and walked into it.
Before this, he had already gotten the imaginary coordinates of his own world from Finality Kiana. This way, even if he ended up in some unknown place in the future, he could return to the Imaginary Tree as a transit point and then go back to his own world.
(The Imaginary Tree is a place, just like the Sea of Quanta.)
After Ryn left, Janna inexplicably fell into deep thought.
"Kiana... likes fluffy things, not bald ones? So... so... is that why I failed? But... but I'm allergic to fur!"
"No wonder... even though I've saved the world several times, I still lose... No, this won't do... It seems I need to find a chance to discard this body..."
"Roar..." (Actually, I think it's because Kiana has a gene written into her that makes her like Mei, just like you have a gene written into you that makes you like Kiana...)
Kukulkan, who had appeared out of nowhere, weakly reminded Janna.
"Hmm...?"
Janna's eyes instantly turned red, shifting into her combat form.
Being stared at by Janna, Kukulkan felt a chill run through its entire body. The armor it was once proud of now felt like a hindrance.
Janna extended her hand towards Kukulkan with a benevolent expression, shrinking the 300-meter-long Kukulkan into a small snake the size of a ping-pong ball, then tossed it up and down in her hand.
"You seem to know something you shouldn't..."
"Boss, you heard wrong! That wasn't me just now! It was my vocalizer speaking on its own, it has nothing to do with me!"
Kukulkan's strong will to live made it immediately start begging for mercy in Janna's hand. Damn it, why did I have to run my mouth! It's over, I'm definitely going to be silenced.
"Never mind... although it's the truth. But I'm still a little unhappy, so... hmm? Still haven't left? In that case..."
Janna grabbed Kukulkan by the tail and swung it around, so fast that not even an afterimage could be seen, the air roaring and whistling.
"There is no place for you in this world. Go and see your master!"
*Swoosh—*
Kukulkan was thrown out by Janna, turning into a shooting star and disappearing from the Stigmata Space.
Floating on the moon, Ryn was searching for the location of Penglaiji Ryn, Yiselian, and Sin Mal. Since he was leaving, he had to say a final goodbye to his acquaintances.
Before he could find them, a shooting star came flying towards him.
"Tsk, which scumbag is trying to ambush me."
Ryn took out his Tianqi limited edition baseball bat, intending to hit the shooting star back with a home run.
But as he swung the bat, Ryn realized that inside the flames was Kukulkan.
Slightly leaning to the side to dodge the meteor, Kukulkan fell straight onto the moon, creating a large crater and kicking up countless clouds of cosmic dust.