Above the Bronze Fertile Plains, where ancient bronze trees stood tall.
The great battle paused for a three-minute revival period. A free-roaming wind blew from outside the Crystal Radiance Cave, caressing the newly sprouted bronze flowers, which, like tender buds, chimed with a clear, silvery sound.
A long wind should be a symbol of tranquility, but at this moment, across this field of blooming bronze flowers, it carried the elegy of dwarf blood.
Thor took a step forward, only to move back the next second.
Humans are selfish and sick, and so was he.
Thor didn't want Nancy to seal the Demon God by sacrificing herself. She was a member of the Aqua Deer Squad, a teammate he had brought to carry out the mission...
Sealing the Demon God was neither her duty nor her responsibility. She was still young, her life had just begun, and she had a long road ahead; she shouldn't die here.
But... the blood and corpses of his compatriots underfoot warned him of the Demon God's terror and tyranny. If the Demon God couldn't be sealed, then what would follow would surely be a bloody massacre. It would open the gates of the underworld, allowing demons to descend upon the mortal realm, bringing endless calamity.
"Damn it, damn it!"
Thor clenched his fists, cursing his own incompetence and selfishness. If he had been chosen by the sealing magic, it would have been fine. He could have sacrificed his life for his people, instead of letting a young girl make a world-saving choice between life and death.
"Why? Why did things turn out this way?"
"Life is sometimes like that. Many things are not within one's control. Sudden epidemics, disasters... can catch you off guard at any time, making it hard to cope..."
"Whether it's rage or unwillingness, it won't change anything because of you. That's life." Raia looked at the scarlet-haired girl in front, then glanced at Thor, whose face was full of unwillingness, and spoke his mind.
The Elf Tribe once... also couldn't avoid the tragedy of being massacred.
The earth began to shake, and layers of shattered land floated in the air in chunks.
Fana gently patted the Salamander beside her. The Salamander's body grew larger, freely stretching its wings. She lightly leaped onto the Salamander, her voice still cold: "Things are pretty much over here, Mr. Raia. We should go."
"I originally thought I'd see the end, but, never mind... I'll leave this scene of parting to you all."
Raia leaped onto the Salamander, and the two slowly flew away from there.
"It seems that not all humans nowadays are disgusting fellows." Raia lay on the Salamander's back, flipping through his grimoire. The last page of the book contained the magic he had copied from Nancy's grimoire in the treasury.
"Is Mr. Raia getting soft?" Fana asked calmly.
"No, I just feel that we are increasingly diverging from who we were five hundred years ago. Back then, we would still help..."
"Mr. Raia." Raia's words were cut off by Fana before he finished. Her eyes gleamed with ferocity: "Everything is the just deserts of their sins."
"Yes, yes~" Raia, lying flat, echoed a couple of times and said no more.
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Time passed bit by bit.
Three minutes is neither long nor particularly short.
A huge crater had formed in the ground beneath the black shadow, with all the soil and rocks suspended in the air. Three golden magic circles of varying sizes floated sequentially downwards within the soil and rocks. Half of the prerequisite conditions for the ultimate Earth Sealing Magic, 'Tian Lu (Heavenly Law) Earthquake,' had been completed.
Next, they just had to wait for the moment Demon God Cerberus revived, then forge the Chains of Heaven at the cost of life, and the Demon God could be sealed within the soil and rocks.
"Nancy? Nancy? Can you stop for a moment?"
"Let's sit down and discuss it. Maybe there's still a way, don't you think, Jie Kai?"
Gu Sen and Jie Kai kept muttering beside Nancy like two nagging old women. They had wanted to stop Nancy's suicidal behavior, but they found it difficult to take a single step forward in the dense and turbulent magical field.
The black shadow left by the Demon God expanded and swelled as the silent countdown began.
Bai En, holding Tian Lu (Heavenly Law) and Magic Conversion, quietly gazed at the figure standing in front, and Nancy's words to him earlier echoed in his ears again.
"I've always freeloaded on your dinners, but I've never thanked you. I'm truly sorry."
"It's a real pity to think that I won't be able to eat your food anymore..."
"Goodbye, Mr. Bai En."
"If there are regrets, then one should continue to live well." Bai En murmured softly as he walked forward, the pure white Tian Lu (Heavenly Law) in his hand circulating with magic. A stream of radiant white magic slowly crawled from the sword blade up his arm...
The figure of Demon God Cerberus slowly materialized, still adorned with bronze patterns, a serpent's back, and a dragon's tail, but... its magic was stronger, and its three heads had grotesquely transformed into fifty.
Fifty beast-headed, dog-faced heads roared at everyone!
The Chains of Heaven, condensed from life force, began to emerge from the golden magic circles. Just as thousands of Chains of Heaven began to coil around Demon God Cerberus, suddenly, all the chains snapped, and the three golden magic circle patterns all dissipated.
The massive floating chunks of earth began to fall like rain.
Gu Sen and Jie Kai watched in stunned silence as Bai En passed through the chaotic magical field and walked to Nancy's side, knocking her unconscious with a sharp hand chop. "This..."
"If persuasion doesn't work, we have to learn to adapt, and acting isn't out of the question."
The two couldn't help but give him a thumbs-up in admiration.
Jie Kai reacted quickly, picking up the unconscious Nancy from the ground with one hand, and urged the others to evacuate quickly. The Eye of the Midnight Sun guys had already left, and the Demon God had grown stronger. Continuing to fight was no different from seeking death.
Gu Sen also strongly agreed with his opinion. He was about to turn and prepare to leave when he saw Bai En still staring at the colossal entity.
"Bai En, it's time to go!"
"It's too late. It has its eyes on us."
"Eh?!!"
When the two looked up at the Demon God, an unknown number of crimson eyes were staring at them. Just then, a joyful voice came from beside them: "I'll do it!"
Rill stepped past Gu Sen and Bai En, waving his paintbrush: "Painting Magic, Chains of Water and Fire Stardust."
Several long chains, imbued with starlight, flew out from the surrounding magical space, coiling towards Demon God Cerberus. Water and fire intertwined on the chains.
The chains tightly wrapped around Demon God Cerberus, but it merely took a step forward, and the chains snapped one by one. Rill was blown away by the immense gust of wind.
Jie Kai, agile with the enhancement of Power Magic, picked up Rill, who had been slammed to the ground, with his other hand: "I say... Captain Rill, don't try to be brave when you barely have any magic left. The smartest choice right now is to run away."
Gu Sen was about to pull Bai En to run away when he saw Bai En thrust a sword at him.
A long, narrow slash landed on him and Jie Kai. It was not aggressive at all, carrying them far away.
"Bai En?! What are you doing? Are you crazy?" Gu Sen, who had climbed up from the ground, was furious. "Not a single one of them is normal! Just now, one was seeking death, and now another one's gone!"
"This is the Demon God's..."
Before he could finish complaining, he looked straight ahead and saw an immensely powerful magic flowing through Bai En. The luminous white magic, like a giant fireball, shattered the surrounding fragmented soil and rocks into dust.
Bai En faced the colossal Demon God alone.
Recalling Bai En's repeated "peculiar" performances during missions, Gu Sen's mouth twitched involuntarily: "No way?"
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