Mist-shrouded dawn, the "Orange Mothership" hovered above the Final Sea like a floating orange epilogue.
Leon stood atop the command tower, the counter on his right hand ticking: 111:00:00 (frozen).[System Alert:Next node·Laugh Tale Gate locked]Nami unfolded the Final-Sea topographic map, finger landing on a star-dust-outlined route: "Target: Final Sea·Laugh Tale. The Laugh Tale Gate lies at the base of the 'Stardust Falls'—backup port 11."Leon spawned "Stardust Stabilisers"—golden glowing wing-plates that generate buoyancy synchronized with the stardust waterfall, allowing the mothership to hover above the star-light cascade without being swallowed by gravity.They landed on "Stardust Glider Blocks", leaving two glowing footprints like pixel-outlined paths.
In the distance, at the base of the stardust falls, a star-light beam shot skyward—like an inverted sceptre of starlight.Below the gate a starlight-suited teen blocked: "Humans? Why carry Sea-Prism scent?"Leon showed the pseudo Sea-Prism badge: "We are 'pixel envoys' here to purify the Laugh Tale Gate—please guide us."The teen hesitated, but a star-light chain slashed—final gatekeeper "Laugh Tale" arrived on the "Stardust Ark", body wrapped in star-light chains, voice like the universe echoing: "Mortals, dare trespass in my domain!"Laugh Tale raised his hand; "Stardust Iron Chain" shot at the mothership—a one-metre star-light chain straight at the hull.
Leon instantly spawned a "bedrock dome" to shield the ship; the chain struck the dome, erupting kilometre star-mist yet failed to penetrate.Laugh Tale's pupils shrank: "Blocked the stardust iron chain? Interesting!"
He turned and flew toward the base of the stardust falls, voice echoing: "Come to the fall base, defeat me, the Laugh Tale Gate is yours; fail, and stay forever as stardust fuel!"Leon and Nami glanced at each other, nodding together: "Exactly what we want."At the base of the stardust falls, suspended above star-light, pure gold-crystal construction, the central altar hovered a thirty-metre "Laugh Tale Gate Heart"—surface covered with golden stardust and black code, each beat releasing a ring of star-light pulses.The system popped:[Backup Port 11:Laugh Tale Gate End Heart]
[Purification condition:defeat guardian BOSS·Stardust Laugh Tale]The altar floor cracked; Laugh Tale's whole-body star-light skyrocketed, transforming into a hundred-metre star dragon, mouth emitting synthetic sound: "Refuse purification—execute stardust formatting!"Battle erupted.
Laugh Tale's tail swept the altar into a smooth plane; Leon kept spawning "bedrock platforms" and "redstone lightning rods" for aerial guerrilla strikes.Nami drove "Clima-Tact·Star Dragon", summoning a hundred-metre star-light whip that intertwined with Laugh Tale's star dragon, forcibly contesting star-light control.Final strike—
Leon raised the "Uranus Core" high; the core released a black absorption pulse, forcibly sucking Laugh Tale's "stardust chains" into the core, the chains disintegrating instantly.Laugh Tale let out a final electronic screech, body disintegrating into sky-wide golden stardust, a reversed meteor shower.
The Laugh Tale Gate heart stopped beating and transformed into the eleventh "Uranus fragment".System prompts refreshed:[Backup Port 11 purification complete]
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[Final node:Pixel Sea·Free Core]The starlight-suited teen witnessed everything, eyes complex: "You... defeated the stardust god?"
Leon smiled: "No, we only defeated 'the end'."He turned away, his back reflected in the stardust like moving code.
Nami caught up and whispered: "You just said 'the end'—what do you mean?"Leon gazed at the stardust falls reddened by sunset: "It means this world will no longer be controlled by 'the end', but by 'the beginning'."Count-down 111 hours—continues.