"What do you mean he is the reinforcements you brought?"
Upon learning from the Trailblazer that only the Astral Express crew had come to support them, the expression of joy that hadn't even lasted long on Qingque's face froze instantly.
"Trailblazer, did you not understand the situation?"
"This sparrow here even went to the trouble of having the Master Diviner personally send a message telling you all to run, but now you've come back to throw your lives away instead!"
Qingque clutched her head and wailed. She no longer knew whether to describe the Express crew's actions as sacrificing themselves for justice or like moths flying into a flame.
Although she was emotionally touched that they would brave such danger to come and help, rationally speaking, this wasn't how one should be touched!
"It's fine, trust us, Qingque."
Stelle didn't feel there was anything wrong at all. Instead, she waved the baseball bat in her hand and blew apart the head of a Voidranger Reaver.
"The Lady Boss of the new Boss I recognized is super powerful! A mere Lord Ravager and a Doomsday Beast Legion can be destroyed with a snap of the fingers!"
"Heh heh, right, Boss?"
"Huh?"
Qingque was baffled; she obviously didn't understand what Stelle was trying to convey. What did she mean by destroying a Lord Ravager with a snap of the fingers? Even their Xianzhou Marshal wouldn't dare say such a thing if she came!
But... could the Trailblazer mean that this man and the person backing him have Emanator-level combat power?
She looked at the strange male beside Stelle, who fit her criteria for a mate quite well—though it was a pity he was suspected to be already married—and question marks floated in her eyes.
"I don't deny the fact that you're praising my Little Yuki for being amazing, Ah-Star."
"But if you put it that way, wouldn't I lose too much face? In your eyes, do I look like the kind of man who relies on living off a woman to get ahead?"
"Boss, are you saying..."
"Exactly. My Little Yuki is certainly invincible under the heavens, but my sword is not necessarily dull either!"
Three Voidranger Tramplers surrounded them, but Suke simply performed a horizontal sweep with the Galaxy Sword in his hand.
The hard armored shells of the Tramplers were sliced open like tofu, and all of them were bisected on the spot!
A Doomsday Beast whistled toward the command center Starskiff where the group was located, but before it could gather energy to attack the barrier set up by Fu Xuan, Suke soared into the air and went straight for its face!
Ka-cha!
The sword of starlight, forged from unknown material, cut through everything. With a single slash, it sliced into the Doomsday Beast's neck, severing its entire head!
"What a formidable sword!"
March 7th was dumbfounded watching from below. One had to know that the Six-Phased Ice Arrows she shot only tickled the Doomsday Beast most of the time.
But the weapon in Suke's hand sliced open the Doomsday Beast's shell—which was strong enough to withstand nano-grade high-energy lasers—with a fluttering lightness. This was enough to show just how sharp it was!
"Is that weapon forged using that new metal?"
Witnessing this scene, Big Herta furrowed her brows. She had been observing this Farmer man who "talked big constantly."
The color of the sword blade Suke used was exactly the same as the purple metal bar from earlier. Was it forged from that?
That was simply too wasteful, using a material with such physical properties to forge a cold weapon. Big Herta couldn't help but feel it was a reckless waste of heaven's gifts, and she became even more convinced that the place Suke came from was definitely some primitive society that might not even have internet access.
However...
The staff in Big Herta's hand was raised several times, only to be lowered in hesitation. Don't misunderstand; it wasn't that the beautiful and kind Ms. Herta was cold-blooded and heartless, unwilling to lend a hand to the hard-pressed Xianzhou formation.
It was just... was there really still a need for her to act?
She took in the subtle changes that had occurred on the battlefield from the moment everyone arrived—changes that many people hadn't yet noticed.
Big Herta was secretly alarmed by the Great Witch who was floating not far from her, currently taking off her finger cots to apply nail polish. That's right; from the moment everyone rushed to the scene, Big Herta had discovered a bizarre change in the battlefield.
Although this woman claiming to be a Great Witch hadn't made a move due to the Farmer's instructions, from the moment of her arrival, the Xianzhou side within the entire battlefield had not suffered a single casualty.
It was incredible, right? But things were just that eerie.
She didn't cast magic to heal anyone, nor did she attack to kill any Doomsday Beast. Under one excessive coincidence after another, every lethal attack from the Doomsday Beasts against the Xianzhou Starskiffs would accidentally miss the vital points.
Conversely, the Xianzhou Starskiffs' attacks on the Doomsday Beasts would coincidentally hit their weak points every single time! It was like shooting a hundred arrows randomly at a suit of armor covering 99% of the body, and every arrow just happened to hit the exposed 1%.
As an Emanator of Erudition who had been glanced at by "Nous" several times, and a member of the Genius Society, Big Herta was undoubtedly very familiar with this method.
Polka Kakamond, the "Lord of Silence"... If that woman were to unfold her famous ability, the "Omniscient Domain," she could, in a sense, achieve an effect similar to the scene before her eyes.
But that would more or less stir up the Path and Imaginary Energy. Activating it right under the nose of a Lord Ravager would inevitably force the opponent to react.
Yet right now, Big Herta didn't sense any signs of a Path being stirred. If she hadn't been deliberately observing, she estimated she wouldn't have discovered it at all.
[Omnipotent] Magic · [Omniscience is Omnipotence]
This was the essential ability Tsukishiro Yuki had obtained from the triune Yhwach. Similar to the original Yhwach's so-called "The Almighty," she could select the future she desired from infinite futures and overwrite the reality before her eyes.
It was just as well that Big Herta didn't know the principles of this magic; otherwise, she would say that its very existence was a blasphemy against the future calculated by that mechanical head! She didn't mind, but if a certain Lord of Silence knew, she would probably be jumping in frustration!
The situation on the battlefield shifted silently. Suke and the other two, bringing along Stelle and March 7th, fought more and more bravely. Having been cast with the [Levitation] magic by him, allowing them to traverse the cosmic battlefield freely, Stelle and March 7th had never felt such joy in farming mobs.
Don't ask why Dan Heng wasn't there; he had activated his High Elder form and gone straight to the front line with Old Yang, and was currently confronting Zephyro. One didn't know whether to call them brave or reckless.
"This is so magical, March."
"What's wrong?"
"Don't you feel that this battle is different from the past? We haven't taken a single injury fighting up to now."
After discovering that the attacks from the Voidrangers and Doomsday Beasts seemed to lack eyes and simply couldn't hit her no matter what, Stelle eventually gave up on the idea of dodging altogether.
Passing through a myriad of flowers, not a single leaf touches the body. She felt incomparably elegant right now, even wanting to reach out and flip her hair.
"Eh, you're right?"
"Are they... are they going easy on us?"
March 7th fired a Six-Phased Ice Arrow, hitting the only undefended eyeball on a Doomsday Beast not far away. While marveling that her archery had improved significantly compared to before, March 7th couldn't help but find it somewhat strange.
She felt this battle was going entirely too smoothly; she had never fought such an easy battle!
"March, are you related to that Lord Ravager?"
"How is that possible? Look at this young lady; where on my body do I have any 'Destruction' elements?!"
"But I'm not either. Then that's strange. Could it be that you, Boss, are related to the opposition?"
Trying to deduce the current situation, Stelle looked at Suke, then gazed at the Lord Ravager Zephyro on the distant horizon, seeming to analyze the connection between the two. Come to think of it, this Lord Ravager Zephyro looked like a female.
Could it be... that Zephyro was the Boss's old flame, so she wasn't willing to strike hard?
It was only because Suke didn't know Stelle's inner thoughts; otherwise, he would definitely have let Stelle enjoy the same skull-crushing treatment as Gudako. Children are just like this; if you don't beat them for three days, they'll tear the roof tiles off. Striking hard, huh? Wait until you go to Stardew Valley, and you'll know what striking hard means!
Suke pointed speechlessly at himself, then pointed at Zephyro's head, which was surrounded by something resembling Saturn's rings. He hadn't even mentioned that you, a Stellaron Spirit, might be blood-related to that Lord Ravager, which was already being nice, yet you're saying this about him?
Suke, along with March 7th and Stelle, cleaned up a few more Doomsday Beasts, clearing the area around the command center Starskiff where Fu Xuan and Qingque were located.
In a battlefield situation that no one had sensed, the number of Doomsday Beasts had unknowingly been reduced to a level lower than the number of Starskiffs in the Xianzhou formation.
With things having reached this point, never mind Zephyro as a Lord Ravager, even a fool could see something was wrong. Although the Express crew's reinforcements had strengthened the Xianzhou side's combat power, in Zephyro's eyes, those few figures shuttling through the battlefield were clearly insufficient to alter the entire grand trend she had laid out.
After observing for a long time and concluding that the Xianzhou side hadn't lost a single person in the last quarter of an hour on the battlefield, she finally couldn't hold back!
"Dan Heng, look out!"
Facing this sudden surge in the Lord Ravager's aura, Welt Yang, who was restraining Zephyro with the Star of Eden, shouted to Dan Heng, who was confronting her head-on.
But clearly, his shout was still a step too late. The fragments falling from Zephyro's magnificent body scattered! This time, they did not transform into Doomsday Beasts, but emitted intense Imaginary Energy, detonating on the spot around the High Elder Dan Heng!
"Ugh—?!"
This unavoidable strike, symbolizing the power of an Emanator of Destruction, was enough to destroy half a planet in an instant! Theoretically, any existence below an Emanator facing this strike would undoubtedly die.
But for some reason, it didn't cause too much damage to Dan Heng; it only made him cry out in pain and temporarily lose combat capability, causing Welt Yang to hurriedly retrieve him!
Is this a Planet-Buster Emanator?
Feels inferior to the Iron Tomb King of Omphalos instantly insta-killing the entire universe. Although Suke felt that was likely the consequence of the scenario writer getting high while writing.
After all, in previous Star Rail plot text descriptions, even a pure martial artist Lord Ravager like Zephyro still had to rely on boring through the earth's crust or whipping up climatic storms to destroy planets. These Lord Ravagers weren't soft-hearted people; leaving aside a disgrace like Phantylia, you couldn't say someone like Zephyro was just idle and had nothing to do, right?
[In the infinite heavens and worlds, power is not important; "Essence" is the most important.]
[You might not quite understand what "Essence" is. Let's put it this way: imagine it as layers. The more "Essence" you have, the higher the layer.]
[Existences on lower layers, even if they risk their old lives, cannot affect existences on higher layers. But existences on higher layers only need to gently touch—without even needing to attack—and everything of the lower layer existence will be "overwritten".]
[Think about the famous scene where gods who claim to rule infinite multiverses throw planets at each other's faces and pull each other's hair. You should know yourself whether what Mabel-chan says makes sense~]
Suke still remembered the words Boss Mabel had complained to him while drunk one day; indeed, her words were rough but the logic wasn't.
This was also why Suke firmly believed that Tsukishiro Yuki, whose Essence had been elevated again, had the ability to cover for him and beat this Lord Ravager Zephyro up while hanging her in the air. From the very beginning, this battle was already a foregone conclusion.
"Whoa?!"
"Uncle, are you okay!"
Suke, wanting to rush forward to confront the Lord Ravager Zephyro, was pushed back by her long-range light beams every time. Although reminded by Tsukishiro Yuki, Suke had cast the [Ignition] magic on himself in advance to cause slow damage, utilizing his data-based mechanism to generate invincibility frames so that he feared no attacks from Zephyro.
But not being able to get over there wasn't a solution either. Although the Thorns Ring could reflect damage, he didn't dare to tank the damage; if possible, Suke still wanted to be a bit safer.
"I'm fine."
"I'm just feeling a bit terrible. Is this my limit?"
"To think that I, having lived for over six hundred years, with my feet on the fields and one hand supporting Stardew Valley full of Haji-Xian..."
Gazing at the distant Lord Ravager, Suke felt like he was about to get depressed. He really lacked long-range means right now—very much so!
The Zanpakuto wouldn't respond to him, and he couldn't sense any Path energy either. With things as they were, could he only...
"Welcome [Destruction], mortals."
The Lord Ravager Zephyro had never looked directly at the person who occasionally wanted to rush at her but was swatted away by her from start to finish. She was just somewhat surprised that the opponent's vitality was so tenacious—even more durable than that [Permanence] Dragon Scion.
She wondered what surprises would be brought to her once he was converted into a member of [Destruction].
Zephyro raised her arm. Puzzle pieces, just like those of the Aeon of Harmony Xipe, fell from the high heavens with unprecedented density, transforming one after another into an army of Doomsday Beasts far exceeding the previous number!
"How can this be...?"
"These monsters can't be killed off at all. Can we only..."
The Xianzhou formation, which had just seen some hope, fell into hesitation once again. More and more people's wills wavered, as if they were about to be infiltrated by [Destruction] and converted into members of the Antimatter Legion!
Seeing this scene, Big Herta was ready to act. Although, in terms of power, as an Emanator of Erudition she might not be a match for a Lord Ravager, she wasn't a cold and indifferent person either.
But it was at this very moment that the Farmer man's voice came toward the direction where she and the white-haired woman beside her were located!
"Save me!"
"Little Yuki!"
Can I get a High Flash at A1, please? I beg you!
"As you wish, my Animus."
As the Farmer man's voice fell, accompanied by the Great Witch's smile and the raising of her hand, she parted her red lips lightly, speaking a language and vocabulary that all spirits and beings possessing wisdom could understand.
[In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.]
[And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.]
[And God said, Let there be light—]
(Old Testament · Genesis 1:1)
Big Herta would never forget what she saw and heard today. She only remembered that she vaguely heard something, and under a scene she couldn't comprehend at all, the entire dark stellar universe turned as bright as day.
The Lord Ravager named "Zephyro" vanished without a trace under the illumination of that immeasurable light, without even letting out a wail of demise.
Perhaps it was also because of this event that she truly understood a corner of the edge of the truth she had been pursuing.
And in a space that no one cared about, watching the script in its hand where the word count was proliferating madly, the black cat symbolizing a part of the [King of the End] also began to doubt life.
"What do you mean..."
"Fifth [Finality]?"
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