The dagger, one foot and three inches long, was as transparent as ice, symbolizing the dead silence of a star.
It could easily cut open the core of a star.
It could also pass through a chest and ribs as if they were nothing, pierce the heart, and exit through the spine.
But in a pair of palms that were constantly dripping with blood, it was difficult to advance even an inch.
Zao Wu used all his strength to hold it tight.
The lines on his palm were cut in half, and scars that would be difficult to heal were left on his knuckles.
But fortunately—he had made it in time.
So he smiled, and the blood that overflowed from the corner of his lips fell drop by drop onto his trembling knuckles.
The world began to spin.
But Zao Wu, on the contrary, could see his own heart more clearly.
He had never been a great person.
He could not be like Mr. Welt, who always, and without regard for his own safety, saved the world behind him.
He was just a lonely child who lacked love.
No one had had the time to teach him to love this world.
So, for the problem of the Astral Express, there was only one solution for him.
"Stupid!"
"Ridiculous!"
"You disgust me!"
Xingxiao, on the contrary, was furious.
She was unwilling to believe that this weak young man in front of her, this fool who would give his life for others, would actually be the chosen one of Lord Nanook!
Hehe, this is really...讓人想嘯啊 (ràng rén xiǎng xiào a - makes one want to roar/laugh)!
Even she was not qualified, so on what grounds was he!
Jealousy is also one of the native driving forces of destruction.
"You want to die? Then I'll grant your wish!"
"However, the person you love, everything you care about, will all be reunited with you afterwards!"
"Feel free to praise me and sing my praises in hell. Remember my name forever—Xingxiao!"
Xingxiao laughed ferociously. The dagger in her hand suddenly ignited with a snow-like flame, as if it wanted to freeze and shatter everything about the young man in front of her.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Kafka's close-range gunshots concealed the sound of that one crystal tear falling.
The bullets hit Xingxiao's clone, pierced through her black dress, and left bullet holes in her veil!
It was a real entity, and not an illusionary spore mist phantom!
But an existence of the Lord Ravager level, even if it was just a shell created from antimatter in a "war furnace," how could it be harmed by a creation of mortal technology.
The bullets landed on the woman's body, but could only leave shallow marks.
Perhaps if that black cat, Elio, were to try, he might be able to leave a claw mark on Xingxiao's body.
"Let—him—go!"
In Kafka's pupils, a thousand-petaled flower seemed to bloom, trying to confuse Xingxiao's heart and manipulate her thoughts and actions.
This was her most proud word spirit technique, which had made her one of the most vicious and dangerous wanted criminals in the universe, a thorn in the side of countless forces.
But for a Lord Ravager who had walked the Path of Destruction for thousands of years, their hearts were already as solid as gold and as firm as a rock.
Even without using the power bestowed by the Destruction Aeon to resist, it was impossible to be bewitched and manipulated by Kafka with their own will.
Only ordinary people with too many greedy, angry, and foolish thoughts were most likely to fall into Kafka's spider web trap.
Feeling the slender spider silk being ignited and burned by the destructive aura she was emitting before it could even touch Xingxiao, and even backfiring on Kafka's own mind, in the midst of the burning, intense pain, Kafka had never felt such great helplessness as she did today.
Helplessness...?
What a strange word.
Could it be that she... already had something she didn't want to lose, a person she didn't want to lose?
So she could no longer be calm, no longer be nonchalant and careless.
Longing for someone to come and help her, no matter who it was...
Don't...
Don't let Zao Wu leave her!
So this was fear.
The spider web she had woven was too weak in comparison.
The threads of fear were so tough, indestructible, and unbreakable.
Crisscrossing and cutting, leaving the heart in a thousand pieces.
Making a person into a string puppet.
Elio had once said that Kafka was good at "creating fear."
But Kafka had said that she "knew nothing" about it.
The bullet from many years ago, whistling through time and space, now hit the center of Kafka's brow.
"You annoying woman!"
"You want to die... I'll grant your wish!"
Xingxiao separated a trace of her power and summoned one after another, antimatter ion traps, letting the spore arms that had originally taken root in various parts of the space station extend from them!
Attacking the dazed Kafka!
As if to tear her body into thousands of pieces!
But just at this moment, a vast power of the Path surged and spread like a tide!
The spore arms that were about to touch Kafka were instantly reduced to ashes!
Flowing golden lava appeared like a long river, spanning half the sea of stars!
The huge phantom of the Destruction Aeon Nanook赫然 (hèrán - impressively/strikingly) appeared on the long river of the Path!
Compared to it, even the entire beautiful Azure Star was just a pellet in His palm that could be destroyed in an instant.
Herta finally stepped out of her special space where she was researching the Simulated Universe.
In a secret containment bay, the Doctor of Truth broke into Ruan Mei's private laboratory and was shocked to find that she was actually drinking alone and drunk!
What has happened to this world?
It has suddenly become so incomprehensible to even him!
However, although the matter of Ruan Mei drinking was very incredible, compared to the appearance of the Destruction Aeon's phantom, it could only be ranked second.
So he played for Ruan Mei everything that was happening at the platform of the Herta Space Station at this moment.
It is said that the phantom of the Destruction Aeon only appears at the moment of a planet's fall and a civilization's destruction. In the sky, the god quietly witnesses the demise of a civilization.
But this time, it was clearly not the same.
From beginning to end, His gaze had never been on the Herta Space Station, on the Azure Star, or on the civilization or intelligent beings on it.
Even Xingxiao, who was a Lord Ravager herself, the clone she had created, did not have the qualification to receive His favor.
He only looked at Zao Wu, the one He had chosen.
Again and again, He cast the gaze of a god.
In the golden and brilliant long river of the Path, the young man, with his back to Him, finally turned his head.
The young man's lips moved silently.
The general meaning could be vaguely read.
—Do you want... to have... me?
—Then... take it.
Take everything from me.
As long as you don't take her away.
That was an unknown scene that happened at the end of the Path, in front of the divine chariot of Destruction!
In reality, Xingxiao actually felt a great sense of panic erupt from the bottom of her heart.
In her palm, the dagger, which had been stained with the aura of destruction and was burning with a snow-like flame, was extinguished inch by inch.
Zao Wu, who had been holding the blade with his head down, slowly raised his eyes at this moment.
What appeared in them was no longer a gentleness as clear as water, but a burning star, a golden and brilliant destruction!
"No... no! This is impossible!"
The flame of destruction!
How could it be ignited for the sake of preservation!
Xingxiao let out a sharp and trembling roar.
She was not reconciled!
Why could she, who was loyal to a god, only pick up a vacant seat.
And Zao Wu, who had used the Path, fooled a god, and constantly insulted and betrayed the name of Destruction...
...could become the eighth Lord Ravager in the universe!
On what grounds—on what grounds!!!
Xingxiao's clone was already mad, and had become hysterical!
She tried to burn up all her power, to completely kill him before Zao Wu's physical body had been continuously tempered by the "war furnace" and supplemented with antimatter to finally achieve an unparalleled holy body!
Because this was destruction, a destruction that even Nanook would not stop.
But what made Xingxiao unable to imagine was that Zao Wu not only did not stop it, but on the contrary, with his two hands, he dragged the blade and actively tore open a ferocious and terrifying horizontal wound on his own chest!
It looked just like... the Destruction Aeon Nanook, whose divine shadow had appeared in the sky!
What is he doing?
What does he want to do!!
From the distant sea of stars, the laughter of that nameless fool came again.
He seemed very satisfied with the drama he was enjoying today.
Herta whispered in astonishment: "In a fool's play whose authenticity cannot yet be verified, it is recorded that the Destruction Aeon was injured by a nameless fool at a star gate, leaving a huge wound on his chest, which has not yet healed."
"That young man who has accepted the power of destruction is re-enacting that part of history with this method—don't tell me he has discovered something!?"
"Until this moment, he is still resisting destruction!?"
"The young man who has become a Lord Ravager, an Emanator of Destruction, is still unwilling to lose himself!"
"To rebel against a god in the name of being under a god...!"
"This is really... interesting!"
Herta's main body was even trembling with excitement, wishing she could spin in circles on the spot!
The gaze of Nanook's phantom was dark and unclear.
Zao Wu, with the help of this wound, had regained his own consciousness!
Although it was only for a moment.
But at least for this moment, he was not an Emanator of Destruction, not a Lord Ravager!
He was the person who had been given the name "Zao Wu" by Kafka.
A true son of man!
The most heroic and tragic song of life was played here!
Welt's pseudo black hole, affected by the sudden influence of the destructive foreign matter, became chaotic and began to expand in a disorderly manner!
Although it had devoured the Doomsday Beast and its core, saving the space station, it had also become no longer under Welt's control!
Perhaps, it would turn into a disaster more terrifying than the Doomsday Beast, and thus destroy and devour the Azure Star!
Unless there was some super-star-level energy that could fill it...
Just at this time, with a raise of his hand, Zao Wu extinguished the light of destruction of Xingxiao's clone.
A dignified clone of a Lord Ravager had thus fallen!
And turned into dust floating in the sea of stars!
Raising his hand again, the infinite gravity of the out-of-control black hole, which seemed to be about to swallow the entire space station, was also completely transferred to his own body.
The young man's body suddenly floated up, the strong wind messing up his white hair, his clothes, and tearing open one after another, bloody marks.
He turned his back to the crowd, and let the terrifying black hole, like an abyss, attract him to the center of the singularity.
At the last moment before being completely swallowed by the black hole, the young man's golden pupils were extinguished.
Zao Wu turned his head back, and with the clearest and most pure, and regretless gaze of a son of man, as if returning to the beginning of his birth, he gently looked at Kafka, and said no more.
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