The air seemed to solidify.
"Forget it."
With a slight movement of her eyes, Tohru lowered her head back to the ground and slowly said:
"I never thought that before I die, the last person I'd meet would be a human. I have to say, it's quite ironic."
Her words seemed filled with a sense of helplessness and loneliness.
She found her current predicament hard to accept.
"My name is Lin Bai, what's yours?"
However, Lin Bai smiled indifferently and came before Tohru.
Tohru: "..."
Looking at Lin Bai, who was asking her name, she was slightly stunned.
The human and the dragon looked at each other again for a while.
Perhaps her death was imminent.
Or perhaps she didn't feel any malice from Lin Bai.
"Tohru."
After a moment of silence, Tohru slowly spoke her name.
"Tohru, a good name."
Lin Bai raised an eyebrow slightly and smiled, then pointed at the divine sword impaled in her back, and asked with a smile:
"By the way, what's with that sword in your back?"
"Do you want me to pull it out for you? It looks quite painful."
"Help me..."
Although Tohru felt a little strange about Lin Bai wanting to help her, she still said disdainfully:
"Human, do you know what kind of creation the sword in my body is?"
"This is a Divine Sword, condensed from the power of a god, containing a powerful Divine Will."
"As a weak human, even just touching it would cause your mind to collapse and you would die instantly."
"Then I really want to try."
With a confident curve of his lips, the Holy Land of Silver subtly unfolded, and Lin Bai flew onto Tohru's back.
"Hm?!"
Lin Bai's airborne flight made Tohru a little surprised.
She had thought he was the most ordinary human, but she had misjudged him.
A mage or a warrior?
"Human, don't seek death."
Tohru turned her head to look at Lin Bai.
Although Lin Bai seemed to have some abilities, as she said, the sword impaled in her back was a Divine Sword.
Even she, facing the suppression of the Divine Sword, couldn't heal herself and could only wait for death to come here.
If a giant dragon was like this.
How much more so a mere human.
"Trust me."
Lin Bai smiled confidently at Tohru.
Tohru: "..."
Lin Bai flew up a little, level with the hilt, and extended his right hand towards the Divine Sword.
Tohru's eyes widened slightly.
She seemed to have already foreseen the scene of Lin Bai's mental collapse and death.
Lin Bai's right hand grasped the hilt.
The Divine Sword glowed with white light.
The next moment, a powerful, invisible will entered Lin Bai's consciousness space from within the Divine Sword.
It transformed into a tall figure.
Seemingly formed from pure white light, its face was invisible, and a faint red halo enveloped its body.
Solemn and noble, supreme, as if mortals could not look directly at it.
This was the manifestation of a god's will.
In the center of the consciousness space.
Lin Bai's soul sat cross-legged in the void with his eyes closed.
Seven miniature swords of Damocles stood before him.
A divine wheel, as if forged from gold, slowly rotated behind him, its outermost edge shimmering with a layer of purple light.
Strands of purple-gold flowing light, like mischievous little sprites, trailed light tails as they flew around his soul.
Faintly outlining an infinity symbol.
Sacred, immortal, noble, mysterious, eternal... various qualities were inscribed within his soul.
Lin Bai's soul slowly opened his eyes.
The swords of Damocles, representing the Seven Authorities, disappeared from before him, instantly appearing above the god's will.
The seven swords merged into one.
And attacked in the form of the 'Authority of Colorless' longsword.
An invisible, powerful sealing force enveloped the god's will.
The sword of damocles fell.
It pierced through the god's will without any obstruction.
As the sword of damocles returned to its original position, that god's will also transformed into specks of starlight and disappeared.
And all of this happened in less than three seconds.
In the real world.
When Lin Bai grasped the Divine Sword, he was slightly stunned, and then the Divine Sword dissipated into specks of starlight.
"How is this possible?!"
Tohru's eyes widened in disbelief at this sight.
The Divine Sword was just gone?
What about the god's will inside?
One must know that it was something that even she could only silently wait to die from.
At the same time, on the other side.
In a great world existing within the main universe.
When the god's will was annihilated, the god who had easily wounded Tohru frowned slightly.
A hint of doubt and curiosity emerged:
"Strange, one of my wills actually disappeared."
"And no information was sent back at all, interesting."
"That will was a Divine Sword formed from the intention to slay dragons; that little dragon couldn't have removed it herself."
"Nor could it have been those few guys from the dragon race, otherwise at least some information would have been sent back."
"Who could it be?"
This god thought of some beings comparable to himself, then smiled and dismissed the thought, no longer pondering it.
Tohru's matter was just a small interlude for him.
The main world of various anime, Oborozuka City.
As the Divine Sword dissipated, Lin Bai also received a prompt from the encyclopedia of everything; a new entry was successfully illuminated.
His pupils contracted slightly.
Lin Bai snapped out of his momentary daze and turned to look at Tohru, who was staring at him dumbfounded.
He smiled, his lips curving slightly, and asked:
"Tohru, are you alright now?"
As the Divine Sword dissipated, the wound on Tohru's back vanished instantly, as if it had never appeared.
"N-nothing, I'm fine now."
Hearing Lin Bai's question, the somewhat dumbfounded Tohru blinked her eyes, gradually coming back to her senses.
The look in her eyes as she gazed at Lin Bai had changed slightly.
"That's good."
Lin Bai descended from Tohru's back to the ground.
After Lin Bai dismounted, Tohru cast a transformation spell, and a red light enveloped her entire body.
Her form rapidly shrank.
Finally, she transformed into her human shape.
She was clad in a brownish-grey robe, with thick, soft golden hair cascading down her back, the tips gradually turning red.
She still had a pair of dragon horns on her head.
Behind her was a plump, short, greenish dragon tail.
Tohru in her human form had delicate features and fair, smooth skin.
Her exquisite face had a baby-like plumpness.
Beauty and cuteness were perfectly integrated.
Her crystal-clear eyes were golden-red, with gold infused in the red.
Her pupils were deep red vertical slits.
Compared to round pupils, they added a touch of sharpness.
"She really is tall..."
Looking at Tohru in her human form, whose height was almost the same as his own, Lin Bai couldn't help but sigh with a hint of emotion.
Tohru was about 1.75 meters tall.
With her dragon horns, she was nearly 1.8 meters.
The human and the dragon met each other's gaze.
Tohru's expression was somewhat cold.
Seeing this, Lin Bai smiled slightly and said:
"Would you like to talk with me?"
After speaking, he had a thought.
A light blue barrier, resembling a mosaic, formed into the shape of a high-backed bench behind him.
Lin Bai sat on it.
"Sit down, Tohru."
Tohru's eyes flickered slightly at this, and she sat down beside him.
Her robe swayed with her movement.
The scenery within was faintly visible.
Lin Bai turned to look at Tohru, smiled, and asked, pretending not to know:
"Tohru, why were you injured by the Divine Sword?"
"..."
Tohru's pupils contracted slightly at the question.
Her gaze flickered faintly, and she was silent for a moment before responding:
"Because I challenged a god... the kind that was overestimating myself."
After a brief pause, she suddenly added another sentence.
As her voice trailed off, she looked up slightly.
She gazed at the night sky after the rain, somewhat lost in thought.
"Oh, is that so."
Lin Bai smiled as if enlightened, showing no other reaction.
This surprised Tohru a little.
She couldn't help but avert her gaze and turn to look at Lin Bai beside her...