"No! I'm not going back—"
On Dragonspine, a shrill female voice cried out. It was Lanssangx, wailing and sobbing.
"Why are you so noisy too?" Yu Jin tightly gripped Lanssangx's wrist with one hand and poked his ear with the other.
He had never noticed Lanssangx was this noisy before.
"Get in there!" Yu Jin had no thought of being gentle. He gave Lanssangx a powerful kick, sending her flying into the Golden Tree.
Inside the Golden Tree, it remained as calm as ever. The shallow, mirror-like water surface stretched to the horizon.
"Ouch!"
Lanssangx's figure fell through the air, creating a series of ripples on the undisturbed water.
"Splash!"
Almost at the same time, Yu Jin's figure also appeared inside the Golden Tree.
"Get up, don't play dead." Yu Jin looked at Lanssangx lying on the water and pulled her up.
He hadn't used much force at all. If that was enough to make Lanssangx lie on the ground, then Yu Jin would have to suspect if Lanssangx was a fake dragon.
"Oh." Lanssangx opened her lifeless eyes and sprang up from the water with a carp-like flip.
She had given up struggling now. If her vacation was over, then it was over. Anyway, when she went back, she could still harass Vyke.
Hehe, Vyke, I'm coming!
"Hey, hey, hey! You're drooling! What are you thinking about?" Yu Jin saw Lanssangx in a dazed, infatuated state, so he tapped her head to pull her back from her fantasies.
"N-nothing!" Lanssangx shook her head and wiped her mouth. As a lady, she had to pay attention to her image.
"Speaking of which, King, can the Greater Will really find this place?" After wiping her mouth, Lanssangx finally started discussing serious matters.
"I think it should be able to... right?" Yu Jin scratched his head. Actually, he wasn't sure if the Greater Will could see this Golden Tree in such a distant land.
After all, this place was simply too far, so far that even the Greater Will couldn't see it.
However, if there was someone to receive the message, plus the Golden Tree, it might be possible.
As Yu Jin thought, he stood with his legs together and stretched his arms straight. His posture looked very strange.
"King, what are you doing?" Lanssangx looked at Yu Jin's strange appearance and immediately asked curiously.
"What do you think I look like?" Yu Jin turned his head and asked Lanssangx in return.
Lanssangx took a few steps back. She looked at Yu Jin, who now stood with his legs together and his arms raised.
Lanssangx stroked her chin, then a Khvarena flashed, and she said with a sudden realization:
"You're surrendering!"
"Thwack!"
Yu Jin delivered an uppercut to Lanssangx's head, leaving a big red bump there.
"Fingers, I'm imitating the Fingers, understand?!" Yu Jin was a bit exasperated. To say he was surrendering? His dictionary didn't even have 'compromise,' let alone 'surrender'!
"Fingers... Fingers." Lanssangx clutched her head and looked at Yu Jin, who had resumed his 'surrender' posture.
Lanssangx had never seen the Fingers, but she had heard of them. Apparently, this guy was an envoy of the Greater Will, specifically responsible for communicating with the Greater Will.
So, the Fingers had always looked like this? What an eye-opener.
Yu Jin no longer paid attention to the astonished Lanssangx. He was now concentrating on sending a message outwards.
Inside the armor, unseen by Lanssangx, countless pure white energies flowed. They surged from Yu Jin's chest, flowing up along his arms.
The power of the soul gathered at Yu Jin's fingertips, accumulating more and more.
Finally, they broke through the obstruction of the armor. A will capable of distorting space-time erupted from Yu Jin's fingers, traversing within the Golden Tree.
The space above Yu Jin now resembled a rippling water surface, with invisible waves echoing within it.
The information contained in these distorted waves was very little; most of the power was used to break through the world's barrier.
The waves were very obvious; they pierced through the dome of the Golden Tree, emanating from its canopy.
The Sky dyed by the Golden Tree also became distorted, but no one was paying attention to these things anymore.
During the day, the Golden Tree was too brilliant; looking directly at it was like staring at the sun. Besides, the Golden Tree itself was inherently strange, right?
Yu Jin could only ensure that these messages could penetrate the world's barrier. As for the rest, he would leave it to the Greater Will!
...In Patches' Shop in The Lands Between.
The Greater Will had now become like Patches—because he was also engrossed in studying something.
"She used this to stab you to DMG back then?" The Greater Will looked at the huge Twin Fingers before him and waved the twisted scimitar in his hand.
The fingerslayer blade—the secret treasure of the "eternal" city of Nokron. It was said to be a blade born from corpses.
This was evidence of the eternal city's blasphemy and a symbol of its destruction. A blood-stained cursed object.
Those without a related fate cannot use it. It is said to be able to DMG the Greater Will and its various envoys.
A curved blade, like two rapiers spiraling and twisting together, its blade forged from dark red, scabbed flesh.
This was the fingerslayer blade, a god-slaying weapon forged by the Nox people from beneath the earth.
The Twin Fingers, with two straight fingers, nodded slightly. Back then, Ranni had used this blade to stab its kidney twice and send it away.
"The little girl didn't know any better, she was just playing around, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Rennala wiped the fine sweat from her forehead and pulled Ranni, who was bowing her head beside her, behind her.
To be honest, after Rennala woke up and heard about her daughter Ranni's "feat," she was truly terrified.
Participating in the Black Knife Night to murder Godwyn, using the Destined Death to kill her own body, obtaining the fingerslayer blade to kill her own Fingers, and even wanting to run off into the endless starry Sky at the end.
Every single one of these deeds was appalling. She couldn't imagine that her formerly well-behaved daughter could cause so much trouble.
"It's all in the past, don't worry about it, don't worry about it." Patches' bald head popped out, and he laughed dismissively.
"I was never worried." The Greater Will looked at Patches' grinning face and waved his hand.
Hearing the Greater Will's words, Ranni and Rennala both breathed a sigh of relief. Although there was protection from the power Yu Jin left behind, it couldn't stand up to the Greater Will.
The Creator.
This one word was enough to awe all of them. Don't look at how everyone with some standing used to dare to shout about rebelling against the Greater Will; that was all based on the Greater Will not bothering with them at all.
If the Greater Will truly stood before them, every single one of them would wilt.
"Take this, stab me." The Greater Will threw the fingerslayer blade in his hand to Ranni and said to her.
"Huh?" Ranni was a little confused. She didn't know why the Greater Will wanted her to do this.
"Moon, what should I do?"
"..."
"Moon, answer me?"
"..."
"You stinky plate, you wait for me. See if I don't use Azur's Comet to annoy you when I get back!"
Dark Moon decisively chose to back down in front of the Greater Will, which infuriated Ranni.
Ranni gripped the fingerslayer blade in her hand, but in her heart, she was thinking about what to carve on Dark Moon using Azur's Comet when she returned.
"I... I'll just gently scratch you. You... You mustn't get angry." Ranni looked at the Greater Will, dressed in the attire of the Golden People, and felt her scalp tingle.
How long had it been since she felt this sense of powerlessness? Ranni didn't know. She now felt that everything about her was held by the Greater Will, and now, besides stabbing the Greater Will, she had no other choice.
Just as Ranni was walking towards the Greater Will with trembling steps, a familiar aura appeared within the Greater Will's perception.
That aura carried both the smell of scorching and the Golden Tree. It seemed to have passed through many obstacles, and by now, it was faint and indistinct.
The Greater Will touched this special aura, and then a familiar voice echoed in his mind.
"Beep beep, Greater Will, received, please respond!"
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