"Phew..."
Inside the Imaginary Space temporarily created by the Herrscher of the Void, Bronya, who had witnessed the light erupting from the Fuli-Kiana fusion with her own eyes, let out a long breath of exhaustion.
If anyone were to touch the girl's forehead right now, they would surely be startled by the scorching temperature.
Hacking into the World Bubble itself using a micro-computer as a medium might seem simple, but in reality, it had long overloaded her own brain (which was running Matrix of Prescience) plus the immense computational power of Project Bunny 19C.
As the saying goes: Affectionate address + Clear instructions + Enthusiastic praise = Nuclear-powered donkey. Does this count as being PUA'd by Brother again?
He just moves his lips to propose an unreliable plan, and I have to work my butt off to complete it.
Relaxing, Bronya thought to herself. Out of the corner of her eye, she inadvertently caught a glimpse of the full-length mirror held by Project Bunny.
Reflected in it was the back of the girl's smooth, tender white thigh, which had unknowingly been stamped with a "Property of Fuli" seal.
Who did it? That goes without saying.
"Bastard Brother!!!"
Duck-Duck was furious.
She raised her small hand, hesitating for a long time.
"Hmph."
Finally, she activated her hacking ability and moved the mark upwards.
From the back of the thigh where it was visible at a glance, she transferred it to hide under the butt cheek covered by her hot pants.
"That's right, I'm doing this to piss off that woman Raiden Mei—yes, that's it."
Muttering words she herself wasn't sure she believed, the girl focused her gaze on the World Battlefield.
Her expression changed drastically.
According to common sense, as the fusion product of Fuli and Kiana, what should have appeared was a male figure with white hair, blue eyes, and wielding a flaming sword.
Kaslana, Peerless Rotasion, Outlier-level talent, gender-bent counterpart... The elements provided by Fuli and Kiana were simply too many, forcing one to associate them with the number one Flame-Chaser of the Pre-Civilization, the "Signet of Deliverance," Kevin Kaslana.
Who would have thought that what tore through the light from the inside out was actually a pale silver divine lance?
A scene like a dropped frame in a movie exploded in everyone's pupils. The brilliant light filling the sky vanished into the ground, leaving only a youth holding a divine lance suspended beneath the shattered starry sky.
Wings of light formed by Imaginary energy unfolded behind him. Every vibration tore open spiderweb-like cracks in space-time.
Armor interwoven with pure white and crimson purple flowed with molten gold light patterns, as if forged from the embers of the galaxy.
His waist-length hair fell like a waterfall woven from stardust, the ends dyed with the profound darkness of annihilation.
When the tips of his hair floated, they scattered fine, fragmented glows, resembling both the fire of creation and the echoes of the end.
Whether it was Durandal, Yunli, or even an ancient monster like Shuhu who had lived for thousands of years, they couldn't help but cast mesmerized gazes at the youth.
This wasn't love, but simply appreciation for something beautiful.
Regrettably, the world creates the most perfect things only to destroy them with its own hands.
"Fake, it's all fake..."
The youth's facial contours were sharp as if carved by a knife. In the shadow cast by his brow bone, liquid gold burned in his left eye, while crimson madness surged in his right.
The memories of Fuli and Kiana collided violently in his mind at the same time. He covered his cheek, emitting piercingly sharp, sarcastic laughter:
"Kiana Kaslana! Kiana Kaslana!"
"K423! K423!!!"
He raised his hand covered in an armored gauntlet. The scepter rising from his palm suddenly split apart.
The Eternal Heaven's roar came to an abrupt halt. The entire battlefield collapsed into a silence like a black-and-white silent film.
——— Instant Kill.
The incarnation of the World's Will, the powerful Divine Authority with combat power approaching an S-Rank Breaker, was reduced to absolute nothingness with just this one strike.
"This is wrong!!!"
For the first time, the Shuhu outside lost her composure.
The others also looked uneasily at the sky.
Death Spots.
Legend had it that this mark of the final cataclysm would only appear on the surface of a planet when the Finality descended. Once it appeared, it meant human civilization had stepped into an irreversible countdown to destruction.
Why was this happening?
The answer was self-evident.
"Herrscher of Finality..."
Yunli stared intently at the male in the World Bubble, and her eyes were blinded by the twilight light crossing space-time.
Her powerful equipment offered no protection whatsoever; the gap was dimensional.
"Little Li! Kiana! Wake up!"
Bianca had no time to worry about Shuhu or whatever. The gauze skirt of the Bright Knight suddenly erupted with a stream of dreamlike particles.
Her figure exploded forward. Hler's Serenity in her hand tore through the gaps in energy, and together with the summoned autonomous Phantoms King and Queen, she cut through thorns and obstacles, pressing straight toward the figure standing in the Imaginary Space.
"Little Li? Kiana?"
The girl's struggle was not in vain. The Herrscher of Finality turned his gaze slightly. Bianca's fiercely charging figure was nailed into the void by an invisible force.
He raised his hand indifferently. A divine lance condensed out of thin air, its blade pointing straight at the Knight Princess frozen in the vacuum.
"Die."
No aiming, without thinking, thrown.
Clang!
But it was intercepted by another pale silver holy lance that broke through the sky.
The tide rises, the tide falls;
The sound of waves hitting the shore reached the ears of everyone present.
The tide rises, the tide falls;
In an inconspicuous corner of a remote galaxy, an uninhabited star field vanished without a trace.
The tide rises, the lance comes;
A fair, slender hand holding a pale silver holy lance fiddled with that ethereal timeline.
The tide rises, the moon sets.
The spots of death manifested on the galaxy's surface, bringing Finality to everything in the world.
Time turns. "Several days ago" when Fuli arrived in the Kanas region for the mission. "That same day" when Fuli clicked the single pull for the Fusion Dance in the Terminal Assistant System. Checking the system panel, he suddenly rubbed his eyes.
[Name: Metamoran Fusion Dance]
[Rank: A]
[Effect: ...The fused body is dominated by the personality of the stronger party, and will only acquire battle-related memories from the other person, but the personality will still inevitably be influenced by the other party...]
[Note: Ich☆liebe☆dich (I☆Love☆You)]
"Eh? Was that middle sentence about 'only acquiring battle-related memories' there before?" The boy scratched his cheek in confusion. "And did the skill note change? I thought it was Gogeta and Vegito?"
No one answered his words. Only the waves of the Atlantic surged beneath the Hyperion, just as in the past.
Turning time back to the present, on the battlefield of Genghis Khan's Mausoleum.
Fuli: "Fu—"
Kiana: "—sion—"
Fuli & Kiana: "HA!"
The moment the boy and girl's fingers touched, brilliant light exploded.
With a swish, under the surprised gazes of Durandal and the others, a sharp long blade cut through the endless light.
Silver hair was neat and unruly, with sunlight-like broken gold dancing at the tips.
A pair of blue pupils held the glassy texture of the East. The tails of his eyes tilted slightly upwards like phoenix feathers drawn with fine brushwork, rippling with a Persian cat-like cunning as they moved.
The white-haired, blue-eyed youth stood in place, moving his body slightly.
"Good! Condition looks great!"
The newly born fused individual curled the corners of his mouth. "Since I'm fused from Fuli and Kiana Kaslana, let's call me 'Fuli Chaoslana'."
Fuli Yuanshi Tianzun, the supreme god of the Shenxiao Sect.
Chaos, the origin of Greek mythology.
The youth, crowned with the names of these two, muttered leisurely to himself, "But the weapon is a bit awkward... For S-Rank combat power, I should at least use an A-Rank weapon to match the style."
He raised the Sparrow's Call (Queyu), which was 'only' B-Rank. His gaze glanced at the Brilliant Flames (Huanghuiyan) circling around him. With a raise of his hand, he fused them together, forging them into a Greatsword of Shamash burning with raging flames.
"Waste! What a waste!"
Outside, Yunli yelled angrily. As a veteran of a hundred battles, she saw at a glance that Fuli Chaoslana had forcibly fused the two using the property of the Sword of Flamescion to accelerate molecular motion.
Doing so could indeed greatly amplify the weapon's power for a short time, but as a price, both would be completely scrapped after the battle! The kind that even she, the contemporary Master Artisan, couldn't fix!
Fuli Chaoslana on the battlefield couldn't hear the little girl's complaints. He comprehended the space manipulation techniques in his brain and raised his hand slightly.
The outermost layer of Genghis Khan's Mausoleum, the Great Lake World Bubble containing the extinct creatures like the Baiji Dolphin, was peeled off and placed safely in another region.
"These big treasures survived with such difficulty; can't let them disappear in the shockwaves of battle."
Having done all this, the white-haired youth felt his merit points fill up. He slowly ascended into the sky, the (Pseudo) Greatsword of Shamash in his hand pointing straight at the Eternal Heaven opposite him. "Don't you agree, brother?"
Greeting him was only the mountain-roaring, sea-howling cry of the World Will's spokesperson.
The individual born from the Fusion Dance possessed combat power that was definitely not just a summation of Fuli and Kiana, but a qualitative change where 1+1 was far greater than 2.
Without much effort, Fuli Chaoslana broke through the barrier of the World Bubble and arrived outside.
This 'outside' was not the Proper World, but the vast Sea of Quanta wrapping around the World Bubble.
Shattered space-time fragments floated in the profound void. World Bubbles drifted like colorful soap bubbles. Physical laws twisted and collapsed in streams of light. Ice-blue data chains floated amidst the purple-black quantum haze, radiating a gloomy light that scorched the fragmented shadows of stars.
Meanwhile, after venting for a long time and suffering the bombardment of Genshin Launch, the current Eternal Heaven was at least not as hysterical as before.
The giant He incarnated into didn't pursue immediately but spoke with a grave expression: "What do you intend to do?"
The Eternal Heaven was questioning why Fuli left.
With both sides now at S-Rank, the youth could have totally fought while destroying the environment, constantly weakening the Eternal Heaven's power, and finally harvesting Him without shedding blood.
To this, Fuli Chaoslana's answer was: "How boring would that be."
"You're an S-Rank after all, and possess all the memories of that monarch. Do you really want to die again in such an unmanly, suffocating way?"
He rested the greatsword on his shoulder, smiling. "Or would you rather unleash everything at the end of your life and have a hearty, head-on clash with me, a barely qualified enemy?"
The Eternal Heaven fell silent upon hearing this. After a long while, the Sky-Supporting Giant finally cracked a grin.
"Very confident, brat!"
The Eternal Heaven was not Genghis Khan. No matter how He argued, a fake could never become real.
But at least before dying, He didn't want to lie on a bed sickly like in His memories, watching a bunch of descendants with eyes hungry for power like wolves and tigers as He approached death.
I am the Eternal Heaven who roamed the grasslands!
Even if I die, I will die on a bumpy horseback!
The continental plates buckled between the giant's arches. Ley lines rose from every canyon fissure, turning into bowstrings. Glaciers melted into liquid diamonds, gathering in His palm as arrows. The ocean was drawn out into a spiral gravitational rainbow bridge, extending into a ten-thousand-meter longbow in the giant's left hand!
"COME ON, BRAT!!!"
Draw the bow, nock the arrow! Arrow released! No return!
"I was waiting for this!"
The white-haired youth also wore a fanatical smile. He held the greatsword high, and ashless flames gathered on the blade.
"Setsuna Blade: Heaven's Ash Abyss!"
Imitating a supernova explosion, reproducing the terrifying power of a dying sun, the sword skill ignited the sky and also ignited the eyes of Shuhu and the others.
The collision of the Arrow of No Return and the Sword of Heaven's Abyss did not trigger a massive sound; in this shattered vacuum, sound could no longer propagate. Both parties wore the same fanatical smiles. The shockwaves of destruction slammed into the Sea of Quanta like an invisible giant fist, whipping up monstrous chaotic tides.
The result of the clash was Fuli Chaoslana being at a disadvantage. This was normal; formed from the fusion of two A-Rank Outliers, having S-Rank power relied entirely on the Fusion Dance's characteristics, which was still far inferior to the current Eternal Heaven.
But isn't technique meant to be used at times like this?
Accompanied by a faint sound like freezing ice, seven indestructible Dragging Shadow Swords condensed in the vacuum. While rotating around the youth at high speed, they unleashed Heaven's Ash Abyss with power almost identical to the main body.
He himself moved forward. A moment later, he sheathed his sword. Behind him, the Sky-Supporting Hand, with only half remaining, crashed to the ground.
With a crash, the World Bubble fused with the Eternal Heaven was completely shattered.
The God who lost everything met His eternal slumber here.
"Oh my, this should be completely over now."
Outside, witnessing everything, Shuhu's fox ears twitched slightly.
It was experimental in nature anyway. She wasn't too disappointed that an accident occurred; being able to scheme against Phoenix once was satisfying enough.
Hehe, next, I'll spread the photos of that old woman relying on her age to devour a sixteen-year-old fresh meat far and wide!
Saving the famous scene of Fuli and Fu Hua kissing, the white-haired fox girl smirked and raised her small fist. Her graceful body turned from solid to void.
With matters here concluded, Shuhu intended to leave.
Her informant within the Taixuan Front told her that the commotion from Siegfried's initial Shamash Unsheathed was too big to be ignored.
Before long, the aerial combat sequence "Jiangsu Ship," belonging to Shenzhou, would arrive over the Kanas region.
The structure of the Jiangsu Ship was similar to Cocolia's Belobog carrier. It was designed as a split carrier that could be pieced together when needed to form a super-large war unit. The split ships could also operate independently, possessing their own power, fire control, and operating systems.
Compared to Cocolia's deliberate design for global multi-level strikes (and being too poor, so she could only build it in parts), the reason the Jiangsu Ship was split into thirteen parts was truly laughable.
Splitting the ship allowed the thirteen cities of Jiangsu to claim one each. Calling it the "Jiangsu Ship" when combined was the last stubbornness of the Thirteen Guardians.
By the way, the ship's anthem was "The Sacred War" (The unbreakable union).
"Don't even think about running! Give back the General's remains!"
Sensing Shuhu wanted to run, Yanqing drew the long sword at his waist. Sword qi surrounded him, and his eyes were fierce with killing intent.
Teasing laughter reached his ears: "I'm not running, Little Yanqing. I'm just kindly sparing your life."
Unnoticed, the fox girl had appeared beside him, smiling beautifully. "You don't really think these two from Schicksal would fight me to the death for your selfish desires, do you? Don't forget, the target of their aid has always been the handsome Brother Fuli!"
Hearing this, Yunli looked at Durandal and Eleanor.
The latter was crouching by the lake, half of the black silk covering her long legs soaked, excitedly planning to go into the water to catch fish. The former cast an apologetic look. Now that Fuli and Kiana were safe and sound, unless absolutely necessary, she would never start a war with Shuhu within Shenzhou's borders.
The identity of a Schicksal Valkyrie was too special; it was easy to get into thankless trouble.
"Don't blame them in your hearts either, you two," the fox girl said smilingly. "If they hadn't arrived in time, you two—at least Little Yanqing, who always causes trouble for others—would definitely have died at my hands today."
"But it doesn't matter. If you want to take back your General, we can play another round at the Taixuan Star-Sky Martial Arts Ceremony held on the Luofu in a month."
She turned around leisurely with her hands behind her back, her gradually transparent body stepping into the twilight. "I hope by then, you can make me feel amused without relying on foreign aid."
"Shuhu!"
Seeing that everything was about to settle, Yunli suddenly spoke up.
She stuck her greatsword (Old Iron) into the ground and asked loudly with a voice like a bell, "What exactly was the purpose of you building this place and transforming Genghis Khan's Mausoleum into this state?!"
"For what?" The fox girl didn't look back. "To go a step further. For the Star Creation after reaching Sequence Rank. To become a Supreme Being capable of rivaling Finality."
"Just... that simple~"
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