"Cough~"
"Damn it, I..."
The Herrscher of the Void walked with difficulty across the snowy plain, staggering forward.
Snow mountains, dense forests—any place that could conceal her tracks.
The spatial gate consumed her remaining stamina. Her legs already felt like they were filled with lead.
She had to escape!
She clearly knew she hadn't teleported far.
...
"Heh~, still running?"
Ryuga descended from the sky, raising mountain-like pressure.
Ground rubble uncontrollably rose into the air, suspended mid-air, surrounding space trembling.
"You!"
The Herrscher of the Void suddenly raised her head, pupils suddenly constricting.
Instinctively raised her hand to attack, but just as her fingertips moved, she detected she couldn't deploy even half a spatial authority.
Earlier in the intense battle, Honkai energy was nearly exhausted.
Looking toward Ryuga, uncontrollable fear surged in her heart again.
"For Kiana, you can depart in peace."
Ryuga sighed compassionately.
Subsequently, his right arm slowly raised, Ultimate Flame surged out like a tidal wave, wrapping around his arm.
Layer upon layer of power gathered at the fist edge, even space was twisted, surrounding air emitting overburdened wails.
"Soul-Draining Strike!!"
One furious shout.
BOOM~
The fist shot out like a dragon, tearing through the long sky.
That instant, time seemed to freeze. Only a pitch-black abyssal fist shadow, carrying the will to annihilate everything, boomed down!
"BOOM—!!!"
The fist edge struck the Herrscher of the Void's heart directly.
In that instant, raging sea and mad wave-like shockwaves swept backward, pulverizing the entire mountain behind into powder.
The earth exhaled, rock layers disintegrated.
While the Herrscher of the Void's chest collapsed, a shocking large hole penetrated her chest cavity, flames crazily burning from inside out, devouring her body and consciousness together.
THUD!!
The Herrscher's knees 'thudded' and knelt on the ground, body continuously swaying, eyes still retaining unwillingness and confusion.
"Impossible..."
"I... I won't die... I—"
Before her words finished, the Herrscher core 'cracked' and shattered.
Unspoken words froze in her mouth, flames devoured her 'evil' and also incinerated her last trace of consciousness.
Body heavily fell.
Who was Kiana?
Why for her sake?
Pitifully, the Herrscher of the Void until death couldn't understand this question.
Ryuga's gaze lowered, coldly staring at the lifeless body.
(Just now seemed like a trace of 'evil' escaped?)
(The Herrscher's special nature?)
"Elysia, how is it?"
Ryuga raised his head, looking toward World-Ender.
"..."
Elysia stood quietly on the dragon's spine, not answering, just blankly gazing at the sky.
There, the moon's location.
The endpoint, also the starting point.
After a long while, she slowly lowered her eyes to look at Ryuga, a pair of beautiful eyes like spring water first thawing, trembling and rippling in layers.
She smiled, eyes seemingly filled with flying starlight.
"Moved."
"I saw it—the threads of fate moved!"
The girl tightly gripped the hem of her skirt, voice slightly trembling.
"Billions of intertwined trajectories... some of them lightly trembled, some even broke."
Speaking of which, Elysia leaped down with her body.
Like a nightingale returning to its nest, skimming past the breeze, she rushed straight into Ryuga's embrace.
Coach!
She charged with the ball.
She fouled.
The sudden impact made Ryuga step back, arms encircling the girl's slender yet resilient waist, feeling the violently beating heart in her chest.
Fragrant!
Elysian↗ Realm↘ Long live, ("▔□▔)/.
"You did it, dear Ryuga. How should I reward you?"
The girl lifted her face, tears at the corners of her eyes more dazzling than stars.
"The experiment must continue."
"If you could kiss me, that would be great."
"Hehe~"
"That won't do. Kissing is something that can only be done after marriage~."
"Then when shall we marry?"
The girl laughed charmingly, not answering, tiptoed and dodged away.
...
The dragon roared, tearing through the long sky.
It was time to settle the total accounts.
"ROAR—!"
World-Ender's massive dragon wings spread, raising Shadow Flame, sweeping heaven and earth.
As it sped past, behind left a winding thousand-mile scorch mark.
The ice plain melted, earth cracked dry, magma spewed from underground.
The ice plain transformed into a purgatory sea of fire in an instant.
Watching the dragon carrying towering flames flying over, before the base, soldiers knelt on the ground, trembling.
No longer had the courage to even raise their heads.
Terrifying heat waves burned all their hair off—a ground full of bald heads.
Ato ultimately couldn't let his conscience sink, exposing the officer's lies.(I think author is mixing Ato and Dystopi's personas in the story…?)
The nuclear missile strike target was never the Herrscher of the Void.
Mutiny erupted instantly.
Furious soldiers tied up the base commander tightly, pushing him to the forefront of the snow, waiting for the Demon God's judgment.
The dragon had arrived.
Ryuga's eyes were cold as ice.
Didn't even glance at those soldiers kneeling and begging for mercy.
Wrongs have perpetrators, debts have debtors.
Elysia had already relayed the message Ato transmitted.
The soldiers were merely deceived pawns.
He also didn't want to leave a bloodthirsty shadow in Elysia's heart.
After all, Elysia was the Herrscher who loved humans.
Killing them gave no experience points and might even cause affection to decrease.
"Who is Ato?"
Ryuga stood on the dragon's back, overlooking the earth.
"Me."
At the forefront of the soldiers, Ato said tremblingly, her calves shaking.
Looking at Ryuga, eyes full of shock and awe.
So that was the life-and-death-reversing flame?
Witnessing firsthand the transformed carbon-based creature, Ato sighed—no wonder Fire MOTH's higher-ups went mad.
"Go pick up Elysia. Over there is the Herrscher of the Void's remains."
"What about them?"
"Go!"
"Understood."
Ato looked deeply at Ryuga, turned around, and boarded the aircraft.
Ryuga suddenly narrowed his eyes: This guy actually has a green glow above her head?
Subsequently, he patted the dragon's back.
World-Ender's majestic vertical pupils swept downward. Upon seeing the base commander, it flapped its wings and slowly descended.
Then, it opened its mouth.
Amid wails from a group of command staff, they were bitten into the dragon's mouth.
CRUNCH! CRUNCH!
Within whimpers and wails, came teeth-grinding bone-crushing sounds.
Soon, the world quieted.
Dragon wings took to the sky again, flying over the base—Shadow Flame devoured the entire base buildings completely.
Not finished yet.
World-Ender flew toward Fire MOTH headquarters.
Vowing to kill Mr. X.
...
Inside the cabin, Ato suddenly reacted.
There seemed to be a palm print on Ryuga's face.
Thinking more and more, eyes widened.
"No way?"
To be continued…