Chapter 878 - 425: Meluna (3)
"They will kill you," the swordswoman repeated.
"The entire sky has fallen into struggle, and even the powerful Sky Knight Guild is no longer in existence. Simply fleeing might not be enough. Rather than dying in panic, it’s better to spend the last moments with family."
Though the girl was naive, the couple seemed to have made some firm decision.
"Child, you’re almost the same age as our daughter, yet you must have experienced many battles. What do you fight for?"
"To overthrow the Empire."
"I know that. I’m asking, is it for friends? For family? Or to fulfill some kind of personal oath?"
The swordswoman couldn’t answer those questions; she had never thought about such things.
For some reason, she wanted to say something, but words just wouldn’t come out.
The food shouldn’t be poisonous, right? But it felt like something unclear and enigmatic surfaced in her heart; it lacked any magic power reaction, yet it lingered there.
"I must leave now." After finishing the meal, the young girl decided to leave.
"Ah? Won’t you stay for a few days?" The girl wanted to persuade her peer to stay.
"I don’t belong here."
"Then at least tell me your name, I’m called..."
What was that girl’s name? The swordswoman quickly forgot afterward.
At that moment, she didn’t ignore the question.
"I’m called Meimei..."
When she uttered the second syllable of her name, something inexplicable happened. Her voice turned light, and the girl opposite couldn’t clearly hear what she said.
"Me? Just that simple?" The girl tilted her head.
"No..."
For some reason, the memories sealed behind the dark flame in her mind suddenly surged out, reconstructing before her eyes. The story of "Moon Country" told by her parents became vividly clear.
The protagonist Luna, possessing a blessed name, and the story’s meaning, she remembered.
"Luna..."
"Meluna? That’s so pretty!" The girl’s eyes lit up: "Nice to meet you, Meluna!"
Meluna bid farewell to this family, and restarted her stolen small Imperial Battleship, passing through the island’s cloud mist, returning to the Aerial Realm outside.
Not far off, an Imperial fleet discovered this Cloud Mist Area and was heading for it. Meluna turned the ship’s rudder, passing through the fleet.
The Imperial Battleship’s explosion and the falling firelight couldn’t even penetrate the cloud layers, reaching the small island behind. As she bandaged her wounds, the young girl boarded a different airship, heading to the distance.
...
After that day, Meluna was simply Meluna.
However, she always felt something was missing, as if something inside her was being lost, creating certain voids.
But it wasn’t a disease, and Healing Spells were completely ineffective. It was as if the more she desired to find something, to pursue something, the faster her strength progressed.
In front of her, nothing could block the way anymore.
The Empire’s Annihilation Star Soul? Destroyed.
Annihilation Knight, undistinguished as any soldier before her sword edge.
Empire Witch? Destroyed.
In her final moments, the blue-haired maiden’s sorrow and relief couldn’t shake Meluna’s heart in the slightest.
Demon Worshipers, destroyed.
Bailong Worshipers, destroyed.
Stargazer survivors, destroyed.
Demon Incarnation, Transcendent Demon Beast, Dragon Ancestor—
In the Divine Domain, which had escaped the rules of material and magic power dimensions, Meluna held her sword, kneeling on one knee, using every ounce of strength to support herself, preventing a complete collapse.
Skin and flesh peeled off in large chunks; if not for the Refined Source Material replaced throughout her skeleton, her body would have imploded. If not for the precise Water Control Technique to maintain blood flow, she would have already perished.
In front of her was a severely wounded four-legged, double-winged pure white giant dragon. Even with its head broken and one wing obliterated, it still held a divine spirit-like majesty.
Elsewhere, another divine spirit-like giant dragon lay fallen, breathing weakly. They were four-legged and double-winged, similar in appearance but wrapped in distinct pure elements.
"Oh, disturber of the world, you challenge the Dragon God’s majesty time and again. You shall walk to the end where private desires lead to the world’s demise." The pure white giant dragon asked.
"I seek to save it," Meluna replied.
"To save the world, yet challenge the Six Dragons that support it, you mortal—"
"I’m not strong enough. As a mortal, there are indeed limitations."
The Female Sword Saint gritted her teeth, stood up, using Celestial Fury’s ice flame to freeze the moisture into pillars of ice, supporting herself to stand firm.
She raised her arm, taking the power from the first fallen Fire Dragon, forming blazing Flaming Wing Claw: "Give me your power, let me shed the constraints of mortality."
...
Finally, all the world’s enemies were annihilated.
Who saved Nebis? The vast majority have no idea.
"End of the Sword Saint," only those who reach the pinnacle are qualified to pass on this title.
Yet, the world’s collapse is irreparable.
"At most a hundred years, at least twenty or thirty years, Nebis will still be destroyed."
Like a backbone, beams of light pierced the sky. In front of the World Wedge, the End of the Sword Saint and the humanoid Light and Dark Dragon stood together.
"I do not accept."
"You have done well enough." The Light Dragon in the guise of an elegant man spoke: "Your record will be inscribed in the World Wedge. After Nebis’s demise, if anyone visits from the stars in the future, they will ultimately know what you have done."
Meluna did not accept that Nebis would just completely collapse, two major dimensions imploding and annihilating, leaving only a silent ending.