Do you still remember the moment I mentioned about the loss of life? That impact wiped out the huge range of terrain to the west. And do you still remember where the hunt of Har is? Yes, the west side of the Cathedral.
*Crack* – Chrono Rift! Swinging Plaz smoothly, a shockwave smashes Orighith heavily enough to tear down its three tentacles. Yet, that damage is easily recovered since the monster he faces is built by shadow essence. The damage isn't nullified, yet reduced to almost nothing.
Thankfully, it seems like elemental power like the flames of Alan can actually do something. Terribly, his maximum output isn't that strong to take down Orighith before it could heal its wounds.
"Should I use that move?"
"Nah nah nah nah, I have no hand to carry you while fighting this monster then." – Paragon rejects that idea immediately. Boosting his strike tenfold then being useless for a day, what if Har just assaulted them all? Terrible.
*Fsh* – Freezing Har right immediately the moment he tried to move, Leo finally locked that inhuman thing inside a block of ice. This domain is also a non-lethal one, the only thing it grants him is the infinite speed in manipulating ice essence in this domain. It's fast enough to count as an instant strike, no matter how complex or huge the scale of the ice blocks are.
The sure-hit effect even lower the heat of the targets below fifty celsius instantly, and it's not the lowest level yet. This power gives him an advantage of an instance in stunning and locking enemies with the absolute hit rate. Nevertheless, with the sudden change of temperature, no normal creature can endure it.
By observing, Leo also realized that Har was made by shadow essence. He doesn't know how it could be, but he's aware of what he can do to stop that creature. Essence form is a semi-physical existence, which is like Eidolon but carries a soul. Leo only needs to lock all the essence of Har into a big ice cube first. Then separating them into many cubes built by erosion.
Yes, Leo can actually control the ice to invade and build an entire kingdom inside one's body if it's not removed fast enough. Restricted in flexibility, pinned at one coordinate by Etheron of Leo, Har can't even move a finger right now.
Also, don't forget that there's an Eidolon accompanying this domain. Even though the price for this instant stunning power is the capability to move, he still can damage Har via the spiritual puppet next to him.
"Cala." – She instantly moves at his will, this is the gift of the younger sister.
*Crack* – "Wait, is that your Chrono Rift shockwave?"
Looking to the left, "What do yo–"
*Crumble!* – "What the hell is that?"
Dodging aside, both Alan and Paragon were out of range of the bursting impact and plasma beam. Luckily, Orighith was too fat to escape, unluckily, the domain of Leo was also crushed down. Which means he's also devoured by that attack.
"Who the hell did that?" – Alan lost his left arm, currently and coercively bursting reversed Amplification Aura to heal up.
"Better take a look at your teammates first." – Paragon throws Plaz toward Orighith to parry two fast taps of it, while moving toward the field covered by ice.
"Phew~"
The story skips a few minutes, to the current timeline that Yone just walked out of the Cathedral and got back to the summoning circle, which has been closed.
*Plop* – The shadow rises, and here comes his arrival.
*Splash* – Swinging Agalmos toward that silhouette, a black splash of shadow essence is taken away. Yone drives one more strike toward that face while drawing a distance between them.
A clone?
*Smack* – Three in a row, three parries were launched. His left hand moves quickly, fast enough to leave no trace behind.
*Splash* – Another slash cuts down that head.
Who is this random kid?
Old trick, Har jumps out of Yone's shadow from behind, clenching his dagger of sins into the throat of our handsome speedster. And because it's an old trick, it's nothing but another failure in assassinating Yone. Yet, the effort to fake by baiting with another clone and striking him directly after that is also nullified.
Indeed, when he wiped out Har, the shadow essence made a veil to hide the true attack from behind. And as I said, Yone has enough experience to react and catch those hands.
Hand gesture? That detail can't get away from his gaze.
*Smack* – Breaking that hand sign, he drives a kick toward the shadow right next to Har. That reflex is crazy, it broke the shadow gate and kept Lamti stuck in the shadowverse half way. Meanwhile, Har is the only one who gets another strike at his face, hurtfully.
Still holding Har's hands, how close they are. He pulls the target toward him, so close.
*Thud* – Close for a knee strike, fair enough. As usual, he kicks at the solar plexus and unleashes his Aura as waves to load the structure of the opponent real quick. This technique is just a small trick to directly understand the structure of the targets via a touch. However, the benefits it gives back is the true advantage of scanning weak spots on enemies.
Despite finding no weak points on Har's body due to his shadow essence body, Yone is still able to find another way to shatter this random dude fast.
*Splash* – First, he needs to disarm Har before doing anything else. Yet, because Har is using no weapon, Yone cuts down his two hands instead, fair enough. Next step, he pushes a piercing strike toward the heart position of Har, starting his art.
This is a technique that he informally picked up from his senior female fellow disciple two years ago. It's just an intrusive thought that he aimed to steal some tips and tricks without a price. Obviously, he couldn't learn it all at once, so sixteen is the total amount of constellations he can activate right now.
This technique is called "Constellation Signs" which gives him a variety of special abilities based on the total of eighty-eight constellations. This one is the embodiment of Ara, known as the place Zeus and other Gods sealed Titans after the Titanomachy war. Of course, the power it grants to him is also the seal made by Arcane Force.
Not all the ways to use Arcane Force is making contracts with the mentioned beings, some general things can still be freely used by anyone if they're smart and strong enough. Starting at the heart, clockwise he creates more nodes attached to that body.
In the order: below left ribs; left thigh; right thigh; right hip, below right ribs; right joint of the shoulder. Not yet.
*Smack* – Deflecting the strike from his right arm, which hand has just recovered from, he kicks toward the cubital fossa. And that kick has also finished the entire seal.
Even though Har's tried to throw a left hook strike into that face of Yone, his action is stopped mid-air with the shiny runes binding himself. Leisurely, Yone clasps and interlaces his fingers, with both index ones pointing straight ahead, to the starting node of the entire formation – Har's heart position.
Chanting the incantation, "Aperio" which means "Open" – he unleashes all the Arcane Force attached into that seal of Ara Constellation, detonating Har inside out. Nevertheless, he also pierces through that head with Etheron, breaking the shadow essence into a black mud totally.
How strange, I should've damaged his soul already. Yone is also able to reach one's soul indirectly via hitting the corresponding spiritual form hidden inside oneself. Yet, at that moment, he reached nothing but a bunch of black mud of shadow essence.
Does he have no soul? Anomaly?
*Swish* – Moving his head swiftly just to dodge the fast tab of a foot, Yone repeats the same things to carve the formation of Ara onto Har again.
*Splash* – However, when it's going to be finished, Har instantly distorts the entire work by reforming himself.
"Seems like I'm right." – Swinging his left fist, Har forces Yone to block that strike due to his open guard. Taking the advantage since his true attention isn't about landing that strike, Har grabs that arm of Yone to wrestle him onto the ground.
Letting it slide not, Yone breaks his joint first just to reposition himself perfectly and escape from those claws. And don't forget that Yone's well known for his speed, with the insane leap despite the fact he just moved back, in a short period of time, he drives a swift kick toward Har. That kick is fast enough to bypass Har's guard, forcing him to unleash Guard with maximum output.
Nonetheless, it wasn't able to reduce the impact of the strike. Etheron can bypass Aura protection, even Guard technique. Furthermore, Har is also aware of his suddenly slow regeneration.
The same thing as that ice power, is it a technique? Har still has no clue about Etheron, all he can do is guess and dodge.
For anyone has no idea how an exhausted guy like Yone can always stay above Har, because his pure speed after a boost of Aura, it's already at SS tier. Meanwhile, Har's is only S tier, this is purely a beatdown for him in obvious.
*Smack* – Two strikes with a swift rotation, Yone follows the right hook to perform a swift heel cut by his left foot. Luckily for Har, he's dodged it in the hair's breadth.
*Smack* – Yet he still got another kick into his face. That's fast as hell, even with Zone, Har can't catch up with this pace of battle. If you don't understand how big the gap between their own speed is, the S tier is around Mach 51 to Mach 75 and the SS tier is roughly Mach 301 to Mach 600.
Due to his tired mind, Yone can't maintain his speed at Mach 430 for all the time. And that's also his maximum speed, to balance between attack speed and movement speed in a long term fight, no one would use the maximum speed for running in a combat trade. If it's hard to understand the reason, you can try to fight normally and compare it to the fight you must join while running with your full speed. No one fights while running with 100% potential and vice versa, got me?
It's simply a short explanation to legitimately how Har isn't outspeeded too hard, but there's a fact that Yone is way faster than that necromancer. With a swift kick, Har is sent flying away with broken arms, he also takes this chance to call out at least one of his beasts.
*Splash - Smack* – The first thing arrives is Algamos, it cuts away two fingers of Har then pins itself to his heart position.
*Vsh* – It's not a leap, more like a teleport ability. Yone appears almost instantly, he grabs that dagger and takes it out while driving an elbow strike with the same arm. He then embeds it to Har's head, twists Har's neck by a swift strike with the back of the left hand and pierces through Har's heart with his right arm.
*Splash* – Despite Lamti just cutting deeply into his back, Yone finished Ara formation and sealed Har up with shining runes again. Observing the beast, Yone realizes it's also an Eidolon with independently operational capability.
"A tier threat? I'm not impressed." – Parrying the claws with Algamos, he catches the eagle into its neck. Obviously, he has no ability to destroy an Eidolon like Lamti absolutely, so he chooses to kill it before Har could get out of being stunned. With this damage, Har will need to spend a bunch of work to fix Lamti later.
*Splash* – By reforming itself back to a mud of shadow essence, Lamti escaped before the harvestation of the reaper took it away. It also coercively uses itself as a portal to call out other beasts. Yet, because it's not a formal portal, the four beasts are forced to share one self, with the only advantage being the stronger output in attack.
Yone wasn't standing there for fun, while the beasts were called out, he's also finishing another formation. Auriga is the constellation of Erichthonius, the son of god Hephaestus and the King of Athens. He is known as the inventor of chariot, so this formation also grants Yone the power of summoning that chariot.
"Come, Quadriga."
*Thud* – Formed by the starlight, that chariot is not that huge, but still large enough to overwhelm the five and a half meters tall merged beasts.
*Crackle* – The first horse is named Pyrois, which we call a planet by Mars nowadays. It stands for the red flares of the sun when it rises from the horizon. And then the second horse also shows up, called Eous, which means it belongs to the East land. Standing for the bright light of the morning.
*Whoosh!* – Here comes the third one, Aethon for the harsh sun at noon, which means fiery lights. Nonetheless–
*Roaring!* – The final one is also here, among the most intense flame, it steps out as a true sovereign. It's named Phlegon based on its nature: "Burn!" – The stifling heat of the afternoon.
"I leave the rest for you guys." – Within the horses' neighs and the burning flames, they rush forward with the destructive power, while Yone gets back to kill Har. He has another idea, if Arcane Force is not enough to finish Har off in a single strike, then Yone will detonate his Etheron bomb instead.
Piercing his left fingers into Har's chest, he transfers a lot of Etheron into Har's body with such a nice farewell.
"Don't try to run." – He drops a warning while opening an item to unseal Luker's body, who's been waiting to kill Har.
"I know that you will be here, brat." – Stabbing to Har's neck by the bloody spear, he instantly calls out Latimas by the way.
*Splash* – Shooting the fused chain to Har's body, Kura directly locks the necromancer with no way to leave, even hiding inside shadowverse is unavailable right now for Har.
"How pathetic." – Torun simply attaches more and more bombs inside Har's body via his Ultimate Move.
"I'll back up whenever he moves." – Hazen swings his sword around, playing with it and letting it dance with his fingers.
"Hm, that boy is unlucky." – Smirking, Aetheria knows what Har did via Aeth's memory. She has no hatred, but killing a dangerous threat soon isn't a bad thing.
And for those who have such kind hearts to worry about the safety of a crow, a tiger, a bull and a gorilla. Don't panic, they are all pinned onto the ground by Latimas with a bunch of bloody spears. Of course, Hazen helped a bit indeed, don't forget to shout out to him.
So this is me when Loki no longer opens the cheat? Lamenting, he's waiting for System to give him guidance.
[Don't expect anything from me, why don't you try to escape by yourself?]
Which eye of yours sees a chance for me to escape?
[Who came up with the terrible idea was you, why are you expecting me?]
… F* it.
I guess.
Ara only seals the movement of Har's body in general, if he tries to loosen a part of himself, he might be able to work with his fingers too. Index and middle fingers point out, closing the others, the hand gesture requirement is already met.
Can I ask you to do a binding vow real quick?
[Tell me what you want, and don't forget that the price is equal or even more than what you desire.]
No need to worry, I can handle it.
He moves his right hand, this is for the bait. Solving Hazen first is his goal.
Instant open domain speed.
[Two hands must make another hand gesture and this domain will be your last one today.]
No hand sign, sacrifice my sure-hit effect and strikes.
[Fair enough.]
But I want to materialize my shadowverse inside the domain instead of the normal one. It might cause me trouble if they can break the space structure, right?
[Then the sure hit effect will be given back, yet, you need to touch them directly.]
Can I limit my target to single to lengthen the duration?
[Two seconds after stopping touching, can't be lengthened when you keep touching the target.]
Tch… Alright.
*Vrm* – Domain Expansion: Abyssal Gluttony!
Even though Hazen and Torun reacted quickly, those bombs couldn't kill Har. Meanwhile, the effort to take down Har's right hand was unnecessary since he already had a binding vow to solve the problem.
Different from the last time, this patched domain is painted all black, which Aeth might be familiar with if he's here. Not the statue of the nun, but a lot of withered faces and corpses lying all on the shadow waves, wavering rhythmically among darkness. Above their heads is a dagger, the one carries slots of missing seven sins.
Next one, I'd like to set up the weak spot of this domain is that dagger, if it's taken down, this domain will collapse.
As a trade off, I can use RampThica with full power inside this domain and strengthen the structure of my domain for the next five minutes.
[Good, but the price is huge too.]
Doesn't matter, eroding my Aura until I die or whatever, I can't care that much.
[Limited Aura for the next five minutes, currently undergoing deduction for your current Aura Capacity.]
"He used binding vows, at least two." – Yone senses the strange thing.
Luker calls out a bunch of bloody undeads around him, "Isn't it cheating?"
"Nope, the price is always equal or costs more than what he desires based on the urgency of the issue." – Yone takes out Algamos.
Then he seals the death sentence immediately for Har, "Focus on the dagger floating over us, based on this situation, he might be limited to more than one thing. Didn't you fight him? Tell me what he could do, Luker."
*They entered the intersection room inside their minds.
"Torun, try to detonate everything around, except us. Hazen, back up Kura. Kura, aim for the dagger. You follow me." – He leaves a sign for Luker to follow him rushing toward Har with their maximum speed.
*Clap* – On the contrary, Har only needs to seal his hands together to unleash all the undeads and corpses, which were all attached into the shadowverse before. He also calls out RampThica and starts fusing with her.
The reason why he needed to make a binding vow to use her with full power was all due to the runes Leo carved into them inside the block of ice. At the first time, Har knew that they are not built around Leo's ice blocks and stakes just for fun. And the last time when he experienced it directly, Har needed to sacrifice RampThica to carry the seals for him, that's a big deal.
Also, he tried to assault Yone because he's confident of his power and winning conditions due to the exhausted states of Yone. Yet, he didn't know that Yone still had Algamos and an incredible fast speed.
System, where's Acertia?
[She's beaten by an undefined existence. I can't track him and load the information directly. Estimated to be your biggest issue if you want to rescue Acertia.]
Oh my god…
*Clash* – Jumping to the front from his back, Dualtigra suddenly assaults Yone with its claws and fangs, which are both parried by Algamos and the spear. Yone also dodges aside while stepping forth with his bare hands.
*Smack* – Two swift punches get blocked by Har, leaving behind him an open space for Dualtigra attack.
*Splash* – Again, Har witnessed Yone teleported away for another time. And he also realized the dagger was the reason.
Dodging aside too, Har lets that dagger fly through him on the right shoulder. And when Yone teleports–
*Smack* – He'll turn back from the right side, to launch a back hand strike toward Yone at the point he shouldn't be able to react. However, Yone doesn't need to worry since his durability is able to endure that strike. Meanwhile, he has time to catch that arm and push Algamos through the right shoulder of Har.
Of course, Etheron was also activated, which directly counters Har's Conditional Immortality Type 3 nature. But he doesn't struggle with Har that long, indeed, he instantly withdraws the dagger and throws it toward the floating dagger above his head.
Kura also swung his fused chain right before that. But why, you may ask.
By testing the difficulty to damage Har, Yone realized the monster form was nothing but a skin. It didn't strengthen that guy's power, strength or durability. Yone instantly teleports toward the dagger that he guessed was the weak spot of this domain made by a binding vow.
*Clash* – As predicted, a long snake tail and half human form beast roughly rushes down from the shadow above the dagger. Yone deflects that strike and throws her away, opening up a slit for the chain to work.
Not yet, Lamti opens its wings and flies toward the dagger as fast as possible.
*Clash* – Hazen kicks in with his sword, deflecting the claws he kicks the crow away all of a sudden. At the same time, Dualtigra is also stopped by Torun with his bombs. Among the devastation, he also blows Hamung toward Luker. Latimas, their extra teammate, instantly shows his mastered sword style by taking down Gala on his own.
*Clash!* – Kicking the chain away, Har falls down from the open gate above the dagger. He also with Hamung do a pressing on Luker back and front. Which is instantly negated by Yone after he left RampThica aside.
*Swish* – Both of them jump up to dodge the tail swipe, on the contrary, Har follows the tail to get next to RampThica while fusing themselves together. One animation, two movements, worth it.
A monster with an aggressive face and three eyes, six arms with armors, two normal, four attached on the halo. Double size, Har stretches his shoulders leisurely, then he realizes that he's in trouble.
It's not a sentai movie so during his animation, Torun spent a little bit of time building up a hundred bombs around Har. Yone and Luker approached with their weapons already cut in his body. Meanwhile, Hazen was still backing up Kura to attack the dagger, yet they both got prevented by three shadow beasts.
The fourth one is the currently strongest beast, Dualtigra, it's rescuing Har due to its loyalty. Yet got kicked away as a ragdoll with no effort from Luker.
*Bang* – Explosion! Har rushes away to the left, the only open space for him to draw a distance first, he needs to take them down one by one instead of all at once. Yet, that speedster again approaches with the dagger.
*Clash* – With the change of quality, Har is now a SS- tier monster himself. Of course, with the enhancement of his domain also. However, that's not the main issue, the thing is Yone can't bypass that bio-armor of Har. Algamos is a special item as I mentioned, the cost to make it was a human life, a true sacrifice of Yharn and Zekhir of his father. Its sharpness isn't a thing for us to doubt about. But now Yone needs to witness it can't cut through Har's protection, that's mind blowing.
By spreading the waves, Yone determined RampThica's rank threat was around the S- tier inside this domain, while Har was only at the A+ tier. He wonders which mechanic combined them for a SS- tier like this.
Seems like anti-cutting is his passive. Yone switches to hand fighting after throwing the dagger above their heads.
*Smack* – Two strikes draw the line between them, Yone baits with a swift kick then teleports even higher than the dagger. Kicking it toward Har's head, Yone rushes down with a rain of blitz strikes.
*Thud* – With the advantage of size, body proportions and six arms, Har can catch up with Yone easily. Let me clarify some things right here, Yone's speed is slower than Har's even though their swiftness is rated in the same tier. Yone is tired while Har is strange to the new speed of himself, so they are somehow matched in speed field.
Other things, Yone is currently overwhelmed by Har's strength, so he's currently relying on his experience for counters instead of hand to hand combat. Also, with Algamos, Yone has a better utility. On the contrary, Har has limited Aura to run this SS- tier merged machine, so he's stuck between an all out attack and risking everything for an instant chance to win or holding back until this domain collapses.
He can't close domain coercively due to the deadly stun of one second, which would be long enough for Yone and others jumping him to death. He can't let them attack the dagger too, because it already locked Shadow Gates as if he's burnt out on his ability. Don't you really think manifesting a weak spot to break this domain directly is enough for him to get back the ability negating effect? But there's still a spark of fortune among the hopelessness, five minutes, the duration of this domain is perfectly enough for his ability to get rid of the cooldown.
More information, the reason that Har can manipulate the shadow inside this domain is due to its nature. This unfinished realm is made of shadow and sovereigned by Har, so it's reasonable that he can use this realm's power at will. Besides some limited powers like manipulating shadow essence to form objects and Phantom, the old technique allows Har to change the beasts into pure shadow form or Overwrite – Har can no longer attach his shadow gates on corpses and beasts for utility.
*Crack* – A breakthrough! Yone suddenly pushes his Etheron toward Har's armor, which leads to this damage on Har's right arm. Revealed the truth under the broken armor, a bunch of shadow mud slowly overflows through the fracture.
*Fsh!* – All of a sudden, those muddy things are instantly burnt into gas, instantly fixing the damage.
"What is that power? Which you used to bypass my protection." – Har asks, he's curious, so fun.
*Smack* – Kicking toward that face, Luker slams his spear down onto Har's head, yet gets stopped by two arms. Luker realizes the true gap between them, so he withdraws rapidly and switches position with Torun.
Matched brain! Torun also blows up Hamung to open a room for him to switch position, directly rushing toward Har.
"Don't try to fight too much, you can detonate the bombs, so use it wisely to cover Kura and dodging the attacks." – Yone moved forth, he left the dagger behind where Har couldn't see.
At this point, tracking everything around with Zone will lower his output, Har will surely let it aside. Nevertheless, Yone also stirs up the space around him to distract the senses of the enemies, Har isn't the sure-hit strikes of this domain, he obviously can't keep on track everything with the upper vision.
*Vrm!* – Suddenly he opens his mouth to shoot away a beam of massive energy, directly forcing Yone to block the strike with Algamos after teleporting back instead of dodging away. Hazen at that point couldn't solve the issue, meanwhile that beam could've actually killed Latimas if it reached the target.
"Can any of you guys kill a beast?" – Yone bursts his Etheron again, coercively catching up with Har when he's still unable to get used to his new speed.
Kura tries to take down Lamti and shoots the fused chain toward the floating dagger, "Hopefully I could."
*Clash* – Rushing down from the opened gate above the dagger, Dualtigra jumps out to deflect the chain away. This is the most annoying thing inside this domain, the beasts and Har can move to anywhere at will with the shadow gates. Lamti solves the far range attack, Dualtigra protects the dagger as the final wall, Gala and Hamung can push away two guys of Yone's line up. And to keep up with Har, Yone needs one companion. This is actually a balance.
So the next scenes will be really bloody and hard for one side to take the final win. Why don't we take a look at other dudes instead? The first one is Aetheria, she has no idea, she also has no duty to take care of Yone or other guys. She might kill Har if it's able to, with the premise that one of that line up was killed. Switch to Rudolf, he has nothing to do currently.
Keep in mind that it isn't the moment that Ian left with Raigan yet, I didn't say all the events before were mentioned in order. Rudolf takes a walk around the Cathedral, witnessing it get destroyed like this is something unsure for him. His belief was no longer put on this place, but the statues that gave him the belief weren't changed. But it's fine, time flows like a river and it's time for the line between him nowadays and him in the past to be drawn.
With a smile, he leisurely carves everything of this place left into his mind, as a memory.
On the contrary, Acertia was saved right at the hair's breadth. Two girls and two guys just stand there to challenge the monster in front of them. If Har was here, he would be very surprised that Zela was one of the strongest Celestial Moon Assassins.
Moonless is the unique title given to only twelve assassins at Celestial Moon rank. Yet, it isn't determined on how strong they are, they must be special. Special enough to be a threat that no one dares to face alone in almost all the cases.
Name Code: Oneiros, named after the God of dreams in Greek Mythology, the black-winged spirit children of Nyx.
"We know you are strong, but we aren't weak. Do you still want to detonate the final line between us?" – Oneiros speaks up.
*Vsh* – Appearing right in front of her with no trace left behind, "Who are you duh?"
Replying with silence, she only glances Yuurei and unleashes the most powerful pressure that he has as a threat. Yuurei also does the same thing, the evidence that his sixth seal is instantly removed is the best thing to prove the true power of this girl. But does it impress Yuurei? No, her power might be stronger than Rudolf's but his seals are removed based on the danger that threatens Yuurei directly.
"Hmm? Look at you… might be at least SS+ tier. But only the sixth one is removed? Weak." – Dropping a thumb down, Yuurei doesn't even feel threatened by that pressure.
"Do you know which phase he forced me to shift to for our first match?"
*Bang!* – He carefreely throws a punch toward that face, and at the same time, two Celestial Moon Assassins instantly block that strike. Their arms tremble badly, but they don't feel scared of the monster standing right in front of them. They both throw back a strike toward Yuurei as a greeting.
Not even a sound was made, "Pillow hands ah punches."
*Vroom* – Activating her ability, the space around him is already boxed and built as a cage just to lock Yuurei inside.
"I think you should keep that answer to hell."
"How heartless, don't you feel bad to say such a thing?" – Yuurei still looks really carefree, as if this cage is nothing but a toy.
*Clap* – Soft sound, "Not bad, but space manipulation is useless to me."
Yes, he just walks through the box and stands right next to Oneiros with a clap to her left shoulder. Oneiros? She is shocked so badly that even forgets to react to the current moment.
How the f*?
"The borders between three realms are nothing to me, why would you duck a face when I bypassed your thin box?" – Lamenting, how boring.
*Smash* – So annoying, one Celestial Assassin is instantly wiped out before anyone here could react. Yuurei also unleashes his Aura outside, it's not an effort to convert it into pressure, just pure Aura. And that dense thing instantly pressed down everyone onto the ground without a chance to struggle, so overwhelmed.
"Boring." – He raises the pressure.
*Fshh~* – A faint hiss slightly cruises across this place, no trace, no signal and no struggle. If we describe the pressure of Yuurei as a blazing flame, the second one is like an invisible hand that cuts out all the air maintaining that flame. Instantly negating that Aura pressure, this guy must be a big boss too.
"Yo, why don't we let it slide a bit?" – At the point no one knows, he's already sitting on the rock nearby. Leisurely, he snaps the fingers to shift his subordinates to where they belong.
Frowning his eyebrows, which are hidden by the blindfold, Yuurei slightly uses some tricks to evaluate the opponent in front of him. Even stranger, he can't see through the veil that guy set on his identity, Yuurei also realizes it's an operation of a godly being.
"Soundless steps, traceless work, you might be The Boss of Eclipsed Moon." – Yuurei takes out all the rings on his hands, which means he has finally taken down the final seal – allowing him to unseal up to the tenth one at will.
"A week ago, didn't you and The Stellar Grand Sage of Wisdom have a fight? Why don't you just prepare for the elderly care?" – He also takes down the only black glove on his left hand, revealing a sigil that looks like what a heresy would use.
"Isn't your kingdom of crime large enough?" – Starting with a punch at a sub-relativistic speed level, Yuurei shows no mercy.
*Bang* – Parrying the strike, yet not the impact. Following his arm, the shockwave brutally burns everything to plasma just by the movement of the air, the true shockwave made by that strike even destroyed the entire large range. This destruction capacity was even made when Yuurei held back half of his power just to not kill the nearby civilians.
"Come on, that's too weak for a good start, don't you think?" – Waving his right hand, challenging Yuurei to show him something special.
"I don't mind if I kill you right here, but the process after might be kind of annoying." – Within a kick, Yozu is sent flying away. For a leap, he is caught up with another kick from Yuurei.
"What an overconfident declaration." – Dodging the kick, he drives another one toward the left ribs of Yuurei, sending him flying away instead.
"I'm curious." – A left hook strike that instantly blows away Yuurei's lower jaw.
*Crack* – Yozu's next strike is also enough to break that skull of Yuurei, "Who even are you actually?"
*Splash* – Cutting that head down, Yozu mocks, "Not a human, yet not an anomaly. Your fate is linked to no one, how strange."
*Smash!* – Unleashing the shockwave that's enough to blow away the entire Empire into Yuurei, Yozu follows with ten more swift strikes, devastating everything into blood and flesh.
Yet, different from the moment he cut down Yuurei's head. The blood this time shouldn't be called blood indeed, it's not red as usual, all black, the color that reminds him the moment that he stood in front of "it" – lightened up, the spark of fear.
"NeHyenthanaph" – Calling out the flesh devourer in madness, Yozu instantly becomes serious.
"Why is a Gen 2 like you here?" – His manner carries no leisure as before, a pure precaution.
"You can even be a vessel of that Gen 1, why can't I be here?" – Back to back, at the point that Yozu didn't realize, they are all standing close to each other.
"I honestly don't care what you want."
*Bang* – Blocking the strike already, but Yozu is still sent flying away. Yuurei performs the strike that ignores the gap, a strike that can bypass the protection of NeHyen's passive, which is space manipulation.
That velocity even dragged him shooting through a bunch of mountains, leaving behind a bright beam of plasma, formed by the melted air. Yuurei swiftly parries a massive thunder strike shot from the far land. He instantly knows it's NeHyen's power.
"I guess."
*Clash* – He swiftly moves his hand, parrying the throwing axe and deflecting it away. Yuurei also turns back to throw three strikes toward Yozu. Two of them hit the target, one got blocked, yet not that different to determine who has more advantages in close combat right there.
*Thud* – He drives a strike toward the solar plexus of Yozu. Catching the shoulders, he also drives a high kick toward that chin, almost uprooting the head and spine of the opponent.
"That's hurt." – Head clash! Yozu crashes his head toward Yuurei's head as a sudden strike, but it seems like useless.
"Adaptation?"
*Bang* – As famous last words, Yozu is instantly hit away after finishing his line. But he didn't guess wrong, Yuurei can adapt to one type of damage and reduce it to nothing by many ways. Absorbing? Yes he can. Dispersing? Of course. It's like Jujitsu but Yuurei doesn't need to worry about the balance of his inner flows, instead his body automatically does it for him.
"We are both limited in this world. Do you want to fight?" – Offering Yozu to get lost nicely, Yuurei does a hand sign. Intertwining fingers, tapping two heads of index fingers together, also the thumbs from two hands touch each other.
*Crack* – Crushing the space structure into visible fragments, a bunch of tentacles overflow through the broken spots in the purple and black flows. Those existences are glitched, which means they do not belong to this world – forcing the Aurorize Volition to resist as fast as possible. Don't forget that Yozu needed to manifest a whole copy of Arezal just to cheat that being, allowing him to unleash a part of NeHyen's power. And Yuurei really skips that stage to throw a bunch of forbidden things into this world without any awareness of danger from the world. How wild.
"Do you want to die that fast?' – Mocking, Yozu creates a copy of this land, to isolate them from the gaze of Aurorize.
*Crack* – Yet, it was denied.
*Rah!* – A short roar was shot from that broken space behind, that anomalous entity slightly crushed all the space box into pieces. As a threat to those who dared to lock it inside a cage, those three giant red eyes dyed in darkness directly gaze at the Ruler Under Moon Gaze.
"Capturing an Eradico, how arrogant." – Yuurei tightens his hands, finally breaking all the space around him and Yozu.
Different from the Crownless Proclaimed God in Har's self with his Domain Encroachment, this operation from Yuurei is totally something that's way more ridiculous. Domain Encroachment allowed that Proclaimed God to manifest his inner world straight into the real world, Aurorize, directly going against the Volition of the World.
And Yuurei just straight up broke all the space around him, ignoring the authority of Aurorize from reigning over the zone around him. In short, the Proclaimed God still needed to worry about time, power and rules for his move, yet Yuurei needn't.
That action indeed caused a big red warning from the World, however Yuurei didn't duck a face. He prefers killing Yozu before that guy could even lay a hand on his lover. Yes, Yuurei didn't try to kill Acertia and three Celestial Moon assassins just for fun.
I mentioned that there was a mission to kill the princess of the Cala Empire, which threatened the total of three "gems" of the empire. And one of those three princesses is Yuurei's dearest heart.
He can't be eliminated by this world, the worst thing that might happen is a long journey to get back to Aurorize, across a bunch of universes. Compared to the future that she might be assassinated, that price is still affordable.
"Are you serious…" – NeHyen was already broken into three parts, with a week of fixing, Yozu has already completely repaired it. And after today, he might need to repair it again while facing worse damage than before.
"I suggest you unleash that disgusting thing to its 80% power to stand a chance beneath me." – Yuurei knows well that Yozu hasn't unlocked the Ninth Title yet. Compared to him, a true embodiment of a Gen 2 entity born in Chaos, this battle is too nonsense to debate for the winner.
"I'm out of here bro."
*Vrm* – Tactical Withdrawal!
*Crack* – Yozu wasn't dumb, he knew that place would land the wrath of Aurorize soon. Fighting Yuurei is still possible, but enduring the destruction beam of The World is too ridiculous. At this point, reputation and honor is unnecessary.
*Crack!* – Even the flows of space and time are brought into chaos, the entity behind Yuurei even fastens the process of descent, preparing for the first threat that he sent to the World years ago.
You dare…?
"Inver" (Reverse) – The space around him is torn completely, while it turns black, the reversed color of its nature.
"Devo" (Devour) – Swallowing the fragments of spacetime, that entity blatantly catches and eats everything around, even the chains of Aurorize.
"Tebra" (Darkness) – The black mist over those tentacles instantly bursts around to form a manifested darkness as a pool of lostness.
"Perdi" (Destruction)
… It's moving.
… They're moving.
*Crack!* – Crushing all the spacetime around him to nothing, the true self of Yuurei has descended upon this world in an unstable embodiment. A giant eye covered by darkness slightly tears itself apart for a mighty who may rule this chaos. The tentacles around softly crawl on the body themselves, touching the embodiment in human form, totally hiding him away.
*Splash* – Black blood and flesh suddenly overflow through.
*Splash* – Out of nowhere, the giant roof of flesh and sharp teeth instantly devours all that mess of white flesh. Even the darkness around is also drained to nothing left behind.
*Crack* – Bones are being broken.
*Squelch* – Something is being turned to messy flesh.
*Squelch* – Something is being destroyed.
*Squelch* – Something is being formed, horribly.
"Come, Ter–"
At that moment, his left shoulder is touched by a guy. That white hair slightly sways among winds, the unique eye with no whiteness, but a black veil and a ruby orb inside. Carved over it is an Ouroboros sigil, but it's already broken, standing for the destiny of himself.
"That's enough. I'll solve the rest, get back to your Academy." – That guy wipes away the summoning work and repairs the world around Yuurei.
"I feel like I should know who you are." – Yuurei cancels his move, this surprise is way more impressive.
"It is looking. Two deviances can't meet each other this soon. Go back, before it sends the wrath down." – Yujin disappears after those works, he has already run out of the available time for him to exist in Aurorize.
"Hm, what a weird thing." – Leaving that place, he comes back to see Rudolf.
Meanwhile, hiding at the layer of sky that no one could find, an entity covered by full whiteness slightly moves his hand. And that index finger directly points at Yuurei, who is shifting himself with Aura Shifting Technique toward the Cathedral.
"Ydenith"
*Shh…* – That guy again appears with no trace. If it's a horror game, Yujin might jumpscare everyone whenever he talks. And this appearance isn't just for fun, his hand has already canceled the move from the entity.
With a gaze of threatening he speaks up, "Newbie, don't choose a hard way to go on whenever there's another easier one."
"An existence at that tier like you can't do whatever you want, you know it, don't you?" – Moving his hand again, that entity doesn't care.
*Splash* – That hand is instantly cut to drop down, letting the particles of that existence slowly evaporate away.
"I don't mind bringing this world to chaos again soon. For me, it's just a trade off between two options. Doesn't matter that hard." – Yujin flicks his fingers, erasing that wound on New World Volition.
"But you don't want to die before that day comes, do you?" – Yujin doesn't even want to throw a glance at that entity, just a slight touch on the right shoulder then leaves.
As he said, this dude doesn't want to die this fast. He needs to survive before his goal is fulfilled.
*Clap* – Clapping his hands, the polished guy covered by pure darkness arrives in this realm after Yujin leaves. With the red hair and a smile, I think you guys should know who he is.
"He's rude, don't you think?"
"Xenosis, I don't have time." – Glancing at him, the World Volition shows nothing but hate.
"Wo wo, chill out. I come with peace and kindness, as a host, shouldn't you treat me nicely with cakes and tea?" – Xenosis doesn't take it personally, just a pure arrogance to sit over the throne of Aurorize. And that action disgusted World Volition.
Reigning over the world, there's a throne for the only god of Aurorize, which was left empty after the day he passed away. To seal the true Volition, "he" appeared within darkness and claimed the authority that shouldn't be granted onto his hands. Yet, if this world was ruled that easily, Aurorize wouldn't survive from the hands of Star Devourers in the old days.
He can't sit on that throne yet, he must wait until that day comes. And right now, he has to witness a servant of darkness sit on his final longing as if it's nothing, how arrogant.
"Ydenith" – Following his fingers, the destruction beam shoots straight at Xenosis without hesitation. Known as the Wrath of God, this attack is of course enough to destroy the entire Agestia in a second.
*Fsh* – Yet it can't even burn a single strand of hair.
"Oh chill out my glorious proclaimed God, I come with something useful to help you." – Caring not that provocation, Xenosis waves his hand leisurely and takes out a nail sealed in runes.
"You know what to do right?" – Within a smile, their plan has started.
*Crack* – Of course, Har stands no chance beneath that jump of five guys. Despite the advantage of domain, he's still unable to maintain the monster form for too long – causing the domain to collapse along with his burnt out Ability. Thankfully, Yozu still had a human heart to take him running away, just three seconds before Yuurei arrived.
"Oh, who are you, mate?" – Yone almost fell down to take a nice dream, he's so exhausted.
"Don't worry, I'm here for curiosity." – Revealing his sigil on the left back hand, Yuurei activates his power to load the fight inside the domain and the assassination of Yone.
"I see." – Leaving there without a trace, Yuurei has finally achieved what he wanted. Also, he brought the recording orb already.
Hellane might give me a kiss for the reward.
"Holy sh*t, that's close." – Laughing, Har feels better after escaping from the reaper.
"Idiot, who gave you the confidence to challenge that speedster?" – Yozu threw him a gaze of stupidity, no mercy.
"Oh come on, no pain no gain, haven't you heard that?"
"I'll leave your ass fried next time."
"Alright, but where are we going?" – Leaving aside the issue, Har is curious. If he didn't see it wrong, he saw Yozu was really in a hurry, as escaping from something.
"Sh! I met a maniac and I was almost dragged to death together with that brat, crazy." – Yozu cleans the sweat, that dude actually scared him.
"Who are you talking about?"
"Yuurei, that brat is the same type of anomaly like me. Don't ever try to mess with him, he might have nothing to lose, but we do, got me?" – Yozu stops at the west land, under the tree they take a seat.
*Sizzle* – Out of nowhere, they took out a barbecue table and cooked the high tier monster meat. Chilli, a bit of pepper, sliced green onion, salt, sugar, a bit of ginger and two spoons of hot fat from the meat. That sound of scallions sizzling with the nice smell it carries, perfect.
"Damn, this is worth my time." – Chewing the meat, Har swiftly blows away three hot breaths.
"Here." – Yozu takes out the lobsters and crabs, three for each. Then he finishes the preliminary processing and gives them to Har.
"Do you have some lemons?" – Har asks.
"Let me steal some." – This dude actually activates the spatial power to steal five fresh lemons from the tree.
"How convenient." – As mocking, Har continues his work. Squeezing lemons, putting a bit of salt and pepper.
"Want some chilli?"
"Sure." – Yozu cuts the chilli by himself.
Two chili peppers shouldn't be too spicy, I think.
*Sizzle* – Covered by the melted fat, the grilled slice of meat slightly bounces in the air, while those chopsticks are shifting it. Picking it, Har's ready for another bite.
*Sizzle* – It's hot enough to again stir up the fat inside the sauce, kind of salty but fine with sugar, kind of sour as lemon yet not bitter.
"Fu, that's a good one."
At the point none of us knows, they've already switched the roles. Yozu kicked in with his special sauce, he painted the lobsters red, along with the crabs covered by a nice and transparent cloth of butter and garlic.
"Yo, what do we have here?" – Here comes a guy that we are so familiar with. He has a white hair, a bright yellow slightly covering some ends of his hair. Known as the Blessed Fist with the power breaking down the space, also the reckless guy clearing a bunch of dangerous dungeons and rifts on his own. And now is the White Tern mentioned in The Third Book of Prophecy – Ian.
His face frowns a bit when he sees Har, who captured him and sent to the private prison of Raigan. With a manner that does not look good, he wonders why Raigan told him to meet these two guys.
Yozu instantly interrupts that flow of thoughts, "Don't misunderstand my boy, I disguised him then captured you."
Raigan also manifests himself into essence form and takes a seat, "Long time no see."
Of course, he means that it's been a while since both of them meet each other with their true identities. In the old vessel, Raigan looked like a young man with white long hair, his face made people feel like he's really arrogant. Yet, this essence form is his true appearance already, according to Yozu, Raigan looks like a man trained near death. The pressure from him in a current situation is different from the fight with Aetheria and Aeth.
"Wait, so you used my face to play a hitman role?" – Har instantly looks at Yozu with a question that if Yozu's kidding him or not, which is obviously painted on his face.
*Crack* – Removing the shell, he puts two lobsters into Har's bowl as a hush money, "Your reputation is already at the bottom of society, but I'm the mysterious boss of The Empire of Crime. Where should my pride hide away after they realized a Grand Sage level dude like me smurfed the newbie?"
"But that's not the reason for you to use my face for your deeds right?"
*Crack* – Three more lobsters, with a bonus is a crab, "Just shut up dude, we didn't do it for fun."
"We?" – Ian's turn, he also looks at Raigan.
"Welp, it's a lonnnng~ story so let's eat first." – He moves his hands toward the slices of meat put at the right corner.
*Clap* – "Put your hands away from the food, they're not perfect yet."
Blowing his left hand, "Tch, I'm not even human, well cooking doesn't matter."
"Then eat the raw one." – Har points at the basket full of red meat blocks, crabs and lobsters.
*Mm Mm!" – Chewing the lobster, Yozu can't currently talk but he still gives a bowl of rice, they are all uncooked. Out of nowhere, Ian takes out three incense sticks and sticks them into the bowl, giving it to Raigan.
"Now it's perfe–"
*Bang* – A sudden strike, that bowl of uncooked rice hits straight at Ian's head.
Raigan: "Eat it."
"So… basically you guys are fixing the prophecy about me?" – With half of the broken bowl and a little rice on his head, Ian confirms what he just heard.
"We are not joking dude. The peace made over bones from the ancient era has lasted for too long, I even wonder if there was something that prevented them for years until now." – Yozu cracks the crab legs, he slightly puts that thick and juicy crab meat into his mouth and tears them down with joy.
Har flips a thick slice of meat, he also puts five slices into the dish to off heat, "The Star Devourers? Didn't you say they were all eliminated in that ancient war?"
"Those hundreds of Star Devourers couldn't even count as a percent of their total amount." – Yozu swipes the crab leg meats into the salt, pepper, and lime sauce, that green color looks so beautiful.
"Furthermore, those Star Devourers were all mid-class in their race. They always pursued perfection in evolution and to wander to the vestige of three dead galaxies, they had to have nowhere to go." – Raigan swallows a block of meat. Don't ask me how he can taste it, simulating is the key.
Then he continues, "Even if their elimination postponed the others, it shouldn't be that five billion years. I doubt that their invasion has started for years already, yet got prevented by something. Aurorize is a massive superstructure, yet, its Volition shouldn't be that strong to directly stop their work."
"Literally, they might start their invasion in many ways and breaking the prophecies is one of the solutions, am I right?" – Har flips two blocks of pork and two thick slices of beef, they smell good.
"That's what we said. The reason for Har, White Tern, to leave was decided by a villain that would kill your companion, Aeth, and defeat you in a fight." – Yozu points to his left eye.
He explains, "I have a special ability allowing me to see some events that might happen across the multiverse. The requirements are hell ass, so don't worry if it's overpowered or not."
Ian even forgets to eat, "Doesn't it mean all has messed up?"
"That's why we kicked in." – The third block of meat already, Raigan keeps swallowing.
"I faked the death of Fiona Grantey, rage baited Aeth to almost kill me, then faked death and sacrificed my identity to escape the watch of them." – Raigan puts three blocks of meat over the grill grate.
"Yozu acted as a villain to defeat you, I acted as a villain to kill Aeth. Both missions were completed."
Yozu explains, "Fiona, Aeth's sister, was the selected Hermit. She was supposed to die, but Raigan changed that fate. In order not to mess up, he did all the things just to make sure that Aeth believed in the story he built up."
"Then… who is the Hermit right now?" – Ian asks and he also consumes the first slice of pork by the way.
"Aetheria, that girl, the second soul inside that body." – Raigan looks at Ian like why he hasn't realized it yet.
"Wait, it's so risky. How could you all determine that there's another soul that would be the next Hermit? I mean… uh… if anyone could be the Hermit, it shouldn't be that complicated for Star Devourers–"
"Yes, not anyone can be a Hermit. For the first time, when I saw his special nature, I instantly popped up with an idea to give back the book to Fiona." – Raigan swallows the fourth one.
"Yet, when I saw him, my mind changed." – As he's wondering, he looks at the far away horizon. That white silhouette of divinity, that pressure, which he can't forget for a single moment.
"Him?" – Har's curiosity has kicked in.
"Oh, I don't know who he is but he has white hair, the manner is like a cold blood observer. He doesn't care about anything, those two eyes don't carry anything, just a blank." – Raigan tries to remember more details, but he soon realizes that it's all he has.
"You mean his eyes are all white as blind people or something?" – Ian's confused.
"No, his eyes are full of divinity. I mean, people always carry something inside their eyes, emotions, longings,... but I didn't see anything inside his eyes." – Raigan explains.
"Did he carry any sword? Like… a katana." – Ian asks.
"No, he didn't."
"Did his voice sound like a guy devoid of emotion?"
"I didn't hear his voice, but his glance should be described like that." – Raigan loads his memory twice and it's correct.
"That brat, I mean Aeth, I heard he chanted a term of God Slayer–"
"Then the slash that split everything in the way was shot, am I right?" – Ian feels like he knows who that guy is.
"Yes."
"I know him, Yujin, The God Slayer." – Ian slowly bites the third one, he almost takes out the runic stone to send this information into his group chat.
Yet, Raigan stopped him, "Wait, here's the problem, I can't hear that name."
Ian's movement is stopped immediately, he sighs, "I guess, you all, who are born inside Aurorize can't hear that name in any way."
"Then don't spread that information that quickly. If the Volition of Aurorize prevents me, or perhaps…" – He looks at Yozu.
A nod, "I can't hear that name too. That name shouldn't be called freely, that's the warning of Aurorize. So don't do something dumb."
"Yujin…?" – Repeating the name again, Har looks really strange.
"Wait, you can hear that name?" – Ian tries to make sure, yet Har only sits there with the open eyes.
Shaking his shoulders, Yozu calls, "Are you all right?"
If you see this memory scene, it means that name has been called. I'll make it short.
Don't forget who you are. Don't forget your mission. And don't forget that name is used for our enemy.
Avoid their watches, act normal and know your name.
He rubs his forehead, "Don't worry, I just feel like I heard that name before. I'm an outsider too so no wonder how I can hear that name. But I can't remember when I actually heard it."
*Clap* – Yozu claps his left shoulder, "Alright, that's fine. I heard that 800 outsiders had a fight right? You might lose a part of your memory after the fight."
"That makes sense." – Ian tries beef this time, it's great. The black pepper sauce combines with the spicy hot taste of a bit of chilli, that's heaven.
*Flip* – A page of a book has been flipped, he sits there, among the room full of records in years, leisurely. That hand slightly picks up a cup of tea and feeds his lips softly with a cold sip. That eye hidden after an eye mask swiftly loads the new variable.
"Still soon." – Another sip, he puts the cup down gently.
*Knock knock* – One strong then one weak, those doors are knocked in a special order with two long and one short following up.
"Welcome, what do you demand?" – Don't even want to spend a second looking at the guests, he still knows there are three guys.
"Akashic, when will it be done?" – The divine entity knocks the table with his right back of hand while taking a seat, blatantly as home.
"As I said, it's not the time yet." – He flips the page again, back to the thirtieth one.
"I doubt that you are intentionally postponing it." – That Star Devourer releases the pressure of its power, trembling the entire library as if it's going to be taken down.
*Fsh* – Slightly moving his finger, that pressure is treated as a cheap trick and wiped away without an actual effort. Akashic snaps his fingers, he instantly sends them all out of the doors.
"This place is currently not available to enter, please come back later." – It's still that emotionless voice and manner, he closes the doors slowly but steadily that none of those three Star Devourers can oppose.
"Alkha…" – The third Star Devourer calls.
That hand is tightening hard and the fear of superiority kicks in, he almost got obliterated in soul. That entity suddenly turns back, with no good manner, "Report back to Him. Akashic is no longer at Meso-Tharos level."
"Are you–"
When he's still trying to make sure, that gaze behind the doors of the library has already activated all their survival instinct.
*Vsh* – Flashstep, nothing's left.
"It's been a while." – Akashic puts down the cup after taking another sip of cold tea, he looks at the second floor of the library. There is another entity picking an old book, Journey Among Stars.
He takes a seat on the nearby chair, how nonchalant, "Being locked in Void without the sense of spacetime is terribly boring."
He puts the glasses over those eyes even though he doesn't need it literally, "Reading these random things is still more interesting than dealing with those worms."
"The new record is about the current quantum leap of a civilization across multi-galaxies in their technology – the 3T-RG:03/108 one." – He points at the third floor, the Technology zone.
"This one?" – Yujin shifts the book into his right hand, he confirms.
"Yes, check the T.C ± 100y." – He means checking the book in current timeline mode with the deviation of a century.
"Alright." – Yujin stills sits there, with an iced soft drink shimmering the warm light from the upper chandeliers.
Just like that, a chill tea time in the craziest library floating interstellar.
"Should we play music?" – Yujin offers.
A laughter, those eyes close gently, "You haven't changed anything. How about Jazz?"
"Go on."
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