"Greetings. My name is Shuhu, an Emanator of Abundance."
The man called Shuhu gave everyone a very gentle, almost friendly smile.
"Shuhu? You are…"
Looking at the man before her, Phantylia felt confused. Wasn't it supposed to be Clara? Why was it you instead?
But just as Phantylia spoke, before she could finish her sentence, her mind suddenly blanked for a split second.
Then her tone changed completely.
"Hahaha, Mr. Shuhu. Use your methods to grant these ants the most thorough form of destruction."
Even though she had been defeated by the very "ants" she spoke of, Phantylia still regarded them as nothing more than insects.
Without Phantylia realizing it at all, her memories had quietly shifted.
Hearing this, the man who called himself Shuhu merely smiled faintly and did not respond to her words.
"Looks like I'm pretty impressive after all."
On the surface, Shuhu appeared calm and unremarkable, but inwardly he was actually a little nervous.
After all, this was his first time ever modifying the memories of an Emanator.
Fortunately, Phantylia, having just been defeated by the protagonists, was in a relatively weakened mental state.
Thanks to Clara's extreme effort, she finally broke into Phantylia's mind and altered just a tiny fragment of her memories.
Still, the gap between an Emanator and an ordinary Pathstrider was truly enormous. If it had been a normal Pathstrider, Clara could have rewritten everything from their ancestors to their entire life story without breaking a sweat.
But when it came to an Emanator, she could only change a very small portion.
Of course, that might also be because Phantylia was a Heliobus, whose mental strength was far greater than that of most Emanators to begin with.
Luckily, just to be safe, Clara had already negotiated a deal with Phantylia beforehand.
That way, all she needed to do was alter Phantylia's memory of what Clara looked like.
Looking at it that way, the plan really was pretty much perfect.
Clara thought to herself with quiet satisfaction.
Then she put on a gentle smile, like a spring breeze, and spoke softly to everyone.
"Everyone, will you choose to end yourselves, or…"
"Or shall I personally take action and send you to the other side?"
(This "other side" is not the character Acheron.)
Her voice was gentle, but it sent waves of cold dread through everyone's hearts.
After the intense battle they had just endured, none of them had any strength left to resist another Emanator.
"Curse my big mouth, curse it! You damned jinx!"
March 7th stared at the "Shuhu" before her, wailing inwardly and cursing herself nonstop.
She had learned her lesson. From now on, before any fight, adventure, or Trailblazing mission, she absolutely could not say random nonsense anymore.
Because that stuff really did come true.
"Shuhu…" Looking at the face that resembled a friendly neighbor next door, Jing Yuan's eyes were filled with killing intent.
"Oh? You want to kill me that badly?"
Sensing Jing Yuan's hostility, Clara did not care at all and merely smiled faintly.
"But in your current state, you would probably just die by my hand."
Taking in how weak everyone present looked, Clara shook her head.
"As expected, ants are still ants, no matter wha… ugh!"
Before Phantylia could finish her sentence, she was imprisoned in Clara's grasp.
"What are you trying to do?!" Phantylia panicked and hastily released the little remaining power of Destruction she had, struggling to break free.
But before Clara, it was nothing more than futile resistance.
"What am I doing? Of course, returning the power of Abundance to its rightful owner."
Clara smiled slightly as she reclaimed all the stolen power of Abundance from Phantylia.
"You bas—"
"Shut up."
Before Phantylia could finish speaking, Clara erased her completely.
"Ph… Phantylia is dead?"
Watching Phantylia vanish without a trace, her presence completely disappearing from the air, March 7th was completely stunned.
That arrogant Lord Ravager was just… gone?
"Not exactly." Clara smiled at March 7th and shook her head.
"A Heliobus body is not something that can be easily killed, especially not Phantylia, a Lord Ravager."
"Among all the Lords Ravager, killing her is probably the hardest."
As soon as those words fell, a burst of golden light erupted behind Clara. The Divine Foresight raised his weapon and thrust it straight toward her body.
Countless bolts of lightning rained down, continuously dealing damage to Clara.
And under that single attack, Clara turned to ash.
When the assault ended, Shuhu's figure was already gone from the battlefield.
"She's dead?"
March 7th looked left and right, but there was no sign of "Shuhu" anywhere.
"Yes. She's dead." Jing Yuan fell silent for a moment before speaking.
"Let's leave this place immediately."
Dan Heng looked toward the direction where "Shuhu" had disappeared. He clearly noticed something was off, but after hearing Jing Yuan's words, he said nothing more. Supporting Jing Yuan, he helped him leave the interior of the Ambrosial Arbor.
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A/N:
Honestly, I really do not know how to write this.
Let's just treat this chapter as a joke.
I think I am better suited to writing original plotlines. Trying to weave original content into the main story is honestly pretty hard.
At least, it is much harder than writing something completely original.
So let's just wrap up the Xianzhou arc quickly. One chapter falling apart or every chapter falling apart, I will take the latter.
T/N: Yooooo, this is exactly how I feel!!!!!
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