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Regardless of her injuries, she desperately rushed towards Carl who had just climbed up, holding an ice spear in each hand, with an angry momentum that seemed to want to rip Kong's intestines out from both sides.
[Right now, Ying, use all your willpower! ]
Seeing that the opponent's back was exposed, Kong didn't need to be frugal - he just used a heavy punch to take her down!
"At this moment, the moment of annihilation——!"
Finally, the shadow that had been brewing for two minutes without being enlarged seemed to have crushed the Q into pieces, and the "good magnesium" wishes that several girls had been exerting on the air day and night turned into thunder and struck the core of the star.
It was called drawing the sword, but the attack that had already been drawn was more like the simplest and crudest frontal strike in swordsmanship, which went from the back over the top of the head and just hit Cocolia's hair!
315. Train Paradise
The wishes of Seele, Esterheita, Asuna Karin, and Banya, and even some obsessions that Ying had extracted from Ruan Mei at some point in time, were all gathered in this knife, and it happened to hit Cocolia on the head.
The unsharpened knife brought down the nine-day thunder and true divine punishment. The sharpness of the rice light that tore through the sky and decomposed the air was the embodiment of its power and did not require the blessing of a blade or weapon - even if it was Raiden's true favorite sword.
Cocolia's body was submerged in the wild purple and momentary gray. When the pumice rose and the magnetic field reversed, it was as if part of the earth was shattered and flew into the sky, and she had disappeared without a trace.
Some unlucky guards witnessed the moment when their dreams exploded and were immediately blinded. A blue mark was engraved on their retinas like a brand. If it weren't for the protection of their helmets and goggles, these people would have been more than just temporarily blind.
"That was Ms. Ying's work..."
The Banya tribe, who were suppressed to the point where they could hardly raise their heads due to the barrier and the strong wind from the fight between the gods, were all shocked by the terrifying gods from the other world when they looked at the endless new canyon. If Ying had not been unable to cut into the earth's core with a knife for the time being, the red color surging in the huge rift would have really given people a terrifying feeling of artificially cutting off the earth's veins.
When they were underground, she really held back.
There are no high-value targets along the line east of Yongdong Ridge, so even if the terrain changes, it won't make Banya feel bad.
But the glacier burst, revealing soil that had not been seen for hundreds of years, and then it vitrified at the speed of light, from which she could almost see the lava splashing, which made her worry about what would happen if the knife hit her head.
[Shadow, how is the consumption? ]
[No problem, we can continue to fight.]
...The chaotic human thoughts on the battlefield allowed Ying to replenish some of her energy... but it was still not enough to cover the expenditure. These people respected her but did not truly love her, and the converted divine power was mostly impure.
She put her dream into her heart with all her heart and soul - the luster on her braids even dimmed a little.
You can see that she is a little tired, and definitely not as relaxed as she boasted and swore to herself.
She rarely had such luxury as throwing away one third of her divine power at once, even in Teyvat. The last time was when she dueled with Sora in the Pure Land of One Mind, and the time before that was when she dueled with Oropus. For Kokolia to take it so seriously, she lost gloriously.
"...Yu Jianming, it seems that the power is a bit too strong." Kama clicked his tongue repeatedly at the canyon that stretched for thousands of miles and was almost as long as the territory of a small country.
Judging from his destructive power alone, he is almost on the same level as Tiamat. If this guy goes to Chaldea, he will probably cause chaos during the battle for the Master.
"To prevent her from having the ability to heal herself, we must use all our strength... Isn't the star core difficult to destroy? Why don't I see any exposed star cores?"
After secretly calming his breath, Ying summoned his naginata again and looked around cautiously, trying to catch a glimpse of that unnatural golden color.
[Try to find Cocolia's spirit. Her body should have turned to ashes.]
[But I didn't sense the free spirit? ]
Kong on the ground tried his best to radiate his spiritual energy, but he could not find Kokolia's consciousness that had left her body.
He was sure that Shadow Draws the Sword could inflict heavy damage on the opponent, but he was not sure whether he could destroy the opponent. Through the collection of information from all sides, he learned that the more powerful envoys in this world could be at the level of the Seven Gods, or even above that, and they fought on their home turf - and Cocolia and Star Core had the blessings of two star gods, so it should not be so easy to take them down.
[Don't get out of the tiller yet. Let me check it out.]
[…No, there’s no need to investigate. That thing is still active. We need to find it as soon as possible and seal it.]
Sora came to this conclusion because the weekly mission had not yet been completed.
The goal is to defeat "Mother of Illusion - Cocolia". Don't worry about what the prefix means. As long as the mission is not completed, you cannot let your guard down.
This is a unique method used by the system to confirm the life or death of the enemy, and it can also be regarded as an information weapon provided by Party A.
The huge red dot of Cocolia on the small map was blown away, but the external wind and snow barrier did not stop... Kong hated this kind of BOSS that died in an uneasy way the most. The health bar might appear again in the next stage. What if the opponent was even more disgusting and could lock the blood during the transformation... Then he would be a dung monster among dung monsters.
The reason why he had such concerns was probably because he had fought more than a dozen monsters with similar abilities.
[Dr. Kong is right. The readings show that the Rift Corrosion still exists.]
Before Shadow landed on the ground, the black tower confirmed Kong's judgment.
"Could it have escaped into the rift just before being hit? When?" Ji Zi had also been overlooking the surface through orbital synchronous monitoring, but she only saw a blurred temperature arithmetic map.
"No, the core of the star was indeed broken up, but it preserved the integrity of the overall information through entanglement—"
The black tower tapped the screen twice - fortunately, Ying avoided her "Puppet Refining Array" when he slashed with the knife just now, otherwise the sequence activation would be delayed for a few minutes.
As if to confirm her words, countless tiny red dots began to gather on the train's synchronized small map, and re-condensed into a huge high-energy reaction in the deep pit, which was so red that it was eye-catching.
The true form of the star core was exposed to everyone for the first time.
The whole body is emitting champagne-colored arcs of light, like the rising sun shining through the morning mist.
It's just that its hatred and disgust for the train set spread outward in the form of mental influence, which in no way matches its beautiful appearance.
"...if this is the ultimate form of life...no, it's not perfect, but it's close..."
Ruan Mei quietly came to the vicinity of Beloberg and looked at the "rising new sun" with her mind becoming active.
Not only did the core of this thing remain intact, but even the carrier's body began to reorganize...
In the reflection of her eyes, Cocolia's stripped body condensed from a Newtonian fluid-like ball of light, and her skin was intact as new.
Like a baby bird breaking out of its shell, her hazy white skin makes it hard to imagine that she has been a mother for many years.
Unfortunately, Sora wasn't the stupid youkai who would just sit there and admire the Perfect Warrior's transformation before taking action.
During the process of the star core reorganization, he controlled Gu Pang to pull the trigger without hesitation. The pink metal jet submerged Cocolia, who had just shown her body curves, as if a layer of pink gauze was spread on her body, which brought a bit of hazy charm.
But under the cover of high temperature, the outer circle of the star core still blocked all energy, including Kama's follow-up arrows, as if an AT force field was activated.
“…Damn, you really have to let me finish watching the transition animation, right?”
After firing two shots, Sora gave up on using conventional weapons to break through the defenses of the star core - the golden destruction and the white power of balance were all made up of that tough shell.
【Ying, try again! 】
"what!!"
The Ogosho, who was not yet exhausted, adjusted her breathing and approached the star core again - but before the naginata fell, she heard a whisper that made her goosebumps stand on her face:
"balanced……"
"…What? Balance?"
This inexplicable, repulsive force like a spirit of words prevented her naginata from moving forward at all, and was even bounced back.
"Well??"
Kama, who was drawing his bow, Eula, who had just moved Nata to a safe place and was making a fire to thaw her, and Sora, who was sitting in the cockpit, all heard the majestic whispers that seemed to exist solely to uphold justice.
As if to allow Sora to hear his "proposal", "suggestion" and "command" more clearly, the strange noise was repeated again in his ear.
"balanced……"
"...I advise you to mind your own business." Just like a hungry man who opens a browser and sees Yu right away but has his internet connection cut off by someone, Kong frantically expressed his dissatisfaction to the unknown voice.
Listening to Kong not following Him, B made a solemn and dignified move, as if with a hint of love and admonition, proposing again:
"balanced."
What the hell am I doing with my balance!
Kong almost burst into a curse, his spiritual energy was like a sharp thorn, trying to pierce the divine power back, but no matter how he tried to put aside the damn interference, the turtle shell outside the star core kept pushing away the attacks from him and his female companions.
At the top of the deep pit, Kong seemed to see a humanoid creature in a robe, holding a scale in his hand, with wings of light spreading out to both sides, black on the left and white on the right, guiding the high-dimensional gaze and bringing the battlefield, which should have been one-sided, into His arbitration.
"The Arbitrator? He finally showed up!"
According to Kong's original plan, as long as the star core could be sealed, it didn't matter if he offended the believers of balance. He had the blessing of morality and the support of Beloberg, the company's guardian believers, Yi Ting's memory believers, and Xianzhou's hunting believers. In every sense, as long as the arbitrator dared to lend a helping hand to the star core and Bu Liren, he would be biased and unreasonable.
But it was clear that they still participated in this last step... They were not afraid of offending the Genius Club and the company, and they were not afraid of the revenge of the patrol.
It was because they believed that the opposition's attack on the star core would cause an imbalance and disaster in the entire universe, which made Kong very puzzled.
"Why on earth? You idiot, speak up! If you can't explain it clearly, you'll be killed by the immortal boat when you go out tomorrow!"
Among the many "mortals" who heard the voice of the Star God, only Kong was the focus of attention.
He saw the image of the God of Balance. He couldn't get a glimpse of his "beautiful face" in the simulated universe, but this time he finally witnessed it - the appearance of that guy who was almost a galaxy away from them and was so troublesome.
It was like a plaster sculpture with a Tai Chi face... spinning out from the center of the universe.
A kind of diffuse balance, yin and yang, operates harmoniously on the big plate of His face.
"balanced--"
Before ascending, the Star Gods might have had and cared about their xylophones, but after ascending, they obviously no longer cared. Facing Kong's sweet words, they were not annoyed at all, but were relieved that Kong was finally willing to communicate with Him. On the distant big face, the "eyeballs" separated by yin and yang twisted and played a section of the future He foresaw to him, which was as abstract as a rotating disc.
It seems that most of the Star Gods can foresee the future - the Last King can, XI can, and the Lord of Knowledge can -
And Hu also saw a series of avoidable threats within the scope of his authority. He was not a "myth" and gave the objects of his interference the fairness that his authority promised, and informed them of all possible developments that he was "worried about".
From those spinning eyes, Kong saw an image that made him first incredulous, and then increasingly helpless.
A special train full of his female companions and fans, a private train that has distorted the meaning of pioneering, heading to the end of the starry sky——
He foresaw Ganyu Keqing, Nel Ayaka, Muerseth Old Lynx Hatsuyuki, Airi Snake, Vortex Zengya, Double and Triple Turbo Zengya, Hina Shirako and hundreds of other students as well as nearly a thousand ship girls nestling in Sora's arms at different times - they were constantly rotating, leaving him no time to take care of anything else. He could only let the train keep moving forward and forget the purpose of moving forward.
Sanyue is his die-hard fan, and Jizi no longer pursues her own dreams and chooses to sail with him towards another unknown universe.
Ying was their pioneer, who cut through the Allied starship that blocked their way with one sword. Old Yang Danheng and his new friends supported him unconditionally. The doomsday weapons of the Human Empire and the academic cliques simultaneously swept through all enemies who tried to obstruct the train. When Kong was tied to death in the carriage by the terrifying number of concubines, everything was moving towards an extreme in an orderly manner.
Then, with a crisp sound like a broken string, the school's natural disaster system extinguished the galactic center, allowing the train to gain the energy to warp to the other side of the universe where no one could ever reach again, and behind it... there was only a void with no energy flowing.
This shocking image made Kong's throat tighten.
If he had previously thought that the other party and the arbitrators were just a bunch of unreasonable psychopaths, after comparing them with the future trend they saw, or... the "analysis model", Kong suddenly felt that the other party's concerns were so damn reasonable!
"balanced."
Seeing that Sora was wavering, He proposed His own conditions again - in order to facilitate Sora's cooperation, He even removed the coercive meaning from this almost incomprehensible word, leaving only the meaning of negotiation.
"Ah, I get it. Okay, balance, right? Then balance! Even without extra help, I can strangle that bastard to death! Just make your conditions!"
The moment Kong compromised, his eyes actually expressed some kind of "admiration" that made him feel painful.
"balanced……"
The contract had come into effect. Although it was only verbal, Sora, who had never broken his promises, made even a casual promise carry a lot of weight. The arbitrator, who was standing outside the pit and whose face could not be seen, put away the scales in his hand, took one last look at them, and turned away.