Sealed Again!
Elina gasped in surprise, her mouth agape. But realizing her lapse in composure, she quickly covered her mouth with her hand.
Ian noticed her surprise, smiled slightly, and explained.
"Don't be surprised. By going through that door, we've now arrived in Gugurian, a thousand miles away."
"However, we are currently in an underground Ruins."
After hesitating for a moment, Ian finally spoke.
"Elina, there are some things I don't want to hide from you..."
"You are most likely a descendant of the Gandor Dynasty, and next, one of your ancestor's abilities may awaken within you..."
"Of course, don't worry, you'll be fine, you'll just need to sleep."
"Just treat it as a dream. When you wake up, everything here will be resolved."
Hearing Ian's words, Elina was initially a little nervous, but she quickly relaxed, nodded her head, and whispered.
"Ian, is this the reason why I had some unusual symptoms before?"
Ian nodded slightly.
Elina breathed a sigh of relief and chuckled softly.
"That's good. I've been so scared, not knowing what went wrong. But with your explanation, Ian, I can finally relax now."
Ian smiled gently, a slight grin spreading across his face, and offered words of comfort.
Don't worry, it's nothing serious.
"Once this is resolved, I'll have that guy Jin treat you to a big meal. If it weren't for you, this wouldn't have been so easy to resolve."
After saying that, the two quickly arrived at the bottom of the Ruins.
Aimina noticed Elina walking towards her hand with Ian, her gaze sweeping over Alina's hair before finally settling on her face, and she spoke softly.
"Finally... I'll see you again... Eluna..."
Elina couldn't understand the language she was speaking.
She felt a faint sense of familiarity upon seeing the girl before her, but her eyes grew increasingly heavy, and she felt somewhat weary...
Then, she slowly fell asleep.
When the girl opened her eyes again, her entire demeanor had completely changed.
"Sister, it's been so long..."
Ian quietly observed this scene. He noticed that Elina seemed to be asleep, but when she opened her eyes again, her entire demeanor had changed significantly.
Jin, standing to the side, watched this scene with equal astonishment.
The other party... no... "Eluna" has awakened!!
"Eluna, it's been... four thousand years..."
Aimina responded to the other person with a complex expression, tinged with melancholy and confusion.
Hearing what the other person said.
The newly awakened "Eluna" had a kind and gentle look in her eyes, like that of an elder.
Her gaze swept over the crowd, lingering on Ian for a moment before turning to the thirty-two black pillars standing in the Ruins. Finally, she looked at Aimina and spoke very gently.
"Yes, I never thought that the contingency plans I made in the past would actually come into play one day."
"Even so, I'm happy to have the opportunity to see you again, sister..."
She glanced at the body of "Elina" that was currently occupying the body, raised her hand and looked around, a gentle smile appearing on her face.
"Look, sister, my bloodline has survived even after four thousand years. It's truly incredible..."
"Perhaps, this is the wonder of life."
Even though we have all perished, we once existed...
She glanced at the surrounding Ruins and buildings, a look of regret in her eyes that didn't match her current physical state, and murmured to herself.
"I'm starting to understand my father's choice back then."
"To be abandoned by the world, to be forgotten by time, is truly a cruel thing..."
The words had barely left his mouth.
Reunited across time and space, the two sisters, now separated by vastly different circumstances, gaze at each other.
The emotions conveyed in their eyes were not intense.
There was an indescribable emotion brewing within it, accumulated over thousands of years, the weight of which no one could imagine; everything was left unsaid.
"Although I'd love to catch up, let's resolve things here as soon as possible."
"If those Fear-Eater escape, all our previous efforts will have been in vain..."
After a moment of eye contact, Eluna's gaze softened, and she spoke softly.
Aimina's expression was complicated; she seemed to want to say something but hesitated, then nodded and said nothing more.
At this moment, Eluna turned her gaze to Ian, King, Netero, and the others beside her, and smiled.
"Humans of this era, now, please reveal the thirty-third Xie Tool, and I will reinforce the seal once more."
Hearing her words, Ian and Kim didn't say anything more.
Soon, the two piloted the Boring Machine and, in no time, completely excavated the thirty-third Black Pillar.
The Hunters standing to the side had no idea what would happen next.
They stood nearby watching alongside members of the Exorcism Team.
"Boom--"
As the solid rock wall crumbled, the last towering, Black Pillar was finally revealed to the world.
"Sister, Father... Father... did he succeed?"
Before taking action, Eluna hesitated for a moment, looked ahead, and asked softly.
After a moment of silence, Aimina nodded, her voice rather dejected.
"He succeeded... He came back to life in the very form of Corpse that he once despised..."
Upon hearing her words, Eluna trembled, and a tear seemed to well up in her eyes as she whispered.
"I see..."
"Elder sister..."
"Forgive my father, and forgive me too..."
"I really... miss those carefree days..."
As soon as she finished speaking, she gently raised her hand.
"Boom--"
Suddenly, the thirty-three towering Black Pillars on the field burst forth with intense light, and the Seals engraved on the entire Ruins floor shone with a fiery blue light!
"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"
The next moment, thirty-three stone pillars, each weighing tens of thousands of tons, mysteriously began to float.
A dazzling blue light connected them together, forming a regular, net-like structure.
The next second!
A surge of immense Nen suddenly erupted from these Xie Tool!
This sudden change shocked the Hunters and Exorcism Team present!
They all became alert and very tense, unsure of what unknown changes had occurred.
Kannari Rin looked down at the intense Nen erupting from the ground, her expression changed, and she looked up at Ian and the others. She knew that the changes on the field must be related to what they had done.
Ian, King, and Netero also looked around in surprise.
The Nen emanating from the surface Seal Inscriptions and the thirty-three Black Pillars seemed inexhaustible, like a tsunami.
Ordinary Nen users are like a drop in the ocean when faced with this immense amount of Nen.
At the same time.
"Laugh..."
"Laugh..."
"Laugh..."
The dense, fiery blue mental network that covered the entire Ruins plaza showed signs of black corrosion.
Located on the ground, streaks of pitch-black Nen are slowly emerging!
Ian, King, and Netero sensed this thought, and their expressions changed slightly.
This eerie feeling was familiar to them all... They had sensed it before in the distant Ejin City!
A thought flashed through the minds of all three of them simultaneously!
This is... the Fear-Eater!?
Aimina also sensed the black evil energy slowly eroding upwards from the ground, and her pretty face showed a solemn expression.
"Eluna, they've appeared..."
At this very moment.
Eluna, now possessing Aimina's body, shone with a blazing white light in her eyes. Her hair danced in the wind, and a powerful aura emanated from her petite frame as she calmly spoke.
"Don't worry, sister, I will suppress them again before they dissipate..."
She simply swung her arm downwards.
Immediately afterwards, the fiery blue mental net woven between the thirty-three Black Pillars that permeated the Ruins plaza suddenly fell down.
Countless black Nen rising from the ground melted rapidly upon contact with this psychic net, like ice and snow meeting the warm sun!
One after another, the Black Pillars fell heavily onto the rune nodes in the ground!
Inside the entire Ruins, the ground was shaking violently.
However, the black Nen had vanished without a trace.
On the Black Pillar, the blazing blue light slowly dissipated and faded.
"It's over!?"
The Hunters nearby also noticed the strange phenomenon that had just occurred. Although they didn't understand it, they guessed that the matter seemed to be over.