Time began to flow again.
And that pure white stream of light only grew larger.
This time, the seal was no longer supported by the power of a single Transcendent, but by the immense World Influence Su Wen had gathered through a global livestream:
Those thoughts, awe, hopes, and beliefs from all over the world
became countless invisible threads, flowing through the Watcher's Sword into the sealing barrier, filling its cracks and suppressing the agitation of the Heart of the Swarm.
The silver-white barrier, once on the verge of collapse, became solid again. The black tentacles were forcibly driven back, and the glowing patterns within the crystal gradually calmed.
The trembling throughout the hall weakened accordingly.
Watching this scene, Su Wen did not stop. He gripped the blade with both hands, pressed its hilt against his forehead, lowered his head, and said slowly:
"Lucia,
You endured tens of millions of years. You wouldn't want it all to end in failure at this very moment, would you?"
It was a gesture befitting a true knight.
Just like that same scene during the confrontation in the Thirteenth Non-Purification Zone.
He had come again.
And upon hearing Su Wen speak that name,
something strangely familiar seemed to flicker through Ifasta's database. As a collective lifeform, many of her memories had been deleted because they took up space in her personality archive.
That was why she appeared quieter and more expressionless than Ifait.
Yet clearly, a name capable of stirring ripples in her memories could not belong to some random passerby.
For some reason, however, she seemed to have forgotten that part of her past, so she did not raise the subject with Su Wen.
But regardless of what any of them were thinking,
before Su Wen stopped, the endless stream of light seemed