"..."
At that moment, all the girls looked at Fang Li with somewhat pained expressions.
"Hey, could you stop looking at me like I'm some pitiful person?"
Sensing the shift in atmosphere, Fang Li gave a wry laugh.
"The situation really isn't optimistic, but I have no intention of simply giving in, you know?"
Fang Li smiled faintly.
"For me now, death is no longer something I can calmly accept. It is something I must overcome. I have no intention of dying just like this, nor do I intend to watch helplessly as my soul heads toward Soul Collapse. If it comes down to it, even if I have to resort to drastic measures, I'll choose to stay alive."
Those so-called drastic measures referred to the Third Magic.
He would use the Holy Grail's power to achieve the Third Magic, materialize his soul, and thereby attain immortality.
That way, Fang Li would still be able to survive, right?
It was just that, by then, he truly would only be clinging to life.
After all, Fang Li's soul had already shattered into such a state.
Once he used the Third Magic to manifest that battered, broken soul, even Fang Li could not predict what he would become.
But in order to keep living, Fang Li had already resolved to use it at the final moment.
"Even if I become a ruined wreck who can't even walk on my own, completely useless, as long as it lets all of you live too, I'll do it without hesitation."
In a calm tone, Fang Li spoke of his most miserable possible end.
"So you don't need to worry about me. At worst, I'll become like that. Nothing worse will happen."
If not for that, Fang Li might truly never have formed contracts with the