015: Reunion After Forty Years

Her lungs had been flung onto a billboard, her intestines hung from an excavator bucket, and her heart? Her heart seemed fine; it had landed right in front of her.

The Entropy Annihilation Apostle's form became a black mark, forcibly vaporized and left upon the earth.

Nomi blinked, looked at her body scattered to pieces, and sincerely remarked, "I'm so used to reviving that I kind of miss the feeling of dying."

Aoneng activated swiftly. Her skeleton formed in an instant, nerves and flesh wrapped around it, and with a slight clench of her fist, she regained the ability to move her muscles. She casually tore down a banner nearby and covered herself with it.

Nomi raised her head and looked at the clear blue sky. Golden sunlight fell into her eyes, making her pupils contract before returning to normal.

The radiation-warmed sunlight was truly somewhat scorching for someone of Outland blood like her. Her overly pale skin would blister under ultraviolet rays after a while, then turn bright red. Nomi rubbed her nose and shook off the dead skin covering her hands. Even the tip of her nose had been sunburned.

But this kind of pain... did not hurt at all.

Nomi gazed at the blue sky and white clouds. A gentle warm breeze melted the snow, and the snowmelt flowed into gullies, becoming trickling streams. Given enough time, these dunes and wastelands might perhaps recover the legendary greenery.

"Oh, sun, how beautiful."

"So this is sunlight? The blue sky and white clouds are completely different from Malefic Calamity."

"Thank you. You're practically an angel."

A bustle of voices came from behind her. She turned and saw the formerly frozen workers crowding around someone. Kailashim, who had eaten with her earlier, was among them. The boy's face was flushed,