Extra: Shenzhou Broken Sword Record XI

"If when that day comes, I still leave like I did before, what would you do, Feng?"

"My choice wouldn't change at all. It's you, Elysia, if..."

"If what?"

"Never mind, it's nothing."

"Feng, it's a bad habit to stop talking halfway! I'll get angry!"

"..."

The Fallen Angel of that dawn chose to avert his gaze, looking towards the distant, dreamlike sky.

Up until the very end, he never told her what his 'if' was, because in the end, what lay before her was 'reality'.

This was a dreamlike garden, a giant maze, towering spires, and a pink sky.

There was no concept of dawn or dusk here, because time had no meaning here.

The air was filled with the fragrance of a hundred flowers, and the shadow of a manta ray flickered in the sky.

Atop the tall tower, a fairy girl with pink hair slept.

Suddenly, the girl slowly opened her eyes and looked in a certain direction of the garden.

There, purple-black matter was eroding the corners of the maze, crimson flames engulfed the flowers and grass within the maze, and even the sky burned and collapsed.

The girl arrived at the edge of the tower, and what met her eyes was a giant humanoid monster. It floated in the air, emitting countless crimson threads from its back, each thread connected to a purple-black monster.

The monsters' target was obvious: the tower at the center of the maze, or rather, someone or something in the tower.

"This aura... Imaginary Core?" The girl sized up the giant monster. "But... it's different from any Imaginary Core I've seen before. Did something happen in the outside world?"

As she pondered, the pink and purple light in her hand gathered into a longbow. She drew the bowstring, aiming at the giant monster, searching for its Imaginary Core.

"It actually has six Imaginary Cores?" She was a little surprised, but without any hesitation, she drew the bowstring to its fullest and shot the incredibly powerful arrow. In flight, the arrow transformed into six streams of light, each flying towards the six Imaginary Cores the girl had observed.

The streams of light struck the Imaginary Cores, shattering like crystal hitting hard diamond.

Her attack was unsuccessful.

"She's quite a troublesome child," the girl frowned slightly, her beautiful eyebrows furrowing. "It seems something really might have happened outside. I'll have to properly ask Mobius about this later. In the meantime..."

The longbow in her hand dissipated into light particles, transforming into a spear. The spear's appearance was filled with a gentle flowing light. She looked at the spear in her hand, as if looking at someone who had already departed.

Then, she raised the spear in her hand.

"Allow me... to borrow your power again, Feng. Thirteenth God Key, Second Rated Output, Release."

Far East coast.

"Ugh..."

Sakura clutched her right shoulder, kneeling on the ground. The blade of the Seven Thunders of Purification was stuck in the ground, supporting her body.

"Sakura-sis! Are you okay?!" Pardo quickly moved to Sakura's side, warily watching the constantly reviving puppets around them.

"I never imagined that even after being gravely injured by Hua using the Tai Xu Sword God, you could still unleash that attack..."

The upper half of Apokronia's body was charred black, while the monster's lower half lay powerlessly on the ground, immobilized.

Her almost monstrous regenerative ability had been destroyed by Sakura, making it impossible for her to recover in the short term.

"But you can't move anymore either, can you?" Apokronia mocked. "I won this battle..."

To create as much space and opportunity as possible for Sakura and Apokronia's battle, Pardo had faced all the puppet monsters alone. However, with the opponent being impossible to defeat completely and constantly reviving, Pardo was starting to falter.

"Your lives, I shall take..."

Before Apokronia could finish speaking, the upper half of her body flew off.

Scorching heat swept across the entire battlefield.

"Say that again, Herrscher?" The man, whose upper body seemed to be burning, spoke with a hoarse voice.

It was he who had just punched Apokronia's upper body away.

"Jie Ge?!" Pardo exclaimed the man's name in surprise.

"Hmph, to be trapped by such a bunch of things, have you been too comfortable for too long, letting your bodies rust?" Qianjie snorted coldly. Then, he looked at Apokronia, whose upper body he had sent flying, and raised his hand again, smashing the monster's head with a punch, crushing it.

"Qianjie..." The girl with only her upper body lying on the ground closed her eyes. "A miscalculation... But it doesn't matter, one failure is insignificant..."

The next second, a spatial rift appeared beside her. Several dark purple threads extended from it, coiling around her body and dragging her in.

"You won't escape!" Pardo tried to stop Apokronia from leaving the battlefield, but the next moment, she found herself temporarily losing control of her body. In that brief moment, Apokronia had already disappeared into the spatial rift.

"It's fine, Pardo, let her go," Su's voice rang out. "I've already used the Second God Key to leave a mark on her. They're hidden in their main camp in the gap between the Imaginary and reality. We'll know where it is soon."

As Apokronia retreated from the battlefield, the other puppet monsters quickly lost their ability to revive. They were either shattered by Qianjie or disappeared along with Apokronia.

"Su-ge, you guys arrived just in time this time," Pardo breathed a sigh of relief. "By the way, what about Hua..."

"Don't worry. When Qianjie and I used the Second God Key to rush to Sky Peak, Hua had already defeated the Tai Xu Sword Sect's puppets who had turned into Herrschers of Corruption," Su said. "Although, Hua also paid a considerable price."

"Price?" Pardo looked at Chi Yuan, who was lost in thought behind Su. "Hua looks fine, doesn't she?"

Su sighed softly and said, "She used the First Rated Output of Feather Dust, defeating her opponent at the cost of burning some of her memories."

"Hua..."

Chi Yuan came back to her senses, smiled at Pardo, and said, "Don't worry, I haven't forgotten you all. Your memories... are the ones I can't let go of the most."

Pardo remained silent. Burning memories wasn't something that happened only when someone wasn't important.

Sakura adjusted her breathing and stood up from the ground. She said, "Hua, about what happened before... I owe you my life."

"No need to worry about it. You were also misled by Midrash," Hua shook her head. "Besides, you were injured by me, which is why you were struggling just now, wasn't it?"

"What happened between you two?" Qianjie finished his Collapse state and looked over.

"It's nothing. This isn't something we need to discuss right now," Su said. "The immediate priority is to gather all the combat power we can. We need to make sure no one gets separated again. The Herrscher of Corruption has already launched a large-scale attack on humanity. Anyone who is alone could be targeted by them."

"Then, what about Ling..."

"Don't worry, I contacted Ling through Thousand Worlds. She's fine right now and hasn't been attacked by the Herrscher of Corruption yet," Su said. "Eden has gone to meet up with her."