New Moon
The only lesion structure that had not suffered damage during the Final Stage,
the cross-shaped brand of the Crimson Cross Society covered the Moon Surface. A Hospital Ward over a hundred stories tall had been built inside it, primarily managed by Doctor Fana.
Currently,
all the nurses and doctors were away from their respective posts, gathered in the deepest part of the hospital—in a special ward connected to the Moon Core.
Countless tubes carried the Twilight Silver Liquid (lunar form), covering the ceiling of the ward like spider silk. After being consolidated through more than a hundred infusion stands, it reached the central hospital bed.
A headless corpse lay there.
This was Ruben's body. It had not perished along with his head.
However, the doctors and nurses here had no idea who Ruben was. They only knew that the decapitated corpse contained Lorien's aura.
Lorien had always existed.
He had witnessed everything that had happened. Through Ruben's perspective, he had also seen the Dark Shadow and watched as it killed Ruben, who represented the Great Annihilation, with a single stroke.
Once the infusion was complete,
a white-haired young man now lay on the bed, having perfectly inherited Ruben's "malevolence." Yet there was no joy on his face; even his true Moon Eyes were dim.
He refused anyone's company except the Female Doctor's.
Before he had fully recovered, he left the hospital with the Female Doctor, who served as his infusion stand, and arrived on the Moon Surface. There, he gazed at the destroyed Final Stage and the lesion that continued to ooze pus and decay.
Just as Lorien was staring blankly,
a powerful spatial tremor swept over them. The entire plane seemed to be slowly pushed by someone.
"What is this..."
Lorien quickly sensed the source of the