Stances and Rewards

The guillotine was like the final period, bringing the story to an end.

The severed remains of the Dark Moon crashed straight down, nearly destroying the entire park.

As the tremors from the impact spread, the despair permeating the city and the sensation of bodily separation completely vanished.

William, in Abyssal Stance, landed on the street outside the park,

Yi Chen, paralyzed from the waist down, landed alongside him. He used the tip of his dagger to support himself against the ground and remain standing, his face lit by a rare, genuinely relieved smile.

It had been a long time since Yi Chen had experienced the feeling of severing evil. Moreover, this was a different kind of evil from before—stranger, heavier, and already formed into a Story Carrier.

Even after losing his lower body and several internal organs, Yi Chen did not care in the slightest,

In his eyes, the so-called "Concept Deprivation" was never permanent. As long as he reached a sufficient Depth of Death, he could retrieve whatever he had thrown away.

At the same time,

Atop a city skyscraper not far away,

Lorien's main body silently watched everything unfold—the bizarre Dark Moon and William in Abyssal Stance. His expression shifted slightly.

It was not only William's brand-new stance that shocked him. As the origin of the New Moon, he had never seen a moon in such a form before.

"Dark... Moon! That fellow William actually attached the 'power of the Abyss' to the Moon Surface and performed a surreal planar inversion, creating such an exaggerated lunar form.

"No wonder he's someone I took an interest in. But how are you going to deal with the eye problem? Your title is The Gestalt One. This makes you anything but perfect."

Just as Lorien was commenting from the top