The Whole World Makes Way for You

In the misty distance, flowers quietly bloomed as the two talked, tiny spores emerging from their delicate petals and drifting into the air.

Those are spores that are almost invisible to the naked eye, as tiny as dust particles.

Spores emerge continuously from the blooming flowers, gradually becoming part of the environmental cycle here, enveloped in the mist.

So, the moment Su Qing'an finished speaking...

The spores quietly drifted with the mist and attached themselves to the tiny cracks and cavities on the Living Doll's body. After a few breaths, the dust-like spores grew without warning into strange thorns as thick as ancient trees.

The enormous thorns widened the wounds and sword marks, shattering the Living Doll's body into pieces. The thorns pierced through the now inhuman shell from countless directions, with perfect and regular spacing.

From a distance, it looked exactly like a strangely shaped sea urchin, but now this "sea urchin," made of thorns and the shell of a doll, lay on the ground, silent.

The Living Doll is dead.

As the Stigmata on Su Qing'an's back glowed hot, Satou Yunona simultaneously and successfully killed the Living Doll, which, to her, was not a particularly powerful being.

Only the unique nature of the Herrscher of Corruption made her feel a little troubled, especially since the other party was in a broken and dilapidated state.

"Are you really going to use it...?" Without watching the remains of the Living Doll slowly disappear into the thorns, Satou Yunona said something that even she herself thought was nonsense to Su Qing'an.

But she still couldn't help asking.

As the pattern on the boy's back emitted a faint glow, the Honkai Energy embraced him with unprecedented tenderness.

The Honkai Energy, existing in the form of specks of light, bowed its head as if worshipping a being on a throne. These demons that had once claimed lives now obediently circled the boy's body, without harming him in the slightest.

The school badge pinned to Su Qing'an's chest shone brightly due to the increased concentration of Honkai Energy, its radiant light illuminating the already dimming environment along with the surrounding specks of light.

How sacred and beautiful this scene is!

Satou Yunona knew what was on his back.

Artificial Stigmata.

She didn't know exactly how much longer Su Qing'an could live; no one could quantify that number precisely.

But one thing is certain: the more the power of the Stigmata is squeezed out, the larger the burning life force becomes.

This is the first time Su Qing'an has actively used the power of the Artificial Stigmata, with the aim of breaking through this barrier.

Satou Yunona is very strong, much stronger than Su Qing'an, that's beyond doubt.

However, this strength is in a broad sense. In terms of pure attack power that can be unleashed in a very short time, Su Qing'an, who is wielding the Stigmata, is superior at this moment.

Only in that fleeting moment when the [Time Cutter] is unleashed can the boy briefly transcend the constraints of his body and the limit of power that Satou Yunona can unleash in a few breaths.

Satou Yunona couldn't stop Su Qing'an.

So when he decided to unleash his sword at such a cost, Satou Yunona knew she had no choice but to cooperate.

"Yuno, there are some things you can't hesitate about," he said earnestly.

Sometimes, even if you burn a little slower, it won't make a difference if your body is reduced to [Ashes].

Just like if Su Qing'an had arrived a day later, she would have encountered a completely simulated version of Satou Yunona.

So if you really want to hold onto something, to protect something, then you can't hesitate when it's time to burn it.

In that instant, countless points of light surged into the sword sheath, like countless people bowing their heads to listen to the king's grace.

Su Qing'an drew her sword.

He used to think that the current [Time Cutter] was fast enough, and that he should be able to break free from this limit in the short term.

With the help of Artificial Stigmata, the submissive Honkai Energy easily allowed him to surpass this limit.

That's normal. You can't expect a Bugatti Veyron to run forever if you keep filling it with diesel. It's good enough that it doesn't break down.

Now that the Bugatti Veyron is equipped with 98-octane gasoline, it's naturally going to run faster than anyone else.

This sword strike was closer to the flow of time than any of his previous strikes.

The mist was cleaved through at a speed that Satou Yunona couldn't even see.

In the past, Su Qing'an's sword strikes, aided by Honkai Energy, were all sword auras and sword waves.

This time, however, she could only see a single ray of light.

The path cleared by the sword light was like a king walking toward his throne, with his subjects naturally kneeling and making way for him.

The whole world must make way for him.

The boy's determination to draw his sword speaks volumes.

Thus, all external objects in the scene were quietly separated, and the sword light, sculpted by countless rays of light, collided with the barrier of the Living Doll.

The mist in the entire mountain forest seemed to freeze for a moment, and then the world trembled.

As if some forbidden creature had been triggered, the mist locked onto the direction of the struck barrier and surged forth like waves. From above, apart from the area hit by the sword light, the mist in the rest of the area was so thin that it was almost completely cleared away.

The sword light was momentarily blocked by this frantic action, its brilliance constantly shattering into scattered fragments. However, each fragment that fell instantly burned into even finer pieces of Honkai Energy then surged back into the sword light, acting as a catalyst to make the sword light burst forth with even more magnificent colors.

The fog is being dispelled.

The barrier was on the verge of collapse.

Finally, at the moment when the sword light completely dissipated, the tangled Honkai Energy erupted with a tremendous roar.

The barrier shattered.

The whole world truly made way for that one sword strike.

The Living Doll is roaring.

"How dare I? How dare I! How dare I?!"

Overwhelmed by the roar of countless voices, it successfully revived in just a few breaths.

Even in the initial resurrection, the Living Doll deliberately delayed the process.

Killing the two people would normally be an unnecessary event for the Living Doll, but now that the barrier has shattered, it no longer has the option to do so.

The reappearing mist eroded all the spores in the air, rendering Satou Yunona's methods ineffective. The Living Doll, whose expression remained smiling, was now filled with unparalleled rage.

Its resonant, booming voice proclaimed its will.

Immediately, everything in the mountains and forests collapsed towards the two of them.

That's the power to Herrscher of Corruption; Living Doll naturally can't reach the level of Herrscher. But this shrine, this mountain forest, has long been transformed into its domain by the accumulated Honkai Energy over the course of five hundred years.

Satou Yunona and Su Qing'an are now in the same old home of a mage, directly confronting a mage in a mage tower. Naturally, the difficulty they face is quite different.

Everything in the mountains and forests, along with the burning remains of the shrine and the mist, twisted into a massive wave that surged toward the two of them. The Living Doll seemed intent on drowning and crushing them to death; they would not allow anyone to disturb the process of the believers searching for offerings for them.

The Stigmata on the boy's back suddenly went out. After swinging that sword, his strength was almost exhausted. His chest was as warm as a furnace, but now that furnace was frozen. He could feel something being stripped away from his body little by little.

That feeling was too magical and illusory; he understood that this was the price.

The passage of time is drastically accelerated, and life slips away from the body.

Himeko- nee has experienced this feeling more than once, hasn't she?

That's incredibly strong.

Su Qing'an would be extremely weak in a short time, looked at the overwhelming scene before her, but her mind was wandering to endless thoughts.

His mental and physical exhaustion made it difficult to concentrate, but the more important reason was that Satou Yunona was standing next to him.

Since he dared to unleash that sword strike, there was no reason for him not to trust Satou Yunona.

Satou Yunona looked at the scene before her, her black contact lenses shattered into nothingness, and her emerald eyes, which were now exposed to the outside world, were as indifferent as a frozen lake in Siberia.

Honkai Energy and condenses, and the girl's black-dyed hair returns to its original light purple color.

"This is no longer your territory," she said.

The earth trembled, and all things grew.

Thus, the wave of control by Living Doll was swept away by an even larger wave.

While the mage was sleeping, Satou Yunona also built a mage tower.

Now, the game is evenly matched.