"He even used the identity of a 'villain.'" Dai Hao said coldly. "He deliberately leaked the plan to Anti-Entropy, deliberately sent clones to attack the Hyperion, deliberately opened the communications channel, deliberately declared that he wanted to destroy civilization. Every word he said was true, yet he turned his opponents' emotions and actions into Chess Pieces. Think about it—when someone can even use his own 'evil' as a tool, what bottom line has he not torn down?"
"Then Kallen really is the only bottom line he has left," Hai Long said gravely.
"No." Tang San said, "Even Kallen is merely the answer to his equation. A person who has only an answer left no longer needs bottom lines. What he needs is a variable. And Kiana is the final variable he left for himself. She will charge in, because she has to. Then, in Kolosten, she will become Otto's final flame on the path to the roots of the tree."
On the screen, Kiana stood at the edge of the shattered deck. The night wind whipped her silver hair like a cold flame that refused to go out. She stared at the display where Otto had vanished, her gaze like shattered ice and ignited stars. She murmured something, but the wind carried away her voice, leaving only a few faint words audible: "...I'll definitely stop you."
"She'll go," Ye Yinzhu said quietly.
"She has to go," Huo Yuhao said.
"And Otto is already there waiting for her," Tang San added.
The Light Screen went dark.
The entire God Realm seemed to be scorched by the Flamescion spilling from the image, leaving everyone too shaken to speak. They all knew that final battle would not be the ending of a hero's crusade against a demon king. It was an altar Otto