"Though the vacation you offered was quite generous—an entire thirty days—this job didn't suit me. Playing with children was more exhausting than killing a million Honkai Beasts."
She walked beneath the moonlight, her eyes calm and composed, her mind untroubled. The word "powerful" seemed written across her face.
"The Pseudo-Judas was forged by integrating the cores of three Honkai Emperors. They couldn't threaten me while they were alive, so could they do so after death?"
"How naive."
Moonlit Embrace's tiny body leaped high into the air, blocking the moonlight above Durandal's head. Durandal raised one hand and effortlessly caught the descending strike.
"Still far too weak."
Durandal lifted one hand upward, and Moonlit Embrace hung suspended in midair, as though she weighed nothing.
"If I kept deceiving you with an illusion, that would be cruel to you. I'll tell you the whole truth. I hope that after hearing me out, you'll give it some thought."
Durandal slowly set Yue Xia down and gazed seriously into her blood-red eyes.
She took a deep breath.
To continue deceiving her with a false illusion, to let her die within a dream—Durandal despised that kind of hypocritical kindness. It was useless. It only made people's hearts soften for no reason. It was not true justice.
"Listen carefully, Moonlit Embrace. You are actually—"
"Don't say another word!"
The attack arrived before the sound did. A tremendous force carrying a numbing sensation instantly struck Durandal's right arm, sending her whole body flying leftward. She looked up and saw the warning in Zhao Bai's eyes.
That strike sent her back three hundred meters.
With a splash, the two of them fell into the seawater together as dark-yellow lightning surged wildly through the water.
Durandal sensed determination.
It was different from before.
Stepping on solid ice beneath the