Gray Serpent stared at the sky in dissatisfaction. This guy had done his best, but he had not unleashed his full potential. He needed one last little push.
He needed to burn.
The kind that shone even as it burned to ashes.
Gray Serpent continued watching. A massive block of ice hung above the entire city, fragments constantly falling from it and vaporizing midair. Their density was far too low to support that enormous body. He was not dead, because the hypnosis cast over the entire city had yet to fade.
He could still be saved.
As if to confirm Gray Serpent's guess, the massive body fell. Zhao Bai followed the sound and looked over, somewhat puzzled. Why had the corpse waited until now to fall?
"After all, it's a butterfly. It must be lighter and more agile than an ordinary Honkai Beast."
Zhao Bai sighed as he watched the monster fall alongside the dark-blue solid air ice. The ice rapidly sublimated, turning into a light white mist around the Pilgrim Butterfly. Things that had not been beautiful to begin with became beautiful through the haze.
He sank into nothingness.
Lin Yiping felt boundless white snow in every direction. It was an enclosed room, yet the walls and ceiling seemed infinitely far away. There was nothing here, save for the thing he had been thinking about constantly: a pale girl standing in the center, her pupils a cold emerald green.
"I... failed completely."
He did not weep bitterly. There was only endless emptiness. Before long, even his very existence would vanish completely.
"Failed?"
"Yes. My efforts, my attacks, everything I had was broken by a single slash from him. Everything I did was meaningless. I always fail."
"Not everything. You have not yet given everything."
Gray Serpent smiled like a