Volume Five: Returning from the Other Shore - The Cleanup Crew (Part One)

Among Haoyue's trump cards, there are two skills that are the most overpowered, even she herself thinks, "Oh dear, doing this in actual combat is simply cheating."

The first is naturally Mirror Flower Water Moon.

If "Mirror Flower Water Moon" means throwing a person or object to the moon, then the other is exactly the opposite.

The moon sets.

Lock a coordinate using runes, then forcibly transfer "a portion of the moon's arbitrary mass" to that coordinate.

As for the maximum size of this "arbitrary mass," it depends on Haoyue's current strength and willpower, as well as how crazy she is.

The runes were attached to the monster whose wings had been broken by Xiao Wu, using it as a coordinate.

Thus, a colossal mass of grayish-yellow rock, twice the size of the entire city of Gloria, far larger than the space crushed by the Sovereign's Grasp, directly engulfed the monster.

The coordinates overlapped, the enormous mass originating from the moon merged seamlessly with the monster's body, and both suffered irreversible damage. Furthermore, the transferred mass squeezed towards the center, causing continuous and extreme destruction.

The monster, powerless to resist any longer, had its voice completely vanished into the depths of the rock.

Then, this enormous mass, carrying it along, crashed down towards Gloria below.

Thank goodness!

The fickle pointer of the moon, which had been dictating good and evil, happened to jump to the "good" side at that moment.

My real goal was simply not to bother Xiao Ye; as for the others? Let them live or die as they please~

"Thank you for my accidental mercy, you fools! Let's do it again—second transfer!"

Just as its enormous mass was about to make a tremendous, intimate contact with the ground, it vanished, just as suddenly as it had appeared.

Golden Moon --

Somewhere in the sky, a bright rune was flashing.

The next instant, two enormous gray-yellow rock blocks, each the size of Gloria, appeared at the location of the rune, returning to their homeland, the Golden Moon.

Then, it crashed down with a deafening roar, the impact penetrating straight into the earth's crust!

(Moon: I'm so screwed!)

"Is it over...?"

Feeling the disappearance of the second rune placed on Jin Yue, Hao Yue's tense nerves finally relaxed. An overwhelming weariness invaded her mind, and her body was completely drained.

Creating a Moonfall Rune within sixty seconds was already extremely difficult.

Haoyue also pushed herself to the limit, risking her own death by creating two more.

One brought the Spirit Star, the other remained on the golden moon.

This way, we can kill the monster without causing any casualties.

With one last look at the completely destroyed Holy City Gloria, Haoyue wearily closed her eyes.

"It's finally... resolved here... Xiao Ye... you must take care..."

Consciousness sank into darkness, and Haoyue, holding Xiao Wu and Sin Annihilation, slowly descended from the sky.

But Haoyue didn't know, Xiao Wu didn't know, and Sin Annihilation knew even less.

Their calculations were flawed.

It was so close.

Two irreversible seconds ago--

Above the golden moon, in the very center of a huge, grayish-yellow mass--

A scarlet eyeball was darting around wildly.

It was on its last legs.

The body was destroyed, order was disrupted, and even the wings were broken at the roots.

It was thrown into this godforsaken place, where pressure from all sides was squeezing its body, and the impending impact would completely destroy it.

But its biological instincts convinced it that it could survive.

Even if only one eyeball remains of its body, even if it has lost all its strength, it can still survive with its last bit of energy.

The connection between them and the hundreds of millions of lowly people of the West Saint Continent has not been severed.

If we just wait a little while, and then use all our strength to drain their life force in one go, even if we can't restore them to their peak condition, at least we can—

"Accept your fate. Failure is failure. Stop struggling; it's too embarrassing."

A clear and gentle young girl's voice rang out.

From its inside.

Starting from this point, something that had always built and supported it suddenly disconnected from it.

What followed was collapse.

The blood-red eyeballs returned to their original color, and fine cracks spread from the inside to the outside.

"Created at will, driven to fight at will, you must have had a hard time, but this is your fate."

The eyeball split in two, then in four, and finally shattered into countless fragments.

"Your mission is complete. There will be no more pain. So, sleep peacefully..."

The debris was buried among the alien rocks and disappeared forever.

Time's up.

The anticipated mass deaths did not occur.

"Phew... phew... I did it! Finally..."

Givinia withdrew her hand from the pillar of light, her body swaying slightly before regaining its balance. She took out a handkerchief embroidered with simple patterns and wiped the sweat from her forehead.

"Those three were really something. I thought they could really annihilate the monster of God with pure violence, but they still didn't do it cleanly. Luckily, I hacked in in time and cleaned up the remnants."

The pillar of light enveloping the spirit gradually thinned and disappeared. The spirit, which had been floating above the ground, fell to the ground, let out a soft groan, and its body began to tremble slightly. Givinia crouched down to carefully observe the spirit, taking its pulse, listening to its heartbeat, and checking its breathing. Then she breathed a sigh of relief and stood up.

"Fortunately, aside from being lethargic, she should be fine and will wake up soon."

Nid and Yu Jie were dumbfounded.

Haoyue Sakura Dance, and Sin Annihilation risked everything to fight against the monster.

The two of them wagered their respective beliefs in a willful duel.

Hundreds of millions of innocent civilians on the West Saint Continent await rescue.

And all of this turned out to be half in vain.

If real experts had been brought in earlier, this massive farce would have been resolved peacefully long ago.

Sensing their thoughts, Givinia smiled helplessly, "Please don't misunderstand, I didn't mean to belittle your efforts at all. If it weren't for your efforts in delaying us, the monster would have already broken out of Gloria and wreaked havoc everywhere. By the time I finally deactivated the final defense mechanism... there would probably have been over a hundred million casualties, right? So take a good rest and treat yourself. Did you see the Sovereign's Grasp just now? Getting caught in it is no joke."

In short, it means, "You're useless now; leave the stage if you don't want to die young."

She gave a final bow and then vanished from the spot, her whereabouts unknown.

The two were left staring at each other in bewilderment.

In the end, what kind of girl was this Givinia?

Is he Ye's friend, or a pursuer from the organization?

If he's Ye's friend, why is he only showing up here alone now?

If they are pursuers from the organization, why help them?

Difficult to understand.

--At this moment, a low groan came, and the sacrificial spirit struggled to get up from the ground.

"Ugh... What happened...?"

She opened her blurry eyes and looked around, her numb brain struggling to comprehend everything around her. Only after the intoxication that had been lingering in her mind finally subsided did she realize what the red and black puddle in front of her was.

Although they understood what it was, they mentally refused to accept it.

"Hey... Yu... Jie? What... happened?"

He staggered a couple of steps, then heard the sound of water beneath his feet. It was blood, Yu Jie's blood. Even though he had already lost all his blood, he was still clinging to life under the pull of the barbed wire.

"Yu Jie? What's wrong? Weren't you just combing my hair? Now..."

She looked around, pale-faced, trying to take his hand, but all she could find were bloody, severed limbs, strange barbed wire connecting the severed parts—a truly gruesome sight. She tried to find more intact parts, but nothing was complete. Broken organs, a severed spine, twisted intestines—everything was tattered and mangled, all bound by barbed wire, all fragmented and horribly disfigured. Broken, scattered, beyond repair—a tragic, bloody, and terrifying scene. What was happening? Was this really Yu Jie? Why had he become like this? Why had it turned into such a mess? Wasn't he supposed to escape? Wasn't he supposed to have a happy ending? Hadn't he already escaped the clutches of Heaven? She clearly, clearly, clearly wanted even more—

"Spirit offering... I'm so sorry, I made such a mess of it..."

"No... it's impossible! Yu Jie... Yu Jie... Yu Jie Yu Jie Yu Jie Yu Jie Yu Jie ahh ..."

The spirit's screams suddenly stopped. Nid gave her a perfectly timed tap on the back of the head, knocking her unconscious. He carefully placed her on the ground and sighed.

"I'm sorry, Brother Yu Jie, I might have been a bit rude."

"It's nothing, I should be thanking you." Yu Jie raised his eyebrows, his voice weak.

"There's nothing to thank me for. If it were me, I wouldn't want my girlfriend to see me looking like this either."

"A young girlfriend... do I look like the kind of guy who'd date a much younger woman?"

"Isn't that right?"

"You bastard..."

"Seriously, what are you planning to do now? The Vatican has been destroyed, and you're still being hunted by that organization. What are you going to do... wait, what about your body before that? It seems only your head is still intact. If the remaining limbs, internal organs, and bones are rearranged in the correct positions, can it be restored?"

"God knows, even though Spirit Sacrifice-chan probably won't mind this state, it's still... ahhh, I want to die."

"But you won't die."

"No, that's fine."

"Ah?"

Yu Jie narrowed his eyes.

The memories gradually became clearer.

That's right.

What important thing did I trade for this cruel immortality?

But... is this body truly indestructible?

There are no absolutes in this world. Many things that seem unsolvable can be found by careful consideration.

Think back carefully to the words you heard back then—

"Want a body that can never be killed by an enemy, no matter what?"

--That's right.

The voice only said—that they would not be killed by the "enemy".

Ultimately, what exactly is the definition of an "enemy"? Is it anyone capable of harming you? Everyone except your allies? Or simply someone you despise? In the end, whether someone is truly an enemy depends on your own judgment.

"In other words... if I consider the other person 'one of us' rather than 'an enemy,' then I can still kill them... So, Nid, you should be able to kill me now."

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Winnie's inherent abilities: saving the day & finishing off the enemy

My wife is so capable! I must find a way to add the character design next time!