The Terminus's Future

Silver Wolf stared at the constantly fluctuating data in front of him, his brows furrowing slightly.

'Wait... why are there also Trailblaze and Finality...'

Her gaze swept down the rows of data, finally settling on a few unusually prominent words.

'I can understand Destruction.'

The Abyss itself possesses extremely strong corrosive and destructive power, so it's not surprising that some of its external manifestations are similar to the echoes of [Destruction].

But what about [Trailblaze]?

Why did I suddenly become attached to her?

Under normal circumstances, the power of fate would never attach itself to her like this without any warning.

Silver Wolf thought for a long time but couldn't come up with a reasonable explanation. "... Never mind."

If you don't understand something, just write it down for now.

At this moment, Prometheus's prompt popped up again.

[Detection: The attached destiny force is gradually disappearing.]

Silver Wolf was taken aback.

'Disappeared?' She looked up, a thought suddenly flashing through her mind, 'Could it be...?'

Silver Wolf immediately reached into his storage space and pulled out the blank card that had remained unresponsive.

No matter how much power I put into it before, this thing was like a bottomless pit.

But now--

The cards are no longer completely blank.

In the center of the pitch-black card, several extremely blurry symbols are faintly visible.

red.

Square.

Like an unfinished pattern, or like a piece of data that has been forcibly cut off.

Silver Wolf stared for a few seconds, then suddenly realized, "So that's how it is..."

Windchaser approached, "Are you alright?"

"No problem."

Silver Wolf stretched his shoulders. Apart from feeling a little heavy, he didn't experience any particularly noticeable discomfort, at least for the time being.

She looked up again; there was still only one road ahead.

The road stretched into the depths of darkness, with no forks on either side and no signs to indicate direction.

Silver Wolf didn't seem to care.

Anyway, she came here to investigate what [Elation] left behind.

And the most important being on this moon is the Forest Moon God.

She must also find the real Him.

Let's go.

Silver Wolf strode forward, and the others followed.

I don't know how long I walked.

Silver Wolf suddenly stopped. "Wait."

The people behind them stopped at the same time.

Something is slowly flowing ahead.

It's very thin, like a wisp of starlight stretched infinitely, or like a piece of data that hasn't been fully loaded, flickering in the darkness.

The Silver Wolf stared at it for a second, and its goggles automatically focused.

[Primordial Star Shatter]

[Status: Incomplete]

[Function: Unknown]

Silver Wolf blinked. "This is..."

She had seen this thing before.

The same thing once appeared in the Sky Tower of Phanes.

Back then, she didn't attempt to analyze it, but now it's different; the [Primordial Shattered Star] before her is moving.

Moreover, it has a clear direction.

Following its drifting trajectory, the Silver Wolf saw the data cable inside its goggles quickly unfold.

The same frequency, the same incomplete structure, and in addition, a very faint moon-white reaction.

Silver Wolf's eyes flickered slightly, "Sen Yue?"

She raised her hand, and blue pixels gathered in her palm, quickly forming a temporary data frame around [Primordial Shattered Star].

The shattered star trembled slightly.

The next second.

It actually drifted forward on its own.

Silver Wolf raised an eyebrow. "You can lead the way?"

Interestingly, she didn't linger.

The blue data cable immediately extended forward along the frequency left by the shattered star, drilling all the way into the depths of the constantly distorting space.

Silver Wolf led the group and followed.

I don't know how long we walked.

Finally, a sliver of moonlight appeared ahead.

It was a door.

There were no doorframes, nor walls, only an eerily quiet moonlight standing at the edge of darkness.

Silver Wolf stopped, and the data stream on his goggles began to converge rapidly.

[Space node detected]

[Unknown divine domain detected]

[Detected: Sen Yue]

Silver Wolf stared at the last line of text, a slight smile playing on his lips.

"Found it."

On the other side.

In the moon-white divine kingdom, a gentle ripple spread through the space.

As soon as the Silver Wolf landed, it looked up ahead.

There stood a pink-haired girl.

He landed barefoot on the moon-white surface, and with each step, faint ripples of light spread around his feet.

He looked at the Silver Wolf first.

Then his gaze swept over Windchaser, the Vernacular Poet, and the Sunken Crow, before finally blinking softly.

"It's you all..." His voice was soft, "Travelers from the future."

The Vernacular Poet almost immediately grasped the word, "The future?"

The Forest Moon God did not answer.

He simply tiptoed slightly and slowly circled the group, his gaze lingering briefly on each person, as if confirming something that only He could see.

A moment later.

He nodded gently.

"That's right... Time here doesn't just flow in one direction, so it doesn't prevent me from knowing the shadows left by the future."

Silver Wolf nodded thoughtfully. "So, the one standing here now is the Sen Yue of the past?"

The Forest Moon God did not answer directly; He stopped and spoke to himself:

"The fact that I can see you here means that the 'game' is going very well."

"At least..." His voice paused slightly, "It didn't lead to the terrible future that I and the Lord of Fate once foresaw."

Silver Wolf frowned slightly, but she didn't press the matter.

More than some future that has yet to happen, she now wants to figure out what connection the moon in front of her has with Elation.

"As the former master of the moon."

The Silver Wolf looked at him.

Do you know what [Elation] is?

The Forest Moon God suddenly stopped moving gently.

He turned his head and looked at the Silver Wolf first.

Then, my gaze fell on the lingering, lingering energy of Elation emanating from her.

For the first time, a noticeable change appeared in the expression on His face.

"Elation ..." He repeated softly, and after a moment, the Forest Moon God slowly raised his eyes, "So... He is [Elation]."

Silver Wolf remained silent.

The Forest Moon God had already turned around and looked beyond the divine realm, where there was only an endless expanse of moon-white starry sky.

"I am no longer the master of the moon. In the distant future, I personally gifted the moon to Him." He paused for a moment, "And in the past... I had already lost the moon."

"Wow?" Windchaser couldn't help but exclaim, "How can cause and effect be reversed?"

The Vernacular Poet Chinese patted her on the back, signaling her not to interrupt.

Those Windchaser have no choice but to shut up.

Silver Wolf did not laugh; she kept staring at the Forest Moon God, "Since you control time, why don't you try to avoid the possibility of being corrupted by the Abyss?"

The divine realm fell silent for a moment.

The Forest Moon God lowered her eyes, and after a long while, she spoke softly:

"Because...[the Script] is like that, it's unavoidable."

Silver Wolf's eyes changed instantly, "[Script]?"

The Finality.

Stellaron Hunters.

Elio!

Several words popped into her head almost simultaneously.

Silver Wolf blurted out instinctively, "Elio?"

"..."

The Forest Moon God's eyes twitched very slightly.

It was very subtle, but it did not escape the Silver Wolf's eyes.

Silver Wolf immediately narrowed his eyes. "Where is he?"

The Forest Moon God still did not answer the question.

He simply looked at the Silver Wolf again, as if only now truly confirming something, "So... this is what they call -- [Elation]."

After speaking, the Forest Moon God raised his hand, and from the depths of his divine kingdom, a faint golden light slowly emerged.

Golden light gathered and compressed.

Finally, it landed on the moon-white ground.

A black cat emerged from the light; it had golden eyes and was unusually quiet.

The black cat walked slowly to the Silver Wolf's side, lowered its head, and gently rubbed against her ankle.

Silver Wolf looked down at it, "Elio?"

The black cat raised its head.

There was no response.

The Silver Wolf crouched down and reached out to pat its head.

Soft and warm, it seems almost no different from an ordinary cat.

But Silver Wolf knew very well that what was in front of him was no ordinary animal.

Elio is not just any ordinary Terminus; he is the most special wisp among the [Terminus].

Silver Wolf's hand stopped on the black cat's head. "What exactly happened?"

She asked in a low voice, "Where are Kafka and the others?"

The black cat blinked.

The next moment.

Those golden pupils slowly turned blue.

In the instant the color completely changed--

The whole world stood still.

The Forest Moon God stood still.

Windchaser maintained the same posture as before.

The Vernacular Poet and the Sunken Crow remained motionless.

Even Silver Wolf himself briefly lost his sense of his body.

I can't hear the wind.

I can't feel him breathing.

Only the black cat in front of her was still watching her.

The next second.

boom--

Countless images came in from all directions without warning.

A desolate planet.

A world on fire.

A future that is already dead.

A future that never truly happened.

as well as--

A future that is approaching.

Scene after scene.

They overlap.

They overlap each other.

Like countless save files unfolding simultaneously.

Silver Wolf's pupils contracted little by little.

Only at this moment did she finally understand what Elio was doing.

This is to show her all the possibilities.

Thus, the future of the Terminus will be revealed to Silver Wolf.

The past of the Milky Way will thus be revealed to Silver Wolf.