Was Black Swan the Greatest Hero After All?

As the Sky Curtain shifted, everyone's mouths twitched.

The Aeon of Elation had to be controlling it. How else could it be this hard to keep a straight face?

What the hell was that about a goose paddling clear waves with its webbed feet?

And that wasn't even the worst part!

The worst part was the confidence written all over Black Swan's face!

She looked exactly as she had when she went looking for trouble with Acheron!

That elegant air of having everything under control.

Black Swan seemed to have regained her confidence. She thought she could do it again!

But everyone knew what enormous crisis Amphoreus would face next!

They could barely hold it together!

You're about to crash, lady!

And you're still this carefree!

She probably had no idea what awaited the planet she'd chosen, did she?

Stellaron Sprite and Phainon exchanged a glance.

Stellaron Sprite's eyes said: See, partner? You have to thank Black Swan.

Phainon looked dead inside: Got it, partner.

Seeing the two heroes who had saved the Galaxy like this, Qian Renxue couldn't help bursting out laughing.

[Stellaron Sprite, Dan Heng, and the others entered Amphoreus.]

[Not long afterward, aboard the train, March 7th fell into a deep sleep, and ice crystals grew around her.]

[Himeko, the train's navigator, invited Black Swan to examine March 7th.]

[Black Swan concluded that someone might have hijacked March 7th's memories, causing her to fall asleep.]

[That also aroused Himeko's suspicion. Black Swan had guided them to Amphoreus, and now so many things had gone wrong.]

[Apparently, one foolish card-playing woman had a flash of inspiration and dragged the Astral Express Crew into disaster.]

[Black Swan explained that several Memokeepers had set their sights on Amphoreus, and they were the ones she intended to stop.]

[She still believed Amphoreus was a good destination for Trailblaze. If they kept investigating, they might uncover the truth behind it all.]

[Black Swan had barely finished explaining when her expression froze.]

[The Aeon of Remembrance, Fuli—her boss—had cast a glance at Amphoreus.]

[Even the slowest office drone in the Garden of Recollection would instinctively know something was terribly wrong upon seeing the boss.]

[Black Swan had stumbled into yet another enormous danger.]

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When everyone saw Black Swan's face as she realized her boss had glanced at Amphoreus, they burst out laughing.

She looked just like a Soul Master caught slacking off during training by her teacher!

Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao turned to Phainon.

Phainon said with a straight face, "Don't worry. I won't suddenly glance at you."

"And even if I do, you won't become Pathstriders."

Everyone: "..."

Stellaron Sprite: "..."

Stellaron Sprite hadn't expected Phainon, the savior who had finally let his true nature loose, to become so irreverent.

Xiao Bai had always been bright and cheerful.

Now she was a little too bright.

It was getting downright eerie!

[After that, the righteous Black Swan continued her struggle against the Garden of Recollection.]

[Memory Thieves from the Garden of Recollection were hiding in Amphoreus.]

[They coveted the immense memoria that would erupt at the moment the Aeon of Erudition fell. Hoping to record it, they had infiltrated Amphoreus.]

[But those Memory Thieves were captured by their strictest mother, Evernight.]

[The red jellyfish called Long Night around Evernight were the natural enemies of Memokeepers.]

[While tracking those Memory Thieves, Black Swan ran into Evernight. She was so frightened she barely dared breathe.]

[Even so, Black Swan braved the danger and saved the Trailblazer and the others.]

On the Sky Curtain, Long Night had strung the Memory Thieves together one by one and left them hanging in midair!

Some even muttered, "Spare me," and other pleas.

What terror must they have witnessed?

Everyone thought: So we misjudged Black Swan.

It wasn't that Black Swan was weak. Her opponents were simply too strong!

First she had encountered an Emanator of Nihility in Penacony. Then, on Amphoreus, she had met the strictest mother of all Memokeepers.

Fortunately, Black Swan had escaped unscathed instead of being skewered like those Memory Thieves!

Stellaron Sprite stared blankly at the scene. She'd had no idea any of this had happened.

Who would have thought Evernight, born from March 7th's dark side, could be so brutal?

What a contrast!

She was nothing like the dazed Little March!

[In the end, everyone's efforts restored peace to Amphoreus and the Galaxy.]

[Before Lygus faded away, he considered every reason for his failure. He never imagined Black Swan had been the spark that brought him down.]

[To keep his experiment hidden, Lygus had set up defenses around the Scepter, reducing the chance of interference from the outside universe to a minimum.]

[He had also used the Fourteen-Line Algebraic Formula and an encrypted environment to contain the ripples of the experiment, blocking observation by #4 Polka Kakamond.]

[After all, Polka Kakamond, the Lord of Silence, was always hunting down Geniuses.]

[As a duplicate of the Genius Society's first member, Lygus was naturally on her hit list.]

[Lygus didn't want his experiment ruined.]

[Yet for all his precautions, Lygus had guarded against the Lord of Silence only to be caught off guard by Black Swan, an ordinary Pathstrider.]

As the Sky Curtain shifted again, everyone observed a moment of silence for Lygus.

Especially those who had fought him before.

The Lord of Silence sounded terrifying from her title alone.

But Lygus hadn't fallen to a powerful enemy.

Instead, a Black Swan wandering about had wrecked his plans!

Douluo I.

Sunset Forest.

Yu Xiaogang curled his lip.

"If you ask me, the Genius Society doesn't live up to its name."

"How could someone as wise as me not get into the Genius Society?"

Chrysanthemum Douluo said, "Sure, sure. Then you can find a Genius from the Genius Society and copy their work, right? Though you probably wouldn't even understand it."

Yu Xiaogang snapped, "You..."

Star Dou Great Forest.

The Silver Dragon King sighed.

"Lygus was so powerful and intelligent. He'd accounted for practically everything."

"If Black Swan hadn't come along, his plan might have had a much better chance of succeeding."

A Genius could rack his brains, only to be outdone by one flash of inspiration from Black Swan.

Douluo II.

Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

Jing Hongchen couldn't keep a straight face when he saw the Sky Curtain.

After speaking with Lygus, he knew just how intelligent the man was.

Yet someone that formidable had lost to the walking disaster that was Black Swan.

Life truly was stranger than fiction.

He had learned his lesson: he would never underestimate anyone again!

Meanwhile, at Shrek Academy.

Xuan Zi threw back his head and laughed when he saw the Sky Curtain.

"See? Losing to Lygus wasn't my fault!"

"If even Lygus could fail for no apparent reason, isn't it perfectly normal that I lost?"

Bei Bei, Tang Ya, Ma Xiaotao, and the others all looked thoroughly exasperated.

In their minds, they protested furiously: What does any of this have to do with you?

Parallel-Timeline Divine Realm.

Ma Hongjun's mouth twitched as he watched the Sky Curtain.

He had never expected a man as brilliant as Lygus to fall at Black Swan's hands.

Black Swan might have been strong, but she was still no match for Lygus.

The God of Pride, meanwhile, curled his lip.

Lygus had defeated him with ease, yet couldn't guard against the walking disaster Black Swan. What an embarrassment to the God of Pride.

Phainon's Clothing Store.

Phainon had given up controlling his expression entirely.

Hahahaha!

Poor comrade Lygus really had it rough.

As if keeping me company in prison for so long wasn't enough, Black Swan had dug him up with a single shovel stroke.

It was too much!

Stellaron Sprite laughed without the slightest mercy.

After all, how old was she?

Watching Lygus lay out his defenses so carefully, only for them to be bypassed with ease, made it even funnier.

The fact that she hadn't laughed earlier was already more courtesy than Black Swan deserved.

Thinking about it now, it was true: without Black Swan, Amphoreus wouldn't have been saved, and the universe might have been destroyed.

In one sense, Black Swan was unlucky. In another, she was lucky.

Di Tian scratched his head.

He was baffled. "By that logic, Black Swan wasn't all that unlucky, was she?"

"She did a great thing in the end, at least."

"How does that count as bad luck?"

That made Di Tian feel a little better.

It seemed this ranking of the unluckiest people had a twist at the end.

So even if misfortune awaited him, things should turn out well in the end, right?

But the very next moment, the Sky Curtain shifted again.

[But what if the great Memokeeper Black Swan had not pointed the way toward the future?]

[What would have become of Amphoreus—or the Galaxy?]

Everyone: ???

Could the Sky Curtain show timelines that didn't exist, too?

Stellaron Sprite was puzzled as well.

Without Black Swan, what fate could await them besides being wiped out?

Phainon sat up straighter.

All hail the great Black Swan!

Employee of the quarter at the Garden of Recollection!

The gynecology master who wouldn't lift a finger for anyone below an Emanator!

The outstanding tour leader who'd brought everyone to Amphoreus!

A tomb raider even Duan De could learn from!

If I'm right, is an alternate timeline coming next?