All right, now they no longer even needed to find excuses.
What? You said Amiya clearly looked like nothing more than a sixteen- or seventeen-year-old girl, and was even a little bunny?
What did that matter?
As long as she wore a black crown, she was Sarkaz.
And as long as she was Sarkaz, man, woman, old, or young, she was to be killed without exception.
Amiya felt sad.
Amiya felt that personal kindness was utterly useless.
Amiya felt that Terra was beyond saving.
Amiya raised her hand and used both of her abilities for the first time.
Gentle light covered the land. The void above the sky began to solidify; thought stalled, time froze, and everything on the planet was fixed in place.
Terra fell silent.
Amiya cast aside her kindness and transformed into the Demon King Rabbit, yet she remained unwilling to accept it.
She kept exploring other Worldlines, wanting to find an answer—some so-called "good ending."
But there was not a single one.
One Worldline after another fell silent in her hands and turned into nothingness. It made her even sadder. Already numb, she merely mechanically browsed through Worldlines whose endings were destined to be tragic.
But as Amiya examined more and more Worldlines, she gradually realized something—
She... seemed to have merely been created, like a character in a picture book.
A god was writing her story, pushing the plot forward.
And whenever Amiya arrived in a new Worldline, a group led by Wishdale, Clear Shining, and Barren Laphland would attack her.
If they failed to defeat her, that Worldline would come to an abrupt end.
"...Am I some final boss in a game?"
Amiya could not help asking herself that.
But if that was really the case...
Who had created her? And who was writing her story now?
And this plot development, doomed to tragedy... was it also that being's twisted sense of humor?
So Amiya raised her head and looked toward the stars.
As though responding to her wish, a majestic figure spanning the entire galaxy appeared before her eyes.
"It was you..."
Amiya was not angry. She only wanted an answer.
Were all the tragedies she had experienced caused by Him for His own amusement?
So Amiya struck without hesitation.
A ship-sized Originium spike tore through the air with a sonic boom, hurtling toward the majestic figure above the stars with absolute speed and force.
"What's that thing wriggling around over there?"
Chen Ran stared in confusion at something emerging from the planet model... a cat hair?
Calling it a cat hair was practically praise, since cat hairs were not that short.
And at that macroscopic scale, whatever had emerged from the planet model moved as slowly as a crawling turtle in Chen Ran's eyes.
Chen Ran glanced at the words displayed in the translucent pop-up: "Amiya has launched an attack on you."
Then he looked at the thing that had been wriggling for ages without seeming to move at all...
"So... do I need to dodge?"
Chen Ran felt that even if he sat here and waited for hours, whether that thing could reach his eyes was still unknown.
It was like a snail trying to hunt you across the entire world.
Chen Ran found it amusing, but Heart of the Corrupted Skadi, who had been docile until then, did not.
The moment she saw the Demon King Rabbit launch an attack on Chen Ran from within that planet model, Heart of the Corrupted Skadi floated into the air and dove straight toward it.
Not only that, even the swarm of Sea Creatures that had been voraciously eating on the food planet all raised their heads to look toward the stars.
Then they ascended one after another, forming a vast dark mass... no, a vast expanse of snowy-white clouds.
Together with Heart of the Corrupted Skadi, they swept toward the planet model where the Demon King Rabbit was.
Chen Ran froze for a moment, because he had never expected Heart of the Corrupted Skadi to react so strongly.
He instinctively reached toward her, wanting to grab her and pull her back.
But between Heart of the Corrupted Skadi and Chen Ran, the god clearly held a higher priority.
That translucent pop-up naturally existed to serve Chen Ran first and foremost.
Just like when he used to play claw machines, as Chen Ran's hand reached in, the planet model before him continuously zoomed in.
It kept enlarging until Chen Ran could finally see what that cat hair from earlier actually was—
A huge group of Sea Creatures with little flowers on their heads, white hair, and red eyes swarmed around the ship-sized Originium spike like locusts and devoured it completely.
You Sea Creatures, stop eating everything!
Chen Ran wanted to say that, but Heart of the Corrupted Skadi had already descended onto that planet model.
And without any hesitation,
the moment she saw the Demon King Rabbit wearing a black crown and a veil over her face, Heart of the Corrupted Skadi opened with—
"Great Silence."
Chen Ran Mediates a Fight (Physically)
Sound vanished.
Amiya tried to attack, only to draw an overwhelming swarm of insects.
Though the swarm consisted of white-haired, red-eyed beautiful girls... they all looked exactly the same, which was honestly pretty creepy.
But before Amiya could think further, Heart of the Corrupted Skadi, like the queen of the swarm, descended from the sky.
Amiya had no choice but to turn her attention to Heart of the Corrupted Skadi first. She wanted to ask who Heart of the Corrupted Skadi was, and what kind of existence that majestic figure in the heavens was.
Was he her creator? Was he the source of her tragedy?
She wanted to ask, but when Amiya opened her mouth, she discovered that sound had vanished.
Whether it was the chirping of insects and birds or even her own breathing and heartbeat, everything had become dead silence at that moment.
In the Demon King Rabbit's timeline, the Sargol people had been crushed before they even had time to cause trouble, so the Sea Creatures of this Worldline had never become a force to be reckoned with.
As a result, Amiya did not understand what this so-called "Great Silence" was at first.
But the black crown atop her head allowed Amiya to instantly understand the principle behind Great Silence.
Either some kind of high-frequency sound, too high for human ears to detect, had drowned everything out and created the illusion that "sound had vanished."
Or... the sound itself had been interfered with.
Every sound was made up of a certain frequency spectrum, and as long as one found a frequency with the exact opposite phase, that sound could be completely canceled out—
Put simply, Sea Creature microorganisms filled the air, continuously resonating in reverse according to the sounds in their surroundings and canceling out all sound.
But that meant that at the instant Great Silence had been activated, the entire world had already been completely contaminated.
Even after realizing that, Amiya still had no intention of attacking first.
Since she could not speak or make any sound, she simply stretched out her hand and gestured, wanting to ask something.
But the buzzing forced Amiya to clutch her head.
Amiya felt as though her mind was being corroded. This kind of SAN attack offended her.
So Amiya suddenly swept her hand, and a ship-sized Originium spike appeared behind her before shooting toward Heart of the Corrupted Skadi.
But before it could reach Heart of the Corrupted Skadi, the Originium spike was devoured completely.
So Amiya waved her hand again. This time, there were dozens—hundreds—of Originium spikes.
Amiya opened her mouth again, wanting to chant, but found that she could not produce even the slightest sound. She could only press her hands together.
A flash of light appeared, and every Sea Creature touched by it was wrapped and covered in black Originium. Hundreds, thousands of little stones fell from the sky as if it were raining pebbles.
One of Originium's abilities was—
But one of the Sea Creatures' abilities was assimilation.
Before those little stones could hit the ground, they were gnawed apart and twisted. One tiny Sea Creature after another crawled out from within, baring claws and fangs.
Amiya frowned and reached behind her.
A massive Originium sword capable of sweeping across a hundred-meter radius landed in her grasp.
Just as she wanted to swing it, she felt the earth quake and the mountains tremble. Dark clouds covered the sky, but the shadows did not look right.
She instinctively turned her head, only to see hundreds of miles of towering waves that had somehow already swept in behind her.
They were monstrous waves like a world-ending flood. Once they crashed down, even the earth would be torn apart.
Seeing this, Amiya threw down the giant sword in her hand and raised both arms. Light that covered the entire planet spilled down, and everything in sight was covered in black Originium.
"Your Sea Creatures are eating their fill" "Recommend that you keep an eye on your Sea Creatures, lest they upset their stomachs" "After all, if they eat something they shouldn't, you, their keeper, will suffer for it" "You have obtained a new ability:" "Eat Originium Raw"
Chen Ran: "..."
Chen Ran suddenly felt that the translucent pop-up made a lot of sense.
He had gained the ability Eat Originium Raw after taking a bite out of Originium.
If the Sea Creatures ate a person, would he gain an ability called "Diary of a Madman"?
And if the Sea Creatures ate shit...
Forget it.
"But this new ability of yours came at a pretty perfect time, huh?"
"Were you afraid I'd kick the bucket, so you directly gave me an ability that makes me immune to Originium?"
It felt like those system-reward novels he had read before.
A new item or ability would be given in one chapter, and it would definitely come in handy in the next.
But he had to admit, it had arrived at exactly the right time.
Because Chen Ran watched as the scale of the battle between Heart of the Corrupted Skadi and the Demon King Rabbit went from trading punches at the start,
to splitting mountains with a sword and tearing open the earth with a blade,
then to one unleashing an apocalyptic flood while the other answered with a world-destroying AOE.
This planet was really suffering with you two on it.
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