"Because over a thousand years ago, this very Fyxestroll Garden was the battlefield where the great Heliobus Flint Emperor fought a fierce battle against a certain general of the Luofu!
"When the furnace shattered, the Heliobi escaped. The Heliobus fragments that once made up Flint Emperor all returned to fulfill their long-cherished wish of fighting the general again.
"As for that battle, it shook heaven and earth and made ghosts and gods weep! Flint Emperor assumed countless forms, unleashing floods and scorching flames, collapsing mountains and striking with lightning. He fought that general to a standstill, evenly matched!"
Cirrus spoke with dramatic rises and falls in her voice, as though bringing that grand battle scene to life.
Ordinary citizens would surely have been awed by a spectacle like that, but who was here? Little Fish and his friends. What grand spectacles hadn't they seen?
After a brief silence, Stelle said something that nearly made Cirrus want to cough up blood:
"Sounds pretty impressive. But thinking about it carefully, it seems like nothing special. It doesn't sound all that badass."
Ordinary people might not have been qualified to make that assessment, but Stelle clearly was.
Never mind how this girl had once taken the Doomsday Beast's ultimate attack to the face; she had also experienced the Engine of Creation's blazing fury, the Imaginary Monolith cast down by the Mother of Deception, General Jing Yuan's Lightning-Lord, the stars brought down by Lord Ravager Phantylia, the starry sky ignited by Omen Falcorez, the Neutron Star explosion preserved within a fragment, the Swarm Disaster in the Simulated Universe, Jiang Yu cleaving the heavens with a single sword strike, and the Luofu's massive warship carrying out The Hunt.
Let alone ordinary humans-even among the long-lived Long-Life Species, most might not see more than a few