Was This the Journey's End?

"Ding, ding, ding..." Just then, her phone chimed with notifications.

Asta opened her phone and saw the flood of messages. Her tightly knitted brows relaxed a little.

"You idiot... just hold on a little longer. Just a little longer..."

"Please, gods, don't let anything happen to him. Please..."

Clasping her slender hands together, Asta closed her lake-blue eyes and prayed devoutly.

"Uh... the young lady's been acting a little strange lately..."

Watching Asta mutter her prayers, Arlan frowned, looking utterly speechless.

Lady Asta was an accomplished astronomer, a thoroughly materialist scientist. Why had she suddenly started believing in gods and spirits?

Outside the Support Cabin of Herta Space Station, the battle against the Doomsday Beast continued on the Starrail Platform.

Numerous cracks had appeared in the armor covering the Doomsday Beast's head, but they seemed insignificant against its mountain-sized body.

Fortunately, the Astral Express crew were all skilled fighters. They could dodge or block the Doomsday Beast's physical attacks in time.

Even the Doomsday Beast's sweeping energy barrage was neutralized by Welt Yang's Void Rift.

After such a prolonged battle, exhaustion showed on everyone's faces.

"This Doomsday Beast is way too tough! We can't even hurt it... I'm exhausted!"

March 7th braced her hands against her knees and panted heavily, beads of sweat covering her pretty face.

"Conventional tactics really can't inflict any meaningful damage on it..."

Dan Heng twirled his teal spear, his expression solemn.

The enemy before them was indeed troublesome. Even he had no good strategy for dealing with it.

"Welt... use your ultimate and suck it to death!"

Drenched in sweat, her thin white gown clung to her shapely body, sharply outlining her proud, snowy curves.

The stunning, mature redhead remained on her guard as she parted her rosy lips and spoke.

Himeko had served as their main attacker during the battle, and her stamina had suffered the most.

"Ahem... well... I'm afraid that won't work."

"If I create even a simulated black hole, the entire Herta Space Station will undergo spatial collapse."

"The outcome would probably be even worse than if you used Heavenly Fire Fall..."

Adjusting his glasses, the handsome, composed Welt shook his head, his voice low.

"Tsk... what a headache. Speaking of which, does Lin Feng ever get tired?"

"He hasn't stopped once this whole time..."

Himeko narrowed her eyes slightly, looking toward Lin Feng with a trace of surprise.

At that moment, Lin Feng stood atop the Doomsday Beast's head, hammering away at it with his baseball bat.

Dazzling sparks flew in every direction, and the rapid impacts rang out nonstop. It was quite a spectacle.

"Shit! You Silly Dragon, hurry up and fire your beam already!"

His baseball bat swung so fast it left afterimages, striking the Doomsday Beast's head with ringing clangs. Yet Lin Feng showed no intention of stopping.

With the blue talent Energetic, Lin Feng had astonishing endurance in combat, even if he wasn't quite a perpetual motion machine.

In that short span alone, he had struck it thousands of times, yet all he had managed was to leave numerous dents in its head armor.

Of course, Lin Feng wasn't doing this because he hoped to smash through the Doomsday Beast's skull with ordinary physical attacks.

He wanted to fully unleash the Doomsday Beast's fury.

Based on his previous experiences in Path Simulation, only an enraged Doomsday Beast would use the terrifyingly powerful Annihilation Ray.

As a Stellaron Vessel, he could only awaken the immense power of the Stellaron within him by taking that terrifying energy blast head-on.

Without any extraordinary combat talent, the Stellaron's power was Lin Feng's last resort-and the key to defeating the Doomsday Beast.

"ROAR!"

An earth-shaking roar rang out. The enraged Doomsday Beast jerked its head, flinging away Lin Feng, who was as tiny as an ant beside it.

Then its building-sized claw swept out, scything across the entire Starrail Platform.

Himeko stood directly in the path of its attack.

"Himeko!"

"Miss Himeko, watch out!"

"Look out..."

Himeko, who had only just stopped for a brief rest, lunged forward and rolled sideways along the floor, trying to evade the Doomsday Beast's sweeping claw.

But the fierce battle had drained too much of her stamina. She was a moment too slow, and the Doomsday Beast's attack struck her.

Her graceful, white-clad figure flew backward, tumbling nearly a hundred meters along the Starrail Platform before she barely managed to steady herself.

"Pfft..."

Crimson blood sprayed from her mouth, staining her elegant gown, which had resembled a white rose.

With both hands braced against her briefcase, Himeko knelt on one knee. Her beautiful face was pale, and her amber eyes were beginning to lose focus.

Seeing Himeko fall grievously wounded, the dragon eyes in the Doomsday Beast's enormous head lit up with an eerie scarlet glow.

After tangling with these ants for so long, it had finally made some progress. Naturally, it would not let this perfect opportunity slip away.

Surging energy erupted within its body, and a blinding light blazed in the Doomsday Beast's maw, illuminating the entire platform.

The next instant, a blue-green pillar of energy shot toward Himeko, carrying an aura of destruction.

"Himeko! Get out of the way..."

"Himeko..."

"Miss Himeko!"

Her companions' cries reached her ears. Blood still stained the corner of Himeko's mouth, and her face was as pale as paper.

The Doomsday Beast's sweeping claw had already left her gravely injured. She no longer even had the strength to stand. How could she possibly dodge?

That dazzling beam of death was like the Grim Reaper's scythe, poised to harvest her uninteresting soul.

So this is how I end... I really didn't expect this...

But perhaps it's just as well. From the day I encountered the Astral Express, perhaps today's fate was already sealed.

I just never imagined that this little Herta Space Station would be the end of my journey.

The mature red-haired beauty closed her amber eyes, her eyelids curving like crescent moons, while a faint, self-mocking smile touched her lips.

Countless images and memories surfaced in her mind, and time and space seemed to freeze in that instant.

Beneath the vast, boundless starry sky, distant mountains lay like slumbering beasts.

Holding up her somewhat shabby skirt, a red-haired girl walked barefoot over fine sand, making her way to the edge of the land.

The biting seawater rose past her knees, and the winter sea breeze sent her long, fiery-red hair streaming wildly.

Gritting her teeth, she pressed onward. Amid the azure seawater, the lights inside an old, battered train had yet to go out...

Across the train's windows appeared strange and wondrous vistas of countless worlds, holding her gaze...

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