In this barren wasteland, a tiny red flower less than twenty centimeters tall appeared not far away.
Though the little flower was hardly conspicuous, with nothing else left around it, it now stood out tremendously.
Mei did not bother with anything else and walked straight toward the little red flower. Only when she reached it did she realize... it was an unopened Higanbana.
It was a Higanbana bud.
"Higanbana? Why was there still a Higanbana left?" Mei was baffled...
Mei knew full well how powerful Feather of Ruin Unleashed was. How could a Higanbana possibly have escaped unscathed?
"Hmm... no, that's not right."
Mei reached out and touched the unopened Higanbana bud, and Ai-chan's long-absent notification sounded beside her ear.
Special rechargeable item discovered: "Higanbana Race Heart." The following two options are available: 1. Recharge it for 600 Crystals. 2. Use the "Higanbana Race Heart" as a vessel to give birth to a new Higanbana familiar. Higanbana Race Heart: Knowing that the destruction of her race was inevitable, the Higanbana King used the strength of her entire race to create a hope for its continuation. This Higanbana... represented the entire Higanbana Sea of the underworld. Its inheritance contained all the knowledge and abilities of the previous Higanbana King...
"A rechargeable item? The hope of an entire race?"
Mei stared at the Higanbana bud before her in surprise. She had never expected that, in that final instant, the Higanbana King had spent the strength of her entire race to create a future Higanbana King.
But on second thought, it was not impossible...
That Higanbana King was somewhat like the Zerg from StarCraft.
Not in appearance or anything like that, but in the relationship between members of their race.
Among the Zerg... there was only one voice: their queen. So