Watching her health bar climb back up to 100%, a sense of security enveloped Sophie once again.
“Mmph, mmph-mmph,” Sophie said.
Kaila understood immediately. She performed a sharp, acute-angle turn in mid-air, narrowly dodging a mana silk net intended to bind them.
“Mmph-mmph!” Sophie directed.
Kaila stepped onto a rock floating in the air and leaped high. The Holy Light Greatsword in her hand converged into a pillar of light, charging straight toward the massive red moon.
Along the way, the various weapons forged from starlight and the puppets blocking her path were pulverized instantly before the force of that light pillar.
Kaila leaped higher along the path she had cleared.
She was chasing the moon.
...
At the same time, this blindingly bright, pure white meteor naturally caught the attention of the two absolute sovereigns of the battlefield.
“Why is it this troublesome Hero again?”
Atop the dark-red moon, the seated young girl frowned.
“Why is it this annoying Hero again?”
Beneath the inverted firmament, the blue-clad girls distributed across thousands of fragments of stone and wood looked up simultaneously.
Witches fought among themselves to decide territories or settle grudges because they held equal status.
The forced intervention of an outsider only brought them displeasure.
The unspoken rule among Witches: deal with the outsider first.
In almost the same instant, both of them diverted a portion of their mana, crossing the front lines of their duel to strike at the pure white meteor.
Thousands of pale threads, sharp enough to slice through steel, twisted eerily in the air. They formed a seamless conical array, piercing toward Kaila’s blind spots. Simultaneously, spears of dark-red starlight condensed from the moonlight poured down like rain.
However, Chengzhong Dino quickly noticed something strange.
That reckless Hero, who usually relied on nothing but brute force, was currently dodging with surprisingly exquisite precision.
Every minor turn, drop, and acceleration was perfectly timed, slipping through the fleeting gaps in the silk array just before it closed.
Something was wrong. She had fought that brute before.
This wasn't the kind of evasion one could achieve through combat instinct alone.
Could it be?
Is it Brother? Is it Brother? Is it Brother? Is it Brother? Is it Brother? Is it Brother?
Her mental energy converged into a literal storm. For a split second, she abandoned control of the silk threads to scan Kaila and the Sophie on her back.
Silvery-white long hair, crimson eyes, sharp fangs.
She’s missing the ‘hardware.’
The fanatical light in Chengzhong Dino’s eyes vanished.
Brother still needs to come back to continue the family line; this isn't Brother.
Hidden beneath the human skin mask was another face, but that face still belonged to a woman.
At the same time, she also discovered that after the Hero dodged the silk array, she didn't turn her blade to attack her on the ground. Instead, trailing a long exhaust of Holy Light, the Hero charged recklessly toward the dark-red moon high in the sky.
This reckless Hero is going after that thieving cat.
Realizing this, Chengzhong Dino’s ten slender fingers dropped. The pale threads that had been pursuing Kaila immediately went limp and scattered, actively yielding a straight path toward the heavens.
She withdrew her focus.
Dino was more than happy to let someone else go through the trouble of bothering that annoying little kitten.
As for the unspoken rule between Witches...
Little Dino doesn’t know anything about that, meow.
On the other side of the battlefield, Miaoyue, seated atop the dark-red new moon, was also watching the advancing Hero.
The stars she had just thrown down were blown apart by the opponent, yet the Hero remained unscathed.
This was expected; after all, this bastard Hero had pestered her for a long time back in the wasteland.
Just as Miaoyue summoned seven identical stars, she also saw the girl on the Hero’s back.
Or more accurately...
She saw those two figures pressed tightly together.
In this cold, inverted space filled with death and destruction, those two bodies huddling together radiated an unusual warmth.
Miaoyue’s fingers paused in mid-air.
She had once been like that, shrinking tightly behind that person, feeling the sense of security he provided. Seeing these two hugging and entrusting their lives to each other caused a slight ripple in Miaoyue’s eyes.
It’s... actually quite sweet.
These two were constantly flirting during the ritual earlier, too.
Skinship is a wonderful thing.
Miaoyue liked it.
For the sake of this long-lost warmth that made her feel nostalgic, Miaoyue’s wrist tilted slightly upward, shifting the trajectory of the starlight spears by half a fraction.
But this brief moment of warmth was quickly shattered.
Miaoyue’s eyes widened as she watched the pure white light sword, having broken through the barrage of spears, rapidly enlarge in her field of vision.
That Hero hadn't gone for the old hag controlling the giant on the ground; instead, she was charging straight for Miaoyue’s throne.
This face-rushing posture carried no hesitation whatsoever.
“I’m shipping you two so hard, and yet you’re coming for me?!”
Miaoyue stood up from the edge of the moon in a panic. Her previously dazed, drooling expression instantly became frantic.
“Get lost!”
Miaoyue clasped her hands above her head, forcibly converging a massive amount of mana.
The space around the new moon vibrated violently as hundreds of stars and the moon lit up simultaneously.
—And this was exactly the goal Sophie wanted to achieve.
Rate on N.U.
