The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

Black Knife sensed the changes around him, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth beneath his veil.

Looks like we can have a good fight now.

Chapter 120 The Power of Forgetting

2023-08-28

The girl raised her hand and pointed, and the dancing fire butterflies flew from behind her, carrying endless heat and eroding everything in their path.

"Boom boom boom!" The fire butterfly collided with the death blade, immediately triggering a violent explosion. The surging flames melted the ground, and the sharp shockwave ripped off the roofs.

The faint morning light streamed down through the large hole in the factory roof, providing a sliver of light to the interior, which had just lost its illumination.

Before the flames had even dissipated, a black blade emerged from them. She launched a downward attack from her superior position, striking the girl below.

A dagger should be wielded with the speed and force of a storm, overwhelming the enemy. However, the black knife is used for powerful downward slashes.

Naturally, the girl easily dodged this slightly awkward attack.

However, the girl quickly understood Black Knife's intention. Black Knife gripped the dagger with both hands and pressed it deep into the ground.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!" Countless sword energies composed of black flames swept in from the black blade as the center. Wherever the black and red sword energies passed, everything turned to nothingness, as if it had been erased.

Fortunately, as the third executive officer, the girl's body was already incredibly strong. With her superhuman physical abilities, she managed to react in time and hastily jump out of the sword energy's attack range.

He drew his black knife, which was deeply embedded in the ground, and looked at the girl in front of him with some surprise as she walked in a daze.

Would the executors of the Fools be completely ignorant of combat skills?

She shook her head, banishing these thoughts from her mind. Whether it will happen or not, she'd find out soon enough.

The girl kept retreating, her steps erratic and her breathing disordered. She truly resembled a young girl who had just escaped danger.

"Clang, clang, clang!" The retreating girl suddenly heard a light, tinkling sound of armor plates colliding. And before her eyes appeared a veil, the veil covering the black blade scale armor.

The other black-clad figure, who suddenly appeared behind the girl, showed no mercy. She grabbed the girl by the waist and lifted her up.

Then came the same action as when Ember executed the Doctor—Black Knife raised his knee, placed the girl horizontally on it, and then stabbed her down hard with his huge dagger!

Black Knife's movements were smoother and more skillful than Ember's. Lying across Black Knife's knees, which were the size of a bench, the girl felt like a fish on a chopping board, unable to exert any strength even with immense power.

"Hmm?" The expected scene of blood splattering did not occur, and the black dagger pierced the girl's body without her feeling anything.

There was no resistance from flesh and blood, no tearing sound when cutting tissue... It was as if I had plunged into a cloud of air.

"Hehe!" The girl let out a mischievous chuckle, and then her figure turned into specks of light and disappeared.

"I don't know what being injured is." A light and cheerful laugh rang out, and the points of light coalesced into the figure of a girl, appearing in the distance.

After a brief exchange, the Black Blades regrouped. They looked at the unharmed girl and pondered their next move.

"Not going to make a move? Then I'll do it." Seeing that the black sword hadn't moved for a long time, the girl's first pair of wings flapped again.

More white feathers fell like rain, and then these feathers suddenly gained some kind of momentum, stabbing towards the black knife with extreme speed.

"Swoosh—" The white feathers grew larger and larger, eventually bursting into flames. The fiery feathers danced in the sky, like countless flaming swords piercing through the air.

Fire feathers darted through the air, coordinating their attacks towards the black blade. However, it was clear the girl hadn't considered the difficulty of the black blade's stealth.

Eleven figures suddenly vanished, and the vast factory fell silent. Only the crackling sound of the flames remained.

Upon seeing this, the girl carefully sensed the presence, only to discover that she couldn't detect any aura at all.

So she flapped her second pair of wings, and if there was no target, then she would designate them all as targets!

An invisible ripple echoed through the dilapidated factory, seemingly serving no purpose.

However, this was just an illusion. As the ripples swept across the factory, the aura of the black blade suddenly became unstable. This slight leakage of aura was immediately noticed by the girl who was fully focused.

"Whoosh!" A sharp whistling sound came, and the fire feathers flying in the air instantly turned into streaks of fire, piercing towards the direction where the aura was leaked.

"Clang! Clang! Clang!" The fire feather struck an open space, producing a crisp metallic clang.

Two figures suddenly appeared in the open space: one was the Black Blade who had just revealed his aura, and the other was another Black Blade.

Surrounded by enemies, Black Knife brandished his dagger, and intense black flames solidified on the blade, transforming it into a sharp blade several meters long.

Where the black flames swept, the fire feathers instantly dissipated into the sky and earth. Even if some managed to slip through, they were blocked by the scales on the black blade.

Soon, the factory fell silent again. The girl looked at the few remaining fiery feathers in the sky, waved her hand, and they automatically dissipated into the world.

She glanced at the two black-clad figures who had returned to normal, raised a slight eyebrow, and asked curiously, "Swapped consciousness? You guys are amazing!"

The way it looked was like an innocent child encountering a novel toy.

"Heh, you're not bad either, you can temporarily freeze your mind. Most people would probably fall for you." Black Knife chuckled.

The world is different, and that's good. They've never seen this kind of power before.

"Hehe, thank you for the compliment." The girl scratched her head, seemingly embarrassed by Black Knife's praise.

Black Knife glanced at the smiling girl. Her eyes, hidden beneath her veil, opened once and then closed again, remaining unchanged after that.

Because we can't see it, we don't know it. Because we don't know it, we won't get hurt.

[We need to find a way to get her to open her eyes, otherwise we can't fight.] San looked at the still happy girl and thought to himself.

"If we can't fight, then so be it. The mission is complete, and we've made enough trouble. It's time to go back and report." After hearing San's words, Aleto also felt that the girl in front of him was quite troublesome.

As soon as Aletto spoke, the Black Blades' thoughts vanished. Their leader's words carried the most weight besides those of Ember.

The girl seemed to sense something. She looked around and said with some regret, "Are you leaving?"

Black Knife did not respond.

The girl's smile widened, revealing her pearly white teeth.

"You're so much fun, I won't let you go. Be my toys!"

Even innocent and carefree girls sometimes enjoy playing pranks.

The third pair of wings flapped, and the girl clasped her hands together, looking up at the sky as if in prayer.

"Haaah—, ahhh..."

A sacred yet sorrowful lament emanated from the girl's lips.

The dawn was enveloped by the pure white light surrounding the girl, and this light expanded and expanded until it extended beyond the factory building, like a pillar of light reaching the sky.

Countless white feathers drifted down from inside and outside the pillar of light, like a flurry of snowflakes.

Everyone in winter saw it; they saw this holy pillar of light illuminate all darkness, making the light of dawn seem so faint in comparison.

Everyone heard it; they heard this heart-wrenching aria, and all their sorrow seemed to flow away with the beautiful song.

"Is this... the girl?" The servant stood by the window, looking at the light that stretched from the sky to the earth in the distance, a radiance of power equal to that of the gods.

The black blades at the center of the light stopped in their tracks. White light descended upon them, and light feathers caressed their bodies.

Together, they took many things from Black Knife.

The days spent with Ember, the time redeemed by Ember, the confusion when the world collapsed, the torment of punishment after being separated, the tension of the night of the Black Knife...

All memories gradually faded in the white light, and the Black Knives were left with only instinct. They forgot everything, even their own names.

After everything was forgotten, the Black Knives returned to their original form.

Eleven knives, eleven knives forged in the crucible of hell, knives that only kill.

The aura of the black blades vanished in the white light, and this time no one could find them again.

Young girls are always innocent and naive, sometimes they don't even realize they've gotten into trouble.

Chapter 121 The Adult Who Wipes the Butt

2023-08-28

The eleven figures within the pillar of light vanished suddenly, just as before. But this time, for no apparent reason, the girl felt a tightening in her chest.

This was the first time she had ever felt like someone was squeezing her heart.

"No, it'll be alright. They don't remember anything now. They're just eleven empty shells now," the girl murmured to herself. She seemed to be explaining something, or perhaps comforting someone.

The beam of light dissipated, and the girl separated her clasped hands, lowering her head as she searched for the black knives. Perhaps this invisibility was simply their instinct?

However, the black-clad sword, which had quickly forgotten everything, told the girl what their instincts were.

"Boom!" A series of deafening explosions came from afar, followed by a commotion.

The girl seemed to realize something, and her previous composure vanished. She hurriedly ran outside, completely lacking any grace.

"Stop... Who are you...?"

"Ouch... Ouch... Is anyone there... Is anyone here to give me a quick death..."

"What happened...? Can anyone tell me?! Tell me!!!"

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The crackling of flames, the stench of burning corpses, the wails of countless people...

They eagerly burrowed into the girl's ears, nose... Even though she couldn't see anything, they still conjured up a scene of purgatory in her mind.

The girl removed her white veil, and now her eyes are closed, seemingly without meaning. Sometimes, pain doesn't need to be seen to be conveyed and etched into the heart.

The girl opened her eyes, and then she saw the purgatory in her mind become a reality.

Black flames filled the sky, everything in sight was ablaze. Countless burning limbs and remains emitted a foul stench, and the sky was shrouded in a gray hue.

The girl could no longer tell whether the ash was from burning ordinary objects or from burning corpses.

Further away, eleven towering pillars of black flame were still waving. With each swing, everything within a hundred meters was reduced to ashes.

Whether it's people or buildings.

She saw Arecino and Puchenella step forward to stop the Black Blade. But the Black Blade's aura simply vanished and then reappeared. Soon after, several gruesome wounds appeared on their bodies, which then dissolved into rising grayness.

Only then did the girl realize that the black blade's strength was also at the god-level. And it was the kind that couldn't be seen.

Now, the unseen gods have gone mad in Winter's End.

"Young lady... hurry and stop them... they... are heading into the city." A pair of black hands, their skin completely destroyed, grabbed the girl's ankles.

The girl looked down and saw a corpse that was not human.