Magical Girl's Knight Brother

Chapter 660 Detonation

The deathly silence on the Black City walls had not yet dissipated; the stardust and dust in the air seemed to still carry the lingering warmth of fallen gods, cold yet sacred.

Deep within the castle, the door to Grilando's office, filled with magic scrolls and exotic plant specimens, was suddenly pushed open with a bang.

Tang Cao rushed in like a whirlwind, her face deathly pale, her chest heaving violently, and her usually sly or lazy eyes now filled with pure horror and bewilderment.

Behind her followed Xiao Xiao, who was also pale-faced and breathing unsteadily. Just now, the dark red clouds in the sky had been torn apart...

The final scene of falling stars, transforming into countless fragments of stardust, and the soul-stirring aftershocks that traveled across space, left the entire Black City speechless.

Ordinary people might only feel shocked and bewildered, but for beings like Tang Cao and Xiao Xiao, who possess extraordinary perception, what they feel deep in their souls is a fear and sorrow that strikes at their very core.

"Sister Gloriand!" Tang Cao rushed to the large desk. "What was that that fell from the sky just now?! That light... and that feeling... it was so scary... so... sad..."

She couldn't even find the right words to describe the shock that was beyond her comprehension.

Xiao Xiao also pursed her lips tightly. The usually composed girl's eyes were now somewhat fixed, and she anxiously looked behind the desk.

Behind the desk, Grilando stood side by side with a young girl dressed in an elaborate classical dress.

The young girl was none other than Tanya, the former goddess of commerce.

She held a cup of coffee that had long since gone cold, with a dark stain around the rim, indicating that she had been holding it for a long time. Her face, which had been dirty before, was now much cleaner, but her face, which always carried an elegant and composed smile, was now shrouded in a lingering sense of desolation and heaviness, and deep in her golden eyes was an undisguised weariness and fear.

On the table in front of the two, a huge star map scroll was spread out, marked with many obscure runes and coordinates. But at this moment, one corner of the scroll was stained with a dark brown coffee stain, like an ominous ink dot.

Seeing Tang Cao and Xiao Xiao's panicked expressions, Grilando sighed silently, her eyes filled with worry. Just as she was about to speak to comfort them, Tanya beside her raised her head first.

The goddess who once held sway over wealth and the laws of contracts now spoke with a heavy voice, devoid of her former mellowness and confidence.

"What you are seeing... is the radiance of the fallen Star God, the scene created when a Star God who was allied with our Order faction fell."

"Star God...?" Tang Cao gasped, and Xiao Xiao clenched her fists tightly.

The fall of the supreme being represented by this term was far more shocking than they had imagined.

Tanya put down her cold coffee cup, her fingers unconsciously tracing the stain on the scroll, her voice low and sigh-like.

"The gods are suffering unimaginable, unprecedented damage." A trace of pain flashed in her golden eyes. "The shattering of the Void Realm is not merely a tearing apart of the spatial barrier, but a shaking of the very foundation of the divine kingdom. The bonds connecting the Pantheon are breaking, and the flow of divine power has become chaotic."

"I had anticipated this would happen, but I didn't expect it to happen so quickly. The shattering of the Void Realm means the collapse of the gods' divine domains. In the past, when the gods were united, they could hold on for a while, but now, the gods can only fight each other."

"And that's not even the most crucial point. The shattering of the Void Realm means that the shackles that previously relied on the power of the gods to maintain—the shackles that sealed the oldest, most insane, and most indescribable beings in the universe—are loosening, and may even... have already broken!"

Tanya's voice suddenly rose in pitch.

"The Great Old Ones, those mad abominations that slumber at the end of time, dwell in the dimensional rifts, and wander outside of reality, feeding on the universe, their seal is a cage that countless generations of gods barely managed to build at the cost of their lives and divinity."

"But now... with the gods themselves struggling to survive, their divine power waning, and the void shattered, I'm afraid no one can maintain those crumbling seals."

"Once those Great Old Ones break free of their shackles and descend upon this world..." She paused, then couldn't help but sigh. "At that time, any Nightmare Corruption will be nothing but insignificant dust; they will destroy this world first."

Gloriand nodded slightly. "The very existence of the Great Old Ones is ultimate chaos and madness. Wherever they pass, the structure of reality is distorted into an incomprehensible nightmare. Rules collapse, space tears apart, and all life is dragged into an eternal, inescapable abyss of madness. They... will completely consume this world before any calamity we know of."

Their words echoed like a death knell in the small office.

Tang Cao's petite body swayed, and she subconsciously took a step back, bumping into Xiao Xiao's arms. Xiao Xiao hugged her tightly, his own arms trembling slightly.

"No, that can't be..." Tang Cao blinked. "Then we...we'll all die? Everything...everything will..."

Tanya looked at the two young girls before her, gripped by immense fear. In her long divine life, they were indeed like children. A complex and unfathomable light flashed in her eyes—a mixture of pity and helplessness, but deeper still, a desolate sense of being driven to the brink of despair.

She slowly walked to the window, gazing at the gradually dimming yet still falling stardust outside, as if watching the twilight of the gods' demise.

The cold starlight reflected the last flame of divinity burning in her eyes.

The office was eerily silent, save for the howling wind outside the window and the silent, cold stardust falling, as if playing a silent elegy for the twilight of the gods.

In the midst of this suffocating despair, an unusually stubborn voice suddenly rang out.

"No! There's still a chance!"

Tang Cao suddenly lifted her head from Xiao Xiao's embrace. Her large eyes were now burning with an almost obsessive and unquestionable flame. She forcefully shook off Xiao Xiao's hand, which was trying to comfort her, and rushed to Tania. She looked up and stared directly into the tired and sorrowful golden eyes of the former goddess.

"My brother!" Tang Cao said earnestly. "Tang Zijun, he'll definitely have a way, he'll definitely have a way!"

"You don't know, you have no idea how amazing he is!" She waved her little fists as if trying to shatter the despair before her. "In the wasteland, in reality, in dreams, no matter how terrifying the enemy or how unsolvable the predicament, as long as my brother is there, he can always find a way out. He can always solve all the problems. He... he never lets us down, and he certainly won't this time either."

Tears welled in her eyes, but the light shone as brightly as the stars: "I believe him, he wouldn't lie to me!"

Standing behind Tang Cao, Xiao Xiao looked at her friend's slender yet upright back and listened to her almost screaming declaration. The fear and confusion in her heart seemed to be ignited by that burning belief, giving rise to a glimmer of light.

She recalled the immense power Tang Zijun displayed in the wasteland world... Yes, Mr. Tang Zijun... He always managed to create miracles. She nodded vigorously, her meaning clear even though she didn't speak.

"Yes... Mr. Tang Zijun... perhaps it really is..."

"Tang Zijun? That Outer God?" Tania's golden eyes narrowed slightly as she scrutinized the girl before her who had ignited the flame of faith for her brother.

She was well aware of Tang Zijun's special nature, that power that spanned reality and dreams, a power that even she, a former deity, found unfathomable. Her brows furrowed deeply, not out of doubt, but out of deeper worry.

"His power is indeed unique, even... beyond reason." Tanya's voice was low, carrying an assessing tone. "In terms of individual strength, perhaps he does qualify to struggle for a moment in the coming storm, but..."

Her tone suddenly became extremely stern, and her gaze seemed to pierce through the wall, seeing the cruel truth behind the falling stardust.

"Child, don't you understand? What we are facing is not an enemy, not a disaster, but the collapse of the entire universe's rules, the world-destroying frenzy formed by countless ancient rulers breaking free of their shackles."

"Even if he can rival a star god, even if he possesses power we cannot comprehend, in the face of this raging tide that is about to engulf everything and bury the gods, he is just a small boat that can be crushed at any moment. Fighting alone, he has no chance of winning at all."

Her golden eyes were fixed on Tang Cao's wide-open eyes, which were filled with pain and shock, and her tone was urgent and full of urgency.

"Listen, there's no time left! Star Gods are falling one after another, the shattering of the Void Realm is intensifying, and those ancient seals could collapse completely at any moment. The Dream World... is finished!"

Tanya's voice carried an almost cruel clarity.

"Go find your brother, immediately, right now. Take Xiao Xiao, take everyone you can take who is worth protecting, use his ability to travel between dimensions, escape, escape back to the real world, escape as far as possible, tell him everything that happened here, and let him lead you... to survive!"

"And what about you? What about everyone in Black City?" Tang Cao's voice was filled with disbelief.

A complex mix of emotions flashed across Tanya's face—pain, reluctance—but was ultimately replaced by a resolute determination to destroy everything.

She released Tangcao's wrist, took a step back, and her golden eyes blazed with the last divine light, like a dying star bursting forth with its final flare.

"Me?" A cold, tragic smile curved her lips as she gazed out the window at the sky, dotted with stardust, resembling a vast graveyard. "I will stay. This is my home."

"As a former god of commerce, I deeply understand the principle of equivalent exchange... and I also know... how to trigger an irrecoverable 'bad debt'!"

Her voice, like ice striking, echoed clearly in the deathly silent office.

"The moment the aura of those ancient rulers breaks through the seal and descends upon this world... I will ignite all the remaining divinity within me, settle this score with all the laws that have gone out of control, and completely detonate the core laws of the entire dream world."

Tania's gaze swept over the pale-faced Grelando and the shocked Xiao Xiao, finally settling on Tang Cao's horrified little face.

"Let this dream, destined to sink, destined to become a breeding ground for madness," before it completely takes root and devours reality... transform into... the grandest funeral fireworks!

Her words were like a final thunderclap, leaving Tang Cao and Xiao Xiao's minds blank.

Ignite the dream world?!

perish together?!

"No! You can't..." Tang Cao cried out in despair.

Tanya abruptly waved her hand, interrupting her, and continued speaking.

"Find Tang Zijun and tell him that this place is not worth dying for. Although I don't know much about the past of the gods or the truth of this world, there should be the homes of the gods beyond this world. My home is beyond saving, and I don't want their homes to become like this too..."

At that moment, the office door suddenly opened, instantly attracting everyone's attention.

Tang Zijun stepped inside, her gaze falling on Tanya.

"A very touching statement, but... things aren't that bad yet."