Tonight, Alice joins the hunt.

She winked at Alice.

"After all, this is a holiday. Leave the fighting and killing to me, your older sister."

She reached out her hand, and without waiting for Alice to express her opinion, her slender fingertips casually tapped the tablet screen broadcasting the live stream!

At that very instant, a slender, white finger, as tall as a pillar of heaven, suddenly descended from the twilight of the Undead King's world. It effortlessly shattered all tangible and intangible barriers, crushing the single entity of Ikutaya's myriad avatars into nothingness and dust!

A mountain nine ren high can be ruined by a single basket of earth.

A war between species is an equal contest as long as it remains unresolved.

A terrifying roar of extreme rage echoed across the seas, and in this powerless fury, the last surviving world of the Undead Kings came to the end of its era.

The thirteenth era has come to an end.

And so, the holiday and Luo Ye's lessons came to an end.

Side Story: Red

In the chaos, the wolf girl, still nameless, opened her eyes. She remembered her battles with the God King and the Demon Lord, and how, after a fierce struggle, she had plunged her dagger into their conceptual cores one after the other.

They should all be dead, and whether they can return from the dead as independent individuals depends on their own resilience.

And what happened after that?

what happened?

All she remembered was that a portal seemed to have opened in the sky, and then an indescribable darkness and hatred swept through her vision along with the decaying star winds.

Perhaps I am dead too.

So, where am I now?

She blinked and looked around. What came into view was a modern metropolis she had never seen before. Neat high-rise buildings, clean streets, few and quiet cars on the road, pedestrians strolling along the tree-lined streets, and a clear blue sky with white clouds above.

It was a wonderful combination, a rare one, and one that pleased her—she had only ever seen clear skies in the game world, skyscrapers in the hive city, neat cities in the ancient timeline, and carefree pedestrians strolling through the forest in her dreams.

So... all of this can be combined?

So... the world can become like this?

A mist rose in the air, and a light drizzle, like a thin veil, gently caressed the earth and the wolf girl's shoulders. She was surprised to find that she didn't dislike this natural phenomenon that used to wet her tail. Moreover, in this misty drizzle and gentle breeze, she felt a unique tranquility.

The war... should be over by now.

She felt a man about the same height as Ainz Ooal Gown walk up to her and then open an umbrella to shield her from the rain that was gradually becoming more intense.

"The war is indeed over." — The man's voice sounded strangely familiar to her.

"Your mission is complete. From now on, you are free."

The wolf woman turned her head, and what appeared to her was a rather ordinary-looking young Eastern office worker. He was around thirty years old, wearing a mass-produced black work suit, glasses, and his hair was neatly combed, his beard and face clean-shaven—he wasn't particularly handsome, the kind of person who would be easily lost in a crowd. Upon seeing that familiar face, which she had only seen when observing the timeline, the wolf woman had a guess that was probably correct.

"You are..." But she still asked the question instinctively.

“I am Suzuki Satoru.” The office worker replied with a smile, “Yes, just as you imagine, as you think of me. Of course, you can also call me ‘Momonga.’ Both names mean the same thing to me.”

The wolf girl blinked.

At first, she couldn't understand what was going on, but soon, a wealth of information and messages silently flooded into her mind from nothingness—she knew everything, more than she had ever known before. And at the end of all this, she saw the woman she had never met, yet who had orchestrated this entire scheme.

Luo Ye, the sky of twilight. She met Suzuki Satoru thirteen eras ago, and at that time, she laid out a chess game that still influences her today.

She used 'unchanging' to conceal the changes in this universe, preventing Itakua, whose main body was also delayed on the outer battlefield, from noticing the arrival and alterations of Alice and Patchouli.

She contacted Suzuki Satoru's true form, and the two joined forces to inflict a crushing defeat on Itakua, who had paid a heavy price to complete this plan, and also trapped him in a stalemate from which he could not extricate himself.

And finally, it was she who, as a third-party interventionist, launched a final, all-out attack, the culmination of thirteen epochs, leading Itakya's avatar to its death while simultaneously allowing the twilight's ideology to erode its other avatars and even its true form. Thus, she etched the turning point in this war that had raged for countless years!

Honestly, being outmaneuvered by someone of this caliber, it's only natural that she ended up in this obvious and predictable state. The wolf girl couldn't help but sigh, feeling a touch of sorrow for her past life, for that unfortunate but destined wolf maid.

"What are your plans for the future?" the man who called himself Suzuki Satoru asked.

"Did I have a choice?" the wolf girl retorted. She really didn't think she could get away with anything under the watchful eyes of such a powerful being whose vision spanned countless eons. Besides, anyone would feel frustrated and resentful after discovering they'd been a pawn for so long.

—She was ultimately not a true transcendent being, but a disposable tool created by others. She could indeed glimpse into space and time, manipulate concepts, and unleash godlike power. But in essence, she remained merely a female werewolf with a combat level of only fifty-nine, equivalent to unlocking the second-tier genetic lock.

However, her almost self-deprecating question only elicited a soft laugh.

“Of course you have a choice.” The man gently twirled the umbrella in his hand, letting the glistening raindrops fall to the ground.

"You can follow me and participate in my upcoming war against Ithaca as my subordinate. You have considerable talent, and the extraordinary experiences you have had are enough to allow you to travel through the multiverse. I will not impose many restrictions on you and will be able to protect you until you grow to the limit of a true god."

"You can also follow Miss Luo Ye. Her messenger will be here soon, and following her will undoubtedly give you a better future. Perhaps one day you will be able to become a transcendent being like me, or even join the legion of a sage. But following her will undoubtedly subject you to... somewhat severe constraints."

"Finally, if you are unwilling to join either of our camps, then we will each give you a gift to settle the karmic debt of this assistance. After all, you are now an independent individual, not a selfless member of the clan. This karmic connection needs to be understood, and you can then freely traverse the seas and obtain the results you desire in freedom."

“I choose option three,” the wolf girl answered without hesitation. “I… want freedom.”

“You are now free, madam.” The man stopped spinning his umbrella. “But since you have made your decision, I will keep my promise—I will share with you a portion of the authority to travel freely through the seas. I will maintain your perception of the seas, and the seas’ perception of you. In this way, even if you are not a transcendent being, you will not face destruction in any random world’s cataclysmic era.”

The rain stopped, and a rainbow appeared in the sky.

The man folded the umbrella and placed it in the wolf woman's hand, but the umbrella vanished the moment she touched it.

The man's figure vanished before her eyes. She felt a change within herself, but couldn't immediately discern what it was.

A cool breeze drifted in from afar, ruffling the tips of her light gray hair. A subtle, fresh fragrance carried on the air, accompanying the two young women's footsteps.

They are the God King and the Demon Lord, Ayaka Satou and the Little Devil—in her eyes, they have undergone a significant change, different from before. And the outcome of this change points them towards independent living beings.

Ah... they succeeded.

She watched as the two living beings, who resembled young girls, came before her, bowed to her, and then each presented her with a gift.

The gift was an exquisite doll. The blonde woman, Aika, explained, "This is a puppet that can replace three deaths. As long as you don't suffer a death beyond a certain level, you will be sent back from the Abyss of Death three times. And if you don't even suffer a death at the level of a true god, then it can be used an unlimited number of times."

The other gift was a rather ordinary-looking hardcover book. This time, it was the little devil who spoke: "This is a book that can break through all magic, technology, rituals, and dogmas. You can use it to learn or counteract any harm done to you. And this book will work in most worlds."

The two girls each gave her a gift, then bowed to her and left.

The surroundings quieted down again.

She glanced at the two gifts in her hands—gifts that vanished into nothingness and merged into her body upon touching her fingers—yes, how could gifts from a transcendent being be lost? She raised an eyebrow, and then, like the leisurely inhabitants she had seen before, she strolled through the tranquil forest.

—A very interesting experience.

Her mind was blank, she had no purpose, and instead of following the paths laid out by others, she randomly took steps in some direction. She walked on, and no one showed any unexpected reaction to her hair color, her wolf ears, or her tail. And in this wandering, she felt a unique kind of freedom.

free.

Freedom is a rare treasure.

"You don't seem very satisfied with our arrangements; it seems your yearning for freedom is extraordinary."

A woman's voice came from the side.

The wolf girl turned her head and saw the person she had expected—it was Luo Ye, the one from the Twilight Sky. She sat on a stone bench by the roadside and adjusted her black-rimmed glasses as the wolf girl stopped.

“What you want is complete freedom, undisturbed by anything, unburdened by any ‘help.’ The freedom you had when you returned from the brink of death, a freedom where body and mind belong entirely to yourself.” — Luo Ye said firmly, then asked, “What are you? What do you want to become?”

She received a swift and decisive reply.

“I am a wolf, a wolf of the hunt.” The wolf woman answered without hesitation: “What I desire is to hunt freely in a free hunting ground.”

"The Way of the Hunt? It leans more towards wildness, more towards the survival of the fittest than the hunting that Zhao Zhuikong possesses. Very well, this freedom will not make you and us enemies. However, freedom is an elusive thing in this multiverse. Even the pinnacle of True Saints, those sages who are revered as emperors, cannot obtain the kind of freedom you desire."

“So I want a promise from you.” She turned around and knelt down before Luo Ye. “I am willing to pledge my allegiance to you, but I hope you can erase my memories and my power, so that I can face everything that comes my way with a fresh start, knowing nothing.”

Luo Ye raised an eyebrow.

"You want to kill your past and present self, and create your future self?"

The wolf girl lowered her head deeply.

"A wolf that doesn't know it has a master, as long as it roams alone in the wild, is no different from a free wolf."

"Self-deception." Luo Ye snorted, then asked, "Why choose me? Suzuki Satoru owes you far more than I do. You could have chosen him to fulfill your wish."

“Because he is weaker than you, and because he can change. You are stronger than him, and you will not go back on your word.” The wolf girl’s forehead touched the ground. She waited, waiting for the outcome that Luo Ye would bestow upon her.

She waited for fifteen seconds.

Then, she felt cold fingers touching her shoulder.

"Do you have a name, wolf?" the owner of the finger asked softly in her ear.

"I haven't decided yet... Will you name me?"

Luo Ye didn't answer, or rather, what she said was unclear to the wolf girl. She only vaguely sensed that she was being accepted by something, and the next moment, knowledge, memories, language, power... everything she had ever possessed vanished from her.

Both her past and present self were utterly killed by Luo Ye.

And she, a newborn and nameless girl, embarked on an unknown journey.

She could no longer use her powers and strength, nor could she recognize the existence of the three gifts she had been given, thus she could only use them passively. With the triggering of some mechanism, she fell into the multiverse gap that Alice and others called the Abyss of Death, and that other transcendent beings called the Seas.

She wanted freedom, and Luo Ye gave her freedom.

She wants to forget everything from the past, so she will keep washing away her past during her journeys.

Rebirth, adventure, death, oblivion. She cycles through these, drifting aimlessly through the ocean of the multiverse towards any random, unfamiliar universe. Some places are inhabited by powerful beings, who will expel her before she even arrives, thanks to the attention or fortune bestowed upon her by Luo Ye. Some universes are watched by less powerful life forms, and she will go there, then, relying on her instincts, engage in hunt and battle after battle.

She arrived in a world teeming with goblins, a world where heroes and demon kings clashed, and where goblins of all kinds and in countless numbers roamed. At the moment of her arrival, she twisted the script, allowing a brother and sister who should have died at the hands of the goblins to live.

A kind of intuitive premonition told her that she had to kill the goblins to undo the script that she had distorted. So she stayed in this world for a long period of about fifteen years. When she left, the goblin species no longer existed in this world. And perhaps this brought happiness to many people.

Happiness? She didn't understand what human happiness was. For her, happiness lay solely in hunting.

When she departed, all the new knowledge and memories she had gained in this world were forgotten. Then, she embarked on another fantastical journey in another world.

She learns quickly; after all, the book that breaks through all laws grants her sufficiently keen perception, even passively. No matter how she arrives, she can quickly establish herself on the earth.

But she still didn't have a name, never had one.

She arrived in a post-apocalyptic, twisted world. In this world, she saw many bio-monsters and girls infected with the corresponding virus, possessing animalistic features similar to hers—having no memory, she initially thought she was one of them and thus obeyed their order. However, she soon discovered that the mortals of this world had already fallen, relying on these girls with animalistic features to fight the monsters yet extremely discriminating against them, as if they were some extraordinary, divinely ordained noble.

At first, she didn't intend to pay them any attention—it's just hunting, what difference does killing make? However, when her power grew rapidly, becoming the strongest on the surface in a short period and wiping out all the bio-monsters, those arrogant fools began to see her as their new prey.

Tsk, it's just hunting, what difference does killing anyone make?

Since the other party intends to kill her, she will naturally turn around and kill them all.

She would not forgive, nor would she accept surrender. And when she felt she had done enough, her slaughter had transformed those like her from discriminated slaves into feared nobles—she had blasted the post-apocalyptic world back to the Middle Ages. And in the Middle Ages, power more easily rules over ignorance.

She had lived in this world for three hundred years. During those three hundred years, her own kind or humans often tried to get close to her and give her a name—but she didn't want a name. She didn't need these names given to her by outsiders. Because a name itself was a constraint, and constraints would make her hunting impossible.

So she left, forgetting all knowledge and all power, and went to the next crossroads.