I, the final BOSS of the beta test server!

That was Luster's hand.

In his slender hands, something was emitting a faint fluorescent light.

It looks like a chess piece, its entire body as crystal clear as jade, but surrounded by the brilliance of dusk.

"Relics of the God of Death", "Wreckage of the God".

It is also the source of all the storms and whirlpools surrounding this small city and Helen.

Luster did deceive Gray and the members of the Shore Watch team.

From the very beginning, this relic of the god of death was not in the royal palace, but was located in Helen's body, integrated with her heart.

This is the core of this country. It is because of its existence that "Paradise" can continue to exist in the world for a long time... This underworld of the dead was built on the remains of the old god "Death" from the beginning.

It is precisely because Helen has contained the heart of the god of death since she was born that she is able to be born strong.

Without ever going through trials, growth, or transformation, she was able to stand shoulder to shoulder with legends in her field and become the Queen of the Underworld with the power of death.

Last's slender hand gently grasped the dim yellow chess piece that was crystal clear and looked like it was made of crystal.

"Farewell, then, Your Majesty."

"Do not--"

"Maybe never again."

The black-haired boy looked at the girl in his arms and spoke indifferently.

Those dark eyes were calm and deep, yet they held a certain unshakable light.

His arms stretched slightly.

Followed by.

The girl whose heart was pierced by a sharp blade, leaving only a void. All her authority and power were taken away along with the chess piece... and she no longer had any strength left.

Just like that, she slipped out of Rast's arms little by little.

However, during this process, there was not a trace of anger, despair or hysteria of betrayal in the girl's dark purple eyes.

She just stared at Last in a daze, and it seemed as if the seal of something was broken in those dark purple eyes... The flickering light rose and fell, like the flow of the galaxy.

The girl's soft and delicate body drew a falling curve in the dark sky.

The feeling of weightlessness came rushing over me, accompanied by the whistling sound of wind in my ears.

She fell down a steep cliff, and below her was the raging dark ocean.

Time passes slowly, but cannot be reversed.

However, while falling in mid-air, Helen's lips, which had turned extremely pale due to excessive blood loss, suddenly moved slightly.

"Goodbye."

"Last-san."

The girl's whispered words were drowned in the violent sea breeze and were not heard by anyone.

It was not a call from Her Majesty the Queen of the Underworld to her servants.

But it was the first place in the obelisk of Star University, the first seat at the round table, the president of the student union... a farewell to Last.

The blade of light, condensed from the full power of a legend, pierces through... not only the domain and power of the god of death, but also the remains of the gods and the full power of the Queen of the Underworld.

Also pierced was the memory seal placed by the night world deep within the girl's soul.

At this moment, the seal of memory was broken, and the memory of Axia, the chief of the Star University Round Table, was unlocked.

The surging memories revived like a tide, interweaving with the memory fragments of the Queen of the Underworld "Helen", completely merging into one, no longer distinguishable from each other.

She just stared quietly at the increasingly blurry figure of the young man on the cliff.

There was a glint in her dark purple eyes, and in her gaze there was Akshia's closeness to Last and her desire to protect him... as well as her attachment to Helen and a slight reluctance to let her go.

It was as if he wanted to engrave the face of the black-haired, black-eyed boy in front of him into the deepest part of his soul forever.

After a thousandth of a second.

The cold feeling of the sea water quickly swallowed her up.

Axia's body continued to sink in the sea, as if falling into the abyss.

The light gradually dimmed.

The shimmering sea surface is no longer visible, only a tiny glimmer of light penetrates the dark water, illuminating this silent world.

The sea water here is very cold, freezing to the bone.

Hearing, vision, smell...

All of Axia's perceptions were rapidly fading and then returning to nothingness.

All that remained was the increasingly faint figure of the young man standing on the cliff beyond the hazy sea level.

In the "Heart of Death," Axia's power and source of strength were being taken away.

This Queen of the Underworld, who was once so majestic that her words could turn into words of death, is now no different from an ordinary, fragile and weak girl.

However, just when Akshia felt that the oxygen in her lungs was about to be completely exhausted and the pain of suffocation was about to completely engulf her and take away the girl's life.

She suddenly felt that at the end of the deep sea, a crack suddenly appeared in the earth.

There was a radiance of darkness and dusk interwoven, gently enveloping her.

Axia's body fell into the crack that swallowed the light, and her consciousness faded.

Disappeared into the boundless darkness, with no idea where to go.

……

In the present world, in the Mystery Tower, the hall next to the Epoch Tombstone.

The image on the light curtain froze silently, frozen at the moment when Axia fell into the deep sea, the faint light on the sea surface gradually dissipated, and the endless darkness swallowed everything.

"This kid..."

Dean Yin's furry white tail froze in mid-air.

It found that it seemed that its champagne was opened too early.

Obviously, I should have guessed it earlier.

When he first met Last, he used the "Moon of Truth" to peer into Last's heart.

At first glance, this guy's spiritual world is clear and bright, like a bright and shining star.

However, if you observe closely, you will find that his soul is terrifyingly deep, like a black hole as dark as ink, swallowing up all light.

How could a guy with such a heart be swept up in the fairy-tale atmosphere and affect his decision?

It was a pity that I had a moment just now when, because of the overly romantic atmosphere, I believed that Rast would do something that was in line with the story and the same as the male protagonist in the fairy tale book.

Now that I think about it, I still don’t know this guy Last well enough.

"But we're completely screwed now!"

Just got rid of the crazy mood I was in before.

Immediately afterwards, Dean Yin couldn't help but have a bad premonition in his mind.

"Last, this guy, actually stabbed Xiao Xia in such a senseless way."

"What to do next?"

"Originally, it was because of you and me that Xia went to the same Epochal Echo to help that guy."

"However, due to the Night World's mischief, a tragedy occurred where fellow Star University students killed each other in the Night World."

Although for the night travelers in the present world, everything in the night world is just a remnant of the past, a false echo of history.

However, the experiences of the night travelers in the echoes of the night world are all real.

People die when they are killed.

When a Night Traveler dies in the Night World, he or she will truly die.

Life is irreversible, this is the iron law of the night world.

Even in modern times when various treatment technologies are highly developed and even disabilities like broken limbs can be cured... but bringing back the dead and resurrecting the deceased is something that no known sequence elder or night blade can do.

If it was to explore the night world, to conquer the echoes of history, to resolve the twilight disaster, and to thoroughly get to the root of all this chaos... then the sacrifices and deaths of the night travelers in the night world might not be unacceptable.

After all, as a member of Star University.

Before entering the night world, every night traveler has already made up his mind to commit himself to the night and transform himself into a bright star on the obelisk.

but--

It was not the projection that died in the night world, the powerful source of disaster.

Rather, he was killed by a misunderstanding caused by the rules of the night world, at the hands of a companion whom he could have trusted.

This is something that neither Dean Yin nor the Star University behind him can accept.

"Don't be impatient, little ferret."

This is different from Dean Yin, who is as anxious as an ox, running around in circles, and can't wait to rush into the night world.

Beside it, Ophelia's voice remained silent.

However, when Dean Yin followed the source of the voice and turned his gaze to Ophelia.

However, it was shocked to discover that an unnatural blush appeared on the delicate white face of the petite second princess.

"Little Snow Ferret, do you really think that the guy who can gain my sister's approval is an idiot who has no ability to think for himself?"

"She has the exact same appearance, the same sequence level, and the same abilities as the Axia I met in real life."

"Even the life-stealing Word Spirit is exactly the same as the habit of communicating through writing instead of direct speech."

"If it's just a simple resemblance in appearance, then it can be explained by coincidence or blood connection."

"But besides appearance, there are so many coincidences in character and life details... If we still use excuses like coincidence and accident to explain it away, deceiving ourselves and others—"

"Then Rast is not qualified to be my brother-in-law."

Ophelia's beautiful wine-red eyes sparkled with a strange brilliance.

The unnatural blush on her doll-like fair face became even more intense, as if she was drunk.

"Miss Axia, your memories of the present world are sealed, so you were unable to detect it just now."

"But Rust is different."

"He had noticed the unnatural similarities between Queen Helen and Miss Axia, and must have suspected a connection between the two... but in the end, he still chose this path."

"This shows that he has already made up his mind to bear all the consequences of this path."

A pale silver light flowed in Ophelia's eyes, like the rise and fall of electric arcs.

Calculation matrices appeared in her eyes, rotated, and then disappeared, flickering.

The next moment, on the light screen in front of the two people—

The image that had been frozen in the darkness began to flicker again.

At first it was just vague and illusory light and shadow.

But soon, the shaking of light and shadow stabilized and turned into a clear and distinct image.

It's no longer Axia's first-person perspective.

Rather, it is the picture at the top of the mountain.

The young man with black hair and black eyes was holding the crystal chess piece in his hand, gazing at the dark sea tide below the cliff that swallowed everything in the night.

As soon as Axia fell from the cliff, Ophelia triggered the backup plan she had reserved on the video crystal.

The transmission crystal stone differentiated into a sub-body, which solidified on the cliff.

The first-person perspective, originally locked on Axia, was switched to a fixed camera position, with the camera lens fixed on the cliff at the top of the peak.

"There are still experts?"

Dean Yin glanced at Ophelia beside him and shook his tail in surprise.

This little girl's thoughts were so deep that they always exceeded its expectations. She was not like her sister at all.