Aoi braked subconsciously, and almost at the same time, the ground in front of her cracked.
"boom----"
Countless pitch-black tentacles burst out of the ground like a sweeping wave, blocking the two men from the building.
8) Son of God (Part 9)
The tentacles twisted and made strange, distorted cries. The layers of scales made Carly feel dizzy for a moment. This thing beyond her cognition made her brain tremble instinctively.
Without any hesitation, she raised her pistol and fired at the tentacles:
"Bang bang bang bang bang bang——"
However, the factor energy bombs were not harmed by the tentacles at all. Instead, they rushed towards Carly as if they had identified their target.
"Om-"
Carly suddenly broke away from Aoi's back and activated her factor shield, but she was instantly knocked away by the tentacle.
"what!"
The factor shield flashed an unstable light the moment it hit the ground and was about to break.
"Carly!"
Aoi yelled, but the tentacles didn't give her much time, and attacked her with a weird scream. Aoi had to resist hard, but she seemed to be able to barely resist it, and the scorching heat seemed to have no effect on the tentacles.
Behind Aoi, Carly stood up with great effort, panting, and then ejected a factor energy bomb from the platform on her waist and threw it behind her -
"boom--"
The blue annihilation explosion formed a wall of fire, briefly isolating the black fish chasing from behind.
Then, Carly prepared to release [Ice Blue Light] again to create a breakthrough, but found that she couldn't charge it no matter what she did.
——From the moment those tentacles appeared, all the factors in the air disappeared!
Why? Could it be that...
Before Carly had time to think, the black fish like a wave broke through the wall of fire and rushed towards her.
She had no choice but to use [Star Track] to its fullest and shoot at the black fish with the enhanced reaction:
"Bang bang bang-"
Right in front of her, Aoi was gradually being overwhelmed by the black tentacles: even if she destroyed one segment of the tentacle, several more would immediately burst out from under the ground, like weeds that could not be eradicated.
Her physical strength was gradually overdrawn, and coupled with the previous encounter, she was now almost exhausted.
Everything seemed to have reached a dead end. All the black fish on the dark plain were attacking the two people, turning the earth into a black mass.
Carly and Aoi were the two people who drowned in the water and were close to death.
"..."
Gradually, Carly felt exhausted, and the load of [Star Track] on her nerves became greater and greater.
But bad things often come in pairs. In the interval of using the factor energy bomb to blow up the black fish again, Carly inadvertently glanced at the high ground where they had previously overlooked the plain.
There, a gentleman in a top hat and elegant suit was looking down at her.
It was the [Black Angel] Suleiman Agust. Although it was a little late, he still caught up.
"...!"
Carly was about to turn around and tell Aoi, but she only heard a sound of flesh being torn apart. She turned her head and found that Aoi's waist was rubbed by a tentacle, and blood spurted out:
"sunflower!"
Carly desperately ran to Aoi's side, supported her limp body, and helped her up.
"I... I'm fine..." Aoi's face was grim, "It's just a minor injury, I..."
The girl clenched her fist, gathered the high temperature in her hand, and pressed it on her wound:
“Aaaaah…!”
She moaned, used burning to stop the blood from flowing, and then controlled the air around her to become hot.
The heat temporarily forced back the black fish, but the tentacles were about to attack and could tear the two men to pieces at any time.
It seems like I have really reached the end of my rope.
"......"
Carly closed her eyes in silence. Her brain was working rapidly, but she could not find a solution to the dilemma.
The gentleman on the mountain smiled and moved his wrist, and the dark tentacles attacked the two of them like a falling sword, as if everything would end in the next second.
At this moment, a low roar came from a building in the distance.
"Om-"
Carly looked up suddenly and saw pure white flames bursting out from the top of the complex geometric building, dyeing the sky of the Black Island white.
Almost at the same time, white flames began to burn from beneath the ground, as if something had been brewing under the Black Island for a long time and was about to explode.
The white flames made the tentacles emit miserable cries, and the fireworks melted its black body, turning it into black water that flowed down.
Soon, the tentacles rolled back into the ground, avoiding the sudden white flames.
Taking this opportunity, Carly grabbed Aoi's hand and shouted:
"Let's go! Now is the time..."
Before she finished speaking, her eyes widened - behind the tentacle, countless black fish were rushing towards her, not even afraid of the burning white flames.
Before Carly could react, she saw a figure among the waves of black fish.
It was a strange young man dressed as a classical poet. He waved at Carly with a half-smile, then turned around and gently extended his cane.
"Om-"
In an instant, a strange wave bloomed on the dark plain, accompanied by a majestic momentum like a raging wave.
The dark school of fish was instantly separated to both sides, revealing a road leading to the building at the end of the horizon.
At the same time, illusory poems came from a distant place:
“He stretched out his staff over the sea, and a strong wind broke through the sea, and the waters were divided, and the sea became dry land.”
The black fish seemed to be stunned the moment they heard the poem. They stared at the sky blankly, as if time had stopped for a moment.
"Now... is... the chance!"
Without waiting for Carly's consent, Aoi grabbed her by the waist, picked her up, and ran as fast as she could.
Her body almost turned into a gust of scorching wind, and she ran along the road to the entrance of the huge geometric building and rushed into the open door.
"Bang!"
The door automatically closed behind the two of them, blocking the swarm of black fish and their miserable screams outside.
As soon as Aoi entered the room, she fell to the ground and lay there motionless. Carly struggled to get up, and then immediately lifted up half of Aoi's body:
"Aoi! Are you okay? Aoi!"
Carly gently shook Aoi. She had closed her eyes and her face looked extremely painful. Her originally rosy complexion looked slightly pale.
She had obviously done her best and no one could have done it better.
Let her rest...those black fish don't dare to come near here, which means it's safe here.
"..."
Carly took out a tube of ice-blue potion from the platform on her waist, fed it to Aoi, and then placed her in a corner of the foyer. She used the remaining part of her factors to set up simple security facilities around Aoi.
Then she stood up and looked around.
This was an ancient foyer. The silver walls were engraved with various patterns that Carly could not understand, and a faint light flashed from time to time.
This foyer has a strong sense of difference from the view of the Black Island outside, as if they were forcibly inserted together.
This place is very similar to...some of the interior features of the Tower of Babel. Is it related to the Hafrigad tribe?
Carly looked around and soon saw a passage leading to a deeper place, where there was a faint flickering light of white fire.
Is Perlis in here?
"..."
Carly suppressed the impulse in her heart, checked her equipment again, loaded her pistol, and then walked towards the dark passage without hesitation.
...END...
Flame of Stars
"We will eventually find ourselves in a situation where we will either rise up or destroy ourselves."
——"Forbidden Sayings: The Old Testament"
"what..."
White flames, white flames that covered the vision.
On the high platform of the hatchery hall, Perlis hunched over and closed her eyes tightly.
At this moment, pure white fireworks have ignited the outline of the entire hall, symbolizing that the power of destruction is reappearing in the world.
The fireworks were devouring the girl. Gradually, the speed at which Perlis's body was repaired began to be slower than the speed at which it was destroyed. More and more flames flashing white light spread on her skin, and the piercing pain made her tremble slightly.
And below the platform, the pitch-black school of fish had been burned by the pure white flames. The surviving black fish climbed on the pile of corpses of their companions while being burned by the white flames and screaming miserably.
"squeak----"
They had never surrendered before, but at this moment they felt the true meaning of "destruction".
"Rumble--"
As the white flames burned, the hall began to tremble, bits of rubble fell from the roof, and the structure of the entire building was collapsing.
But Perlis is far from completing her path to promotion. She is suppressed by the white flame, and an instinct is eroding her, turning her into an unconscious existence.
If this continues, we will be destroyed.
Bai Yan was far more powerful than Perlis, and she was unable to resist.
"what..."
Perlis groaned, clenched her fists tightly, and gathered the anchor in her heart.
She felt countless spots of light, which were very far away from her, but they emitted waves that were both unreal and real, and converged at where she was.
As the shadows overlapped, Perlis saw one picture after another.
She saw a classroom where a girl with long light green hair was gently leading the students in reciting Bai Yan's poems. The beauty of the sound of reading aloud far surpassed any kind of music.
She saw the brand new streets, where children were waving white flame flags, with smiles on their faces that showed they were free from hunger and cold.
She saw the cherry blossoms on the top of the mountain, and the masked being slowly took off the mask. Behind her, the ancient city was brightly lit and fireworks covered the sky.
She saw the veins of the mountains, and the young man walking in the blizzard was looking at the sky, with pure white sunlight flashing in his firm black eyes.
She saw the ships of Dila, and the sailors who survived the disaster expressing gratitude before having their meals; she saw the captain and the first mate on the steel bridge putting their hands together, praying that the trajectory of the white flame would not deviate; she saw countless pairs of eyes, those eyes gazing at the night sky, closing their hands with expectation, and the starlight reflected in their eyes turned into a sky full of stars.
She saw a lot, and everything converged at one point, wave after wave. Although weak, it allowed Perlis to recover her strength inch by inch.
Even though that power would be swallowed up by the white flames in an instant, even though that power was extremely weak.
Perlis closed her eyes, maintained her mind between the anchor points, and fought against the white flames with all her strength.
The pure white flames turned into a wave, violently engulfing the outline of the hall, and then attacked Perlis, constantly licking the girl's body.
She was about to be devoured, but instead of flinching, she clenched her fists more firmly.
Passing through the blizzard of Thebit, stepping through the sea of flowers of Wilkin; walking through the ruins of the kingdom, climbing to the top of the tower; wading through the flames of war in the autumn plains, crossing the outline of the sea; all the pairs of eyes and faces met along the way, friendly, calculating, disgusted, infatuated, all at this moment, shrouded Perlis's head like a sky full of stars, watching her.
This is the evidence of her being a "human". Perlis Havrgard is a living person formed by experiences, and is by no means an unconscious "pure white flame".
"It doesn't mean anything, little girl. You are you. You are Perlis Havrgard."
The words the poet had once said floated past Perlis's ears. At that moment, she felt herself rising up, and red arcs of electricity swirled around her hands that were bound by chains.
"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!"
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