Give children a little self-destruction shock to their worldview.

As soon as she said that, she suddenly remembered that her mother was waiting for her at home, so she stood up in a panic: "No, that's not right, it's so late now, Mom must be worried..."

The child grabbed her hand.

Mayumi Haga turned to look at Him, and His tone sounded very reluctant: "There's no time left, you should come with me."

"I'm not leaving," Mayumi Haga said, shaking her head apologetically. "I have my own home to go back to. I'll come visit you again when I have time."

"Do you want to go back? But your mother is leaving now, and you won't see her even if you go back now." His tone was sad and apologetic. "She is returning to the river."

Mayumi Haga vaguely understood something. Her eyes widened, and she took a half-step back: "Has she already left?"

“I can let her stay a little longer because I like you very much,” He said, “but only for a very short time… so will you make a pact with me?”

Haga Mayumi didn't understand what it meant until He led Haga Mayumi to the stone wall in the center of the forest.

“This is our past, present, and future, Mayumi,” He said, leading Mayumi Haga from the beginning to the end.

The child pointed to a colossal beast that Mayumi Haga had never seen before, a beast that lived in the sky, and said, "This is Erwin, your ancestor."

He then pointed to another equally slender and majestic beast and said, "This is Vincent; he loves water."

The child could name every wild animal and every person that appeared in the picture.

He showed Mayumi Haga the scene of buildings in the sky, and also showed her wizards with torches driving away many dragons. The number of humans grew more and more until the scene was suddenly stained with dark, ink-like spots.

The black ink spots grew larger and larger, sweeping across the entire scene like a vortex. Yuga Mayumi saw countless creatures struggling within them, and the stone walls became increasingly dilapidated.

In the end, only one person was left.

Unconsciously, Mayumi Haga stopped in front of the last mural, still holding His hand. The two children stood before the huge and eerie painting until His words broke the silence.

“It’s you, Mayumi. You are my last living being, and I just wanted to come and see you today.” The child said, then looked worried. “But it seems that because of me, you are returning to the River of Life today. I love you very much and don’t want you to leave prematurely because of this change.”

Therefore, He decided to make a pact with Mayumi Haga.

"Moreover, you are the last of Erwin's bloodlines, and theoretically you must also form a pact with me to become a guardian," He said. "All the guardians are actually the same kind of people who have been accompanying my children since that time."

This is the promise those children made to Him.

The guardians are chosen from the descendants of ancient races, as these individuals possess a constitution more capable of withstanding blessings. However, due to the delicate nature of the current timeline, Mayumi Haga's ancient race bloodline has been diluted countless times, rendering her not significantly different from a human, thus making her pitifully weak.

Mayumi Haga was the weakest child He had ever seen, having neither inherited Erwin's power nor possessing a very strong life force.

Mayumi Haga's fate should have unfolded as depicted in the mural, continuing her ordinary life until, decades later, when a calamity struck, she struggled until her final moments before dying.

However, Mayumi Haga was able to change her fate with ease.

She did not develop as depicted in the mural, but instead encountered world consciousness at the age of sixteen and drowned before her destiny could take its course.

This is the only creature whose predetermined fate was not predicted by the stone wall.

The world consciousness realized this and decided to place some of its hopes on Mayumi Haga.

He brought Haga Mayumi here and placed a pebble in her hand that she could use to write on.

If you write your name on this stone wall, Mayumi Haga will become your guardian.

The weakest, yet the last guardian.

A feather that carries the weight of the world's future.

I didn't bring my computer home, and then I fell asleep while typing on my bed.

Main text: Chapter 145 No Need for Farewell

I remembered.

Haga Mayumi remembered everything.

From the very beginning, the world's consciousness informed him of the world's end, including his own hopeless fate... but after leaving this place, he forgot everything depicted on the mural.

After self-destructing, he would sometimes come here briefly and occasionally have a conversation with the world's consciousness.

However, thanks to the spiritual protection given by the World Consciousness, every time she leaves this place, her communication with the World Consciousness here immediately disappears from her mind.

After the original world was destroyed, Mayumi Haga never came here again.

She looked down and saw the world consciousness's face, which was no different from before, its solemn expression softening slightly: "Long time no see."

"I've actually been watching you all along," the World Consciousness said, tilting its head back to speak to Mayumi Haga, "until today."

Haga Mayumi was stunned.

Although it was a bit unexpected, when I thought that the spark was on my body, and that the world consciousness should also be within the spark, it wasn't too strange that it knew my situation.

She and the world consciousness sat directly on the ground, leaning against the stone wall and speaking softly.

Time flows hundreds of times slower here than outside. Generally speaking, once Mayumi Haga's body has finished regenerating, she will automatically return to reality, so she is not in a hurry.

The world consciousness suddenly said, "Your resurrection this time is much slower."

This is indeed the case.

Yumi Haga was usually lucky if she could only exchange one sentence with the world's consciousness; she always left in a hurry to continue her battles or adventures, never lingering here.

But things are different now. After all, the core of Yuga Mayumi has malfunctioned, and her resurrection speed is not as fast as before, so she has plenty of time to talk to the children who are here.

For the first time, she sat down here and chatted with the world consciousness that was still in the form of a child, waiting for her resurrection.

"Your core is deteriorating too quickly. If you leave here, you'll die again in no time." The world consciousness used the word "die" for the first time, its tone calm. "If you don't leave, your core will remain as it is. You should stay here a little longer."

Mayumi Haga did not answer. She simply leaned against the stone wall behind her, the patterns on it pressing against her back. It just so happened that the pattern of herself, who had resisted to the very end, was pressed against the back of her head.

She looked at the broken sky.

In fact, when she first came here, the scene she saw was far more magnificent than what she sees now. The river of life rushed in from the horizon, countless laughter splashed in the sound of the water, the forest stretched as far as the eye could see, and the fireflies were as numerous as the starry sky.

She couldn't describe in words how this space made her feel, but whenever she returned here, all her fatigue would vanish and her soul would feel light and airy.

This is where she was conceived, a place even warmer and more intimate than her mother's womb, the final resting place of life.

But she also watched as this place decayed, the trees withered, the river dried up, until only the small patch of land where she stood still had life, and the breath of death was already close at her feet.

Mayumi Haga stared at the sky for a while, then suddenly said, "After I leave, I will give the fire to Senior Urzana, or another guardian. Moreover, the people of this world can also help."

The World Consciousness crouched beside her, looking down at the ground, without saying a word.

“If it were anyone else, they would have done better than me.” Mayumi Haga calmly accepted her defeat. “You thought I could change the prophecy of fate, but now it seems that the future has not continued in my hands.”

"..." The world consciousness remained silent, seemingly unhappy.

“It’s not that you made a wrong decision,” Mayumi Haga comforted Him, “it’s just that I didn’t meet your expectations, it’s my problem.”

She is very weak.

They never possessed overwhelming power in their original world, and were only in the middle to lower ranks among the Guardians. Moreover, this is even including those Guardians who were good at thinking; their combat strength was at the very bottom.

In this world, she is even less able to keep up with the changing versions of power; with the existence of magic, she seems to be unable to do anything.

If the world's consciousness had chosen a more powerful ancient race, those individuals with the exaggerated abilities to move mountains and fill seas would not be ordinary people even if they came to this world.

Although she is considered a descendant of the ancient elves, she only possesses a slight talent for archery, which is of little use in the current battle.

Mayumi Haga felt a profound sense of powerlessness. She had once believed that nothing could make her feel despair with her willpower, but when even that self-healing ability was taken away, she fully realized her insignificance.

power.

What she never pursued has now become a fatal flaw that strangles her destiny.

Fortunately, there is one last method.

Previously, she had learned of forbidden magic from an ancient guardian elder. Using that kind of witchcraft would erase the guardian's ego, replacing it with the complete unleashing of their power.

If we use that move, we might be able to change the current situation.

No, it definitely can.

At first, Mayumi Haga didn't know the specific method of using the forbidden technique, but after returning here, memories of that sorcery naturally surfaced.

It was at this moment that Mayumi Haga realized that it wasn't that she hadn't remembered how to use the spell the ancient guardian had told her, but rather that the spiritual protection of the world's consciousness had forced her to forget this final means of suicide, allowing her to live to this day.

If it weren't for this spiritual protection, she might have chosen to use forbidden techniques to perish together with the calamity on the day the world was destroyed.

The World Consciousness can also hear Mayumi Haga's inner thoughts and know what her beloved last guardian is thinking.

His tone sounded very sad: "But this is not our world, and your body has been corrupted by calamity... You use that witchcraft here, and you will not return to the heavens like the other guardians. No one knows what will happen to you."

There were dozens of chances to be resurrected, and at least to say goodbye properly to others.

If that spell is used now, the remaining time will completely disappear.

The existence of Mayumi Haga will also be erased from the world.

If Mayumi Haga's spiritual protection hadn't been so thoroughly destroyed by the calamity, He could still have erased this self-destructive thought from Mayumi Haga's mind and protected the latter's remaining time... But He can't do that now, and can only watch the guardian walk towards the final end.

"At least, say goodbye to the others?" the world consciousness suggested.

Mayumi Haga's reply was as cold and hard as ever: "No need."

She stood up.

Main text: Chapter 146 Black Dragon

To everyone's horror, the core containing brain tissue that Haga Mayumi had flown out of disappeared into the swarm of insects.

Before Hitomi Tono, who was closest, could get there, an unexpected event occurred.

The earth trembled more and more terrifyingly, tearing open a bottomless chasm right in front of everyone. Due to the drastic change in terrain, the surrounding enemies were unable to dodge in time, and like a dark liquid flowing downhill, they forcefully submerged the core that emitted a dim golden light.

The core, along with countless calamities and enemies, plummeted into the unknown abyss.

The small figure also recovered during the fall, but seemed to have temporarily lost consciousness, showing no signs of struggling, and fell straight down like a puppet.

Hitomi Tohno no longer cares about the transformation ban, which she had actually broken once before. Now, she just needs to consider how far she should break it.

At the same moment her eyes widened in horror, she heard the astonished voice of the mage behind her: "...This is...a spiritual vein..."

The spiritual veins of the entire Miracle City were exposed to the ground in such a way one day.

This bottomless rift leads to the depths of the spiritual veins torn apart by calamity.

But Mayumi Haga couldn't hear any of this.

She could feel her body falling, accompanied by a strong sense of weightlessness. She took a deep breath and opened her eyes, but could see nothing.

All I could hear was my own heartbeat.

She didn't know how much longer she would fall to the ground or some unknown dangerous place. Out of caution about the height, she instinctively grabbed anything she could grab to slow her fall.

She caught a hard-shelled insect, which crawled onto her body and gnawed at her as soon as it touched her. Her back hit a rock that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, and after her spine made a cracking sound, she lost feeling in her mouth, which tasted fishy and sweet.

But the fall has not stopped.

She felt her body tumbling down a steep slope, heading towards an abyss. On this long journey toward destruction, it seemed that only insects accompanied her, screaming as they engulfed her, crushed her into mincemeat, or gnawed at her like two large, intertwined clumps of rotten flesh.

During this time, Mayumi Haga felt a hand trying to grab her, but she was falling too fast and the other person couldn't catch her.

It wasn't that Mayumi Haga fell too fast; rather, her backpack finally began to disintegrate just as she was about to die.

Tono Hitomi and Sugiyama Rika rushed down, just about to grab the rolling Mayumi Haga, when suddenly an endless stream of limbs, chunks of flesh, and entrails appeared out of nowhere in front of them... Animal horns, bones, and blood, some of which were still pulsating when they hit their faces, and some of which were plants they had never seen before, human skulls, Mayumi Haga's mutilated half of her face... There was even a woman's head and a teddy bear with its strings ripped off.

"What is this?!" Sugiyama Rika nearly collapsed. "Where did all these things come from?!"

Mayumi Haga's backpack contents almost filled the entire crack, but in the next moment they turned into endless orange juice, washing everyone down. In the chaos, confusion, and despair, no one saw where Mayumi Haga's body was falling.

Countless hands seemed to have gained independent consciousness and reached out to grab Mayumi Haga, only to be melted into orange juice. Mayumi Haga was washed away to a place deeper than the others.

She crashed into the spiritual vein along with the calamity insects and countless monsters.

Strangely, while other enemies were crushed by the immense impact upon hitting the surface of the spiritual vein, Mayumi Haga was as if she had fallen from a great height into deep water—

—It was submerged.

Deep within those countless interwoven spiritual veins, the broken guardian was like a block of ice thrown into water. With a splash, she didn't float on the surface, but sank deeper and deeper…

...She melted.

Yuga Mayumi's body was dissolved by the high-purity magic solution at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just a few breaths, no trace remained. The calamity on the core surface, having received the power of the spiritual vein, also grew rapidly, crushing the remaining defenses of the core.

Thus, the core truly shattered.

After finally breaking free from the sea of ​​contents in her backpack, Sugiyama Rika frantically searched for Haga Mayumi's whereabouts, only to find that nothing was left.

Within the spiritual vein, only a tiny bit of calamity-like darkness spread outwards, like a drop of ink falling into a lake.

But compared to the main spiritual vein that was completely taken over by the calamity, this is just a drop in the ocean.

Sugiyama Rika looked up and saw the giant queen insect that had invaded the entire trunk.