Volume 6, Chapter 43 – The End

Seles’ sneak attack really did succeed.

From the very beginning, what appeared in Tianyin’s eyes had been an illusion Seles had prepared in advance.

And when Tianyin saw Seles’ illusion, she had instinctively swung her sword to kill that illusion.

The result was that Tianyin exposed an opening, which let Seles’ sneak attack succeed.

By all rights, what should have come next was Tianyin being severely wounded by Seles. Yet in reality it was nothing like that…

The roaring giant fire dragon struck Tianyin, but within those ever-burning flames, Tianyin, wrapped in fire, remained completely unharmed.

“Not good…!”

Although she did not understand why Tianyin, struck by her magic, was unhurt, an ominous premonition rose in Seles’ heart by instinct.

She moved on reflex, planning to leave her position.

However… no matter how fast Seles reacted, it was already too late.

Because the moment Seles had cast her spell at Tianyin, Tianyin had already unleashed the power of Gluttony.

An invisible vortex began to form with Tianyin at its center. The air started to twist, and the flames covering Tianyin’s body were gradually drawn into that “invisible” vortex.

Seles, as the original caster, did not fare any better. As the immense suction within the vortex spread outward, Seles, who was behind Tianyin, found her entire body being pulled uncontrollably toward Tianyin.

“This… what is going on?”

“Something… something is pulling us!”

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Down below, the panicked Dark Elves were also being drawn by the vortex in the sky, their bodies starting to fly uncontrollably toward Tianyin.

It was not just the Dark Elves. The encampment below was torn apart in an instant by the vast suction spreading from Tianyin, and farther away, trees were yanked from the earth one after another by Tianyin’s Gluttony.

In just a few seconds, countless beings beneath Tianyin had begun to orbit around her.

Tianyin, who had caused all of this, simply chose to ignore the chaos below.

“Seles, give up. Your power was mine to begin with.”

Looking at Seles, pinned down and unable to move under the power of Gluttony, Tianyin lowered her eyes and spoke in a low voice.

“Everything will come to an end. Seles… this war began because of you, so it is time for it to end with you…”

She slowly raised the knight’s sword in her hand, the sharp tip drawing closer and closer to Seles’ throat.

Tianyin knew that once she drove this sword down, Seles’ life would be completely ended by her own hand.

“So it really does come down to my death in the end…”

Meeting Tianyin’s utterly indifferent gaze, Seles instead smiled.

Though in Tianyin’s eyes, that smile was nothing more than a bitter one.

“Xiaoyin, do you believe in fate?”

After that bitter smile, Seles suddenly asked Tianyin this baffling question.

“Fate? Why would I believe in something so vague and empty?”

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“Right… fate really is impossible to grasp. But Xiaoyin, maybe every person’s fate really is decided ahead of time.”

“Why do you say that?”

“If you want a reason…”

Perhaps because she knew she really was going to die, in Tianyin’s perception Seles seemed much more normal now. Of course… that was apart from all the inexplicable things she was saying.

“Xiaoyin… you should know this. Before, I copied the astrology of someone at your side called Yivrea, right?”

Tianyin’s brows drew together slightly. She did not speak, just looked at Seles with a puzzled expression.

“Don’t look at me like that, Xiaoyin… actually, when I obtained astrology, I used the astrology I copied to divine my own future.”

“And the result of that divination, the content was actually very clear. It said I would die at the hands of the person I cared about most.”

“You!??”

Although she did not know whether Seles’ words were reliable at all.

If that sentence was true, then the information it contained was without question enough to overturn everything.

“But if it were only this kind of result… it still would not prove that fate is fixed, right?”

“True… just this one thing alone cannot prove that fate is predetermined.”

“But Xiaoyin, I have always believed that fate really is set.”

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“Fate made me meet you. Fate also made me fall for you. At the same time… it is also fate that has me die in the end by your hand, Xiaoyin.”

“Xiaoyin, when I put it like that, is that not exactly what people call fate?”

“…”

Tianyin did not understand why Seles was saying so many seemingly pointless things to her.

But she could not deny that Seles’ words truly made Tianyin’s heart waver.

Fate…

Seven Original Sins… the End, Supreme.

Everything she had seen and everything she had witnessed all this time. Thinking back on it carefully now, it really did feel like a script arranged in advance… guiding her step by step toward a predetermined direction.

“The idea that fate had everything arranged long ago… how could that be possible?”

Even though her heart truly wavered, that trace of hesitation still could not change Tianyin’s resolve.

Faced with Seles, who had inexplicably said all this, Tianyin finally steeled herself… and swung the knight’s sword down at Seles.

The sharp blade cut through the softest place, and thin streams of blood slowly ran down the cold sword.

From Tianyin’s point of view, the HP above Seles’ head… began to drop rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Thinking about it, there were already far too many deaths that Tianyin had personally witnessed.

Precisely because she had seen so many, Tianyin’s heart was incomparably calm as she watched Seles slowly move toward death.

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Seles.

At the very beginning, Tianyin had foolishly thought Seles was a very, very gentle Dark Elf.

But that had only been Tianyin’s impression.

Outer beauty really could deceive the heart sometimes. An existence like Seles had in fact taught Tianyin a lesson.

“At last… I can be free of this world…”

In her final moments, Seles parted her lips with difficulty and spoke her last words in an extremely faint voice.

“If… if I really could have another chance…”

“Could I not be a dark elf…”

“Could I… stop living in this lightless place… this underground where the sun can never be seen?”

“Could I… meet you again, Xiaoyin…”

“…”

For the last things Seles tried to say, Tianyin could no longer hear her.

The girl’s voice had become so quiet that even she herself could no longer hear it clearly.