Volume 8, Chapter 51 – Piercing, Awakening

Quick and decisive.

This was Tianyin’s instinctive thought, and also the most urgent idea at present.

Go all out, unleash twelve parts of strength.

Fight with everything she had, exhaust every possibility.

Even though she knew in her heart that the chance of defeating the Abyssal Lord was nothing more than a tiny sliver, Tianyin still believed she could succeed.

Boom—!

The fierce wind pressure pressed down on Tianyin until it was hard for her to breathe.

Facing the Abyssal Lord’s attacks, Tianyin was not merely resisting, but was also searching for an opportunity to counterattack.

However, when faced with the Abyssal Lord’s seemingly endless tentacles, it was extremely difficult for Tianyin to find a chance to defeat her.

“Too weak, too weak. Is this really the power you went all out to muster just to fight me, vessel?”

“If this is all you can do, then you should hurry up and die!”

A rampant voice spoke words of utter coldness. Immediately after, the speed of the tentacles whipping toward Tianyin rose by an entire level.

“So… fast…”

It was hard to imagine that such bulky tentacles could be swung at a speed that formed nearly airtight afterimages. Facing these tentacles pushed to their absolute limit in speed, even Tianyin, who excelled most at speed, found it difficult to track their trajectories.

“Puh…”

The next second, Tianyin felt a sweetness rise in her throat. Immediately after, her small and delicate body was pierced and torn apart by countless tentacles.

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“Ugh…”

The pain of the game world was vividly reflected deep within Tianyin’s mind. Faced with the agony of her body being pierced through, her thoughts went completely blank.

She lost.

Very clearly, Tianyin had lost.

Under the Abyssal Lord’s attacks, even though Tianyin had already calculated the Abyssal Lord’s weaknesses, in actual combat she still could not defeat her.

And now, her body had been completely restrained by the Abyssal Lord.

“A mere vessel. Is this really all the power you have?”

The Abyssal Lord’s disdainful voice rang out, the look she cast toward Tianyin becoming extremely mocking.

Of course, Tianyin could no longer hear any of it. The pain of her body being pierced filled her entire mind, and her petite body trembled uncontrollably.

「Xiaoyin…」

Samael’s voice in her mind could not reach Tianyin at all. Some pain Tianyin could endure, but the damage inflicted by the Abyssal Lord’s power was something even she could not withstand.

This was pain born of sheer power, something mere wounds could never cause.

“Mm…”

Letting out a painful whimper, the silver-haired loli was nailed tightly in midair by the Abyssal Lord.

“Vessel, it’s time to hand over your Original Sin power!”

Saying this, the Abyssal Lord instantly moved in front of Tianyin.

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Then she reached out one hand and directly pierced through Tianyin’s heart.

“Puh…”

Blood splattered everywhere. Yet aside from the Abyssal Lord and Samael, no one witnessed this cruel scene. Because of the Original Sin power, Tianyin would not die. Even so, the moment her heart was pierced, her vision went dark.

Her consciousness grew hazy, and within the last sliver of clarity, Tianyin could feel the powers within her body slowly draining away…

Will I die?

Endless weakness accompanied endless pain, and Tianyin’s eyes could no longer stay open.

The light before her gradually faded, replaced by a darkness that instinctively repelled the soul.

I really want… to sleep…

So sleepy…

Tianyin wanted to close her eyes.

But for some reason, she forced her eyes, which wanted to shut, to stay open.

‘Can’t close them, can’t close them!’

‘If I close my eyes now… I might, I might…’

Subconsciously, the emotionless version of herself from the dream flashed through Tianyin’s mind.

‘Absolutely, absolutely cannot become like that. I don’t want to become like that…’

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‘I like Sister Xiaomu, and I also want to protect Xiaomengyao, Xiaobingxue, Fisiel, Little Lucifa, Sister Yeluo.’

‘I want everyone in Dawn to live happily. I want to eat the best desserts on Eden’s commercial street…’

‘Don’t fall asleep… I don’t want to become like that…’

No matter how much she struggled, no matter how she resisted.

Tianyin could not stop her eyes from closing. Her eyelids grew heavier and heavier, and as her eyes finally shut, the world that had been filled with pain and weakness vanished entirely at that moment.

‘I don’t want… to destroy this world…’

After her eyes closed, the deep violet pupils hidden beneath her eyelids began to lose every trace of emotion.

Of course, the Abyssal Lord did not sense Tianyin’s change. Only Samael, residing within Tianyin’s body, clearly felt the abnormal state overtaking her. But before Samael could say anything, she was directly blocked out by Tianyin…

Under the Abyssal Lord’s coercion, the Original Sin power was slowly being extracted from Tianyin’s body. The battle was already over. Facing Tianyin, whose consciousness had been completely controlled, the Abyssal Lord had fully let down her guard.

After all, she was already extracting the Original Sin power. Could Tianyin still be expected to counterkill her?

What a joke.

However, just as the Abyssal Lord believed nothing else could possibly happen—

Chi—!

The sound of something being cut rang out. Immediately after, the Abyssal Lord’s calm expression was filled with shock.

Because in the Abyssal Lord’s eyes, Tianyin’s figure suddenly began to blur. At the same time her figure became indistinct, all the tentacles that had pierced through Tianyin’s body were cleanly severed!

At the same time, the arm she had used to pierce through Tianyin was also cut off without her realizing when it happened.

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Sizzle…!

With her arm severed, blood sprayed violently from the cut surface. Yet the Abyssal Lord did not even glance at her gushing wound.

Because within her field of vision, a long sword wrapped in unmatched might was racing straight toward her.

Wherever the long sword passed, space itself shattered in unison.

“What is that?!”

With her arm cut off, the Abyssal Lord had no intention of meeting that flying sword head-on.

But at the very moment she tried to dodge, she discovered that the space around her seemed to be firmly fixed by some kind of power.

Simply put, the Abyssal Lord was trapped within a narrow space and completely locked in place.

“Puh!”

Another sword strike.

This strike passed directly through the Abyssal Lord’s face, slicing away half of it.

With such a blow, even a Legendary-tier would not survive. Yet even so, the Abyssal Lord did not die.

“Exceptional vitality. Decapitation attacks are not advisable.”

As the cold voice sounded, the Abyssal Lord saw Tianyin, who had just been defeated and left on the brink of death, now standing intact within the void.