Chapter 936 - 49: Bad End?

Chapter 936: Chapter 49: Bad End?

"How...how could it be..."

"Sister Yellow Springs!!"

The shocked voice of Kenshan Yellow Springs, along with the frightened voice of Togami Kagura, almost sounded at the same time.

Because both of them awoke simultaneously, suddenly regaining their self-awareness from their state of being controlled by Alaya’s Force. Upon opening their eyes, they saw their bodies becoming transparent, disappearing bit by bit, a terrifying sight that could frighten even them.

The vast power was slowly fading...

Without that seemingly endless feeling of power, both of them suddenly felt like they were falling from the sky.

This doesn’t mean that Alaya’s Force is exhausted, but their existential power is flickering, becoming extraordinarily unstable and weak... Like a candle in the wind, or a handful of sand blown away by the breeze, it is continuously vanishing.

From their now half-transparent bodies, this could be seen clearly—

They had already lost the feeling of substance, seemingly becoming like Spirit Bodies.

Leaving aside the faint transparency, they even looked like they were flickering due to unstable voltage, like a light bulb constantly flashing, seemingly ready to extinguish at any moment.

The Human World’s suppression force is lamenting.

A vast ocean of seven billion wills let out a sigh of reluctance at this moment. Despite its inability to truly contend against the overwhelming force of planetary will in direct confrontation, it could only barely hold on in the situation where Miss Tamamo no Mae purposefully released it.

But regardless, just like the instinct of life, it is tenacious, unyielding...

In any case, it would never accept this fate, never welcome the judgment of death.

Naturally, Alaya’s Force is the same; even if resistance is ineffective, it will never cease to fight, nor will it accept the advent of an apocalypse that exterminates the entire species. As long as there is a breath left, as long as there is life, it will never stop acting...

However, unfortunately, no matter how tenacious and unwilling it is, after losing the Executor of the material world, it simultaneously loses the means to directly interfere with the material world.

Even with vast power, it cannot be converted into practical significance because there is no longer a spokesman to voice and represent its will.

Thus—

The gathered might dissipates quickly. Despite the echoing shouts of countless voices resonating in the void, gone but not forgotten, it cannot change this result. After all, both Kenshan Yellow Springs and Togami Kagura are disappearing, like a container inherently cracked and leaking, unable to preserve even themselves, what function can it serve?

The power poured in scatters as it comes in, whatever amount comes in disperses, unable to stay.

This is the main reason Alaya’s Force dissipates...

Otherwise, it wouldn’t retreat so easily, the curse of suppression force wouldn’t vanish due to such a thing—it’s called suppression force, an organization born from the unconscious gathering of humans; in this Dungeon World, although it barely awakened recently, it already possesses the basic nature.

To ensure human history can continue, absorbing countless records, boundless power, the soul repository that will forever exist before the end of humanity. If chosen persons are "those who can be of use for human survival," they will be granted infinite power.

In terms of nature, except for the inability to summon Heroic Spirits and Guardians, it is similar to Fate World’s universal consciousness organization.

"Sister Yellow Springs..."

"Kagura, hold onto me!"

The wind whistles around, and the two girls, having lost their power, naturally fall from the sky.

They cannot fly by themselves, but using spells or summoning Spirit Beasts can still provide short-term solutions.

However, without the support of the Human World’s defensive barriers and their power gone, they are at the end of their rope now, unable to do anything but be captured by Earth’s gravity and fall frightfully towards the ground under gravity’s acceleration.

Even Togami Kagura, with her muddled and innocent nature, is horrified, letting out an involuntary cry.

Long black hair flies upwards in the wind; Kenshan Yellow Springs’ pupils contract to the limit, almost instinctively responding as she falls through the air, desperately reaching out towards Togami Kagura.

What on earth is happening?

Did they fail?

What’s happening to me?! Why, why did I and Yellow Springs become like this?

Memories flash through her mind like lightning, and her heart feels as if it’s been pierced by an ice column, as if her blood and breath are freezing...

Their consciousness goes back to the not-so-distant past, during the hunt facing an A-ranked Great Evil Spirit.

Originally thought to be a successful emergency operation, but the Evil Spirit’s final struggle led to failure—

It probably didn’t even realize that these suddenly appearing Demon Exorcists were actually there to protect it. To escape, it shattered its own Domain and rushed out of the nonexistent Shrine, resulting in direct exposure to the blood-red storm outside.

That is the massive spiritual pressure raised by the Killing Stone, evolving into a malignant spiritual storm.

Even in the Nasuno area, it’s like a bottomless black hole, infinitely pulling all evil spirits within the world. The Killing Stone aims to reclaim all split-off Demon Power Crystals, unite and complete itself!

Precisely seeing this trend, the Mind Industry urgently acted, trying to preserve an A-ranked Great Evil Spirit—

Due to the suddenness of the event, by the time it was noticed, all the exposed Evil Spirits outside had already been devoured completely. They simply had no way to collect the Evil Spirits that were usually everywhere, and outside was clean as if vacuumed.

But the idea was beautiful, yet the result was disappointing, when that A-class Evil Spirit didn’t cooperate at all, rushing out to self-destruct directly, it was like a big supplement Energy Crystal, injecting substantial vitality into the Killing Stone, suddenly rushing up the completion progress bar.

Then...

The arrival of Nine-tailed Sky Covering, the Unparalleled Demoness.

Just seeing the silhouette of the legendary "Great Evil Spirit," "Desolate Divine Soul," almost all Demon Exorcists felt an inner despair.

Yet at that same moment, Kenshan Yellow Springs and Togami Kagura both simultaneously heard the prophecy.

——Even though the planet accepted the end of civilization.

——The humans, the planet’s primates, kept rejecting the end of civilization.

Their bodies chilled, struck with despair and shivering with cold, they indeed heard that voice. Understanding what was happening, the two of them didn’t care why they were chosen, but decisively contributed their own Power, because if they could avoid this fate of extinction, any cost was worth it.

Shortly after, during the subsequent period, they completely lost perception and consciousness.

But losing consciousness didn’t mean losing memory. During the period Araiyer used their bodies to act, memory simply had gaps, they need some time to process and accept, to figure out what happened during this time.

So——they truly did not understand!

This didn’t seem to be caused by any extraordinary impact, merely in an inconspicuous situation, their existence was about to disappear?!

Panic, awe, anger, fear...

In the whistling high-altitude winds, long hair flew wildly, at this moment, the two girls in their falling process felt the indescribable despair.

The ground was rapidly approaching, their figures also flickered faster, seemingly before they hit the ground, they were about to transform into a thousand winds.

At that time, the sky was red as blood, like clouds were burning, actually that was the vast Nine-tailed Sky Covering covering the sun, its power like a divine demon. That beautiful Demoness silhouette quietly stood in the sky, just overlooking the process of their falling, without any movement.

No empathy.

No sigh.

In an instant, the whole world suddenly darkened, like an endless darkness rapidly spreading, ripping open the sky, shrouding everything, almost like a void cloud moving in space, directly covering the entire planet.

The world fell into a brief distortion.

At this moment——

Space seemed to be abruptly halted by Authority.

Violently freezing everything in the current state.

All movement stopped, all noise silenced, quiet enough to evoke loneliness.

Two falling girls saw...

Everyone on this planet saw...

And Yatsugaya Miko who triggered this all also saw...

Immersed in that state of consciousness separation, the girl swimming in the river of time, surprised looked up, found a pair of azure eyes slowly opening. At the upstream of the timeline, like the sky tearing open, vast deep pupils quietly reflected the earth’s scene.

No, it was reflecting this planet.

"..."

"..."

She opened her mouth, unable to say anything.

Thoughts seemed completely frozen, only emptiness and blankness remained.

The pair of huge pupils were sacred and indescribable, seemed to be overlooking this world, yet seemed peacefully staring at her, time ambiguously extended infinitely in the stare.

The lonely observer subconsciously raised her head, her gaze constantly moved up, in the light that was hard to face, the figure above all things remained in the void, seemingly holding up the world itself, all tangible and intangible universal phenomena being arbitrarily twisted and reshaped under this unparalleled Power.

He observed the contraction of the world line, the false fantasy dissipating, returning to the sole reality.

Then...

Sighed seemingly helplessly.

"So it’s like this... However, this directly leads to the Bad End ending, which is truly troublesome."

As his words fell, he waved slightly, capturing the entire Earth into his palm, the vast energy of the Infinity Gem instantly activated, helping him extract the concept of time.