Night World Players

Chapter 155 Rast: BOOM~ (Two-in-One)

The waves are surging and there is wind on the sea.

Last looked directly at Noah, who had already soared into the air and reached the top of the tower at eye level with him. He stroked his chest and leaned back.

His figure was submerged in the howling storm in the sky, and he fell straight towards the illusory sea transformed from the abyss.

……

What does he want to do?
Even though I knew my body had been planted with flesh and blood, and that my life and death were completely controlled by my thoughts, I still struggled in vain...

Or in other words, to die?

Noah's ample half was slightly startled.

But soon, his eyes became stern.

Originally, Noah wanted to use the flesh and blood seeds in the other party's body as a threat. After completely subduing Last, he would find a way to thoroughly investigate the many abnormalities in his body.

For example, why didn't Cecil let his successor lie dormant carefully, but allowed him to contact himself and infiltrate the gravekeepers to become an insider... putting the most important fire under the enemy's nose?
This was undoubtedly an irrational choice - as a legend, it was impossible for Cecil not to understand this most basic truth.

However, looking at the young man falling into the sea from the end of the tower, Noah temporarily suppressed his confusion.

No matter what - the power that Last used just now was indeed derived from the fire stolen by the shore guard... This is an unshakable fact, and he would never make a wrong judgment.

Recovering the stolen fire is Noah's first goal on this trip...

Compared to this, everything else seems unimportant and takes a lower priority.

"You have denied the gift of the divine realm and rejected the eternal immortality bestowed upon you by us."

"As the price for rejecting this gift... your flesh and blood will become food for my creations, bearing the most gorgeous flowers in the world—"

The old hand clasped lightly in the air.

"so--"

"Your life will end here."

next moment.

boom--

Last's skin suddenly turned pale.

Thousands of plant roots grew rapidly along every inch of his meridians and blood vessels, squeezing out every drop of blood flowing through his limbs.

Then, every drop of blood in his body gathered in his heart.

The emerald green branches and leaves penetrated the flesh and blood, carrying the flower bud that broke through Rast's pale skin, trembling slightly at his heart, reflecting the bright red of blood.

Followed by.

After a thousandth of a second.

The buds bloom.

A strange blood lotus bloomed above his heart.

Noah's words were not groundless...this is truly the most beautiful flower in the world.

It is nourished by the flesh and blood and vitality of living beings, blooming like a poppy, seductive and decadent.

Every drop of blood was taken away, every blood vessel and meridian was broken open...Last's whole body lost its blood color.

Just like a kite with a broken string, it plunged towards the dim sea under the tower.

"again……"

Looking at the blood-red flower blooming in the air, Noah couldn't help but sigh softly.

"Another human being who, knowing eternal life is within reach, refuses to compromise for something so illusory."

Some past events suddenly came to his mind.

Some things that happened in the old era have long been buried in the long river of history...Except for the elders among the gravekeepers like Noah, no one knows about these past events.

Once upon a time, there was an ordinary human being who rose from humble beginnings, enduring hardships, overcoming difficulties, and blazing a trail from the ground up...

In an era of depletion where the inheritance of extraordinary knowledge is almost completely cut off and the strongest are only at the third or fourth level - relying on his own arduous persistence and talent, step by step, he single-handedly blazed a path to heaven in the dark age without light.

At the wrong time, in the wrong place, he ascended to the throne of legend.

That person even discovered the existence of the ancient secret organization, the Gravekeepers, based on the few clues in the ancient books, and established contact with the Gravekeepers organization that was still hiding behind the scenes and had never been born.

His talent and character were so extraordinary that the gravekeepers at that time treated him differently and invited him to join.

And the other party lived up to everyone's expectations and grew rapidly, becoming a senior figure among the tomb keepers, second only to the first and above everyone else. He was even qualified to take charge of the fire in the organization that had been passed down from the Age of Gods to this day.

However - no one had expected it.

When the life cycle of that era was about to end, and the gravekeepers were ready to follow the will of heaven and destroy the current era to complete the restart cycle... among the gravekeepers, the largest civil strife since its creation broke out.

The specific process and details of this civil unrest have long been buried in time and cannot be verified.

The final outcome of the civil strife was that the grave keepers successfully suppressed the rebels, but they also paid a heavy price. Most members suffered irreparable injuries, and in order to avoid dying over time, they had to sleep for a long time or seal themselves, greatly weakening their influence on the real world.

Led by the human who rose from obscurity, all the rebels were ruthlessly suppressed, dying in extremely miserable ways - but the fire he stole disappeared without a trace, and eventually passed down in the world, becoming the foundation of the shore guardians and a lingering cloud in the hearts of the tomb keepers for thousands of years.

This human who rose from obscurity was the fire thief... the original shore guardian.

To this day, Noah still remembers the last words that the first shore-keeper, that despicable thief, said to him and others before he died with a smile on his face:

"This time... we won."

Did you... win?

It’s a pity that the shore guardian you established at the cost of your own life and the lives of your followers...is ultimately just a dream.

After today——

The "shore watchers" will no longer exist.

Such a feeling just arose.

The next moment, Noah's expression suddenly changed.

For the first time, a hint of surprise appeared on that old face.

……

Falling from the tower in mid-air.

Under the sky, above the sea.

Rast was bathed in the howling wind.

He plucked off the blooming blood-red flower on his chest, and the crimson petals floated in the air like a rain of flowers at a funeral.

In Rast's ears, a crisp sound of breaking was quietly echoing.

Every vein in his body was shattered, and the last drop of blood had been lost with the blooming of the flower of flesh and blood... "Flesh and Blood Sprout" is a special move that only legendary powerhouses of the Abundance sequence can use. As long as a life with flesh and blood is present, unless it is also a legendary, there is no chance of survival after the flower of blood blooms. But Rust was still not dead.

There was a faint blue fluorescence lingering around his body, leaving the last bit of vitality in Rast's body, preventing his life from completely disappearing and allowing him to maintain the most basic ability to move.

Desperate Plea

[Category: Inherent Skills]

[A dream atop the ruins, a mottled shadow... The girl calls herself an evil monster, denying the past, denying everything, forever trapping herself in a lightless bubble of fantasy. In the dark, starless nights, she desperately prays for light to arrive.]

So, the hero who answered the girl's prayers and cries, shattered her false dreams, and allowed her to escape the quagmire of despair and move towards the future once again...was he actually an illusion, or was he real?

[Skill Effect: When the holder is near death, refuses death once.]

[The cooldown period of this skill is one complete Night World Reverberation, or 30 days of real-time time outside the Night World.]

[This skill has been activated and cannot be used again during the current Night World Reverberation process.]

[You are currently in the "Death Defy" state. The death rejection effect will no longer take effect. For your own safety, please seek treatment immediately.]

Desperate Plea

This is an inherent skill that Last obtained as a reward for the Night World quest in the Echoes of Frozen Water Town when he first encountered Gray.

When in a near-death state, conceptually reject death once.

Only this conceptual skill of resisting death at the rule level can allow Last to withstand the blooming of "Flesh and Blood Sprout" and still survive.

But in the final analysis, this is not the ultimate trump card that can reverse the situation of the battle, but can only be said to be a means of survival.

Even if it is triggered, it does not have the ability to heal or recover from trauma... It only resists death for a short time, leaving Last with a last bit of blood and the most basic ability to move.

As long as Noah casually attacks him again, there is no need to even finish him off... He only needs to wait until Last naturally falls from a height of thousands of feet into the dim yellow sea transformed from the abyss. The impact of falling from a height of thousands of feet into the water will be enough to wipe out the last bit of Last's skin and blood, killing him completely.

but--

Even so, it is enough.

There was clearly not an inch of intact skin on his body. His entire body was covered in blood and flesh, with his skin rolled up. He looked no different from a corpse.

But Last was still smiling, even though his smile at that moment was not much better than that of the chainsaw monster in the horror movie.

His figure was bathed in the violent sea breeze from high in the sky. He slightly brought the thumb and index finger of his right hand together, and then made an opening and closing gesture.

"BOOM~"

next moment.

tick-

tick-

Suddenly, a ticking sound was heard from the platform carrying the ice coffin.

It was as if some kind of countdown was being started.

It seemed that he had noticed something.

On the top of the tower, Noah's expression suddenly changed.

He suddenly stretched out his hand, and the green branches surged, about to throw an inconspicuous-looking round ball from the ground of the platform.

That was the object that fell from Rast's sleeve pocket onto the platform as if by accident when he fell from the high tower into the abyss.

Noah's fertile field once completely covered this sphere, but in his perception, he had never found a trace of life or hidden magical fluctuations from this sphere.

Therefore, Noah never paid too much attention to it and treated it as a dead object that posed no threat to him.

But, at this moment.

The ticking sound of the countdown came from the ball.

And at the same time.

There is some kind of terrifying fluctuation brewing and gathering in that sphere.

This kind of fluctuation was beyond Noah's previous understanding...

There was no breath of life, no magic, and even less any divine nature or waves of divine power. When not triggered, it was just a pile of dead matter like ore...

But when these dead things were stimulated, they completed a chain reaction with some unimaginable reaction formula, and then brewed a frenzy to annihilate everything.

Holy Grenade

[Type: Extraordinary props, disposable consumables]

【Rarity: Gold】

[Note: This will cause special attacks on targets with attributes such as "Chaos", "Evil", "Pollution", and "Disorder"]

This is a protective item that Professor Barbarossa gave to Rast when he first entered the Last Night world of the Mystery Tower because he was worried that Rast might be involved in major historical events beyond his ability.

As for its prop description, there is only a short sentence:

"annihilate everything"

Later, after the mechanization transformation by Professor Agatha, the Dean of Ashes College at Star University, the "Holy Grenade" was given a timed detonation function.

This is a weapon beyond the comprehension of anyone in the current Sixth Epoch...it is the power called "technology."

It transcends time, having never appeared in the Sixth Epoch, or in history even before that...

Therefore, even if you randomly pick up a child from the street in the future, if he sees a ball that makes a beeping sound, he will guess that it is a time bomb and will hide away from it.

However, in this era, even with the vision of an ancient like Noah, he knew nothing about the existence of the "Holy Grenade".

Because he had never seen such a weapon, it was naturally impossible for him to guard against it... He could not understand why such an inconspicuous small metal ball would make his instincts produce an extremely dangerous warning.

However, even so, the moment a warning premonition arises, Noah will take action...

This was the intuition of a legendary warrior, one that had allowed him to survive countless battles... Even though he couldn't understand it, he subconsciously followed his intuition and expanded his domain to deflect the ball.

However, at this moment.

All of this is now too late.

The next moment.

The chain reaction reached a critical point.

The shell of the holy grenade shattered, and endless light and heat broke through the boundaries and escaped from it.

Immediately afterwards, the scorching white light from the holy grenade engulfed everything on the platform—

Whether it was Noah's incarnation of abundance or the ice coffin that imprisoned Akxia and the remnants of the old god of death, they were all swallowed up and headed towards the other side of nothingness.

………………

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