Night World Players

Chapter 179 Rast, Long Time No See (*^▽^*) (Two Chapters Combined)

Based on the comparison made by Last on the map.

That paradise from the old times was located in the territory of the present Granville Empire, about 400 kilometers away from the imperial capital, in a place called Cuifeng Territory.

The capital city at that time has now been replaced by an entire lush and quiet forest.

There is no one living within a radius of dozens of miles except for a few hunters and herbalists living near the mountains. There is no trace of the prosperous royal city of the past.

Only the towering mountains bear witness to the existence of the underworld kingdom of the Sixth Epoch.

……

When Last arrived at the border of Cuifeng Territory from Fanxing University by high-speed train, and then spent more than an hour traveling to the foot of the mountains next to the ruins of the paradise, it was almost dusk.

Through the lush forest, you can vaguely see a winding and rugged path leading straight to the top of the mountain.

This is the path that nearby hunters and herbalists take when they go up the mountain. As people walk on it so often, it becomes a road.

However, with the rapid development of industry and technology in the Western Continent, professions such as hunters and herbalists have become less common, so this trail has become semi-abandoned and covered in lush and overgrown weeds. It is unknown how long it will take for a new visitor to arrive.

When he reached halfway up the mountain, Last suddenly stopped.

He raised his eyes slightly and looked at the sky above his head, which was hidden by the lush branches and leaves, and only a corner of the blue sky could be seen.

"If I remember correctly, there should also be laws like the Personal Privacy Protection Act in the Granville Empire."

He spoke calmly to the empty, dim sky, somewhere seemingly empty.

"So, Dean Yin, please stay here and wait for me. Please don't follow me anymore."

Rast's words echoed among the empty mountains, but the empty sky remained silent, without any response.

Seeing this, Last couldn't help but sigh softly, and a mysterious silver-white hue suddenly flowed in his dark eyes.

Then he stretched out his hand and grasped it in the air.

As Laster moved, the next moment, a distorted halo of light began to spread out little by little in the direction of his hand.

Suddenly, a clear crack appeared in the seemingly empty air...

Inside the crack, a ferret was lying on the sofa, leisurely eating dried fish, looking at the torn space in confusion, staring at Last.

"You damn thing! Isn't this Barbarossa's gorilla's insulating claw? No...is it 'Silent Disqualification'?"

"You've stolen so much knowledge that you can even destroy my spatial folding technique?"

"And how did you find me hiding in the secondary dimension? Just relying on that little Ishtar's 'Prying Eyes'?"

Dean Yin and his little dried fish were all shocked, their faces full of disbelief.

Originally, although he had witnessed Rast's heroic battle in the night world through Ophelia's light screen live broadcast...but at that time, Rast had achieved his victory by using external forces including the "Holy Grenade", "Zenith Sword", and the Star Cup of the God of Death.

With the help of these external objects, Rast can certainly compete with the legend for a short time, but that is an unsustainable means after all. For example, the Star Cup of the God of Death and the home bonus within the Abyss... After the end of the historical echoes, they will no longer exist and cannot be regarded as the power that truly belongs to Rast himself.

Subconsciously, Dean Yin still regarded Last as the student who was only at the second level when he first entered the Star University. Although he had an amazing character and unlimited potential... he was still just a newbie in the extraordinary field and could be manipulated at will.

But Dean Yin's idea was quickly refuted. The abilities that could previously be used to reduce the size of a space, such as "spatial folding" and "secondary dimensions," were now being countered by Rast.

It was not until this moment that Dean Yin suddenly realized that the black-haired and black-eyed boy in front of him was no longer the newbie who allowed himself to be manipulated at will.

Just as Dean Yin had witnessed on the live broadcast screen, as the heir to the legendary Shore Keeper, Last, who had already broken through to the fifth level and possessed the Night Blade of the "Fool's Library," was still a long way from true legendary status...

But in the realm below legend, Last has already matured, and is gradually realizing his previous potential, truly embarking on a legendary path of his own.

Before Dean Yin had time to recover from the shock and emotion of "my son Rast has grown up", he felt as if a hand was strangling the back of his neck.

The hand was long and slender with distinct knuckles. It pulled it out of the folded and hidden sub-dimension and lifted it into the air.

"As the Head of the Institute for Magical Creatures."

"Dean Yin, you don't want the students to know that you're actually a perverted ferret who likes to hide in the secondary dimension and spy on and stalk the students, right?"

Rast's calm voice sounded like the whisper of a devil to Dean Yin at this moment.

"You've changed, little Luster..."

"You were obviously not like this before. Back then you were so little and so cute, not at all as cold and heartless as you are now."

"Do you know how hurtful that kind of talk is to a ferret?"

Dean Yin cried softly, curled up his big furry tail and wiped away his non-existent tears.

"As a professor at the academy and your teacher, I simply feel the need to observe the emotional issues between my two students..."

"Just like those parents who secretly read their adolescent children's diaries, even though I followed you and Xiao Xia and spied on you, I was actually doing it for your own good. These actions are proof that I love you."

"But forget it, little Rust, you have indeed grown up. You are no longer the child who needs adults to keep a close eye on you..."

It wiped the corners of its eyes with its little paws and said: "My boy has grown up, and my girl can't be kept. Although as a parent, I am reluctant, it seems that it is indeed time for me to let go."

"Go ahead. I won't follow you anymore. It's time for you and Xiao Xia to have your own private space. It's time for you to enjoy your own world."

Dean Yin shook his big furry tail and turned his back, as if he was really watching his own child grow up. Although he was reluctant, he still chose to let go. His eyes were both melancholy and relieved like an old mother.

Not far away, Rast glanced at the little ferret who turned away and looked sincere, and said nothing more.

He just continued walking up the mountain path alone and soon disappeared in the forest.

Upon witnessing Rust's figure disappear into the path, Dean Silver immediately rallied. The weeping, melancholy yet relieved expression of an old mother vanished.

Instead, it is like football fans waiting for the game to start, fans eagerly waiting for the concert to begin, and anime fans eagerly waiting for the update of anime series with anticipation and excitement.

What a joke! How could Dean Yin miss the follow-up between Akshia and Rast?
It's not that as a ferret, it doesn't know the shame of stalking and peeping in the human world, but the subsequent developments are really too curious.

Previously, on the live broadcast screen of the Mystery Tower, it followed the story of the Queen of the Underworld and Rast from beginning to end, episode by episode. It can be said that it is a real drama chaser and the leader of the fan circle.

If he couldn't see the ending of the story between Last and Xiao Xia with his own eyes and couldn't satisfy his curiosity, Dean Yin felt that he would never be able to enjoy eating dried fish again.

As for how to watch the show... Although Luster accidentally discovered his method of using spatial folding to hide in the secondary dimension to spy, it doesn't matter if he doesn't go to the scene in person or just watch the broadcast.

As the holder of the unique long-level sequence "Moon", Dean Yin is best at spiritual fields such as spirit and mind, which involve the abilities of "prophecy" and "divination".

When he first met Last, Dean Yin was able to use the power of the "Moon of Truth" to accurately divine the truthfulness of Last's words.

Even though little Rast has grown up and dared to disrespect his elders and destroy his ancestors, I believe that with his "Moon" sequence, spiritual divination for Rast and little Xia should still be no problem...

As a synonym for gossip, Dean Yin had used this ability to find out the gossip of countless people when he was bored in the past, and his divination skills had long been perfected.

It took out a crystal ball from its secondary dimension warehouse and placed it solemnly on a flat stone.

Immediately afterwards, a silver moon pattern quietly appeared in Dean Yin's ruby-like eyes, and then began to rotate silently.

Ripples like water waves appeared on the crystal ball, so we should use the "moon" as an introduction, follow the spiritual intuition, and divine the exact picture in the spiritual ocean - the picture of Rast and Akshia.

However, just as the ripples on the crystal ball slowly subsided and were about to solidify into a solid entity, the light and shadow within it suddenly condensed.

Then, the blurry light and shadow quickly dimmed and turned into pure darkness, and no tangible image appeared.

Dean Yin's big tail, which was wagging with anticipation, suddenly froze in mid-air.

It felt that just when it was about to follow its spiritual intuition and gain insight into the divination results from the astral realm, some powerful force suddenly came crushing it and shattered all the spiritual power that Dean Yin used for divination in the astral realm.

The source of that power was mysterious, carrying with it an unchanging sense of antiquity and vicissitudes, as well as an unshakable grandeur... It was like the torrent of time, the embodiment of the grand concept of "destiny" itself.

[Origin of Destiny: You are the source of all destinies. The flowing time and years diverge in front of you, turning into two unrelated straight lines.

You are both the creator and the end of the story.

Thousands of world lines were born because of you, and will also end because of you. 】

[As the origin of destiny, you are independent of time. Your resistance to time-based and divination-based skills is greatly increased.]

Possessing the irrevocable passive skill of "Origin of Destiny", as the origin of countless world lines, it truly exists independently of the long river of time.

Even legendary masters, or even true gods, could not predict Rast's fate, let alone spy on him...

Dean Yin is naturally no exception.

"Aa ...

In the empty mountain forest, the sound of a ferret's mournful cry, which was broken because it missed the finale of its favorite show, suddenly echoed. It was so miserable and shrill that it echoed in the empty valley.

……

The setting sun was like a tide, occupying half the sky and dyeing the clouds the color of fire.

The steep and protruding cliff seems to be an isolated island in the vast ocean, and the sea shrouded in twilight is all you can see.

The girl with long ice-blue hair stood at the end of a cliff covered with a sea of ​​flowers, standing under the dim sky.

She wore a small white bowler hat, woolen boots, and a blue ribbon headdress in her long hair.

The girl wore a dark, knee-length dress with folds that spread out like layers of lotus leaves. The mountain breeze blew the dress, causing it to flutter and her long hair, which reached her waist, to sway in the air. Each strand of her icy blue hair reflected the glow of the setting sun.

She was dressed exactly the same as she was on her last journey many, many years ago. At that time, her name was not Axia, but Queen Helen.

And that day was the same place, the same scenery, the setting sun, the bright sky... The increasingly dark twilight painted a layer of dusk outline on everyone on the cliff.

Akshia grows on the edge of the cliff like a straight and slender tree, or like a tranquil sculpture. She stands there quietly, as if unaware of the passage of time.

It's like...

It's like waiting for someone.

I don’t know how long this silent atmosphere lasted.

Until one moment, the sound of slow and rhythmic footsteps came from the path behind the cliff, becoming clearer and closer.

Akshia turned back quietly.

At the same time, the newcomer also crossed the last slope and reached the top of the cliff.

This was a reunion that spanned thousands of years. The black-haired boy was basking in the warm sunshine, while the girl with long ice-blue hair had her back to the huge sun that touched the sea. The whole world was shrouded in a quiet twilight.

But in the silent world, Rast saw crystal words outlined in the dim twilight.

The beautiful handwriting was clearly ice blue, but for some reason it brought a hint of warmth to my heart.

She is writing—

"Laster, long time no see (*^▽^*)"

(End of this chapter)