Night World Players

Chapter 24: Can all of your tanks fire flares?
Last's vision gradually darkened, and a chill ran through his whole body. It was the shadow of death that enveloped him.

But in the gradually dimming vision, Last still saw that beam of light... that intense and clear starlight that penetrated the rain curtain and illuminated the sky.

The sound disappeared.

Color disappears soon after.

The world became silent, leaving only the gushing hot starlight.

The rushing light stirred up countless whirlpools, engulfing the dark waves formed by the Iron Cross in front of the ruins.

The bodies of the Iron Crosses were instantly annihilated in the light, leaving only the instantly melted earth and the white ashes left after the flesh and blood were burned to ashes.

The girl with the light brown eyes and the rapier fell in front of Rast. In the dark vision, her long chestnut hair was so dazzling, and her whole body was surrounded by pale silver flames.

Hiltina took out three emerald green crystals and placed them on Rast's chest. At the same time, she chanted an ancient syllable again:

"cure."

The crystal shattered instantly, turning into thousands of emerald green crystal fragments, which fell on Rast's bloody wound.

In a trance, Rast saw the ripples of the water. He bathed in the warm spring water. The darkness in his vision was dispelled by the light, and the cold was eliminated by the warmth.

The loss of Rast's vitality stagnated, the flame of life that was like a candle in the wind no longer flickered, and his wounds began to heal slowly.

After doing all this, Hiltina squatted down beside Rast and held him on her shoulders.

"The time bombs have been installed. Where should we go next?" Her voice was like heavenly music: "Should we go through the ventilation duct as before?"

"No, it's too late to go through the ventilation ducts now. We can't leave the port before the explosion." Last tried hard to get his stagnant brain working again, adapting to and thinking about everything that was happening before his eyes.

"According to the original plan, you should have been halfway through the escape route by now, instead of appearing in this place."

There was no gloom in Xiltina's voice: "So where are we going now?"

"Actually, I do have a backup plan, but I can't guarantee its safety."

"explain."

"Instead of taking the ventilation duct, we can go to the observation tower in the port area, turn left and enter the factory, where there is a shortcut."

Hiltina grabbed Last's arm, stomped the ground with her knight boots, and then jumped high.

In mid-air, Last saw the path of lava that ran through the earth. The path of the molten lava tore the iron cross wave surrounding Last into two halves, and the sand and gravel along the way evaporated into white crystals in the high temperature.

The Iron Crosses who survived the beam of light looked at Hiltina's figure in mid-air and even forgot to shoot.

A few seconds later, Hiltina appeared on the upper platform of the factory carrying Rast, and then started to gallop.

Although her figure was so slender, the hands that held Last were extremely powerful. During this process, Last felt like a kite, and Hiltina was the little girl running wildly with the kite.

"One thousand six hundred kel." said Hiltina.

"what?"

"One thousand six hundred gold Cole. Cole gold coins are the currency of our world." Hiltyna said without turning her head. "Just now, in order to save you, I activated my Night Blade's second-level ability and released the true name of "Shining Morning Star". The price I paid was that my weapon was half destroyed after releasing the true name."

"One thousand six hundred cole is the total price for repairing my rapier, plus three instant healing crystals that I don't even want to use... Remember to return them to me after we leave the night world."

Last saw the scabbard on Hiltina's waist. The crystal-like silver sword in the scabbard had been shattered. The power that had torn the earth apart before was not without cost.

He was silent for a moment: "You know very well that I can't possibly have the currency of your world."

"Then you can work for me as a bartender, sculptor, stylist, veterinarian, or as a whore in a store... Don't you like doing these?"

Luster remained silent.

Role-playing games and being forced to work to pay off debts are two completely different experiences.

Just like the players who have a lot of fun playing Shawarma Legend will not actually go to a Turkish kebab restaurant to work and roll burritos.

But he didn't say anything else. Rast knew that this was the proud female knight expressing her dissatisfaction with his previous decision to act on his own and stay behind alone to cover the retreat.

It seemed that because of Rast's surrender, Hiltina did not continue to dwell too much on the topic of debt.

Rast was grabbed by Hiltina and ran wildly in the factory. Every time he leaped, he crossed a distance of dozens of meters. The scenery of steel and steam boilers around him changed rapidly.

He looked at the gradually fading Iron Cross brand on his body and said, "Aren't you afraid that I will bring the Iron Cross Plague out and cause disaster in your world as well?"

"It doesn't matter. When the historical echoes are cleared, the night world will purify all the pollution." Hiltyna's steps did not stop: "As long as you are still alive by then, everything will be restored to its original state."

"You shouldn't have bothered me." Last said, "You have successfully evacuated according to the original plan, but now we are both likely to die in the port."

"You only have one life left, and I will have to fall back into that long, hopeless cycle. This is a blind and irrational choice."

"I know."

"But just as it was because of your persistence that you were able to survive tens of thousands of failures and still not give up... I also have my own persistence, a persistence that will not yield."

Hiltina's voice was so clear that it reminded Last of the sound of wind chimes at midnight: "The family motto of the Forest Ranger family—"

"As a noble, you must protect your subjects at all costs, even if it means sacrificing your life. As a knight, as long as you have breath left, you must never let your companions die in front of you."

Luster sighed. "It sounds like a very rigid, old-fashioned, stupid rule that doesn't know how to change."

"You're not the first person to complain like this, my father and sister have said similar things."

Xiltina smiled, without a trace of gloom in her smile: "So I hope you won't be the last one."

Next to Rast and Hiltina, the monotonous scenery of steel and steam boilers disappeared, replaced by a one-way road with a towering watchtower at the end of the road.

The moment they rushed out of the steel factory, they heard the sound of waves crashing against the shore.

The only thing between them and the sea was the watchtower, and the sound of the tide seemed to be echoing between heaven and earth.

(End of this chapter)