Night World Players

Chapter 26 I deducted 0.5 points because I was afraid you would be too proud

The feeling of weightlessness came with the sound of wind whistling in my ears.

Last adjusted his posture in mid-air, and then the cold touch of the sea water quickly engulfed him.

The moment he touched the water, Last felt his hands and feet lose sensation at the same time.

He had practiced swimming in past cycles, and although he was not as proficient as he was with a gun, he could at least be considered skilled... But the sea was rough at dusk, and even the most skilled fishermen would not dare to go into the water in such weather, and Last's physical condition was not very good.

The impact of falling into the water from a height of tens of meters destroyed his metacarpals and toe bones. After the effect of the serum wore off, the sequelae and side effects of taking veterinary drugs also began to appear.

A feeling of weakness swept through his limbs and bones, and his internal organs were in severe pain. If it weren't for the healing crystal that Hiltina had used on him to extend his life, Last might have died of organ failure from the aftereffects of the medication.

He lost the strength to struggle, and his body continued to sink as if falling into an abyss.

The light in the field of vision gradually dimmed.

The sparkling sea level is no longer visible, and only a little light penetrates the dark water, illuminating this silent world.

The sea water in late autumn is very cold, chilling to the bone.

All of Rast's perceptions were rapidly fading away and then returning to nothingness.

In the past cycles, Rast had died many times, but compared to being burned to death by the molten iron in the steel mill, being eaten by the Iron Crosses, or dying from an overdose of veterinary drugs... drowning in the sea was a relatively peaceful death that was not very common.

But at this moment, Rast felt a slender hand grabbing his collar and bringing him to the surface of the sea.

A few seconds later, Rast heard the sound of waves again and saw the sky dyed red by the setting sun.

"What time is it now?"

Someone whispered in his ear.

"What?" Last's consciousness was still a little fuzzy.

"Remember what you said to me when we first met, about an eight-point dance troupe with black silk lead dancers and beautiful congresswomen?"

"You said at the time that my appearance before removing my makeup was comparable to theirs, so what about now?"

Hiltyna's voice echoed in the sound of the sea: "What time is it now?"

Last blinked his eyes, and the misty fog faded away. Only then could he see the girl in front of him clearly.

The sea water washed away the disguise she used to conceal her identity, revealing her original face. Her carefully braided princess braids were also washed away, and her chestnut hair clung to her cheeks, dripping with water.

It was not until this moment that Rast remembered why he felt that Hiltina looked strangely familiar when he first saw her... He had seen this beautiful girl on the cover page of the design draft of the game "Snow Moon Emblem".

There was no name on the design, only a future title -

"Silver Sword Master"

A roar was heard from a distant place. It was the time bomb set by Hiltina that was detonated. The steam boiler was the first to rupture in the explosion. The leaked high-temperature steam then ignited tens of thousands of tons of gunpowder, coal and nitroglycerin scattered in the port area.

Fiery winds tens of meters high shot up into the sky, sweeping across the entire port area. To the Iron Crosses in the port area, it was the flames of hell, but from a distance it looked like the sun rising alternately at dusk, and within the sun was the burning Deep Blue Harbor.

Hiltina stood in the firelight that looked like sunrise, with the sparkling water beside her, bright and incomparable.

The city was reflected in her eyes like a dim sea of ​​stars.

"Nine past five." Luster said softly, his voice swallowed up by the roar of the explosion.

I deducted 0.5 points because I was afraid you would be too proud.

A few seconds later, the shock wave from the explosion in the port area reached the sea, creating a huge wave nearly ten meters high. Hiltyna held Last's arm, carrying him up and down in the raging waves, and never let go no matter how the waves surged.

I don't know how long it took before the surging waves slowly subsided and the sea returned to calm.

Hiltina found a piece of driftwood on the sea, and Rast, who had suffered hypothermia in the cold sea water, lay on it with half of his bones shattered. She herself maintained the balance of the driftwood in the water.

Last’s face froze: “I just feel like there’s something wrong with the scripts for the hero and heroine.”

"If you want to follow the movie script, you may be disappointed." Xiltina smiled and said, "I am not as fragile as the male protagonist in the movie. I will not lose my strength and sink into the sea just like that."

She looked at the still burning Deep Blue Harbor in the distance: "So have we succeeded..."

"We have successfully rewritten the world line and prevented the evil god from descending in Deep Blue Harbor."

Last shook his head slightly: "The general trend of history is not so easy to change."

"That fisherman happened to catch the statue of the evil god while fishing. This is not just a coincidence, but a destiny that had been secretly planned long ago."

"What we have done, at best, is just to make a slight deviation from the world line that has long been determined by the great men."

"Even so, it is already an incredible feat."

Xiltina smiled and said, "Among all the night world reverberations I've entered, this is the first time that the course of history has been rewritten."

The two men drifted aimlessly on the sea, chatting casually. The watches they carried were damaged or lost during their escape, so no one knew how long they would drift on the sea.

The sun in the distance gradually sank below the sea surface. The half sun and its reflection formed a complete circle. The last afterglow burned the clouds in the sky into the color of flames.

When the last ray of sunset faded from Hiltina's eyes, night fell.

The gauze-like night, like the night sky, gently wrapped up Last and the entire broken world.

In the increasingly dark night and the gradually fading consciousness, Last saw lines of azure blue words passing through his mind.

[Night World Mission - "The Echo of Deep Blue Harbor" has been cleared]

[Current task rating: EX]

[A new Night World Qualified Person has been detected. A new information panel and traveler identity are being generated. 】

[Your Arcana sequence is: "Tower"]

[Your status level is: 19 (first level)]

[Matching "Night Blade" for new travelers based on your soul origin and mental landscape]

[It is detected that a Night Blade has been bound to the Traveler's Mind World. The matching process is interrupted and the old Night Blade is being recreated.]

[Nightblade Remodeling Completed]

[Your Night Blade is: "The Fool's Library"]

[Task rewards have been distributed]

[Since your level has reached the limit of the current level, the sequence experience has been stored]

[You have acquired the inherent skill: "Heart of Iron"]

[You have obtained the emblem costume: "Iron Moon", "Seven Realms"]

(End of this chapter)