Night World Players

Chapter 70 I've Found a Partner Who Can Trust My Back
In the distant direction, the wilderness on the edge of Dongshui Town.

The rushing, roaring starlight gradually dimmed and then returned to nothingness.

The blood-colored mist and the faint night sky once again became the main theme of this world.

All that was left was the earth that had been burned into molten lava and was now slowly solidifying.

There were also piles of white ashes left after the puppet's flesh and blood were burned to ashes, recording the traces of the previous scorching starlight.

Shiltina stared at the empty, dark wilderness before her.

In her hand, the crystal-like sword of "Shining Morning Star" had now shattered inch by inch and was covered with cracks.

The rapier made a creaking sound as it could not bear the weight and it could break completely at any time.

This is the price you have to pay for using Hiltina's Night Blade to release the true name of the emblem costume.

The silver light flashed and disappeared.

The rapier in Hiltina's hand disappeared, and instead, a crystal-like emblem covered with cracks condensed on her chest.

However, looking at the piles of white ashes that were once powerful puppets, which were also the results of her battle after she released her true name... Hiltina's spirit never relaxed in the slightest.

On the contrary, her slender figure shrouded in red and white combat uniform was slowly tensing up.

"Chariot Intuition" is activated.

Even if it is the same sequence ability, the effect it exerts will be completely different depending on the user and the degree of development.

Just as the difference between the Eye of Secrets in Rast's hands and in Ishtar's hands is huge.

As a pure violent person in Last's words, the effect that "intuition" can play on Hiltina is far beyond what Last can compare to.

If what ordinary people use is called "intuition", then what Hiltina uses is called "super intuition".

In an instant, in this dark wilderness shrouded in fog and without a trace of light, the aura of all those who could pose a threat to her was fully visible.

Compared to the dangerous aura of the densely packed puppets before using the real name to liberate...

At this moment, most of the puppets were destroyed by the "Shining Morning Star" released by Zhenming.

And there was only one source of that sense of crisis left.

"Flan...?"

A sophomore, ranked eighteenth in the Starry Obelisk.

Apart from Hiltina, the second-year student with the highest ranking in Obelisk is only eight places away from Hiltina, who is the twelfth seat at the round table.

At the same time, she is also the vice-captain of the strategy team that Hiltina once created.

Also, Hiltina’s best friend at the time.

They had met by chance at a banquet for nobles in the capital long before they entered Star University.

Hiltina and Fran used to live in the same dormitory, go to school together, eat together, and explore the night world together. They were close friends who could talk about anything.

until--

After that long period of patience, there was a breakup after the quarrel.

The once strongest strategy team fell apart.

And Hiltina and Fran also embarked on diametrically opposite paths and became strangers to each other.

When we meet again, it is already in the aftermath of the disaster.

One is a silk puppet controlled by blood mist, who is determined to kill outsiders by any means necessary, while the other is a night traveler who must conquer the night world.

Words have lost their meaning, all that is left is to draw swords and fight to the death.

shhhhh--

The sound of breaking air resounded over the wilderness.

Millions of blades cut through the air in the darkness, turning into streams of sharp arrows.

It penetrated the sky, tore through the atmosphere, and brought up a storm.

"Plant Dialogue" is Fran's Night Blade. Its function is just as its name suggests. It can communicate with plants and drive them to serve its own purposes.

At first glance, this is just a night blade with good concealment effect, commonly used in detection fields.

After all, nothing is more suitable for collecting intelligence than those inconspicuous but ubiquitous flowers and plants.

but--

As close friends who could talk about anything, we were best friends.

However, Hiltina knew very well how terrifyingly powerful Fran's seemingly harmless Night Blade actually was.

In the second grade, he surpassed countless fourth-year students and entered the top 20 of the Obelisk rankings, but it was definitely not possible to accumulate enough contribution points simply by collecting intelligence and conducting reconnaissance.

If it weren't for the fact that Fran's Night Blade had certain requirements for the battlefield environment, her Obelisk ranking might have been higher than that of Hiltina, who possessed the "Infinite Sword", and she would have become one of the twelve seats of the Round Table earlier than her.

At this moment, the environment they are in - the edge of Dongshui Town, the mountains and fields covered with dense forests, is the field where Fran's "Plant Dialogue" Ye Ren is most proficient.

The leaf blade storm in front of her, like thousands of gunshots, was just Fran's appetizer.

What's more, the main weapon that Shiltina is best at, "Shining Morning Star", has been forced to release its real name in order to prevent other puppets from interfering with Last's actions, and has lost the ability to continue fighting.

"I will personally inform my aunt and uncle of your death and confess everything...Flan."

Muttering quietly, he left behind this last whisper that was lost in the sound of breaking air.

Finally, Hiltina fell completely silent.

In direct proportion to the emotions surging in her heart, the light in her pupils faded.

The world around seemed to freeze into ice with a clang, and the sound of breaking air stopped abruptly.

The ripples of longing have been calmed, not just the words, but even the waves of emotions have been completely blocked.

She suddenly popped out, and her figure burning with pale blue flames shuttled through the gaps in the barrage formed by the leaf blade storm with friction heat.

The air around her became tense along with her slender figure, gradually turning cold and freezing. Even her heart was mechanically chilled in response to her body.

Then, after a few seconds.

Hiltyna's body and spirit were in complete harmony with the surrounding air, blending and finally becoming one.

With the extended perception of "super intuition", the domain belonging to Hiltina instantly dominated the entire battlefield.

With a detailed grasp of all the trajectories of the ballistics and stray arrows in the entire space, Hiltina stepped on the ground without any confusion and jumped high.

Then, he dodged a storm of leaf blades, took advantage of a leaf in the storm, and used the reaction force to make continuous changes of direction in the air.

The space she had been in a moment before was torn apart by a barrage of leaves, cutting thousands of sharp slash marks on the already crystallized earth and exploding into a blast.

If Hiltina had stayed where she was, she would have probably turned into a mass of flesh and blood that could not be distinguished from a human form.

Taking advantage of the gust of wind, Hiltina further adjusted her posture in the air, and at an unimaginable speed, she stepped on the leaves that were shooting towards her and rushed towards the sky deep in the jungle.

The gait of moving in the air so gorgeously is like a bird flying and circling freely in the sky.

Countless leaf blades cut through her body, which was burning with blue flames, by a hair's breadth. Even with her "super intuition", she could only predict the trajectory of the bullets, but with such a density of arrows, it was impossible to completely dodge them beyond the laws of physics.

A lot of Hiltina's chestnut hair was cut off by the blade wind and floated down in the air.

The red and white knight's uniform was also damaged... revealing the hideous scars on the fair and delicate skin, and bright red blood dripped, staining the sky with blood.

But Hiltina avoided the vital parts, and these injuries did not really affect her ability to move. Under the effect of the pale blue flame of "Burning Blood", the wounds began to heal slowly.

The storm of leaf blades finally dissipated.

The girl who had been walking up to the sky step by step on the leaves now lost her footing.

This dignified young knight paused at the highest point in the night sky.

Then she stretched her body and fell gracefully toward the earth.

That beautiful figure, enveloped in pale blue flames, falling from the sky to the earth...

It is like maple leaves falling in the autumn wind, or like a meteor streaking across the sky.

Then, after a few breaths.

A pale blue meteor fell to the earth.

The crash site was deep in a dense forest.

Countless huge ancient trees are twisted, entangled, assembled and spliced with each other.

It transformed into a huge, majestic figure made up purely of trees and forests, like an armored giant.

And above the head of this wooden giant, a girl with a blood-colored thread connected to her back, a numb face and lifeless eyes slowly raised her head and stared at the blue meteor falling from the dome.

She raised her hand slightly.

In an instant, thick and strong tree branches surged and agitated around her, covering her in front of her and turning into layers of wooden barriers.

One ten thousandth of an instant later.

A pale blue meteor falls.

boom--

Boom——Boom——

The explosions sounded one after another, and each explosion represented that a layer of wooden barrier was shattered by the blue meteor, with a shattering explosion sound.

broken.

broken.

Broken again.

When Hiltina's figure finally broke through all the barriers of trees and appeared above the huge wooden man that looked like an armored giant, the pale blue flames around her had become very dim and flickering, as if they would be completely extinguished at any time.

"Burning Blood" is a skill that burns the blood, incinerates the soul, and squeezes out strength in a very short period of time.

It was precisely because of the amplification of "Burning Blood" that Hiltina was able to single-handedly block the entire Frozen Water Town from being controlled by the blood mist, without missing a single puppet to interfere with Last.

Blocking is much more difficult than simply killing.

But at this moment, the effect of the "Burning Blood" skill is approaching its end, and the flickering flame that seems to be able to go out at any time is proof of this.

And after the extreme explosion came extreme weakness. Hiltina's pretty face turned extremely pale, without even a trace of blood.

But there was no hesitation in her actions.

Hiltina's wrist trembled slightly.

At the moment of breaking through the barriers and fortresses, the silver sword, which was already covered with cracks, stabbed into the top of the wooden man's head without hesitation, and into the chest of the girl with numb eyes who was controlling the entire wooden man.

squeak-

The Twinkling Morning Star screamed, and crystal-like fragments scattered in the air.

After the first release of its true name, it was already half-destroyed and on the verge of collapse. Now that it was used again without being repaired, the only outcome it would face was complete destruction.

The puppet girl's chest was pierced by a rapier.

Blood splattered, the vitality of this body was rapidly fading, and even the bloody threads began to fade away quietly, as if it had given up on this dying puppet.

The numb eyes of this girl puppet who used the Night Blade of "Plant Dialogue" suddenly showed a bit of humanity.

Surprisingly, her self-will was not completely destroyed or erased by the spiritual pollution brought by the thread, but a little bit of it still remained in her body.

As vitality fades and death approaches, the thread fades away.

The self named Fran was revived once again on this puppet.

"I didn't expect to see you again in this kind of occasion."

Fran's words were a little weak, barely audible.

She stared at the young knight in front of her, who had a cold expression on her face, no trace of blood on her face, but still stood dignified.

Looking at the rapier that was full of cracks and pierced straight into her chest, Fran immediately understood what Hiltina wanted to do and sighed softly.

"It's meaningless to just kill us puppets."

"To truly break this reverberation of the disaster, what we need to do is to kill the little girl taken in by the mayor's family...but we were entangled by other puppets for too long and consumed too much energy, so we failed in the end."

"Given your current weakened state after the onset of the aftereffects of the 'Burning Blood' state, it's probably unlikely that you will be able to kill the little girl who was taken in by the mayor and protected by the blood mist."

Fran looked at Hiltina, a trace of sadness flashing in her eyes.

"I can destroy the entire Frozen Water Town, including all the puppets including us, with my own strength..."

"Hiltina, you are still as powerful and dazzling as ever."

"It's just...you're too stubborn and too paranoid."

"Your light is too dazzling, so dazzling that no one can bear it and walk with you."

"You can only maintain that proud attitude, like a star from heaven, walking alone in the night world... You will never find a companion who is worthy of your trust."

"If you could restrain your brilliance a little bit and find a reliable companion to help you conquer the world, you might be able to clear the Reverberation of the Disaster this time... instead of falling before the last stage like us."

Listening to Fran's sighing words.

Hiltina, who had remained silent all this time, raised her head slightly at this moment.

"Fran, maybe you are right."

"Maybe I am really a little paranoid, and I am so stubborn that I don't want to change myself, I don't want to cater to the eyes of others, I don't want to respond to the expectations of my father, my stepmother, and others... In the end, I will become what the entire Granville Royal Family and the entire Starry University expect me to be."

"If my life continues to go on like it has before."

"Maybe one day, I will indeed reach my limit... and die alone in the night world without anyone knowing."

"But, Fran..."

The pale blue flames that lingered around her body faded away, revealing Hiltina's eyes again.

Not only were those light brown eyes not as majestic as before, they even looked a bit weak.

But for some reason, Fran sensed a hint of incomprehensible tenderness from Hiltina's beautiful light brown eyes... and relief.

"I have found it."

“A trustworthy companion.”

“A companion you can rely on and trust with your back.”

……

The moment she finished speaking, Hiltina used her pale, bloodless left hand to quietly grasp the broken rapier that was stuck in Fran's chest.

Then she uttered a single ancient syllable calmly.

""Morning Star""

The next moment.

The dazzling and scorching stars, and the light that illuminates the dark night.

Once again, the silver sword's tip shone brightly.

"Real Name Liberation" is activated at the cost of half-destroying the Emblem Armor and permanently reducing its durability.

The price of continuing to activate it without repair or maintenance is that the emblem costume called "Shining Morning Star" will be permanently damaged.

But this is just a trivial matter.

At this moment, the broken rapier was stuck in Fran's chest and in the wooden man, right in front of Hiltina.

On top of the wooden man, in such a small space, she activated the "Real Name Release". After the blood burning was over, Hiltina was covered in wounds and her body was in a state of exhaustion where it was extremely difficult for her to even move.

The scorching light of the morning star will not only kill Fran...

Perhaps, it would also include Hiltina herself. Even if she didn't die, she would at least be seriously injured and unconscious.

But Xiltina had no choice, this was the last bit of power she could exert.

She knew very well how strong the vitality of Fran's body was after she stepped onto the long steps of the "Abundance" sequence.

She looked like she was on the verge of death at the moment, but as long as she lost the ability to move due to the weakness after the blood burned, then perhaps in a few minutes, Fran would be able to fully recover from her injuries.

As for the revival of Fran's humanity now...it is very likely a trap deliberately set by the Blood Mist.

As soon as he lets down his guard, the thread will return again and turn Fran into a puppet controlled by the blood mist.

If Fran arrived at the battlefield, Last's plan to capture the Echo of the Disaster would fail... This is something that Hiltina absolutely cannot accept.

Last time in Deep Blue Harbor, Rust gambled everything on himself in the hope of escaping the loop.

So this time, it's Xiltina's turn to place the bet.

She entrusted her life to the hard-to-see-through boy.

She also bet on Luster to win.

boom--

"You are really stubborn, little Tina... Once you decide on something, you won't change it, just like when we first met."

In the glow of the stars that are burning brightly and becoming more and more dazzling.

Hiltina heard Fran utter a slight whisper.

"But... you actually met a trustworthy companion? From your tone, it should be a boy."

"It's a pity that I didn't get to meet him. I'll be there to help you, Tina, as your best friend."

"With a stubborn personality like yours, Tina, once you set your mind on someone, you will never let go... It will be troublesome if the other person is a scumbag sea king."

As soon as the words fell, Hiltina saw it.

Countless emerald green leaves gently covered her with extremely gentle movements.

next moment.

The light of the morning star suddenly shines and surges.

Then he took everything to another place.

(End of this chapter)