Why can't humans do it too?

When the uneven steps suddenly stopped.

When she reached the top of the hill, and the endlessly burning sea of ​​spirits finally appeared before Xinke, she saw the figure standing at the end.

Her long pink hair reflected a magnificent, glass-like hue, and her wildly spread, radiating the fiery white feathers of an elf.

Jibril.

Chapter 283 Entanglement

The dizziness caused by the slow and steady up-and-down motion suddenly stopped, and this abrupt feeling made Suer, who had become somewhat accustomed to the dizziness and the pain coming from deep inside her body with each sway, even more uncomfortable.

"...Why did it stop?" he asked weakly, raising his head with difficulty. However, he didn't need Xin Ke's answer. When Su Er's gaze passed over Xin Ke's shoulder and saw that familiar figure, he knew everything.

Giriel's usual playful smile was nowhere to be seen, nor was her voice, always tinged with boundless curiosity, heard. Even her perpetually mad demeanor was gone. Giriel stood on the edge of the void, a cold blue flame burning behind her. She seemed to have lost all emotion, her face as cold as ice, devoid of any words.

The pink-haired Skywing was no different from how he remembered her, even though it had been more than a decade since he had last seen her. However, Suer could not see any significant difference in her. The tattoos etched on her thighs, the socks of varying heights, and the wings that had mostly been tucked to her sides were now spread out freely, displaying the majesty of her power. The halo that always floated above her head was also slowly rotating, shimmering with beautiful light. Her amber pupils seemed no different from before, but at this moment, there was only silence.

silence.

“…Let’s go,” Suer murmured softly, gently tapping Xinke’s shoulder with his index finger and leaning back against her.

To his ears, Xin Ke's strong heartbeat was surprisingly unaffected by the pink-haired Skywing, as if nothing had happened.

"Ah."

With a brief "yes," Xin Ke continued forward without the slightest fear, even though each step was incredibly difficult and seemed like she would fall to the ground at any moment. Yet, her direction remained straight and unwavering as she walked towards Jibril.

The reflections in her eyes overlapped. For the first time, Jibril didn't hear the weed arguing with her. However, this situation didn't bring her any joy of victory. The weed that was always arguing with her seemed not to see her at all. Its lips, which were always arrogantly smiling, were clenched tightly by its unconscious force, and bright red blood seeped out.

For some reason, Jibril suddenly remembered the first time she had seen the couple. It wasn't when she couldn't help but show herself because of their provocation, but earlier, when she was hiding high in the dome, watching with curiosity and disdain as a foolish forest elf dragged its broken body, leaving a long mark on the uneven ground as its flesh, corroded by black ash, scraped against it.

His face was disheveled and covered in filth, making it impossible to discern subtle expressions. The only things that remained the same as they were now were his tightly clenched lower lip and the blood.

She has changed, yet some things seem to remain the same.

"...Stop."

She took a deep breath and said in a low voice, even though she didn't need such a basic function as breathing to sustain her life, Jibril found that she needed this coldness, to let the icy air flow into her body and calm her gradually burning body.

However, there was no response.

Jibril's words seemed to have no effect; she simply lifted Sue slightly off her back, and Shinko's forward steps remained unwavering.

"Speaking of which, are we going to live by the sea in the future? Or on the plains? Or in the mountains?" Suddenly, Suer asked, without any sense of nervousness. He casually asked his wife's opinion, just as if he were relaxing on the sofa after lunch.

"...Can't we all stay here?" Xin Ke answered with some difficulty. Although the pain from overdrawing her spirit's energy in her body had eased somewhat, the effects on her body were still present.

"Huh? But one house is enough, right? If we have too many, we won't have much time to take good care of them." As she continued to make plans for her future life, Su'er's voice grew softer and softer. "Humans are really strange creatures. They want to live by the sea and watch the tides rise and fall, but they also want to live in the mountains. They are troubled by this and regret that they can't have both at the same time... I'm too greedy."

"It's not so bad, is it? If we leave too much—"

“If you take another step forward, I’ll have to make my move,” Jibril interrupted Xinke softly, raising a finger as if she hadn’t heard Suer and Xinke’s words. Her calm face was expressionless, but her half-bent index finger was trembling almost imperceptibly. “Go back. It’s not too late.”

However, the forest elf with light golden hair only paused for a second before Xin Ke continued to firmly lower her feet.

The white light that shot out from between her fingers pierced through Xin Ke's thigh before her nerves could react. The beam even created a hole in her back, emitting wisps of smoke. No blood flowed out because the flesh was burned dry in the instant it passed through her body.

Her already swaying figure staggered forward and fell, but just before she collapsed, she knelt down, using one hand to support herself and prevent herself from falling. She didn't cry out because of the sudden pain. Xin Ke just used all her strength to maintain her balance so that she wouldn't fall completely to the ground. She clenched her teeth so tightly that it sounded like her teeth were about to be crushed.

With great difficulty, she supported Suer on her back, then straightened up and stumbled forward a few steps. Xin Ke finally regained her balance and was almost standing in front of Jibril. The pink-haired Skywing could even clearly see the sweat streaming down her face, it was hard to tell whether it was from pain or from using up all her strength.

Gasping for breath between her clenched teeth and nostrils, Xin Ke continued to walk forward, one step, two steps, as if she were oblivious to the harm she had suffered. Su Er remained quietly on her back, as if nothing had happened.

"If... if too many regrets are left behind... then wouldn't even the longest life become meaningless?" Xin Ke struggled to utter the words she hadn't finished because of the hurt she had just suffered. Every word she uttered trembled as if she were in an extremely cold icebox, frequently gasping for air.

"Just like what we have to do... if death is inevitable... then live to the limit..."

Chapter 284 Tears

Finally, after stepping onto this high slope, Xin Ke looked at Jibril directly for the first time. She even smiled at the Skywing Seed with a seemingly relaxed expression, as if the hurt she had just suffered and the past arguments between the two of them never existed.

"Wouldn't it be perfect if we lived by the sea for six months and then went to the mountains for another six months?"

"Haha...that's really true..."

"Ha, fool..."

What reached her ears were the words of the man and woman, seemingly unaware of their current situation. They could still talk about lighthearted things, but Jibril couldn't accept it.

From the core of the body to one's soul, it's like a blazing bomb, stretched to the point of almost shattering.

"...Please...don't go any further..."

These were words spoken in a low, even pleading tone, words that were never heard from the mouth of the Skywing race before.

It was hard to imagine that such words would come from the mouth of a pink-haired Skywing. Both Xinke and Suer looked at Jibril in surprise.

Her head was bowed so that her eyes could not be seen. The arm that had just been raised and pierced Xin Ke's leg was hanging down at the side of her body as if broken. Jibril's other hand was gripping that arm tightly, her five fingers sinking deep, the edges even turning white from gripping.

However, all she heard was a lighthearted laugh, a lighthearted laugh that made her tremble with hatred.

Words so casual they seemed to belong to neither this battlefield nor even this world accompanied Xin Ke as she struggled to drag her already injured leg forward step by step.

"I need to practice my cooking skills properly then... at the very least, I need to follow the recipes..."

"Too much talk, cooking is like experimenting with unknown recipes. Of course, you have to try different ingredients every time and record the results!"

"Won't I starve to death?"

"Why would you starve to death? Isn't it fun to sit in the sun outside your house, anticipating what kind of delicious food I'll serve up?"

"Wow... just don't send me to the hospital for treatment."

"Hmm~, don't worry, I can treat myself."

"what?"

"..."

Unable to bear it, unable to accept it, the spirits that had unconsciously scattered around Jibril vibrated, displaying that rage, an unspeakable rage.

"I said!! Stop!!!"

Raising her head, she roared almost frantically. Jibril's calm expression had vanished, and her amber pupils shimmered with light. But even more dazzling than that light was another beam of light that shot out from between her fingers, a beam much thicker than the first.

Finally stopping, Xin Ke just stared blankly down at her body... On her smooth abdomen, there was now a hole emitting wisps of white smoke. The person on her back was trembling uncontrollably. A warm and moist sensation extended from her shoulders, and the lingering smell of blood reached her nose through the air.

The beam of light pierced not only Xin Ke, but also Su Er on her back.

A wave of weakness washed over her from the deepest part of her body, and Xin Ke finally collapsed to the ground, along with Su Er, who was rolling off her back. Su Er was vomiting mouthfuls of blood, staining both of them crimson.

With her outstretched hands, she struggled to find something to support herself on the ground. Without uttering a single curse, Xin Ke simply struggled to crawl halfway up the ground, trying her best to drag Su Er up and move him along.

"We're almost there...we're almost there..." Instead of sweat, large tears streamed from the eyes of the forest elf with long, golden hair, blurring her vision.

“…Just hold on a little longer…Sul…just hold on a little longer…” With only the blue ocean in front of her in her blurred vision, Xin Ke just desperately shuffled along the ground, using her last bit of strength to drag Sul forward.

His skin was cut by sharp rocks, and blood mixed with dust covered his entire body.

Half a meter, a meter... until finally level with Jibril, intersecting in a straight line, and then crossing over.

The first time, not when she was shrunk from exhaustion, Jibril clearly felt something flowing from her eyelids. Sensing something, she reached out a finger to touch it, and on her fingertip, which was stained with a translucent liquid, Jibril saw a splash of red, like blood.

I am Jibril, a Winged Servant who serves my master, offering my life for my master's victory, and what I seek to achieve is also my master's wish. I am a weapon, all Winged Servant are weapons, weapons do not need hearts, weapons have no hearts.

But why can't I stop crying?

Slowly blinking her amber eyes, as her eyelids drooped, the tears that had been held back in her eyes slid down her cheeks. Jibril's fingers gently twirled through the air, and what should have been nothing appeared on her fingertips—a photograph with charred edges and mostly yellowed edges.

Most of it was burned away by the flames, and the photo was reduced to irregular fragments. Even the image on it was blurred due to the charring, and only faint phantoms could be seen.

That version of myself laughing heartily in the illusion after successfully pulling off a prank.

Without turning around or looking back, Jibril simply tossed the photograph behind her.

The yellowed photograph swirled in the wind, landing gently like a butterfly on the chest of Suer, who was lying on his back on the ground and being dragged along by Xin Ke, and was stained with blood.

He couldn't see it, but Suer knew clearly what it was and what had fallen on him. He wanted to laugh, but in the end, all he could spit out was blood. His life had entered its final countdown, like a few embers flickering in the wind.

“…We’re here, we’re here…Sul…” Xin Ke murmured happily as she lay on the edge closest to the ocean of elves. However, when she turned her head, she found that the man had closed his eyes and fallen into a coma.

The tears flowing from her eyes grew even more torrents. Her blurred vision only swept over the Skywing creature with its back to her. The next second, Xin Ke gritted her teeth, gripped Su Er's arm tightly with both hands, and rolled off the edge, taking Su Er, who had already lost consciousness, with her.

come down.

Falling towards the ocean of light, the blue sea of ​​spirits.

The origin of all things.

Unable to feel the heat, or even detect the melting of flesh, in the final second of what seemed like an endless fall, Xin Ke, with her back to the Sea of ​​Elves, saw the sky tens of thousands of meters above her. The atmosphere swirled into a vortex, lightning cleaved through the chaos, and a deep, indifferent voice seemed to resound directly in the ears of everyone on this battlefield.

[God's Strike]

Chapter 285 The Heart of God

Like an onion with its layers of outer shell peeled away, large and small pieces of steel rained down from the sky, slamming the earth below onto the surface of a planet after a meteorite impact. Even the wreckage alone was enough to pose a fatal threat to fragile creatures, but this powerful steel fortress was as vulnerable as a newborn baby in front of the emerald-haired Skywing.

As if strolling in a garden, the massive steel fortress that Shubi had unleashed posed no threat whatsoever to Azriel. No matter how grand the display or how enormous the spirits she commanded, it was all meaningless if she couldn't hit her target.