Beng Tie: What does it mean to broaden one's four destinies in one sentence?

Lin Si: "......."

Chapter 47 Will the Wind Remember? Will the Snow Remember?

late at night.

The snowstorm in Belleburg was even more intense than during the day.

Cocolia stood alone deep inside the furnace, her long hair fluttering slightly in the rising hot air.

Before her was an irregularly shaped crystal.

It floats in the very center of the furnace core, the stellar core.

The source of calamity was sealed here by the first generation of Great Guardians seven hundred years ago.

Cocolia looked at it, a resolute glint in her eyes.

"Give up."

The sounds around me were ethereal and indistinct, as if they came from a very distant place, or as if they were ringing directly in my mind.

"Even though she gained the Amber King's glimpse, one person's power is ultimately limited. This cold wave, this rift, this abandoned city—no one can save them."

A mocking smile flashed across Cocolia's lips.

"The seed of disaster."

Her voice was soft, but it lingered deep within the hearth for a long time.

"I was so stupid to have been fooled by you for so many years."

Since coming into contact with the star core, she has glimpsed the truth of this world.

Seven hundred years ago, the antimatter legion descended.

The first High Guardian, Alisa Rand, detonated the star's core, freezing all the antimatter legions.

But this also created this world covered in ice and snow.

When she saw this scene, her faith nearly collapsed.

It was the star core that attracted the antimatter legion.

This is not the power of "preservation" at all.

However, the first generation of Great Guardians accomplished the "miracle" by using the Star Core.

At the time, she felt that the custody service had abandoned them and Belloberg.

Only by pursuing the "destruction" spoken of by the star core can the people of Beloborg be freed from the eternal cold.

but now,

Her daughter, her daughter of Cocolia, rekindled the light of the lance that had been dormant for seven hundred years in Bronya's hands.

what does this mean?

This means that Cunhu has not abandoned them at all!

This means she was deceived by the Star Core!

This means that what she did during her time as High Protector almost led to the true destruction of Beloborg!

Cocolia's fingers trembled slightly.

It's anger.

Anger towards oneself.

"We are salvation."

The sounds continued, intermittently.

"We are the future. We haven't deceived you. As long as you're willing..."

"Shut up."

Cocolia's voice was as cold as the wind and snow outside the hearth.

She looked up and stared directly at the irregular crystal.

At that moment, she had only one thought in her mind.

She wants to atone for her sins.

She wants to atone for the people of Beloborg who paid for her actions with their lives.

Those lower-class residents she abandoned, those Iron Guards who died in the Rift because of her tacit approval, those who could have lived but were pushed to their deaths by her own hands...

Every name is a thorn in her heart.

What is the best way to atone for one's sins?

She already knew the answer when she saw the melting ice spear that morning.

The stellar core is not uncontrollable and unusable.

Although the city builders have stopped researching the star core in recent years, their records indicate that the star core is a huge energy source, and the furnace core is the key to using the star core's energy, but it cannot make the star core release energy on a large scale.

But what if she, like the first generation of Great Guardians, used her body to contain the Star Core and exist alongside it?

Could this allow the star core to release energy according to her will?

After years of research, Cocolia confirmed that it was possible.

But if you're not careful, you might lose your soul.

But it doesn't matter anymore.

Belloberg has a more capable leader.

And this leader is her daughter.

She not only had to pave the way for her daughter, but also had to atone for her own sins.

But not today, and not now.

Because Bronya has not yet succeeded as High Guardian.

She wanted to see Bronya standing before the public in the final moments of her life.

Look at that little girl who followed her around since she was a child, how she grew into a leader who could lead Belleburg out of the cold wave, even if it's just for a glance, just one glance.

The purpose of this visit is to clearly tell the Star Core,

Belloberg's people have a future.

She wanted to make the star core experience the feeling of "despair," to experience what she felt back then.

"Something without a soul."

Cocolia's voice echoed deep within the hearth, each word clear as a pronouncement.

Cherish your last moments.

The star core's light flickered violently a few times.

That frequency didn't seem like a normal energy fluctuation; it was more like a fluctuation of some kind of emotion.

Anger? Fear? Or resentment?

Cocolia didn't know, and didn't care.

She turned around and strode out.

Behind her, the star core's light flickered, as if it were saying something, but Cocolia could no longer hear it.

Or perhaps, she simply doesn't want to listen anymore.

Cocolia stood at the doorway and looked back one last time.

The irregular crystal floated in the darkness.

Seven hundred years ago, Alisa Rand sealed it here.

Seven hundred years later, her daughter Bronya Rand will end it all here.

Cocolia withdrew her gaze, pushed open the door, and stepped into the snowstorm.

The door to the furnace slowly closed behind me, and the wind and snow rushed in, icy and biting.

But a slight smile played on Cocolia's lips.

That was the first real laugh she had in years.

She wandered aimlessly. The administrative district was deserted in the dead of night, and the streetlights cast long shadows of her, sometimes in front, sometimes behind.

She stopped in front of the Yongdong Inscription Monument.

Cocolia stood there for a while, then turned to look at the fountain.

Even in the snow-covered city of Beloborg, there are still fountains.

Children throw coins into the fountain and make wishes.

She threw them away when she was a child too.