Elf: Is the bear apprentice the weakest? I'll shatter the sky with my fists.

Its ferocious dragon head tilted to one side, and a dull, resonant sound emanated from the opening and closing of its jaws: "Crowned King...why be so persistent?"

Each vertebra emitted a blinding red light as the words were spoken, and the energy tentacles that were wrapped around the Snowstorm Horse and the Spirit Horse tightened even more.

The two divine steeds neighed in agony, and ice crystals and ghostly fire gushed from their wounds.

"Just a mere moon goddess..."

The core of Eterna's throat suddenly flickered violently, projecting a red light that enveloped the entire crumbling sanctuary. "Worth risking the lives of all your people? Behold... your secret realm is collapsing..."

As it spoke, a deafening roar echoed from afar as the Ice Crystal Temple collapsed.

Countless icicles fell from the dome, vaporizing the instant they came into contact with the rampaging energy field.

Even the emerald branches of the Tree of Eternity began to wither at a visible rate...

"Little Nebula—!!!"

Eileen's heart-wrenching screams pierced through the energy storm.

The Crowned Queen turned her head abruptly.

In the distant void, Necrozma's prism body had completely enveloped Lunayara.

The moon goddess's brilliant starlight was being forcibly extracted, transforming into countless streams of light that flowed into those dark crystals.

Lunayara struggled in agony, its amethyst-like body turning gray at a visible speed, the starlight on its bat wings extinguishing one by one.

The swallowed moonlight twisted and deteriorated within Necrozma's body, gradually turning a murky purplish-red.

When it finally bursts forth from the facets of its prism, it has become a destructive, dark light.

The entire sky above the secret realm trembled violently due to this corrupting energy, as if it might collapse completely at any moment...

"go!"

Necrozma's growl reverberated through the void as its prism-like body began to twist and deform, preparing to take the captured Lunayal into the Ultimate Hole.

"drive!"

The Crowned King leaped onto the back of the Spirit Horse, its crown gleaming with a blinding, cold light.

The spirit horse raised its head and let out a long, mournful neigh.

In an instant, the shadows of the entire Holy Land came alive!

Countless ghostly blue flames erupted from the cracks in the ice crystals, as if the gates of hell had been opened.

These undead horses, burning with ghostly fire, neighed and charged towards Necrozma, forcefully knocking it back from the edge of the spatial rift.

"Want to go?"

The Queen's voice was icy, and the arm holding the reins pointed at the enemy, "Leave the Moon Goddess here!"

The snow blizzard horse simultaneously shattered the ice surface, and the blizzard condensed into countless ice crystal spears under its hooves.

The entire secret realm trembled violently at this angry declaration, and even the energy tentacles of the Void-Tana briefly froze.

"Since you remain so stubborn..."

As he spoke, Necrozma's prism body suddenly burst forth with dazzling golden light, and terrifying energy was almost bursting forth!

"Then let's destroy this secret realm together!"

With a roar like metal being torn apart, a dark gold pillar of light with a diameter of over 100 meters crashed down!

Wherever the torrent of energy passed, space crumbled inch by inch!

The Crowned King hastily deployed the Emerald Barrier, but was forced to retreat by the destructive energy fused with the Fallen Moonlight, the Spirit Horse's hooves carving deep furrows into the ice.

In the distance, Lunayara, imprisoned, let out a faint, mournful cry.

Its body was almost transparent, as if it might dissipate into the void at any moment.

"Waaah..."

Shirabi's emerald green pupils suddenly contracted to slits, and its small body trembled violently in the raging energy turbulence.

At the very moment the secret realm collapsed, it glimpsed countless fragmented pieces of the future through the cracks in time!

On a certain timeline, the world is collapsing because it has lost the Moon Goddess.

Eternal night enveloped the earth, turbulent tides triggered a massive tsunami, and countless creatures wailed in the darkness.

The source of all this is the fading moonlight in Necrozma's claws!

"Chirp...No!"

The shrine suddenly unleashed an unprecedentedly powerful force.

It released the vines that were holding onto Eileen, and its entire body erupted with emerald-colored time ripples!

Where these ripples passed, even falling ice crystals froze in mid-air.

"We absolutely...we must not let it take the Moon Goddess away!"

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

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Chapter 543 At this moment, a glimpse of a corner of time

"We absolutely...we must not let it take the Moon Goddess away!"

The shrub's voice echoed in Eileen's mind.

In an instant, countless fragments of time flooded into her consciousness.

She saw the forest under eternal night, where towering ancient trees were withering at a visible rate, and the rabbi anxiously traversed among them, yet could not stop even a single leaf from falling.

She saw raging waves engulfing the port city, the moonless tides triggering tsunamis hundreds of meters high, and people kneeling on rooftops praying in despair.

She saw the Snowstorm Horse and the Spirit Horse lying on the scorched earth, the Calycerin King's crown shattered into countless pieces, and the completely corrupted Lunayara circling in the sky, its amethyst-like body now covered with hideous dark red markings...

What terrified her most was the last scene.

Necrozma and Eternatus dwell on the shattered planet's surface, their bodies emanating familiar moonlight energy, now completely distorted into beams of destruction.

"This is... the future without Little Nebula..."

Eileen's pupils trembled violently, and tears froze in her eyes.

Every image pierces the heart like a sharp blade. The rabbi conveys not only images, but also a despair that transcends time and space.

Just as the apocalyptic scene was about to engulf everyone, a dazzling golden beam of light suddenly pierced through the shattered sky.

The ice on the Frozen Throne shattered inch by inch, and the young man sitting within slowly rose.

The Thousand Cosmic Wrist on his forehead radiated the light of creation, and every step he took stirred up sacred ripples in the void.

"In the name of Arceus."

The boy's voice wasn't loud, but it instantly brought the entire trembling secret realm to a standstill.

The laurel wreath on his head shimmered with starlight, and countless starlight intertwined behind him to form the phantom of the Wheel of Creation.

With a light tap of his hand, Necrozma's dark gold pillar of light shattered and dissipated like glass.

Beside him, time and space seemed to be folded, revealing the existence of many legends.

The martial arts bear master's fist was entwined with chaotic energy; the ancient sword leopard's ice blade reflected calamity runes; the moment Latias spread its wings, even the shattered space was smoothed out.

Even more impressively, Ho-Oh, Lugia, and other top-tier legendary Pokémon stood solemnly behind him, each gaze fixed on the intruder.

"My Lord, Divine Messenger..."

The Crowned King trembled as it raised its forelegs. Its crown was cracked, and glittering ice crystals kept peeling off.

When the light of fragments of time shone into His eyes, His emerald pupils suddenly contracted.

"I see..."

He whispered, his voice trembling with determination.

Suddenly, the Queen of the Crane stomped on the ice beneath her feet, and countless sharp ice shards burst forth from the ground, weaving together to form an ice crystal curtain that stretched across the battlefield!

This barrier divides the battlefield in two.

"Crown King, what are you doing, you idiot?!"

The Spirit Horse neighed in terror, frantically crashing against the suddenly appearing ice wall, its eerie blue flames scorching black marks on the ice surface.

But when the icy mist dissipated, the figure of the Crowned King had vanished, leaving only a few pieces of ice stained with divine blood.

On the other side of the barrier, a snow-white figure covered in blood staggered toward Lunayara, each step leaving behind blooming crimson ice flowers on the ice surface.

Necrozma's prism-like body turned slightly to the side, completely shielding the weakened Lunayara behind him.

Its core gleamed with a mocking cold light, and the scarred figure of the Brilliant King was reflected on its black crystalline surface.

"Look at you now... separated from your mount, your crown shattered..."

As soon as he finished speaking, a distorted beam of light swept across the Brilliant King's bleeding wound. "You can't even stand up straight, what do you want to do?"

"do what...?"

The Crowned King struggled to lift his head, his gaze piercing through the transparent ice crystal curtain.

On the other side, the Spirit Horse and the Snowstorm Horse were being forced to retreat by the purple-red energy cannonballs of the Eternal Tana. The neighing of the two divine steeds came from across the barrier, sounding particularly distant.

He withdrew his gaze, his blood-stained body drifting in the turbulent energy currents.

When the Lady Crown looked at Necrozma again, the shattered crown suddenly burst forth with its last emerald light.

"Of course...to fulfill the final duty of a god..."

Suddenly, the Crowned Queen turned to look at Eileen outside the ice wall, her eyes sparkling with countless stars.

A gentle smile appeared on his blood-stained lips.

"Eileen... I entrust the future wheat fields to you."

Suddenly, the Crowned King's snow-white hooves sank deep into the ice.

Countless emerald green thorns burst forth from beneath His feet.

These spikes, laced with divine blood, pierced through the entire battlefield in an instant!

Some thorns transformed into chains that bound Necrozma's prism-like body, while others intertwined into a net to protect the dying Lunayara.

but......

Several of the thickest thorns pierced through the Crowned King's own chest, and golden divine blood flowed down the thorns, blooming into a dazzling flower of light on the ice!

"Crown King, are you really not afraid of death?!"

Amidst the dazzling light of the bursting thorns, Necrozma emitted a piercing metallic hiss as its prism body was forcefully pushed into the twisted ultimate hole.

The spatial rift closed abruptly behind it, and the last glimmer of darkness was completely purified.

Lunayara floated weakly in the air, her moon-like body gradually shrinking and degenerating...

Finally, it transformed back into that tiny Cosmog, gently landing in Erin's trembling palm.

"I......"

Eileen knelt on the ice, tears blurring her vision.

She reached out in vain, only to grasp a few falling fragments of the crown.

And those fragments vanished as light at her fingertips.

"child..."

Suddenly, the last whisper of the Lady Crown King echoed in the void.

A crown woven from starlight and ice crystals slowly emerged and gently landed on Eileen's hair.

When you meet someone you can entrust your future to... please... crown them...

The laurel wreath suddenly radiated a warm light, and Cosmog made a faint "Mogu" sound in the halo, nuzzling Erin's damp cheek.

On the other side of the ice crystal barrier, the battle had reached a stalemate.

The Spirit Horse's hooves were deeply embedded in the decaying snow, and purplish-black venom spread upwards along its legs, burning out terrifying blue smoke with every inch it climbed.