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Chapter 1544: Final Chapter·Guarding the Shore [30]·"'How are you going to get home?'"

Su Mingan looked down and found that he had lost his basic human form. Most of the things that belonged to "him" had flowed into the small world and merged into the world's base.

"Ugh!" A giant dragon fell beside him.

He recognized...the giant dragon that was bleeding and seriously injured was Danshuang.

Her eyes lost focus, not meeting his "gaze", and she murmured in a low voice:

"You... saved us... Don't worry, I can still... fight..."

The sound of breaking.

The sound of something breaking.

White hair swept across his eyes. It was Siberia's white hair.

She urged the power of "reincarnation" to constantly recall the scars of herself and others, charging forward again and again without fear of pain...

Because Su Mingan had also done this before, charging towards her and trying to save her.

"Su Mingan, where are you, are you okay!" Chao Yan's body was broken and reassembled more than once, but her "life" made her immortal. She could no longer see Su Mingan's location, and he seemed to have melted into the torrent of words.

The overwhelming text covered the World Tree. The surrounding scenery could no longer be seen, and even the roar of the star destroyer could not be heard.

Pure white, as if it were original white.

"Ouch——" The siren's image shattered, and Alcherev fell to the ground covered in flowers and leaves, with blood flowing.

The higher-level soul clan members have extremely long lives, and his strength is insignificant among this group of people. Despite this, he still came.

"Father..." he murmured, gradually falling down, his eyes still looking at Su Mingan's original position.

"Ding--!"

Li Mingyue picked up a golden talisman.

Tao'er, transformed into a witch, stood beside him, her face covered in blood.

Li Mingyue stared at the talisman in his hand.

He wanted to do the same thing again.

But that child no longer gave him a chance.

"Swish!" A sharp sonic boom sounded.

——In the very center, under the dome, is the figure of Noel Akinni.

Like Su Mingan, Noel no longer appears in human form, but as a sun.

A sun floating in a dreamy color, representing destruction and collapsing at the slightest touch.

The beautiful blonde hair and ocean-like eyes were gone, only a cold, heartless, inhuman sun.

Danshuang and the gods of Yunshang City were the main attackers, Siber and Chaoyan were the secondary attackers, Li Mingyue provided cover, and Salina and Alcherev assisted. Despite their combined efforts, they still could not completely kill Noel Akinni, who was possessed by the Lord of the End of All Things, Yuritilola, and even the Lord of Chaos.

Everyone was stalling for time until Su Mingan destroyed the World Tree. The World Tree was damaged by the bombardment of the Star Destroyer Cannon, and Su Mingan was only one step away from defeating the God Mingan.

"It's over..." But the shining sun will not give Su Mingan a last chance.

Seeing that Shen Ming'an was in a bad condition, Noel forcibly took the combined attack of everyone, broke through the defense line despite being injured, and stabbed at Su Ming'an who was in the torrent of words!
Just now when Su Mingan coughed up blood, Noel caught the subtle vibration of the thread of fate. "Cause and effect" was materialized at this moment. He followed the direction of the text and saw -

I saw the figure that was also not in human shape.

The flaming red sun and the colorful liquid looked at each other, neither of them could see each other's shape.

——The eyes are not visible either.

But the moment Su Mingan and Noel looked at each other, they heard the same voice in their hearts.

--it's over.

Su Mingan, who turned into a tree, lost most of his direct combat power. If he was hiding in the torrent of words, he would be invincible. But once his position was discovered, he would collapse at the touch of a button.

Noel spotted him.

Because of the "cause and effect" that they had before, which was a deep cause and effect that could not be concealed even by the vast torrent of words.

For a moment, Su Mingan was thinking. Did Noel plan this from the beginning? At the beginning of the world game, he deliberately approached himself and deliberately had a deep cause and effect with himself, just to be able to find himself hiding in the torrent of words at this moment.

If the cause and effect between them were a little weaker, Noel would not have been able to discover him.

Since he turned into a tree, Su Mingan was not sure whether his death replay would still take effect. Theoretically, he was no longer an individual, but a world.

what……

It would be better if we didn't know each other from the beginning.

If only I hadn't looked back in the beginning.

If only... at the beginning... on the platform of the Floating City of Daylight, he had not reached out to the hand with the perfect pass mark.

If only he hadn't smiled the same way when the boy first smiled at him.

But are those...really fake?
Who is deceiving himself and who is making himself sober.

"Shh-!"

The sun was approaching rapidly, as if death was approaching.

As Noel rushed forward, "cause and effect", "sunflower", "reincarnation", "salvation", "betrayal", "end", "fate", "white bird"... countless familiar words flew by as cause and effect approached, and hit him with a "ding-dong" sound.

His outline gradually became clear during the charge, taking on the shape of a human being condensed from the sun.

A long and narrow golden sickle with the sun engraved on it was held in his "hand" which was flowing with golden-red liquid.

A disfigured golden-red "monster" stabbed another disfigured colorful "monster".

"Su Mingan!"

"Father!"

“Ming An——!”

Dan Shuang and others wanted to provide support, but it was too late. They could only watch as Noel's Sun Scythe got closer and closer to Su Ming'an.

Su Mingan saw the scorching, scorching, burning sun.

He heard the chime of fate.

The corners of his nonexistent mouth formed a "smile".

"Hot tears" flowed from his non-existent eyes.

Facing the raging flames, he raised the sword of words in his hand, gathering the most confused, firm and resolute words, and raised his hand unwaveringly, raised it -

……

——Stab to the right.

……

In front of him was Noel, who was charging straight ahead.

On the right is the nearby World Tree.

Faced with such a choice, Su Mingan chose not to defend, but to stab directly to the right, destroying the barrier of the World Tree and opening a route for mankind, rather than risking his own life.

Most of his power has flowed into the small world, enough to save many people. The remaining little bit of life that belongs to him will be taken away by Noel.

This is the least important.

"Shh!"

The moment the sword pierced into the World Tree, a vast torrent of words poured in, accompanied by Su Mingan's full-strength attack and the continuous bombardment of the external star destroyer cannon -

At the same time, the god from Yunshang City who still had some strength left turned his wrist and stabbed at the World Tree with a sword!
Among all the people present, except Noel, only the god of Yunshang City could see Su Mingan's position in the torrent of words because of the positioning of the authority of "soul".

When He saw that Su Mingan chose to point the sword to the right instead of forward, He immediately understood Su Mingan's choice. He sighed silently, and the sword did not stop Noel, but turned right at the same time and pierced into the World Tree together with Su Mingan's sword.

A trace of sorrow flashed across the golden eyes.

...How am I going to get home if you do this?

How are you going to get home?

……

"boom--!"

The humming sound rose from deep in the earth beneath our feet, low and deep, like the cry of a planet unable to bear the weight.

In an instant, the entire tree tilted to an unimaginable degree, like a divine pillar supporting the sky collapsing, and began to sink slowly and irreversibly.

At the same time, Noel's sickle pierced Su Ming'an, entering from the heart and exiting from the spine.

What was before my eyes were no longer specific branches, but an indescribable, pure platinum light, as if countless broken stars were spinning, burning, and exploding, containing a heat that was enough to burn through my eyeballs.

The impact of a landslide and tsunami rolled back along the sword. Su Mingan's hand holding the sword seemed to be holding a burning library. He gritted his teeth, tightly grasped the invisible hilt with both hands, and stabbed it deeper and deeper.

He saw huge, dark and deep cracks appearing out of nowhere between the torn tree trunks. Through these cracks, he could no longer see the familiar sky, but a heart-pounding, chaotic, and meaningless torrent of chaos. It was as if a corner of the painting of the birth of the universe had been roughly opened.

It wasn't just a tree that was torn apart.

Rather, it is the cornerstone of world stability and people's constant cognition of world consciousness.

That which belongs to the "world" collapsed.

Most of the people in the tree, including Siber, Danshuang, and Alcherev, were blown away by the sudden torrent. At the same time, they found that they were rising and automatically flying towards the Ark in the sky...

[World Barrier] is broken!
"——Su Mingan!!!"

As far as Siberia's naked eyes could see, the World Tree had turned into a pure white empty vortex, like a winding river, like a pure white black hole, like a blank in a computer calculation, like a collapse at the end of a game. No branches or human figures could be seen anymore.

They called out, but received no response.

"Hu-hu-"

And inside the pure white - the incandescent core that was enough to evaporate the soul, thousands of petals flew up, like a cocoon, wrapping Noel Akinni and preventing him from being swallowed by the torrent.

Through the gaps in the light, Noel vaguely discerned Su Ming'an's outline. The jet-black robe had long been torn to pieces, leaving only flowing liquid. Perhaps it was a last burst of light, but his facial features became clear for a moment. It was an expression that Noel had never seen on that man's face before - a calmness that was almost settled, a clear relief that was close to "completion".

“He’s not dead!?” The surprised voice of the Lord of the End of All Things rang in his mind.

There was no doubt that Noel's sickle pierced Su Ming'an. The power of "destruction" should have burned Su Ming'an's existence in an instant. However, Su Ming'an was still alive and even had enough strength to completely stab the Sword of Words into the World Tree.

"Is it the transferred damage of 'Noah's Chain'? No, 'Noah's Chain' can only be used against players. There is no player around Su Mingan, why..." Yuritilola murmured.

……

[Noah's Chain (Gold): "Death can conquer the entire world, but our love will last forever and life will never die."

Effect 1: You can select any player to share any hostile damage you receive in the next 3 seconds. The cooldown period is one hour. 】

……

Of course, they knew about Su Mingan's extremely powerful bug equipment, so they made sure in advance that no player could help him block damage within Su Mingan's field of vision. Even Noel was converted from a player to an NPC in advance. Then... why didn't Su Mingan die?

The only player in the range was Su Mingan himself. Even if Su Mingan chose "Noah's Chain" for himself, it would still be useless. After all, he was the one who was stabbed, so he had no reason to survive.

In theory, this is indeed a dead end.

……ah.

Noel felt the sound of a stone falling to the ground in his heart. He slowly, slowly turned his head.

However, there is a breaking point.

There is a breaking point.

Noel Akinni turned around and looked at another figure standing in the pure white range——

The white, frosty figure of the snow lotus on the top of a mountain.

His long hair was dancing in the torrent, shining with a silvery brilliance like silk, his eyes were still as indifferent as before, ethereal like a fairy. His white robe fluttered, unstained by dust.

——On His chest, a golden necklace was shining brightly.

"There is another 'Su Ming'an'..." Yuritilola murmured.

Indeed, Shen Ming'an is not a player, and Su Ming'an is still the only player present.

However, "Noah's Chain" has always had a second effect, which Su Mingan rarely uses.

……

[Effect 2: You can select any player to share any damage he/she receives in the next 10 seconds. The cooldown time is minutes.]

……

Since Su Ming'an always rushes to the most dangerous front line, it has always been the enemies who take the damage for Su Ming'an, and it is rare for Su Ming'an to help others take the damage.

However, Shen Ming'an used the second effect of "Noah's Chain" at the moment when Noel pierced Su Ming'an.

——He took the damage for Su Mingan, the only “player”.

A golden light flashed, and the golden sun sickle that Noel had stabbed into Su Mingan's chest was forced to be pulled out little by little, without a drop of blood flowing out.

At the same time, the god An spat out a mouthful of blood, and his robe, which was as white as snow, was instantly dyed red on the chest, like a red rose blooming in the snow.

A crescent-shaped wound appeared on His chest and back at the same time, appearing to penetrate through Him.

What's amazing is that because the God An and the World Tree are in a "symbiotic" state, when the God An was severely damaged, the World Tree was also severely damaged at the same time, which made... this became the last straw that destroyed the World Tree.

The person who was most shocked was not Su Mingan, but Noel.

The [World Barrier] was broken, and Su Mingan's tree transformation progress was pushed to an extremely high level. Noel could no longer stop Su Mingan and everyone from leaving - when that knife failed, Noel had no chance.

The situation that was originally very good for Nol was instantly reversed with the rebellion of the god An, and the outcome was just a matter of seconds.

With Noel's wisdom, he would definitely not show his back to someone who might betray him. His cooperation with Shenming An was based on his belief that Shenming An would never defect.

In the white torrent, Noel Akinni looked towards the god An, her voice very soft and quiet:

"...I don't understand why you defected."

"Do you... still want to continue this never-ending cycle?"

"Do you... still want to be the next 'Shore Guard Su Mingan'?"

Ok?
Everything is quiet.

As soon as these words were spoken, Su Mingan's ears began to buzz and he was caught in a noisy vibration.

He knew that if it were an ordinary moment, Noel would never reveal the purpose that he had concealed for so long, so when Noel spoke out this "truth"... that was when Noel himself thought that the situation was irreversible.

[World Barrier] was broken, the World Tree collapsed, and Su Ming'an's fate of turning into a tree was inevitable. No matter what means were used, it could not be stopped. Everything was a foregone conclusion.

So, Noel no longer concealed his purpose.

……cycle?
What loop?
"Ding-dong-"

Suddenly, a ruby ​​fell out.

It was originally inlaid on Shen Ming'an's robe. As Shen An's clothes were torn, it fell off and rolled for a moment in the pure white silence, and rolled to Su Ming'an's feet.

"Ding-ling." Su Ming'an picked it up silently.

A line of text popped out:
……

[Ruby (unable to judge the grade)
Type: Out of bounds

Content: This thing comes from outside the world. It is not restricted by most laws and can give you the power to jump out of everything.

Giver: Supreme Lord Tosolius]

……

Out of...everything?
"Cough... cough cough!" Shen Ming'an coughed up a mouthful of blood. His body was burned into a hollow shell by the knife. If he had taken the initiative to defend against Noel's Sun Sword, the situation would have been much better. However, he helped Su Ming'an block the fatal injury, and the same fatality fell on him.

He suddenly reached out to Su Mingan.

"Wow!"

Countless white tentacles suddenly rose up, like a last-ditch effort to burn life, forcing Noel back. And Shenming'an instantly came to Su Ming'an and grabbed his hand.

In the snow-white torrent, Su Mingan looked at the face that looked exactly like his own.

His hand turned into liquid and was guided by the god An into the hot and wet chest.

"Did you touch it?"

"..." Su Mingan had already realized it. His fingers bent and touched something that was still beating: "...heart?"

"Before his sun fire burns me to ashes...you, crush my heart." Shenming An said in a flat voice.

Su Mingan didn't hesitate too much.

It's too late. Although there are many doubts in my heart, as long as I kill the god An with my own hands and use the "Soul Ferry" skill, everything will have an answer...

He didn't even have time to say "OK" before Shenming An took the initiative to use force.

"Boom."

Such an unexpected sound.

There was no time to say goodbye.

Those icy eyes gradually dimmed. He looked at Su Mingan's monstrous form silently for a second, curled the corners of his lips, and then fell into the pure white torrent like a falling river.

From beginning to end, His attitude was silent, calm and composed.

A large number of images emerged.

"Soul Ferry" is triggered.

……

——It was a story with ups and downs.

Before becoming Shenming An, Shenming An was named "Su Ming'an".