Another World: My life is on the hook!

It was as if from the moment she left the city to meet the enemy, she had already accepted all the consequences that fate had in store for her.

"Your indomitable spirit is truly inspiring."

The Nightmare King stepped forward, cracking his knuckles, and looked at them with a mocking expression.

"However, I am still willing to give you a chance. If you are willing to embrace my Lord, then after this end, you may still have a chance to exist, just like these nightmares behind me. They are all living beings who joined my Lord's ranks at that time. Doesn't this also mean an opportunity for you?"

But the doll maker's gaze remained unwavering and undisturbed.

She took off all her rings.

Countless puppets and dolls added the last spark to her flame.

She reached out and grasped the lifeless body, and in that instant, the tall figure seemed to come back to life, fighting alongside her.

"Everyone, this is the last time."

……

……

The unrest in the entire city of Night was quickly quelled in just a few minutes.

Silver Fantasy gasped for breath, quickly gathering all the remaining strength within Night City. She kept turning her head, staring intently at the direction of the broken city wall, trying to increase her speed to the maximum.

"My lord! We have recaptured the portals connecting the major star sectors! There are still many garrison troops behind us! They request a warp! If they join us, our reinforcements will be much stronger..."

"Destroy!"

She gripped the sword tightly and gave her final orders to her soldiers.

The remaining soldiers looked at her, trembling.

When she turned her head, they saw the deepest despair hidden in her eyes.

"Destroy all the portals, except for the one I designated... It leads to the desolate frontier in the opposite direction. Even if we fail here, as long as you spread out, that calamity and those nightmares won't reach there anytime soon. Take everyone and leave from there! Don't make me say it a second time!"

"grown ups!"

"obey orders!"

Silver Fantasy turned around, her piercing gaze instantly covering everyone who followed her.

They saw the resolve in her eyes and understood what she meant, but it was precisely because they understood that they felt even more desperate.

at last.

Under Silver Fantasy's forceful command, the surviving soldiers wiped away their tears and headed towards the portal she had designated. They knew what this meant, for this parting would be forever.

After dismissing all the people following behind him and watching them leave, Silver Fantasy finally took a deep breath.

But when she turned her head, her gaze fixed on the direction of the city wall, intending to launch that final, desperate battle...

She heard the sound coming from the high steps of the royal court.

"Mother..."

She stared blankly at the figure.

Her body was covered in blood. The corrupters who tried to break into the royal court and the nightmares that had infiltrated all fell under her blade. She stepped on the blood-stained steps, raised her head, and looked at the city that was now filled with blood and fire. The fluttering ashes were like cherry blossoms in full bloom.

"You're still here, Miss Omnic..."

She whispered, crimson blood dripping from the blade of her sword.

Silver Fantasy's gaze fell upon her, and she suddenly seemed to understand something. In that instant, she remembered the captain's moment of sudden realization as he turned his head and resolutely charged into battle with her.

The beam of light reaching the heavens from behind the royal court illuminated this shattered city.

“Do you know something? You and Sir Irwin are the people he trusts most, and we all know that this is the kind of thing that Lynn can’t accept in his life… He was willing to turn against the painter and go against the whole hell during that upheaval… So how could he possibly back down this time?”

That kind of guy.

That despicable guy...

He regarded his family as his own life. He stood here for a century, using his own body to build this defensive line that stretches across the entire main universe.

"I would like to know……"

She took a step forward.

"Was it really because of time? Was it really because of time... that he was prevented from taking that final step of promotion?"

The self-bound angel remained silent. Beneath her withered golden hair, her entire face seemed to be submerged in shadow, and she bit her lip tightly.

Feeling that piercing gaze.

She finally spoke.

“This is the fate we have to go through. Aiwen deceived everyone, including the one who trusted him the most, but we can’t blame him. If this is the only way to win the final victory, then I would have done the same thing.”

She looked up, and the boundless faith converging towards that screen of light resembled a giant bouquet.

Rumble, rumble, rumble——

When the towering city walls crumbled, the restrictions and barriers that had covered the entire sky also shattered in that instant. When Silver Fantasy suddenly turned her head in that direction, her dry eyes trembled violently, and she swayed precariously for a moment, as if she were being dragged into that bottomless abyss.

Because she sensed the breaking and alienation of that thread.

That intense heartache.

And perhaps this is destiny.

Because ultimately, no one can escape death.

No matter how much you resist or struggle, you cannot escape the shadow of that apocalypse.

Is this the result?

Silver Fantasy turned around and looked at the nightmare that was engulfing the city. She struggled to her feet, drew the sword from her hand, and stood there with bloodshot eyes.

“I think I understand, Madam. You don’t need to say anything more. Although I was mentally prepared, don’t you understand? Perhaps before all this is finished, these things…”

"That's enough to kill him..."

……

……

Night City has fallen.

As the massive tower crashed down in flames, the entire city was engulfed in a black inferno.

Countless people who had not yet escaped were killed, and the entire city gradually crumbled from its edges. Those familiar faces, those faces that could be remembered, were all turned to ashes in this catastrophe.

When those nightmare demons arrived at the very center of the royal court.

Only those two people stood at the top and bottom of the steps, blocking their path.

The statue that once represented the ultimate glory of this emerging empire is now just ruins, and the once bustling square is now just a place littered with death and corpses.

"Only you are left."

The Nightmare King's gaze was fixed on the last two figures on the steps, and he venomously wiped away the black blood flowing from the corner of his mouth.