Collapse, survive

Slumped in a slump, unable to break through, Xing also exclaimed in admiration, "Dan Heng is so amazing."

"..."

Danheng can only say to observe more and ask more questions.

In short, the target was simply stated, including Seele and Bronya: "Star, your breakthrough ability is the strongest, we will all cover you."

This is the best choice, and Xing is the obvious choice.

"Look at me."

He leaped up and jumped toward Danheng.

Ji Yun never let go of her, so Dan Heng lent her a helping hand.

Then it was Seele's turn. She teleported into the air and was also swung high into the air.

"Give it to me, fly!"

March 7th and Bronya provided cover as they shot down and froze the monsters rushing toward the star, opening a path.

Even the creation engine—

The Cloud-Striking Sword was never out of its grasp, but Dan Heng stopped it with a divine fist that shattered its continuous attacks—a strike that was enough to kill six Wendys in one punch, and still owed half a Wendy, was interrupted by a single shot.

The star soared unhindered into the sky in the darkness, climbing higher and higher. The baseball bat couldn't reach Cocolia; it had to get closer and shout—

"Cocolia, your days of using the Flame Spear to command the Creation Engine and wreak havoc are over. Hand over the Flame Spear!"

“Ignorant, foolish.”

Cocolia's voice remained hollow as she raised her hand high, launching an ice spear:

I have come to bestow upon you despair!

If you want it, you can have it.

Here it is!

Xing straightened her chest... Wait, something's not right!

She was pierced through the body by the frozen spear, and was sent flying backwards, crashing to the ground. The star core was about to explode—the others looked on with grief, while Dan Heng stared in disbelief.

No, you...

The star fell helplessly from the sky...

She obtained the Flame Spear, but lost the battle.

Cocolia won this battle...

Xing's vision went completely black.

When Xing came to her senses, she found herself in a strange but familiar place.

"Is this...the universe?"

She looked around, bewildered. "Wasn't I fighting Cocolia? Why am I here? I remember Nanuk glanced at me the last time I came here, could it be...?"

No.

Looking around, I didn't find anything, only...

In the distance, above the energy torrent that twisted into a river of light by 'gravity', a flaming spear was pinned there, but had completely cooled down.

"That gun is... Cocolia's weapon?"

She remembered, she remembered everything. She had listened to Danheng, stolen Cocolia's Flame Spear, taken her Creation Engine, and then turned around and beat her to her knees...

I think I managed to grab it, but my posture was wrong and my foot slipped—it must be that despicable masked fool who pulled me down.

"What is this?"

As Xing moved toward the Flame Spear, similar illusions and afterimages created by the previous Rift appeared around him, still related to Cocolia.

Oh, there's another Jepard here. As she touches her, the images begin to replay:

'Jepard: The commercial district has fallen. Residents have been evacuated and are temporarily housed in the outer city. The garrison... suffered twenty-six casualties, but I...'

Cocolia: Go on, Jepard.

Jepard: I... I'm not sure if the fallen Iron Guards are truly dead. I saw their mangled forms wandering within the rift...

Jepard: What's happening there is illogical, bordering on madness. Guardian, if this continues...

Cocolia: I know the consequences, Jepard. Step aside.

Voice of the Star Core: We are fully aware of the consequences.

Very good, the Star Core Spirit's eyes sharpened. She had understood everything and decisively moved towards... but couldn't touch it. Cocolia's image disappeared, only showing it.

mean!

The next one—wait, the next one disappeared too, why? I haven't even touched it yet!

They hurriedly chased after them, but could only see one disappearing shadow after another. The Star Core Spirit was furious.

Hilva vanished, Bronya vanished, soldiers, civilians, one by one they all vanished...

Everything is frozen in one image.

"Who is that dark-skinned person?"

Xing felt that it looked familiar, as if it was the one that interfered with these images, causing everything to disappear and making it impossible for her to watch.

"You look a lot like Fang Jie."

It just existed there quietly, ignoring her.

So what else is in this strange place? How do I leave? How much time has passed?

Xing fell into thought, then continued walking towards the Flame Spear. Why worry about anything else? The target was right there.

She then saw a girl.

"The city is crying out... The power of preservation is fading, the terrifying black sun is swallowing the star core, I can't see it anymore, I can't see it anymore, everything is coming to an end."

"In the end... we still couldn't resist the will of the Star Core, and the Star Core couldn't resist an even more terrifying catastrophe."

"That's it, that's it."

She sounded so...sad that she gave up.

"This isn't [Storage Protection], how can you listen to the Star Core?"

Xing has objections.

"Cocolia gave up, and you gave up too. Who will save the world now?"

The little girl's voice was hollow: "There's no need to be harsh. For the past seven hundred years, we have responded to the desire for preservation, but the price has been coldness, and the rift has been expanding every second. What we leave to our successors... is no faith or wealth, only boundless despair."

"Witnessing the homeland we swore to protect slowly disappear before our eyes... is torturous. Add to that the lingering, seductive whispers."

"Even the rock will turn to dust, and even the strongest will will inevitably waver. This day is destined to come. His protection... is destined to leave us."

Xing couldn't listen to the advice of the defeatist strategist; she still wanted to fight. She had already caught the Flame Spear; once she pulled it out, she could fight Cocolia again, and the Creation Engine would be at her disposal.

I still have so many companions!

Including solutions, even solutions with a fixed formula.

How did this guy end up in Cocolia's phantom image? I need to find him and get some answers from him.

She stepped forward and said, "There are always people who will not waver, like me. I will seal the star core."

"you……"

The little girl looked up at the tall, sinister Star Core Spirit, unable to comprehend it:

"A mere passerby, yet determined to shoulder the fate of an entire world... So be it. What else is there to lose, what else can't I try?"

Her voice sounded even more resigned. Was this trust or just "whatever"?

Xing didn't know, and she wouldn't think about it that much.

"Go and touch the light of the amber. See if the will of your inner [protection] is strong enough—strong enough to attract His gaze."

With a flaming spear in front of him and a dark shadow behind him, Xing didn't think too much. He reached out and was about to pull out the cornerstone that was nailed into the void of the universe and between the energy tides of the star river, as if anchoring something.

The flaming spear knocked her hand away instantly.

Refuse.

"I still don't believe it."

Star Core Spirit ignored him and reached out again.

"Get up!!"

Then she saw it...

And transformed into the sun.

The flaming spear reignited, its fiery soul driving the amber light, obliterating all ice and snow, as if radiating all the light that had not been shone before, as if releasing all the accumulated explosions that had not been conveyed before, suddenly illuminating a light as bright as the sun.

Winterridge, no, the entire Belberg, turned into daylight. The rain had stopped, and almost everywhere in sight was bathed in unprecedented light and heat...

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PS: Second update, continuing to accumulate chapters!

Chapter 47 The Curtain Falls Before Dawn.

Fang Jie, who had rushed to Yongdongling, also saw it.

The air trembled, the sky burned, the wind and snow were driven away by the flames, and the raised fire spear burned everything to ashes, scattering brilliant light that illuminated the night sky as if it were daytime, allowing the Star Train to see the planetary anomalies.

However, since it's nighttime, Himeko probably won't stay up late to watch it.

"It's painful to lose my spotlight, but once 'everything returns,' Himeko will still be everyone's good mother. Ugh, how am I supposed to face everyone after this... And this inexplicable star god's glance... Fate really is neither reasonable nor logical..."

In short, the Star Core Elite is invincible, and even if they are not, Dan Heng can be trusted completely. The Pioneer Squad is a group, I mean, a team.

Cocolia's defeat was inevitable. Faced with the Star Core Spirit wielding its Flame Spear, she was no match for the combined assault, including from the Creation Engine.

Faintly hearing hallucinatory laughter:

"Engine, blast her down, blast her down!"

That's still a creation engine with both hands intact.

"Rumble--"

With a deafening roar, the Divine Fist Shattering Strike easily tore apart the monster horde created by the power of the Star Core, and then rushed towards Cocolia.

Efficiency is more than doubled, and eyes have become clearer; the eyes of the Creation Engine glow with an amber light.

I really don't know where Xinghejing climbed up to borrow the gun from...Danheng threw it up there?

Ji Yun was indeed never without his hand.

"No—the Star Core promised a new world!!"

'Cocolia's' illusory form was still making its last struggle, its hands outstretched, draped in a shell woven from the torrent of imaginary numbers, unleashing unparalleled destructive power. She could still fight, her voice hollow and distant, refusing to acknowledge defeat and annihilation.

An even larger ice spear was launched and collided with the fire spear.

Frankly speaking, an empty shell without willpower cannot withstand the relentless spear; it was visibly torn apart, and the Star Core Essence charged forward as if flying, towards the sky—

"I guess I don't need to join the group."

As he spoke, he was still bewildered by the fact that he had gained another physical attribute to protect his transformation stage, unsure of his current state... In any case, he was harder, and the force field he constructed even had a counter-shock effect.

He was supposed to be on the path of an elegant mage, bursting everything in his path, but now he possesses the destructive power of Sunfire Cape, the protective Thornmail, and the torment of nothingness.

I don't understand much, as I'm just starting out in these fields, but broadly speaking, they can be divided into 'creating stars' and 'changing reality'.

And, let's just say, he's stepped into the 'microscopic' realm he wanted.

The Stigmata's computing power is enough for him to squander; if not, he can create a 'Creation Engine' in the Destiny Space and synchronize computing power through [Ghoul].

While its scale might not be comparable to the celestial computer of the "Erudite" before his ascension to godhood, it wouldn't be a problem to use the "True" to create a 'Creation Engine' to fill an entire celestial body and perform parallel computing.

He even repeatedly projected his own creation, 'Fangjie City'.

The Milky Way is a grand stage; there are plenty of ways to act recklessly, but Fang Jie isn't in such a hurry.