Chapter 33: The Fall of the Evil Star (Part 2)
clang!
Two identical women clashed their weapons on the platform.
The battlefield was very quiet, with only the ping-pong sounds of the two men's weapons clashing. Beichen swung the hook in his hand vigorously, and the six sharp blades drew beautiful blade flowers. The dazzling offensive forced the opposite star killer Seraphimir to resist in a somewhat embarrassed manner and retreat step by step.
──But Beichen had no way of feeling happy about this advantage.
Because, right now, at this moment—the entire platform was filled with a dark yellow mist. Bathed in this mist, Gu Yinyue and Yagad not only failed to help Beichen repel the enemy, but instead half-knelt on the ground with an unsteady look. Longyun fell to the ground not far from Gu Yinyue, transformed into a humanoid form, and shook his head painfully, trying to clear his mind. Naraka, with cloudy eyes, stood there, spinning around, not once glancing in Beichen's direction—as if completely unaware of the two men engaged in fierce battle. Beichen initially hoped they would recover, but as time went on, they all collapsed to the ground, and even the Black Disaster and Su Jie in his hands entered a state of chaos.
Before leaving, Ragnarl once said that among the Star Killers, he was responsible for visual destruction, while the "Hate of All Things" was responsible for mental attacks. Now Beichen and his party have fully experienced this.
All kinds of horrible visions kept flashing before her eyes, hindering her thinking and normal movements. The drug addiction in her body was also aroused by these visions and was now frantically fighting against her consciousness. However, she had fought against drug addiction countless times in the past two years and had just experienced the flushing and baptism of negative memories strengthened by Pandora's Box. So in the face of these, she still gritted her teeth and maintained her sanity.
However, Gu Yinyue and Yagad, unlike her, hadn't trained themselves to withstand the mental attacks for so long (?), so they were clearly struck by the attack. In Beichen's eyes, Gu Yinyue and Yagad's figures were often replaced by the illusions of Ling Shuang and Seraphimir—if that were the case, perhaps in their eyes, Beichen's figure might also be replaced by the appearance of their enemies. Maintaining their sanity and resisting the attack must have taken a tremendous amount of energy.
This fog must be cleared soon!
Beichen's heart hardened, and he attacked even harder, while his eyes glanced in the direction of Ling Shuang with some worry - it would be disastrous if he took this opportunity to launch a sneak attack on Gu Yinyue and Yagad.
But to her surprise, Ling Shuang did not move, and did not even care about the people struggling under the mental attack. He just stared at the battle between Beichen and Serafinil, with an extremely complicated expression on his face - it was not even clear who he hoped would win.
With a grit of his teeth, Beichen swung his claws again, using all his strength to chop forward!
clang!
With another sharp collision sound, Seraphimir took a few unsteady steps back before steadying himself, but he did not suffer too much damage. Seeing this, Beichen sighed softly - Heihuo and Sujie were also unconscious because of the fog. If they were in normal state, the Star Spirit Swords in each other's hands would definitely have been shattered!
However, it seems that this woman who is good at mental attacks is not as good as himself in close combat. If the interference of the poisonous fog is removed, it will not be difficult to defeat her.
"Ling Shuang! What are you doing?! Didn't you say you were my knight?!"
She yelled as she retreated, while Beichen was secretly glad in his heart that Ling Shuang was still in a daze and didn't move.
Come again!
Beichen took a step forward, extended her hand, and stabbed her eyes with her hooked claws - but she dodged it awkwardly. Then she twisted her body and jumped sideways a few times, delivering an additional blow from her left hand from below - which was barely blocked by the Star Spirit Sword. At this moment, the next wave of attacks had already caught up - she retracted her hand, raised her leg, and gave the opponent a swift flying kick in the chest!
This time she finally hit the target. Seraphimille groaned and was kicked away by her. She slid back several meters, and the Star Sword in her hand dissipated in the air because of her unstable consciousness - a great opportunity!
Beichen rushed over like lightning, shortening the distance between them, aimed his claws at her heart, and stabbed it hard!
The accident happened at that moment.
Just when the hook was about to pierce into the opponent's body, Ling Shuang on the side screamed "No" shrilly, and then threw a bottle of something at Beichen!
Beichen reflexively waved her hand to block, and then with a snap, the bottle was smashed to pieces, and a lot of liquid in the bottle splashed on her body.
Then she froze.
...This is...a high concentration of blood cereus dew.
Suddenly, the drug addiction that she had suppressed with great difficulty, under the temptation of the fragrance, took over every cell in her body at full speed. Her blood began to boil abnormally, and her brain stopped thinking for a moment, leaving only a greedy, black, and constantly circulating impulse.
──Drink it, drink it, this is what you want most.
After drinking it, all the pain will disappear.
After drinking it, you will gain supreme joy and happiness.
After drinking it, you will reach the luckiest shore.
Drink, drink, drink!
The drug addiction that she had finally controlled to a relatively harmless level over the past two years was now shattered at this moment. Beichen - without even having time to feel angry and helpless - had already consumed all her energy just by repeatedly reminding herself not to lick the liquid on the corner of her mouth in the last bit of consciousness.
Then, Seraphimnil easily stood up again and stabbed her abdomen hard.
However, Beichen, who was controlled by drug addiction, did not even feel much pain from the attack. Fortunately, her sanity returned a little.
Therefore, she saw a powerful red light emanating from her body, and this red light was slowly peeling off from her body.
In the middle of the red light, there is a slowly rotating small cube composed of dark photons, and in the middle of the small cube, there is a somewhat dazzling little red dot.
──Pandora's Box?
Beichen shuddered and regained some consciousness.
Pandora's Box, how did it come out of her body? !
Beichen's shock and confusion seemed to please Seraphimnir opposite her, and she sneered with a malicious expression.
"Pandora's Box is indeed very delicate. It cannot contain anyone who is not qualified. However, if the host's own vitality nourishes it, it can still maintain its activity for a year or so before death. A year or so is enough for me to complete my mission."
“You—”
Do you really want to destroy it? Even if you only have one year to live because of Pandora's Box, you will still eliminate the thing you hate?!
Beichen tried hard to open his mouth to stop the other party, but no sound came out. He could only watch as the other party grabbed the small cube and forced it into his body.
“Hehe────”
The woman with the same face as her had her facial features completely distorted due to ecstasy, making her look not even like Beichen anymore.
“Haha ...
She looked up in ecstasy and remained silent for a few seconds, as if she was enjoying the pleasure brought to her by the power contained in Pandora's Box.
Then the next second, she cast a contemptuous look at Beichen who was lying on the ground.
"I really don't understand you. You have such a powerful force inside you, why don't you use it?"
“…”
Beichen remained silent, but just used her hands to support herself and tried to stand up. It seemed that the other party knew more than her, the witch herself, at least knew how to fully operate Pandora's Box. Besides, if Beichen could drive it so casually or even take it out of the body, would she still allow this star killer to be so arrogant?
However, Seraphimíl smirked at her.
"Just now, my knight was so dishonest. He didn't even come to protect me in time. As expected, once Xiang Beichen himself appeared, I, a substitute, was worthless. A fake knight is really just a fake."
Ling Shuang didn't say anything.
"But fortunately, Pandora's Box is now in my body, so I have a real knight to use. 'Agad, come here.'"
“Hmm…”
I don't know what method Seraphim used, but it was like the effect of the contract mark on humans on weapons. The words she spoke seemed to carry some kind of power, urging the body of Agard not far away to move on its own. He staggered like a zombie and walked step by step to Seraphim's side.
"Agard!!"
Beichen yelled, trying to bring him back to his senses, but the other party just shook his body violently, and his eyes did not regain clarity.
"It's no use shouting."
Seraphimnil looked at her sarcastically.
"Now, I am the miko, he is my knight, my subordinate, and has nothing to do with you. ...Well, to celebrate this moment, how should we have fun?"
The new priestess deliberately showed a puzzled expression and tapped her chin with her finger.
"That's right, 'Agad, you will show your loyalty to me by killing this woman.'"
“Ugh—Ahhh!!!”
Yagard seemed to be very resistant to this order, but still could not resist the command of Pandora's Box. He moved strangely... and slowly moved in front of Beichen.
Then, he suddenly grabbed Beichen's neck and lifted her up!
“Gu!!!”
Beichen, who was already very weak due to severe injuries and drug addiction, faced the power of Yagad and struggled hard relying on instinct - but after struggling for a while, her movements became weaker and her eyes gradually began to blur.
──Really...are we going to end it here?
You were about to win, but you lost to a bottle of blood cereus dew?
No, this shouldn't be the case. I can't just give up like this. I can't die in a place like this!!
At this moment, Beichen's sword, Xiangying's secondary sword, suddenly emitted a dazzling light, then floated into the air on its own, and struck Yagad's arm with its hilt!
──Xiang Ying, who was thousands of miles away, saw this scene through Chita. He did not hesitate to consume a large amount of star power and forced himself to drive the secondary sword across the distance in an attempt to save Beichen's life. Although the sword fell to the ground after just a few seconds, it was enough to awaken this knight who was wholeheartedly thinking about Beichen!
Xiang Ying succeeded. Yagard regained consciousness due to the severe pain in his arm. Seeing Beichen who was almost unconscious in front of him, unspeakable pity and anger burned in his eyes.
However, contrary to his expression, his left hand moved again without his control and stretched towards Beichen.
"……Can't……"
He growled in pain and tried to retreat, but his feet seemed nailed to the ground and he couldn't move.
How could he possibly hurt Miss Beichen, the most important person to him? She was someone he couldn't even protect, and now, because of her, she was on the verge of death?!
"Unforgivable────"
The knight roared with a ferocious look on his face, and used all his strength to pull his hand back.
Seeing that Agard had broken free from Pandora's Box's command, Seraphimir's eyes narrowed in displeasure.
"'Kill him,' that was the order."
"No!! You have no right to order me around!"
"'Kill her.'"
The new witch repeated calmly:
"'Kill her, kill her, kill her, kill her, kill her.'"
The superposition of five identical commands finally allowed the control of Pandora's Box to suppress Agard's control over the body again. The hand had already reached Beichen's neck again.
Is there nothing that can be done?
The knight blinked his fierce eyes hard, then stared at Beichen's weak face.
"No. Absolutely not."
He gave up trying to retract his left hand, and instead stretched out his right hand, summoning the red photon giant sword lying not far away into his own hand.
Then, at that moment, Beichen slowly woke up from the shock of the short stand. The moment she regained consciousness, she saw her knight, Agaard Barumunk Celand, holding the greatsword high in his hand and slashing at her left arm! !
“Stop──────!!!”
Beichen tried his best to shout in a hoarse voice - but it was too late.
Blood splattered all over the sky, accompanied by the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground. Beichen could even smell the warm fishy smell of the blood splashing on his face.
"Agad, what are you doing—Agad!!"
She struggled madly to get up and try to help Yagad, but the tall man opposite her took a step back.
"Miss Beichen, don't come near me!"
"Agad, your hand—!"
"If my hands intended to hurt Miss Beichen, there would be no need for them to exist. That's all."
"What the hell are you talking about! Bandage it up quickly! Where's the Super Recovery Spirit Crystal!!"
She wanted to open the storage space to get the spirit crystal, but found that Hei Huo and Su Jie, who were in a coma due to the mental attack, were unable to open the storage space!
"Agad! You have spirit crystals in your storage space, right? Hurry up, while there's still time—"
"Do you think I'll give you this kind of time?"
Seraphimíl on the side twisted her mouth and shook her head in amusement.
"It's really touching. It's a pity that this loyalty isn't directed towards me, so I can only find it annoying."
As she spoke, she shifted her malicious gaze from Beichen to Yagard.
"You've piqued my curiosity. I want to see how far you can go, 'My Knight'? It seems like you'd be much more fun to play than her, huh?"
Yagad didn't know whether it was because of the pain or because he didn't want to talk to her, but just stood there in silence.
The witch laughed:
"'If you don't have a left hand, you can kill with your right hand.'"
Following these words, amidst Agard's painful growl, his body began to move involuntarily again.
"Agard—"
Beichen gradually understood what was going on. In order to prevent Yagad from continuing to hurt herself, she took a few steps back and moved towards Gu Yinyue who was kneeling on the ground, but──
Boom!!
A red star spirit cannon suddenly hit Beichen less than a meter in front of her. Although it did not hit her, it pushed her back several meters, and then she lost her balance and fell to the ground again.
"I worked so hard to come up with this game, how can you just run around like that?"
On the opposite side, Seraphimir smiled with a twisted smile and fired several red Protoss cannons in succession, forcing Beichen to retreat continuously, forcing her to move towards Yagard.
"Well, I've brought you your prey, my knight. Kill it quickly, and use your right hand, okay?"
“Gu!!”
The knight was so angry that blood oozed out of his mouth. He probably bit his tongue.
Then he looked at his right hand slowly raising the sword, tilted his head and bit his arm!
With a "swish" sound and a bloody sound, a large piece of meat was bitten off along with the cloth. Perhaps because the important tendons and meridians were bitten off, the raised right hand fell down like a puppet with its strings cut, and the sword in his hand fell to the ground with a clang.
"Agard!!!"
Beichen, covered in blood, tried frantically to move, but having lost Pandora's Box and being seriously injured, she was still unable to break through the limits of her body in this situation. Once again, she watched her knight destroy his right hand for her!
Tears had already covered her face without her knowing when, her body was numb with pain, and her heart was in so much pain that it almost suffocated her - she looked at Seraphimir, who was looking at Agard with excitement, with a fierce look on her face, and a broken roar came from her throat, trying desperately to stand up.
She had never hated someone so much as she did at this moment, hated him to the point where she could not get over it even if she drank his blood and ate his flesh!!!
Looking at the expressions of Beichen and Yagard, the new priestess became even more excited.
"Interesting, interesting, so interesting!! It's okay, my right hand hasn't fallen off yet, it can still be used! I'll lend you my star power!!"
After saying that, a red light surrounded Yagard's right hand, and forcibly lifted up the hand that had drooped down limply, causing Yagard to continue groaning in pain.
The knight's expression gradually turned cold.
"Silver Kill, I command you with my brand, cut off my right hand!"
Beichen was shocked when he heard this, but when he turned around, he saw that the unconscious silver-white long-handled axe was still lying on the ground in the distance, and did not move on its own because of Yagad's order.
But just when she breathed a sigh of relief, something unexpected happened again.
Silver Killer, who slowly woke up because of Yagard's branding command, moved on the ground. Although he was not fully awake, it was enough for Yagard to open the storage space.
Then the knight bit through a Spirit Crystal Wind Cannon with his teeth and blasted it towards his own arm! !
Boom!!
After a flash of dazzling green light, the knight's right hand disappeared, leaving only half of the white bone connected to the shoulder.
“Agard ahh ...
Beichen was almost driven crazy by the scene before her, but the remaining trace of rationality made her immediately start to imitate Yagad's previous behavior, trying to use the brand to wake up Heihuo Sujie. After two attempts, she succeeded. After waking up and seeing the tragic scene before them, the twins were stunned at first, and then roared loudly. Heihuo transformed into a human form and took out the spirit crystal to heal his wounds, while Sujie rushed towards Yagad.
"'Kill them!!'"
The witch sneered again and gave the order. However, with only his legs left, Yagad stared at Su Jie who was charging at him with clear eyes and shook his head.
“Don’t come over here!”
Su Jie immediately understood what was going on, and then rushed towards Seraphim with a ferocious look on his face - but was blocked by Ling Shuang on the side.
"asshole!!"
Su Jie's attack had completely lost its rhythm, and his white claws lashed out at Ling Shuang like crazy:
"How far do you want to go to harm us? How have we ever wronged you? Even though you hurt us so much last time, we still let you go. Now you want the same result?!"
Ling Shuang's expression flashed with guilt for a moment, but he immediately responded with a distorted expression:
"Who told you not to accept us! Who told you all to stay with her while I alone can't! Since you all don't want me, let's just die together! You deserve it!!...Hahahaha! You deserve it!!"
"You beast!!"
Su Jie roared in a tone he had never used before, but helplessly, at this moment, without the cooperation of Hei Huo, no matter how angry he was, he still could not break through the defense line of Ling Shuang, a high-ranking fallen dark seed, and come to the vicinity of the new witch.
Seeing that Su Jie was so close, Seraphimir, who had just treated Yagad's struggle as a game, became a little timid. She cautiously took a few steps back, then looked at Yagad, who was covered in blood and even staggering when standing, and snorted disdainfully.
"I'm tired of this. If a knight can't even complete such a simple mission, what's the point of existing? He might as well die."
Then she raised her hand behind Yagard, and in her hand, the red light of the Protoss cannon was rapidly condensing.
Beichen, Heihuo and Sujie discovered this red light.
But the three of them were in a position where none of them had time to rush to the rescue, and none of them had time to find a way to interrupt it.
“A-Gard---!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
In the end, the miracle still did not happen.
Amid the three men's heart-wrenching screams, the red Protoss cannon pierced through the knight's body and hit his heart, staining the already bright red ground beneath his feet with new blood.
Su Jie Wuxin and Ling Shuang continued to fight, and they crawled towards Yagad, while Beichen, supported by Hei Huo, used her hands and feet to crawl towards him frantically - but even so, she only received the knight's - and finally could not hold on and slowly fell down.
"Agad—Agad! Agad!!!"
At this moment, she once again tasted the despair of Xiang Zhiyan's departure and Xiang Ying turning back into a broken sword in her arms.
The knight had become a bloody man, with blood spurting out of the broken left arm from time to time, and tiny blood vessels and minced meat still clinging to the bones of his right hand. However, he still gave Beichen a faint, gentle smile.
The posture of falling, with the strong willpower and Beichen's support, once again returned to Beichen's most familiar posture, half-kneeling in front of her.
"Miss Beichen, it seems that I can only serve you up to this point. I'm sorry. I don't seem to be of much help..."
“No… No!… I don’t want to…! Agard!! Hold on!! You can’t—you can’t… Agard!”
Heihuo and Sujie randomly crushed nearly ten super-recovery spirit crystals, and even the star spirit mineral solution spilled over due to the chaos. Beichen, who had no idea what she was talking about, now had in her mind all the little things that Yagard had done with her over the past three years.
He would always stand behind her with an expressionless face, watching her chatting and laughing with the others, occasionally interjecting a few words that would make people sweat;
Just a small word of comfort or a kind gesture can make him happy for a long time;
He seemed heartless to things other than her, but poured all his kindness to her and never asked for anything in return;
He rarely talked about himself, but he knew everything about her, and was so considerate that it made people feel guilty;
He provided her with a lot of power and wealth, and always gave her all the help he could when she needed it most. As long as she said a word, he would provide his opinions, knowledge and strength without reservation.
Just kissing the back of her hand would bring out a happy, almost trance-like smile.
This is her knight, Agaard Barumunk Celand.
Ahhhhh
Why did you find out now, why did you find out so late?!
She couldn't bear to lose him any longer. Her dependence on and trust in him had been implanted in her bones, deep in her heart, and engraved into her soul through the countless moments of their interactions over the past three years.
"Don't die—if you're my knight!! Then don't die!"
While crying, she hugged Yagad's head tightly and kept wiping the blood gushing from the corner of his mouth with her hand.
"Without you, how can Elysion continue to operate smoothly? Without you, who will reorganize the Night Riders? Without you... this family will be incomplete!!... Yagad, do you hear me?! Do you hear me?!"
“──”
But Yagad just looked at her with difficulty, breathing heavily, as if at this moment, extending his life by one second had become a luxury.
“Agard—Agard!!”
Beichen looked at the pupils that were gradually losing focus and screamed in despair.
"What kind of miko is she without a knight?! Don't leave me!!!!!!!"
But the knight only laughed illusively.
"Miss Beichen, could you please give me one last...goodnight kiss as a reward?"
“────”
Beichen's black pupils fell into deathly silence the moment he heard these words. His confused and sad expression just now was now frozen as if it were sealed in ice.
"Well, ...my knight, you have worked hard."
The corners of her mouth curled up unattractively, then she carefully held Yagad's chin and gently lifted his head.
The two people's lips, which tasted of blood, overlapped.
At that moment, a look of relief and satisfaction appeared in the knight's eyes, and then his body slowly froze completely.
Beichen kissed him and let out a small whimper.
Heihuo and Sujie, with pale faces, supported the man and the corpse who were hugging each other, and it seemed that they didn't even have time to recover from the shock.
Watching this scene, Ling Shuang revealed a complex expression of half satisfaction and half guilt. However, the "Hate of Everything" regarded this as a rare entertainment and good show, and enjoyed it with a happy expression.
Then, on the platform covered in blood, a loud and malicious laugh erupted.
It startled flocks of flying birds and heard several ominous cries of crows.
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