Chapter 2: New Century (Epilogue)
Inside his heart, Xi Wei had already made up his mind. He immediately brought his index and middle fingers together, put them to his lips, and blew a clear, loud whistle.
In just a moment, the sound of flapping wings reached him.
The thunderbird formed from condensed lightning flew to Xi Wei and gradually elongated and grew, transforming into Bai Yao’s appearance.
Her vital areas were covered by phantom lightning armor, but even without it, her flat figure offered little to behold.
Bai Yao had been happily zapping on the city wall when she suddenly heard Xi Wei’s whistle and flew over in a hurry.
“What is it! Why are you looking for me!”
Bai Yao placed her hands on her hips, her adorable big eyes glaring at Xi Wei, two small fangs peeking out from her mouth. She seemed displeased that Xi Wei was interrupting her fun.
Xi Wei, well aware of Bai Yao’s personality, immediately put on a fawning expression and said gently:
“Of course, I’m looking for the cute, beautiful, kind, and gentle Miss Bai Yao to reluctantly help me with something.”
“Hmph… Hmph, do you think saying that will make me help you!”
Bai Yao turned her face away, her fair cheeks flushed, but her wildly upturned lips revealed her true feelings.
“I… I’m not the type of person who likes hearing these things… so greasy! I’m helping you because it’s official business!”
“Tell me, what do you need my help with?”
“Use your lightning ability to see if you can kill that unknown object.”
Speaking of serious matters, Xi Wei’s expression also turned serious and solemn.
Bai Yao followed the direction of Xi Wei’s finger and immediately showed a look of disgust:
“So disgusting! I feel like electrifying it would contaminate the lightning!”
“In short, please!”
Sensing the girl’s reluctance, Xi Wei could only feign desperation. His pitiful expression delivered the final blow to Bai Yao.
“Okay… alright, I got it! I’ll help you because you’re so sincere! Hehehe~”
Bai Yao put her hands on her hips and turned her back, afraid she couldn’t help but break into a triumphant smile, which would be too undignified.
“Move aside, move aside!”
Bai Yao shouted as she walked towards the Players, golden arcs of electricity crackling around her hands.
“What are you looking at? Haven’t you seen a discharging demi-human? Hurry up and move, I won’t be responsible if you get electrocuted!”
The Player she was pointing at, with the ID “Master of Sabotage,” rolled his eyes speechlessly, thinking he had never seen such an arrogant, lightning-wielding demi-human before.
Was this Pikachu?
Damn it! I really want to pinch her cheeks to see if she’ll make a “Pika, Pika” sound…
However, the Master of Sabotage ultimately held back, as the arcs of electricity in the loli’s hands were no joke.
Seeing that the Players had moved further away and Bai Yao had confirmed that she wouldn’t accidentally injure any of them, she raised her hands towards the pools of unknown substance on the ground and began to unleash increasingly violent currents.
As if sensing a crisis, the pools of unknown substance attempted to raise their tentacles and resist furiously, but they were all repelled by the lightning surrounding Bai Yao.
Soon, more and more lightning surged around Bai Yao, her expression growing fierce. Baring her small fangs, lightning flashed in her eyes, and even the hair of the surrounding Players stood on end, stimulated by the electric field.
“Hyaaa—”
Accompanied by Bai Yao’s rather childlike and crisp roar, a violent electric field covered an area with a radius of ten meters.
Crackling sounds erupted as countless golden lightning snakes wriggled and dashed across the ground.
The pools of unknown substance on the ground let out strange, high-pitched incantations amidst Bai Yao’s lightning.
The surrounding Players frowned, feeling as if a toilet brush dipped in feces was being stirred back and forth in their minds.
However, Bai Yao seemed unaffected and even increased the output of her lightning.
Xi Wei also noticed this. If the effect on Ruo Yi and Lolli was just a coincidence, then the fact that even Bai Yao could ignore these incantations could only mean one thing.
It was that awakened demi-humans had a certain resistance to the incantations of the Old Ones.
At least, these fiend-level incantations had little effect on them.
If he pursued this further, was it possible that because the dormant gods had fought the Old Ones once before, this resistance was generated? And this resistance, along with divinity, was preserved in the bloodline of demi-humans.
And were awakened demi-humans chosen as vessels precisely because they could perfectly activate this resistance?
Xi Wei felt that his conjecture was close to the truth.
If the gods wanted to revive, it was undoubtedly to continue fighting the Old Ones. Therefore, to avoid repeating the same mistakes, they learned their lessons and found ways to cultivate these special vessels.
Their intentions were good and promising, all for the sake of protecting the Cain Continent.
But this behavior was too cruel for these demi-humans.
Had Xi Wei known all these things from the beginning, he might have supported the gods’ actions.
Sacrificing the few to save the many couldn’t be considered wrong.
Unfortunately, he now had Lolli and Ruo Yi, and a deep bond already existed between them.
Now, Xi Wei could only become an enemy of the gods.
He would confront the Old Ones, but that would be after dealing with the gods.
Perhaps, in the end, the Cain Will itself might become his enemy, and by then, the System might be useless.
A hint of solemnity flashed in Xi Wei’s eyes.
He had to seize the remaining value of the System to strengthen himself.
After all, no one knew when the Old Ones would return or when the gods would collectively awaken.
Ye Hao, indeed corrupted by Ouroboros, was terrified of lightning. With his strength of over level seventy suppressed by the chains of fate, his health was rapidly declining, and soon he turned into several lumps of charcoal, completely dead.
A Child of Destiny died here so anticlimactically and miserably. Xi Wei felt it was somewhat unreal, but the System’s notification could not be faked.
Currently, the host has completed the death plot mission: Kill the Child of Destiny Ye Hao.
The first stage of death has been circumvented. Calculating world line… Calculation complete. The world line has not undergone drastic changes. Special change: Saintess Ruo Yi survives.
“@#％＆” has retrieved some rules from “□￥？#”. Rewards are now being distributed to the host.
Congratulations to the host for obtaining a complete Mysterious Crystal Zzz…
The System stuttered at this point. Xi Wei noticed that the sky above Ye Hao’s corpse suddenly froze for a moment.
Time seemed to stand still, and silence reigned.
There was a brief exchange of combat between unseen entities in that area, with violent energy churning in the sky, tearing space itself. From the pitch-black Spatial Rift, countless star rivers could be seen, along with dimly discernible, evil, giant pupils.
A vast pressure swept down, forcing everyone around to the ground. Even from a distance, Xi Wei could barely stand with Lolli and Ruo Yi supporting each other.
Bai Yao, who was at the forefront, suffered the most, having been pressed into the ground.
A moment later, the pressure receded like a tide.
The Players, confused, got up from the ground. Xi Wei walked to Bai Yao’s side, grabbed her two short legs, and pulled her out of the ruins like pulling a radish.
“Ptooey, ptooey! *cough* I’m covered in mud!”
Bai Yao spat out mud from her mouth indignently and brushed the dust off her body.
However, this mud was stained with the blood and gunsmoke from the battlefield, and having been washed by her lightning, the smell was even more unpleasant, and she couldn’t clean it off.
Finally, she could only look at Xi Wei with a mournful expression, whimpering aggrievedly:
“I… I’m not clean anymore!”
“It’s not a big problem. You can just wash it off when we get back.”
Xi Wei perfunctorily patted Bai Yao’s small head, his attention focused on the System, which had returned to normal.
Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining half a Mysterious Crystal.
Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining a temporary summon ticket for Seraph troops.
Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining a Level 3 Barracks Selection Ticket!
The rewards have been issued. The System is upgrading.
