Chapter 2: New Century (Epilogue)
“Kekeke… You forced my hand!”
In the mid-air, the Undead Emperor’s four skeletal arms gradually turned into ash and disappeared.
His black cloak billowed in the wind, floating in the sky like a black sun. A giant scarlet eye could be seen around his chest, with a black vertical pupil at the centerquivering left and right, surrounded by golden bloodshot veins. Merely looking at this eye sent chills down one’s spine. This was not power on the mortal plane. Above the mortal plane lay the gods!
“This is the power of the God of Death! Tremble, elves! Alice Frost, you cannot defeat me, nor can you awaken the World Tree.”
It turned out that the Undead Emperor, driven to desperation, had activated the Semi-Artifact, the Eye of the God of Death. The Eye of the God of Death’s destructive beam had indeed blasted a large hole in the World Tree’s roots with immense power. However, Audoin’s own aura also dissipated like a receding tide. It was clear that using a Semi-Artifact with Legendary-grade power was not as easy for Audoin as he claimed. A portion of his Legendary origin had been forcibly extracted by the artifact. If he were to use the artifact multiple times, his strength would fall below the Legendary-grade.
The Elven Empress could no longer speak. That destructive beam had completely severed her connection with the World Tree. Although the World Tree was not severely injured, its awakening was now impossible, and Alice herself had nearly exhausted her life force.
Deprived of the World Tree’s support, she fell from the sky powerlessly, like a butterfly with broken wings.
“Your Highness!” The surrounding elves’ eyes turned bloodshot. They could no longer care about the undead around them and rushed towards Alice’s falling direction with all their might. They cleared any enemies blocking their path, their appearance even more frenzied than the Players’.
“Help them break through, our mission is to ensure as many elves as possible survive!” The Player representatives who had reacted immediately issued orders. The Players swarmed forward, clearing the path for the elves while also not delaying their own efforts to secure kills.
Meanwhile, Xi Wei, with Ruo Yi’s help, had brought Loli to the Elven Empress Alice’s side. Compared to the once peerless Empress, Alice was now incredibly weak. She was like a piece of porcelain struck by a heavy hammer, her entire body covered in cracks, with blood seeping from them, dyeing her nearly half into a bloodied figure.
“Loli.”
Without Xi Wei’s further instruction, the Little Maid immediately went to check Alice Frost’s condition. She frowned and attempted to channel healing energy into Alice’s body. But Alice was like a leaky pool, unable to hold any healing energy. Whatever was injected leaked out. This healing energy could only close the wounds on her body but could not restore Alice’s depleted life force. It was likely that only a god could save the Elven Empress.
After a while, she released Alice Frost’s hand and shook her head at Xi Wei helplessly.
“That’s truly regrettable…”
Xi Wei sighed. How could he possibly ask for the Vena Holy Garment now? The person was about to die. He remembered that Loli’s abilities were limited to below the Legendary-grade. For someone like Alice Frost, who was close to the peak of the Legendary-grade, there was indeed no method. In his eyes, Alice Frost’s HP bar was slowly decreasing, and this rate of decline did not change even with Loli injecting healing energy. At this rate, she might only have one or two more hours to live.
“Take her to a safe place, we can’t just leave her here.”
Just then, Adenasi, leading a group of elves who had broken through the undead encirclement, arrived in front of Xi Wei. She stumbled towards Alice and knelt with a thud. The moon blade in her hand flew out three to four meters and was immediately picked up by a sly Player.
“Your, Your Majesty, what’s wrong?!”
Adenasi knelt on the ground, her hands trembling. She looked at the blood-covered Elven Empress, not knowing where to begin. “Your Majesty, Your Majesty, can she still be saved?”
Lost and helpless, Adenasi could only place her hope on Xi Wei. She yearned for this almost omnipotent man to save her Empress’s life. However…
“Cannot be healed, no hope, just wait for death.”
Xi Wei’s bluntness stunned Adenasi. Heartache welled up in her, and she lowered her head, holding Alice Frost and weeping bitterly.
“Kekeke!” The Undead Emperor Audoin’s raucous laughter echoed from the sky. “This is the consequence of opposing me!”
He descended slowly from the overcast sky, accompanied by a group of Ghost Dragons and vampires, like a demon king of destruction. Xi Wei pursed hislips and gripped the King of Conquest Long Sword, standing in front of everyone.
“You are the King of Winter?” The Undead Emperor looked Xi Wei up and down, clicking his tongue in admiration. “To find and kill Cain’s main body, human, you are quite good! In these thousand years, the human race has rarely seen someone like you.”
He appeared to greatly admire Xi Wei, then his tone shifted, and he sneered, “It would be a waste not to transform a strong human like you into an undead and make you serve me! Therefore, I am now giving you a chance to become my subordinate. This way, you can continue to rule your human empire, and you will also possess a long lifespan and nearly immortal abilities~ How about it, aren’t the conditions quite good?”
“They are indeed pretty good,” Xi Wei sneered, his hands gripping the sword hilt, ready to strike. “But I’m sorry, I don’t want to be a pathetic skeleton that can’t even reproduce, do you understand?”
“Ridiculous! Reproduction is merely a means for inferior beings to continue their lineage.” The Undead Emperor put away his playful demeanor. Xi Wei’s taunt ignited his fury. It was well known that the undead had no love and no reproduction. However, if the living dared to mock an undead with these things, it was still a humiliation to the undead. Faced with the humiliation of the living, the undead’s response was to kill them and turn them into new lives like themselves, incapable of reproduction.
“Come, let me see how capable you, a brittle bone, incapable of reproduction, truly are.”
With that, Xi Wei took a step forward, brought his hands down, and slashed out with his sword.
“Boom—!”
The sword momentum at the Legendary-grade stirred up a pressure that caused the surrounding ground to sink. The sacred fire on the blade was like stars streaking across the sky. Holy Light energy transformed into a giant angelic phantom, crossing dozens of yards to replace Xi Wei and cleave downwards onto Audoin’s head.
The undead fire in Audoin’s eye sockets flickered. The next moment, a giant skeletal hand extended from his cloak, catching the angel’s descending sword.
“Clang—!” With a sound, the Holy Sword was blocked. The skeletal hand was quickly burned to ash by the sacred fire. However, more giant skeletal hands extended from the cloak, and it was only after dozens of confrontations that the angelic phantom was finally nullified.
“No wonder Cain died so easily,” the Undead Emperor Audoin said with a grave tone. “Human King, you are worthy of my full strength. Feel honored!”
Alice Frost
A cool Ruo Yi
