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Endless darkness.
Like the final end of everything.
The last glimr of light in the world was devoured, leaving behind only that all-encompassing darkness and silence, so tranquil it seed to engulf everything.
In this silence, which felt like it followed the end, a girl’s slightly uneasy voice gently arose.
"...Chelina sis, Vishdair sis?"
"I’m here."
"I’m here."
Their voices echoed one after another.
Perhaps, it wasn’t really voices, but rather thoughts from the heart directly communicated to each other.
The girl’s slightly tense heart relaxed a bit, but she imdiately posed another question: "Where is this place...?"
"Where is Lin Guang?"
Upon linking through the contract and projecting their consciousness into Lin Guang’s spiritual world, Chelina, Vishdair, and Lisa first felt... darkness and tranquility.
It seed as if there was nothing here, to the extent that even the sense of ti was blurred.
Chelina’s voice arose: "The contract tells he’s here."
"It’s just, how should we find..."
Vishdair’s voice sounded a bit awkward: "This status, it’s as if I can’t even move."
However, the next mont.
In this absolute darkness, suddenly, a nearly indistinguishable white light appeared.
Yet, even as faint as it was, the feeling it imparted was completely different from the engulfing darkness around it.
It seed like a distant entity, standing like a lighthouse, guiding them.
"...!"
"There’s sothing there!"
"We need to go there!"
Without much thought, the three of them agreed on this idea—after all, finding anything was better than remaining trapped in this dark expanse.
Oddly enough, upon realizing this fact, the three girls suddenly gained the ability to move, and they could even feel their bodies once more.
They could even observe each other’s silhouettes.
Thus, they began to step forward in this darkness.
Treading on sothing unknown, heading and running towards a place they could not discern.
That point of light seed so distant, yet the girls’ will remained unshaken.
And in this space, as long as the will was resolute enough, fatigue seemingly didn’t exist,
Thus, their distance began to close, from a dot of light, gradually becoming a beam of light.
Then, turning into a figure visible from afar.
The figure stood still as if waiting for them.
Vishdair took the lead, rushing ahead, seeing the face of the figure and then halting.
It’s not Lin Guang.
Standing amidst the boundless darkness was a radiant, beautiful woman appearing to be in her twenties.
Her face was fair and gentle, elegant and flawless, resembling an angel descended to the mortal realm, exuding an indescribable gentle aura. Her light pink hair cascaded casually down her back, flowing to her thighs.
She wore a long dress, with the fabric above the collar and clavicle being black, but everything below it was white, adorned with many black decorations, lending her a peculiar sense of majesty.
Her sakura-colored eyes, slightly deeper than her hair, were softly gazing at the three girls before her.
In that mont of seeing her, Vishdair’s heart unexpectedly fluttered slightly.
She couldn’t help but speak, "You are—"
Not just because the black horns extending from either side of her head unmistakably indicated her Sakaz origin, but atop her head was a crown identical to the Black Crown on Lin Guang’s head.
Moreover, adorning the ten fingers of her interlaced hands were ten rings with which she was very familiar, identical to those on Lin Guang’s fingers.
"..."
She looked at Vishdair, glanced behind her, where Chelina and Lisa had stopped, staring at her in astonishnt, and warmth flickered in her pink eyes.
Vishdair steadied her heart, "Who are you!"
"Where’s Lin Guang!"
"Why are you here!"
"What’s his status now!"
Rapid-fire questions burst forth from her.
The gentle woman quietly watched them.
It seed, especially, that she was intently looking at Vishdair.
She did not open her mouth, yet sohow, her voice, as gentle as her appearance, flowed like a stream into the hearts of the three girls.
"I am a shadow, a specter of the past."
"Only in this situation, can I gain a bit of freedom."
She softly uttered words that stunned the three present.
"Perhaps."
"You could also consider as... the Will within the Source Stone."
"!!!"
In an instant, with almost no pause.
A dim blue aura, accompanied by fiery red light, erupted from Vishdair and Chelina’s hands, and weapons instantly took form.
Even Lisa, facing this gentle elder sister, unhesitatingly pulled out her magic staff, her eyes brimming with hostility.
An atmosphere of heightened tension suddenly erged.
—The Will within the Source Stone.
They had heard this term far too many tis.
Seemingly, from the external world’s perspective, Lin Guang’s current predicant was inextricably linked to the erosion by the Will within the Source Stone, so in their hearts, they had long associated this term with the enemy.
So, perhaps if they could defeat her here, Lin Guang might—
Yet she had no intention of fighting, simply shaking her head, and softly saying, "I am not who you think I am."
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