[Then, I also hope you can like and enjoy the gift of ’life’]
At this moment, Anfa, cradled in the claws of the Blood Dragon, noticed it.
Within her Dragon Soul, something was being stripped away, thread by thread, heavy and mad, like an endless wail, yet an infinite curse.
A dim black-grey mist peeled away from her Dragon Soul and was incinerated into nihility under the gaze of the dragon’s eye.
[I am stronger than your friend’s mother]
Having burned away most of the curse, the echo of the Ancient Dragon said slowly: [So I can do more than Her]
[Although there still remains a small part of the curse, along with some echo impacts, I believe...that’s definitely not an insurmountable challenge for you now]
[You can certainly overcome it]
[This is the final gift, and I hope you find happiness]
"Wait, Father... Dad?!"
Accompanied by a buzzing sound, the sea of blood suddenly began to collapse. The Subspace Labyrinth unraveled, and Anfa, who had just managed to stand upright, began to fall. She realized this and knew what it signified—desperately, the girl tried to soar, to approach the dragon’s eye, which was already very close.
Her speed was swift, yet the collapse of subspace is not something that mere speed can contend with...until the end, she only managed to touch that dragon’s eye for an instant, before swiftly falling into the other end of the subspace.
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And calmly staying in the subspace that should have collapsed a thousand years ago, the echo of the Ancient Dragon watched the sea of blood collapse, the ’land of wandering echoes’ that it had preserved with all its might, turning into flying ash.
[The disappearance of obsession signifies the time of death...I see, this means even an echo can have faith...and it can be very strong, even transcend time and space]
Murmuring to itself , the echo of the Ancient Dragon turned its head, looking toward the dark side of the Domain of Void, at an echo that had already dissipated, at another ’echo’ within a dragon’s body. It smiled: [But if one has eternal faith, and is prepared for death, then death will never come]
[Oh, inheritor of the Creator...if you wish to ask anything, go and ask my child...in the end, I too am bound by permissions and cannot tell you everything, limited life]
[But if it’s that child...]
The sea of blood dissipated, entrails annihilated, even the six eye-like suns turned into flying ash one by one, yet a formless will flickered in the nihility: [The Creator...]
[Perhaps I can comprehend your reason for creating us...]
On the very same day, two echoes that had waited for millennia finally awaited successors who could surpass them.
With Sio’s spirited shout, the Dark Gold Colossus Dragon expelled a gravity wave that had been accumulating for dozens of seconds, more terrifying than when it had attacked the young elite before. In the shocked eyes of Yafada and Campari, it blasted onto the two.
Yes, two, because Sio didn’t have the eyesight to distinguish between friend and foe, while Ian and Yisen were desperately struggling to control the reaction of the gravity wave organ and the retreating Ether Furnace Core within them: "Launch it and hurry back to help! Calculating the pressure is intense!"
The body at the Fourth Energy Level is indeed not easy to control, which is why once an echo starts attacking, it cannot defend for a reason.
If Sio didn’t have the operating OS of a dragon’s body, letting Ian himself write a new operating system would definitely not be any better than the echo.
But fortunately, they were now a three-person team collectively operating the dragon body!
[Where did this monstrous thing come from?!]
Subspace shifting is not very effective against things like gravity waves, especially something like the Dragon’s Breath, which inherently possesses extremely high power levels. Campari was shocked and furious, yet was still struck and sent flying: [Mahdi? Is that you, how did you take over that dragon’s body?!]
But at the moment he was struck, he realized the truth, more astonished than being attacked himself: [You actually won?!]
He never imagined that Mahdi’s battle with the Labyrinth Master ended with Mahdi’s victory—how could this be? Even He was unwilling to fight against the evidently overwhelmingly sturdy Earth-Attributed True Dragon, which was entirely different from fighting Yafada in the same element.
The True Dragon snorted coldly; even usual subspace fluctuations can be shattered directly, let alone something like an Earth-Attributed True Dragon, which has a built-in large mass point Furnace Core or anti-gravity engine. How can ordinary space-time series compete with Them!
"You’re not an echo?"
Transported away without being hit, Yafada was even more shocked: "Who are you? Mahdi?!"
He also knew Mahdi—Terra’s high-ranking figures were quite concerned about this potential inheritor of The Unyielding Fortress, but he hadn’t witnessed Mahdi sweeping the younger generation, nor did he know the process of Mahdi battling the echo: "What’s going on? When did you get here?"
"No...the ’enemy’ spoken by the echo was you?"
At this moment, if Yafada could not guess that the earlier echo’s call was not to bring himself in to deal with Campari, but Mahdi, then he truly lacked intelligence...but even if he guessed it, what could he do? He merely sighed in his heart, recalling what the echo had told him back then.
[I will challenge fate...no matter what the result is, I will accept it]