Chapter 99: [The first issue of the Past Life series concludes!]

Thousands of wishes were imbued upon Lumine.

This gave Lumine sufficiently powerful strength.

She remained silent, carrying the spear toward Raiden Ei.

Raiden Ei was silent as well.

She felt the power that originated from the wishes of her own people.

Thick, vast, as if it could accomplish anything.

It was clearly gathered from individual wishes!

It was clearly so fragile!

Yet, when thousands of wishes converged in one place, the stubborn Electro God was forced to take notice.

Boom!

The powerful force made Raiden Ei retreat repeatedly, and her expression became complex.

Was Lumine her opponent?

Clearly not.

With her great power, killing the girl before her would be as easy as turning over her hand.

However, the boost those powers gave her was simply too strong.

Raiden Ei had to take it seriously.

Boom!

Another collision.

Raiden Ei opened her mouth, but nothing came out.

She knew she had lost.

She did not lose to Lumine, nor did she lose to a god, but she lost to the wishes of thousands of her people.

Raiden Ei looked at Lumine with a sense of loss, her eyes filled with disbelief.

"You have lost, Ei," Yae Miko said.

Raiden Ei sighed slightly and said: "Yes, I have lost."

"Why can't you trust your people and believe in the power of their wishes?"

"Those wishes have transcended distance, transcended space and time; they are things that no one can stifle."

Yae Miko said faintly: "The Traveler has already seen in Liyue that when people go all out to move forward, they can exceed the expectations of gods and even replace the work of gods. A nation where humans run forward and leave the gods behind exists on the other side of the sea. Why must we stubbornly... wishfully give up on moving forward?"

Raiden Ei's expression changed abruptly; she revealed struggle and sorrow.

"The losses brought by moving forward—you have witnessed them with me. Only eternity, only eternity can..."

Raiden Ei's expression was pained as she slowly spoke of her past.

"Where the lightning flashes, a shadow is cast."

"I am the shadow."

"With the Musou, I purge all obstacles to Inazuma's progress."

"However, with every step forward, something is lost."

"In the end, even she was lost." ===== CHAPTER 101 =====