Chapter 47

But it was also at this moment that the speed at which the few were charging forward slowed down...

The snowflakes falling in the air, and the stars dropping from the platform...

At this moment, they all slowed down!

Even though Stelle's body was very strong, after receiving such an attack, her consciousness gradually became blurred...

Subsequently, she slowly closed her eyes...

As her eyes closed, the video screen went dark.

However, very quickly, Stelle felt her consciousness returning.

When the video screen lit up again, Stelle had arrived in a deep, vast universe...

Opening her eyes, Stelle looked around in confusion: "Where is this..."

"...the universe?"

"Wasn't I just fighting Cocolia?"

"Why am I here..."

Not far away, a dazzling pillar of flame shot into the sky, and a galaxy-like tornado seemed to surround this beam of light.

It looked extremely peculiar...

The background was clearly the outer space of the universe...

Yet Stelle stood just like that above the galaxy...

Immediately, Stelle recognized this place.

"When I came here last time..."

"Nanook glanced at me, could it be..."

Stelle seemed to realize something.

But now was not the time to dwell on this; the battle was still happening outside...

She had to wake up quickly and go out to help!

Cocolia's strength had also exceeded Stelle's estimates...

In the dark, it seemed as if something was attracting Stelle.

Stelle began to run toward the direction of the pillar of flame...

Halfway through the sprint, Stelle stopped.

On the side, there seemed to be a projection...

And the person inside the projection was none other than Cocolia...

Clearly, this was a memory belonging to Cocolia.

Inside the projection...

At that time, Cocolia, still the Supreme Guardian, was receiving a report from her subordinate Silvermane Guards...

"The commercial district has fallen..."

"The residents have been relocated and are temporarily settled in the outer city, the garrison..."

"Twenty-six people sacrificed, but I..."

Cocolia spoke slowly: "Go on, Gepard..."

The person called Gepard's tone became somewhat fearful and uncertain...

"I... I am not sure if the sacrificed Silvermane Guards are truly dead."

"I saw their broken forms wandering in the Fragmentum..."

Hearing this, Cocolia's expression in the projection darkened.

The audience in front of the live stream were the same...

And at the end of the projection, the voice of the Stellaron appeared...

Stelle continued forward and saw more memories regarding Cocolia...

With the exploration of these memories.

The audience saw how Cocolia was gradually seduced by the Stellaron bit by bit...

Finally, after reading through Cocolia's memories...

Stelle's footsteps slowed down, because at the end of this starry sky, the figure of a small child appeared...

[March 7th: What's going on? Why is there a little kid there...]

[Stelle: When I saw Nanook before, there didn't seem to be anyone else.]

[Pardofelis: Wait! Why does it look like there's a Shamash's Judgment there!]

[Kiana: Shamash's Judgment? Isn't that our family's weapon? Isn't it dual pistols?]

[Theresa: It really does look a bit like it...]

[Mobius: Could it be that weapons have counterparts now?]

[Kevin: No, that's not Shamash... it's that ice spear from before!]

[Jing Yuan: Yes, but the weapon's attributes have changed...]

[Fu Xuan: Perhaps it hasn't changed, but rather, this is its original form.]

[Vill-V: So who is this child...]

...of...

In the video screen...

Stelle arrived in front of that small child, and not far from the child lay a flame-colored spear...

The tip of the spear was directly plunged into the starry sky.

The light on the spear formed a pillar of flame shooting into the sky, creating the beam that had attracted Stelle to run over just now...

Although this place was the same as where Stelle had been glanced at by Nanook before.

But the feeling it gave was completely different...

At least at this moment, the Aeon had not yet appeared...

Bronya, sitting beside Bai Feng, looked at this scene in confusion: "Captain..."

"Could it be that the child in front of us..."

"Is the Aeon of Preservation, Qlipoth?"

Bai Feng shook his head: "Of course not."

"This is the will of the first Supreme Guardian of Belobog; the Stellaron was also activated starting from this generation of Guardians..."

"It is his conviction that guides the descendants forward."

"Unfortunately, this path was severed when it reached Cocolia..."

"As the first Supreme Guardian of Belobog, he possesses the most powerful power of the Path of Preservation!"

"Therefore, even after death, his will of preservation remained on the path for his descendants to follow."

"He is both a guide and a witness to the entire story of Belobog."

Bronya understood the identity of this child...

Looking at the child in the video screen, she spoke slowly: "Then he must have been very sad all this time."

"Watching every generation of Supreme Guardians being seduced, watching the descendants unable to defeat the Stellaron..."

"Watching Belobog being eroded and falling to the Fragmentum bit by bit..."

"And he, as the will of the first Supreme Guardian, was powerless..."

"That feeling..."

Bronya seemed to be able to empathize.

Bai Feng nodded: "Yes, but now it has changed."

"Because we have arrived..."

The "we" in Bai Feng's words naturally refers to the players playing the game and Stelle.

Bronya smiled faintly: "Yes..."

"Just like in our final battle, if it weren't for the help of the Captains."

"Perhaps the history of the entire world would have become different..."

In the video screen...

Stelle slowed her pace and arrived behind the child.

The child's voice slowly echoed throughout the entire universe: "This city is crying out..."

"The power of Preservation is fading..."

"In the very end... we still cannot resist the will of the Stellaron!"

Even though the will of the first Supreme Guardian before her was only a manifestation of will...

One could still hear a trace of sorrow in her tone.

But one could also hear a trace of helplessness...

As the guardian will who had watched everything happen all along.

He knew very well how much torment every generation of Supreme Guardians endured in their hearts.

And this torment would be passed down.

And it would continue to deepen...

This is the most terrifying predicament Belobog faces...

Stelle understood the meaning of the child in front of her: "Cocolia gave up on Preservation?"

The child nodded: "That's right..."

"But we have no right to blame her..."

"For the past seven hundred years, the Fragmentum has been expanding every second."

"What we left for our successors... was neither conviction nor wealth..."

"Only boundless despair!"

Clearly, the first Supreme Guardian also knew this fact very well...

Therefore, no one could say Cocolia did the wrong thing; Cocolia simply chose another path in the midst of despair.

"Witnessing the home we swore to preserve gradually fade away..."

"Is a kind of torture..."

"Coupled with those lingering, seductive whispers..."

"Even the firmest will is bound to waver; this day was destined to come."

"His protection... is destined to drift away from us..."

In other words, in such torture...

There would always be a generation of Supreme Guardians who would abandon the Path of Preservation and turn to embrace the Stellaron!

It was just a matter of time...

Perhaps Cocolia held onto her original heart and was not seduced by the Stellaron.

But what about Bronya, who succeeded her?

No one could give a definitive answer, not even Bronya herself.

The audience watching the video screen gradually understood the bitterness in Cocolia's heart...

Stelle looked at the guardian will in front of her, and after a moment of silence, she firmly replied: "Then let someone else preserve it?"

Hearing this, the will of the first Supreme Guardian slowly turned around: "You?"

Then he turned to look at Stelle behind him: "You, a mere passerby..."

"Yet you insist on shouldering the fate of an entire world?"

Stelle looked at the child in front of her with unwavering eyes.

The will of the first Supreme Guardian was also shaken upon seeing this gaze.

"Very well..."

"What else is there to lose, and what else is there that cannot be tried?"

The first Supreme Guardian looked at the flame spear not far away.

"Go and touch the light of amber..."

"Trailblazer!"

"See if the will of preservation in your heart is strong enough... strong enough to attract his gaze..."

Who is this "he"...

The audience guessed it in an instant!

The Aeon of Preservation, Qlipoth!

Stelle slowly walked toward the direction of the flame spear and arrived in front of it.

This flame spear was the ice spear that Cocolia had used before!

But that was a flame spear polluted by the power of the Stellaron, which is why it became like that...

The one in front of Stelle...

Is the true guardian weapon representing the power of Preservation—the Flame Spear!

After seeing it, the audience from the Previous Era.

All felt that it looked like another form of Shamash's Judgment, and both were powers of flame...

Similar! Too similar!

However, at this moment, the fact that this weapon looked like Shamash's Judgment was not the point the audience cared about...

Because the Aeon of Preservation, Qlipoth, was about to appear!

In the live stream...

Bai Feng watched Stelle walking toward the flame spear and reminded: "It's going to be very epic next, you all need to be prepared!"

Bronya asked curiously: "Does the Captain mean when the Aeon of Preservation, Qlipoth, casts his gaze upon Stelle?"

Bai Feng shook his head: "The production team wanted this first major boss fight after the game's launch to be passionate enough!"

"They even composed a very epic piece of music for this battle!"

"This music, combined with the gaze of the Aeon of Preservation, Qlipoth, directly pushed this plot to the highest climax..."

"The first plot of the game's launch ended perfectly with such high quality!"

"Anyway, just keep watching and you'll know, Bronya..."

"These are all experiences in making games!"

Listening to Bai Feng's earnest words, Bronya rolled her eyes at him again...

Do you really have to say these things in the live stream?

Couldn't you have told me secretly?

The Captain is really...

Under Bai Feng's narration...

The audience became even more expectant; not only would they see the gaze of the next Aeon...

But they could also hear a passionate song!

All the audience members couldn't help but be curious.

What kind of song would it be...

In the video screen...

Stelle walked to the front of the flame spear, and the moment she raised her hand.

The sound of an electric guitar playing music rang out.

And the moment Stelle gripped the handle of the flame spear, a giant hammer suddenly appeared in the screen and smashed down...

The sound was extremely crisp!

Although it was only for a split second...

But all the audience heard it...

Heard it very clearly!

The audience of the Honkai world might not understand what was going on.

But the audience of the Star Rail universe!

At the moment they saw that giant hammer fall, they were all astonished...

Herta Space Station...

Herta was not young either, having extended her life through technological means.

So in the universe, she was also one of the more knowledgeable people.