Chapter 506

But she still ran forward.

And as she ran,

phantom images began to gradually appear on both sides.

【You must distinguish the boundary between reality and imagination....... alright, little gray-hair?】

The first phantom image came from Sparkle,

who once again left behind a warning.

【Life is a winding labyrinth—apart from memory, we have nothing.】

The second phantom image,

came from Black Swan.

【May your schemes.... never be Miss Bailu.】

The third phantom image,

unexpectedly came from Aventurine.

【The Dream of Taiyi.... has been far too cruel to him, to everyone.】

The fourth phantom image was Robin.

【A toast to an imperfect tomorrow.】

The fifth phantom image was Gallagher.

【Do you still remember the question on the invitation—why do we sleep?】

The final phantom image,

came from Firefly.

Stelle: "......"

Stelle: "Excuse me, am I about to kick the bucket?"

Stelle: "Is this the life flashing before my eyes before I die?"

March 7th: "Although it's a bit like that, it probably isn't."

Nahida: "This looks more like fragments of memories belonging to Young Lady Stelle."

Stelle: "So.... why exactly do we sleep?"

Stelle: "From the beginning until now,"

Stelle: "I still haven't figured out the answer."

Silver Wolf: "You've started getting stuck on a dead end too?"

Silver Wolf: "Is the answer to that question really that important?"

Stelle: "Maybe it's not, but after watching for so long,"

Stelle: "this question has left quite an impression on me."

March 7th: "Yeah, in the blink of an eye, our journey in Penacony seems to be almost completely over."

March 7th: "This time, win or lose, it's really over, right?"

Hu Tao: "Miss March 7th, the way you put that.... why does it feel a bit inauspicious!"

Stelle: "Makes it sound like we're done for."

Stelle: "But you know what.... that's not necessarily true."

Stelle: "Reality is reality—if we really can't beat Sunday in the end, then we'll just have to wrap up."

Stelle: "Of course, Sunday will most likely not meet a good end either."

Stelle: "But this mutually destructive outcome is not what I want to see."

Furina: "No way!"

Furina: "Right now, so many people have gathered here, people from all kinds of factions!"

Furina: "I refuse to believe we can't break this meaningless Dream of Taiyi!"

Stelle: "I refuse to believe it too!"

Stelle: "My fate is mine to decide, not Taiyi's!"

Stelle: "Let us break this illusory dreamscape together!"

Stelle: "Of course.... if!"

Stelle: "I mean if!"

Stelle: "If we really do kick the bucket, then please ask the kind souls to remember us, and lay a bouquet of flowers before our graves."

Stelle: "That way, I can count as a legendary Nameless, right?"

The video continued.

【Yes, why do we sleep...... we still do not know the answer to this question, yet we must already awaken from this dream.】

【Or perhaps, that itself is the answer.】

【Leave this place, return to where you came from.】

【And then.... let Penacony awaken from its dream.】

Huang Quan turned around and spoke to Stelle.

【May I witness your hidden strength?】

Stelle still could not forget Huang Quan's strength.

Paimon: "Young Lady Stelle is very curious about Miss Huang Quan's true strength!"

Paimon: "Hehe, Paimon is too!"

Lumine: "Miss Huang Quan's slash at Aventurine earlier clearly wasn't her true strike."

Stelle: "I'm really curious — just how powerful would Young Lady Huang Quan be at full strength?"

Shadow: "I have a premonition — it will be a might beyond description."

Shadow: "At the very least, Walter wouldn't be able to withstand a single strike like that!"

Dr. Ratio: "The biggest problem is that all the power she wields comes from the Void."

Dr. Ratio: "If she can't hold back that power, it will devour everything into the Void."

Dr. Ratio: "So you should never get to see what she looks like when she goes all out."

Hu Tao: "It's not that she won't — it's that she can't."

Hu Tao: "I truly understand Young Lady Huang Quan's helplessness now."

Hu Tao: "When a power is this strong, it's not necessarily a good thing...."

Topaz: "Looking at it this way, I really should count myself lucky I wasn't cleaved in half by a single strike."

Topaz: "Mm, from now on I won't go chasing thrills like this so carelessly."

Dr. Ratio: "Oh, the gambler knows how to value her life now."

Dr. Ratio: "That's quite a novelty."

Dr. Ratio: "Looks like the educational value this video brought you is far greater than I expected."

Dr. Ratio: "Speaking from a doctor's perspective, I'm very gratified."

The video continues.

【Just as I said, our plan was never to make everyone turn from darkness to light, but to let them choose to save themselves.】

【Tell me — under what circumstances will a person try to save themselves?】

【The answer is...... trapped in a desperate situation.】

【Like a drowning person in the deep sea — when one's body and mind are both under crushing weight, pain, confusion, and despair will follow.】

【And I also believe.....】

【Even though the weaknesses of human nature make them stop in their tracks, when they truly can go no further, the Leiyiding Society will try to save themselves.】

【And now...... Penacony has more than enough heroes to lead them forward.】

【Precisely because of this selfish instinct, even when they already know they are putting up a futile resistance, people will still fight with everything they have.】

【Though absurd, it is still a form of struggle.】

【And then, Stelle..... it's up to you to show the way for everyone — not as a savior, but as a nameless guest walking alongside ordinary people.】

【This way, you will surely be able to gather together in the sunlight.】

Stelle: "Holy shit, trapped in a desperate situation?!"

Stelle: "From what Miss Quan said.... she's planning something huge, isn't she?"

Stelle: "You can't be thinking of cleaving Penacony in half with one strike, can you?!"