Chapter 507

Black Swan: "Heh, it's not like we're going to split Penacony in half."

Black Swan: "To be precise, it's about cleaving a path of survival through this illusory Great One Dream."

Furina: "I suddenly understand the Dream Master's urgency back then!"

Furina: "If Miss Huang Quan weren't here, this Great One Dream couldn't possibly be shaken by ordinary means, right?"

March 7th: "But now the Great One Dream has even encompassed Miss Huang Quan within it."

March 7th: "Hey, this is just like stuffing a nail inside a balloon!"

Hu Tao: "Slashing the Great One Dream open with one blade... feels like there's no difference from splitting Penacony in half."

Miss Qingque: "Once the Great One Dream is shrouded by the power of Nihility, those immersed in the dream, to avoid falling into Nihility, will instinctively detach themselves from the dream."

Miss Qingque: "This way, everyone, in order to survive, will be forced back to the waking reality."

Miss Qingque: "And the Great One Dream will collapse on its own!"

Miss Qingque: "Ha, what a brilliant scheme indeed!"

Diviner Fu Xuan: "This can't be called a brilliant scheme—it's breaking the spell by force!"

Diviner Fu Xuan: "The execution of this plan is extremely demanding."

Diviner Fu Xuan: "First and most importantly, you must possess the power to break the Great One Dream from within the Great One Dream itself!"

Diviner Fu Xuan: "But to achieve this, one must at the very least be an Emanator-level existence!"

Silver Wolf: "Not necessarily. If Stelle were to detonate, she'd possess that level of power too."

Stelle: "What?"

Stelle: "Do you think I'm a bomb, going off just because you say so?"

Stelle: "Also, why on earth would I self-detonate out of nowhere?"

Silver Wolf: "Isn't it you who's always saying you're going to blow up on someone?"

Silver Wolf: "I thought you really wanted to just go off like that."

Stelle: "That was just me running my mouth, okay?"

Stelle: "Am I not even allowed to vent a little?"

Stelle: "Besides, if I really did blow up—"

Stelle: "Then this Penacony would truly be done for, okay?"

Brother Dan Heng: "The destructive force produced by a Stellaron explosion is incalculable."

Brother Dan Heng: "A conservative estimate suggests the entire Asdena star system would suffer an irreversible, fatal blow!"

March 7th: "It... it really is a walking deterrent, isn't it..."

The video continues.

【The rain....... is about to get heavier.】

【Before we part, allow me to pose a few final questions.】

【In the sweet dreams thus far, you have forged unbreakable bonds with many people and many things.】

【May I ask—would you feel fear at severing these bonds with your own hands?】

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Stelle: "That question gave me the creeps."

Stelle: "If you'd asked me this before, I might have answered that I wasn't afraid."

Stelle: "But now, after going through so much, I'm starting to hesitate a little."

March 7th: "Hesitate about what?"

March 7th: "We've come this far—hesitating now won't do any good."

March 7th: "To borrow a phrase you always say—just do it!"

Paimon: "Right, right! Things have come to this, so we can only charge forward, right?"

Lumine: "No matter what lies ahead, there's no other choice."

Lumine: "Going all out is our last hope!"

Firefly: "Stelle, don't be lost—this is just a small interlude in your life."

Firefly: "Don't let this thing obstruct your steps toward the future."

Stelle: "Ah, this... how come each of you sees things more clearly than I do?"

Welt: "The spectator sees clearly, while the player is lost in the game."

Welt: "Stelle, as a witness to all of this, feeling a little lost is perfectly normal."

Welt: "But the you in the video, from the moment she closed her eyes, had already made her resolve."

Welt: "No matter how dangerous what lies ahead, she will face it with equanimity!"

Stelle: "True enough... the me in the video right now has determination written all over her face."

Stelle: "At this point, I should be like a hot-headed youth, afraid of nothing, right?"

The video continues.

【I will not feel afraid.】

Stelle shook her head,

and said with great firmness.

【If there were a vast dreamscape, so lifelike as to be indistinguishable from reality.】

【Where there is no parting by life or death, where everyone can reap the happiness and fulfillment they deserve, and live forever in joy.】

【May I ask—would you be willing to take shelter within it?】

Venti: "Watching this familiar exchange, I feel as though I've been transported back to the very beginning of the video."

Venti: "Everyone argued about this issue for a long time back then."

Venti: "But now, do any of you have a different answer?"

Qinqin: "If this dream refers to the Dream of Taiyi, then my answer is no."

Qinqin: "The Dream of Taiyi is too false; to drown in it is meaningless."

Paimon: "Paimon doesn't want it either."

Paimon: "Even though happiness comes every day, that sounds nice."

Paimon: "But if all of it is merely something I imagined... isn't that somewhat tragic?"

Paimon: "Paimon refuses to drown in her own fantasies!"

Ying: "I think most who understand the true nature of the Dream of Taiyi would find it hard to accept its existence?"

Ying: "Humans have pride—only the degree varies."

Ying: "Entering the Dream of Taiyi is equivalent to completely denying a person's entire life."

Ying: "I think this is what makes it intolerable."