Chapter 36: 35. Zoe

35. Zoe

The girl's hands were tightly clasped on her chest, as if looking for strength for herself.

"Dad's notes, the ruins just now... I know everything, I know I have a very important connection with the Star Soul."

"I'm scared, really scared, the crying of those girls who feel very similar to me has been staying in my mind..."

"However,"

Zoe's gaze was firmly locked with Li Ang's.

"What I'm more afraid of is eating alone, sleeping alone, walking through the village alone, wandering aimlessly on the grassland alone, climbing mountains alone, practicing swords alone, waiting alone, looking at the end of the sky alone, not knowing what's there."

"That ruin has clues about Mom and Dad, I don't want it to be destroyed."

"Li Ang, I don't want to see you get hurt, not at all."

"What I'm really afraid of is hiding behind you, and then, losing again."

"Now, I shouldn't have anything to be afraid of."

The girl raised her hands, grabbed the edge of the helmet and lifted it up, shaking it left and right, letting her slightly curly chestnut hair stretch and hang down.

"Hey, what are you doing!"

Taking off the helmet is equivalent to the failure of the spiritual barrier spell pattern engraved by Li Ang.

He reached out to press the helmet back on her head, but the girl had already jumped to the ground first, without even taking her sword.

If he followed her, the magic power gathered halfway through the spellcasting would dissipate, and there would be a lot of loss. Whether he could release the ultimate move then was hard to say.

"Come back, idiot! You don't need to sacrifice yourself for others to kill this snake." Li Ang shouted hurriedly.

"It's not a sacrifice, it's not others."

The girl turned around, her hair brushing her cheeks, and a gentle look appeared on her face that was so beautiful it was unreal.

"Li Ang, when it seems like the whole world is about to be destroyed, you still smile gently at me. I have a tingling feeling all over my body, it feels so warm."

"The battle happened too fast, I'm sorry, I haven't participated in many battles, I never thought things would be so dangerous."

Zoe walked towards the Earth Snake.

"These five days, it's like a dream to me."

"If it wasn't for Li Ang, I would still be misunderstanding Mom and Dad. If it wasn't for Li Ang, I wouldn't dare to imagine the outside world at all, just feeling that I was an unwanted child, a freak in the eyes of the villagers. I don't know how long such days would go on."

"I really, really, really am so glad, because I wanted a friend, I took the initiative to find you, even if it was unreasonable to find you for a duel, I didn't know it was unreasonable at that time."

"I still want more, to have Li Ang in my life, how could I be willing to let myself die?"

Clearly the ground had been torn by the earthquake, and the wreckage of the crystal dome on the top of the head had destroyed it again, making it completely impossible to walk, but this could not stop the girl's pace.

In Li Ang's eyes, Zoe's feet were not stepping on the ground, but as if stepping on a layer of invisible water surface, every step would trigger a ripple of spreading light.

Every few steps she took, she would look back at Li Ang.

"Li Ang, do you know? I should have known you a long time ago."

"When I found the cabin in the woods, I was so happy, it turns out there was someone here who was alone like me."

"So when I saw you came back, I wanted to talk to you so much, wanted to see what kind of person you were."

Every time she looked back, the light in her eyes would brighten by a point.

That was divine light composed of countless tiny runes.

In the end, the light had spread to her whole body, supporting a glimmer outside the outline of her body. This glimmer was so gentle, so gentle that it seemed to melt away all disputes and troubles.

Zoe's whole body seemed to flow with endless light.

Li Ang couldn't see the specific light and color, but he could just feel that she was wrapped in light and energy.

In the light, the fixed buckles of the standard iron armor he made were snapped by energy and fell off her body.

And the heavy steel armguards and wasteland beast leather boots left by her parents also seemed unable to match her body, falling to the ground inexplicably.

She was like "passing through" all matter.

Finally, there was only that old, faded dress on her body.

"Just now, in that ruin, I saw some things, I'm clumsy, I can't say it, but at that time I already knew, I seem to be able to suppress the big snake, this is my innate ability."

"Before, it was Mom and Dad fighting the big snake for me, now it's Li Ang."

"I should be more diligent, bolder, and things wouldn't be so dangerous."

"Li Ang has the life he wants to control, I'm thinking, I have it now too."

"I should be able to do it... no, I must do it!"

It seemed like a gust of wind was blowing towards Zoe. The dress she wore that had become deformed and loose was reshaped by the wind, as if to show favor to her, fluttering like a gorgeous duelist's dress.

Her exquisite face was dyed with brilliance. Li Ang couldn't tell whether the warm color that dyed her powder-snow-like skin was light or the color of her life, or both.

He almost stopped breathing.

Most of the airspace has beauties of all kinds, and different races also have their own talents, such as the beast-ear race being extremely enchanting, the bull-horn race having fine branches and large fruits, the elegance and nobility of the elves, the cuteness of the bean-ding race...

But Zoe at this moment, even if her face is world-tilting, doesn't need to be compared with them.

The brilliance of her soul is enough to make this sky pale in comparison.

Her delicate bare feet stepped on the air, the girl opened her arms and stepped towards the Earth Snake bit by bit.

The Star Soul beast stopped increasing the magnitude. Its gem snake eyes stared at the girl walking over, and its whole body was also shrouded in light.

It was as if it was erased from the world. The holy snake's diamond scale body dissolved inch by inch in the light, and then spread to the snake tail and snake head. When its crown disappeared completely in the light, this group of light surged towards the girl and merged with the light on her body.

Instantly, Zoe radiated rainbow light like seven-colored gems all over her body.

She floated slowly in the light, and the surrounding light condensed into mysterious runes. The runes formed rings, and multiple rings rotated continuously with her body as the center.

The girl's expression was struggling, her body curled up, and she was fighting against some kind of existence.

Not long after, the rune rings flickered and converged on her body, the light runes dissipated and merged into her body, and many precious gems scattered around were also pulled by invisible power and disappeared into the light.

Then, she began to change.

Starting from the ends of her hair, dark green dyed her slightly curly shoulder-length hair bit by bit.

Her fair skin became more delicate and smooth, like milk fat. A moist emerald gem appeared in the center of her forehead. With it as the center, the crown made of golden scales passed through her hair and converged behind her head, followed by golden scale arm rings, leg rings, bracelets, and foot rings appearing one after another.

The right side of her pupils still belonged to her own pigeon-blood red, but the left eye was like deep blue emerging in the sea. With a flash of divine light, a six-pointed star was branded in the deepest part of her eyes.

At the corners of her eyes, malachite color extended along the direction of her eyelashes to form eye makeup, and eyeshadow was applied between her eyebrows and eyes. One could vaguely see the colors carefully prepared by grinding stones of the brilliant ancient civilization, just to brand beauty into eternity.

Her cute little face also seemed to be smeared with extremely light gold powder. These colors were elegant and mysterious, and they were thoughts that flashed through her heart in an instant when viewing ancient paintings, which were very difficult to grasp.

Under the skirt, the golden scale snake tail curled and stretched, swaying left and right.

The girl who had transformed into a brand-new posture slightly raised her chin, and her exquisite, expressionless face seemed to be covered with a layer of divinity, just like a heavenly maiden coming to the world to inspect.

The rainbow light dissipated, and her cute feet landed on an invisible plane. In this world where heaven and earth were reversed, the fluorescent stones that once hung on the cave ceiling spread a carpet of light on the ground. She stepped on circles of light patterns above this carpet of light, dragging her long tail, and walked towards Li Ang step by step.

Star Soul, Star Soul Greenhouse...

Li Ang stared at the approaching girl. It turned out that both sides could merge directly from the spiritual perspective. The magic power flowing in this process operated in reverse, dissolving the Star Soul's body and reshaping it on the girl.

Is she... Zoe or the Earth Snake?

Li Ang looked at the "girl" defensively, perceiving the state of "her" spirituality, wondering if the Star Soul dominated everything, could he find a way to separate the spirituality of the two?

Her gaze also projected over, meeting in the air.

The girl stuck out her tongue, and the cold expression melted into the playfulness unique to Zoe.

"Hehe, it seems to have succeeded." ===== CHAPTER 37 =====