Chapter 127. The Crimson Gauze Falls Softly, Binding the True Dragon in the Deep
'Since it has co to this—then let feel once more the power I have long been denied!'
With that thought, Luo Nan hesitated no longer. He closed his eyes, steadied his mind, and carefully attuned himself to the iridescent flicker at Aeldelin's fingertips.
"Oh? My Luo Nan—giving up already?"
Seeing Luo Nan standing still, as though he had abandoned all resistance, she gave a light laugh: "Quite impressive, really. A re mortal who could push to this degree......in thousands of years, you are the very first~"
"I shall reward—you—ever—so—well~"
Just as Aeldelin glided forward with light steps, slowly approaching Luo Nan, he suddenly snapped his eyes open. A self-assured confidence that commanded all things flashed within those deep dark irises, and he called out loudly:
"Hah! Silence, you wretched creature—have a taste of this young master's......Loan Shark Special Move: Simplified Edition!"
"And the sum I'm borrowing—I'm taking it straight from your body!"
With those words said, Luo Nan raised his hand and clenched five fingers into a fist. The iridescent flicker at Aeldelin's fingertips instantly ca alive, transforming into countless iridescent threads that billowed outward, wrapping around Luo Nan's entire body.
"Though it pales beside the full version—I must still say......how long I have waited, the brimming with power!"
His forrly dark irises transford into iridescent pupils of infinite depth, his black hair stirred without any wind, and the iridescent threads tamorphosed into markings that clung to his form.
Only the Infinite Ring behind his back was absent, as was the Phantom Feather Robe woven from fragnts of ti and space.
And his voice could no longer pierce through the triple spans of past, present, and future.
"Insignificant Aeldelin Xueting—will you not surrender forthwith!"
Luo Nan's pair of infinitely iridescent pupils stared with faint exaggeration at the crimson beauty before him, who stood petrified, utterly at a loss for how to react.
"......"
Aeldelin lowered her head, lost in thought.
She had already sensed her own power returning to her.
But Luo Nan in this form......
She snapped her head upward abruptly, her rose-red eyes drilling into Luo Nan's pair of absolutely beautiful, absolutely vast iridescent pupils.
"My......Luo Nan, it's actually—actually you!"
"So you are that great existence!!! "
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"What is this creature babbling about?" Luo Nan was sowhat confused.
He was himself; Mr. Tree was Mr. Tree. Though the two could briefly rge, Luo Nan could clearly distinguish them as separate entities.
The Chrono Phantom Demon trembled as she crossed to stand before him, her exquisite face written over with infatuation and madness.
"No, not yet......but it doesn't matter, I will, I will help you......"
"rge......with !"
Seeing Aeldelin's clearly deranged expression and words, Luo Nan furrowed his brow.
He suddenly recalled Anya's reaction when she had seen him in that state after his first rge.
"Could it be......that Aeldelin has been affected as well?"
'Cheat Device Miss, how should I handle this situation?'
[......]
'Cheat Device Miss?'
[Handle it yourself. Don't co asking .]
'Hey hey hey—if you're going to help soone, help them all the way, Cheat Device Miss? Cheat Device Miss?'
'How does it feel like Cheat Device Miss is a little angry......could it be I've been relying on her too much?'
'Forget it—beat this creature up first and talk later.'
'Babbling nonsense like that—clearly asking to be hit!'
Having regained his power, Luo Nan felt as though there was no one in this world he could stand the sight of!
Especially Aeldelin Xueting, who had kept him on tenterhooks for so long.
No sooner said than done—the iridescent hues swirled in Luo Nan's eyes, his black hair flowed like ink rippling in a windless current, and the profound markings covering his entire body blazed to life in an instant.
He flexed his right arm; the iridescent markings coiled around it transford into invisible sword-blades. Luo Nan swept forward, and an iridescent slash arrived in the blink of an eye, as though even the space itself was about to be torn asunder.
"Co then, Luo Nan—show ......your true strength!"
Aeldelin curled her red lips faintly, and her slender fingers extended with elegant grace. A dark gleam blood at her fingertip and landed with precision on the core of the slash.
Crack—!
The iridescent sword-edge shattered inch by inch like brittle glass, leaving only faint ripples on the fingernail she had stabbed through it.
"Too impatient, my Luo Nan." She gave a soft sigh, and her silhouette vanished in an instant.
In the next mont, iridescent and crimson intertwined throughout—the entire space of the Moonlight Greenhouse erupted into a landscape of devastation.
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"I—I'm done for! How can this Aeldelin be so strong!"
Luo Nan knelt on one knee on the ground, each breath pulling at a tearing agony that ripped through his entire body. The mighty power of "Infinity" that had dwelt within him receded like a tide, leaving behind the hollowness and desolation that a mortal fra could barely endure.
In the end......he had still lost.
He had exhausted every sche and every card—yet he could not surmount this wall called "Aeldelin."
Was this so-called "Collusion with Demons" truly an inescapable destiny?
Luo Nan truly had no recourse this ti.
After all, Aeldelin had actually dared to make a move against him right here in Opalia......
"Indeed......'Man proposes, Heaven disposes'......"
He spat out a mouthful of bloody froth and waited quietly.
On the other side, that breathtaking crimson flower had also wilted from its composed grace.
Aeldelin's exquisite black gauze gown was shredded beyond repair, reduced to trailing silk threads that inadvertently traced the contours of a vast expanse of alabaster-white, breathtaking beauty.
The legs wrapped in black silk were likewise riddled with tears; the soft white flesh glimpsed through the rents glead in the fading Demon Light, carrying a broken, disheveled allure.
She kicked free the straps of her already-snapped stilettos and, barefoot, her perfect jade feet wound about with silk threads, stepped across the shattered ground one pace at a ti toward Luo Nan, who was propped on his elbows bracing himself up.
She ca to a halt before Luo Nan.
Those rose-red eyes, beautiful as blood, now churned with a fervent tide of absolute infatuation, as though they might swallow the man before her whole.
A thin trail of vivid scarlet slid sinuously from a fresh wound on her cheek, lending her a bewitching otherworldliness that left the heart shaken.
Her cinnabar lips parted slightly, her breath in disarray, her graceful throat moving, her delicate fra trembling.
"Luo Nan......" her voice was low and wandering, carrying a strange enchantnt, as though an ancient song crossing through ti, "I heard it—the 'Him' within your body—is yearning......"
She tilted her head, her pink tongue tracing the bloodstain at the corner of her mouth. Her voice was husky and yet brimming with temptation.
"Resist no more—just let ......beco the very first thread of starlight upon your path of Ascending to Godhood."
"Ascending to Godhood? What is that......" Luo Nan attempted to struggle upright, but did not succeed.
'Just the ravings of a madwoman......'
That was Luo Nan's final thought.
He resisted no more—perhaps because he had no strength to resist, or perhaps because he too wished to see what sort of "scenery" this Phantom Demon spoke of.
Aeldelin waited no longer for his answer.
That swath of crimson that devoured all things gently enveloped the iridescent starlight on the verge of going out.
The sounds of fabric shattering, of woven cloth slipping away, were hushed and smothered by the night wind and the cry of insects.
All clamor returned to silence.
On this night, the stars withdrew from the sky, and only invisible threads of fate entangled, rged, and reshaped one another within this small enclosure of space.
The red lotus at the edge of the Abyss—offered up its most scorching petals.
Falling into an eternal night, burning together with that primordial stillness.
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The crimson gauze falls soundlessly; in the depths of the hidden current, the true dragon is bound.
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[World Variance Rate: 4.5%→4.6%]
[Luo Nan von dillion, on August 28th, 1795, beca entangled in karmic bonds with Aeldelin Xueting—Worldline shifted.]
[Repair chanism activated; subsequent Worldline re-evolving......]
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