latelenovela Chapter 342 A 5-Minute Time Stop Experience Card
Chapter 342 A 5-Minute Time Stop Experience Card
"This world was beyond saving the moment Hinadia left."
After the deity wept, he returned to calm—but this calm was clearly not a healthy one. Even the most fervent worshippers could tell that the deity's mental state was not quite healthy at this moment.
The thirty-two people closest to Leiera felt as if an invisible giant hand was choking them, rendering them unable to utter a sound. The entire abode of the gods suddenly fell into a deathly silence. At the same time, countless dark clouds suddenly drifted into the night sky above the entire Rimu, the previously starry sky completely blocking out the already dim starlight.
"Why didn't it work?"
Now Qiong was really anxious. He had already shouted as Kiana had told him to, what more did she want from him?! No... wait! Kiana said to shout three times, right?
"Everyone will eventually deceive me, betray me, and abandon me! You are all liars!"
"Little Leiera! Little Leiera! Nahra and the others didn't abandon you! They just—"
"I killed her! It was me! My existence was Luo Xing's biggest mistake... Hahahaha... I should be the one who should disappear and die!"
Nana tried to explain some mistakes to Leiera, but the goddess was already blinded by the death of Lithost and his astonishing wisdom. Immersed in her own pain and anger, she had no intention of listening to Nana's reasoning.
Despair, like a cold tide, was about to devour the last shred of reason of the already mentally unstable god.
"Wife, save me! Wife, save me!"
"Hehe, your dear wife is here! Don't be afraid, I'm here, nothing will happen!"
As Qiong called out for the third time, the purple light of the stigma behind Qiong's neck shone brightly, even overshadowing the gloom emanating from Leiera. In an instant, Kiana, with her hair tied in a high ponytail, appeared between Qiong and Nana, clinging to Qiong's back with her arms wrapped around Qiong's neck.
"what is this?"
"Nian Gao, you have this skill too?"
"Idiot Na, this isn't the time for jokes! Look ahead... Huh?"
Qiong shouted loudly at Kiana, pointing to the shadow monsters around them—but at this moment, there were only shadow monsters frantically rushing towards them, and Leiera was nowhere to be seen.
"Understood, I'll leave this place to your closest person!"
Kiana swept her staff, and a purple halo rippled through the air like water. The seemingly weak halo forcefully swept away the layers of gloom and all the shadow monsters, and in no time, it wiped out all the shadow monsters in the abode of the gods.
For Kiana, this was nothing more than a small favor. Even if it was a distraction, it wasn't something a mere monster could mess with! As long as it wasn't the Martian God himself, she wasn't afraid at all, okay? Of course, she couldn't possibly say that to Sora.
After easily defeating the enemy, Kiana turned to look at the gray-haired little idiot who still had a blank expression.
"How was it? Did I do a good job, my dear wife? Wasn't it cool? Want to learn? This trick is super simple! All you have to do is—"
With a beaming smile, Kiana tried to curry favor with Sora and then use the pretext of "teaching" to find an opportunity to break through Sora's crumbling defenses once again.
"Strange, where did Leiera go?"
"Qiong, little Leiera has flown up to the sky!"
However, Qiong completely ignored the challenge, not only deliberately keeping her distance from the current Kiana, but also discussing the current situation with Xiaolong Nana.
"Qiong, tell me, isn't your wife amazing?"
With the crisis temporarily averted, Qiong looked around and saw no black mad god in sight, only the Earth God pouting and needing to be coaxed.
Kiana, I'm talking about serious matters!
However, if Qiong doesn't participate, there will naturally be people who will.
"Amazing! Amazing! Nian Gao is truly amazing! You took care of so many monsters with just a few strokes! From now on, we're your die-hard fans! If anyone says you're not amazing, we'll be the first to drag Qiong and Nana up and kick them a couple of times!"
Kiana frowned slightly. She wanted Sora's reaction, not Matsujiro's! But it wasn't a big problem. The worst-case scenario was that she would visit Sora's room and dream after he fell asleep tonight... Hmm? What's that in Sora's pocket?
"Qiong, that thing in your pocket..."
I am a nightmare destined to live only in darkness—
But before Kiana could ask any further questions, a deep female voice came from all directions... The ground, or rather the tower, began to shake violently.
I am the eclipse, I am the shadow of evil that steals the light from another star...
The sound echoed in the abode of the gods, accompanied by violent shaking, and the tower began to show signs of cracking and collapse.
"What's going on? Is the Martian god going mad?!"
"Little Leiera is very angry! Because she has discovered that Lithost died so that she would forget Sinadia, and she is especially angry now!"
"Alright, alright, let's take you to a safe place first!"
Realizing something was amiss, Kiana abandoned her desire for credit and prepared to use one hand on the Sky and the other on the Pine Sparrow to cross back to the arena where she had just been.
However, just as Kiana reached out to pull Sora and Matsujaku, Sora dodged away.
"Qiong, let's talk about this outside. Now is not the time to be stubborn!"
"Kiana, what about the others?"
Qiong pointed to the thirty-two victors who were waiting anxiously for the gods, thinking of taking them with him—no, that's not right! Nahera said that these people only have souls, and if they leave the tower, they will... vanish into thin air.
Thinking this, Qiong decided to abandon the idea. As long as the tower remained, they wouldn't... wait, why is it starting to dissipate?!
"Don't worry about us."
"It is a red-haired victor," said calmly.
"We are already very satisfied to have seen the true face of the gods. We exist because of the tower, and we will surely perish when the tower collapses..."
The other victors echoed this sentiment, their bodies becoming increasingly transparent, as if they might disappear at any moment.
Qiong watched this scene with a sense of resentment, but there was nothing he could do; he could only…
Just then, the weakest section of the wall in the God's Abode collapsed, allowing everyone inside the tower to see the scene outside: a sky shrouded in dark clouds, shadow streams surging from around the tower covering the earth, and shadow monsters, even larger and more numerous than those inside the tower, emerging from the shadowy ground. They bared their fangs and claws and charged toward the fleeing people—and faintly, Qiong also heard a scream.
Upon seeing this, Qiong's pupils shrank dramatically.
"The Sea of Quanta, the City of No Name..."
Her sorrow and despair transformed into a calamity of shadows, which spread across the endless sky and will eventually cover the entire planet of Luo.
How is this any different from the Quantum Shadow that destroyed the Nameless City?!
"Qiong! There's no time to hesitate! If we don't leave now, we won't be able to leave at all!"
"I've already grabbed Kiana's arm and pulled her into my arms," Matsujaku called out anxiously. But Sora, who had originally planned to retreat, suddenly had a change of heart.
"Kiana, can you use time stop to stabilize this place?"
Kiana's eyes lit up, but then she shook her head.
"That's one way! But it requires a huge amount of Honkai energy, and if I freeze the tower, I'll definitely freeze the gods of Luo Xing as well—"
"Isn't that even better?!"
"But what if a fight breaks out later?"
If her true form were here, Kiana would naturally be completely unfazed. However, since it's only a wisp of her spirit now, there's a possibility of her suffering the same fate as Rita. Moreover, it could alter history…
However, changing history seems the least important thing to Qiong now—he's already killed Lithost, and the art of martyrdom has made him so dead that it has brought forward the "Great Collapse" and "Great Shadow Disaster" of Mars! Mars is doomed! What's a little change?
"Isn't there any other way? Oh right, what about me? Didn't you say I could stop time?"
In a moment of desperation, Qiong suddenly remembered what Kiana had said in bed earlier. He immediately activated all the stigmata on his body, and at the same time revealed his baseball bat, fire spear, top hat, and the quill pen provided by Kiana, looking at Kiana whose eyes were wandering.
"It's possible... but why would you go to such lengths?"
"Because it's my fault... I really don't want to do it again..."
Facing Kiana, Qiong gave a wry smile. Leaving aside the fact that his intervention seemed to have accelerated the arrival of the God's Madness Shadow Disaster, because his appearance emboldened Lithost to court death (of course, Lithost was primarily responsible; he was tricked!), just consider this: doesn't this moment bear some resemblance to that past moment?
Think about it, doesn't it resemble the nameless city when he met Seele? Back then, he was rescued by someone named Bai'er... He tried to stop the quantum shadow from invading that world bubble, but naturally, the entire world was destroyed. He was powerless to resist and only managed to bring Seele back, even releasing Ancestor Kevin—undoubtedly, it was an imperfect sea expedition.
The only proof that that world ever existed was the tattered white robe that he and Seele had clumsily dug into the sand pit beneath the coral reef in Abyss City with scythes and fire spears...
As the world crumbled, he wondered if things would have turned out differently if he had been stronger.
But what did he do during the time he was at sea? Although strictly speaking, only a few days passed between Seele's departure at sea and him being tied to the train by Firefly, what did he do during those days?
Harboring the desire to prevent tragedy from repeating itself, he was so caught up in various matters after setting sail that he didn't do anything to improve himself. The peaceful atmosphere of St. Freya, the train crew, and the hunters distracted him completely. The resolve he made when the world was destroyed was forgotten due to his procrastination.
Okay, let's put aside the regret of failing an exam and only realizing the importance of studying hard for later... The key is that he simply cannot accept that yet another world has been destroyed in the same way (the Quantum Shadow is also a shadow) before his eyes.
The bitterness and regret welling up inside him could not stop the spread of the Shadow Monster, nor could they move the mad goddess Leera. His only hope now was Kiana Kaslana, the Herrscher of the End.
There's an old saying that goes, "Even crying counts as time." While Qiong was grieving, time continued to flow: the cracks in the tower grew wider, and the figures of the thirty-two became increasingly transparent.
This is Luo Xing's divine punishment for those who overestimated their abilities! May everything vanish!
"Isn't this clearly a divine punishment inflicted on Luo Xing by the Mad God Hu Lai?!"
Qiong screamed at the top of his lungs, but the only response was that the tower shook even more violently, cracks spread throughout its body, and the victors of the Ten Arts War, who had resigned themselves to certain death, were almost reduced to specks of light.
"There's no time left! There's no time left!"
The sparrow, not understanding what was going on, stomped its feet in frustration.
"Qiong, I'm begging you, if you don't leave now, forget about those guys, we'll either be killed by some shadow monster that suddenly appeared, or we'll be crushed by rocks—pui pui pui, let's not talk about death, let's talk about good luck, good luck..."
"Are you really sure?"
Unexpectedly, Kiana was not in a hurry; she looked at Sora's eyes with great interest.
"Sora, you're so kind! Nana is so touched, Nana wants to go with you too! Let's rescue little Reira!"
"What's wrong with you all? Are we the only ones who still have any sense?"
With Qiong's mind made up, the fearless little dragon Nana resolutely flew out of Song Que's arms and stood beside Qiong.
Nana's actions nearly crushed the already collapsing Songque: It's one thing for Qiong to have a mental breakdown, but why is Nian Gao acting crazy too? Even this dragon...