readytorunbook Chapter 1497 Interlude: That feeling quietly emerged.
Chapter 1497 Interlude: That feeling quietly emerged.
Chapter 1497 Interlude: That feeling quietly emerged.
At the top of the Starfall Tower, the night breeze sang a song, stirring up the boundless night sky.
Hearing Fang Ran's last reply echo in the wind, Ling Qianjin, who looked like an adult, trembled in her eyes and stared at him somewhat absentmindedly amidst the thousands of lights.
Setting aside unease and sorrow, the young man sat atop the tower, his fiery robes billowing in the breeze, a resolute smile on his face like that of someone who has weathered a downpour.
It was as if a pebble had fallen into her heart, creating ripples that were hard to calm.
Even during the day, though she felt nervous and awkward facing a stranger, Ling could sense that all his words were directed at her former self.
But in that instant, she suddenly realized clearly that from the night before, every word he had spoken...
It's all being said completely to myself, standing here right now.
It wasn't the 'Ling' who initially helped him and possessed memories of the Arctic, nor was it the 'Ling' who traveled with him in a carriage a hundred years ago.
Instead, it was meant for himself, someone he had only known for a day.
Especially the last sentence.
Even though he had lost all their shared memories, and even though he would feel incredibly sad because of it, he still whispered firmly that she was still his queen.
Transcending time and memory, so pure that it demands nothing, offering unconditional acceptance.
Ling never imagined that decades later, someone would consider her existence so important, as if she had always stood at the crossroads of the future.
No matter what she becomes, she speaks with the same unwavering conviction as in that hazy, flashing memory.
You are my eternal queen.
The moment I realized this, the lingering envy I felt for 'myself' vanished like morning mist.
As night fell atop the tower, the adult Ling stared absently at the young man before her, who sat on the edge, the night wind whipping his hair and the hem of his burning clothes.
His figure, tempered by North America, was serene, yet his pursuit of his dreams shone like a rising star about to ignite.
I used to understand his naivety; now I witness his transformation and maturity.
Upon recognizing the youth's true nature and confirming his own significance to him, the mature, aloof figure suddenly felt something within him quietly cracking open.
Then, looking at his dazzling appearance, a complex emotion suddenly surged forth from within.
"Is it,"
Upon hearing the answer, she raised a hand to brush aside the strands of hair ruffled by the night wind, and her figure in the platinum gown took a light step, the heels tapping on the ground atop the tower.
"Well, since you still think that way..."
As she walked to his side, Fang Ran looked up with a hint of surprise in his dark eyes.
Below, a sea of lights illuminated the top of the tower. Suddenly, the adult Ling spoke, her voice calm yet carrying an undeniable authority.
"Follow me somewhere."
When he heard her suddenly say that in the night breeze, Fang Ran's golden eyes widened slightly in surprise.
Not knowing where they were suddenly being sent, but seeing the tall figure beside him, he didn't refuse. His black hair flew wildly as he sensed her casually activating teleportation.
A dazzling light enveloped the two as they vanished from the top of the Starfall Tower, and then, a second later, when their vision returned...
Fang Ran saw them arrive at the Night Bureau's underground base in an instant.
He was slightly puzzled by the sight before him, unsure why he had come all the way from the top of the tower to this place, but before he could look at the calm and aloof figure beside him and ask,
Within the vast underground mechanical micro-city, an even stronger spatial fluctuation emerged!
The massive mech standing in the center suddenly lit up on its chest, signaling the activation of a long-distance teleportation process, a stark contrast to the previous one. The scene shifted a second time...
In an instant, it plummeted from the night sky, its burning robes billowing in the wind, as the biting winter wind carried the scent of the desolate icy plains.
Then, during the descent, the dark-skinned youth watched as the aloof figure raised his hand and made a sweeping motion.
A black and red rift, seemingly tearing through space, opened below!
After passing through this gap, as if crossing some kind of boundary, what finally came into Fang Ran's view was—
It was a boundless, gray world devoid of day and night colors!
Upon seeing this boundless, gloomy scene, Fang Ran's dark eyes widened slightly. Sensing the sudden acceleration of his magical energy recovery, he abruptly realized...
Not long after, he returned to the underworld for the second time.
The young man didn't understand why Ling had suddenly brought him here, but before he could look to the side to ask, the woman in the platinum dress spoke in a cool and indifferent tone:
"This is a wasteland in the Dark World - Siberia. Because it's a no-man's land in reality, there are basically no numbered monsters nearby,"
"Don't worry about any impact or disturbance."
Worry?
Fang Ran was slightly taken aback as she looked at the other person's exquisite profile. Before she could figure out what this meant, she saw the other person suddenly raise her hand.
The next second, a beam of dark blue light suddenly shone towards him from the void!
His dark eyes widened instantly! Reacting instinctively the moment he sensed the intense energy fluctuation, Fang Ran grabbed the King of Gods from his shoulder and yanked him away.
The moment the burning hem of her clothes billowed out like a cloak, it blocked the huge, dark blue pillar of light!
boom!
A massive, ghostly blue flame exploded, and a dark figure plummeted out from within. The night-weapon blocked the damage, but the impact still knocked him back.
As he crashed to the ground, Fang Ran's dark eyes widened in disbelief, gazing at the aloof and stern figure in the air. To him at this moment, an attack of this magnitude posed no threat; what truly shocked him was that, more than an attack, it seemed like a signal to declare war.
Why suddenly!?
At that moment, after the sudden firing, the eerie blue muzzle of the cannon appeared and disappeared in the void beside them.
In the bleak, gray sky of the dark world, Ling's adult figure floated silently in mid-air, her raised hand still in place, her exquisitely beautiful face utterly expressionless.
Pale golden eyes descended from the sky, calmly reflecting the figure of the young man below.
Just then, the system interface for Night Battle suddenly appeared beside Fang Ran, and a cool, rational, and indifferent voice came from the pale blue light screen:
"Since you still consider me your queen, there are some things I feel I need to remind you of,"
Hearing these calm words, filled with surprise and confusion, I was just wondering why I had been suddenly brought here to take action.
Then, at that moment, Fang Ran heard the Great Queen from the past speak coldly:
"I was just about to say that your wish is so naive that it's stupid."
The moment her words fell, Fang Ran watched as the dense void behind her burst open, spreading like wings across the entire gray and colorless sky.
Hundreds of floating cannons transformed into streaks of dark blue meteors and flew out across the sky!
"Even if it has nothing to do with you, you still have to step in to save people. Is your sense of justice that excessive?"
Straight beams of psionic energy shot out, their intense energy accompanied by a buzzing sound. The mastermind behind the scenes calculated and controlled the attacks in real time, with varying quantities, frequencies, and directions, like interwoven threads of psionic blue yarn.
On the boundless, desolate wasteland, a torrential downpour of eerie blue rays was now falling!
In the midst of this offensive, the King of Gods blocked the aftershocks, Hekimulin provided vision during his rebirth, and with the Night Weapon's enhancement, his figure transformed into a black lightning bolt.
Unable to retaliate against that figure, his dark eyes widened rapidly, and he could only dodge continuously.
Fang Ran's burning clothes left afterimages as he sped away amidst the barrage of countless ghostly blue rays!
"They would even risk their lives, put themselves in danger, or be driven to the brink of despair?"
At this moment, watching the young man dodging the dense beams, the tall, long-haired figure raised her hand again. Dimensional light gates appeared on both sides behind her, and mechanical pillars with phase fields and large psionic spiral cannons appeared simultaneously.
The mechanical giant pillar lit up for a moment, then broke in the middle. As the top and bottom sides rotated in opposite directions, an invisible wave spread throughout the entire fleet of floating machines.
On the other side, from the muzzle with a caliber of over one meter and nested, rotating rings, a powerful hum of three-stage charging resounded!
Sensing the fluctuation while dodging, Fang Ran saw the dozen or so floating units around him change color instantly as a phase-blocking field was generated. He felt a heavy pressure and his body suddenly froze.
Then, in that instant, the psionic spiral cannons, with their many rotating rings, roared and opened fire!
A blazing beam of light shot towards him. With his dark eyes widening and realizing he couldn't dodge it, Fang Ran could only grab the Silver Dragon Fang in mid-air and swing it, using the [Shield] light barrier to block the fierce attack from the psionic energy!
"Do you truly understand the costs involved in doing this?"
Her pale gold eyes fixed on Fang Ran as he blocked the attack, giving him no chance to catch his breath. Her cool, aloof figure spoke, simultaneously activating an even more powerful weapon.
The several-meter-long, cone-shaped, dark blue machine, with its sharp edge radiating an intense and terrifyingly powerful energy glow, seemed to completely ionize the surrounding darkness when it appeared, surpassing even A-level and higher-level power!
【Item No. 13 - Biological Deadlock Ion Light Cone】
The three ion beams locked onto the youth the moment they appeared, and the eerie arcs of light tore through the sound barrier as they flew toward him!
Just as they had blocked the attack and broken free of the field's restraints, amidst the barrage of rays, the sea-based alarm sounded as they saw three sharp streaks of light rushing towards them.
With nowhere to hide under the relentless onslaught, Fang Ran had no choice but to raise his hand and use the [Drive Card] to flash away, bursting out of the encirclement in a flash!
Even so, it remained relentlessly close, and no matter how he twisted or changed direction, he couldn't shake it off completely. Then, he watched as the sharp cone suddenly flashed with a self-destructing red light.
With nowhere to retreat, Fang Ran could only twist his body abruptly, activating the [Strike Card], and unleashing a burst of dark beams that prematurely detonated the light cone.
Three blinding bursts of energy exploded in mid-air, the violent shockwave engulfing his figure!
"If you knew everything"
As Fang Ran's figure plummeted to the ground, a clear, cold voice cut through the roar of the explosion, carrying an absolute calm and awe-inspiring majesty.
The moment he uttered those last words, all weapons were sheathed, as if the warm-up was over.
A tall, mature figure slowly opened her pale golden eyes, which shone with a radiant light, illuminating her exquisite face in a state of breathtaking, serene beauty. Behind her, the entire dark space transformed into a colossal dimensional portal of light.
A tremendous roar resounded, and in the distance, a figure on the desolate plain suddenly looked up in surprise, his dark eyes widening as if he had just realized something.
A massive, deep, and beautiful black mech, hundreds of meters tall, descended from the dark sky!
The armor's surface, resembling the night sky, was adorned with countless dark blue, blood-like patterns. Within its massive mechanical form, boundless energy surged and circulated, symbolizing the ultimate manifestation of the pinnacle of technological combat power.
One after another, colossal weapons of futuristic technology ascended into the air, forming a giant 'single wing,' while a Möbius strip hundreds of meters long roared upwards, crowning itself as an angelic halo.
Enormous and precise, it exudes mystery and power.
The magnificent 'Night Tour', as beautiful as the stars in the night sky, appears now!
If you really understood
At this moment, hovering above 'Youye's' chest, the colossal and magnificent mecha, hundreds of meters long, reflected the figure in the platinum gown, making her appear awe-inspiring and dazzling.
Ling, who looked like an adult in the past, had her long hair flowing freely, and her delicate, aloof face exuded a powerful aura.
She raised her pale golden eyes and uttered her final question:
"Then prove to me how much power you have to achieve your absurd wish."
At that moment, on the wasteland, Fang Ran's dark eyes paused slightly upon hearing these words.
Under the dark, boundless sky of the dark world,
Behind the dark-skinned youth, the long, burning hem of his robes fluttered as he gazed up at the colossal and magnificent ultimate power, hundreds of meters tall, and at the Night Angel in her peak state from the past!
Oh my god, finally! (crazy, incoherent laughter) Before writing this: 1. I didn't know how to connect the opening sentence to the ending of the previous chapter; 2. I didn't know how Ling would feel after hearing that confession; 3. I didn't know how to transition from being touched to being angry; 4. I didn't know what equipment Ling would use to fight before summoning Youye; 5. I didn't know what Ling should say during the fight. Before I started writing, I sat for an entire afternoon and realized that the only thing I knew how to write was the final scene where Fang Ran looks up at 'Youye'. In the end, I was so frustrated that I laughed at myself. [Before writing the Great Queen's storyline, actually, before many readers suggested it to me, I had already planned to write a fight scene, but I just didn't know how to get to this point. After racking my brains, I finally got to this point.]
(End of this chapter)