Just as the battle against the Doomsday Beast was raging at its fiercest, a surge of impassioned melody suddenly resounded throughout the platform:
“Rending my form, setting free~”
“A thunderous roar, a symphony~”
“Soul’s depths stirred by tempest’s might~”
This sudden BGM caught everyone completely off guard, and their attacks involuntarily slowed.
Everyone followed the sound and looked over, only to see that Xu Zixuan had set up a portable speaker at some point and was gently tapping along to the rhythm.
What was even more astonishing was that a faint blue aura had begun to shimmer around Dan Heng, as if the melody had awakened some dormant power within him.
Dan Heng himself was also taken aback.
Feeling the power surging inside him, he couldn’t help but wonder: Where had this overwhelming urge to transform come from?
“Don’t mind me.
I just felt that fighting in silence was too dull, so I put on some BGM to lift everyone’s spirits.” Xu Zixuan explained with a smile, as if he were doing the most normal thing in the world.
It was a shame the Doomsday Beast didn’t have its own exclusive BGM.
He had no choice but to temporarily borrow “Samudrartha” to fit the occasion.
Then again, on second thought, maybe this tune could actually help Dan Heng awaken ahead of schedule.
Upon hearing this explanation, everyone’s expressions instantly became incredibly colorful.
“Y-you…
seriously…
who puts on BGM in the middle of a fight?!”
March 7th’s mouth dropped open so wide she forgot to finish drawing her bow.
Dan Heng drew a deep breath and struggled to quell the restless power surging inside him.
The look he cast toward Xu Zixuan was unreadably complex.
“Mr.
Xu, you truly never fail to bring…
surprises.”
Himeko rubbed her forehead and sighed, yet the corner of her mouth couldn’t help but lift into a faint smile.
Everyone had been rendered somewhat speechless by Xu Zixuan’s BGM…
everyone except Stelle and Caelus.
“OOOOOHHH!”
“It’s so hype!”
Upon hearing the BGM, Stelle and Caelus grew even more frenzied, swinging their baseball bats with renewed and amplified vigor.
“That’s it, that’s it!
Right there!
Trim those toenails!
Trim ’em!”
“Hit his eggs!
Hit his eggs!”
“Cross this mountain, and they will hear your story!”
Xu Zixuan continued his passionate commentary while leisurely munching on sunflower seeds.
“Since when does a Doomsday Beast have eggs?!” March 7th couldn’t help but turn her head and shout between shots.
“So what you’re saying is, if the Doomsday Beast did have eggs, you’d specifically aim for them?”
“So that’s the real March 7th!
I’ve completely misjudged you!”
“Hey hey hey!
Up against a strong enemy like this, of course you exploit its weak points if you find any!
This is tactics!
Tactics, do you understand?!” March 7th’s pretty face flushed red, but the arrows in her hands never slowed for an instant.
When she glimpsed Xu Zixuan pulling out yet another pack of snacks, her frustration boiled over.
“You’ve got the nerve to judge me?
Do you think this is a picnic or something?!”
“Where are you even pulling these peanuts, sunflower seeds, and popcorn from?!
Are you here to help or here for a field trip?!”
“This humble one is but a desk worker, frail in martial prowess, ill-suited for conflict.” Xu Zixuan repeated his signature line without changing expression, casually cracking another sunflower seed between his teeth.
“Besides, didn’t I already set up a BGM to cheer you on and boost morale?”
The Doomsday Beast, this thing…
for some reason Xu Zixuan felt he could crush it to death with his bare hand if he wanted to.
But there was no need.
If he crushed it to death and Stelle and Caelus missed out on the Path of Destruction, who would compensate them for that?!
Couldn’t they see that both Dan Heng and Himeko were deliberately holding back over there?
If Dan Heng really wanted to transform into Imbibitor Lunae, he could crush the Doomsday Beast at any moment.
Same went for Himeko deploying her orbital space cannon.
But neither of them had gone all out.
In this siege against the Doomsday Beast, they were merely playing support.
The bulk of the offensive output was left to Stelle and Caelus, along with March 7th on crowd control.
And Stelle and Caelus were fighting to their heart’s content, utterly exhilarated.
Every swing of the bat landed with devastating force.
The Doomsday Beast was steadily driven back under their relentless onslaught, cracks spreading across its carapace, as if it were about to disintegrate at any second.
However, just at that moment…
“ROAR—!”
The Doomsday Beast suddenly let out an earth-shattering roar.
An ominous, heart-stopping dark crimson energy began condensing within its maw.
Countless black arcs of lightning flickered and danced around the energy beam.
The entire stretch of starry sky trembled under the might of this terrifying power.
In the next instant, the world was swallowed by a monochrome black and red.
The destructive torrent of energy came pouring out—yet its target was not the attacking Stelle and Caelus, but aimed squarely at Xu Zixuan, who was off to the side munching on sunflower seeds!
Xu Zixuan: “?”
Hold on, buddy?
I’m just a spectator here, and you’re nuking me with your ultimate?!
Looks like I really do have to control you after all!
Just as he was about to make his move, Stelle and Caelus flashed into position to his left and right, resolutely placing themselves directly in the path of the incoming energy torrent.
Fine, fine, fine.
So I’m replacing March 7th’s role in this scene, am I?
Xu Zixuan had a sudden epiphany.
He immediately dropped his stance and went back to cracking sunflower seeds in peace. This chapter was copied from g.com without permission.
The very next second, Xu Zixuan, along with Stelle and Caelus, arrived at the Path’s Narrow.
“It is time to set out…”
A gentle voice slowly echoed beside their ears.
Xu Zixuan opened his eyes and saw the sky overhead resembling an enormous wound, through which golden light flowed like divine blood.
“Reach the end of the story…
in your own way.”
He gazed into the distance.
The figures of Nanook, Stelle, and Caelus stood there.
“Look…”
“THEY have already taken notice of you!”
It was Nanook, the Aeon of Destruction!
That shattered sky was not truly the sky at all, but the scars upon Nanook’s own body.
The mere act of exchanging a single glance with Nanook sent Stelle and Caelus’s minds reeling, as if their very souls were trembling in THEIR presence.
Just at the moment when Stelle and Caelus’s consciousness was about to be expelled from the Path’s Narrow, they watched in utter astonishment as Xu Zixuan actually stepped forward, walking right past them.
The corner of Xu Zixuan’s mouth curved into a beautiful arc.
The moment he thought of the “Aeon of Braised Noodles” and THEIR “Lord Ravager of Chewing Noodles,” Xu Zixuan nearly burst out laughing on the spot.
He swiftly adjusted his expression, instantly switching to a visage brimming with impassioned fervor, and shouted toward Nanook at the top of his lungs:
“Nanook!
I’ve come to bring you destruction!”
As if he had fully thrown himself into the role of “savior,” his entire being shot forth like an arrow loosed from its string, charging straight toward the Aeon of Destruction.
“…?”
Hearing this declaration, Nanook visibly froze for a moment.
Across that eternally imposing and majestic face, there seemed to flicker the faintest trace of a smile.
Come to bring HIM destruction?
HE was Nanook, the Aeon of Destruction!
To want to destroy the Aeon of Destruction…
how was that any different from confessing love to HIM?
Nanook: This new kid is great!
Wants to bring ME “destruction”!
So happy!
Thud!
In the next second, Xu Zixuan’s fist expanded at a terrifying rate, as if inflated, and carrying jaw-dropping force, it slammed squarely into Nanook’s face!
Sss…
Nanook was sent stumbling backward from the blow, a wisp of golden blood trickling from the corner of HIS lips.
Stelle and Caelus stood there dumbfounded.
Before they could even begin to process this shocking sight, a force expelled them from the Path’s Narrow.
Click.
Unhurried and unbothered, Xu Zixuan fished out a camera and pressed the shutter, capturing Nanook, who had yet to recover from the blow.
Only then, satisfied, did he leisurely take his leave.
Xu Zixuan: I am the true Fuli, Aeon of Remembrance!
Aha: Hahahahaha!