Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'
Chapter 614 - 229. FATE/Awakening Sword (Later)

Chapter 614: 229. FATE/Awakening Sword (Later)

You drew the blade, leveled the sword, and handed it to the fairy.

"Li Deweidens, your fate rests within this sword."

The fairy turned her head and presented the weapon to Li Deweidens:

"This weapon contains the will and status of the Secret Councilor, the ’Blacksmith,’ and the key material for the structure of ’Society,’ Primordial Matter. Li Deweidens, when necessary, you can activate the primordial matter within it to release a secret power that will expel the ’Society’ that once again invades our civilization."

As for why it was Li Deweidens, the fairy didn’t say, but you could guess a little.

For so many years, Zaniya had always been hidden in the cave beneath the fairy’s garden. No matter how many tomb raiders visited, she remained securely there, definitely due to the fairy’s deliberate actions.

However, Zaniya had never known this and must have been helped by the fairy to keep it secret.

Something occurred to you, and you blurted out:

"The cost of activating the secret power... is the life of the sword bearer?"

"His entirety."

The fairy added:

"Secret is the most powerful ’Society.’ Its power is too terrifying, beyond your imagination. Even a brief release will cause severe damage to non-citizen Starry Abyss inhabitants."

"From life to soul, from existence to history, his body will be completely submerged by the secret power, becoming a void, a void that doesn’t even exist. History will not have his name, people will not remember him, the world will no longer have a particle of his being."

"He will be forever secret, always hidden, and ultimately forgotten by the entire Starry Abyss."

The blade trembled slightly, but the fairy held it very steadily.

It was Zaniya.

At this moment, Zaniya finally learned the truth.

She had been waiting for her old comrades and the sword bearer to take her into battle.

This wait lasted 1,200 years.

When treasure hunters stole her, she would hope Li Deweidens would come to reclaim her.

When she rusted inside the animal hide wrapping, she yearned for Li Deweidens’s past reassurances.

When she went mad in the darkness, she cursed and hated Li Deweidens’s cowardice.

She waited 1,200 years for Li Deweidens.

Yet, for Li Deweidens, when he grasped it again, it marked the moment of his end.

"Li Deweidens’s fate is approaching."

[Settlement Conditions]:

"Witness it all."

......

Li Deweidens’s body seemed to come to life in an instant. Though still in tatters, it no longer emitted a corrosive stench of maggots.

He raised his hand, his withered fingertips gently brushing over the cracks on the Sword of Destiny Awakening. His decayed lips moved, uttering a calm voice:

"... (in Falysia) Zaniya, thank you for waiting."

"I will never forgive you, Li Deweidens. You always deceived me, never willing to communicate with me! I hate you! I despise you! I—I don’t want to lose you."

Zaniya’s emotions were complicated:

"Must it be you, Li Deweidens?"

"(In Falysia) When I joined the Lichi Peak sect, fate presented me with two paths: to continue in mediocrity until I rotted away, or to burst forth brilliantly, turning my life into a firework, blazing across the night sky."

Li Deweidens narrated poetically, calmly gripping the sword hilt:

"(In Falysia) Zaniya, as per our agreement, I’m here to take you into battle."

Saying this, he turned his head, looking at Li Aozi, unfastened the crimson cursed longsword from his waist, and handed it to Li Aozi:

"(In Tanas) ...Thank you. You are a true hero. Zaniya needs to be taken away for a period, until the secret power is fully released. Please, tell me your name."

"Li Aozi," he replied. "You can also call me Leoz."

"You are worthy of that name."

Li Deweidens looked at him deeply and said sincerely:

"I have never seen Leoz, but if He were to be reincarnated, I think He would look like you."

Li Deweidens was rarely this clear-minded. Li Aozi’s thoughts stirred, and he quickly asked:

"I’m actually curious... As someone who lived under Leoz’s rule in the Beyond the Abyss, what was your view of Leoz?"

"Leoz... Compared to the previous Lichi Peak, those who experienced Leoz’s era could give this assessment of Leoz, when it came to Leoz."

Li Deweidens said:

"Leoz was colder than steel, more efficient than machinery, more brutal than raging fire, but He alone was doing the most correct thing."

"So, Leoz was actually a tyrant?" Li Aozi was surprised. "This is completely different from the legends within the Abyss."

"I can’t judge a legendary figure. If it were a deity warrior like Gio Zieou, I could understand their minds. In my era, except for the Morphederia Universe, most other Chief God Universes, even the majority of deities in the Starry Abyss... compared to Leoz, they were quite human. But if I must say how to judge Leoz, I think it would be..."

Li Deweidens pondered for a moment and said:

"God."

"A pure God, just like those manufactured cannon fodder deities, without desires, without pleasures, without self, without emotions, lacking love, with no empathy for anything, no bias towards anything."

"Leoz was a God. It was as if He came straight out of the cannon fodder deities."

Li Aozi fell silent, his eyes thoughtful.

"A God indeed..."

"Li Aozi," Zaniya coldly said, "I will be gone for a while. You must protect yourself. If you die carelessly, I will kill you!"

"Alright, alright, I won’t die," Li Aozi shrugged, looking at Li Deweidens: "...I don’t know what to say. Li Deweidens, please take care."

"In Falysia, we don’t say ’take care’ to bid farewell."

Li Deweidens seemed to let out a light laugh, picked up the sword, and donned a dazzling silver-red magic armor. Atop his helmet rose magnificent ram horns, his aura cold and sharp, with red lightning vibrant.

"We say: Salut."

Li Deweidens gripped the sword tightly, his figure instantly turning into a striking red lightning, dashing towards the ring in the sky. The Vivid Demon Iron Monarch—Karachia immediately followed, fully activated, casting terrifying, suffocating magic energy across the heavens and earth.

Buzz ————

Far beyond Baizhu Star, several light-years away, two Kappa Rank strongmen who were fighting simultaneously stopped.

"...Omega Tier?" Bablushka was astonished.

"No, this aura is of a heavily reforged Social Councilor," Balkmon pondered for a moment. "It lasted only a brief moment, and it was just an aura. There’s still another ’Society’ aura on Baizhu Star... two ’Societies’—ah! I understand now."

"You understand what?" Bablushka sneered. "Your planet is about to be devoured by Mashigang, and you still relentlessly pursue me. What good does it do?"

"Ah, I didn’t even say which ’Society,’ yet you have already mentioned its name."

Balkmon grinned maliciously:

"Seems like you have long colluded with ’Society’!"

"—What do you intend to do, Balkmon!"

"Nothing, just fulfilling the duty of a Starry Abyss citizen."

Balkmon swung his magic wand, and the magic energy blade at its tip instantly shot to the galaxy’s edge. He grinned grimly, slashing down violently at Bablushka:

"Descending Starry Abyss, annihilate the Society!"

"This is the meaning of our path, ascending into divinity!"

"You fat pig, let this Minister of Education properly teach you what morality and law truly mean!"