Endless Silver Machine

The next day, everyone woke up and found that Misty and Veer were missing.

There was no one in Misty's room and no luggage was left behind. The whole room seemed to have been cleaned, neat and clean.

Will probably woke up late at night when everyone was sleeping, at least after Aika and Hitomi fell asleep. Otherwise, it would be impossible for Misty to tidy up the room and then leave quietly with the unconscious Will.

It wouldn't be surprising if they were escaping to the outside world. Since they can enter the World Tree from the outside world, they must also have the means to leave the World Tree freely.

It is unknown where Misty and Will have gone, and it is impossible for everyone to give up the most important thing to find them now.

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The silver hull of the aviation magic ship "Yectrasil" appeared in the blue cloudless sky directly above the mansion. Although such ostentation might be noticed by the residents of Setia Principality's capital and cause unnecessary trouble, Aika decided to choose the fastest and most direct method.

"Yectrasil" spreads its wings and soars in the sky. No one can catch up with the highest power converted by the ancient molecular power furnace.

Outside the window is the Principality of Setia, which Wei Xi protects with all her heart, and everyone really wants to take a look at it. But that will have to wait until Wei Xi wakes up and visit together. For her, this place is full of memories and nostalgia.

Tens of minutes later, "Yuktra Hill" was already far away from the bustling city.

We landed in an endless wilderness. The scenery here seems to only exist in fairy tales, full of natural and comfortable farming and pastoral style. What reached everyone's ears was the chirping of birds and the chirping of insects, all over the fields.

"This is the center of the World Tree."

Hitomi used the simplest explanation to tell everyone that they had reached their final destination, and only by getting here could it be possible to wake up the sleeping Wei Xi.

Small hills can be seen in the distance. On the hill stand huge stone monuments that reach into the clouds. They are inserted into the ground in various directions and form a huge circle. The stone monuments are connected by ropes with bells hanging on them. Even if they are far apart, they can be heard ringing in the wind. The clear ringtone echoes ethereally, like an ancient miracle holding some kind of sacrifice.

"..."

Aika's brows suddenly frowned. Just because he was holding Wei Xi in his arms, he raised his hands to press his chest, which was suddenly out of breath, without any conditioned reflex.

At this moment, it was as if a dull knife was slowly cutting open the chest, and a pair of invisible hands sank into the chest, grasped the beating heart, and slowly tightened it. The nails dug into the muscles bit by bit, squeezing out the blood drop by drop.

"I didn't expect to be here..."

"Is it Luoluo?"

Ling had seen Aika's heart-wrenching pain once before, and she immediately thought of this result.

"Well, it's definitely her..."

Aika squeezed out a sound from her dry throat, and her voice was hoarse and very uncomfortable.

Such heartbreaking pain seemed to transmit Luoluo's inner pain to Aika, and she was silently asking for help from Aika.

"She's right in front!"

Ling replaced Aika and carried Wei Xi on her back. Aika clutched his chest tightly with his hands, his nails digging into his flesh through the fabric of his clothes. He endured the heartbreaking pain hidden in the depths, and took the first step to run towards the giant stone formation in the distance.

In the center of the circular formation of huge stone tablets that stand like a giant sword that cuts through the sky, there is a bluestone pedestal covered with mottled marks. Nowadays, the green magic power pouring out from the surrounding huge stone monuments is continuously converging somewhere on the bluestone pedestal.

The woman next to the bluestone pedestal turned around. She wore a silk cheongsam embroidered with petal patterns, and her chestnut-colored curly hair was tied up high.

"You were...at that time..."

Aika and Ling recognized the seventeen or eighteen year old woman in front of them. When they returned to the timeline a year ago with the help of Mentor Tara's magical costume in August, this woman once rescued them from the Imperial Knights who had joined forces and were unable to defeat them.

Except for the difference in the pattern of the cheongsam, the woman in front of them was indeed the same as the woman they had rescued in the past.

"Licia Caru...why are you here?"

Behind Aika and Ling, who didn't know what question to ask first, Liuyin called out the woman's name without thinking.

He was given the surname "Kalu". If I remember correctly, Tutor Tara, who holds the magical "Book of Omniscient", is also from the "Kalu" family of Fu, but Tutor Tara has never mentioned that she has other brothers and sisters.

"You guys are late."

"Could it be that you are from the Nemesis Society..."

"Vell and Misty should be considered my subordinates, at least until yesterday. I don't know where they have gone now. They may have severed ties with the Nemesis Society."

Because they had only met once in the past that reappeared, neither Aika nor Ling expected to meet this unknown woman again in this world, and that she would also be related to the Nemesis Society.

Whether he is from the "Kalu" family with the surname Fu, or he is the boss of Will and Misty, these identities are completely meaningless to Aika. There was only one question he wanted to ask.

"Where is Luoluo?"

"Miss Luoluo's words..."

Lilicia held her hands and walked away from the bluestone platform with a smile, showing the full view of the bluestone platform behind her in front of Aika and the others.

Luo Luo, who was only wearing a white dress, was like a sacrificial offering. He held his hands in front of his chest and lay flat on the bluestone platform behind Lilicia. The magic power of the giant stone tablet is not concentrated in the bluestone platform. The bluestone platform is just an ordinary inorganic object. The magic power of the World Tree that supports the entire world flows into Luoluo's slender body.

Even though it contained a huge amount of magic power that ordinary people could never bear, Luo Luo, who closed his eyes lightly and seemed to be asleep, did not show a trace of pain. The slender body is like a calm sea, absorbing all the green magic power of the World Tree into itself.

"What did you do to her!"

Holding back the pain that became more and more intense, as if his chest was being torn apart, Aika summoned the silver guns, raised the muzzles of the guns without any hesitation, and pulled the trigger.

However, the ground at the foot of the giant stone monument suddenly began to shake, as if thousands of huge beasts were moving deep underground.

The magic bullet fired from Aika's gun suddenly lost its accuracy and was sucked into the green torrent of magic.

The flat plains rose high, and invisible forces tore the land apart, forming criss-crossing bottomless abyss.

The circular array of giant stone monuments that gathered the magic power of the World Tree rolled up a green tornado, like a violent elf or a giant dragon falling from the sky. The violent updraft caused the space to distort.

"Thankfully Komachi brought Miss Luoluo back. With her, we can activate the magic of the World Tree in an incomplete state."

The interior of the World Tree began to collapse, as if indicating that a major change was about to begin.

Lilicia's beautiful voice was not shaken by the sudden change of scenery, and the script she wrote herself was about to reach its climax.

"This is... the final stage for this world to shine."

The violent green tornado swallowed Lilicia and Luoluo in the center of the giant stone monument, and their figures disappeared together with the bluestone platform.

The violent tornado formed by the convergence of magic power took away Lilicia and Lolo, but the momentum still did not weaken, and the collapse within the World Tree accelerated.

"Aika, look to the sky!"

Aika raised her head at Ling's reminder, and only then did she notice the most intuitive change in the sky.

Like a storyboard between two worlds, the sky gradually takes on two different colors. On one side is the collapsing sky with lightning and thunder inside the World Tree, and on the other side is the scarlet sky shrouded in bloody clouds.

The sky filled with scarlet may be the sky in the outside world. The great barrier of the World Tree disappeared, the two worlds lost their boundaries, and different worlds began to collide.

It wasn't just the inside of the World Tree that began to collapse. The foundation of the world was shaken, and the entire world began to undergo earth-shaking changes.

The magical tornado that swept through the giant stone circle caused the atmosphere to vibrate, sounding like a continuous wail.

"The monument is going to disappear..."

The huge stone monument towering in the clouds was ground by wind pressure from the top, turning into pitch black sand and being swept into the center of the tornado that compressed the atmosphere. The pale green magic gradually dyed it into a pitch black color similar to the black sand and stone.

The figure of light answered everyone's side silently. She was originally planning to hand over the ritual of awakening Wei Xi to Hitomi, the incarnation of the World Tree, and she would only silently guard Ling in her spiritual world, but the current situation no longer allowed for such leisurely relaxation.

"The center of the World Tree has begun to collapse. If we don't wake up Wei Xi before she completely collapses, there will be no chance."

"Hitomi!"

The silver-white twin guns in his hands returned to the form of a kimono girl. Seeing that Hitomi, who was the incarnation of the World Tree, was still safe when the center collapsed, Aika felt a little relieved.

Although Hitomi is equivalent to the consciousness separated from the World Tree itself, just like Wei Xi's phantom in the ruins relative to Wei Xi herself, Hitomi also said that the World Tree is the World Tree and she is her, and the two are independent existences.

"How to wake up Wei Xi now? Do you know what to do?"

Aika was originally prepared to study patiently, but the ruthless fact did not even leave them time to breathe.

Just as Guang said, this is the last chance to awaken Wei Xi, and we must not lose it! Aika asked Hitomi in an unusually urgent tone.

"We need to make Snow Tide Ji resonate with the magic power of World Tree, but now the magic power of World Tree is losing very quickly..."

Even Hitomi's tone revealed a hint of helplessness.

"Let's try it together with Hitomi," Guang stood up. "Although I use myself to slow down the collapse of the World Tree, that is only the last resort. Now let's use Hitomi and I's spiritual world to accommodate the World Tree. A container of magic power."

Hikaru said and looked at Hitomi. Hitomi also looked back at her, without any other expression, but this was Hitomi's expression that she had no objection to Guang's suggestion of cooperation.

Hitomi and Hikaru simultaneously developed two realms. Under the gentle spring breeze, the cherry blossom trees took root in an oasis surrounded by sparkling lakes. Among the oasis covered with petals, there is a pavilion paved with vermilion glazed tiles.

The two realms that blended with each other instantly dispelled the magic tornado in the real world, and the collapse of the monolith was frozen in the last moment.

When Aika first met Hitomi, it was in such a beautiful scene that overlapped with the real world.

"Master, this way."

"Recall the feeling when you and Xue Chao Shiji made a contract."

Aika hugged Wei Xi, walked onto the curved bridge connecting the lakeshore and the oasis, walked into the small and exquisite pavilion, and sat down with Wei Xi's body leaning against the pavilion.

Recalling the feeling when the contract was signed, it was the warm current that connected the bodies and minds of Aika and Wei Xi.

The flying cherry blossom petals outside the pavilion fell on the tips of Wei Xi's pure white hair, but she was still asleep without knowing it. Aika lovingly picked off the petal, held it between her fingers, then held her shoulders and faced herself.

"Get up, Wei Xi."

Recalling every bit of Wei Xi's life, her mind was completely occupied by the pure white elf. Aika leaned down and kissed her soft lips.

The pure white magic power swept by the wind wrapped up the small and exquisite pavilion, reconnecting the two people's contract and turning it into a warm current that melted the body and mind, flowing through Aika's body.

The prince gave a passionate kiss, and the sleeping princess slowly opened her sleepy eyes surrounded by pure white light.

The hazy eyes told Aika that she didn't seem to understand what was happening, but she was more active in asking for a kiss from Aika. But when her little hand touched Aika's chest, her eyes widened as if she had discovered something, and the flush on her cheeks was particularly obvious in the pure white light.

She suddenly pushed Aika away with both hands, her breathing became very rapid, and her moist lips that had just tasted the prince's kiss trembled weakly.

"Brother Aika! Hey... no, isn't it a dream?!"

Ignoring Wei Xi's pushing and rubbing, Aika forcefully hugged her petite body tightly again. This made Wei Xi, who had not yet understood the situation, shrink into Aika's arms and remain motionless in confusion.

"I hope this is definitely not a dream..." Aika's warm embrace conveyed the message that this was reality to Wei Xi, "Wei Xi, you are finally back."

He was attacked by Weir on the frontline battlefield of the Tebiri Kingdom. When he was about to die, he took the initiative to terminate the contract with Aika and froze his own life. In this fairyland-like scenery, the time that Wei Xi had interrupted began to flow again.

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