novelonline Chapter 3630 Melting Heart
Chapter 3630 Melting Heart
Chapter 3630 Melting Heart
The real falling star beast appeared from the starry sky diagonally above Shad. With a not-so-dull thud, the horn of the "rhinoceros," shimmering with starlight, collided with the longsword Shad had hastily raised. The starry sky trembled at that moment, and Shad didn't even have a chance to steady himself before being sent flying backward.
His power surpasses that of humans and dragons, but the power of a falling star is still beyond his current capabilities.
Many people witnessed Xia De being knocked away, but because they were worried that rushing to catch Xia De would violate the restriction that "only three people can fight the Falling Star Beast," Xia De flew nearly 500 meters away before landing heavily on the shallow water.
Before he sprang back up, he scattered into scarlet butterflies to avoid the beam of light shooting from the ringed beast's horn, and then the butterflies flew back toward the huge beast.
Mr. Mortis and Stella did not retreat from the ring beast's side.
After knocking Shad away and realizing that ranged attacks could not hit him, the beast bypassed the phantom-like Mr. Mortis, but the spikes on its tail pierced him precisely.
Knowing that the thorn would hit him behind the curtain, the "clown" immediately threw out a ball. With a bang, the ball exploded into smoke, and he disappeared into the smoke.
With a still-light sound, the tail spike pierced the ground, and the rapidly charging Falling Star Beast used the force of its tail to stop its advance. After its limbs were airborne, it swung its tail, which was still embedded in the ground, and made its body spin lightly in the air, just like its body and feathers, which were weightless.
But this time, when its limbs landed again, the ground around it trembled violently. Amidst the ripples on the water's surface, six round clumps of mud floated up from around it. These clumps were all roughly two meters in diameter, and as they flew into the air, they took on the colors of the starry sky before crashing down on Stella like meteors.
The snowflakes around the white-haired girl fluttered faster as she deciphered all the possible trajectories of the six "meteorites" as they fell, and then realized that there was no way she could escape on her own.
Thinking of her inaction so far, and of the help she had received from her teacher and Xia De all along, she stopped running away this time and raised her hands to cast a spell with the help of the life ring behind her.
Complete hand gestures and complete incantations signify the most complete execution of magical arts. Those beautiful memories flowed through her heart. She closed her eyes and stopped looking at the danger in front of her, instead imagining that she had summoned the blazing sun to her.
The image of the sun in her mind was initially a "fireball" in the sky, then it transformed into her teacher who cared for her like a sister and mother, and Shad, who was warm to everyone and everything yet also had a stern side. But in the end, before those meteorites fell, the image of the sun inexplicably changed in her mind to Shad's cat.
"Thumbs—"
This was a power she had not yet fully mastered, a power of the sun that she could not yet bear. But having witnessed Emilia's extraordinary spell to reverse the time of the Infinite Serpent while possessing a serpent's molt, she now firmly believed in her heart that her fate would not end here—it was this belief that allowed her to reach the end of the "Winter Patrol Ritual" on the icy plains of the far north.
At this moment, she seemed to have returned to those days:
"Eternal Blazing Sun!"
This is a standard thirteenth-ring magic technique. Claire used it once when facing the "Bloodthirsty One," instantly evaporating a massive sea of blood.
In Stella's hand, a ball of fire appeared above her head and quickly headed towards the six falling meteors. As it flew backward, the fire rapidly grew larger until, upon contact with the meteors, it resembled the sun being struck by stars.
Boom!
With a slight thud, Stella, who had exhausted most of her spirit, was thrown back by the aftershocks of the explosion. Flames splattered in all directions from the center of the explosion, even affecting those around her who were fighting against the echoing souls.
Stella rolled a couple of times in the shallow water before stopping. She lifted her weak body and looked at where the smoke and dust had dissipated. The meteorites had indeed disappeared, but the Fallen Star Beast was striding towards her with its head down.
"How was I rescued when I got lost in the snowstorm?"
She asked herself the question in her heart, and the memory that had become blurred when she was driven away by the tribe suddenly became incredibly clear.
The white-haired girl walking on the ice sheet collapsed, then silently prayed for a miracle, begging someone to save her, even at the cost of everything. Later, she inexplicably discovered a sealed sacred relic.
She was just as weak and powerless as she had been when she was an ordinary person, but this time she did not pray anymore. Instead, she calmly waited for fate to come. Stella Larson had come to understand that miracles come at a price.
And then the crimson butterflies finally arrived before her. Amidst the fluttering red butterflies, Xia De stood before her, saying nothing, simply tossing his coat to her.
"Use the snow mountain water and angelic elixir to recover, rest for a while and don't cast spells for now."
He wanted to give Stella an excuse to leave temporarily, while also thinking that Stella's departure would give Emilia an opportunity to throw out the spear.
Then, he looked at the monster charging towards him:
"When you were little, I couldn't grow up. Now that you've grown up, why can't I grow up too?"
He leaped into the air and transformed into a silver wolf. Then, the dragon-sized silver wolf landed with a heavy thud, biting the huge moonlight greatsword and charging straight toward the Fallen Star Beast.
Like starlight colliding with moonlight, the frequency of their limbs striking the ground perfectly overlapped at that moment. Stella gazed at the figure of the giant silver wolf, feeling a strange warmth flowing through her heart. The chill that had lingered in her chest for years seemed to dissipate under this warmth.
"It turns out that what saved me wasn't just a miracle, but also..."
She looked down at the clothes she was holding, then put her hand into her pocket.
Above the Fallen Star Beast, Mr. Mortis, who had just disappeared, suddenly descended from the sky, pulling a red balloon. He flung out a handkerchief, which spun and grew larger in the air before landing on the sharp horn atop the Fallen Star Beast's head, causing the horn to vanish.
This didn't actually sever the sharp point; it merely rendered it temporarily "non-existent." Mr. Mortis, who used this power, clearly paid a price: the balloon he was holding exploded with a bang, and he himself fell to the ground.
But no one paid attention to him at the moment, because the black, hornless "rhinoceros" had already collided head-on with the silver giant wolf.
"Miraculous Technique - Black Moon Symbol!"
In the final moments before the collision, the jet-black Black Moon Mark appeared on the giant wolf's forehead, and at that moment, the destructive power completely touched the Fallen Star Beast's head.
The collision of these two enormous beasts did not produce a heavy sound under the starry sky, but those who witnessed the scene saw mud splashing everywhere from the water's surface, and the two giant beasts being thrown to the left and right.
The giant wolf coughed up silver blood in mid-air and finally collapsed to the ground, while the Falling Star Beast did not fall, but the Black Moon Mark was completely imprinted on its forehead.
Click!
The sound was the clearest it had ever heard in this strange space, and cracks appeared in the ringed beast's head. As the single horn returned, a third of its head shattered into powder like glass.
A portion of the stars was completely obliterated by the black moon.
But that wasn't the end of it. The fallen giant wolf had already rolled over and gotten up, throwing the greatsword in its mouth upwards, where it was caught by the giant Shad's right hand.
His face looked quite pale, but that didn't stop him from slashing at the equally injured Falling Star Beast with his sword.
The moonlit phantoms surrounding the greatsword seemed to twist space itself, the blade colliding precisely with the opponent's horn. At that moment, the stars twinkled, and the entire space trembled, for Shad's greatsword had sliced off a third of the horn.
"The stars are not invincible."
Of course, all of this came at the cost of Shad's injury and spiritual depletion.
"hold head high!"
Shad was about to attack again, but the beast's sudden roar created a tremendous force that pushed him backward. The greatsword continued to slash at the Falling Star Beast, but missed its target, as its body collapsed inward into a swirling, deep purple vortex before disappearing into the starry sky.
"Where did you go?"
Shad temporarily withdrew from his giant form, panting heavily and giving himself some time to recover. But the Fallen Star Beast certainly wasn't running away; Mr. Mortis, his voice weak, struggled to his feet and looked upwards:
"It's up there."
Looking up, the stars still twinkled against the deep night sky. And in this magnificent scene, a crimson light appeared from the highest point of the night, and Shad, looking up, immediately realized what it was:
"The fallen star wants to fall again!"
Although the crimson color seen at this moment is still very small, the gravitational pull of the falling star has already caused violent ripples in the shallow water on the ground. The impact of this attack covers the entire world; it aims to restore its original form from the ancient era through this strike.
There's no need to hide, because as long as you don't leave this world, hiding in any corner won't help.
Although he claimed he would "shatter the stars," Shad knew he couldn't withstand the attack. He turned to look in Emilia's direction, and the elf girl happened to be looking at him at that moment.
So Emilia stopped holding the silver spear in her hand. She was about to urge Ellie to fly into the starry sky, but then she was surprised to point it at Shad's back.
At that moment, Shad also sensed something was wrong, because snowflakes were falling around him. Turning his head to look back, he saw Stella had already tossed aside the freshly sealed bottle of essence. After taking a small sip of the essence, the warm current that had been surging in her heart became even more pronounced, even somewhat excessively intense.
The suffocating chill in her chest melted away with the intense warmth, and the "Frozen Punishment Mark" temporarily became her true power:
"This time, I want to protect myself and everyone else with my own strength."
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