novelraw Chapter 305-2: Nightmare of the Corrupting Blood Sun (2)
Chapter 305-2: Nightmare of the Corrupting Blood Sun (2)
[Defender of the Golden Blazing Sun, Titan Giant Dan, finally seems to have vented his anger. Before the behemoth can repair its injuries, he suddenly rips off the behemoth’s thick tail.]
[Dan straddles the behemoth’s massive body and pounds its head with fist after fist until it is pulp and splinters.]
[Corrupting Blood Sun’s Watcher, Behemoth Progenitor Barton, has died.]
[Titan Giant Dan stands. Beside him lie two colossal corpses, their deaths miserable, bodies in tatters, blood enough to form rivers.]
[He looks at his only remaining foe, the tiny human strolling by the end of the mage ranks, Corrupting Blood Sun’s Judge, King’s Sword Itan.]
[Sensing the giant’s gaze, the demigod human stops, looks up at the sky-piercing giant. From beneath the scarlet armor comes a hoarse voice.]
[‘Dan, give up.’]
[‘You will inevitably return to the Lord’s embrace. Saint Rance is the Lord’s sheepfold. Why struggle pointlessly.’]
[Dan’s eyes fill with fury again. He roars loudly. ‘The Lord is no longer the Lord of old.’]
[‘As Solar Heroes we should purify the Lord’s corruption, not sink together with the Blazing Sun.’][King’s Sword Itan shakes his head in disappointment. ‘Dan, your faith has wavered. No matter what the Lord looks like, Solar Heroes must swear to follow to the death.’]
[‘Even if the Lord sinks to the bottomless abyss, we must also plunge into the darkness and follow close behind.’]
[‘Damned blind loyalty.’]
[Dan shouts. ‘Itan, since neither can convince the other, then let us fight.’]
[With that, the last defender strides forward, charging the tiny human demigod.]
[A sigh comes from beneath the scarlet heavy armor. ‘Humans are the Lord’s most faithful children. I had hoped that since the titan giant lineage has blood close to humanity, I could keep a comrade.’]
[‘It seems now that giants are ultimately not human.’]
[King’s Sword Itan suddenly points his sword at the giant again.]
[This time he, no, He, says nothing. His body turns into a blood-colored meteor and, with unmatched force, pierces the giant’s chest in an instant.]
[Blood sprays. Only then comes the sonic boom loud enough to shatter eardrums. The blood-colored shockwave flings countless limp figures into the air.]
[The unbreakable Absolute Barrier Seal of the Ten Directions shakes on the verge of collapse beneath this world-shaking might.]
[The phantom of the parched land shatters in the dispersing divine power. In a blur you are back in the town called Moonlight’s Hometown.]
[The giant’s vast body crashes down, flattening countless buildings.]
[Dan stares in disbelief at the tiny human and murmurs that Itan has taken the step first, becoming an eternal existence, becoming a god.]
[Where the blood-colored meteor passed through, a great hole appears in the giant’s chest. The strong beating heart grows weak.]
[From beneath the heavy armor, the scarlet gaze holds deep pity. King’s Sword Itan seems to hesitate, then finally decides.]
[‘Dan, this is your last chance.’]
[The now divine King’s Sword Itan stands atop the giant’s chest, raises the greatsword, and drives it into that weakening heart.]
[Your sight is filled with endless blood light.]
[When the blood light fades, King’s Sword Itan is gone.]
[Dan shuts his eyes. The heart skewered by the blood-colored greatsword thunders once more.]
[The giant’s body slowly sinks into the ground, as if the land of Saint Rance had become a deep abyssal sea.]
[Defender of the Golden Blazing Sun, Titan Giant Dan, falls into the deep sea until he reaches the deepest part of the abyssal seabed.]
[You look around. Saint Rance has become a wasteland. Only a handful of buildings remain standing.]
[Everywhere the eye falls is sunlight as scarlet as blood.]
[You look up. At some point the Golden Blazing Sun in the sky became the Corrupting Blood Sun. The blood sun shines upon the land called Moonlight’s Hometown.]
[Shrill wails echo without end. The soldiers, knights, and even the bishop who once fought by your side all mutate and go mad beneath the scarlet sunlight, sinking into monsters.]
[A thick sense of helpless despair fills your soul.]
[Your vision shakes violently. Everything becomes a spinning vortex filled with madly strange colors.]
[Your sight goes dark. You fall into boundless darkness.]
[…]
[You open your eyes. Scorching golden warm sunlight pours down.]
[You look around. A breeze brushes your face. The leaves of the forest rustle. Your nose is filled with the fragrance of grass and soil.]
[You raise your head. Slightly dazzling golden sunlight falls. It shines on your powerful wandering soul and outlines rings of resplendent seven-colored halos.]
[You notice a corpse seems to be lying under the shade of a tree not far away.]
[…]
Lin Xun clenched his fists and ground his teeth.
“Dan.”
“We lost. It is impossible to win.”
In the item bar, Dan the Giant’s Blazing Sun Ring was filled with scarlet light, even more so than last time.
He clicked the item to awaken the giant sunk in dreams, the last defender trapped in endless cycles of defeat, Dan.
[Dan the Giant’s Blazing Sun Ring shines with scarlet like the Blood Sun.]
[In a blur, the scene again becomes a spinning vortex filled with madly strange colors.]
[Your sight goes dark. You fall into boundless darkness.]
[…]
[A powerful wandering soul is reborn at the peak of the Peak of the Fading Afterglow.]
[You open your eyes and behold endless blood-colored sunlight.]
[In the vast land stands a solitary mountain.]
[You awaken in soul form at the mountain’s peak. Before you is a sky-piercing giant, eyes shut and knees hugged.]
[The giant’s body is so immense that you feel like a tiny ant.]
[Dan radiates scarlet sunlight like a descending Corrupting Blood Sun.]
[You possess the Shell Corrupted Earth Giant.]
[You take out the ring that once shone with golden hue but is now wholly blood-red.]
[Dan the Giant’s Blazing Sun Ring makes the scarlet aura at the summit grow denser.]
[Dan seems to sense something. His eyelids tremble and slowly open.]
[His vast eyes are filled with large swathes of scarlet. The noonday sunlike radiance is on the verge of fading.]
[Dan starts at the sight of you, then speaks. Oath bearer, thank you for your aid. Regrettably, he could not win the final battle.]
[The greatsword Itan drove into his heart is not only the source that sustains his life. It is also the seed of the Blood Sun’s corruption.]
[He sunk into dreams, seeking to use the power of dreams to overcome the Blood Sun’s erosion. But the truth proves he was wrong, utterly wrong.]
[Even in dreams, he still could not defeat Itan and save Saint Rance.]
[Repeated failure keeps him walking the brink of corruption. Now he can no longer hold on.]
[The Defender of the Blazing Sun will also fall…How ridiculous!]
[Oath bearer, please grant his final plea…]
[You look up at the former Solar Hero brimming with divine power, the Titan Giant who once never lost a battle.]
[Now his eyes are filled with blood tears.]
[Oath bearer, as the last defender of the Blazing Sun, please live on for him until the brilliance of the Blazing Sun returns to the world and shines upon the earth.]
[The giant suddenly stands. His sky-piercing figure seems as tall as the vault of heaven.]
[He thrusts his right hand into his chest. Blood surges like a waterfall.]
[Dan roars and yanks out a strong heart wreathed in bloody light.]
[Relief and release show in his eyes.]
[A blood-colored greatsword is still lodged in that heart. Flesh and blood grown from the heart is fused to the sword as one.]
[Dan summons the last of his strength and pulls out the blood-colored greatsword.]
[He collapses weakly to his knees. The blood-colored greatsword falls at your feet. The scarlet glow in Dan’s eyes gradually fades as golden Blazing Sun light fills them again.]
[But that golden light grows ever weaker, like a candle in the wind about to gutter out.]
[He murmurs, ‘Oath bearer, you must live on. Oath bearer.’]
[You have gained the Oath Title – Defender of the Golden Blazing Sun.]
[You have gained Scarlet King’s Sword (Mythic+ weapon).]
[Having lost the blood-colored greatsword that sustained his life, Dan’s body withers rapidly and finally disperses into countless scarlet motes on the wind.]
[The Blood Sunset hanging over the peak of the Peak of the Fading Afterglow finally falls. Those points of light seem to chant the last elegy of the defender.]
[Oath Quest Last Defender ends.]
[Endpoint Event Golden Blazing Sun’s Nightmare concludes.]
[You are being teleported to the Library.]
[…]
[…]
[Teleportation successful.]
[A powerful wandering soul awakens in the Library.]
Lin Xun understood that the Oath Quest Last Defender had not ended.
He himself was the last Defender of the Golden Blazing Sun.
The Final Event Golden Blazing Sun’s Nightmare had not ended either.
He would become the Corrupting Blood Sun’s final nightmare.
[T/N: That final line is hype as hell, nice ending to a fun mini-arc.]