Gun of Ashes

Selyu rarely lost her composure, her voice rising.

Damn, Watson’s words were leading the topic in a worse direction. Ever since Selyu met this guy, she felt this big man had a hint of femininity, even when the Black Angel descended, it was the same.

Selyu trusted her intuition as a woman, but the way she looked at Lorenzo became more complicated, she was contemplating whether to say some words of blessing.

”It won’t be targeting us, what do you mean?”

Lorenzo finally spoke up, interrupting these strange and whimsical thoughts.

In the brief moment Selyu was daydreaming, Lorenzo had injected himself with a few more doses of Florun Potion, accelerating his recovery. His state wasn’t very good, the excessive burden caused him immense pain, but fortunately, it had eased a lot now.

”We are not its opponent, indeed that’s the case.”

Watson replied, and Selyu kept silent. She could differentiate between urgency and importance, despite Lorenzo’s peculiar inclinations, the most crucial thing now was how to leave safely.

”You should have noticed, Lorenzo, the Watchers have become significantly stronger than before, not to mention that guy named Adren Levien.”

Upon hearing this name, Lorenzo recalled the letter Watson mailed him.

”Did you encounter him before?”

”Yes, I almost died,” Watson said, remembering something, ”but another guy may have already died at his hands.”

”Who?”

”The new Pope, Sainy Loter. I briefly teamed up with him to explore the [Truth].”

Hearing this, Lorenzo widened his eyes in disbelief, only able to say slowly.

”What a... strange adventure, when you have time, you should tell me all about it.”

”Yes, naturally, as for now, general to general, king to king, Adren Levien’s awakening is not for us.” Watson said.

”He’s for another person, another crisis that needs his awakening to resolve.

He won’t continue to pursue us now...”

Watson felt the surrounding waves of erosion, like invisible air currents surging and gathering, poised to strike.

Looking to the distant end, Watson recalled the one who appeared in the storm, pointing her direction.

”Because he has arrived.”

...

Amidst the corpses and blood, the Pioneer stood upon countless Angel bodies, slowly raised his spear, making a throwing motion, muscles tense.

”Let’s continue that unfinished war, Adren Levien.”

The Pioneer whispered, closed his eyes.

The breeze gathered around him, stirring the snow dust like white petals, floating and resonating around him.

In Viking legends, Odin the God possessed a spear called Gungnir, when thrown, it shone like lightning falling to the mortal world, destined to pierce the enemy’s heart, to kill the enemies of Odin.

Rather than being a weapon, it might as well be considered predetermined fate.

But in reality, it’s not so, merely mortal misinterpretation and embellishment of the extraordinary. Odin... the Pioneer’s spear couldn’t precisely hit every target, nor could it easily pierce everything, killing anyone.

But his [Gap] could accomplish all this.

In a flash, the invisible force covered the entire sea region, kicking up a furious storm, the Pioneer was the eye of the storm.

He didn’t have a weapon like Gungnir, but accomplishing all this was simple.

As long as he was strong enough it was possible.

The Pioneer’s erosion could connect all [Gaps] within his cognitive range, no barrier could block his invasion, and no one could survive his invasion, when he attacked, all mortal [Gaps] could be easily destroyed, dead.

Just like the mythical Gungnir.

The Pioneer maintained the spear-throwing pose, the next moment power erupted, in his consciousness, he had already thrown that invisible spear, it swept across the sky, plunging into the deep sea.

Mountain-like flesh rolled and struggled, countless limbs awoke from their slumber, intertwined with one another, twisted together on the floating Horned Whale, morphing it into a monster of metal and flesh, but in the next moment the Horned Whale ceased all action.

It was struck by Gungnir.

Dark veins surfaced amidst the flesh, as if an invading toxin, the flesh lost vitality, stiffening into gray-black rock, then crumbling in pieces, becoming dense dust scattering into the sea.

This extinction collapse continued downward along the limbs, just as it was about to touch its enormous body, the limbs under attack broke one after another, halting this bizarre extinction.

The flashing white light grew increasingly intense, until finally the light cracked open...

This was a pair of tightly closed enormous eyes, the light seen was merely residual glow seeping from the eyelids gap, thousands of giant pupils rolled, finally unified in gazing in that direction, hearing vague war cries amid the blurring.