Chapter 898: The Supreme Pinnacle Also Does Not Wish to Welcome the End of the Road Ahead

On this perfectly straight road, Heinz stood in place, watching Ye Qiyan rapidly close in.

The malice surging from the Ring of Evil made him instinctively want to take a step back.

But the conviction within his heart steadied his footing, and in that moment, he walked forward to meet Ye Qiyan, toward the road ahead that he had envisioned.

He did not acknowledge that his path had been denied, nor did he acknowledge that he would fail.

This conviction was by no means false.

"Is it so hard to understand?"

The moonlight in Ye Qiyan's hand grew ever brighter.

The Ring of Evil's speed grew faster and faster as well.

"True Gods are also advancing. The supreme pinnacle also does not wish to welcome the end of the road ahead. Mayor Heinz, you chose to move forward. There is nothing wrong with that. But you just had to set an end point on this road.

So..."

The bone-chilling moonlight had at some point come to hang bright in the high heavens.

Throughout all of Utopia City, living beings raised their heads, gazing up at the moon in the sky.

The black-haired young man's eyes were filled with ice-cold resolve.

"You cannot win."

The moon, fell.

[Realm of No Self × Drawing Slash Technique]

[Full Moon]

Heinz was frozen in place. He could sense the moon. He clearly had the ability to dodge. Clearly, as a mere clone, he should have done his best to survive. But...

He suddenly no longer wanted to dodge.

He wanted to carry this memory back to his true body in the pit-world.

"...I see... so that's how it is..."

Heinz's clone gradually dispersed.

"Your Desire... is far more vast... than I imagined..."

He looked with regret at the boys and girls around him, all but dead or injured.

"Mr. Altos, though you and I are enemies, I will also thank you for your answers. But..."

"I need the War Card, and I also need to fulfill my original promise as a Homeward-bound Soul."

"Fan Huo, I will not let him go. And that stone, the moment you arrived here, I also intend to claim!"

"Just as I have blocked your path, you, too, stand as my opposition."

"Let me look forward to it, then. Let us see, in this execution, just who the winner is!"

Heinz's clone vanished.

Those Train Conductors and Painful Human Forms that had gone to besiege Achuan also received orders at the same moment to cease attacking and begin retreating.

The rain, ultimately, would stop.

That rift on the first floor of the City Government building disappeared without a trace.

As if it had never appeared at all.

The people of Utopia City still wore those happy smiles as they walked the streets, wishing one another well.

Everything had remained unchanged.

Achuan flew over from the sky.

By now, he had already withdrawn from his combat state.

From the unhealable wounds on his body, it was not hard to tell that in merely less than a quarter-hour of bait combat, even he had been beaten into a rather wretched state.

Utopia City, as one of the original twelve cities, possessed a foundation that was by no means something Achuan alone could rival.

"Huff... huff... Ye... Altos, did you find Senior Fan Huo? And, you weren't hurt just now, were you?"

Achuan was a good person.

At least, when facing acquaintances, he could display genuine kindness.

Ye Qiyan shook his head and withdrew the Ring of Evil behind him.

"The Mayor Heinz from just now was only a clone. It didn't possess much combat power. I wasn't hurt. Thank you for your concern, Senior Achuan.

However, I also didn't find Senior Fan Huo. He isn't in the City Government. Perhaps... he isn't in this city at all."

Achuan let out a deep sigh.

His originally timid demeanor now became even more forlorn.

But he suddenly remembered his identity as a senior again.

He worked very hard to puff out his chest and gave a pat.

"It's, it's fine. Big Sister Zhu Xingshu said that if Senior Fan Huo can hold on for ten days, then he definitely can last until the tenth day. When the time comes, we'll just go rescue him then."

Ye Qiyan raised an eyebrow and asked a question he had always been quite curious about.

"You really seem to trust Zhu Xingshu."

Achuan scratched his head and gave a chuckle.

"Because I think, since we're all in the same organization, we should trust each other. Hehe."

Achuan was also a strange person.

Even within the Emperor's Order, a group of strange people, he belonged to a rather peculiar category.

And his peculiarity was not madness or anything of the sort, but this trust.

Ye Qiyan opened his mouth, but in the end, merely said with a smile:

"Indeed. Between people, there should be a bit more trust."

Achuan seemed very happy. He poked the ghost on his shoulder and said with a grin:

"See that, ghost? I knew Ye... Altos was a kind person."

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Crying Abyss Pit · The Agonizing Abandoned Hole.

Heinz opened his eyes.

Brand new memories appeared in his mind.

"Heh heh... What a proud man, Altos. It seems the profiler's attempts at targeting the spirit had no effect.

Ordinary Numbered Weapons are just as useless.

Those things from the False Gods, I knew they couldn't be trusted.

The supreme pinnacle also does not wish to welcome the end of the road ahead, is that it?

I see.

Thank you, Altos. Because of you, I have seen that road, that road broader still, with no end in sight.

But I will not change.

What I will become is the end point of everything. I will end the strife. I will end all the suffering in the Wasteland.

I, will become [Happiness]."

Heinz closed his eyes once more.

He endured the pain that was the opposite of happiness.

Utopia City had once rarely been open to outsiders.

The flow of time in this city, when no outsiders were present, had never been parallel to the Wasteland's.

The happy people of Utopia City had discarded their pain.

And the discarded pain would endlessly converge here in a continuous torrent, ceaselessly washing over his body.

Heinz.

What this Homeward-bound Soul's heart truly desired was no longer a simple return to his homeland.

"And... five more days. When I have endured the pain of War, and have denied War, the eternal Utopia will descend..."

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Utopia City.

At this moment.

In a hotel room.

Mo Shi wore a set of little bear pajamas, two floating shadow hands forming something like glasses before her eyes.

She opened her eyes and looked with a smile toward Shen Yuan, who was nearby happily eating cream cake, getting cream all over her face.

"Ye Qiyan is in this city right now."

Upon hearing Ye Qiyan's name, the expression on Shen Yuan's face became even happier.

"Really?! Yay! I've gotten a lot stronger as a Train Conductor, you know. Maybe he can't beat me anymore! So where is he? I really want to see him, and turn him into my figurine!"

"You can't even beat me, so don't go embarrassing yourself. But... I'm quite curious about how he is now too~ Mm, anyway, there are only five days left. When the time comes, we'll go take a look together."

Having said this, Mo Shi paused.

"Speaking of which, I keep feeling like there are some special existences in this city too~"

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In a certain ordinary room.

A woman with short black hair, like a tomboy, looked at her reflection in the mirror with dissatisfaction.

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"So troublesome. This body is absurdly weak..."

She twisted her body, yet a flicker of joy flashed through her grayish-white pupils.

"But then again, it's been a long time since I've experienced this feeling, getting stronger at a visible rate every single day.

Mm, as long as this continues.

I'll soon surpass Ye Qiyan and make him my Apostle.

Speaking of which, that moon just now really did resemble the strike Ye Qiyan cut into my body."