The Gepard seen previously walked down the street, flanked by soldiers holding weapons and standing at attention.]
["I am Gepard Landau, the garrison officer of the Silvermane Guards in Belobog."]
[The camera shifted from Gepard's back to his front, revealing a heroic and handsome young man.]
["Serving the Supreme Guardian is my honor, and also my responsibility."]
[At the end of the procession stood a young girl with spiral curls, the same girl whose back was only shown in the previous video.]
[This time, her face was still not seen.]
Even so, it still caught the attention of quite a few people.
Being able to appear in several videos, she must play a pivotal role.
Could the "Supreme Guardian" in Gepard's words be her?
[Lei Wujie: Isn't their city called something like number six? How did it become Belobog again?]
[Gojo Satoru: Jarilo-VI is the name of their planet, and Belobog is the name of the city where they live.]
[Rimuru: It should be just as the young man above said.]
Gepard's self-introduction made many mothers in The Youngster World tell their daughters of marriageable age, "A man who is as upright as this, especially one who works for the government, is worth marrying."
Upon hearing this, the young maidens blushed deeply, covering their burning cheeks as they shyly looked at the firmament screen.
However, thinking that such a man was rare in this world, endless disappointment welled up in their hearts.
Furthermore, a man like this looked quite old already, so he should probably be married by now.
"So Gepard is actually a civil servant. My respects, my respects." Jiuyue blinked playfully.
"He should be a soldier instead," Xingtian corrected.
Jiuyue laughed and said, "That's true."
"Gepard looks like a man with a very strong sense of conviction." Zhang Chulan twisted his waist, wriggling around like a monkey.
"What are you doing?" Zhuge Qing asked, puzzled.
"Old Qing, I'm getting old. I'm not like you young folks; sitting for too long makes my whole body uncomfortable. Don't I need to get up and loosen up my bones and muscles?" Zhang Chulan talked nonsense with a straight face.
Wang Ye and Zhuge Qing's mouths twitched.
"Gepard won't fall into darkness in the end, right?"
Upon hearing this, everyone looked over at Zenin Maki.
"Senior, why would you think that?" Itadori Yuji asked curiously.
"This Gepard looks just like an orthodox character at first glance. Isn't it popular nowadays for orthodox characters to fall and become the ultimate villains?" Zenin Maki said, "Maybe the ultimate mastermind behind the scenes is Gepard after all."
Panda wore a complicated expression: "Maki, you really are dark."
Inumaki Toge: "Salmon."
The others also nodded instinctively.
Zenin Maki clenched her fists: "You're asking for death!"
"Garrison generally refers to defense and protection, commonly used to describe military defense missions..." Ye Fan tapped his fingers on the table, "Gepard is a garrison officer, what is he defending against?"
"Could it be the monsters that appeared in the video?" Zuo Qing thought of those monsters.
"It's possible."
[Gepard walked up the stone steps.]
["Belobog is the last bastion of this planet."]
[Gepard arrived at the administrative hall.]
["And the Silvermane Guards are Belobog's indestructible defense line!"]
[The pattern symbolizing ice appeared, along with Gepard's introduction: Gepard Landau, Silvermane Guards' garrison officer.]
[Kumoko: Just as Mr. Gojo said, Belobog is a city, and Jarilo-VI is a planet.]
[Mouri Ran: The last bastion... What happened to the city where Mr. Gepard is located?]
[Jiang Er: It can be seen that Belobog's situation is quite ominous.]
Jiang Er couldn't help thinking of their own world.
Surrounded by a pack of wolves... If it weren't for the Nightwatchers acting in the dark, I'm afraid their world would be even worse than Belobog.
Jiang Er became a bit more resolute.
She did not regret being able to become a Nightwatcher.
[Kumoko: I have to say, Gepard really has such an upright look. He must be the type girls like.]
[Zenitsu: He must be very popular with girls. Damn it, why is he in a high position and still look so good-looking!]
Zenitsu was green with envy.
"To still be able to work for such a cute girl, I'm so envious I could die."
"Zenitsu..." Tanjiro looked at him helplessly.
Inosuke was on another hospital bed, staring blankly into the void with an empty head, his attention still not on the firmament screen.
[Facing enemies, Gepard's attacks were also quite neat and full of power.]
[He wielded the instrument case forcefully, beating the enemies into a state of complete helplessness.]
[Facing even stronger enemies, Gepard remained calm.]
["Only by becoming a shield that the people can rely on can I peacefully accept the honor brought by the title of [Architects]."]
["The Supreme Guardian's trust cannot be betrayed, and the expectations of those who should be protected must not be failed."]
[Gepard punched the ground, and a huge ice shield appeared accordingly.]
[Afterwards, Gepard walked on the streets of the city.]
[The background music was a song sung by Serval, and Gepard hummed along, which was precisely Serval's song.]
[Lu Mingfei: No, bro, your weapon is an instrument case?]
[Kumoko: Weird and strange weapons have increased again.]
Zhang Chulan, Dazai Osamu, Gojo Satoru, Angers, Chrollo, and others suddenly constricted their pupils, and thought simultaneously: "The icon changed!"
No.
Fyodor bit his fingernails and slowly blinked.
It wasn't that the icon changed, but rather other icons different from the previous attribute icons.
"When Miss Himeko's second fire-type icon appeared previously, there was a similar pattern." Dazai Osamu slightly narrowed his eyes.
At the time, he thought it was just an unimportant decoration meant to look good.
Although only three patterns had appeared so far, there should be more than three...
What did patterns like this, resembling totems or symbols, represent?
Could the pattern that Gepard faced represent a shield?
Zhang Chulan crossed his hands, leaned against the back of the chair, and stared straight at the firmament screen that had already darkened.
At that time, Gepard did indeed mention a shield, and he could indeed conjure up a shield...
"That world is far more complex than we imagined," Angers said faintly.
Those different powers might not be that simple.
Before understanding the concept of Aeons, they truly couldn't guess the meaning represented by the new pattern.
While the smart people racked their brains thinking, others were chatting endlessly in the group chat.
[Kumoko: But Gepard is a shielder, huh? With one healer and one shielder, I ask you how one is supposed to die?]
[Rimuru: There are really a lot of ice-types.]
[Sakura: Big Brother Gepard is humming Big Sister Serval's song, eh? I saw the two interacting before too, are they very close?]
[Fors: Maybe they're a couple~]
[Fors: One uses a guitar as a weapon, the other uses an instrument case as a weapon. Aren't these matching sets?]
Seeing Fors's message, Klein was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself that she really knew how to join in the fun.
Seeing Fors's message, Xiu quickly looked at her: "Why did you speak up? What if there's danger?"
Fors smiled embarrassedly: "I couldn't help it. Besides, other people have been speaking for so long without encountering any danger, so the chat group should be safe."
"Can our world be the same as theirs?!" Xiu said angrily.
Fors leaned against her, "Don't worry, even if we encounter contamination, we can just ask Mr. Fool for help."
Thinking that made sense, Xiu shut her mouth.
[Tohsaka Rin: A couple... that's actually possible.]
After all, the familiarity and intimacy between the two were extraordinary.
[Jiuyue: They are older brother and younger sister, or older sister and younger brother.]
[Sakura: Eh? How does Sister Jiuyue know?]
[Kumoko: Now that you mention it, the two of them do look quite alike.]
[Jiuyue: Physiognomy.]
Jiuyue made up a random reason.
Demons naturally look at people differentWhen everyone had discussed enough, the sky curtain proceeded to play the next video.
[In a brightly lit city, a purple-haired girl stood on a rooftop, looking down.]
["Here they come again…"]
A group of people were chasing another person.
With a flash of her figure, the purple-haired girl disappeared without a trace.
["How dare you run wild in Wildfire's territory."]
The girl flashed consecutively, appearing directly in front of the enemies.
["You guys sure have some nerve!"]
The girl swung a black scythe.
Seele, Butterfly of Flurrying Gales.
The attribute icon is Quantum.]
[Kumoko: Such a lewd-looking big sis.]
[Rimuru: Agreed!]
[Sakura: Sister Seele's weapon is so cool~]
[Itadori Yuji: Miss Seele has a new attribute, eh?]
[Nakajima Atsushi: Indeed… What kind of attribute is this?]
Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.
They truly couldn't distinguish what attribute this pattern actually represented.
Seeming to notice this, the sky curtain changed slightly, and two words appeared on that purple icon.
[Quantum]
["Quantum attribute?"] Lu Mingfei scratched his head, still completely baffled.
["Quantum is a physical concept defined as an indivisible particle or unit of energy, though it has always been controversial. As for whether the quantum attribute on the sky curtain refers to this quantum, it's unclear."]
Lu Mingfei looked at the expressionless Chu Zihang and smiled, saying, ["Senior Brother Chu, you know so much."]
You can know it without even needing Baidu.
Caesar glanced at Chu Zihang, raised an eyebrow, and chuckled softly.
["Hmm, I just talked about so many ice types, and now a new attribute comes along."] Rimuru touched its cheek, feeling a bit slapped in the face.
Quantum… what a strange attribute.
However… Rimuru looked at Seele's belly button area, its cheeks turning bright red.
Miss Seele is indeed quite lewd…
["New map?"] Zhang Chulan pondered, ["Wildfire? Is it an organization from the new map?"]
["The weapon is a scythe, the Grim Reaper's scythe? How cool."] Xu Si sighed, then gave a roguish smile.
["Of course, the best part is Miss Seele's outfit. It would be even better if it were a sailor uniform. I hope there will be big sis wearing sailor uniforms in the future, hehe."]
Xu San pushed up his glasses and said calmly, ["Pay more attention to important intelligence."]
Xu Si shrugged and perfunctorily agreed.
Seele's daring attire made many boudoir maidens in The Youngster World blush, and naturally caused quite a few old pedants to grumble and curse.
However, upon seeing Seele's long scythe, they prudently shut their mouths, daring only to criticize inwardly.
[Seele neatly knocked down the enemies, telling the victim to leave quickly, while she faced the other enemies.]
That nimble agility, neat attacks, and especially the appearance of fluttering butterflies were truly pleasing to the eye.
["When dealing with guys who don't play by the rules, the tip of a blade is the hard rule!"]
Seele knocked down another enemy, and an even more powerful enemy appeared.
["I never said I wanted your help."]
Seele caught a butterfly with one hand and looked back.
That spiral-curled girl appeared behind her.
["But you looked like you were busy."]
This time, everyone finally saw the girl's face clearly.
She was also a pretty girl.
The girl's gun pointed at the enemy.
["Let's finish this quickly!"]
The two aimed at the enemy together.
["Don't order me around."]
Seele's speed was even faster than a bullet, attacking the enemy a step ahead.
["Don't let any openings slip by."]
["Try this move!"]
After dealing with the enemy, a monster covered in fire appeared.
This was the last fish that slipped through the net.
The two stood facing each other and launched an attack together.
["Upper District folks, don't hold me back here."]
Their figures shifted, attacking the enemy together.
Seele's ultimate flew out.
She leaped high into the air, and a giant phantom butterfly wing manifested behind her.
["Dissipate with the butterflies!"]
["Phantoms of the past!"]
Multiple slashing beams flashed past, and the enemy bit the dust.]
Rimuru's certain radar instantly activated, and it simply couldn't suppress the corners of its mouth.
[Rimuru: The hometown lilies are blooming!]
[Kumoko: Although that's the case, the hometown lilies are blooming!]
[Jiuyue: Oh my, oh my, Seele is still a tsundere (Who's saying tsunderes are outdated anymore!)]
[Lu Mingfei: Seele and that curly-haired miss have an unusual relationship.]
[Gintoki: Tell us something we don't know.]
[Chen Motong: These two really have distinct personalities.]
[Mouri Ran: Perhaps precisely because their personalities are distinct and complementary, their relationship is so good.]
["Ran, could the two of them really be…"] Sonoko made a couple's gesture.
Ran's face blushed slightly: ["Not sure."]
[Gon: What is everyone talking about? Why don't I understand any of it?]
["Killua, Kurapika, Leorio, did you guys understand?"] Gon looked at the people beside him.
Killua shook his head.
Kurapika and Leorio exchanged glances, then quickly looked away.
["It means the two of them have a very good relationship."]
["Is that so?"] Gon wore a look of sudden enlightenment, looking sparklingly at Killua: ["Then you and I are also lilies, right?"]
["Pfft—"] Leorio spat out a mouthful of water.
["Stop!"] He hurriedly called a halt: ["This is a word only adults can use; kids can't use it."]
Gon blinked: ["Alright then."]
On the contrary, Killua narrowed his eyes, feeling that "lilies" definitely had another meaning.
Although everyone was just talking nonsense online, they still cared about children.
Therefore, after seeing Gon's words, they unanimously brushed it off by saying they had a special relationship.
Upper District… Since there is an Upper District, there must be an Underworld.
Klein's heart stirred.
Could the Underworld be underground?
The new map in the video was brightly lit, and the sky was pitch black…
Not right.
Klein shook his head.
When Seele launched her attack, a blood moon had appeared behind her. How could one see the moon if they were underground?
A blood moon… Klein couldn't help thinking of the moon at night.
The moment many believers of the Evernight Goddess saw the blood moon, they casually made the prayer gesture of the Evernight.
["Seele's speed is way too fast!"] Kugisaki Nobara widened her eyes: ["It's even faster than bullets."]
["She's a strong one."] Zenin Maki was very certain.
["There were also several flashing phenomena just now, can she even teleport?"] Panda's small eyes were filled with curiosity.
["More than that,"] Megumi Fushiguro said, ["When Miss Seele's whole body was glowing with blue light, those enemies didn't notice her at all, which gave her the opportunity to launch a sneak attack from behind."]
Itadori Yuji clapped his hands: ["Does Fushiguro mean that Miss Seele can also turn invisible?"]
["Yeah."] Megumi Fushiguro acknowledged, then added another sentence: ["It's just a guess, not necessarily correct."]
Gojo Satoru listened to their discussion and nodded inwardly.
It was about the same as his own findings.
That world is really getting more and more interesting.
Gojo Satoru looked at the sky curtain again.
Hurry up and bring that world over; he couldn't wait to experience it.
[A stirring piece of music sounded.]
["Shall we make an exchange?"]
["An exchange concerning [Remembrance]."]
Everyone stopped what they were doing; even those who were working put down their work and unanimously looked at the sky curtain.
The atmosphere of the sky curtain seemed to have changed.
Realizing this, many people perked up, gathering their focus and calming their breath.Chapter 20: Fables of the Starry Sky, Part I (1)
Remembrance… does it refer to memory, or does it carry a special meaning?
Just like the Trailblaze that appeared before?
Klein pondered.
An exchange concerning Remembrance?
Zhang Chulan frowned.
Exchange memories with whom?
The person who is speaking?
"This video might be different from the previous ones," Wang Ye said.
Zhuge Qing nodded, "The atmosphere of the video is completely different; there might be some big news."
"Old Qing is right. It might be a bombshell that subverts our imagination." Zhang Chulan couldn't help but joke around a bit.
"Old Zhang, did you feel it?" Lu Jin asked.
Celestial Master Zhang wore a stern expression and replied, "Yeah. Even though nothing has started playing yet, I faintly sense a certain danger. It's not that a crisis is arriving, but rather an intuition."
"Me too."
The two sighed; this video was probably not going to be simple.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Lingyu and Lu Linglong were filled with questions, but seeing that neither Celestial Master Zhang nor Lu Jin intended to elaborate, they could only suppress their doubts and continue watching the canopy.
"Big brother, the big one is coming."
Lu Mingze's voice rang in his ear.
"Surprised? Unexpected?"
Lu Mingfei rubbed his arms and rolled his eyes.
"Without you telling me, I can feel it myself."
Didn't you see that President Angers, Boss Caesar, and Senior Brother Chu Zihang have all entered combat mode?
And that piercingly cold sensation against his skin made him break out in goosebumps all over.
At this moment, the big shots in the Out-of-Body Realm also had their auras surging as they suppressed that sense of danger.
This was the first time since they started watching the canopy that they felt a threat from it.
What on earth is going to be played this time?
Everyone watching wanted to know.
[In a starry sky, there was a spiraling path of light ascending upwards.
"I dreamed of a wisp of light, a crystal goblet."
"That crystalline light spoke to me: Please listen closely, a fable concerning the starry sky."]
A fable?
"Such a grand lineup just to tell a fable?" Shiyilie scratched his head, not really understanding.
"A fable of the starry sky—could it be the same?" Jiuyue glanced at him.
Shiyilie curled his lips, "How is it not the same? Isn't a starry sky fable still a fable?"
"A fable? Is it like the fable stories Master tells me at night?" Xiaohei looked towards Infinite.
Infinite nodded, "Yes."
"Hehe, then I must listen carefully to fable stories from other worlds." Xiaohei looked forward to the canopy with anticipation.
The others weren't as relaxed as Xiaohei; their faces were taut, and that trace of danger still hadn't dissipated.
"Do you think it's really telling a fable story?" Conan nudged Haibara Ai with his elbow.
"I don't know. Maybe."
Haibara Ai said indifferently, still wondering how those mechanical creations in Seele's video were built.
Chianti yawned out of boredom.
After all this fuss, the canopy was actually playing some fable story; how boring.
She looked at Gin, Vermouth, and Bourbon, and seeing them staring intently, she couldn't help but find it a bit amusing.
What on earth is so interesting about it?
It's not as fun as going out to kill a few more rats.
["Person of no name, person of no destiny,"
A slender hand appeared, Fingers gently tapping on a table covered in dark blue velvet.
"Coming from beyond the wasteland, cloaked in the radiance of the stars."
Candlelight like crystal flickered.
"Go,"
That hand brushed past cards that looked like Tarot cards one by one.
The cards she brushed past lit up with a greenish glow.
"Just march onward stepping on the solar wind,"
"You shall ultimately return to my embrace,"
She picked up a card.
"Simply proceed toward that light."
A new icon suddenly appeared: [Destruction]
And labeled above [Destruction] was the annotation: Nanook
Below [Destruction] was another line of text:
There is a seed of flame at the center of the universe, burning fiercer and fiercer until it incinerates the entire galaxy.
Only to usher in a magnificent annihilation at the end of all reality.]
"A person of no name and no destiny?" Finger was puzzled. "No name is easy to understand, but what does no destiny mean? With no life left, how can they walk or move forward?"
"Why can't they walk just because they have no life? Maybe the other person is a ghost."
"A ghost?" Finger thought about it and felt it made quite a sense, so he slapped Lu Mingfei heavily on the shoulder, making Lu Mingfei grimace in pain.
Hearing the words of the two jokers, Caesar and Chu Zihang twitched the corners of their mouths a few times.
Even their tense nerves relaxed a little.
It was another new icon different from attributes.
When Zhang Chulan saw Destruction appear, he immediately thought of the new icon that had appeared in Gepard's video.
"Destruction…" Zhang Chulan tapped his thigh with his Finger. "Is it related to the'Seed of Destruction' mentioned by that blonde woman before?"
"Perhaps the Destruction in the Seed of Destruction refers to this Destruction?" Zhuge Qing said.
Zhang Chulan nodded, "It's not entirely impossible."
Then he wondered again what the annotation "Nanook" under Destruction meant.
"Nanook, it sounds like a person's name." Wu Xiangnan looked at Chen Muye. "Captain, what do you think?"
Lin Qiye also looked at Chen Muye, while keeping his attention on the psychiatric hospital in his heart.
Nyx's state was a bit abnormal; was it because of Destruction?
Destruction, Nanook.
Does Destruction refer to this person or thing named Nanook?
Chen Muye shook his head.
"I don't know. But the words below make me feel a trace of ominousness."
"There is a seed of flame at the center of the universe, burning fiercer and fiercer until it incinerates the entire galaxy. Only to usher in a magnificent annihilation at the end of all reality." Dazai Osamu broke out in a bit of cold sweat on his forehead and looked at Edogawa Ranpo.
Destruction—couldn't it be the kind of destruction he was thinking of?
Edogawa Ranpo nodded.
Seeing this, Dazai Osamu didn't know what to say for a moment.
Whether it was incinerating the galaxy or annihilation, both pointed to Destruction.
This Destruction really pointed to destruction in the literal sense.
As for that Nanook…
Dazai Osamu closed his eyes for a moment.
"It represents…"
"The God of Destruction, huh." The big shots from the Lord of the Mysteries World, Feiren Zai world, and Luo Xiaohei world said in unison.
The fable of the starry sky probably referred to the matters of the gods in that world.
"Destruction," Jiuyue said in surprise, "Could it actually be a conceptual god?"
Destruction was a concept; a god representing such a concept must be unimaginably powerful.
Jiuyue didn't dare to think about it.
The most powerful deities she had seen so far were Bodhisattva Dashi, the Great Sage, and Yang Jian.
And yet they were not gods or Buddhas representing certain concepts.
"Annihilation, demise, destruction…" Rimuru wiped away cold sweat.
"Could that world be destroyed?"
"Ahhhhh, right now I don't want to connect with that world at all." Kumoko shook her head frantically.
She certainly didn't want her own world to be implicated and destroyed by that world.
She hadn't lived enough yet.
But thinking that so many pretty young ladies in that world would be destroyed along with it, her heart ached so much.
"An unexpected answer." Tohsaka Rin put down her teacup, her expression solemn.
Fortunately, it wasn't their world, and it was even far removed from their world.
Otherwise, the aftermath of destruction might sweep over them.
"I hope that world has a way to save itself." Emiya Shirou wished.
Hearing this, Tohsaka Rin couldn't help but think of the Astral Express.
Will they become the saviors who save the world?