For the first time, Howard showed surprise on his face.
But the next second, her eyes returned to being deep and silent again, as if she didn't care about her current situation.
"Jack, is this the characteristic of the mythical creature that you learned to imitate using the ability I taught you... It's such a powerful and difficult force."
She said this without turning her head, lowered her head slightly, looked at her body which was gradually crystallizing, and couldn't help but sigh again.
"This level of power probably doesn't belong to a saint or demigod... This is a characteristic of an angel from the god level. Although it's not as good as the original, it has completely reached the level of crushing the same level. Even I don't have a good way to deal with it now."
Half of Howard's face was covered with white crystals. She tried to control her muscles, grinned a seemingly ferocious smile, and said in a deep voice:
"But just this alone is not enough to write the creator's ending in reverse!"
She suddenly stretched out her left arm, which had not yet fully crystallized. The surface was instantly covered with blue-black barnacles. She then tightly grasped the white-scaled dragon head growing from her back.
"As long as I can complete the last vacancy of the ceremony and be promoted to Anonymous, then all of this will be completely over!"
Puff—
The white-scaled dragon tried to struggle, but was completely unable to resist the power of that huge hand. Howard tore its entire head off its back. The blood from the severed head splattered and turned into white crystal dust that floated away, dazzling and bright.
Howard dragged the white-scaled dragon's head with a crazy look in his eyes and threw it away.
boom-
This huge head, dragging a long tail of glittering crystal dust, flew towards the depths of the starry sky like a comet.
Howard took the opportunity to switch the pen to his left hand and began writing frantically on the script enthusiastically and persistently!
"There's only one last step left..."
The silver-white, blue-tempered pen tip slid across the paper, making a constant rustling sound. The slightly crooked and twisted handwriting was no longer as gorgeous as before, but it was still able to clearly express the meaning.
The crystallization on her body was still spreading, but soon some healthy parts began to grow buds of flesh. Like an army about to perish, they squirmed and twitched, resisting the erosion of the white crystals to the death.
On the other side, Chen Lun, who had just woken up from his brief stupor, immediately returned to his original human form. His body was still flying backwards in the starry sky, but he was no longer able to stop.
Through the lower half of the body that was previously devoured by Howard, the crystalline cells contained therein were activated, which enabled it to in turn erode the opponent's mythical power, spread and grow from within his body, and regain its body.
But now he has reached his limit.
Because of the severe injuries he had sustained, the crystal cells could no longer repair themselves, and every part of his body was overloaded, making it difficult for him to even move a little.
Suddenly—
A strong sense of destiny suddenly came over him, as if some kind of predetermined mission had fallen from the sky and he urgently needed to fulfill it... Chen Lun suddenly realized that the ending Howard had written for himself was probably about to be completed!
Ignore the extremely terrifying danger warning.
His eyes became more resolute than ever before.
He raised his hand with difficulty, and a vague black card quietly emerged between his trembling fingers. The background of the card was dark and turbid, as if it could attract all light. The pattern in the center was an "∞" formed by twisted pale silk threads.
Chen Lun's eyes reflected the wriggling infinity symbol that emitted a dazzling white light, and he said hoarsely:
"Those who try to change my fate will eventually meet their own destined death..."
His sight shifted slightly, as if penetrating the distance of the starry sky, and he saw the blond man in the distance.
When the infinity symbol overlapped with his figure, the man seemed to notice it, and suddenly looked up, staring into Chen Lun's eyes from a distance.
Chen Lun almost roared out from his throat, unwilling to surrender:
"Fuck fate!
”
A flick of the finger.
stop-
The card flashed across the black light and disappeared quietly.
The next moment.
Several kilometers away, Howard's eyelids were twitching. She was about to take a step forward in shock and anger to try to dodge, but a bitter smile broke out on half of her face uncontrollably, and her body hesitated for a moment.
"Philip, you..."
As soon as Howard opened his mouth to speak, his body suddenly stiffened, as if struck by lightning, and his eyes suddenly widened.
"Don't you feel sorry..."
Her eyes moved slightly and looked at the blank space at the end of the script, where the last sentence was missing.
Hiss, hiss, hiss!
Countless pale threads, carrying the destructive power of death, suddenly shot out from her body and radiated in all directions.
The pen in Howard's hand slipped and fell into the endless darkness under the starry sky.
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When Chen Lun dragged his shaky body back to Howard, he found that she was not dead yet.
Howard, who is on the final step of the angel level, is particularly tenacious.
Even though her body was covered with white crystals and countless pale threads protruded from her body, she still half-knelt in the starry sky with her head lowered, like an artistic statue.
Of course, she was running out of time.
Even without external interference, Howard would probably be completely eroded in a short period of time and fall in this silent starry sky.
Only the remains of her face had not yet been covered by the white crystal, and her sapphire-like eyes looked particularly dim.
Chen Lun walked over silently and was about to speak to her, but suddenly he felt something and turned his head to look to the side. Two unfamiliar figures were standing there.
Howard sensed something, and her originally silent eyes changed. She slowly turned one eyeball, reflecting a beautiful woman with long orange-red hair, and her eyes began to fluctuate violently.
"Maggie... Why did Ms. Sigh let you in?"
Howard's voice was hoarse and low.
The woman named Maggie just shook her head slightly and said nothing.
"Then why are you here? No one can interfere with the Ring of Destiny..."
"I just came to see him one last time."
Maggie's tone was calm but sad.
Howard was startled for a moment, and then tears fell uncontrollably from her eyes. The corners of her mouth trembled slightly, and she slowly forced out an ugly smile.
"Sorry, Maggie, I have to miss another appointment."
Philip said casually.
"It's okay. It's not your first time, and I never blame you... I just feel a little sorry, Philip."
Maggie looked at him with unconcealed sorrow and spoke slowly.
She paused for a moment, then added in a low voice:
"It's a pity..."
It was quiet all around.
Only the stars in the sky are twinkling.
"Are you sure you want to let him know the truth?"
At this time, the man standing next to Maggie, wearing a black top hat, asked. Maggie was silent for a long while, and finally nodded heavily.
Seeing this, the man silently reached out and a small object fell into his palm... It was the black pen that had fallen from Howard's hand before.
Looking down at the pen, the man sighed and waved his hand again.
Chen Lun was shocked to find that the Jingzhe bookmark between his eyebrows flew uncontrollably into that person's hand.
Wow…
The bookmark spread out branches, forming an illusory ancient book, which was held in the other person's hand.
"Philip Howard, do you know what this is?"
The man spoke slowly, asking in a calm tone.
Philip looked at the book and smiled:
"Philip's Adventures in Wonderland, written by me... the notes I kept when I first traveled through the dream world."
She raised her eyes to look at the man.
"I think you should know, Your Majesty Oscar."
Oscar, the man in the black hat, did not answer.
She just looked at Philip quietly and continued to ask:
"What did you write it with?"
"Of course it's a human comedy..."
Philip was stunned in the middle of his speech.
The teacher was not dead at that time, so how could there be any human comedy
She suddenly understood something and murmured:
"It turns out... the teacher never existed in the first place."
"No, you are wrong."
Oscar shook his head.
"Your teacher has existed since the beginning. She just exists in the form of this pen."
"Mr. Kraft, is it this pen?!"
Philip looked incredulous.
She quickly denied it with a smile.
"Impossible. She is a living person, a Sequence 3 demigod."
Oscar looked at Philip calmly, but said:
"Clough's true identity is a 'divine evil', which you can understand as the remnant of a god after his death... And this god once wrote a biography for himself, titled 'The Autobiography of Philip Howard Clough'... I think you should understand now that you are all fictional characters."
She looked at Philip's gradually dull eyes and sighed.
"Kraf... She is actually the Lord of Fate whom I once followed, Lord Huan."
Oscar ignored Chen Lun and Philip's shock and continued:
"As for this pen and this bookmark, they are both parts of her unique divinity after her death. From the moment she created you, they have had a decisive influence on your fate."
As he spoke, the black pen in Oscar's hand slowly moved and quietly turned into another black bookmark, which was the same size as the emerald green Jingzhe bookmark, but it always revealed a strange aura.
That aura seemed to contain some kind of absolute authority of hiding, concealing, and even reincarnation.
Chen Lun was listening at the side, and his heart was shocked beyond words.
First of all, he was surprised that Philip Howard was a fictional character. Although they also experienced a normal life, in fact they had no starting point of destiny, only an end point of destiny, and could not form a complete circle.
The same is true for Rutina Castillo, the girl who was created by the power of myth as a natural sequence three-creator.
However, Chen Lun had never investigated the fate of Philip and Howard, so he didn't know this.
Secondly, Chen Lun didn't expect that the pen was actually one of the Four Seasons Bookmarks. The fountain pen was just a transformed form of it. From the beginning, Philip and Howard were deceived by the black bookmark and mistook it for a living person. They followed it to learn and grow, until they stepped into the circle of fate step by step and couldn't extricate themselves.
Finally, what shocked Chen Lun was that the Goddess of Destiny, Huan Gong, had fallen!
The bookmark was the only part of her divinity left after her death.
It is also part of her authority.
This also explains why Philip's Adventures in Wonderland, which was written by a Sequence 4 Saint, was able to use the dream world as a blueprint to replicate an independent wonderland world. It even includes pollution sources and gods, and the creatures in it have their own thoughts.
That’s because the bookmarks captured part of their destiny!
This is the "power of creation" in a sense!
For a moment, Chen Lun and Philip fell silent.
“Haha… What a brilliant script!”
Philip, who was half-kneeling, had a struggling expression, but suddenly one side of his face turned into Howard, and she burst into laughter.
"It turns out that my life is nothing more than a pulp novel. The more disgusting the plot is, the more ecstatic my readers will be..."
Howard laughed, tears flowing from the corners of her eyes which had gradually crystallized. She felt both crazy and sad. The two emotions were just like the coexistence of her two personalities, which was both weird and reasonable.
It was as if she felt endless despair and disheartened because she saw that the lives of herself and her good friend Philip were just the results that Duke Huan had planned from the beginning.
Then, Philip Howard looked at Chen Lun again, with indescribable meaning and expectation in his eyes, and said hoarsely:
"Very good, Jack... You have now successfully escaped the fate I imposed on you. Your future will only be full of hope. I wish you can live your true life... This can also be regarded as making up for this ridiculous regret for me."
After she finished speaking, she tried her best to resist her crystallized body and struggled to stand up... The whole process was accompanied by a crackling sound, and countless white crystal dust fell until she stood upright.
Philip Howard said to the dead starry sky in a tone that no longer sounded like a human voice:
"Destiny... I am no longer qualified to talk about it. I just want to seek a grand liberation!"
After saying that, she gave up resisting and allowed the white crystals to swallow her.
Until the end, there was still endless regret in her eyes.