noffsinger Chapter 71 is actually about this "Flame Spear"?
Chapter 71 is actually about this "Flame Spear"?
I quickly wrote another chapter after getting back from working overtime.
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Hearing the long-awaited system notification, Lin Qiong's lips curled into a slight smile.
"Has it finally arrived?"
Lin Qiong muttered to himself, his tone tinged with excitement.
Since leaving the Black Tower space station, the system's voice has never been heard again.
If he couldn't still summon the bat, he would have doubted whether his system had disappeared.
But now, the system's voice sounded again, its cold yet familiar tone like a warm current in winter, making Lin Qiong feel incredibly at ease.
He quickly tried to communicate with the system: "System, system! Shouldn't I be able to summon the Flame Spear now?"
【Ding! 】
The system's cold voice rang in his mind, but the answer surprised Lin Qiong.
Please explore on your own.
After saying this, the system fell silent again, and there was no response no matter how Lin Qiong called out to it.
This left Lin Qiong speechless.
My own system is still as aloof as ever, not even bothering to say a word.
"boom--"
However, during the time Lin Qiong was communicating with the system, a fierce flame suddenly shot out from the towering pillar of fire, heading straight for Cocolia.
This sudden turn of events stunned everyone present.
However, Cocolia reacted very quickly; she sensed the danger almost the instant the flames erupted.
With a light touch of her toes on the ground, and empowered by imaginary energy, she floated up at an incredible speed.
Flames roared past beneath her body, sending waves of heat through her.
"who?"
Cocolia hovered in the air, looking warily at the pillar of fire.
She was well aware that her affinity with the fire element was not very good, and that the seemingly indestructible barrier could not completely protect her when facing flames.
"Those who come to stop you!"
As a familiar voice rang out, the towering pillar of fire instantly receded, transforming into a massive ball of flame suspended in mid-air.
At the same time, a slender figure could be vaguely seen within the flames.
Obscured by the flames, Cocolia couldn't see the person's face, but she could sense the powerful energy emanating from him.
Just then, the figure in the flames slowly raised its arm, revealing an incredibly hot flaming lance.
"That is!"
Upon seeing the lance, Cocolia's eyes widened instantly; she recognized its origin almost immediately.
As the Great Protector of Belloberg, she has a deep understanding of the past.
That burning lance was the weapon used by Alissa Land, the first High Guardian of Beloborg.
Since the departure of this great guardian, none of her successors, including herself, have been able to reignite the flame that symbolizes "preservation" on this lance.
However, what she saw shocked Cocolia immensely.
"I never expected to see it burn again..."
Cocolia murmured to herself, her voice trembling slightly, her eyes flashing with complex emotions.
Just as Cocolia was lost in her thoughts, a powerful voice suddenly rang out.
"Flame Spear - Charge!"
As the voice faded, the figure enveloped in flames rushed toward Cocolia at a speed too fast for the naked eye to follow.
The flames on the lance drew a dazzling trail in the air, as if to burn all obstacles in its path to ashes.
Upon seeing this, Cocolia, who was suspended in the air, was startled. A strong sense of crisis surged through her body like an electric current, causing her pupils to shrink involuntarily.
Oh no! There's no escaping it!
The thought flashed through Cocolia's mind in an instant. She realized very clearly that she could not dodge this attack with her own speed alone.
Thinking of this, Cocolia immediately reached out and several thick ice walls appeared out of thin air in front of her.
These ice walls acted like shields, firmly protecting Cocolia.
"boom--"
The moment the lances, wreathed in raging flames, touched the ice walls, they shattered as if a block of tofu had been struck by a heavy hammer.
The scattered ice chunks melted rapidly in the fierce flames, turning into wisps of light water vapor that vanished into the air.
The burning lances surged forward with unstoppable momentum, continuing their charge toward Cocolia.
Although the ice walls failed to stop the attack of the fire spear, they did buy her enough time to dodge.
In that brief moment, Cocolia twisted her body and dodged the fire spear's charge in mid-air with an extremely dangerous maneuver.
The fire spear, though dodged, continued its momentum, slamming directly into the outer shell of the "Creation Engine" amidst raging flames.
It was accompanied by a loud "boom" explosion.
The outer shell of the "Creation Engine" was blasted open, revealing a complex internal mechanical structure.
"So it was you!"
Cocolia's gaze lingered on the huge crater, a flicker of surprise and anger in her eyes.
Around the pit, the embers of the flames were still flickering, and the figure that had been engulfed in the flames revealed her true form.
"star!?"
Upon seeing that person, March 7th couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, an expression of disbelief appearing on his face.
"Are you... alright?"
She clearly saw Xing being pierced through by Cocolia and falling off the "Creation Engine".
At that moment, March 7 truly believed that Xing—this new member who had just boarded the Star Train, his junior—had left them just like that.
However, Xing did not die; instead, he stood before her in a completely new guise, as if everything before had been an illusion.
"How...is this possible?"
Seeing this, Cocolia was stunned, her voice filled with shock.
She clearly remembered that her shot had pierced Xing's heart, but there was not a single trace of a wound on Xing's body.
Not only that, the lance that had been unable to be lit for so many years suddenly burst into flames again in Xing's hands.
"I'm fine, don't worry."
Xing nodded gently and whispered words of comfort to March 7th.
After comforting March 7th, Hoshi raised her lance, its tip burning with intense flames, and pointed it directly at Cocolia in the air.
"Come on, Cocolia, it's time for round two!"
Xing's voice was firm and powerful, her eyes gleaming with an indomitable light, as if declaring to everyone that victory in this battle would surely belong to her.
"Wait a minute!" Lin Qiong slowly walked to Xing's side, a confident smile playing on his lips. "How could the final battle be complete without me?"
"You? Can you do it?"
Xing turned her head, a smug expression on her face, and proudly weighed the lance burning with intense flames in her hand in front of Lin Qiong.
"See? I have a new weapon."
Lin Qiong looked at Xing's smug expression, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously turned up. But then he deliberately pretended to be disdainful and gently curled his lips.
"Tch, it's just a Flame Spear, what's the big deal? Watch closely, I have one too!"
As he spoke, Lin Qiong raised his right hand, palm down, and the power within his body began to surge.
In an instant, the surrounding temperature began to rise slowly, just like the ground gradually warming up on a summer afternoon, and a hot and dry atmosphere spread in the air.
"Huff...huff...why did it suddenly get so hot around here?"
March 7, who was relatively close to Lin Qiong, used his hand as a fan and kept fanning himself, trying to dispel the sudden heat.
Fine beads of sweat began to appear on her forehead and were dripping down her cheeks.
"what happened?"
At this moment, Cocolia also sensed something was wrong; the scorching air around her made her skin feel a stinging sensation.
A sudden, inexplicable fear welled up within her, and even the star core within her body trembled slightly, as if it were afraid of something.
At the same time, a dazzling flame began to gather in the palm of Lin Qiong's right hand.
The flame was a deep red, like a compressed miniature sun, radiating endless heat.
Immediately afterwards, the flames began to change, gradually condensing into the shape of a gun.
"Hmm? Something doesn't feel right."
Lin Qiong gripped the gun in his hand, his brows furrowing slightly, a look of confusion on his face.
Why does this Flame Spear feel heavier than I expected? And it feels strange to hold in my hand too.
With this question in mind, Lin Qiong turned his gaze to his right hand.
When he saw the item in his hand, his eyes widened and he froze.
"Huh? It's actually this 'Flame Spear'?"