Text Game: It All Began when a Cat-eared Girl Took Me In-Chapter 738 - 378: Lights Across the Miles! Did Trash Fish Traveler Miss Us? (4K)_2

Chapter 738: Chapter 378: Lights Across the Miles! Did Trash Fish Traveler Miss Us? (4K)_2

What happened?

Everyone desperately pressed closer to the screen, striving to see what was happening inside.

...

"Why did you do this?"

In the light that had not yet dimmed, Liya watched, puzzled, as the old man who had come out and shot that man had just given the man a gun.

"I am here to atone for my sins."

The elderly man held a pale gold spear, its densely packed mechanisms retracting, while layers upon layers of runes were being restructured, and a faint wisp of smoke rose from the muzzle.

"Who are you?" Liya asked.

She didn’t lower her guard just because the old man had attacked that man.

Could it be an attempt to relax her vigilance before launching a surprise attack?

The terror of the gunshot just now was such that even she wouldn’t have been able to block it head-on.

The fact that the man’s fate was still unknown at this moment was proof enough.

However, Liya felt that he wouldn’t die so easily. The tree of Far Wind was a Divine Tree of eight hundred meters, bestowing upon its master not just strength but endurance equivalent to the life of the Divine Tree itself.

As long as the Divine Tree was not destroyed, its master wouldn’t die, unless she could get her hands on the True Canon of the Divine Tree.

But that was impossible.

The True Canon of a Divine Tree could only be possessed by its master, just like in the case of Winter City, the True Canon was still in the hands of the master in the end.

With a light sigh, the old man said, "I am Afeas Flakses, a man who should have died long ago."

"Afeas?"

Liya’s pupils contracted slightly, "That Grandmaster who forged two legendary famous spears in the history of Tiangong on the continent? Wasn’t it said that you exhausted everything and sacrificed yourself to divert Wind Disaster Hurricane from passing by a small city?"

This old man was a true legend.

As a being capable of diverting the true form of the Wind Disaster, he himself was a legend.

"I am still alive, but my wife died, and my body turned into this ghastly shape."

Tears of sorrow appeared in the old man’s eyes: "After that, I came to this city in the south—it was my wife’s dream. She wanted to settle down in the south when we got old. Here, I took in the old City Owner’s son, Lanter, as my disciple. I taught him runes and forging, he had a remarkable talent for runes but wasn’t interested in forging. I knew little about runes myself, so I couldn’t teach him much. After he advanced to master, I left him to his own devices."

"It turned out that I was wrong."

"Two years ago, I discovered Lanter’s actions, but it was already too late, and I was already spent. This old husk of mine could only act once more; if I failed, then there would be no more chances."

"Fortunately, at the end of my life, you all arrived."

"This is my atonement to those people."

"I will personally take his life and clean up my own house. I ask for your assistance, young lady. Afterwards, I will give you the reward you deserve. Is that alright?"

Liya fell silent for a moment and then nodded.

The old man’s words seemed very sincere, unlikely to be false.

She didn’t necessarily have to be the one to send him on his way.

Meanwhile.

The dazzling light that formed the ’light hole’ began to dim.

The man who emerged was covered in injuries, but a large silver metallic book appeared on him, and his wounds were rapidly healing.

He snarled at the old man, "Old fart, how dare you betray me?!"

The man had never imagined that his master would one day betray him.

Why should he?

He had always been so good to him.

Even though he did nothing, he still provided for him well.

Was this how he repaid him?

In a situation where he desperately needed help, the old man instead drew a gun on him. If the old man had aimed at Liya just now, he might have already taken her down.

Murky tears streamed from the old man’s eyes, filled with metallic orbs.

"Lanter, I have wronged you."

He raised the pale gold spear, aiming it at the man.

With his current body, he could fire another shot.

"Young lady, please do your utmost to use your power," he said.

"I understand," she replied.

Liya felt the remaining power of the rune in her palm.

Since she was using it as an object rather than truly absorbing it, once the gifts left by those spirits dissipated, she would lose the Grandmaster-level power.

There wasn’t much time left until it was all exhausted.

At Liya’s will, a sea of runes suddenly formed, pressing towards the man who was still recovering. He immediately mobilized the Power of Divine Tree to resist. However, with the massive consumption of the power and his injuries, the man could no longer hold on.

The old man was also ready to pull the trigger.

The famous spear, Boundless Brightness, to bring light to the world—this was his true intention when he first forged the spear.

Yet, in his lifetime, he could not bring light to the world, nor even to himself.

"Final Technique, Hundred Thousand Brightness—"

A muffled grunt sounded.

The old man looked down at his chest.

A hand extended from the center of his chest.

Using the rights of the Divine Tree, the man transferred his hand to his back in a heart-piercing move.

Lanter, trapped in a sea of ignited runes, sneered at him, "I knew you harbored ill intentions! You old geezer, let’s see if your heart is black! I’ve been so good to you, how dare you do this to me!"

"Ha, heh, cough cough—"

Yet the old man revealed a kindly smile to the man.

"Little Lanter, the real you, it’s time you returned."

"Final Technique, Infinite Brightness."

The trigger was pulled.

An even more terrifying burst of light than before was released from the muzzle of the gun.

The man’s expression instantly turned into one of sheer terror.

"No, you old fart, don’t, I am your disciple! The one you taught personally!"

"My father entrusted me to your care, is this how you take care of me? How can you act against your disciple?"

"Old coot! Move the muzzle away!"

"I was wrong, I’ll never call you an old fart again, ah! The position of City Owner, that’s surely enough, right?"

No matter how much the man begged for mercy, he could only watch as a dazzling light gradually emerged from the muzzle.

The air pressure around him suddenly tightened as if the heart of the whole world had heavily thumped once.

An almost silent, sun-like radiance lit up above the city.

The City Owners of the other cities all looked over.

What’s happening over there?

Minutes later, the light finally dimmed gradually, visibly, the Divine Tree of Far Wind showed severe signs of wilt.

On the ground beneath the Divine Tree, a person whose body was not left unmarred crawled on the ground like a maggot, with the silver True Canon beside him, providing him with life force.

But the Power of Divine Tree was almost entirely depleted.

Damn it, if not for those three previous confrontations with other Divine Trees, I would not have been so gravely injured from blocking these two strikes.

"Move... shift."

What the man thought at this moment was to first escape, such as hiding inside the Divine Tree.

Although if the conflict arose again, the Divine Tree of Far Wind might not hold, he had no other choice.

He must survive!

And go explore the ultimate in runes!

Just as the Lunar Source Canon of Far Wind flickered in response to his command and a moving circle appeared, a figure suddenly appeared and grabbed the Lunar Source Canon.

The man: "?"

Who?

"Damn it, put down my True Canon!"

Luo Xi firmly pressed down on the Lunar Source Canon, which was struggling in his hand, and said with a smile,

"Your True Canon is quite nice, but unfortunately, it’s mine now."

A strand of aura was released from the depths of his soul by the Lunar Source Canon.

[Ding! Do you wish to inscribe your soul into the Divine Tree - Far Wind?]

[Reminder: After inscription, its fundamental properties of creation and reshaping will gradually transform into those of time and passage.]

[Yes]

[Detection: The Divine Tree of Far Wind is in a weakened state.]

[Inscription successful.]

In the man’s incredulous eyes, his control and perception of the True Canon just vanished like that.

His True Canon lay quietly like a little Lolita in the hands of this Variant human.

"Aaaaaah—"

An extremely evil presence burst forth from inside the man’s body.

Crack!—The world was tinged with grey.

"Stasis."

In the stilled time, the starlight that fell brought familiarity and comfort to Luo Xi.

The petite figure enveloped in starlight, with a figurine sitting on her shoulder, suddenly appeared beside Luo Xi.

"Hehe, first big fish caught! Miss me, Trash Fish Traveler?"