Chapter 272: Chapter 272 Zephyro
He prepared to do as he had with other planets: use himself as a spear to pierce the planetary core in a single strike, triggering a chain collapse and causing the planet to disintegrate completely in a magnificent explosion.
His speed increased ever faster.
The rugged terrain on the planet’s surface magnified rapidly in his field of vision.
Now—
Just as the tip of Zephyro’s sword was about to touch the planet’s atmosphere.
A slender, purple figure appeared directly in front of him without any warning.
The distance was so close it was almost face-to-face.
Zephyro: "...?"
Herta: "...?!"
Time seemed to be stretched out.
A thought flashed through Zephyro’s mind:
(An obstacle? An Envoy? Erudition? Why is she here?)
But his charging posture and concentrated energy had already reached a critical point; there was no concept of "braking."
In fact, the moment he confirmed the other party was an existence of the same rank, the fire deep within his heart burned even brighter—a worthy opponent!
Thus, within a ten-thousandth of a second, Zephyro made his decision: ram into her!
Herta was even more bewildered on her end.
One second she had been sitting on the sofa of the Astral Express, and the next, the surrounding scene had transformed into the starry sky and that black-and-white figure, shrouded in terrifying energy, charging straight toward her face!
(Spatial coordinate deviation!)
Her reaction was astonishingly fast.
After seeing the trajectory of the thing in front of her, she did not choose to take the hit head-on, nor did she even attempt to defend.
Her figure vanished from the spot instantly.
Almost at the same instant, the white figure of Destruction had already surged past the location where she had just been, the turbulence it brought causing the planet’s orbit to shift.
Had Herta not dodged in time, even with an Envoy’s body, a direct collision like that would not have been pleasant.
After surging past, the white figure stopped abruptly.
He ignored the planet below, which had already developed cracks.
He just hovered in mid-air and slowly turned around.
It was a tall, black-and-white figure.
He wore no helmet or faceplate, but his facial area was covered by a layer of flowing "veil" that seemed to be made of countless tiny gray crystals, obscuring his specific features as he looked toward Herta.
Herta’s figure materialized again on the other side, about several thousand kilometers away.
She also hovered in the vacuum, her skirt and long hair gently floating in the zero-gravity environment.
She looked at the white figure and then quickly swept her gaze over the surrounding galactic debris, which had clearly just undergone a "violent demolition."
(A Lord Ravager...)
She instantly formed a judgment in her mind.
(This power, this style of action, and that sword... it is [Zephyro].)
The corners of Herta’s mouth curled into an arc devoid of any smile.
(So that’s how it is. Forcibly shifting me from my warp path and tossing me in front of a Lord Ravager...)
(This method of obstruction is truly simple, direct, and effective.)
(It seems that skulking fellow is determined not to let me act with the Astral Express Crew. Last time in Belobog, it was teleporting me to another world; this time in Xianzhou Luofu, it’s tossing me directly into the face of an Envoy of Destruction... The test is successful, and the pattern is very clear: whenever I attempt to participate in the Astral Express’s Trailblaze journey, I encounter "accidental" obstructions.)
Herta sneered internally.
(Unfortunately, it is limited to this extent.)
She stopped overthinking and raised her hand to trace in the air before her, a complex purple spell instantly taking form.
Target coordinates: current position of the Astral Express.
Since she had already confirmed the other party’s methods, there was no need to waste time here with a madman who only had "Destruction" in his brain.
The light of the spell illuminated, and spatial ripples began to spread.
However—
Swish!
A gray-white sword light slashed across without any warning.
There was no earth-shattering momentum, but wherever that sword light passed, the spatial spell Herta had just constructed, along with the spatial structure of that area itself, was sliced open smoothly.
The spell collapsed instantly, its light extinguished, and even the residual traces of the spatial coordinates were wiped away completely.
Herta’s movements paused.
She attempted to teleport again with an expressionless face.
"Swish!"
A second sword light struck from an even trickier angle, sealing off her retreat in another direction.
The Destruction contained within the sword light even interfered with her perception of the surrounding space.
She slowly turned her head to look at the white figure in the distance.
Zephyro remained hovering in place, the longsword in his hand hanging slightly, its tip pointing toward the void.
That gaze locked onto Herta; although there were no words or expressions, the battle intent clearly conveyed—as firm as a rock and as scorching as a wildfire—said everything.
(You won’t let me leave?)
Herta narrowed her eyes slightly.
She lowered her hand, and a faint purple halo began to flow around her body.
The light was not dazzling, constructing an invisible but absolutely solid domain around her.
"Hey."
Herta spoke.
Her voice was clear and calm, yet carried a condescending coldness.
"You over there."
She raised a finger and pointed it through the air in Zephyro’s direction.
"If your brain hasn’t been gnawed away by [Nihility], or burned to ashes by [Destruction], then you should know—"
The purple halo gathered at her fingertip, transforming into a slowly rotating, three-dimensional rune with a structure so complex it was dizzying.
"—the price of angering a [Genius]."
Responding to her was the slight raising of the longsword in Zephyro’s hand.
On the sword blade, the gray-white energy of Destruction flickered and rose like breathing.
He did not speak—perhaps he was not one for words, or perhaps he believed there was no need for them.
But the battle intent that surged suddenly, causing even the surrounding broken planetary debris to begin trembling and disintegrating, was the best answer.
Watching the other party’s "fight whether you want to or not" stance, Herta suddenly found it somewhat amusing, and also... her hands were itching.
The anger accumulated over this period from being secretly toyed with, slandered, and obstructed by that fellow seemed to have found a good target for venting.
Although this was an Envoy of Destruction whose brain might only contain "fight, fight, fight," but... an Envoy-level opponent should be quite stress-relieving to take apart, right?
She hummed softly; the sound betrayed no joy or anger, but deep within her purple eyes, a dangerous signal lit up.
Next second—
A magic wand, almost as tall as her body and with an exquisitely complex design, appeared out of thin air in her hand.
The wand’s shaft flowed with deep purple brilliance, and embedded at the top was a brilliant gemstone that seemed to contain an entire miniature galaxy.
Herta gripped the magic wand with one hand, its tip pointing obliquely toward Zephyro in the distance.
Her skirt and long hair moved without wind in the invisible force field.
She lifted her chin slightly, her tone calm yet carrying a sense of indifference:
"Since that’s the case..."
The gemstone at the top of the magic wand suddenly erupted with dazzling purple radiance!
"...then let me properly vent my anger."
The moment the words fell—
Hum!!!
With Herta as the center, countless purple spells, complex to the point of transcending ordinary understanding, bloomed like opening flowers, instantly covering the space for tens of thousands of kilometers around!
Every rune was calculating at high speed, turning this dead, ruined star field into a domain belonging to an Envoy of [Erudition]—
An Absolute Domain.
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