“Hmph!”
The Captain simply let out a cool hum.
Facing Maviqa, who had obtained a fragment of the primordial power of Celestia, the strange dark energy on the Captain’s body did not shrink.
Instead, it expanded further.
He knew he had no way out!
Either fight to the death, and win a glimmer of hope.
Or sit and wait, and await the reckoning of Celestia.
Obviously, with the Captain’s character, he wouldn’t choose the latter.
At this moment, Maviqa suddenly swung the greatsword in her hand. The colorful energy, radiating an indescribable sacred aura, clung to the blade, covering the entire edge.
A blade-like gleam shot out from Maviqa’s eyes.
Then, Maviqa stomped hard with her jade foot, the ground beneath her shattered, and she charged forward first.
Straight toward the Captain.
At the same time, the Captain moved.
When they were still dozens of meters apart, they both leaped into the air.
They mobilized their own energy and unleashed it completely.
“Haaah——!”
Maviqa and the Captain’s shouts echoed through the valley and into the sky.
The greatsword and longsword in their hands were swung down from the air!
Whiz!
Whiz!
Two hundred-meter-long sword beams, one colorful and one black, separated from the blades of Maviqa and the Captain.
In an instant.
The terrifying energy caused the surrounding mountains of the valley to collapse like an avalanche!
Moments later, the two sword beams, their colors distinctly separate, met in the sky, watched by countless eyes across Teyvat.
This sword.
Neither Maviqa nor the Captain was using their own power.
Instead, it was the power of Celestia and the fragment of the deceased Dragon King, Nidhogg!
Boom!
A deep, low energy collision sound echoed out, and the two hundred-meter-long sword beams collided.
The energy ripples that dissipated from the center of the collision caused the earth to shake and the sky to tremble!
Even the Sacred Fire Arena seemed to be on the verge of collapse!
The light released by the colorful and black energies each occupied half of the sky.
Behind Maviqa and the Captain, the light seemed to form two figures.
The figure behind Maviqa took the form of the Celestia Lin Mo.
She was tall, wearing a crown, and her pure white, radiant divine armor fluttered in the wind.
Her eyelids drooped slightly, and her eyes, looking down from above, surveyed the entire world.
The entire world seemed to dim in that moment.
The shadow behind the Captain was a winding, black giant dragon.
It bared its fangs and claws, its dragon maw slightly open, revealing sharp fangs that seemed capable of biting through the laws of the world.
At this moment.
In the desert near Natlan.
Seeing the black dragon shadow on the Captain’s body, Grass Dragon Apepus felt a shiver run down her spine.
“Your Majesty...!”
Even though it was only a shadow of Dragon King Nidhogg, she saw in that shadow the ‘Your Majesty’ who led her and the other six primordial Dragon Kings to fight Celestia and Her four shadows!
Paimon: “Celestia… and that’s… Dragon King Nidhogg?!”
Great Tree King: “Even the first generation of the Seven Archons had never seen the true Dragon King Nidhogg, but I think… that is indeed the image of Dragon King Nidhogg.”
Nahida: “It’s like the Funeral of the Fire Nation is being replayed...”
Fningna: “Celestia is so cool, Her appearance sitting on the throne of Sky Island was already so domineering, this shadow projected by energy is simply like the ruler of the world overlooking all!”
Klorine: “Is it possible, Fningna, that Celestia is the ruler of Teyvat?”
Fningna: “......”
Fningna: “Okay, okay, I just described it wrong! I know, of course, that She is the ruler of Teyvat!”
Paimon: “Uh… as expected of you, Fningna.”
…
In the valley of the Sacred Fire Arena.
The shadows of Celestia and Dragon King Nidhogg blotted out the sun.
Those two hundred-meter-long sword beams seemed incredibly small beneath their shadows.
But…
The violent disturbances that Natlan was experiencing were all caused by the energy ripples that dissipated from the collision of the two sword beams.
Maviqa and the Captain both gripped the swords in their hands tightly.
Their internal energy was still being infused.
However.
The stalemate between the two sword beams only lasted for a short dozen seconds.
“Haaah——!”
Maviqa shouted, and her internal energy erupted completely.
The stalemate was instantly broken.
The colorful sword beam released by Maviqa suddenly surged forward in a violent storm.
Unparalleled power almost broke the deadlock with overwhelming force.
The strange dark longsword in the Captain’s hand shattered first, followed by the dark sword beam he had unleashed, which disintegrated in an instant.
The terrifying energy rushed in.
The Captain’s mask shattered, revealing eyes filled with shock and terror.
After shattering the dark sword beam, the colorful sword beam continued unabated, and with a devastating force, it cleaved a terrifying ten-thousand-meter-long chasm in the ground!
The earth seemed to be split in two in that instant!
The energy ripples that dissipated as the colorful sword beam cut through shattered the strange black energy that enveloped the Captain.
“Cough!”
A mouthful of bright red blood spurted from the Captain’s mouth, staining the azure sky.
Then, the Captain, like a broken kite, fell from the sky again in a free fall.
Seeing this.
The most shocked weren’t the countless humans of Teyvat, or the Tsaritsa and the Fatui Harbingers.
But…
The five Knave of Khaenri’ah and the members of the Witch’s Congregation who were being watched by Celestia’s Envoys on the border of Teyvat!
“It seems that the power and function of Our King have fully recovered, surpassing even the peak period.” Asmodeus blinked her beautiful eyes.
Her flat voice, heard by the five Knave of Khaenri’ah and the Witch’s Congregation, was like a bolt of lightning.
Celestia did not personally intervene.
But just from granting a primordial fragment from Sky Island, it could unleash such terrifying power!
Maviqa’s sword just now, even Dainsleif said that each of the Knave of Khaenri’ah had the power to rival the world, but they all felt a hint of danger from it!
This could be seen from this small example.
Celestia, awakened after five hundred years of slumber.
Has completely repaired the skills and power that were damaged in the Funeral of the Fire Nation!
It is no exaggeration to say.
Celestia’s functions and power now have surpassed the peak of Her strength when She first emerged from the shell!
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