Shadow trail of the beautiful world

937 Chapter 35. Breaking away

"Ah! Thunder! Listen to my call!"

The king of gods summoned thunder and lightning among the stars, and the golden thunder pierced forward like flying spears.

But those powerful lights flew like an invisible wall.

After entering that boundary, everything is frozen.

Even Thunder is the same.

"click, click"

The sound of space being frozen is so shocking.

Those black ices gleamed in the starlight, and outlined a terrifying future where all things would die.

"He begged me to kill him!"

Odin shouted to Elsa hovering above the glacier of all things:

"He's in pain, and he's longing for relief! Can't you see it?"

"I only want him to live!"

Elsa's cold and emotionless voice echoed in Odin's ears as the ice spread wildly.

The out-of-control hoarfrost continuously poured the power of the frozen things into Elsa's body, and the Ice Queen no longer resisted them as before.

The two are becoming one, getting stronger every second.

The limits of Heavenly Father's power are like a joke at this moment.

In the 17th second after Elsa appeared, she crossed the barrier of the heavenly father as if there was no obstacle, and what's more frightening is that her strength is still increasing...

It's like there's no end to it.

She is different from Merlin, her strength is not made up together.

It is the frost of death that fears death for all things, originating from the essence of power of a higher will, which is already extremely pure...

It wants to cover everything in this world, to outline new rules in the ruins of death.

It has been released.

All it needs now is time.

"Elsa!"

Merlin's weak call sounded behind the Frost Queen, and that voice aroused Elsa's precarious sanity.

She stared at the God King with a cold gaze.

After a moment she said:

"Go away! Go back to your world and wait for the arrival of Hoarfrost..."

"not today..."

"But it's not too late!"

The God King's eyes twitched.

How many years has no one dared to speak to him like this?

But Odin is still rational, and the appearance of Baishuang shocked him.

Whether the woman manipulating Hoarfrost is actually Skadi, the goddess of winter in the legend of the Frost Giants, remains to be verified.

It is not a rational choice to fight her here now with a seriously injured body.

Merlin was right...

A chaotic era is coming, and the appearance of Hoarfrost is proof!

Asgard must be ready for this!

The God King ignored Elsa's provocation. He gave Merlin a complicated look, then turned around and disappeared among the stars into a golden thunder.

Elsa, whose whole body was covered with deadly cold, froze everything she went, fell to the ground.

She looked at the weak and dying Merlin who was held in Carol's arms in front of her.

Her green cat eyes were full of pain, full of despair.

She stepped forward quickly, and pressed her icy fingers on Merlin's cheek. She manipulated the ice carefully, trying to freeze the dying Merlin.

This may not save Merlin's life, but at least it can buy more time.

"Do not."

Merlin's hand rested on Elsa's cold one.

He whispered:

"Don't do that, talk to me...I'm running out of time."

"Why didn't you wait for me!"

Carol clenched Merlin's fingers on the other side, and continuously sent the energy in his body to Merlin's broken body to maintain his last flame of life.

But Merlin's life is like a leaky sack, no matter how much water is filled in, it cannot be filled again.

"I obviously told you to wait for me to come back before taking risks."

Carol's voice was filled with tears, and she worked hard to maintain Merlin's life like a candle in the wind.

she says:

"Why are you always so disobedient?"

"do not Cry."

Merlin leaned against the broken stone wall, and he looked at the two girls in front of him.

He sighed, raised his hand with some difficulty, and helped Carol wipe away the tears from his eyes. He said to his good friend who hadn't seen him for more than ten years:

"I heard that in Southern Galaxy, many people refer to you as 'God', Carol."

"If the way you are spread out, they will be disappointed... who would be interested in a crying god?"

"Your face is exactly the same as I remember, but I can still see the traces of the years..."

Merlin stroked Carol's face, and he said softly:

"I think, these years, you must have had a hard time."

Carol felt Merlin's situation, she looked at the calmness in Merlin's eyes, and she knew that everything was irreversible.

"It's not like the meeting I imagined."

She sniffled and tried to squeeze out a smile. She stretched out her hand to help Merlin wipe off the blood and stains on his face.

Her voice trembled and said:

"I think we will go to the pub hand in hand in an ordinary afternoon, drink some wine, eat some junk food, talk about our stories over the years, maybe we can talk together in the evening..."

"I thought a reunion after a dozen years would make me sane, but no."

"Every string in my head is screaming for me to hold you tight."

Carol said to Merlin:

"I ended up being late, right?"

"No, you didn't."

At this parting moment, Merlin finally no longer hides his inner feelings.

He stretched out his hand and hugged the two girls in his arms. He whispered:

"I miss you very much, when I came here, my heart was all about you..."

"I am willing to die for you, and I am willing to win you true freedom. I did it..."

"Are you willing to die for me?"

Elsa buried her head in Merlin's heart, and said in a lonely tone:

"But I want a Merlin who is willing to live for me!"

"You promised me we'd put all these things aside and we'd live together, you promised me!"

"You're a coward, Merlin!"

Elsa grabbed Merlin's arm, and she clenched it tightly.

she says:

"If you don't want to die, no one can kill you. You have many ways to avoid all this..."

"But you just don't want to live anymore, you ended your life like a coward, and you want to leave me alone in this cruel world."

"You must survive!"

Elsa says:

"You still have younger brothers and sisters waiting for you to go back, you still have your sister and nephew, you can't just leave them behind!"

"You can't just hide behind your responsibilities and give up your responsibilities to them, to me...ours!"

"terribly sorry."

Merlin shook his head, and said softly:

"I have to do this, listen to me, Elsa, and Carol, listen to me..."

"I spent a lot of time thinking, trying to prevent disasters, trying to maintain a better world, but I finally found that as long as I am around, the world will never be better..."

"I am the source of disaster."

Merlin stretched out his hand, stroked Carol's long hair, and said softly:

"I stand in the air, looking at the world under my feet, the orange sunset rushing to death is fragmented in the city, splashing everywhere like a broken dream..."

"There are countless lives in this world, and there are people bound by lies everywhere, but still struggling to survive. I looked at them, and I realized that Merlin is not what the world I protect needs..."

"The more I try to protect them, the more they will be hurt."

"What they need is freedom, dear..."

"You should have a future free from shackles. At that moment, I understood..."

Merlin chuckled, bowed his head and kissed Elsa's icy long hair, looked at the sea of ​​stars above his head, and said:

"It only gets better when I turn to dust."

"Somebody's gotta make a sacrifice, somebody's gotta let the bewildered people know that their hero worship isn't just based on a flimsy figment of the imagination..."

"Whenever bad things happen in this world, someone always stands up."

"Just like we used to do..."

"It's going to get better, better than it was when I was around."

"I won."

The pale-faced Merlin hugged the two girls tightly, and he sniffed their breath with nostalgia.

It's like engraving these tastes in the soul.

He felt the cold, not from Elsa's body, but from the cold of the soul and dying body. He hugged them tightly, and said:

"I broke the pathetic fate, I forced them to play me again, I did everything I planned."

"And the last step of that plan is death..."

"I have to disappear..."

"I have to die once, and those disasters will let this world go."

"I want to die as Merlin Riley. I am very glad that at the last moment, I can die in the arms of my dearest person, instead of being quietly drawn out of this world like a lonely ghost that no one remembers. The world I know."

Merlin's voice trembled, and he said to the two in his arms:

"I'll tell them, I'll tell you, Elsa, Carol, my story isn't over..."

"This story is not over yet."

"You have no shackles anymore, no one can control your destiny anymore, you can spread your wings and soar as much as you want, this is the last gift I can give you."

"Don't hold dear things tightly in your hands for fear of losing them..."

He let go of the hands of the two girls, and he tried his best to show a smile.

He said to them:

"Fly, my love..."

"You guys are free..."

"I...I'm free too."

The stars in front of Merlin's eyes dimmed, as if a black cloth covered his face.

His senses seemed to be cut off, and it was difficult to perceive everything around him.

But he can still hear Carol's scream of pain and feel Elsa's kiss.

At the last moment of this life, Merlin wants to open his arms to embrace the death that roars and leads him to an unknown place.

But just before the soul left the body, a spiritual light suddenly flashed in Merlin's mind.

With the last of his magic power, with a flick of his finger, he released the weird spell that he had only used twice.

The parchment had reminded him.

That's an aid, and it should only be used when it matters.

Amidst the swaying magic power, Merlin could feel that something was summoned from the unknown and fell into his hands.

It's like a boxy thing...

a dice?

"Snapped"

At the moment when he completely lost his senses, Merlin let go of his fingers.

The bone-white dice in his hand slipped down his fingers, and between the erratic halos flickering, a vague phantom appeared on his fingers.

It shattered in the next moment.

"Merlin! Merlin!"

Carol shook Merlin's body like crazy, she reached out and patted Merlin's cheek, she kissed Merlin's lips, she wanted to wake him up.

But can't.

Merlin Riley is dead.

His soul has left his body.

He still had a smile on his face, relieved and calm, just like facing all the challenges in the past, facing death.

Carol knelt on the cold ground, holding Merlin in her arms, as if losing the most important thing in her life.

And in her embrace, Merlin's body seemed to be set on fire.

Streaks of orange-colored ashes emanated from his body, and in this place where there was no breeze, those ashes floated, flying around the bodies of Carol and Elsa.

Like Merlin's last joke to a loved one.

It was like the last kiss again.

"No!"

Carol raised her hands, trying in vain to grab the ashes.

But the harder she tried, the more she couldn't hold them.

Elsa looked at the ashes with orange light spots floating, she stretched out her hand, and in the cold air, those light spots were frozen in the clearest ice.

"I've spent my entire life searching for that perfect person."

"After finding him, I don't think I will love anyone else anymore. We will have children, we will have a future, our future, and we will have each other."

Elsa stood up holding the dusty ice cubes in her hands.

The white gauze on her body changed in the overflowing cold air, just like a bride who lost her lover, a set of dark gauze dress appeared on the Frost Queen.

Her hoarse voice echoed in this lonely broken world.

"Now, I've lost everything, we've lost everything..."

Elsa separated the ice cubes in her hands, and she handed one of them to Carol who was kneeling on the ground.

she says:

"All the beliefs in my life are left in the good old days."

"I once believed in tomorrow, I once believed in that belief, it was my last bastion against the cruel reality..."

"Elsa!"

Carol holds the ice cube in her hand.

She raised her head and looked at the woman in front of her.

She could feel a dangerous force rolling in Elsa's body, about to lose control.

She stood up and tried to grab Elsa's hand, but it didn't work.

Elsa looked back at Carol, the last gleam in her green eyes collapsing, fading.

Pain and despair shone in those eyes, a soul about to be broken.

"Don't do something stupid!"

Carol yelled, but Elsa shook her head, a sad smile framing her lips, and said:

"Now, the fortress has collapsed, and I... am buried deep."

A black veil appeared on Elsa's face, completely covering her beautiful face.

Her ethereal voice came from under the black veil:

"My hope, my belief..."

"All turned to dust..."

"Merlin is gone, and I will go with him..."

She looked at her hand, the crystal clear fingers like white jade, she said in a dead voice:

"You want this body?"

Elsa let out a chuckle that gave Carol the creeps.

She seemed to be speaking to something invisible.

she says:

"It's only for Merlin, take it away..."

"I, can't use it."

(End of this chapter)