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"Roar!!!"

Hundreds of icebergs smashed down crazily, and the ground erupted with a massive tremor, flattening the surrounding tens of kilometers into a wasteland in an instant.

The long-standing Elior Forest completely vanished amidst the ravages of the ice.

Nearly endless icicles, mixed with the crashing icebergs, pierced out wildly, carpet-bombing the surrounding area.

In this case, even if Pandora wanted to use the Power of Causality to distort the fact of death, she would be killed once again by the area-of-effect attack.

In the very next instant, a ripple flashed through the air, and before Puck could even react, a sharp pain surged across his body.

"Urgh..."

He found that a certain part of his body had been completely pierced through. The flesh, skin, and bones in that area had been sliced open, allowing a clear view straight through from one side to the other.

Dammit! This is definitely an attack from Regulus.

With a thought, piercing cold ice covered the wound, temporarily stemming the flowing mana.

Suddenly—

Boom!

An iceberg rose from the ground, flying steadily through the air, and smashing onto Puck's head.

"Roar!"

The massive kinetic energy blasted him flying. He was slammed onto the ground, kicking up a sky full of dust and smoke.

Puck felt stars dancing before his eyes and quickly figured out what was going on.

It's Regulus. He picked up my iceberg.

Amidst the veiling blizzard, Regulus held Pandora in his arms, floating in mid-air against a backdrop of ice shards and debris, his face still maintaining an arrogant smile.

"I'm telling you! Did only your size increase? Your strength hasn't improved at all. With just this much ability, you're still out there yelling and screaming—do you know that you are violating the privacy rights, reputation rights, personal safety, and basic rights guarantees of me and my wife? Go to hell!"

In just a split second, dense wounds emerged across the surface of his body. Puck let out a painful roar, completely unable to withstand the attacks.

Although these air blades thrown by Regulus had a very small attack range, they possessed ultimate penetration and true damage capabilities, making them impossible to resist.

Looking at Puck struggling in pain on the ground and Regulus laughing wildly as he continuously swung out the air, Pandora's expression remained serene, without the slightest ripple.

A hundred years ago, she had visited the Elior Forest. That time, she needed Emilia to act as the key to open the seal and release whatever lay behind it.

That time, she suffered failure. Emilia refused to turn the key and chose to freeze herself.

But now, she no longer needed this key. Instead, she desperately needed Emilia's life and soul. In other words, Emilia had transformed from a key into the status of a sacrifice.

Even Pandora herself did not understand why the power inside the seal suddenly ran amok and had even begun trying to break through the seal on its own.

Since the thing inside could break through by itself, she no longer had any need to acquire the key. As long as Emilia, who served as the medium itself, was used as a sacrifice, the power inside the seal could be strengthened once again, allowing the position within the seal to successfully break through.

At the same time, Pandora also knew that after killing Emilia, Puck, who stayed by her side, would certainly be grief-stricken and then fight desperately.

To prevent this, she had strengthened her side's combat power by bringing along Regulus, a pure-love powerhouse with super cheats.

The current situation was very clear. Even after using his true form, Puck was still beaten by Regulus to the point of having no power to fight back.

Finally, under Regulus's continuous attacks, Puck could no longer hold on. His body had long since been riddled with holes and began to rapidly dissipate, turning into dots of mana that vanished.

Lia...

I'm sorry. I am an incompetent partner. I cannot take revenge for you.

Accompanied by the disappearance of the last shred of mana, Puck, in his true form, was swatted to death by Regulus.

Having solved Puck, Pandora smiled and looked at Regulus, her tone peaceful. "Husband, I'll leave the rest to you. Please."

"Mission guaranteed. My sweet wife's request is the greatest motivation for me to do anything."

According to their prior agreement, Regulus dropped in a straight line, drawing a circle around Emilia's corpse.

When Puck had gone mad earlier and carried out area-of-effect attacks on the surroundings, Regulus had followed Pandora's instructions to protect Emilia's corpse.

Tracing a circle with his finger in the surrounding snow, he activated his Authority, gouging out the drawn piece of ground as a whole.

Because of the Authority's judgment, Emilia's body, which had been cut in half, belonged to the adhered part of this patch of snow, so it was also protected by the Authority.

Seeing that Regulus had finished collecting, Pandora nodded, just preparing to take him and leave this place.

Right in the next instant, a crimson glow scattered the all-encompassing blizzard, and the sky turned into a deep red.

A figure fell straight down, slamming onto the ground.

Kenma brushed away the dust in front of him, looking at the messy scene and the corpse of Emilia cut in half in Regulus's hands, his expression somewhat breaking down.

They had already run away to live in seclusion, and yet Emilia still died?

Is this the protagonist group's canon event, dying no matter where they go?