角色故事•四(解鎖條件:角色等級80)
劍,長五尺,重若千鈞,玄黑的鋒刃上佈滿裂紋,劍尖不知所蹤。
在紛亂如雨的戰事中,她曾手執此劍和戰友弟子一同殺入千足之舟,斫下步離戰首的狼頭;也曾登上高聳入雲的飛空城巢,削去羽衛們的翮羽;她與慧駰鐵蹄相抗,將六足駿馬的執轡者們盡數鎮入牢獄…在她劍鋒所向之下,孽物或死或敗,無一倖免。
她從未料到自己竟會將這柄劍指向自己的生死至交。
她喘息着,勉力支撐傷疲之身。遠處洞天中傳來悲痛的龍咆,如祈求解脫。
看着狷狂的工匠跌落在污泥中,她遊魂般走過他身畔。
「我本該先殺了你…但你還有別的罪要受,永生永世……」
她將殘劍指向龍尊。
「不可能,龍師們說過…我族之血,我祖之魂,本該造就另一個龍尊。這一切…不該是這樣的。」
「如果讓你犧牲可以令一切恢復原狀,我會做的…但現在…告訴我那頭龍的逆鱗所在。
「顱頂……」
半是龍形的孽獸掣電般在空中游過,足以吞滅海平線的身軀撞碎了又一座浮島,哀鳴聲如一千柄劍交擊。
她感到自己的丹腑在翻滾燒灼,仿佛熟透的穀粒即將脫殼掙出,膨脹至無限。
她看到自己又被困在幼年的夢魘里,凶星滅頂而來,蜉蝣無力掙扎。
女人自裙幅上扯下一條黑色的綢布,蒙住雙眼。
雷擊霆碎。她持劍躍起,迎向孽龍。
在似夢似真的幻覺中,她感到血肉終於超越了極限,開始崩解。仿佛有絲弦般的束縛,緊繃着四肢百骸,一絲絲切裂她最後的意識。
毫無來由地,那句話在耳畔響起:
「便是天上的星星,我也會斬下。」
那一瞬,她握住了夢寐以求的劍。
那是能解脫一切束縛的劍。那是一柄熟悉多年的劍。
它並非凡鐵熔鑄,而是一截堅冰凝成,幽幽含光,如握一線月光在手。
劍,長三尺七寸,輕如無物。
Character Story: Part IV
• Unlocked at Character Level 80
A sword, 5 feet in length, weighing as heavy as three thousand catties. The ebony blade is covered in cracks and the tip is broken and lost.
Amid the countless wars, she wielded this sword and, alongside her comrades and disciple, battled her way into the vast ship, decapitating the wolf-like head of the borisin Warhead. She also climbed the sky-piercing flying citadel, clipping the wings of the Feather Guards. She fought the iron cavalry of the Houyhnhnm, sealing all the riders of the six-legged steeds into prison... Whichever way her sword swung, no abomination could escape death or imprisonment.
She had never expected she would point this sword at her lifelong friend.
She gasped, barely holding her wounded body together. Far away, deeper in the delve, there came the anguished roar of a dragon, as if pleading for death.
She watched as the arrogant craftsman fell into the mud, and walked up to him like a wraith.
"I should kill you first... but you will have your own torment to bear for all eternity..."
She pointed the broken sword at the high elder.
"Impossible. The Preceptors said... The blood of my race and the soul of my ancestor should have created another high elder. All this... It shouldn't be like this."
"If your death can return everything to how it was, I would do it... But you need to tell me right now where that dragon's weak point is."
"The top of its head..."
The half-draconic abomination swam through the air in blasts of lightning. Its body, enough to swallow the very horizon, sundered yet another floating isle. Its wails were as loud as the clamors of a thousand clashing swords.
She felt her Core Esse boiling, like a ripe wheat grain about to burst out of its husk and swell to infinity.
She saw herself trapped in childhood nightmares again. The ominous planet is swallowing her overhead, and she, but an insect, cannot even struggle.
The woman tore off a spread of black silk from the edge of her skirt and covered her eyes.
The thunder struck. She leapt up with her sword towards the draconic abomination.
In a dreamlike illusion, she felt her flesh surpass its limits, beginning to disintegrate. It was as if innumerable silken threads bound her, taut across every limb and bone, each one slicing through the last vestiges of her consciousness, bit by bit.
Suddenly, she heard those words:
"I will cut down even the stars in the sky."
At that moment, she finally grasped the sword she had been seeking all this time.
It was a sword that can transcend all restrictions. It was a sword she had been familiar with for years.
It was not forged from any ordinary iron, but condensed from a shaft of sharp ice. It glowed with a dim light, as if it was a strand of moonlight held in the wielder's hand.
A sword, 3 feet and 7 inches in length, and weighs nothing.