Chapter 136 - Chapter 136 · The Night of the Falling Star

The night devoured the last ray of twilight, and the moonlight seemed to be torn apart. A crimson meteor streaked across the sky, plummeting straight above the Soul Temple.​On the altar, Ilea knelt on one knee, blood snaking down her bare shoulder, mingling with fragments of obsidian divine stone, like flames burning on her skin. The fallen star was reflected in her pupils, but her heart had long been trembling unceasingly—that was the precursor to the awakening of the "Falling Star Cursed Seal."​"Do you know what you have unleashed?" Karanos, the apostle of the Cracked Moon King, cloaked in black robes, slowly stepped into the center of the altar. Beneath his cape was a body entwined with runes, glowing with an eerie flame-like light. "That is the Star of Destiny, the ultimate tinder awakened by the World Breaker with blood."​Lucian stood behind Ilea, holding the blade in his hand, his gaze cold and calm. "I don't care about the cost."​He approached Ilea, his fingertips brushing the bloodstain on the side of her neck, gentle yet burning. She raised her head, a trace of longing appearing in her eyes, which was both the weariness after the baptism of war and the sign of being ignited.​"Lucian..." she whispered softly, with a hint of uncertainty, but no resistance.​He bent down to kiss her lips, the fire-like heat transmitted in the intertwined breath. His knuckles passed through her silver-white hair, and between the bites of lips and teeth, suppressed emotions erupted like a volcano. Ilea moaned, her waist trembling slightly, as if her entire body was ignited by the desire that had been imprisoned for too long.​Their bodies merged under the light of the falling star. Lucian lifted the hem of her battle robe, his fingertips diving into the already moist valley, teasing her nerves, making her breath and tremble with each deep thrust.​"Do you still want to continue resisting fate?" he whispered in her ear, his voice hoarse and seductive.​Ilea was pushed by him to collapse powerlessly, her slender hands clinging tightly to his shoulders, her nails digging into his flesh. "I just want to destroy it... at all costs."​Under the blood and starlight, they bit and entangled with each other, as if wanting to burn all the darkness and passion in the sky into ashes at this moment.​Just as the two were in ultimate union, Karanos' staff suddenly plunged into the ground, and the entire altar trembled like a wave. Runes emerged, starlight twisted, and a magic shadow condensed from darkness roared out.​"The Falling Star Cursed Seal has been activated, and the World Rift will open tonight," he sneered.​Lucian held Ilea in his arms, his eyes burning with the blazing flame of sworn protection. He kissed the bloodstains on her face with his lips, and said firmly: "Next, it's just the two of us to end all this."​Ilea nodded heavily, tears and sweat mixing on her cheeks, and flames danced in her palms.​They rose from the falling star and rushed towards the throat of fate.