My Avatar is Becoming the Ultimate BOSS-Chapter 852 - 416: The Death of Xia Pingzhou

He reached out and embraced Anluns' body. The piercing thorns instantly penetrated Urushibara Osamu's shoulder, and blood spread along the black tailcoat.

But at the same time, a stunningly beautiful panorama unfolded slowly around him!

——The Qingming River Painting.

It was like a ring encompassing all things, swallowing up the thorns that swept in from all directions.

The next second, accompanied by a flock of crows passing over their figures, Urushibara Osamu and Anluns vanished from the outskirts of the World Tree, returning to the distant glacier.

At the same time, the slot machine thrown into the sky suddenly exploded, transforming into deep red firelight, shooting upward.

Like burning rotten wood! Completely incinerating the deepest layers of branches within the tree hollow, opening an unprecedented gap.

At this moment, the Queen Giant had already reverted to its original form from the fusion.

She was no longer that aloof black sun. Now, she was but a mortal body.

She stepped closer to Ayase Origami, with her eyes downcast, kneeling towards the corpse in the arms of the girl in the kimono.

In that second, the Queen Giant's body trembled slightly as she saw Xia Pingzhou's blood-stained lips move ever so lightly. Understanding passed between them, and she comprehended what he was conveying:

"Go on... Skogul."

The Queen's Statue stared at him blankly. Skogul, that was the name he had given her...

He said it was just a name randomly picked from Nordic Mythology.

But to her, it was a unique name, the only thing bestowed upon her in this world.

"By your command."

Skogul whispered softly, closing her eyes briefly, then lifted the dagger embedded in the ice surface and stood once more.

At that moment, Skogul opened her eyes.

A cold blue flame reignited in her pupils, and her figure burst forth like lightning, treading on the enormous thorns stretching towards her, her form leaping through the air like a sea swallow crossing the waves.

The Empress launched her final assault on the World Tree.

Gray-black paper storms still raged across the World Tree's surface, with the slot machine's explosive firelight creating an unprecedented pit on the World Tree's surface.

The dying blows of the others paved the way for her; Skogul's nihilization could only be maintained for two seconds.

Yet within those two seconds, her body was like a transparent eagle, piercing through countless thorns in an instant, spanning hundreds of meters in a blink.

She traversed the world built of black and red, with paper pages flying everywhere, fiery red flames clinging to the World Tree's surface, and endless thorns and branches passing over her body.

She kept moving forward.

One hundred meters.

Five hundred meters.

One thousand meters.

Two thousand meters.

Finally, at the moment when that transparency faded from her body surface, the Queen Giant saw the heart of the World Tree. In that cave constructed from thorns and flowers, she saw a girl, a completely naked girl.

Shang Xiaoqi had her eyes closed, her body entwined with thorns, a pained expression on her face.

If it weren't for the tremendous assistance from others, Skogul would never have had the chance to reach here, to see Shang Xiaoqi. When approaching the World Tree's core, she would have been pierced by the thorns.

But she made it.

This was a fleeting second, just before being engulfed by the sea of flowers and thorns, Skogul leapt towards Shang Xiaoqi embedded in the tree body, stabbing her chest with the dagger, grinding her heart to shreds.

As if uprooting a tree, Skogul used another dagger to behead her.

"Swoosh——!" Blood sprayed out like a crimson tide, dazzlingly bright.

Shang Xiaoqi died.

In the utter stillness, Skogul slowly closed her eyes.

A dazzling crimson light burst from the chest of the headless body, myth fragments shattered at this moment, countless thorns wrapped around Skogul's body, shredding her into a hazy blood mist.

Immediately afterward, a majestic giant tree spanning thousands to tens of thousands of meters began to collapse step by step in the southern part of the Hof Glacier, triggering an unprecedented avalanche.

Snow…

Snow covering the entire sky.

Like a flood, the ultimate whiteness instantly covered the entire world.

At the same time, the pupils of everyone reflected the same message panel.

[Game Over, the victors of this game are the "Players", the administrators have been defeated.]

[Returning to the Real World shortly.] 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

The world was one vast expanse of white, as hazy and indistinct as a painting washed by water.

The girl in the kimono bowed her head, holding tightly to a cold corpse, blood tears streaming down her face. Soon, their figures were swallowed by the snowfall together.

Disappearing without a trace.

The snow continued to fall.

The world fell silent.