Reborn as an Extra Chapter 588: I Know What To Do... Part-2.
Previously on Reborn as an Extra...
Had Ellie achieved SS-rank status and possessed the power to activate her shadow dragon bloodline magic, she might have pulled off yet another reverse-summoning while keeping Liam's soul out of severe peril!
Yet she lacked that strength.
Weak and powerless, she stood no chance of reaching the heights of SS-rankers in this existence, trapped within the spirit realm where her very being faced utmost suppression!
For hours on end, Ellie desperately searched her mind for a viable answer, but none emerged, and every ticking second only deepened her plight from the creeping miasmic taint!
The grand seal possessed the capacity to heal from the corruption and reform its shattered barriers given sufficient time, yet the miasma refused to allow such recovery.
Having breached the interior at last, it battled fiercely to keep corroding the grand seal's outer barriers while relentlessly withstanding the ongoing purification magic!
Moment by moment, Ellie sensed her vitality draining away and her thoughts growing sluggish as her mind and sea of consciousness steadily diminished.
Following prolonged combat, Rio could no longer hold Raika at bay; Raika's tolerance had vanished, and he unleashed his full fury, preparing to unleash a devastating skill upon Rio.
Rio, in turn, had to exert his maximum effort to avoid instant annihilation from that skill's impact, thereby entrusting the remaining tasks to Ellie.
’No! no! How can this be!?... this!!! How will I save Liam like that!?’
Those words pushed Ellie to the brink of breakdown; instinctively, she glanced toward Rio and Raika, only to realize they were distant from the enormous cage.
The vast unbroken section of the giant cage obstructed her view, blocking sight of their confrontation.
Though visibility eluded her, Ellie detected the colossal energies amassing in that area.
Throughout the region, the currents of miasma and mana shifted dramatically, causing the spirit realm to quake under the overwhelming force concentrating at that one point!
Merely perceiving those colossal powers sent shivers racing along Ellie's spine, making her feel utterly trivial by comparison.
Faced with that dire scene, Ellie dashed to conceal herself behind the massive sealed door, aware that failure to do so would mean her obliteration in the instants to follow!
The very second Ellie ducked behind the enormous door, a blinding surge of light erupted outward in every direction!
It resembled the sudden dawn of the sun within the shadowy, humid spirit realm.
Brightness flooded everywhere, compelling Ellie to shut her eyes tightly, lest she risk permanent blindness without safeguarding them!
Despite her shelter behind the giant door, crushing pressure assailed her, forcing her to huddle into a tight ball and shield herself with the scant remnants of her shadow elemental power.
A shockwave of such ferocity that it twisted and deformed the fabric of space-time rippled across the area.
Cliffs, mountains, monsters, boulders, dust, air, and more.
All vanished from reality in the blink of an eye!
The clash of Rio and Raika's full-force strikes tore open the space-time fabric, shattering it right there!
A colossal spatial rift emerged, obliterating the whole region and wiping out everything, even the remaining portions of the giant cage!
As the complete giant cage shattered, almost every outer seal layer fractured immediately!
Ellie's vision vanished in an instant as her eyeballs exploded, her ears burst with blood gushing forth, and she crumpled to the ground at once!
Gaping wounds riddled her body, blood spurting like geysers.
The central zone of the grand seal suffered some damage too, but with the miasma and its corruption eradicated alongside the space-time fabric, no lingering miasma remained to exploit the breach.
Ellie clung to awareness by a thread, evading immediate demise because Rio had channeled his strength to halt Raika's assault from utterly demolishing the grand seal.
Certain outer layer seals endured, yet they too began crumbling gradually. Ellie now teetered on the edge of death!
Raika had invoked a word-authority's might to assail and dismantle Rio, while Rio countered with his utmost power, both attacking and defending in kind.
This clash inadvertently preserved Ellie's life, though her ravaged condition offered no assurance of prolonged survival!
"HEHEHE... After all... after so many years... you are finally here... death... In the end... I still could not avoid it..."
At this stage, Ellie had resigned to her destiny.
Once she had fled to escape miasma's grasp, but death inevitably claims all souls in time.
Ellie had postponed it for a millennium!
Yet inevitably, it overtook her!
Despite years in hiding, despite enduring so long, it located her still, delivering the retribution she earned for forsaking her kin and her homeland.
Shattered in form, yet in her dying instants, enlightenment dawned like lightning, accelerating her thoughts to clarity!
’Ah~... I can see it now too... I can see why you would decide to make such a gamble Father...’
’In your last moments every person would try to erase all of their regrets after all...’
Amid her crumbling psyche and ebbing awareness, Ellie at last grasped her father's decision to fuse with every clansman.
No alternatives remained; mental breakdown loomed, and to safeguard even a flicker of hope for tomorrow, he consumed each clan soul to shield fragments of his sanity from corruption.
He required every ounce of energy and might available.
Defying fate demanded it; he waged a desperate bet against his doom and the vast miasmic ocean!
’I know what I need to do now too... thank you for showing me the way... father...’
Ellie's mangled hand, contorted through multiple 360-degree twists, gripped the space ring unyieldingly, and through all the chaos, she refused to release it.
Though brutal spatial surges battered her directly, warping and ruining her body irreparably, Ellie held fast to that space ring to her last breath.
For it marked the inaugural present from her master.
Liam had bestowed it upon their contract's forging; she would never relinquish it.
’Hehe... I know what I have to do... Thank you for showing me the meaning of life, Liam Aldif...’
’I hope that if possible... I will be able to stay by your side one day... hehe...’
Teetering on death's threshold, Elisia Mistilteinn uncovered the truth.
’I know what to do now...’