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Chapter 1222: Against All Hope
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RavenNightshade

RavenNightshade 8 Nov 2025, 02:36

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Even if the Saints do a back and forth, they'll be delivering themselves from one titan to another two. And what's to say the skinwalker wouldn't go out of the Gate.

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  Smile of a Hostage 16 Nov 2025, 07:17 ➥ RavenNightshade
  
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  true and there is already a great titian in antarctica with the tentacles who 1 shot saint madoc so it is not any better to leave.
  
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Atlas

Atlas 12 Oct 2025, 13:39

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Peak chap

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Tounga 25 Sep 2025, 14:18

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W chap

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Zy7r

Zy7r 26 Aug 2025, 11:58

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Summer knight is probably my favourite saint aside from tyris, he seems like a genuinely good guy unlike most saints

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  ScoredItalics 28 Aug 2025, 04:37 ➥ Zy7r
  
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  It seems the good saints come from valor lmfao
  
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    Zy7r 29 Aug 2025, 03:04 ➥ ScoredItalics
    
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    True so far we've seen nothing good come out of song
    
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ChaoticDestroyer 12 Aug 2025, 15:00

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Is killing the puppets doing any damage to the real creature or are they just dealing with it's seeds?

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  ScoredItalics 28 Aug 2025, 04:38 ➥ ChaoticDestroyer
  
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  Knowing this novel, probably it's offspring...
  
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    RavenNightshade 8 Nov 2025, 02:37 ➥ ScoredItalics
    
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    But they share consciousness though. So they should be working like some sort of a hivemind
    
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Sewingbean083 17 Jul 2025, 12:18

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Aren't 2 Saints enough to get everyone the hell out of there?

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  True name 6 Aug 2025, 21:24 ➥ Sewingbean083
  
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  Naah one saint can only bring 1 or 2 people with them
  
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  ScoredItalics 28 Aug 2025, 04:38 ➥ Sewingbean083
  
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  Plus, it might not be a good idea to go back because there is two great monsters maybe great titans back in the overworld
  
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  iks 3 Oct 2025, 00:40 ➥ Sewingbean083
  
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  yeah but escaping from one titan into two doesnt seem like a good idea
  
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Gerhman_Sparrow23 11 May 2024, 05:14

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Atleast now they should realise that infighting will only result in mutual destruction. They should know that they have to unite to survive the dream realm yet they are delusioned with their clan shit and whatnot

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  wotpe 5 Oct 2024, 09:15 ➥ Gerhman_Sparrow23
  
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  Morgan did agree that they look crazy for outside observers. We are probably missing some key information about the reason of their war
  
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    Gerhman_Sparrow23 6 Oct 2024, 08:42 ➥ wotpe
    
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    Then they should keep everyone out of it and settle things with a one-on-one duel. Whoever wins becomes the sole supreme, simple as that.
    But your claim also reminds me of that sacrificial ritual to the sun of dark city of forgotten shore as well as many other sacrificial rituals done in the pretext of war in LOTM world. If it is something like that then it is understandable.
    
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  ARandomReader 2 May 2025, 17:44 ➥ Gerhman_Sparrow23
  
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  I agree. And before their goal was victory. Now it should be survival.
  
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  Rãōõñ 1 Aug 2025, 23:12 ➥ Gerhman_Sparrow23
  
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  It's probably sovereigns that are deciding all this i just don't understand what's stopping some to form cohort and challenge fourth nightmare of course i think it'll have something special in store
  
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Om3ga Opiness😎 22 Oct 2023, 19:24

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Missing chapter 1219
Chapter 1219 Silver Sun
'Think, think, think…'

They had a very small chance of coming out of this fight alive. However, there was always hope, no matter how impossible the odds.

What was hope? Hope was a desire… perhaps the paramount desire. A yearning so powerful and resilient that it could hardly be vanquished or destroyed. The darkest and most inescapable despair could not conquer hope. Even demons in hell hoped to reach heaven one day.

They longed to see their deepest desires come true, and that longing alone could make them continue suffering and struggling instead of searching for solace in the peaceful embrace of death.

Life was war, after all.

Hope… desire… it was a powerful thing.

'Longing.'

Sunny glanced at Nephis, considering. She was the only one among them capable of dealing permanent damage to the vessels of the Gate Guardian. Her soul flame seemed to be like poison to the abominable creature — the wounds Sunny and the others had dealt to the corpse of Master Xu would instantly heal, but the puppet that had attacked Neph was burned to death by it.

A hurricane of thoughts flashed through his mind in a split second.

'She's our best chance.'

If they could survive today, it would be through the power of longing that the Light Bringer Aspect seemed to contain. The soul flame...

Pure, cruel, and incorruptible.

There was no time to think. Starting to move, Sunny connected the minds of the seven Masters together through the Blessing of Dusk.

[We need to destroy the creature in front of us before the one behind catches up. There is no other way — we might not even be able to fight one, so fighting two at the same time is a death sentence. The six of us will restrain it. Nephis will kill it. Go!]

They had maybe a handful of seconds before the pursuer showed up. The seven of them had to slay a Great abomination before that happened.

Usually, it would have been impossible to even deal minor damage to a creature two whole Ranks above their own level. Sunny had failed to pierce the skin of the first Fallen abominations he met as a Sleeper, after all… nevertheless, that abomination died in the end.

The gap between Ranks was vast, but it was not absolute. There was nothing indestructible in the world, and even the gods were dead. Everyone — and everything — was vulnerable to something.

None of them were ordinary Masters, and each had accumulated much more tools and killing implements than any Sleeper could ever possess. Better yet, there was someone among them whose Aspect countered the powers of the Gate Guardian.

Sunny knew that he had to use the best weapon at his disposal to destroy the enemy.

Right now, his best weapon was not the Sin of Solace.

It was Nephis.

Gritting his teeth, Sunny dashed forward. At the same time, all his shadows left him and embraced her, turning the hue of her white flame colder and more menacing. She had trusted him to kill Dire Fang… now, Sunny was going to trust Nephis to kill the vessel of the Gate Guardian barring their path.

As soon as the shadows slid from the blade of the Sin of Solace, the vague figure standing near him suddenly grew more blurry, and clicked its tongue in disappointment.

"Ah. And things were just getting fun."

Sunny ignored it.

There was no need to discuss anything — everyone knew what they had to do. All seven of them lunged at Master Xu.

It was hard to attack a single target without getting in each other's way. And yet, they managed.

A black arrow pierced one of his eyes, followed by a white one that destroyed the other. The corpse's head jerked back.

At the same time, an iron rain of shurikens shredded its chest and right shoulder, almost severing the entire arm. Jet knew that her power was not enough to damage the creature's soul — abandoning her most feared Ability, she aimed to reduce the creature's mobility instead.

Effie's Transcendent spear shot toward one of Master Xu's knees, while Morgan's sword flew at another with lightning-fast speed.

Seishan's claws sank into his left shoulder and elbow, tearing both joints apart.

The Sin of Solace hissed through the air as it fell on the creature's head.

Their task was to slow the Gate Guardian down and allow Nephis to deliver the fatal strike.

But…

As the two arrows exploded from the back of Master Xu's head in a fountain of blood and brain matter, his eyes had already restored themselves, burning with malice and glee.

The shurikens fell into the sand as the flesh mangled by them rippled and was immaculately restored.

The corpse took half a step, and both Effie's spear and Morgan's sword somehow missed.

Seishan's eyes widened.

Sunny cursed under his breath.

"Damna…"

The corpse exploded forward.

Effie's shield shattered as she was thrown back. Seishan fell down, sharp shards of bone protruding from her broken arms. Morgan blocked with her sword, but the sword burst into countless steel shards. She was sent flying in a whirlwind of scarlet sparks and blood.

Sunny barely avoided having his neck sliced open by falling into the shadows.

The creature… refused to be slowed down.

And Nephis was now alone, face-to-face with it.

'...tion!'

Her radiant sword shot forward with unimaginable speed, its vicious blow enhanced by the full force of the soul flame and the five shadows.

However…

Master Xu simply raised his hand, catching the incandescent blade in a fist and easily shattering it.

The fingers of his other hand wrapped around Neph's neck.

For a moment, everything seemed to stand still...

Sunny was emerging from the shadows, but he was slow, too slow. Too slow to change anything.

…Then, Neph's neck snapped like a twig. Her body grew limp.

'...'

His mind was empty.

For a split second, everyone froze, petrified.

In that moment of shock, Neph's hand rose and grabbed the creature's wrist.

The sparks dancing in her eyes suddenly ignited, turning into two blinding stars.

White radiance shining through the gaps of her broken armor became larger, hotter, and infinitely brighter.

She was like a mass of blinding silver light, not too different from the merciless white sun that burned in the scorched sky.

A moment later, her radiance exploded into a flurry of flames, which swallowed both her slender silhouette and the abominable corpse of Master Xu.

Suddenly, the unbearable heat of the desert seemed mild and cold.

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  Om3ga Opiness😎 22 Oct 2023, 19:26 ➥ Om3ga Opiness😎
  
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  Missing chapter 1220
  Chapter 1220 Indestructible
  A towering bonfire of pristine flames enveloped both Nephis and the vessel of the Gate Guardian, rising high into the sky. It bloomed like a beautiful white flower, suffused with both brilliant radiance and incinerating heat.
  
  The soul flame burned so hot that, for a moment, Sunny actually felt dreadfully cold, as if he had been transported back to the frigid fields of the Antarctic Center.
  
  With a curse, he staggered back, fell, and rolled away.
  
  'Hell!'
  
  Neph's flames could be warm and nurturing, healing and purifying anything they touched. But they could be ruthless and ferocious, destroying everything in their path.
  
  Sunny knew that he would not survive a plunge into the blossoming bonfire — he might have shared a bond with Nephis, but he did not share the lineage of Sun God with her. Even then, Changing Star was not immune to the destructive fury of the fire — she was only capable of being locked in the cyclic agony of having her flesh burned, restored, and then burned again without dying.
  
  He thought that he heard a distorted shriek escape from the flames, but it was swallowed by the dull roar of the immolating blaze. Nephis and the abomination were in the center of the dire conflagration, their figures obscured by its radiance — he did not know what exactly was happening there, just that only one of them would emerge from the flames alive.
  
  The sand around the white bonfire was already melting, soon to turn into black, brittle glass.
  
  'Curse it…'
  
  Sunny could not allow himself to be concerned about Nephis right now.
  
  Because while she had dealt with Master Xu — at least temporarily
  
  — there was still another vessel of the great abomination coming after them.
  
  Jumping to his feet, he spun around.
  
  Seishan had both her arms wrenched and cruelly broken, while the extent of Morgan's wounds was unknown. Effie had received a blow from the Gate Guardian, as well, but her shield had protected her from harm — at the cost of being destroyed.
  
  So, only Sunny, Effie, and Kai were left standing.
  
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  And Saint.
  
  He senses the movement of shadows.
  
  [Here it comes!]
  
  A dark blur flashed across the desert, lunging at them from behind.
  
  As it did, Effie's spear collided with it in mid-air.
  
  The huntress had tossed it with terrible speed and precision, catching the vessel of the Gate Guardian in the chest. The whole upper torso of the taken corpse exploded, instantly pulverized into a ghastly stream of viscous crimson liquid.
  
  Propelled by inertia, the mutilated corpse flew several dozens meters forward, the crimson stream stretching behind it as if suspended in the air.
  
  Then, however, the liquid was pulled back and reformed into a Before it could, a flaming arrow hit the half-formed corpse and exploded, obliterating its entire left side.
  
  human silhouette, still a split second away from turning back into flesh.
  
  Before it could, a flaming arrow hit the half-formed corpse and exploded, obliterating its entire left side.
  
  The Gate Guardian was not disturbed.
  
  The mangled corpse calmly walked forward, its flesh already growing back. Its shattered ribs were assembled from bloodied fragments, and its bared heart grew whole before starting to beat once again. One mocking eye had already appeared from the liquid mess of its destroyed face.
  
  Sunny felt a chill run down his spine.
  
  'What… what the hell…'
  
  The sight in front of him was so terrifying that it almost appeared ridiculous.
  
  Greeting his teeth, Sunny dashed forward.
  
  He was not in good shape… in fact, his state was terrible. Not only was he utterly exhausted, sapped of all energy by the merciless heat, and low on essence, but he was even devoid of the support of his shadows.
  
  It had been a long time since Sunny had to enter a serious fight without being augmented by at least one of them. Without their familiar enhancement, he felt slow, fragile, and weak.
  
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  'Doesn't matter. It's do or die…'
  
  The Sin of Solace laughed, amused by his defiant resolve to give it his all.
  
  "No, no... it's just die..."
  
  Sunny and Saint arrived near the vessel of the Gate Guardian at the same time. Acting as one, they attacked the creature from different sides. A sword made of darkness and a sword made of immaculate white jade struck in unison, aiming to prevent the corpse from taking another step.
  
  Somewhere behind them, Morgan rose from the sand with a groan. Her sword was destroyed, but she didn't seem to care — her vermilion eyes blazed with murderous fury, and the Princess of War shot forward like a piercing arrow.
  
  Seishan's eyes rolled back, revealing a different pair of pupils — these ones inhuman and monstrous, surrounded by a sea of red. Her graceful figure suddenly grew much taller — taller than Effie, even when hunched. Her limbs elongated, and long claws extended from her fingers. Her smooth grey skin suddenly turned rough like that of a shark.
  
  Finally, the monster's jaw unhinged, revealing several rows of terrifying triangular teeth.
  
  Kai was pale and somber, drawing the string of his bow.
  
  '...Not good.'
  
  Sunny tore the Sing of Solace out of the body of the great abomination and desperately dodged. Perhaps because the corpse did not fully recover from the previous barrage of attacks, its movements were much slower — barely faster than those of Dire Fang had been.
  
  Still, there was no hope for him to escape the retaliation.
  
  Instead of trying to simply evade the strike, he simultaneously delivered a backward cut with his sword, slicing through the elbow joint of the corpse.
  
  That allowed Sunny to avoid the crushing blow by a hair's breadth.
  
  Saint received a bloody fist on her shield and was thrown back, crashing into the slope of a dune.
  
  At that moment, Jet was already there.
  
  Instead of relying on enchanted weapons, she struck the abomination with her fist. It passed through the chest of the vessel unopposed, directly attacking its soul.
  
  Morgan was there, as well. Her palm fell like an executioner's axe, severing the creature's spine.
  
  And finally, the monstrous figure of Seishan appeared by the Gate Guardian's side. Her arms were still broken, hanging limply. Instead of relying on her claws, she sank her frightening teeth into the taken corpse, ripping away a huge chunk of its neck, shoulder, and upper chest.
  
  'There has to be a limit to how much punishment that thing can take… there has to be…'
  
  A desperate hope burned in Sunny's chest.
  
  …But if there really was a limit, it seemed that the creature had not reached yet.
  
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    MTL Ancestor 22 Oct 2023, 19:56 ➥ Om3ga Opiness😎
    
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    Thank you
    
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give me six digits 22 Oct 2023, 18:49

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Or else...

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Guru

Guru 22 Oct 2023, 16:06

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"...What if I do?"

Sir Gilead's face remained calm.

Dunno about u but I think we’re missing a line here

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  Vernaidia 22 Oct 2023, 19:25 ➥ Guru
  
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  she asked, his face remained calm and he responded with "i'll kill you" what is missing ?
  
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Chapter 1222: Against All Hope
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