"You reckless girl... Sob... You have me so worried... Sob...Sob... I thought you're gonna die... Sob...Sob..."
Vier wakes up while being hugged by her Onee-chan. Hearing her Onee-chan's cry, Vier understand that somehow, she managed to survive the fight against the Rank 6 Black Weretiger Monster.
Yet that thought is not what Vier is concerned about. After all, the place where she finds herself together with her Onee-chan is not the usual white void where the two of them would always see each other. Instead, it is an unfamiliar place Vier has never seen before.
"Where exactly are we, Onee-chan?"
Vier and her Onee-chan are standing in an open meadow of unusual white grass. It was all that their eyes could see until the edge of the horizon. Except for a 30-meter-tall Silver White Crystal Tree that stands in the middle of the meadow of white grass and a White Warrior that rests under the majestic tree.
"I don't know, Vier-chan. When I became aware of myself, I just found the two of us standing in this place."
After calming herself from the relief of seeing the girl she cares so much alive, the Phantom looks at the place Vier is looking at.
A 30-meter tall Silver White Crystal Tree. From the tree roots that can be seen above the ground to the large tree trunk and to the end of branches that spread above to create a 30-meter-wide canopy, all of which are Silver colored. Then there are the White leaves that grow on those Silver branches and under some of those White leaves, sprouts a Crystal-like flower.
As Vier and her Onee-chan wonder at the mystery of the Silver White Crystal Tree...
...SCREECCHHH!!!...
...A familiar screeching sound echoes far off from the horizon. A sound that Vier has got so used to hearing. A sound coming from hundreds, thousands of insects-like monsters.
Hearing the screeching sound as if it were some kind of a signal, the White Warrior resting under the shade of the Silver White Crystal Tree stands up and prepares itself for the battle that is about to come.
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...Bamm!...
...SCREECHHH!...
...Boom!...
...SCREECHHH!...
Vier and her Onee-chan stand in a meadow of white grass, unseen by all the monsters that come from the horizon, as they watch the White Warrior fight with everything it has.
The White Warrior has a humanoid white mannequin insect appearance. It's mostly a humanoid white mannequin at most times but as it keeps fighting the swarm of giant insect-like monsters, it will create some insect parts on its body.
Its hands would turn like mantis scythe and cut its prey, its legs would turn like grasshopper legs and crush its enemy with a single kick, and its body would turn into beetle armor and withstand any attack from those giant insect-like monsters.
It would grow wings on its shoulder like a darner insect and swiftly maneuver mid-air at incredible speed. And the most bizarre, it grows additional limbs on its back and moves it like a spider's legs to pierce its enemy.
But no matter how many enemies it defeated, the swarm of giant insect-like monsters never stopped.
Vier and her Onee-chan watched the fight until the meadows of white grass had been stained from the blood coming from the swarm of giant insect-like monsters.
Yet the White Warrior never lost itself. The emotions of madness and anger coming from those giant insect-like monsters never appeared on its face. Neither depression nor frustration. Not even sadness or loneliness.
As Vier and her Onee-chan watch its fight against the swarm of giant insect-like monsters, the Emotions of the White Warrior start to flow to both of them along with the Memories that define those Emotions.
However, those emotions are something that they can't comprehend. Something that they can't understand. Something that both of them can't believe a person would feel in the kind of hopeless situation they're watching.
The White Warrior is fighting alone, yet it doesn't even feel lonely...
...It knows that the swarm of giant insect-like monsters would never end but there's never a doubt on its determination...
...It lost everything it has except this place, yet it is still proud that it's here to defend this last sanctuary...
...It lost everyone important to its life but it's not even grieving...
...It looks past the memories of their deaths and remembers the memories of their journey...
...The White Warrior just keeps its proud smile without a stain of madness. Knowing that this might be the end, that this is its last stand, that it won't be able to protect this place, and that this will be the end of its journey.
Seeing the Memories and feeling the Emotions of the White Warrior, Vier, and her Onee-chan resolve themselves to witness its fight until the very end as they bite their lips and do their best to stop the tears that are about to come out of their eyes.
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Vier and her Onee-chan watch the White Warrior fight with everything it has, with everything it has left, as it gets knocked down by the swarm of giant insect-like monsters and probably stands up again.
They watch it get wounded and bleed but continue to fight with a proud smile on its face.
The White Warrior fought until it was overwhelmed by the sheer number of giant insect-like monsters, until it got swarmed and couldn't stand up anymore, until it wasn't able to protect the last thing it was fighting for, and until the Silver White Crystal Tree got destroyed.
After the Silver White Crystal Tree was destroyed, the beautiful meadow of white grasses disappeared, leaving nothing but dried-out grasses that had lost their colors. Yet that is just a small effect of losing the Silver White Crystal Tree. It was nothing compared to what was happening further and outside of the horizon.
The ground and air are trembling. At the end of this used to be a meadow of white grasses, Vier and her Onee-chan could see destruction they had never seen before. The ground is breaking apart, giant rocks are floating in the sky, and the sky itself is being destroyed. Like a thin layer of fabric being torn apart wherever their eyes could see.
...This place, or rather, this world is being destroyed...
That's what Vier and her Onee-chan thought as they watched this world's final moment together with the White Warrior.
All the giant insect-like monsters are gone. They vanished into thin air after destroying the Silver White Crystal Tree. Like their existence is not needed anymore after finishing their final objective.
The sudden disappearance of the giant insect-like monsters leaves the White Warrior barely clinging to its life. Its body is full of injuries with its left arm missing and many large open wounds from being bitten.
But even though it's still alive, just like this world, the White Warrior is slowly dying. Its body has been stained from the green blood of the monsters, and its clear white color is starting to fade away slowly being dried out and turning to gray.
Yet even though the White Warrior is slowly dying, it stands proudly watching the final moment of the world it tried to protect, remembering the Memories it has living in this world.
"... ... ... Is that good enough as a display of my final battle?"
...Ehh?...
"... ... I didn't look like a pathetic fool as I struggle to keep fighting, right?"
Vier and her Onee-chan are surprised when they hear a voice coming from the White Warrior.
"... That is everything I can show to you, that's everything I can give and pass to you."
...Is it looking at us? Is the White Warrior talking to us? To the destroyed Silver-White-Crsytal tree? Or is there perhaps another person, another of its kind behind us?...
Vier and her Onee-chan wanted to turn around and look back to see who it was talking to, but both of them were afraid that the White Warrior might stop talking if they did that, so they just kept looking and listening at it.
"I hope you will remember how I proudly struggle and fight...
...I hope you won't forget how I proudly stand up to protect this place...
...I hope that someday this Memory will give you strength...
...And that you can show how proud our race can be."
Vier and her Onee-chan know that the White Warrior is not talking to them, that its hope and will are not for them to carry. But as someone who watches the White Warrior fight until the end, as someone who is witnessing its final moment, they're gonna carry its hope and will, and they're gonna make sure that the people of the ReWorld will know of its story.
"Thank you..."
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Vier and her Onee-chan watch the destruction of the White Warrior's world through the very end. Not knowing that what they're witnessing is...
...A fragment of burning Memories...
...A shard of flaring Knowledge...
...A wisp of flickering Emotions...
...A Soul Ember that exists deep within the Soul of the Dungeon Core of the Forest Valley Dungeon.
A connection that Vier obtained by directly using the Monster Core of the Forest Valley Empress Monster.
A unique trait that Vier obtained with her rare condition of having both Dwarf and Elf Bloodlines in her blood.
An ability that would allow Vier to see the Memories, understand the Knowledge, and feel the Emotions that remain at every Soul Ember that rests within every Dungeon Core of every Dungeon she would one day explore and conquer.