Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 211 Does victory seem to be just around the corner?
Olvera is determined to fight the curse, and she is still afraid of the curse in her heart. These two seemingly contradictory things are actually very reasonable. Because the former is the enlightenment gained after tempering, and the latter is the almost instinctive impulse that arises naturally over a long period of time. Life has both enlightenment and impulse, just like they have both rational and emotional thinking logic.

Reason tells Olvera that she is no longer the person who trembles in the darkness. With strength, faith and companions, she can fight against the curse and defeat it. But emotion will replay those painful memories over and over again, and never tire of preventing Olvera from fighting an invincible enemy.

If the presence of Lingge and others amplified the former emotion and prompted the originally timid princess to gain the faith to fight; then the ruler's approach amplified the latter emotion, causing the princess to fail to achieve the desired result no matter how hard she fought.

So, the key to defeating the BOSS lies in how to let the former emotion suppress the latter emotion.

However, as Alice worried, this theory is too idealistic and makes it difficult to start. How can we let Olvera's inner awareness suppress her impulse of fear? It is impossible to shout a few passionate slogans such as "friendship", "bond", "dream" or "because we are XXXXX" like some brainless and exciting animations, and then successfully ignite and defeat the BOSS, right?

This is a game, not a silly second dimension, so there should be a solution for the game. A special mechanism? A special buff? Or some special props? Alice pondered and fell into the anxiety of being stuck but having no forum to discuss the solution.

"I'm sorry, everyone." Avella realized that the problem was with herself and became very depressed: "It's all because of me that this happened..."

"That's not true, Sister Olvera!" Metien interrupted her loudly before she could finish, "Everyone feels scared. Don't put the blame on yourself!"

"That's right!" Xie Mi also echoed, and used himself as an example: "Like me, I can obviously beat those pathogenic rats in the sewer, but I still feel scared when I see them. This is a very normal thing!"

Can you really beat it?

"The one before that!"

"That's it!" Alice interrupted her excitedly, feeling a sense of joy as if she had suddenly realized something. "So the correct strategy is hidden here... I know what to do now, Olivia, quickly take out those pieces from your tool bar!"

"Not this one, the one before it!"

"Well, deep down inside you still have fears that you haven't even discovered yet?"

"Alas, it's impossible to completely eliminate this kind of emotion. Even the bravest people will be afraid. The one who is not afraid is not the human being, but the vegetable." Alice said to comfort him casually, and suddenly remembered something and said softly: "Wait, Ovella, what did you say just now?"

Olvera didn't know what she was going to do, and kept asking questions, but the boss just floated slowly in the night sky and looked at the scenery. It seemed that he had no intention of fighting back, so she honestly recalled: "And I also have the power of courage, longing and will..."

Metien thought the example was inappropriate, but did not expose it.

The two people's consolation seemed to have no effect. Avella shook her head gently and whispered, "I have obviously passed the test of memory and gained the belief to fight. Moreover, I also have the courage, thoughts and strength of will. However, deep in my heart, there is still a fear that I haven't even discovered. I always feel that I have failed everyone's expectations..."

"Different."

"I said, I feel like I have let everyone down."

"Hey, what fragments? You mean, these things?"

Olvera did as she was told, taking out a few crystals from the item bar and spreading them out in her fair palm. The crystals were in different shapes, sword-shaped, pentagram-shaped, and leaf-shaped, and the residual light inside them intertwined with each other, emitting a hazy halo of pale blue, milky white, and light gold. They were: [Reverberation of Courage], [Reverberation of Yearning], and [Reverberation of Will].

These crystals are props dropped after defeating the boss. Each of them symbolizes an emotion of Avra. Just place them in the prop column to automatically activate the corresponding state, providing the princess with three very practical permanent buffs. At the same time, there is a sentence written in their attribute panels: [Maybe there are unexpected functions that need to be discovered by the holder himself.] Could it be that the so-called unexpected functions refer to...

Olvera stared at the crystal in her palm in a daze, and gradually understood something. At the same time, Alice's voice came to her ears: "If there is any prop that can amplify the courage in your heart and completely suppress those fears, it must be the crystallization of these memories, Olvera. They are all the power you draw from your past memories. They have helped you defeat powerful enemies before, and this time is no exception. Try again, Olvera, this time, you will definitely succeed!"

There is another reason, which is that from a logical point of view, I have almost completed the game and have never encountered a situation where I need to use these crystal reverberations, so I can only use them at this moment. However, this reason is more rational, and now Ovira needs more emotional encouragement, so Alice chose a more inspiring statement.

A truly talented player will of course choose the most correct strategy.

The princess slowly closed her palms, feeling the mellow touch of the crystal rubbing against her palms. She nodded slightly, and a light of confidence reappeared in her eyes: "Yes!"

She took a deep breath, her eyes bright: "I'm going to do it!"

With one hand clenched three crystals symbolizing courage, longing and will, and with the other hand holding the hilt of the holy sword, Olvera's figure rushed past countless crescent moons hanging high in the sky, as if passing through a long and repetitive corridor, and rushed to the only crescent moon that was still shedding silver light. The bladeless sword cut through the void, drawing a pale blue trajectory, and pierced straight into the back of the girl on the moon.

At this moment, a strong premonition that had never been felt before suddenly came, sounding the alarm in my heart. Then the void began to twist, and the invisible gravity quickly swept every inch of space, like a prisoner who had been bound for thousands of years, and began to greedily devour the surrounding matter. The terrifying attraction caused the scene seen by the naked eye to quickly collapse and shrink into a tiny singularity. The floating crescent moon in front of me and the girl sitting on the moon suddenly split into two different phantoms in this moment when I couldn't even take a full breath. One remained in place, waiting to bear the sharpness of the sword; while the other disappeared along with the collapsed and shrinking singularity, and appeared hazily in a more distant place.

This is--

"The power of darkness is distorting the cause and effect of fate." Saint Shallia's voice was rarely serious: "You have seen its traces, Olvera, try to pull back the escaped 'result', only in this way can a complete destiny be formed."

It turned out that the enemy had used this method to avoid his attack before.

But how should we pull the “results” back?

In such a short time, the princess failed to come up with an answer, but sometimes instinctive actions are faster than the speed of thought exploration, so she stretched out her other hand almost without any hesitation, towards the direction where the phantom disappeared. At the same time, thousands of pale blue lights suddenly burst out from her tightly closed palm, accompanied by an old voice: "I just want you to know that you should be sad when you feel sad, helpless when you feel helpless, and cry when you want to cry. Facing your tears bravely is also a kind of true courage."

This is, my father's voice!?
A look of surprise flashed across Olvera's eyes. The next moment, the myriad rays of light that burst out from between her fingers seemed to be inspired by the call of the same will, condensing into a beam of light, shooting straight towards the fleeing phantom, at a speed so fast that it traveled to the end of the void, and even the gravity that had been released disappeared. The silent night solidified into a rigid oil painting. In this world of the painting, the ruler who was only one step away from distorting fate was pulled back by another invisible hand. The two phantoms overlapped, as if two time and space were reunited. The illusory body condensed into a solid entity, exposed defenselessly to the pale blue sword.

The bladeless holy sword swept across her body without hesitation, shredding the cold moonlight. With a low sound like a mountain collapsing, the mist covering the girl's body gradually faded into nothingness, and people could already see the black skirt she was wearing. The end seemed to be dragging the cold moonlight, and her feet seemed to be stepping on bright stars. Her back was aloof, elegant, and dignified.

[Shadow of the Ruler - Karabosse: HP 1/1, the embodiment of darkness, the dream of the night. Submit to her, or you will fall into the call of the eternal night. ]

Her HP did not decrease, but one sentence was missing from her description in the attribute panel.

Could it be that this was a special type of shield? Olvera didn't have time to think about it. At this moment, she was excited and had only one thought in her mind: her attack worked!

Victory seems to be just around the corner.

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)