Nova felt herself sinking into darkness, an endless expanse of darkness. But a spark appeared in that darkness, a white spark, flickering as if it were about to extinguish at any moment. Nova walked towards the spark, and as she approached, the spark burst into a vigorous fme. Nova saw a scene within the fmes, a clear yet blurry scene.

  Clear was the scene on the left, showing a man, a handsome young man with golden hair. He was strong, wearing red and white armor, and wielding a massive sword that emitted a blue glow. Blurry was the scene opposite this man, showing some lights and shadows, like glowing human figures. These figures varied in size, some as huge as castles, others as small as children. Among these figures was an even more indistinguishable presence. It seemed like all the surrounding light converged towards that presence, or rather, that presence was emitting the light.

  Then the scene moved. Nova saw the man ughing, a ugh of rage, a ugh of mockery, or perhaps a ugh of release. He ughed, then raised his sword, and swung it towards that presence...

  At that moment, the fmes began to sway and flicker erratically, then surged and erupted, engulfing the entire world. Nova wanted to reach out and stop it, but she was swallowed by the fmes. After being engulfed, Nova didn't feel any heat or burning, but rather a warmth, a comfort. Then, an immense power surged through her body, a power so strong, so incredible.

  Unlike the magic she absorbed from devouring the Shadow Weaver, this time Nova felt no pain, only a euphoric joy of rebirth! "What's happening?" Kane had just seen Nova, who was charred like charcoal, colpse towards the 'Bsphemer's shard' on the ground. Then, suddenly, white fmes erupted from her entire body, engulfing her completely.

  "Hurry up!" Brad didn't know what was happening, but he feared that the 1690 gold coin dy in front of him would disappear, and then he would lose... 1183 gold coins, plus the crystals worth eight and a half gold coins that he had spent!

  But Nova didn't disappear as he feared. The white fmes transformed into a fiery tornado that shot into the sky, and a figure appeared in the center. Then the tornado exploded and dissipated. It was Nova. There wasn't a trace of her previous injuries. Her hair and skin were completely restored. Even her severed right arm reappeared, burning with white fmes. Then Nova forcefully swung her arm, the fmes vanished, and the right arm was as good as new.

  "What the hell?!" Kane and Brad exchanged gnces and said the same thing in unison.

  Nova created a bck robe and draped it over herself, then stretched her arms. "Now it's my turn, bastards."

  As soon as she finished speaking, Nova vanished, leaving only an afterimage in her pce. "How is she so fast?" Kane wondered, but his enhanced eyes could see Nova's position. He also noticed a ring suddenly appear on Nova's finger.

  "This dy has a lot of magical items. She's quite wealthy," Kane said, sounding both sarcastic and envious.

  Then, in a fsh, Nova was upon Kane. She enveloped her hands in bck shadow and struck at Kane. "Courting death!" Kane retaliated, swinging his cws at Nova. But Nova first used the bck shadow to bind Kane's cws, then bent down, spun around, and used a Bear Paw Glove that appeared on her hand to strike Kane with the acceleration of the Wildcat Ring, sending him flying.

  Using multiple accessories simultaneously and wielding vast amounts of magic power – this was the enhancement the shard granted Nova. Besides that, Nova had also learned a new skill. It could be said that this rebirth completely transformed Nova's desperate situation. Kane was sent flying, rolling on the ground several times before using his giant cws to grip the ground and stabilize himself.

  "Kane! It's all your fault for being so slow! If you had captured that 1690 gold coin girl sooner, we wouldn't have so much trouble!" Brad shouted, his neck turning red. He felt that Kane was the reason the rge sum of gold coins he could have had was now slipping further away.

  "Mr. Brad, I think we should cooperate to defeat this dy first," Kane said. The whips with bdes on his back began to swing and sway wildly, and the bone bdes on his cws grew even longer.

  "Let me tell you, any crystals worth more than ten gold coins that are used in the following battle will be deducted from our prize money before we split it," Brad continued to shout. "This is all your fault for making me use more crystals, and if it exceeds 100 gold coins..."

  "I agree! I agree to everything!" Kane shouted back angrily. He even wanted to bite his lips off. This was the first time he had been injured since the fight began.

  "You guys are really close," Nova cracked her knuckles, her joints creaking. She stretched her legs and said to them, "I'm sure you two will be very happy to die together in a moment."

  "Courting death!" "Damn the 1680 gold coin girl... Of course, the coins aren't damn," Kane and Brad shouted separately.

  Kane's two bded whips shed out at Nova, while Brad's countless crystal missiles and sers also fired at Nova.

  Nova immediately used the Shadow Cloak to defend and the Wildcat Ring to dodge at high speed.

  Numerous explosions erupted behind her, and several sers grazed past her. With the shadow magic defense of the cloak and the high-speed reaction and agility provided by the Wildcat Ring, none of the attacks hit Nova. Nova also rolled away from the whips, which smmed into the ground. Nova then ran towards Kane along the whips.

  "You like me so much, dy," Kane said. "Then let's have a welcoming hug." As he spoke, sharp thorns gradually grew on Kane's bone armor, turning him into a porcupine.

  Then Kane forcefully retracted his whips, but not to pull them back. Instead, they pulled him, unching him towards Nova like a stone from a slingshot. Almost instantly, he collided with Nova. But in that instant, he heard the sound of something piercing flesh. He felt blood sptter on his armor. And in that same instant, he saw two slender fingers appear in the eye slit of his armor.

  It turned out that before the collision, Nova had enveloped her entire body in the bck shadow, but left only her hands exposed, allowing him to pierce them. At the same time, she extended her hands towards Kane's eyes. "Don't call me dy, just call me Xu," Nova said politely, with a smile.

  Then her fingers immediately plunged into Kane's eyes. Before Kane could react, the shadow magic surged into Kane's armor. Kane wanted to scream, but the bck shadow tendrils quickly burrowed into his throat. He was terrified. And his st thought was, 'I don't want to die like a commoner. I haven't become a noble yet!' Then Kane's armor, giant cws, and the two bded whips withered and decayed like fallen leaves, revealing a corpse with a head full of holes, like a sponge.

  "Kane!" Brad shouted. "You bitch, you killed my subordinate!" "I'm going to kill you, and then turn your corpse into shining gold coins! Then I can get 1680 shining gold coins. No, Kane has parents, so I'll have to give Kane's share to them..."

  Nova ignored the Blessed's words. She grabbed the head of the sponge-headed man, and the head transformed into countless bloody threads of flesh, burrowing into Nova's hand. In a moment, the corpse was completely devoured by Nova's hand, which briefly bulged like it was full, but then quickly returned to normal.

  "What!?" Brad was now terrified. He pointed a trembling finger at Nova. "Devil, demon, evil spirit!"

  "Perhaps you're right. Of course, whether you're right or not, there's no reward for guessing," Nova said, looking at Brad, then charging towards him.

  Brad, no longer caring about the cost, frantically summoned crystals. These winged crystals,

  Explosion, explosion, explosion. Countless explosions engulfed Nova. But then, an even more terrifying scene unfolded before Brad's eyes. He saw Nova sprout the white bone armor of the Beast Kane and charge towards him from within the explosions. Beast Gauntlets: Allows the use of flesh and bone magic when worn.

  Brad csped his hands together, and a massive, one-meter-tall circur crystal appeared above his head. The crystal began to spin, faster and faster, becoming brighter and brighter. Finally, a giant beam of light shot out from the crystal. This scorching beam devoured and incinerated everything it touched. When it struck a distant mountain, it created a massive, burning crater, the inside of which glowed red as the rocks melted.

  "Is she dead?" Brad was about to ask when he saw Nova emerge from the ground. When the beam of light struck, Nova had immediately used the newly acquired cws to dig a hole and burrow underground, while enveloping herself in shadow magic to evade the attack.

  "Damn it! Aaaaaaah!" Brad shouted. At this moment, the whips that had grown from Nova's back, with bone bdes, stabbed at him. Brad immediately used crystals to form a shield to block them.

  Nova began to circle around Brad, dodging his attacks while continuously releasing shadow magic to deplete his crystals.

  Brad was terrified, but when he realized that Nova couldn't break through his defenses, he ughed. "Our battle has been so loud, Lord Purple Man must have noticed," Brad shouted as if he had already won. "Once Lord Purple Man arrives, you're dead. And then my reward will be substantial."

  "Is that so? Thanks for reminding me," Nova said. "Then I'll finish this quickly." "What did you say?" Before Brad could react, he saw Nova conjure a sword of shadow and swing it at him.

  "Life-Sacrificing Ssh!" Nova leaped up and swung the sword, just like the man she had seen in the white fmes. The sword cleaved through the crystal shield, slicing the Blessed Brad in half.

  'How much money do I have right now?' Aware of his impending death, Brad tried to calcute his current wealth. But before he could finish, his consciousness faded.

  "Hmm?" Nova noticed that when Brad died, his body scattered and vanished into countless motes of light, leaving no corpse behind.

  Now, Nova felt excruciating pain all over her body. This was the aftereffect of the sudden and massive expenditure of magic power. But she had no time to recover. She had to run immediately.

  "But where exactly is the north?" Nova regretted not asking for directions before killing those two.

  "Go this way." A blurry, phantom-like hand pointed in a direction. "Mitty! Is that you?!" Nova asked the air.

  There was no reply. The hand from before also disappeared. But Nova felt a sensation, a sensation called hope.

  "I will find you, Mitty. I definitely will," Nova resolved, and ran in that direction.

  BayardAD: Starting with this chapter, Nova's journey truly begins – a journey brimming with emotion, both heartwarming and heartbreaking, and filled with happy recollections. And I believe the ending will hold an incredible surprise