Transforming Succubus: Almost Doomsday

The moment the door closed, the smoke dissipated.

Zhou Baiyu burst forth with searing light. It was several times brighter than when he first met Yun Duo!

His vast hopes, powerful ambitions, and endless craving for the future... all burst forth in this moment without any concealment!

Yun Duo's rebuke also came to a sudden halt amid the emergence of light.

Zhou Baiyu had thought of hundreds of ways to persuade Yun Duo, but if deep down in her heart, there was no longer a spark, if she had completely lost hope for the future...

Then no matter how eloquent he was, it would be meaningless.

However, if deep down in her heart, Yun Duo was still waiting for something. Then he only needed to show one thing—

Resolve. The determination to fight the darkness relentlessly, to burn everything.

Yun Duo looked at the Zhou Baiyu before her, radiant with light, the brightness stinging her eyes.

But she didn't even blink, staring straight at the light, letting it bring tears to her eyes.

Suddenly, her nose felt sour, and her tears kept falling, drop by drop.

Looking at this unfamiliar figure, Yun Duo saw in her mind the radiant youth from years ago.

It was as if the two silhouettes were slowly merging into one.

Her voice halted abruptly. As if all her words had melted into the light.

"Jin Yi's failure is a regret to me. But if everyone is disheartened by this failure, then his efforts would truly become a joke. This story would then be doomed to end in regret and tragedy."

Yun Duo was at a loss for words.

"I have been here for half a month now, but carrying such light, I have still not worn out my will. I will never extinguish the light within me either."

"I believe that each of you still has a spark of fire in your heart. Yun Duo, the Night Fiend is not invincible, nor is it a real god."

"The actions of Jin Yi have already shown that... the so-called gods, they too fear the light hidden within your hearts."

"Jin Yi left behind crucial information. He also proved through his actions that this place is not impregnable. It is because of his sacrifice that I found a real way to fight the Night Fiend. It's hard, but not impossible."

"Yun Duo, I need your help."

Yun Duo was overwhelmed with grief, and suddenly began to sob, her hands shaking uncontrollably:

"But Jin Yi... he's not coming back. We can't afford to lose any more."

"Jiang Xianwu, whether this world is light or dark doesn't matter to me... whether this world has a moon or not doesn't matter either!"

"Even if we have to live cautiously in the dark, clinging to a faint light, it's better than having our hopes shattered again!"

"Jin Yi was... wrong, he died because of his mistake!"

Yun Duo's words were somewhat against her own beliefs. It was as if she was trying to persuade Zhou Baiyu, but even more so trying to persuade herself.

Turning into a Darkling was akin to the death of the soul. Furthermore, Jin Yi had become a part of the night in a more pure sense.

The perpetual night's treatment of these people was extremely cruel and contemptuous to the extreme.

It plunged that radiant hero wholly into the darkness.

Gazing at the night sky, Yun Duo always felt a fearful dread within her.

Jin Yi was determined to leave to let Yun Duo see the moon.

In Jin Yi's heart, Yun Duo was the most special. In Yun Duo's heart, Jin Yi was her entire world.

"Give up... while you haven't caused a disaster, before you've suffered, give up. This is the Land of No Light, a realm without light. Whatever you do, no one will have expectations for you, people can't withstand a second failure."

Yun Duo's voice became even quieter.

Zhou Baiyu did not dim the light that emanated from his body, he simply looked at Yun Duo, calm and serious, and said:

"I actually don't know if the hope I give you is a false hope. In fact, I also don't know if I can defeat the eternal night."

"If it were not for Jin Yi's failure, it might be okay, but after hearing his experiences, I find it even harder to convince myself to stay here."

"I can't accept that after seeing the light myself, I don't have the courage of a youth who has never seen the light."

Yun Duo looked at Zhou Baiyu, wondering what kind of longing hid in his heart?

In the process of speaking these words, she was startled to find that the light he emitted was growing even stronger.

"In the outside world, there isn't just the moon; night has never been an inherently negative concept. In the outside world, there are also the colors that belong to the night."

"The moon shines upon the earth, and people under the moonlight all sleep with beautiful dreams. When the moon fully retreats, it's not the eternity of darkness that follows, but the beginning of light, the arrival of a new and bright day."

"That is life."

Zhou Baiyu's voice gradually grew louder. In fact, Yun Duo's heart was already beginning to waver.

At the moment Zhou Baiyu burst into light, at the moment she saw the long-missed figure reappear... Even if it was only an illusion, all the hopes in her heart began to awaken.

But she really feared failure, feared letting everyone down again, she was still struggling:

"We have already made our choice and have endured the pain for it... Jiang Xianwu, give up, please give up. Everyone now has no spare warmth, no more light..."

Her voice trembled and slowed, a reluctance emerging from her tone! The more this was the case, the more it indicated she was waiting for a forceful response.

And Zhou Baiyu's response was bright and fervent:

"Choose what? To live a life of regret over tragedy? I hate tragedies. It's all about shattering something beautiful for others to see, about letting good people go unrewarded, about hard work without return, isn't it? It's about you wanting to embrace the light desperately, but this world only brings you darkness."

"To hell with that! To hell with that! That's not living at all! Such existence is not what Jin Yi wanted to see!"

"He didn't want to crouch in the dark and scrape by. If we compromise here and choose to live as if in a tragedy, then he really has died! But if you're willing to chase the moon..."

"Then he is not turned into the night but is waiting for you above the night sky, at a place higher than the darkness!"

"Yun Duo, don't let him guard the moon alone!"

The last sentence, like an axe splitting the darkness, moved Yun Duo to tears, increased in volume, but the light in her eyes also began to grow brighter.

Silence.

In the whole room, it seemed only the sound of their heartbeats remained.

The light gradually receded, and the smoke appeared again. After Zhou Baiyu's fervent outcry, the light coming from him started to be obscured bit by bit. Those bright hopes began to hibernate little by little.

After a while, Yun Duo wiped her tears and choked up:

"Jiang Xianwu. Is there really a moon in this world?"

"There is."

"Then take me to see it, including the part that belongs to Jin Yi."

The room had not become completely dark because Yun Duo's body began to emit a faint white glow.

The weak light illuminated the beautiful and lean face, as well as the girl's tear-streaked smile.

Zhou Baiyu struck his chest with his hand, making a promise more significant than life itself:

"Good, I'll take you to see it, my word is my bond!"