Reborn as an Extra Chapter 588: I Know What To Do... Part-2.
Previously on Reborn as an Extra...
Perhaps if Ellie held the power of an SS-ranker and could unleash her shadow dragon bloodline magic, she might have pulled off a second reverse-summoning without endangering Liam's soul too severely!
Yet she possessed no such strength.
Weak and powerless, she stood no chance of climbing to the heights of SS-rankers in this existence, trapped as she was in the spirit realm with her very being crushed under extreme suppression!
For hours, Ellie strained her mind desperately, yet no viable answer emerged to her dilemma, and every ticking second only deepened the toll of the miasmic corruption!
Given sufficient time, the grand seal might mend the damage and reform its shattered barriers, but the miasma refused to allow such recovery.
Having breached the defenses at last, it battled fiercely to devour the grand seal's outer barriers while withstanding the relentless assault of purification magic!
Moment by moment, Ellie sensed her vitality draining away, her thoughts growing sluggish as her mind and sea of consciousness weakened relentlessly.
After prolonged struggle, Rio could no longer distract Raika; the warrior's tolerance had shattered, and he unleashed his full fury, preparing to unleash a devastating skill upon Rio.
Rio, compelled to match that intensity to avoid instant annihilation from the skill's force, now entrusted the remaining task to Ellie.
'No! No! How could this happen!?... This!!! How am I supposed to rescue Liam now!?'
Those words pushed Ellie to the brink of despair; instinctively, she glanced toward Rio and Raika, only to realize they were distant from the massive cage.
A vast section of the unbroken cage loomed as an obstacle, blocking her view of their clash.
Though sight eluded her, Ellie perceived the colossal energies amassing in that direction.
The currents of miasma and mana across the whole area had shifted dramatically, sending tremors through the spirit realm from the overwhelming power converging at one point!
Even Ellie shivered with dread upon detecting those vast forces, feeling utterly dwarfed in their presence.
Faced with that peril, Ellie dashed to conceal herself behind the enormous sealed door, aware that failure meant her obliteration in the instant to come!
Scarcely had Ellie ducked behind the door when a blinding surge of light exploded outward in every direction!
It was like dawn breaking within the gloomy, sodden spirit realm.
The brilliance flooded everywhere, compelling Ellie to shield her eyes, lest she suffer blindness!
Despite the door's cover, crushing pressure bore down, forcing her to huddle tightly, drawing on her scant shadow elemental power for any safeguard.
A shockwave of such ferocity warped and twisted the very fabric of space-time across the region.
Cliffs, peaks, beasts, rocks, debris, atmosphere—
All vanished in the blink of an eye!
The space-time continuum tore open from the collision of Rio and Raika's maximum assaults, fracturing right there!
A rift in space, immense enough to ravage the entire zone and wipe out all within—including the remnants of the giant cage—ripped into being!
As the full cage shattered completely, almost every outer seal fragmented immediately!
Ellie's vision vanished in agony as her eyes burst, her ears split and bled profusely, and she crumpled to the ground at once!
Gaping wounds riddled her body, blood gushing like springs.
The grand seal's central zone suffered some harm too, yet with the miasma and its corruption eradicated alongside the space-time, no lingering threat exploited the breach.
Ellie clung to awareness by a thread, evading instant demise because Rio had channeled his might to halt Raika's strike from utterly demolishing the grand seal.
Certain outer seals endured, though they too began crumbling gradually. Ellie now teetered on death's edge!
Raika had invoked word-authority's might to assail and shatter Rio, yet Rio countered with his utmost strength, turning offense into a bulwark.
This spared Ellie's life as well, though survival remained uncertain in her ravaged condition for much longer!
"HEHEHE... After all... after so many years... you are finally here... death... In the end... I still could not avoid it..."
At this stage, Ellie had resigned to her destiny.
She had fled once to escape miasma's grasp, but death arrives for all eventually.
Ellie had postponed it across a millennium!
Yet it pursued and overtook her!
Despite endless hiding and endurance, it tracked her down, delivering the retribution she earned for forsaking her kin and homeland.
Shattered in form, enlightenment dawned in her dying instants, igniting her mind with sudden clarity!
'Ah~... Now I understand it as well... I see why you took that desperate risk, Father...'
'In one's final breaths, everyone seeks to wipe away their regrets, after all...'
Through her crumbling psyche and dimming awareness, Ellie grasped at last why her father fused with every clansman.
No alternatives remained; madness loomed near, and to safeguard even a flicker of hope for tomorrow, he consumed each soul to shield fragments of his sanity from taint.
He required every ounce of vitality and strength available.
Defying fate demanded it; he staked everything against his doom and the vast miasmic abyss!
'I understand my path now too... thank you for guiding me... father...'
Ellie's mangled hand, contorted through multiple full rotations, gripped the space ring unyieldingly, refusing release amid the chaos.
Though spatial tempests battered her, twisting and ruining her frame irreparably, she held fast to that ring to the last.
For it marked the inaugural present from her master.
Liam had bestowed it upon their contract's forging; she would never relinquish it.
'Hehe... I know my duty... Thank you for revealing life's purpose, Liam Aldif...'
'If fate allows... I hope to remain at your side someday... hehe...'
On death's threshold, Elisia Mistilteinn uncovered the truth.
'I know what to do now...'