Chapter 1594: 406: Ascension Fallen, Civilization Finale_4

Because the Ascension Clan has completely collapsed, the Mingwu Clan will now focus all its Strength to deal with it. Helping the Ascension Clan last a moment longer now, consuming a fraction more of the Mingwu Clan’s Strength, is to buy more time for itself to construct a "narrative against the Mingwu Clan."

It uses the Ascension Clan as a Shield, while it hides behind it, sharpening the blade that can strike at Mingwu’s throat.

But it has no choice.

If not aided by Shuyan, the next step will be total defeat.

The battle standoff has reached a temporary stasis due to Shuyan’s intervention.

Yet all three forces, and even the players watching live streams, understand.

The decline of the Ascension Clan is inevitable; this standoff is destined to be short-lived.

During the fierce battle among the three factions, the regional channels and live streams were lively and buzzing.

Players were guessing how long the Ascension Clan could hold out and if the inevitable defeat could be rewritten.

Regarding this, players’ opinions were quite unanimous.

Nearly all players believed that the Ascension Clan was destined to fail, and destruction was only a matter of time.

Many players asked in the live chat, expressing opinions roughly as follows:

Since the Ascension Clan is certain to fail, what’s the point of persisting? Now it should turn around and fiercely bite Shuyan, taking this faction that dragged the Ascension Clan into the war Abyss towards destruction together. What’s the point in continuing to drag on?

Just as players were hotly discussing, a forum post appeared, quickly silencing the players’ Taunt.

[Regarding some foul Taunt from live streams and regional channels, here’s my view.]

Poster: Blue Sky Above.

Content:

Everyone believes the Ascension Clan will fail, so there’s no point in persisting.

But what I want to say is, knowing you will be defeated, do you stop fighting?

Is dying while kneeling the same as dying standing?

Even if the outcome is already determined, the Ascension Clan’s choice to burn its last essence to resist should not be mocked.

The meaning behind their persistence might never have been about changing the destined outcome.

But rather to define how they move towards that outcome and decide how they will be remembered.

For the Ascension Clan, their persistence is the last Chapter written for their own civilization.

It’s a choice to be Kneeled and Annihilated by Mingwu, becoming a backdrop of mockery in their victory history books.

Or to stand tall, fighting until the Civilization Fire is extinguished in the last second, engraving the words "Ascension Clan" in Mingwu history with a burning stance, and maybe even engraved in Shuyan and in the depths of memories of us, the spectators.

The current persistence can also be seen as a proof.

Proving they existed, fought, and weren’t lambs meekly marching to their demise.

Though it can’t buy survival, it can achieve dignity.

Some may find it laughable to talk about dignity in Monster World, where winning is everything.

But put yourself in the shoes of the Ascension Clan.

They are at the end of the road; the only thing they can decide is in what role they exit.

As humble losers, or warriors who fought until the end.

This is writing the memory of the Ascension Civilization for the enemy.

Each of their Resistance tells the enemy.

What you have defeated is not a civilization begging on its knees but an adversary fighting to extinction.

This itself is the last glory the defeated can strive for in an inevitably failed outcome.

The current effort is also composing an epitaph for the entire civilization.

This epitaph records not what they’ve lost, but what they have guarded, and what costs they imposed on the enemy.

Including our players’ history, there will be corresponding records.

In the future, when players review this history, they will remember the last burning of the Ascension Clan.

Future newcomers will know there was once a faction resisting to extinction in the Ascension Sea.

The Ascension Clan is transcending for their entire civilization, hoping to complete one final, grand Ascension.

Even if this Tribulation is destined to end in downfall.

Lastly, I hope everyone gives a bit of respect.

The Ascension Clan is closing its civilization in the most radiant way.

An old rival we know is about to exit the history stage of the struggle among billions and become a memory point in player history books.

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This post’s popularity soared in a short time.

Triggering a large Resonance and share among players.

Many players put away a mocking attitude, starting to view it from another perspective, and even with a farewell emotion, casting their gaze to the battlefield burning the entire civilization as fuel.

And on the battlefield, the temporary standoff was breached.

Ye Ming refused to give the Ascension Clan any breathing room.

He swung his arms, and behind him, the endless Mingwu Army Formation erupted with a thunderous Roar, sending sound waves sweeping across the sea.

Ye Ming lightly uttered a Spell, and a Rule Imprint appeared in his palm.

A Rune appeared on it: Ten Thousand Silence Returning to the Abyss.

Instantly, the vast sea of Mingwu began to churn violently, countless mighty Netherworld Chains breached the fog sea, their bodies entwined with twisted faces crushed by the Wangyu, like tentacles from the Abyss, striking from all directions towards Ascension Island.

At the same time, high up in the dense as ink fog clouds, tens of thousands of pitch-black spears converged, their tips glimmering with cold light, showering down like torrential rain.

The Ascension Clan also made their final response.

Chi Yan let out a long Roar towards the sky, and all remaining Ascension Warriors poured Rule-derived Energy from their bodies into the Great Array without reservations.

Below, the Spirit Root Divine Pillar rose from the ground, with a Rule Rune appearing at its center, radiating ten thousand beams of Liu Guang.