Wisps of cold air drifted off her body.
Familiar blue text slowly appeared at the bottom of the screen. Yun Ruoxi stepped stiffly to the beat of the ED, walking slowly, and two lines of familiar blue letters emerged.
[Armor Recharge 100%, Ability: Ice]
[Emotional Cold Element: Anger, Remaining Quantity: 60%]
The brief skirmish with Zachary earlier hadn’t caused her any injury.
But it hadn’t left her completely unscathed either.
Well, “unscathed” referred to Dark Dust.
As a “Living Dead” who had undergone Emotional Separation Surgery, Dark Dust had lost all emotions and instinctual desires—not even the most basic survival instinct remained.
All her actions required stimulation from Emotional Cold Elements, so Emotional Cold Elements could be seen as her “charge.”
This was the “heavenly will” the production team had left for Lin Zhen to turn things around.
“Even a Third-level Fighter’s physique, without Third-level Fighting Arcana, is still somewhat hard to handle once Zachary and the others get close. But the main issue is that I can’t use my Telekinesis, which I’m best at, and have to rely on the armor’s ice conversion ability.”
Yun Ruoxi silently analyzed in her mind.
She looked up at Lin Zhen not far away.
The distance was about a hundred meters. It was about time for her to make a move.
If she delayed any longer, Jinsique A might notice something was off.
“Let’s go for it!”
“With 60% charge left, before I ‘shut down,’ let me make a good mess.”
Yun Ruoxi tilted her head slightly.
This was her first unusual movement since stepping out of the ice.
The frost covering her neck and both arms cracked and fell off with a crack.
Lin Zhen’s focus immediately sharpened.
He saw the frost fall to the ground, instantly melting, spreading a ring of stark white “stain” on the black earth.
Then the white “stain” erupted with blue light.
Massive ice spikes grew at a terrifying speed, crossing the hundred-meter distance in an instant, turning into a giant iceberg that stabbed diagonally straight at him.
“What an absurd star energy reserve.”
Facing an attack that could shatter any obstacle, Lin Zhen showed no panic.
He just kicked off the ground, sidestepping the ice spikes.
At the same time, he swung his right hand down hard, pointing directly at Yun Ruoxi as if locking onto her position.
“Thunder Release!”
Lin Zhen’s voice was almost inaudible beneath the crackling sound of spreading ice.
But Yun Ruoxi heard it clearly, and the moment the words fell, an intense sense of danger surged in her heart.
This attack…
She couldn’t block it. She might die.
“This guy… really is the protagonist.”
A faint smile curled the gray-haired girl’s lips.
Yun Ruoxi controlled Dark Dust to float backward.
The next second.
A thick blue pillar of light descended from the sky. It first easily tore through the barely repaired sky screen, then landed directly where Dark Dust had been.
Boom!
The earth fractured and collapsed like chocolate pressed by a heavy force, rings of shock waves spreading in all directions.
The horizontally spreading iceberg that had been chasing Lin Zhen shattered into pieces in the blast’s aftermath.
Two of those fragments, at a special angle chosen by the camera, aligned through a trick of perspective like broken mirror shards.
One reflected Lin Zhen’s calm, composed, handsome face.
The other reflected the red light mass on Dark Dust’s visor, which suddenly shrank then expanded, flickering slightly.
The scene for Episode 3 froze there.
But the audience’s urge to discuss had just reached its peak.
After all, there was no helping it—the production team had cut off at such a critical plot point.
“Who taught you to cut like this?”
“Release the next one right now, you old thieves on the production team!”
“If Episode 4 isn’t up immediately, the capital guy forbids return!”
“Wow, when did Lao Zhen get so handsome?”
“That attack was amazing.”
“Lao Zhen finally grew some balls. I’m not used to it.”
“Plus one. I’m used to watching Lao Zhen leech off Lao Xi’s thighs.”
In the world of Stellar, where barely a breath had passed, seven days flew by in the alternate dimension.
Stellar Episode 4.
The eager audience immediately opened the newly updated episode.
What appeared on the screen was not the montage of first-season clips that most viewers had complained about—“no OP but pretending to have one.”
As the production company logos flashed by one by one, the real OP appeared on the screen!
Just as the first season had released a new OP in Episode 4, the second season also released an OP at the same point.
On the screen.
The shot started from a massive Stargate, zooming in from far to near.
In a top-down view, it broke through the clouds and entered a white planet wrapped in a Planetary Ring.
A blue-haired girl in a white dress sat on a swing in the back garden of a luxury villa, swaying gently.
Suddenly, she seemed to sense something, lifting her head directly and making eye contact with the lens.
A pair of ruby-like eyes appeared in the shot.
“Don’t skip the opening, don’t skip the opening!”
“A new OP! It’s a holiday!”
“Wuwuwu, finally seeing Xiao Xi again.”
“Who’s that blue-furred ball? A new character?”
“Yeah, a character that only lives in the OP. (Squinting smile)”
“Now standing before you is 2025’s highest popularity female character, the new Jerusalem of doujinshi, the working queen who set the monthly doujinshi record, the synonym for beautiful, strong, and tragic, the woman Lao Zhen loves but can’t have.”
“There’s not enough room here for all those titles. (Annoyed)”
“With so many titles, this female character must be really strong, so when can we see her in the anime again?”
The meme-filled bullet comments flew densely.
A pair of fair arms reached in from outside the camera lens, gripped the ropes on both sides of the swing, and gave a hard push.
Swish!
The swing soared high, the girl’s skirt fluttering.
The lens then focused on the distance.
There stood a Star Logistics Tower that reached the sky, with ships bearing the Saint Hand Society emblem shuttling endlessly in the Vacuum Channel.
A gentle, non-intrusive pure melody, like an autumn evening breeze, quietly slipped in at that moment.
[Stellar Season 2]
[Glimmer]
The shot instantly shifted, giving the audience little time to wonder about “this season actually having a name.”
The main title and subtitle of the anime appeared on the screen simultaneously.
The scene came to an endless golden flower field.
Coronal Sunflowers swayed in the breeze.
Aili, in her white dress, pressed her skirt down with her right hand while picking flowers with her left.
The spaceship was parked on a clearing nearby.
Lin Zhen, Zi Jiu, and the others leaned against the lowered gangplank, chatting with broad smiles.
The grown-up Anvil wore his usual silly grin, but his eyes couldn’t help wandering toward that graceful figure in the flower sea.
“Not even pretending anymore, just spelling it out.”
“Uh oh, I feel like something’s going to happen.”
“Probably will. As everyone knows, the first couple in Stellar had a miserable end, so this—”
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