Primordial Expanse: I have the Strongest Talent!

Mira blinked, her vision blurred by tears.

Her mind was too overwhelmed with grief that she had nearly lost her grip on reality.

The sound of Alex's voice, the one she missed the most but knew couldn't be real, kept echoing in her ears.

Slap!

That same feeling of something brushing her face appeared once again, but she shut her eyes tighter, her chest heaving with every breath, trying to block out the cruel delusion.

But then, she felt it again — a touch, firm but gentle, on her shoulder.

Stroke!

Her eyes flew open as the sensation jolted her out of her haze.

"MIRA!"

Her heart skipped a beat as she looked up, the world spinning slightly as she regained her bearings.

Blinking through the haze of tears, she saw him.

Alex — tattered, battered, naked, but unmistakably real — stood right in front of her.

His body was covered from head to toe in burns, dirt, blood, but his eyes were alight with the fire of life, and a little desperation as he seemed a little panicked.

He was waving his hand frantically in front of her face, trying to get her attention, his fingers trembling slightly as they brushed her cheek.

"Mira! Is anybody in there!?" he said again, his voice hoarse and raw but undeniably real.

Mira gasped, her breath catching her throat as she stared at him in disbelief.

For a moment, she couldn't comprehend what she was seeing.

Her mind had been so convinced of the worst — that Alex had sacrificed himself in the battle against the King of Evermoor.

She was already grieving him, mourning him, doing anything to avoid accepting the unimaginable loss.

And yet, here he was — standing right in front of her.

"You… You're alive…" Mira whispered, her voice cracking, barely able to speak as a flood of emotions surged through her.

Alex gave a weak grin, still breathing heavily as he clutched her shoulder tighter.

"Barely." he rasped, coughing from the strain. "But yeah… I'm alive."

Mira threw her arms around him without hesitation, pulling him into a tight embrace.

Her tears of grief turned into tears of overwhelming relief as she buried her face in his chest, her hands clutching onto him as if he might disappear again if she let go.

His body was weak, trembling from exhaustion and injury, but she didn't care.

All that mattered was that he was here — alive.

"I thought… I thought I lost you…" Mira whispered shakily as she sobbed into his chest.

Alex chuckled weakly, wincing as the movement of his chest, combined with Mira's arms wrapped tightly around it, sent a wave of pain through his battered body.

"I thought I lost me too for a second there," He spoke softly, weakly lifting his arms to reciprocate the tight lock she had on his body.

"But hey… I guess it takes more than an oversized lizard to finish me off."

She pulled back slightly, just enough for Alex to see her snotty, tear streaked face now with a mix of disbelief.

"How… how did you…?"

"I don't even know," Alex admitted, all his exhaustion coming out at once. "Let alone the King of Evermoor, that fall alone should have turned me into a bloody meat soup, but I guess the explosion when my sword met the King produced enough force to cancel my momentum out and send me flying in another direction."

He gestured weakly toward the massive abyss that now dominated the landscape.

"I guess since we were only a few dozen kilometres up — instead of the tens of thousands of kilometres of momentum I had built up — combined with the fact that the ground below had been covered with a thick, soft layer of ash, saved me from becoming that meat soup."

Mira's mind was still too weak from the intense waves of emotions she was going through to comprehend what he was telling her.

All she took away from it was that Alex had survived, which was all she cared about.

"The King…?" Mira whispered, glancing back at the fallen beast. The sight of the emotionless creature, still sprawled in the pit, gave her both a sense of relief and lingering fear.

Alex followed her gaze, his expression hardening. "Dead, thankfully."

Mira hesitated, her heart still pounding wildly. "But it got back up after your attack…"

Hearing this, Alex could only awkwardly scratch his cheek as he laughed nervously.

"...That's because it landed on top of me… I had to move it so that I could get up…"

"..."

"..."

A short bout of silence ensued after Alex revealed this bit of information.

Mira blinked in disbelief, then suddenly burst into laughter.

It was a mixture of relief, exhaustion, and sheer absurdity.

All that terror she felt, all that grief, only for Alex to nonchalantly reveal that the very reason she broke down was because of a misunderstanding.

She doubled over, laughing so hard her stomach hurt, tears still streaming down her face.

She even brought Alex down with her, which didn't quite bode well with his delicate body at the moment.

"Ouch!"

Alex swore he could hear a snap when he landed on top of Mira…

"Sorry!"

Though Mira quickly realised her mistake and helped him up with as much delicacy as she could.

Considering his state, if another beast suddenly came in and took them by surprise, he might not be so lucky the second time around.

"I guess it's your turn to protect me haha."

But Mira quickly moved on from the subject, instead asking another question she was very curious to know the answer to.

"How come the King died instead of regenerating like he did after the first explosion?"

At first, when Mira saw the King's appearance after the smoke dissipated, and witnessed the steam rising from its body, she thought it would start regenerating again like it did after his first attack.

But such a thing clearly didn't happen, otherwise they wouldn't be so carefree right now…

"That's simple, I just dealt enough damage to it that its regeneration was overwhelmed. After all, if it could regenerate no matter the damage it received, it wouldn't just be a King class C- rank beast, it would have to be unimaginably strong to be able to achieve such a feat."

"Though I would have never been able to clear that threshold without the sort of luck I had today. Who would have thought that the lack of a limit on momentum in the Primordial Expanse would actually be of benefit to me instead of a hindrance!"

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