Heavenly Opposers

Valencia walked away, her back not even turning once while Xiao's body fell to the ground. There was a hint of peace on his face, while regret grew in his heart that he couldn't get to know what had happened to Yurou. Like that, the story of two people connected by fate severed that day.

...

An unknown time later:

'So this is the end?'

Valencia thought as she gazed at the destruction that was consuming the cosmos. She sat on an enormous throne, her eyes fixed on the Heavenly tree which was rotting away. It had lived through time immemorial, yet now it was fading away, dying, and soon so would she.

Her gaze remained calm within the impending doom. All around her, the cosmos was breaking and decaying away. Trillions of lives were being lost and forgotten. Valencia had changed a lot. She had gone through many things, but even in the end, they had lost to 'it'. No matter how heaven-defying the talent they had, in the end, they all failed to stop the end.

Even that 'guy' with all his ridiculous blessings of power and talent had fallen. All that was left was she, who was barely resisting the decay. Using the last remaining fate of the very cosmos itself to sustain her life, a feat that would astonish all the realms. But now, who was she to share these moments with? What was remaining for her?

She had reached powers and heights others could barely imagine. Gods that reigned supreme backed off, ancients that hid in plain sight feared her, and supreme beings of time and even space dared not belittle her. Even the Origins treated her with respect. After all, she is...

The bewitching Fateless God.

She had everything, and now there was nothing. Everything she knew was already long gone. Her mother, her masters, her allies – they had all gone, and she would soon join them. Her hands turned to stone in her grasp, something capable of changing the world, giving it a second chance. But would it help?

'No, it won't.'

Valencia shook her head. She knew that even if she went back, even if she knew everything, she would not be able to change the outcome of the cosmos. No matter how much they prepared, no matter how much she planned, against 'it,' nothing would have worked, and death would be imminent.

'But why do I feel that I am missing something?'

Within the vast emptiness that surrounded her, Valencia couldn't describe what she was feeling. Her eyes reflected death, but she couldn't feel anything. She had long since forgotten the last time she had felt. Musing to herself, she decided to do something that she hadn't done in a long time.

She chose to remove her suppressor.

She had long since gained complete control of her powers. After all, strength is only useful if you have control over your powers. She had never thought of removing her suppressor because she knew once she did, all the feelings of pain, sadness, regret, hate, everything would hit her. Valencia wasn't sure if she could handle it. But now everything was ending, so what was she to worry about?

Soon the suppressor was removed, and just as she did, she felt her body tremble. Emotions that had been suppressed for who knows how long were ripping her body apart. Her cultivation started to crack, her mind space began to break, and pain like no other filled her entire body. She was breaking away.

Years of holding back had begun to destroy her from the inside out. Just releasing the seal on her feelings was killing her.

'I see.'

Valencia calmly understood. The pain filling her didn't matter much; she was to die anyway. This was just prolonging the inevitable. Soon her mind began to drift. Everything she had built was cracking away, and her gaze moved to the stone in her hand, her mind darted to the treasure that lay within her dimension, treasures that would drive even gods mad.

It was then that she noticed something peculiar. Among all the treasures that lay, one remained unmatched by the others. It was a paper crown.

'What's this?'

For a moment, confusion filled Valencia's mind. Her hands moved as the paper crown appeared in her arms. It was a common-looking paper crown that didn't have anything special about it. Yet, placed upon it was the highest level of time preservation formation she had ever seen.

'Why do I have this?'

Valencia couldn't remember why she had something like this. Just as she was thinking, her mind shook again, a memory that was sealed away in the depth of her mind cracked, and soon it flooded her like no other. Events kept playing through, each one sweeter than the other. Compared to all her memories, it was short but somehow it affected her the most.

'How could I have forgotten?'

Valencia's eyes started to brim with tears. Tears didn't fall even at the most painful moments, yet for a man she had lost, tears that should have been shed eons ago finally got the chance to fall. The emotional pain of loss filled her, shortening her eventual demise.

Some memories of people are too traumatic for them to remember, so a part of their brain locks such memories away to protect the body. In Valencia's case, the mind suppressor, unable to deal with the heavy feelings, had chosen to seal all the memories relating to Xiao, effectively removing any problems.

'I see... I finally understood, Master...'

Valencia finally understood the last part of her second master's teaching. Her eyes turned red, blood tears started to fall down, and she closed her eyes as the memories of her entire life flashed through her. It was then that she understood. She was alone.

'Xiao...'

A name long lost, a name of a man that no one remembers, yet at the end of the cosmos, it was the very name that filled Valencia's entire mind, body, and soul.

"My daughter, find your happiness," Valencia's mother spoke as she died.

"Disciple, you have done it all, but when will you truly be selfish?" Her first master, someone whom she considered her second mother, asked with saddened eyes as the last of her soul embers disappeared.

"Valencia, you have lost it all, it will be only at the end will you truly understand the loneliness of the top," her second master spoke right before she took her own life.

'Love... it's so sweet and sickening,' Valencia thought as she stood up from the throne, her body breaking apart. She held the paper crown as she dearly placed it at the top of her head. No other treasure right now could compare to its value. Somewhere within her, it meant that she was not truly alone.

"Looks like I now have a true goal," Valencia spoke as she chuckled. Her eyes turned dark, and a crazy smile took her face. Obsession like no other wrapped around her entire being, and soon she burned her entire being as she peered into the fate to go back into the past. Normally, this shouldn't have been possible, but the elements of the cosmos were in shambles, and Valencia used her entire self to make this change in fate.

Her hands moved around the strings as she made a minor change in the past, just one thing, and it was killing her, but she was satisfied, her crazy smile widening.

"Xiao, this time big sis will not let you go," her soft voice, calm yet deadly, was heard. Love that threatened to swallow everything whole filled her eyes, so she crushed the stone as her entire body disappeared.

Feelings that had been suppressed for eons had been let go. But what chaos would this love bring? How heavy would the love of a woman known as the Bewitching Fateless God be?

No, what craziness would a crazy woman in love bring?

No one could answer the question. As the entirety of the cosmos was destroyed, the last thing that remained in the cosmos was a simple paper crown.