I Got Reincarnated as a Zombie Girl - Chapter 283

Chapter 283: Chapter 279 – The Fall of Stars and the Roar of a Shattered Sky
The faint violet glow of the seventieth-floor gate faded behind them replaced by a scene that looked nothing like the underworld.

As Sylvia, Alicia, and Stacia stepped out of the light, they were greeted by a horizonless expanse.

Above them stretched a sky full of stars.

Millions of stars hung like crystalline droplets scattered across the night. There was no black soil here, no obsidian stone, only a vast silver plain gleaming like a mirror, reflecting everything endlessly in every direction. Each step they took echoed softly, rippling into infinity.

Sylvia stood at the front, her crimson eyes gazing upward.

“…Beautiful,” she murmured quietly.

The sound was barely audible, but Alicia smiled faintly. “It’s rare for us to see a sky like this, isn’t it?”

Stacia looked up as well, though her face remained tense. “It’s beautiful… but it’s wrong.”

Sylvia turned toward her. “Wrong?”

Stacia nodded. “Those stars… they’re too close.”

Alicia squinted, focusing on one of the brightest stars above them. At first, it seemed distant and harmless. But moments later, it grew larger.

The light intensified.

The speck of brilliance became a pulsing golden orb, its glow reflecting off the mirror-like surface beneath their feet.

“Stacia,” Sylvia said sharply, “how close is that?”

Stacia hurriedly opened her grimoire, tracing the atmospheric mana pressure around them.

“…That’s not a star,” she said tensely. “It’s something falling toward us!”

The moment she spoke, the sky shuddered. Other stars began to pulse like living hearts. The one above them flared brilliantly golden, blinding and then, with terrifying speed, moved.

“Full defense! NOW!” Sylvia roared.

The three of them moved in perfect unison.

Sylvia snapped her fingers, the ground cracked, and from it grew sharp black branches of metallic wood.

Nether Wood: Eternal Root Shield.

The branches coiled together, forming a massive dome around them.

“First layer up!” Sylvia shouted.

She lifted her hand. Hundreds of black chains burst from her shadow, coiling outward to form a vast circle each link glowing with violet light.

Chains Technique: Shield!

They locked around the wooden dome, hardening into an outer shell as strong as immortal steel.

Alicia raised her staff high.

“Soul Ward – Multilayer Formation!”

Three giant magic circles appeared above them, spinning slowly like divine gears in the sky. Each one radiated defensive power against force, heat, and spatial distortion.

Stacia’s voice joined next, trembling from the rising energy pressure.

“Temporal Barrier – Reverse Flow Sequence!”

A wave of silver mana wrapped around every layer, slowing everything, even light itself.

Sylvia stared at the descending star, voice steady but breath tight.

“Final layer ready!”

She poured all her Death Aura into the inner defense. It spread like dark mist, merging with the Nether Wood, strengthening every fiber of their barrier.

And then…

DOOOOOOMMM!

The sky split apart.

The golden brilliance of the falling star erased all shadow and color, leaving only searing white.

A second later, it hit. There was no time to see what it was, only blinding light and a shockwave that crushed the world.

BOOOOOOMMMMM!

The ground quaked.

The air shattered.

Their layers of protection began to fracture.

This was no mere fireball; it carried gravitational mass, crushing every particle it touched.

The Nether Wood shield took the first blow.

KREEEAAAK !

The black branches split apart, turning to ash.

The next impact struck Sylvia’s chains. They screamed like tortured metal.

TING! TING! TING! TING!

Link after link snapped, scattering into the wind as dust.

Then came Alicia’s wards blue light cracking like glass under a hammer.

“Layer three down to fifty percent!” Alicia shouted.

“Damn it,” Sylvia hissed, summoning more chains from her shadow but before she could reinforce them, the second shockwave hit.

BOOMMM!!!

The ground beneath them disintegrated, leaving a crater a hundred meters wide.

Sylvia felt crushing force pressing from every direction, as if the mountain itself had fallen on them.

Alicia knelt, clutching her staff as her magic struggled to hold.

“Fourth barrier fracturing! Stacia!”

“I’ve reset the time flow but it’s not enough!” Stacia replied quickly.

Sylvia looked up at the golden star burned like a newborn sun, spinning, pulsing… alive.

“This isn’t a meteor,” she whispered. “It’s a being.”

From within the radiance, a massive shadow emerged. A humanoid forms its body forged of glowing stone and plasma, enormous crystalline wings beating behind it like a living engine.

With every movement, the air detonated.

Alicia’s eyes widened. “That’s… not a starfall. It’s a guardian.”

Stacia swallowed hard. “Then this must be… the floor sixty-nine warden?”

Sylvia stepped forward, a dark aura flaring around her like a storm. The remaining chains coiled at her side, trembling with lethal intent.

“If that’s true,” she said softly, “then this floor begins with destruction.”

The guardian opened its mouth. A grinding, thunderous sound stone against stone, resonant enough to shake their hearts. Then it spoke, in a tongue ancient and harsh, only half-understood by Sylvia.

“Invaders from beyond the timeflow… the law of the heavens demands your fall.”

And without pause its entire body blazed.

Dozens of golden-blue fire orbs erupted from its wings, each the size of a house, raining down.

“Raise defenses again!” Sylvia commanded.

New chains burst upward, weaving into a spiral shield. Alicia amplified her barrier with Soul Amplification, while Stacia slowed time even further, making the incoming projectiles appear sluggish but their energy didn’t slow.

One struck Sylvia’s shield….

BOOM!!!

Two layers shattered instantly.

The next blast followed, cracking the rest like brittle glass.

“Five layers left!” Stacia called.

Alicia’s voice shook. “We can’t hold this forever!”

Sylvia closed her eyes briefly then smiled coldly.

“Then we won’t hold. We’ll fight.”

She looked up at the blazing guardian. Her eyes burned crimson, predatory and fearless.

The guardian circled the sky, radiating heat and gravity like a false sun. Behind Sylvia, Alicia and Stacia maintained the barriers, but Sylvia knew this was not a battle they could win on defense alone.

She gripped her rapier then lowered it.

“…No. My strikes are too focused. I need something wider.”

Her eyes lifted to the heavens. Dozens of other “stars” were beginning to stir, each pulsing with light, as if awakening. One had nearly destroyed them; ten would be catastrophic.

Alicia’s voice cut in. “Sylvia! Do you have a plan?!”

“I’m… trying to think,” she said, calm but strained. “Nether Flame can destroy one target at a time, but it drains me fast. I can’t sustain that output more than twice.”

Stacia’s hand moved rapidly, stabilizing the fractured space around them. “Then we find a way to hit many at once. Maybe we can…”

She didn’t finish.

The sky trembled again.

Another star broke free from its cluster, descending fast, trailing a silver-gold blaze.

The air screamed. Heat rolled over them like an inferno.

Sylvia gritted her teeth. “No time to think!”

The ground shook again, but this time Sylvia didn’t wait for the impact.

She raised both hands and ten black chains erupted from her shadow, lashing upward.

Each one vibrated with raw death energy, glowing with an ominous purple hue.

“Then let’s make a simpler version.” Her eyes darkened pupils narrowing to slits.

She brought her hands together, intertwining the ten chains midair, twisting them into a massive spiral spear. Nether Flame coursed along its length, igniting it in black-violet fire. The metal hissed, coiling like serpents, merging into one colossal lance that pulsed like a living heart.

“Unification – Prototype.”

Her voice was barely above a whisper, yet the entire realm seemed to hear it. The stars flickered. The wind stopped.

The spear changed color from deep black to burning violet, wreathed in swirling dark fire like a dying nebula.

Sylvia inhaled deeply then threw it skyward.

The chained spear shot forth at impossible speed, tearing through the air, creating a sonic boom that split the world apart.

DUUUUUMMMM!!!

The first impact hit.

The spear struck the falling star head-on, and the sky exploded in a black-violet shockwave. The light of the “star” shattered like glass, its body bursting into shards of blue flame.

“Direct hit!!” Alicia cried.

But Sylvia couldn’t celebrate. Her whole body trembled, mana burning through her veins like molten fire.

A “simplified version,” she thought grimly. And it still took half my mana.

The shattered light rained down fragments of crystalized fire falling like meteors, each one deadly enough to scour the land for miles.

“Stacia! Lower barrier!” Sylvia shouted.

“Already on it!”

Stacia slammed her palm forward.

“Temporal Shield – Reversal Phase!”

Silver waves spread beneath them, slowing the falling shards, disintegrating them before they touched the ground.

Alicia raised her staff, voice ringing out.

“Soul Barrier Expansion!”

Blue light cascaded outward, reinforcing Stacia’s shield into a glowing dual-layer dome.

Meanwhile, Sylvia knelt, breathing hard, the chains she had used disintegrating into violet particles that drifted away.

Stacia rushed to her. “Are you alright?”

Sylvia nodded weakly. “Still standing… but if I use that technique again, my body won’t last.”

Alicia looked upward as the other stars were trembling now, glowing brighter, as if aware that one of their own had fallen.

“They’re moving again,” she said softly. “And this time… more than one.”

Sylvia slowly pushed herself to her feet, her dark aura spreading once more across the mirrored plain.

“We can’t let them fall together.”

Stacia glanced at her. “Plan?”

Sylvia smiled faintly. “We turn this sky into a killing field.”

Her remaining chains rose, coiling in the air.

“I’ll turn every chain into a spear. You two hold the rest back.”

Alicia sighed lightly, lifting her staff. “Alright. I’ll hold the sky.” Stacia snapped her grimoire shut. “Then I’ll make sure you have every buff possible.”

Sylvia took a long breath, eyes glowing with deep violet light.

“Then let’s bring the stars down… one by one.”

The sky trembled once more. The pulsing stars above began to move forming circular patterns, aligning like soldiers in formation.

Their lights reflected in Sylvia’s eyes that now shone like an endless, starless night.