Watching from a distance, Ethan’s heart clenched on its own.
A clash at that level had already blown past everything he thought he understood about power.
The pressure saturating the air made breathing feel heavy. Every pulse of energy was like claws raking across his nerves.
But he forced himself steady.
This wasn’t the ti to get distracted.
"Keep pushing!" he ordered under his breath, but his voice still carried across the battlefield. "Their strongest is pinned down. Everyone else—wipe them out!"
The mont the command landed, Erald Castle’s army surged again.
Ethan was the first to move.
He cut through the air in a streak of lightning, closing on a massive chanoid in the blink of an eye. The tal giant had just started to rotate when a bolt of white lightning smashed into its shoulder.
BOOM!
Energy detonated on contact.
Thunder raced along its fra with a harsh szzzt—, and the entire chanical arm—along with half its torso—was ripped clean off.
Internal power conduits were exposed to open air. Sparks and current tangled violently. The chanoid lost balance instantly and crashed down with a heavy slam.
The battlefield hit a new boiling point.
But this ti, the advantage had completely tipped toward Erald Castle.
Their offensive rolled forward like a flood. Nexaris’s line was torn open again and again, and no aningful resistance could form.
Nexaris soldiers broke in waves. The battle was tilting at a visible speed.
High in the sky, Zerathrax’s brows drew tight.
He could feel it clearly: the snow-white energy Lily had released was suppressing his power perfectly. It wasn’t a simple gap in strength.
It was a deeper kind of counter.
And that feeling—
Made him deeply uneasy.
anwhile, Ethan had already plunged back into the crowd.
Several energy spheres ford in his hand, white lightning woven together with Infernal Primordial Power. When he threw them one after another, each explosion ripped open a fresh gap in the enemy ranks.
Flesh and energy burst across the air.
The battlefield slipped toward total chaos.
But just as Ethan prepared to drive deeper—
"Wmmm—"
A strange, resonant hum sounded right in front of him.
A figure appeared with no warning at all.
The man floated there quietly, yet his aura was brutally violent. Embedded around his neck were three ice-blue gemstones. Their light was cold and deep, like frozen cores of absolute winter.
They didn’t feel like ordinary energy cores.
They felt... other.
"You’re the lord of Erald Castle?" The voice ca—but not from his mouth. It echoed out of the three gemstones at once, layered with an eerie resonance. "Didn’t expect you’d be nothing but a weak human."
Ethan’s nerves snapped tight.
He took a reflexive step back, already gathering a massive energy sphere in his palm. White lightning and Infernal Primordial Power compressed wildly, forming an extrely unstable core.
No hesitation.
He threw it.
But right before it could hit—
Three ice-blue beams shot out.
Perfectly precise.
They converged in midair and struck the sphere dead center.
And then sothing unbelievable happened.
The raging energy sphere froze solid in the air.
Not just the surface.
Even the energy flow inside it was completely locked—sealed in place like ti itself had been iced over.
Ethan’s pupils shrank hard.
That was Infernal Primordial Power.
And it had been suppressed that easily.
No ti to think.
He switched tactics imdiately, yanking a sealed energy core out of his storage space and encasing it inside a spatial sphere before hurling it straight at the target.
The instant the two forces touched, they reacted violently.
Space twisted.
A bizarre vortex ford between them. Power churned and cross-cut inside it, until it tore open a dinsional fissure. The surrounding spatial structure collapsed fast, the crack spreading outward and dragging everything toward it.
The enemy clearly hadn’t seen that coming.
His body was yanked by the spatial turbulence, thrown off balance—and in the next heartbeat, he was pulled into the rift.
Ethan didn’t waste the opening.
He lunged forward, compressing everything he had into his fist.
Then—
He drove it down.
BOOM!
Half the man’s body burst apart from the impact. Flesh and energy were shredded to nothing inside the dinsional tear. What remained didn’t even get a chance to struggle before the spatial turbulence swallowed it completely.
On the other side of the battlefield—
The roar of impact ca in nonstop waves.
Lily and Zerathrax’s fight had already sunk into a deeper layer of space.
Their power kept colliding, ripping open fracture after fracture. Then, in one especially violent exchange, the entire region tore wide—forming a massive rift that led into a dinsional abyss.
Both of them were dragged in at the sa ti.
And even inside that dinsional space, the fight didn’t stop.
It got worse.
Spatial vortices were born around them, collapsed, then reford again and again. Power amplified inside that unstable zone, to the point it started bleeding into the real sky.
Cloud layers were shredded.
Light warped.
The whole canopy of heaven looked like it might cave in at any second.
And the battle—
Kept escalating.
Ethan didn’t spare another thought for anything else.
With Lily keeping Zerathrax pinned in that near-collapsing high altitude, Ethan seized the chance. He led Erald Castle’s forces in a near one-sided purge of what was left of Nexaris’s legion.
White lightning, golden energy, blades, cannons—everything laced together under a broken sky. Without unified command, Nexaris troops started collapsing almost imdiately, retreating in pieces.
It didn’t last long.
Their formation had already been wrecked, and under relentless pressure it finally snapped. The chanoids, without coordination, beca clumsy hulks—dismantled and shot down one after another. The remaining living troops were butchered fast as panic spread through them.
When the last aningful pocket of resistance was erased, Ethan didn’t pause for even a mont.
He shot straight up.
At this point, the "sky" barely qualified as a sky anymore.
Lily and Zerathrax’s fight had torn the entire space into ragged fragnts. Light refracted through warped cracks. Darkness and thunder, abyss and white radiance, flashed in alternating bands, making the world look like a collapsing alien realm.
Every collision peeled another layer off an already unstable reality.
In that environnt, Ethan quickly locked onto Zerathrax’s position.
He drew a deep breath and forced all his power into a single point. White lightning and Infernal Primordial Power spun violently in his palm, compressing into a massive, heavy, unstable energy sphere.
Fine cracks spiderwebbed across its surface, popping and sparking like it could detonate early at any instant.
Then Ethan snapped his arm.
The sphere punched through a twisted spatial fracture and slamd with perfect accuracy into Zerathrax’s abdon—
Right where his energy core was.
A brutally muffled blast sounded.
Zerathrax’s body jerked hard. The impact—compressed to the absolute limit—detonated inward the mont it connected, hamring a massive crater into his abdon. Carapace and flesh split together in the sa instant.
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