Ethan stood at the center of the city,
and for a fleeting mont—
he felt sothing he hadn't in a long ti.
Safety.
He was just about to head back and rest—
When it hit.
BOOM—!!!
A thunderous blast ripped through the sky without warning.
A terrifying force slamd into the outermost energy barrier.
Alarms shrieked across the city.
chanical units launched into the air,
energy weapons began charging,
and in seconds, Erald Castle shifted into full combat mode.
Ethan was already airborne.
His power synced instantly with the defense grid,
feeding energy directly into the barrier.
But then—
he felt it.
Sothing was wrong.
Not an attack.
Sothing else—
Absorption.
A brutal, overwhelming suction force
was pulling energy from the barrier—
from the outside.
Ethan's eyes went cold.
He pulled up the system interface.
And when Sarenyx's data appeared,
his pupils narrowed sharply.
Unlimited energy absorption.
Purification and conversion capabilities.
Structurally—
almost identical to Feylora.
But—
Far more efficient.
In just a few seconds,
nearly half the energy reserves in the outer barrier
had been devoured.
If this kept up—
The entire defense grid would just beco his fuel.
Ethan didn't hesitate.
"Shut down the outer defenses."
The command went out.
All dozen layers of energy barriers
disengaged in rapid succession.
It wasn't surrender.
It was cutting off the power supply.
Up in the sky,
the figure finally showed a flicker of emotion.
"Courting death."
Sarenyx hovered high above,
his gaze icy.
The devouring force didn't stop.
It spread—
reaching toward the entire Erald Castle.
He clearly intended—
To consu the whole city.
Ethan's killing intent snapped into focus.
In a flash,
he appeared right in front of Sarenyx.
Power surged,
condensing into a massive energy blade in his hand.
No warning.
No probing.
He struck.
But—
Sarenyx didn't even flinch.
He simply raised a single finger.
And in the next instant—
The sky went dark.
A monstrous surge of energy
erupted from him like a tidal wave,
swallowing the world in its wake.
The mont Ethan's energy blade fully ford—
it shattered.
Not just the attack.
His entire body was hurled backward by the sheer force of the backlash.
The instant he hit open air,
he felt it—clear and undeniable.
This wasn't just a gap in power.
Sarenyx's presence felt like a bottomless abyss.
"So that's what it is…"
Ethan steadied himself midair, chest rising and falling.
The system's readout flickered back into view.
Tier: 28 (Early)
But that number ant nothing now.
The energy density inside this guy's body
far exceeded most early-stage Tier 29s Ethan had ever encountered.
"You're the lord of Erald Castle?"
Sarenyx looked down at him,
a smirk tugging at his lips, openly mocking.
"This is the best you've got? And you think you can stand against us?"
As the words fell—
HUMMM—
A massive phantom form began to rise behind him.
Not a clear shape,
but a warped outline that bent reality itself.
The mont that power unfolded,
the space around them visibly distorted—
compressed and stretched by invisible forces.
Ethan's energy was instantly suppressed.
Not sealed.
Worse—
It was being stripped of its right to move.
For the first ti, Ethan realized—
he was being denied even the right to fight back.
And then—
A figure appeared silently in front of him.
"Master."
A familiar, urgent voice.
Feylora hovered in the air,
her gaze locked onto Sarenyx.
In the next second,
her power surged outward.
Not an attack.
A spread.
Like an invisible net,
it expanded straight into the devouring field ahead.
Ethan finally caught his breath.
But his brow didn't relax.
He knew—
Feylora's Tier was technically higher than Sarenyx's.
But his ability structure was far more extre.
Unlimited absorption.
Indiscriminate purification.
If this ca down to a battle of raw capacity,
Feylora would eventually be overwheld.
But then—
Sothing happened that completely defied his expectations.
The two forces collided head-on.
No explosion.
No collapse.
Instead, they ford a strange equilibrium in midair.
And what truly shook Ethan—
Was the faint wisp of golden energy
leaking from within Feylora.
It wasn't violent.
But it was incredibly stable.
And the mont it touched Sarenyx's devouring field—
it actually began to gain the upper hand.
Sarenyx's expression shifted for the first ti.
No longer disdain.
But—
Confusion.
"…Sa kind?"
He muttered under his breath.
And in that mont,
the entire battlefield changed.
Shockwaves, spatial fractures, wild energy currents—
all the destructive fallout that should've torn the area apart—
Was being broken down, converted, absorbed
the instant it neared the two of them.
Even destruction itself
had beco a resource to be consud.
This wasn't a battle anymore.
It was a contest for the right to exist.
And in the end—
Even the energy from their direct clash
began to fade.
Not because it was spent.
But because both sides
were pulling it inward,
trying to devour each other's core.
Ethan's pupils widened slightly.
This kind of confrontation—
he'd never seen anything like it.
And then—
Holy light burst across the sky.
Andona descended from above,
her Angelic Sword already charged with enough power to pass judgnt on everything below.
But before she could strike,
Ethan raised a hand to stop her.
"Wait."
His eyes never left the devouring field.
"Their power structures are too similar."
"This is Feylora's fight."
Andona frowned,
but after a mont, she let the light fade from her blade
and stepped back behind him.
By now, the sky was completely saturated
with violent, soundless energy.
Sarenyx hadn't expected this.
Not here.
Not in this place—
To encounter a girl whose very existence
mirrored his own.
And her devouring force—
Was every bit as strong as his.
The two of them hung locked in midair,
neither able to push forward another inch.
…
BOOM——
BOOM——
The two devouring forces clashed in the sky, locked in a relentless standoff.
All around them, the energy of the world surged like a tide,
drawn toward that single point.
Light, lightning, wind, fragnts of space—
everything that should've scattered and exploded outward
was instead pulled in, compressed, forced into submission.
And then—
A strange vacuum ford at the center of the battlefield.
The energy wasn't gone.
It had been completely consud—
not destroyed, but fully occupied.
Ethan's eyes sharpened.
He wasn't excited.
He was certain.
This was it.
The devouring field had entered its most dangerous—
and most vulnerable—state.
When two devourers of equal tier clashed at the core level,
they instinctively—
Dropped all external defenses.
Because even the slightest distraction
could leave their essence torn apart by the other.
"So that's how it works…"
In the next instant, Ethan's body blurred into motion.
No energy surge.
No warning.
He bypassed the direct confrontation,
appearing behind Sarenyx in a flash.
An Energy Disc ford in his palm.
No charge-up.
Just compression.
Extre compression.
And then—
He struck.
CRACK!
There was almost no resistance.
The mont the disc hit, Sarenyx's body lost all stability.
Because right now—
Every ounce of his power
was locked in the struggle with Feylora.
No shield.
No buffer.
The Energy Disc sliced clean through him,
splitting his body in two.
And in that exact mont—
Feylora moved.
She didn't waste a single breath.
Her devouring core flared wide open,
like a gaping abyss,
and dragged Sarenyx's collapsing essence straight into her.
No struggle.
No resistance.
This wasn't a fight.
It was a harvest.
The devouring field in the sky shattered instantly.
All the energy that had been drawn in
flooded toward Feylora like a broken dam.
And in the next second—
Her aura changed completely.
This wasn't just a level-up.
It was a bloodline leap.
Sarenyx had co from an ancient offshoot of the Dark Fairies—
his devouring gift was pure, refined, and dangerously potent.
And it just so happened
to align perfectly with Feylora's own power structure.
As the last trace of his essence was absorbed,
her racial talent began to evolve—violently.
Ethan could feel it clearly—
Her "capacity"
was being redefined from the ground up.
Not long after, the system quietly confird it.
Tier 29, early stage.
For most, that would've been a standard tier breakthrough.
But for Feylora—
It was a structural upgrade.
Her ability to devour, store, and convert energy
had at least doubled.
Ethan let out a slow breath.
He didn't say much.
Just reached into his spatial inventory
and pulled out a small, crystal-clear golden orb.
He placed it gently into Feylora's hand.
It was Erald Castle's latest developnt—
A power core.
It could be used as a one-ti burst weapon,
or, in a critical mont,
embedded directly into the body
as an ergency energy source.
"Keep it."
Ethan's voice was quiet.
But his eyes were steady. Cold.
"You'll need it—
sooner or later."
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