Ethan gritted his teeth, energy surging wildly through his body. In his palm, a dense energy sphere condensed in an instant—he didn't hesitate.
He launched it straight at the chanoid.
The sphere struck the ch's chest plate dead-on.
A blinding shockwave exploded outward.
But when the light faded—
The chanoid's armor showed only a faint white scorch mark. Its structural integrity hadn't been compromised in the slightest.
"Useless,"
Phoenix Queen Ignara stepped out of the hall, her eyes locked on the massive silhouette hanging in the sky.
"The energy at its core isn't ordinary. It's a highly compressed void-type energy. If it loses containnt and spreads, it could erase an entire spatial structure."
"If it fully enters attack mode, Erald Castle won't last long."
Ethan's pupils narrowed.
"Then how do we destroy it?"
Ignara raised her hand. Blood-red flas surged in her palm, the air around her heating instantly. The edges of space began to ripple.
The fire radiated a pure, ancient aura—destruction and purification in one.
"Only Undying Fla at the highest tier can unravel its core."
But her voice was tight, strained.
"And in my current state, I can't summon the full form of that fla."
Ethan could feel it clearly. The fire she was releasing now was only on par with Solara's—not nearly enough to threaten the chanoid's core.
Even so, he didn't hesitate.
He imdiately mobilized Erald Castle's forces.
Dozens of elite powerhouses launched simultaneous attacks. Energy torrents shot into the sky like a storm, hamring down on the chanoid from every angle.
Explosions. Light. Shockwaves layered over one another.
But when the smoke cleared—
The chanoid was still there, hovering in place, untouched.
It was as if every attack had been absorbed, neutralized by so kind of stabilized spatial field.
Ethan's frown deepened.
If this kept up, their defenses would eventually collapse.
Then—
A cold, bone-white force suddenly stirred from deep within him.
It wasn't an external invasion. It felt like sothing that had always been there, dormant at the edge of his consciousness—now awakened by the dense energy environnt around him.
Ethan's body jolted.
A biting chill raced down his spine. His breathing shifted involuntarily. His eyes began to glow with a strange, calm light.
Then a voice—low, unfamiliar—echoed in his mind.
"Erald Castle's energy density… is impressive."
"To think I could recover this much in such a short ti."
A pause. Then the voice turned amused, almost analytical.
"Still, this body of yours… far too fragile."
"Unworthy of my true power."
Ethan's mind remained crystal clear.
He could sense everything—the tremble in the air, the low-frequency hum of the chanoid's systems, the energy pulses rippling from the city walls.
But his body was no longer his.
He couldn't lift a hand. Couldn't turn his head. Couldn't even control his breathing.
There was only one thing he knew for sure—
The one in control now was Lily.
And despite the discomfort of being locked out of his own body, Ethan forced himself to stay calm.
At least for now, Lily wasn't showing any hostility. In fact, she seed to be fighting for Erald Castle.
anwhile, that bone-white energy had fully spread.
It wasn't fiery. It wasn't violent like lightning. It was sothing else—extrely stable, extrely pure. Within its radius, the air thickened, and space itself seed to shift, as if being rewritten.
The chanoid caught in its field began to falter.
Its core energy destabilized. The once-stable void-type structure started to unravel—breaking down, fragnting, collapsing like a sandcastle stripped of its foundation.
And then—
The massive chanical body disintegrated without a sound.
It crumbled into fine tallic dust, scattering slowly into the sky.
Ethan's heart nearly skipped a beat.
He knew exactly how terrifying that chanoid's defenses were—and yet Lily had dismantled it completely, just by extending her aura.
This wasn't power in any conventional sense.
If he still had control of his body, he might've blurted sothing out right then and there.
Phoenix Queen Ignara, however, had no idea what was really happening.
From her perspective, everything she'd just witnessed was Ethan's doing.
For the first ti, her eyes showed sothing she couldn't hide—shock.
Until now, she'd believed only Undying Fla could counter void-type structures. But what she'd just seen shattered that belief completely.
And before anyone could even process what had happened—
The sky trembled again.
The clouds were torn apart by an even larger energy surge. A dense swarm of shadows erged overhead.
An entire chanoid army.
So many that they blotted out the sky, spreading into formation across the upper atmosphere. Their propulsion arrays activated in perfect sync, creating a crushing wall of steel that lood like a chanical storm front.
Several of the core units radiated energy signatures even stronger than the one that had just been destroyed.
This wasn't a probe.
This was a full-scale annihilation strike.
Lily's power hadn't faded yet.
Still in control of Ethan's body, she rose into the air. That bone-white energy spread again, expanding outward like an invisible, absolute domain that swallowed the entire sky above Erald Castle.
The chanoids had just begun to execute their attack protocols—but the mont the domain touched them—
Their cores destabilized instantly.
Targeting systems, comms, weapon modules—everything failed in rapid succession.
Before they could react, multiple units disintegrated midair, turning to ash and debris that rained down like tallic snow.
In seconds, entire swaths of sky were cleared.
From a distance, Drake watched—and completely lost his composure.
His pupils shrank. His face went pale.
"No… impossible…" he muttered. "A re Plane World… how could it possess power on this level…"
At that mont, Ethan's body tilted slightly in the air—graceful, unfamiliar. The movent carried a presence that clearly wasn't his.
He raised a hand, fingers brushing through the air as if feeling the lingering flow of energy.
"This flavor of power…" The voice that ca from his throat was layered—both male and female, overlapping in eerie harmony. "It's been a long ti."
"But it's not enough."
"I need more."
That inhuman calm—and the hunger beneath it—sent a chill straight down Drake's spine.
He jerked back, putting distance between himself and the battlefield, while channeling every ounce of power into his palm.
A massive energy sphere ford instantly, thunder crackling inside it, space warping faintly at the edges.
No hesitation.
Drake hurled it with everything he had.
BOOM—!!!
A blinding explosion swallowed the entire sky.
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