“Shut up,” Diane hissed at the system. She wished she still had the power of the fallen stars.The bat screamed.Diane clapped her hands together. “Sand Burial!”The sand exploded upward and tried to bury the bat alive.Tons of sand wrapped around the monstrous bear in spiraling coils, compressing with terrifying pressure. The dune itself seemed to swallow him whole.For one heartbeat, silence returned.“Is it over?”Then crimson light erupted from beneath the sand.Dorian broke free and blurred into existence before her, his claws grazing her face instead of removing her head entirely.She countered with a sand spear aimed at his throat.He caught it between his teeth and snapped it apart, then his wings slammed into her side.Several bones broke.Diane crashed against a tree violently, causing the tree itself to collapse.Breathing became knives for her.Dorian approached at a leisurely pace like a wolf enjoying wounded prey. “You know,” he said, “your heartbeat gets faster every ti

Denver spammed his Thunder Coiling Fist attacks imbued with dimensional aura. Otherwise, he wouldn’t even be able to touch Sanctus.This put a lot of stress on Denver’s body and his very soul, but he pushed himself.Sanctus used a quaking power to disperse Denver’s lightning ability.Denver was startled. He had seen Killer King Shindo use such ability before. He could destroy people’s bodies with just fists or kicks without even having to directly touch them.Sanctus countered Denver with it and managed to easily push him back.Denver’s body trembled under pressure, but he resisted the oppression and managed to stand his ground.“Let’s change the battleground,” Sanctus said. “Then you can properly fight, and I can properly crush you.”Both Sanctus and Denver disappeared in a flash.They appeared thousands of miles away on a far away southern continent that barely received sunlight.Sanctus had his hands behind his back, appearing calm like a teacher waiting for the class to begin.Den

Mickey rushed first, but it was still Philip who reached Sanctus first.Philip formed out of thin air right behind Sanctus. “Aqua Shock.” His palm thrust into Sanctus’ back, pushing him forward.Mickey clawed at Sanctus’ face.“Omega Claw!”Sanctus’ body was cut into pieces and got sent crashing down the ground.Philip was startled by it.It may have seemed like a simple clawing attack, but Philip could feel his spiritual aura getting disrupted even though he was not even in the line of the attack.The severed pieces reattached themselves, and Sanctus was not smiling.He looked a little upset as he looked at Mickey. “You compressed telekinesis and magnetism into a singularity-like implosion and managed to get past my defenses. Not bad. But as you can see, it’s not enough.”“I’ll just have to keep attacking until you can stand no more,” Mickey retorted coldly.The space around them began to get folded, and out of them curing spacefolds, projectiles of dimensional aura shot forth at San

Aural accord was a rare phenomenon where auras of two or more people blend and hum as one. It exponentially boosted their strength.Even Sanctus could not smile at what he was seeing.The main reason why he couldn’t kill Casil and Elissa was because of their aural accord state where they could fight him on an equal footing.Now, there weren't just two but three siblings who just entered that unison state.“This normally shouldn’t be possible, but you three were in the same womb at one point,” Sanctus muttered under his breath, “so it’s not out of the realm of possibility.” His brows drew together. “You surely didn’t foresee this, did you, Alita?”At the same time, Elita was in the broken tower of Sanctus, sitting on his throne, which was his final relic, and she was looking at the album of photos of her younger days where she trained and killed and did things she was not proud of.Her gaze settled on a picture of her and Sanctus taken together. This was when she cooked food for a thou

A few days later.Philip had been crowned the new king of Hawkers.Minerva sent him a marriage proposal, but he refused it. Still, he said she could visit Hawk Park whenever she wanted.Minerva was still in a bad mood and had not reconciled with her father, but then everything changed when Golden Falcon brought back Elissa who wasn’t yet conscious. Minerva hugged her dad and cried.“I’m going to save her no matter how much it costs,” Golden Falcon assured his daughter.In the underground prison of Hawk Park.Ilene was talking with Serena and Lily, with the latter two behind the cold prison bars.Ilene was eating chicken with spicy soup. “Mhhm… this is the best chicken, alright?”Serena licked her lips.“What do you want?” Lily coldly said. “Why are you even here?”“I just want to show you that life can be enjoyed through little things like this chicken soup for instance,” Ilene chortled.Just then, a guard came inside and slid two plates full of roasted rats into the cell.Seeing thos