Chapter 21I stood on the rooftop of the Divine Medical Tower with Sophia, Seraphina, and Elena pressed tightly against me as the True God Realm emissary floated down from the massive spatial gate above the city. Her presence alone made the air feel heavy, like the entire skyline of Central City was being slowly crushed under invisible pressure. The morning sun had just broken over the horizon, but her power dimmed the light itself. Behind her, the gate remained open, showing glimpses of an upper realm city that looked like it was built from pure starlight and frozen time.The emissary stopped a few meters above us. She was tall, impossibly beautiful, with long white hair that moved like liquid silk and eyes the color of deep void. Her robes shifted between silver and black with every breath she took. When she spoke, her voice carried across the entire city without effort.“Draven Hale. The Apex Council has taken notice of you. In less than a single day you have slaughtered ten Divine

Chapter 23Twelve minutes.That was all the time the System had given me before a Sovereign-level assassin arrived with orders to kill the three women still standing beside me. Sophia, Seraphina, and Elena looked at me with steady eyes, but I could feel the tension through the harem bond. Lirael’s death was still fresh. The idea of losing any of them now made something cold and violent settle in my chest.I did not waste a single second.“Move,” I ordered. “We are not waiting for him here.”I activated City Resurrection at full power. Golden light flooded the ruined financial district. Buildings repaired themselves faster than before. Roads sealed. Power lines restored. At the same time I expanded the Urban Medical Sovereign Domain across the entire city and locked every major structure under my control. Hospitals became fortresses. Skyscrapers became sensor towers. The whole of Central City turned into a single living weapon.Sophia immediately took charge of the logistical side. “I

Chapter 25The third spatial tear opened directly above the ruined financial district like a wound in the sky. I felt it before I saw it — a pressure that was colder and more precise than the first two Sovereigns combined. The soul-binding chain the System had warned about was already active inside that tear, its law reaching toward the harem bond like a living thing that wanted to rip out what little I had left.The internal pain in my chest sharpened until it felt like someone was slowly twisting a blade behind my sternum. Lirael’s absence still sat there like an open hole. Every time I looked at Sophia’s bleeding arm, or Seraphina’s tight jaw, or Elena’s pale but determined face, that hole seemed to grow wider. I had already failed one of them. The thought of the bond going completely dark made something raw and ugly rise in my throat.I did not wait for the third Sovereign to fully step through.I poured everything I had into the golden cage still holding Silent Edge and Silent Ne

Chapter 27The spatial gate closed with a final ripple of distorted air, leaving only the ruined skyline of Central City and the heavy silence that followed a battle too large for the lower world. I hung in the air a moment longer before my strength finally gave out. Sophia, Seraphina, and Elena caught me before I could fall, their combined energy wrapping around my damaged body like a net.We descended slowly to what remained of the Divine Medical Tower’s upper floors. The building was half-collapsed, but enough structure remained for us to land on a relatively stable section of rooftop. The moment my feet touched solid ground, the full weight of everything hit me at once.The physical wounds were bad. Deep cuts that still leaked golden light. Fractured meridians. A core that felt like it had been cracked and poorly glued back together. But the internal pain was worse. The empty place where Lirael’s presence used to sit in the harem bond had not closed. It remained a raw, open wound

Chapter 29The darkened sky above Central City did not simply lose light. It lost meaning. Colors drained from the edges of my vision as the Apex-tier existence in black robes took his second step, and the weight of his presence settled over the entire metropolis like a law that had decided gravity was optional. I felt the three women behind me tense through the harem bond. Sophia’s energy spiked. Seraphina’s formations flared and then immediately strained. Elena’s pure yin aura wrapped tighter around all of us in instinctive defense.The internal pain in my chest answered the pressure with a sharp, familiar twist. The empty place where Lirael used to exist pulsed once, hard, as if even her absence could feel the threat. I used that pulse. I fed it into the cracked foundation of my stage ten power and forced myself forward again.I did not wait for him to finish closing the distance.Golden light exploded from my body as I poured everything that remained into a single all-out assault.