The four identical Mirrors smiled at once, then dispersed like reflections on water. Only the original remained, standing quietly beside Dawn.
That eerie display of power, coupled with the annihilation Dawn had caused with a single finger, left the other members of Apex Guild speechless.
"Holy shit..." Yada Yada's jaw nearly hit the floor. "They... they just became gods? That buy-one-get-one deal was way too good!"
Beside him, Senior Brother En-En silently looked at his sword, then at the siblings, his expression conflicted.
The path of the Sword Dao was long and lonely. He had always believed in training forged through endless hardship.
Yet the sight before him revealed a shortcut to the heavens that bordered on heresy.
"The Divine Kingdom is disintegrating completely. Its spatial structure has entered an irreversible phase of increasing entropy." Season Star's voice cut through their amazement, as calm as a weather report. "The gravity field is destabilizing. Within thirty seconds, this place will collapse into an unstable Law Singularity. I recommend evacuation."
Her words were the starting gun.
The ground beneath their feet had already broken apart. Vast slabs of ruins kept peeling away and falling into the churning vortex of void below.
A storm of memory fragments swept toward them. Stripped of their power to corrode minds, the fragments now held only a silent, dazzling sorrow.
"Hold on tight!" Dawn laughed and swept Mirror into his arms.
He did not open a Space Gate or take the safest route out.
He moved.
His whole body became a streak of blood-red light skimming the ground, carving a glaring trail across the collapsing earth.
He was not dodging the falling boulders or the rending Space Cracks.
He was using his own body and the Divinity of [Flash Shadow] to batter out a safe passage.
Wherever