Senior Brother En-En's words fell, and the air seemed to freeze for a moment.
They had only one chance.
Sword Master in the Snow said nothing more. He held his long saber across his chest, its blade humming.
The cyan wind blades that had been spreading unchecked were all compressed back onto its edge.
The hundred-meter blade glow vanished. In its place was an almost invisible line of pure Divinity along the edge, honed to impossible sharpness.
To focus this strike, he abandoned every defense and staked all his strength on the saber's ultimate penetrating power.
"Holy Light, grant me the power to judge!"
Evergreen raised both hands. The golden aura behind him stopped expanding and began to contract.
Every sacred rune, every trace of Light Divinity, gathered into a golden spear that hovered above his head.
No ornate patterns adorned its surface. It held only pure, destructive power capable of purifying all evil.
Water God bared his teeth. The easygoing look on his face vanished completely.
"Let's go big."
He brought his hands together before his chest.
The countless water-mirror illusions filling the space shattered all at once.
He forced all the Divinity of Thousand-Faced Phantom Tide back into a torrent of primordial water, then compressed it into a fist-sized sphere so dark a blue it was nearly black.
Its surface was perfectly smooth, yet it held enough mass to crush a mountain range.
Dawn remained the quietest of the five.
He leaned forward slightly and aimed the tip of the Mekong Jaw Blade upward.
Not a trace of energy escaped him.
All his speed, all his kinetic energy, was gathered at that single point, waiting for the instant of release.
"You think I'll give you the chance?"
Sylvia's piercing shriek rang through the entire space.
The Bone Vortex