Mottled starlight shone upon the city beneath the blood-red radiance.
The points of light from the stars were not bright, even somewhat dim. Yet beneath that dim glow, the blazing Blood Sun itself seemed to pale in comparison.
Twisted darkness enveloped everything around it. The entire fabric of time and space seemed to turn viscous, and the Blood Sun's radiance could only squirm through the gloom. Only those scattered stars could cast their light upon the earth.
Soon, the spreading starlight became increasingly distinct, and the radiance of the stars reflected ever more clearly upon the gray glow covering the entire pitch-black abyss.
Howling currents of wind rose in the air. The icy starlight was like sharp spikes, stabbing into the gray radiance.
And as though it had sensed something, the darkness wrapped in light began to churn violently.
The darkness that had originally been restrained spread outward once more.
The speeding train passed through the towering buildings, carrying away the sisters standing atop them.
Outside the buildings, the crowd that had been lying prone on the ground had long since fled rapidly toward the outer edges of the city.
The power of the earth writhed. The force that had originally been used to restrain Locke En was now being used by He Ao to take the crowd away from the darkness at the center of the battlefield.
The ever-expanding darkness swallowed and crushed everything around it. Towering buildings were torn apart like thin crackers, while the solid earth collapsed like melting ice cream.
The darkness devoured everything without restraint, while the starlight in the sky became increasingly apparent.
It was as though countless gazes from Outside of Time and Space were converging here, invisible and terrifying power spreading down from the starry sky.
The Blood Sun was still blazing,