Astra turned around and looked behind her.
A lone open doorway stood amid the mist behind her, and a somewhat frail young woman slowly emerged from the fog.
The woman had delicate features and faint freckles on her face. She looked youthful and innocent.
Astra fixed her gaze on the newcomer's face, pausing slightly. "A doorway from Sky City? You used the moment when the anomalies were chaotically entangled to open a doorway here through Sky City? And you're interfering with my power? Why can you affect my power?"
Her eyes narrowed slightly, as though she were thinking of something. "You used to be a part of me? When did I lose you?"
The woman merely looked at her quietly and let out a soft sigh.
And in the instant they spoke, Astra's body vanished from the mist and appeared before the woman.
Her palm shot out, about to press down on the woman's head.
But at that very moment, a crimson hand suddenly appeared behind her, pierced through her body, and clenched her heart.
Astra lowered her head and looked somewhat blankly at the hand that had forcibly pierced through her body from behind.
She turned around and saw the calm look in He Ao's eyes. Her lips parted slightly, confusion filling her gaze. "Impossible..."
At that moment, all her anomalous power was being used to try to exclude He Ao from the universe. No new anomalous power remained in her body.
But because of the young woman's interference, she had failed to exclude He Ao from the universe. At this moment, her body's defenses were at their weakest, and she was at her easiest to kill.
And the power He Ao displayed—whether his formidable martial arts strength or the enhancement of the God of War—was enough to pose