After firing the strongest arrow he could muster at that moment, Gwen let out a heavy breath. Though the sure-kill move he had pinned such high hopes on had failed to kill the Herrscher of Finality, whose strength far surpassed his own, it had nevertheless achieved its purpose, allowing him to relax slightly.
However, when his gaze fell upon the figure not far from the Herrscher of Finality—the one who had forcibly launched an attack and no longer had the strength to face the Herrscher of Finality's instinctive counterattack—Gwen cast all else aside and dragged his exhausted body toward the ground.
Going all out, he crossed a distance of several thousand kilometers in an instant. Only a single step remained between Gwen and the utterly spent Eden.
At that moment, Gwen's eyes met Eden's gaze as she tried to take one final look at the world.
Is he here to save me?
Seeing the giant descending from the sky and reaching out his hand toward her, Eden's first reaction was disbelief.
Yet with death only a step away, Eden recovered before the Herrscher of Finality's attack could break through Mobius's obstruction in front of her. She smiled at the giant reaching out to her and raised her hand, as though trying to grasp his...
However, during the moment Eden had been dazed, the Herrscher of Finality's attack had completely shattered Mobius's energy defense, pierced through her body, and reached Eden.
"..."
In an instant, Gwen seemed to see the image of that figure, still smiling even in the face of death, being reduced to ashes beneath the beam of light.
Faster!
Faster!
His heart fiercely rejecting that outcome, Gwen had only one thought left in his mind: faster.
Under that sudden eruption of willpower, a series of changes quietly took