(Heartfelt thanks to 'Long Lian Qingxue', 'Fake Dimwit Husky', 'Read Early', and 'Yongjiang Yiku' for their tips!)
At this moment, in the pure white world, more than half the space had been occupied by crimson, blood-red reapers, dyeing everything they passed in a hair-raising hue.
Less than one-tenth of the space remained uninvaded.
Within that tiny remaining space, feather after feather fled in panic. Like birds sensing a hunter's rifle trained upon them, they descended into complete chaos.
As for Gaia and Alaya, they could only stare at the red tide of reapers pouring down like an avalanche, their minds utterly blank.
The survival instincts of the Counter Force trembled without cease, urging Gaia and Alaya to run.
Yet in a situation like this, where could Gaia and Alaya possibly run to?
Back to their own worlds?
That would only delay their destruction.
Before the crimson scythes of death that could destroy countless worlds all at once, no world could survive.
And that was not even the worst outcome.
The worst outcome was that even Noah would be killed.
If that happened, there would truly be no hope left at all.
At that thought, Gaia and Alaya both hardened their hearts almost simultaneously.
"O endless worlds, please hear my voice!" Gaia cried out.
"We absolutely cannot allow Shadow to touch the child you cherish. He is our only hope!"
"As long as this child remains alive, even if you are destroyed, you will one day be reborn through his hands. But if anything happens to him, there will never be any hope again!" Alaya pleaded as well.
"Therefore, we cannot flee. We must protect our sole remaining hope!"
The voices of the two great Counter Forces turned into a wave of sound that echoed throughout Between Worlds.
Swept by that