The central area of the royal city had been submerged in shallow water. Looking toward the higher ground around it, one could see deep cracks scattered across the earth. The ruins that had barely remained standing had all collapsed into piles of rubble. Only the towering statue of the God King still stood.
The person it represented had founded all of this, while it had witnessed everything that followed: the rise and fall of dynasties, and the ravages of beast disasters.
Rumble~
The statue of the God King began to crack, crumbling into coarse rubble that rolled downward like a landslide. With the World-Severing Lightning that had shaken heaven and earth striking earlier, this painted world was about to reach its end.
Hearing the continuous crashes of rubble striking the ground in the distance, Su Xiao opened his eyes while lying in the shallow water. He sat up amid splashes. The cold underground water had a slight numbing effect, but after sitting up, his head spun for several seconds.
A crystal right arm gradually took shape, with some Banishment fragments mixed into it. When he was not fighting, he could split Banishment into two streams: one to maintain control of his crystal left calf, and the other to control his crystal right arm. His severed right arm and left calf had already been placed inside a life-support device by Baja. It was familiar with this sort of thing.
After drinking a bottle of Vitality Serum, Su Xiao's health rapidly recovered. Most of the pressure in his chest faded, and strands of Spirit Shadow Threads entered his body through his wounds. After the initial treatment, he felt alive again.
Su Xiao stood and walked over to the old knight's corpse. Floating above it was a constantly shifting mass of black blood.