Darkness erupted soundlessly like a raging fire, swallowing everything.
It utterly crushed the last shred of consciousness in his soul.
As his soul dissolved, Gale's body swiftly stiffened, cracked, collapsed, and turned into dust laced with salt and sulfur.
When Anna turned back with a triumphant smile, the outline of a War Angel faintly emerged from the surging malice reflected in her pupils, becoming the cornerstone required for her advancement.
Just as Huai Shi had said, victory and defeat had been decided.
The instant Anna's three full-force imitation Heaven-Collapsing Strikes shattered Gale's soul defenses, there was no longer any suspense about the outcome.
In the long silence, Lin Zhongxiaowu stared fixedly at Anna's fingers, his expression twitching.
As though he had seen a ghost.
"...The Sword of Ultimate Evil?"
He moved closer to Huai Shi and asked softly, "Where did she get something that wicked?"
He had seen it perfectly clearly in that instant!
No, more than clearly—his eyes had nearly popped out of his head.
Even though that lingering glimmer was so faint that it could not last even a moment, it could not conceal the darkness at its core: the essence of the Path of Change, the prototype and foundation of the Sword of Ultimate Evil...
That cruel creation, seemingly born from the same source as evil itself yet specifically forged for its own kind to slaughter one another, was exactly like the aura around Vitaly.
Other than the Sword of Ultimate Evil, could there be any other possibility?
At the thought of his junior sister someday waving this thing around his neck, Lin Zhongxiaowu's hair already stood on end.
Life was impossible!
Huai Shi was not surprised by this. After all, Mr. Vitaly had given him some hints before.
Half of Anna's soul had grown up within