Before Shinji swung the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, most of the battlefields around the Knowledge Tower had already collapsed.
The mages scattered across the vast battlefield had either fallen in battle or been forced to self-destruct to hold off the enemy. Only a handful of high-ranking mages had managed to break away, and they were now retreating toward the Knowledge Tower in utter disarray.
On the Knowledge Tower's high platform.
Watching the battlefield crumble like mountainsides giving way, Mage Roy's face went ashen.
He had never imagined that the Knowledge Tower, guarded by an Archmage, would find itself in such dire straits. Even less had he imagined that the noble mages would be hunted down like a panicked herd of deer on the grasslands!
"Is this Doomsday?"
Suddenly, he remembered a rumor that had been circulating among high-ranking mages: the world was heading toward destruction!
At first, he hadn't believed it. As far as he was concerned, the Six Rings World, guarded by six Archmages, had nothing to fear from something like Doomsday.
But now, looking at the scene before him, he finally woke to the terrifying truth!
Whoosh.
Just then, a dazzling golden light shot into the sky, so brilliant that he, a high-ranking mage, could barely look at it!
"What is that?"
Mage Roy's thoughts nearly ground to a halt.
He wasn't the only one. Whether they were the Lantern Bearers in the temporary war fortresses or the mages fleeing in disarray toward the Knowledge Tower, everyone stopped and looked up at the sky, at that dazzling golden sword too brilliant to behold!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
In the next instant, the golden sword swept across the battlefield!
Amid deafening roars, countless Flesh Puppets—no, every one in sight—disintegrated and vanished beneath the dazzling blade!
"How is that possible?!"
"What