Six Rings World.
Shinji's main body and three Shadow Clones faced the four Lantern Bearers—"Ghost," "Gladiator," "Whitebeard," and "Night Hawk"—possessed by the Plague Overlord on different battlefields.
The ghostly white lantern light cast a bleak pall over the battlefield, as though only black and white remained between heaven and earth.
And amid this bleak world, Shinji was the only splash of color.
The four battles began almost simultaneously, and the fighting intensified to a fever pitch almost the instant they erupted. Neither side tested the waters or laid any groundwork; they plunged straight into the fiercest collision, setting the entire Six Rings World surging.
Beep, beep, beep.
Listening to the shrill alarms ringing incessantly beside her ears, "Radiance" Alice stared blankly.
The instant Shinji clashed with the Lantern Bearers possessed by the Plague Overlord, the detectors installed throughout the Six Rings World simultaneously blared their highest-level alarms!
As one of the programmers who had written the system, she knew exactly what this meant.
Suddenly, Hengo cried out over the communicator, "How is this possible!? Damn it, did the instruments malfunction?"
There was no doubt that Hengo, who was in another region, had received the alarm as well.
The old warrior's voice came through the communicator. "I received an alarm too. The data shows that the world is on the verge of collapse. Only forty-nine hours remain on the countdown."
Hengo said, "That's impossible. We calculated before that the Six Rings World had at least two months left!"
Just then, "Arcane" spoke over the communicator. "The instruments didn't malfunction. I can sense it—the world is collapsing!"
"What!?"
Hengo's face was filled with disbelief.
"Arcane" was a Lantern Bearer of the Six Rings World. No one understood the state of the Six Rings World better than he did. If even he could