Desperate Command

The boundary of space was collapsing.

"No... I can't accept this..."

Countless mouths on the mass of flesh let out hoarse whispers at the same time:

"My... plan, my... eternity..."

Selna watched it all coldly.

"Go to sleep, fool."

"This time, you'll sleep even longer."

Her last tentacle stabbed into the core of the flesh mass, where some heart-like organ was beating.

The power of the "source" surged in like a tide, beginning to dismantle the lingering consciousness at its roots.

The flesh mass let out a shrill scream.

But just as that consciousness was about to sink completely into darkness, Aiden's will shot out like a burning meteor.

After piercing through Selna's suppression and the barrier of Imaginary Space, it plunged straight into the real world.

That will did not attack anyone. It merely issued a command.

As the command took effect, magical fluctuations vast beyond imagination began awakening simultaneously from three directions of the battlefield.

Toby lifted his head and looked at the distorted sky, feeling his heart skip a beat.

"What is that..."

The companion beside him froze as well, his rifle drooping powerlessly in his hands.

They had just lived through a hellish battle: Leviathan's "strands of hair," the charge of frenzied Vampires, the bombardment of the floating fortress...

Any one of them would have been enough to break an ordinary person.

But compared with what was happening in the sky now, everything before seemed so... insignificant.

The eastern sea.

The Fang Clan's flagship had already been blasted full of holes. Burning wreckage and the corpses of Vampire soldiers lay everywhere across the deck.

In the wreckage of the bridge, a certain figure who had been commanding from the rear suddenly stood up.

"No..." Cassano's voice was hoarse. "Don't. I don't want to..."

Yet his body