Dark Energy Storm! Thanks to the Generous Reader Braised Duck for Becoming an Alliance Master!

Water sprayed everywhere, followed by a thunderous crash!

Just one step away—at the very moment they were only one final step from escaping this "Calgary"—that familiar massive black figure crashed into view.

Their gazes froze, and they fell from dawn back into hopelessness.

Even Serica finally felt a wave of despair in her helplessness this time!

They had charged all the way out from the city center, using weapons, Abilities, armor shields, even two spatial teleports and one final full-speed burst.

After breaking through countless Numbers to reach the city's edge, they had nearly exhausted every means available to them.

Their weapons were almost gone, their Arcane Energy was running low, and even their shield values had bottomed out. They might not even withstand a single strike from B-15—and even if that were not the case,

this was no longer the same situation as before. If they were held up for even one second and the Numbers led by B-44 caught up from behind,

then the only ending awaiting them would be to exhaust all their strength and be buried beneath the Numbers.

Appearing in the same way but bringing an entirely different situation, B-15 before them at the enormous reservoir on the city's outskirts became the final straw that crushed them.

Watching the furnace dragon head open its blazing maw and roar, Serica's widened eyes went still as she let go of Silver Shadow's handlebars.

But at the very instant when even she instinctively gave up,

the value in the upper-right corner of his vision surged! As Arcane Energy overflowed and dispersed the darkness, a mechanical single wing burst open with surging ghostly flames. Facing the water column soaring into the sky in their despair,

he transformed into a streak of fire shooting upward from the ground amid a