Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, more than a dozen purple pillars of light pierced the night sky. Their almost unearthly glow lit up the glass facade and fell across Bai Ye's profile, leaving one half dazzlingly bright and the other submerged in shadow.
He still sat on the leather sofa, his silver suit impeccably pressed without a single crease. His slender fingers tapped the armrest in a slow rhythm.
As the purple rain pattered down, chaos erupted throughout Myriad Tael City.
Shrill sirens tore through the air, the roar of engines mingling with the crowd's cries in a cacophony.
Amid that uproar, Bai Ye's fingertips abruptly stilled.
The corners of his mouth rose with agonizing slowness into a faint smile, and a low chuckle spilled from his throat.
"Interesting."
He slowly raised his eyes, his gaze passing through the floor-to-ceiling windows to the chaos shrouded in purple light. A glimmer of almost feverish excitement surged in his eyes.
"At last, an opponent who's... not quite so boring.
A mortal who dares challenge a god... let me see how far you can go, Doctor."
Just as Bai Ye had said before: I don't expect life to go smoothly, but when I encounter an obstacle, I hope it lets me enjoy myself to the fullest.
After the Time Loop, it should have been a straightforward crushing victory. But the Doctor's resistance made Bai Ye feel that things were starting to get interesting.
Time... Stop!!
The world's clamor turned to deathly silence. The purple rain froze in midair, mysterious and magnificent, like countless droplet-shaped amethysts.
God's Descent!
Bai Ye's figure vanished from the leather sofa in an instant.
When he reappeared, he was already in the laboratory housing the Doctor's clone.
Once bitten, twice shy. When he had used God's Descent to enter the