The two powers already struggling to hold out against the sin force collapsed completely when demon power, Dawn Force, plague force, and Holy Thorn Force suddenly joined the fray.
Demon power burned through everything with overwhelming force.
Dawn Force embraced everything with gentleness and tenacity.
Plague force infected everything, just as its name suggested.
Holy Thorn Force gave, using the other party's own power to give back to them, whether as a blessing or... harm.
In the end, these powers became Qin Ran's own origin power.
The five great origin powers maintained their mutual balance as they always had. Almost simultaneously, they treated the foreign powers as "fuel" and fed them to the faint flame.
The flame flickered several times, growing a little larger without realizing it. Its light brightened, and the chaotic darkness unwittingly retreated farther.
But!
The next moment, the counterattack came.
The chaos within the darkness let out an unknown yet profoundly terrifying howl and rushed at the faint flame, as though intent on extinguishing it in one fell swoop.
"Roar!"
"Get back!"
A crimson body of lava appeared before the flame, blocking the surging black tide like a dam.
A streak of blazing white appeared amid the black tide. Beneath a suit of sturdy, substantial, yet radiant knight's armor, a loud, resolute voice echoed through the chaos.
"Fight, never retreat!"
"Fight, never yield!"
The voice rang out like a horn. Wreathed in black flames, Pride raised his enormous black sword high and slashed at that strange darkness.
As the two shifted, gentle white and dull gray abruptly descended.
The white brimmed with the tenacity of life.
The gray was steeped in the despair of annihilation.
Like a torrential downpour, the two battered hole after hole into the dark chaos.
Hiss!
With a hiss of dissolution, the