Seeing Cartinas Ilubena and the others trembling before him, their faces filled with terror, Luo Mio spoke with faint disappointment and indifference.
"I originally thought a king who ruled an entire world would be incredibly powerful. Is this really all there is to you?"
With that, Luo Mio raised his hand toward Cartinas Ilubena's warship.
"Primal, devour everything before you."
As Luo Mio's voice fell, the symbol of White Night high in the sky—the first and most ancient Primal Star—began to bloom with an unrivaled radiance, as dazzling as the dawn at the birth of chaos.
Beneath the illumination of that brilliant Primal Star, the surrounding silver sea continuously gave off sizzling sounds as its liquid evaporated.
The moment Cartinas Ilubena noticed Luo Mio unleashing the Primal Star's radiance, he hurriedly ordered his subordinates to activate the warship's magic barrier.
Yet the instant the light shone upon the magic barrier outside the warship, an overbearing, indescribable, unseeable force evaporated it, reducing it directly to nothingness.
"Wha—?!"
Before Cartinas Ilubena could finish speaking, the dazzling radiance blooming from the Primal Star devoured him completely.
The same happened to everyone around him. In an instant, their bodies vanished like dust scattered by the wind.
At that critical moment, in the very instant before he was swallowed by the Primal Star's radiance, Cartinas Ilubena screamed in terror.
"Metilien!"
Immediately, the space around Cartinas Ilubena's body began to twist, as though it were being transferred elsewhere.
In a blur, a massive tiger let out a roar at Luo Mio.
Then, before Luo Mio's eyes, Cartinas Ilubena vanished.
His subordinates, everyone else aboard the warship, and even the warship itself were swallowed in an instant by the radiance of the Primal Star.
In just a few seconds, the region illuminated by the Primal Light was