Thanks for the tip, u?fe?a?ru! Brothers, I'm begging for monthly tickets and recommendations! We're almost at three hundred—give me a little motivation!
The three captains stood in the air, their auras bearing down on the humans like bamboo splitting before a blade!
They chatted as if no one else were there, seemingly not taking the humans seriously at all.
"The first phase is complete! Thank goodness we didn't betray Lord Baal's trust!" A smile touched Christina's lips. She stroked the wings on her back and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"We can begin the second phase now. This damned plane's suppression feels like shackles around poor little Nier. Let's put an end to it soon!" Nier covered her mouth and giggled.
Christina looked toward the massive Hellfire leader, Mordekaiser. He seemed entirely unconcerned, leaving everything up to her as before.
"So that's how it is..." Christina pondered for a moment, looking over the endless Hai and pools of blood below, then at the humans still gathering ahead.
A savage glint appeared in her eyes!
"Now, listen to my orders. Begin the second phase!"
"These people are the perfect blood-sacrifice offerings!" Bloodlust flashed across Christina's cool face.
Boom!
A beam of light extended from Christina's wings, illuminating the entire sky.
Half the heavens were steeped in an eerie, deep-blue glow.
The energy surging from the three captains instantly converged into a huge sphere. As though borne aloft by some unknown force, it slowly rose and began to turn.
A crack suddenly opened in the sphere. Inside was an eye!
Its three-colored iris spun round and round, uncannily strange!
Hiss, hiss, hiss!
Countless streams of energy burst from it, suffused with a mysterious aura.
The next instant—
Boom!
The eye suddenly fired a blast of energy that held both ruin and