Chapter 565

Hoo-huff~ Hoo-huff~

Sersi looked down at the island below, a smile blooming across her face.

Then her eyes rolled back and she lost consciousness.

Swish!

Her riddled, tattered body drifted downward as light as a feather.

"Sersi!" Phastos cried out in alarm, hastily reaching out a hand to grab her arm.

High Priestess Strucker, with his head full of withered white hair, asked in a tense voice, "Mr. Phastos, did it succeed?"

While pulling the unconscious Sersi back up, Phastos lowered his gaze toward the island below.

His expression at that moment was exceptionally complex, excitement carrying a faint sense of shock.

"It succeeded, you succeeded..."

A joyful smile appeared on Strucker's face.

"No, we succeeded, Mr. Phastos."

His voice was barely audible, sounding extremely weak from that tottering body on the verge of disconnecting from the Resonance Node.

[...]

Phastos gave a slight physical jolt.

Lowering his upper eyelids, he whispered as if murmuring to himself, "This truly is... an incredible miracle!"

With that, he raised his head to look at the Group Mana Pool.

The water level inside the mana pool had about one-third remaining.

Phastos raised his right hand and suddenly lunged it toward his own chest.

A flash of golden light swept past, and that hand shockingly plunged straight into his own torso.

Seeing this scene, Strucker widened his eyes in astonishment.

"Mr. Phastos, you...?!l"

Phastos smiled and reassured, "Rest assured, Your Excellency, I am not committing suicide."

As he spoke, he abruptly withdrew his right hand.

Clutched within that right palm, entirely transformed into golden energy, was a flickering nodular orb of light.

Phastos raised the node orb high and gripped it fiercely.

Crack!

A soft shattering sound rang out.

The node orb was crushed.

The next second, the Group Mana Pool suddenly began to