"Learning others' abilities and integrating them with one's own skills is a quality every intelligent life-form should possess."
"Only beasts believe that skill belongs to them alone."
The Dragon Sovereign holding a longbow spoke indifferently. As if deliberately opposing him, endless black flames erupted, forcibly wresting control of half the planet from the frozen world... The firelight could not illuminate the shadow over his face. At that moment, he looked like another Great Lord of Annihilation.
They stood locked in confrontation, flames and icy tides clashing violently. With every spread of elemental power, their "domains" grew denser and more profound, even reaching into space and turning the other planets and star regions foul gray-black.
One could imagine that if an explosion occurred at this moment, even the primary star of the stellar system might be caught up in it—or perish in the chain reaction.
The freezing wind howled sharply while raging flames rose with savage ferocity...
Caught between the cold wind and blazing fire, Topaz suddenly sensed a kind of magnificent beauty.
It was hard to imagine that she would have such thoughts at a moment like this, on the verge of extinction, but the ever-expanding domains brought nothing but the purest destruction.
All it would take was for someone to toss in a single spark. Then this star region would welcome the grandest of deaths.
To witness destruction so pure was undoubtedly a stroke of luck worth the ticket price even after death, at least for certain bloodthirsty spectators.
Topaz did not possess such bloodthirsty thoughts, but when she was already standing at death's threshold, she evidently became a little like one of those bloodthirsty spectators.
There was clearly nothing bad about having her life end at this very moment.
Imagining the splendor of a star system's destruction, Topaz