The halting declaration carried supreme authority. It struck Anna's ears like death's final warning.
At that moment, every last bit of strength left her body.
Even the searing pain in her severed arm seemed to have gone numb.
All that remained was a boundless cold that seeped into her bones.
Dead!
Basaka, Sequence 086—the Berserker said to be undying—had been wiped out completely.
That monster had crushed all thirteen of his lives as easily as stepping on an ant!
Now it was her turn!
A miserable smile, uglier than tears, crossed Anna's bloodless face.
Fight back?
With what?
Beg for mercy?
She could still see Basaka being blasted into showers of blood and flesh, again and again.
Before a monster that acted on instinct alone, every word and every scheme seemed feeble and absurd.
Fear!
A fear unlike anything she had ever known swallowed her reason whole!
She didn't want to die!
"Caw!"
Anna let out an inhuman shriek, and her body exploded once more!
This time, she burned through the last of her life force!
More than a thousand pitch-black crows, more solid than ever before, filled the air. They fled madly in every direction, toward every corner of the dark-gold Divine Hall!
This was her final life-saving technique!
Murder of Crows!
If even one crow escaped, she could use it to be reborn!
She refused to believe the monster could kill every one of her scattered selves in a single instant!
At the heart of the domain, the godlike figure watched the black flock scatter across the sky without moving.
Yue Xiaofei simply stood there.
His hollow, scarlet eyes swept indifferently across the Divine Hall that belonged to him.
Then he slowly raised his right hand.
His five fingers spread.
And with a gentle motion, he closed them