The Cybrex Prototype Warform possessed by Xi Yan sprinted away, leaving Hydra standing alone in bewilderment, unsure what to do with the vast psionic power gathered in her hands.
[He ran! He ran! Chase him, you idiot!!!]
The Shroud no longer whispered. Instead, it unleashed a psionic roar, seething with fury.
Hydra snapped out of her daze, and anger immediately surged through her.
She had been played!
When Xi Yan had come out alone and fought her twice, he had merely been putting on an act. He had never intended to fight the Great Khan to the bitter end!
"Coward! Come back and settle this!"
Watching Xi Yan slip farther and farther away, an anxious Hydra raced back aboard her sole Galley Warship, only to discover that Xi Yan's Prototype Warform had already destroyed its controls. It could no longer move.
She was trapped here!
Even the Shroud descended into impotent rage. But it had already expended a great deal of energy and did not want to interfere with reality again, so it could only keep whispering in Hydra's mind to express its fury.
Xi Yan had never needed to duel the Great Khan. He could simply have ordered the fleet to blast her a couple of times.
But the principle remained the same: offer bait to draw out the real prize, and lure the snake from its hole.
The moment Xi Yan stepped forward, the Shroud had hurriedly poured power into the Great Khan.
The power transmitted to Hydra was minimal. Breaking through the barrier between the Shroud and reality was what truly consumed energy.
That alone had cost the End of the Cycle quite a bit.
But that was not all...
The Great Khan had begun her final struggle, unleashing Psionics Power to propel herself after Xi Yan.