The old woman's sigh sounded from behind Darkness. Behind those pitch-black, lightless eyes, a cane carved with flowers stabbed toward her.
Darkness abruptly raised her hand, her fingers clamping around its tip. She twisted to shed the force, and a pitch-black hole appeared behind her, swallowing every last aftershock of the attack.
"Wu Dan of the Primordial Beginning Tower. You old fossil, you're still alive?"
The old woman withdrew her cane and pressed it down lightly.
A profusion of flowers suddenly bloomed in the black hole behind Darkness. At first glance, it looked like black brocade embroidered with flowers, except both its length and width had already exceeded anything human weavers could produce.
The cane flipped over and hooked one side of Darkness.
The old woman yanked hard, dragging the Second Princess of the Dark Abyss Calamity Dynasty far away from the blade.
"I can't close my eyes. With you Calamities still alive and the world's future unclear, I'm afraid that once I die, you'll wipe out my Civilization."
The Annihilation Seat followed close behind, forming a pincer with Wu Dan and blocking Darkness's path.
"A Calamity on the verge of the fourteenth tier and a tenth-rank human on the verge of the grave. Are you planning to stop me with your lives today?"
Darkness tossed her long hair, her pure-black eyes fixed eerily on the two women barring her way.
"The extinction of Civilization was decided long ago. I don't know what you're still struggling for. In a place overrun with Calamities, why do you think Civilization can be rebuilt?
"Such naive thinking is simply laughable. The Four Seats of Judgment all emerged from endless slaughter. Your consciousness was born from that endless slaughter. Under the so-called name of Judgment, you still act on your own Calamity instincts.
"Wu