Just as cobweb-like cracks in the void covered the entire Layer Ark and it was about to shatter completely, an oppressively still aura quietly spread, like a droplet falling into an ancient, deathly silent pool, sending faint yet distinct ripples through reality on the verge of breaking.
Where those ripples passed, a miracle occurred: the eerie cracks etched into the hull and everyone's bodies were smoothed away and sealed, as though by an invisible hand.
Lin Yi's heart jolted, and he abruptly turned his head!
Boss, who had been silent for so long, slowly opened her Phoenix Eyes.
Her gaze was as deep as an eternal frozen abyss. The once cool, radiant moon had now become an absolute pinnacle of ice overlooking the mortal world. At the center of the ripples spreading behind her, a pitch-black crescent quietly appeared, radiating an aura of annihilation that devoured all things.
"I'll hold it back. You-keep moving."
Boss's cool voice cut through the stagnant air. Her delicate foot lightly touched the deck, and she rose into the air in defiance of all reason, light as a feather yet bearing the crushing weight of her resolve.
"Boss!" Lin Yi cried out.
She turned at his voice, her gaze lingering on his face for an instant. An almost imperceptible curve seemed to flicker across her lips. "Until we meet again, Lin Yi-big brother."
Before her words faded, she lightly touched a finger to her brow.
Humm-
Blue-golden light and shadow suddenly surged from within her, intertwining. In an instant, a crown radiating supreme, sacred pressure materialized above her head!
The crown shed a galaxy-like radiance. Boss's clothes silently dissolved, revealing her sacred, flawless, jade-like body beneath. The radiance of the stars across the heavens seemed to have woven the closest-fitting spiritual garment over her skin-this