Barton struggled to his feet amid the rubble. He had seen Hall pierced by a single spear thrust, and as he watched the brother who had been beside him for over a century dissolve into nothingness under Asura's power of annihilation, his eyes instantly turned bloodshot.
"Aah!!"
He threw back his head and let out a deafening roar. Every last trace of flame proto-rule remaining within him erupted without restraint at that moment. His dark red flame domain spread out again, burning even fiercer than before, but that intensity came at the cost of burning his life essence.
Instead of retreating, he advanced, smashing his fists together to unleash a towering pillar of fire. His entire body hurtled toward Lin Jin like a star on the verge of exploding.
"I'll take you down with me!!"
Lin Jin did not even deign to turn around. With a thought, a Truth-Seeking Orb behind him flew out silently, transforming in midair into a slender, pitch-black spear, the power of Yin-Yang Release coiling around its tip.
The spear tore through the sky, moving so fast it left only an afterimage. Barton did not even have time to react.
With a wet puncture, the spear pierced between his brows and emerged from the back of his head, carrying a splash of scalding blood.
His charging body abruptly stiffened. His flame domain froze in midair, then crashed to the ground along with him.
[Ding! Congratulations, host, on killing a Half-Step Divine Domain Awakened. Obtained 30,000 points of World Power.]
With two Half-Step Divine Domain ancestors falling in succession, the Morgan Family's entire defensive line collapsed.
No one knew who first shouted, "The ancestors are dead!" Panic spread through the crowd like floodwater bursting through a dam, and the battle line that had barely been