Boss's face was already filled with despair. His companions had all left, and alone against this Sky Soldier with unknown abilities, he had no chance of winning.
The "Metal Round-Headed Octopus" slowly drifted toward him, dragging its severed legs. Its chaotic, tree-root-like tentacles bore smooth cuts, clearly sliced apart by this Sky Soldier's strange ability. The attack that had just cut through the Space Door had also been its doing.
"It can actually sever Space Ripples?" Boss's worldview had been utterly shattered. He could no longer summon any desire to resist. He was only a young man; when faced with something he could not defeat even by giving it everything, fear naturally consumed all his thoughts.
The "Metal Round-Headed Octopus" loomed over his head. Countless tentacles cast him into shadow, and the terrifying Metal Construct merely hovered there silently, yet it made him feel an incomparably suffocating pressure.
Its icy metal shell reflected a piercingly cold gleam. Amid these gray ruins, it seemed to be proclaiming the fate of his death.
Dead silence.
Dust settled on the metal surface, as though foretelling the passing of his life.
"Like dust, drifting toward tranquility."
Boss looked up, and a tear unexpectedly rolled from the corner of his eye.
With his companions absent, he could expose his vulnerable side without restraint.
His gaze flickered. He seemed to see himself sliced to pieces by that invisible attack, reduced to unmoving chunks of flesh that would slowly rot amid the ruins.
And the companions he protected would lose their shelter because of his death and be annihilated in the turbulent currents of space.
"I still have companions..."
Once he realized that, Boss's body, frozen stiff with fear, finally moved. He could not give up now.
Behind him, he quietly stirred up an almost imperceptible Space