Meanwhile, the " Dome Stronghold " Eye of Dawn and Dusk.
After the Flame Reaver left, the group managed to stabilize the platform that was about to break.
March 7th wiped the sweat from his brow and Mimi in celebration. "Phew~ In the end, we still have to rely on the power of ' Eternity ' and ' Remembrance ' together!"
First, she used " Oronyx's Prayer " to maintain the platform, and then on March 7th, she used Ice Lance to reinforce the defense. As expected of her!
Just as everyone was preparing to continue their journey, Hyacine's pupils suddenly dilated!
" Hyacine...? What happened?"
Hyacine pulled out the "Sky" Core Flame, which was flashing with light. " The Core Flame in my palm is trembling. It's warning me..."
" Your Phainon, in the myth of Amphoreus, the Dawn Machine was a gift from Aegle to Kephale, isn't that right?" she asked Phainon, looking up at him.
Why are you suddenly asking this? Let's go back to the ground first.
"... Phainon Bai'er!"
Phainon froze, realizing from Hyacine's reaction that something had happened to Okhema!
"Yes. The fact that Aegle gifted the Dawn Machine to Kephale is a consensus reached by almost all mythologists."
"...!" March 7th was even more bewildered, one problem after another.
Hyacine took a deep breath. "Everyone, please calm down... listen to me."
"Just now, the Core Flame of fire in the sky trembled violently in my palm. Then... some of its heat escaped from my hand."
"It consumed enormous amounts of energy, just to leave me with a single proverb: The Dawn Machine... has been extinguished."
The Holy City of Okhema, in the next instant!
The Flame Reaver has silently appeared at the innermost part of the Cloud Stone Heavenly Palace, the most central and sacred place in the "Holy City" of Okhema.
This is not a magnificent palace, but more like a frozen starry sky.
The enormous dome is made of a single piece of deep-space marble with veins of stardust flowing across it, and countless tiny silver specks of light float slowly beneath it, like a miniature Milky Way.
The ground is smooth, mirror-like black obsidian, reflecting the starlight from the dome. Walking on it feels like strolling through the void. The air is still as water, filled with an ancient and " Eternity " atmosphere.
In the very center of this starry palace, a figure had already been standing quietly, waiting.
She wore a long robe that seemed to be woven from the flowing night and starlight, the hem of which moved without wind, scattering dappled light.
Her long, silvery-white hair cascaded down to her waist like a frozen waterfall of moonlight.
Her face was calm and serene, as if it had been washed away by billions of years of time, leaving only the purest clarity.
What is most striking are her eyes; deep within her pupils, it seems, lies a swirling galaxy, reflecting the birth and death of the universe.
The elven girl simply stood there, yet she seemed to become the core of this starry celestial palace, causing the surrounding starlight to dim and submit to her.
High Priest Fulisina – the Emanator of " Eternity," a supreme being who should have remained hidden behind the scenes, never revealing herself except in the face of a cataclysmic event.
Now, she stands here.
The moment the Flame Reaver stepped into the Heavenly Palace, Fulisina's starry eyes rose and calmly fell upon him.
There was no surprise, no questioning, not even a ripple of emotion, as if his arrival had been anticipated in the trajectory of billions of stars.
The Flame Reaver remained silent as well. The shadow beneath his hood also watched Fulisina.
There was no probing, no veiled barbs, not even a trace of extraneous energy fluctuation.
The air between the two was frozen, like ancient ice.
Buzz--!
What shattered this absolute silence was not sound, but a terrifying tremor as if space itself was being forcibly distorted and torn apart!
Fulisina moved, but she didn't even raise her hand; only a slight glint of light flashed in her starry eyes!
boom--!!!
The black obsidian ground beneath the Flame Reaver's feet suddenly shattered! It wasn't physical destruction, but rather the collapse of space itself.
A miniature black hole, several meters in diameter, was instantly created, emitting a terrifying gravitational force powerful enough to tear apart a god's body, threatening to devour and crush the Flame Reaver along with the eternal night surrounding him.
The Flame Reaver moved almost simultaneously; his wide black robes billowed without wind, and his pair of gray-white bone wings suddenly folded forward, like two enormous skeletal shields!
The flowing ash light on the surface of the bone wings spun wildly, forming an absolute barrier that isolated the space from tearing apart.
Sizzle sizzle sizzle--!
A piercing sound of annihilation rang out!
The terrifying gravitational field of the miniature black hole violently rubbed against and annihilated the ash barrier of the bone wings, unleashing turbulent currents powerful enough to warp space. The entire Cloud Stone Heavenly Palace trembled slightly in this silent collision!
Fulisina's figure became ethereal amidst the starlight, and with a single step, she appeared to the side and behind the Flame Reaver.
Her slender index finger seemed to point out casually, but at the tip of her finger was a tiny, brilliant starlight, finer than a needle tip, yet seemingly containing the energy of a supernova explosion.
The starlight shot out silently, its trajectory not a straight line, but like leaping starlight, instantly traversing space and piercing the Flame Reaver's exposed back opening caused by blocking the black hole.
The Flame Reaver's reaction was faster than anything else; his folded bone wings suddenly unfolded.
A bone spur, flowing with the thickest shadows, shot out with lightning precision from the gap in the unfolded wing bones, meeting the deadly starlight head-on.
bite--!
A crisp, soul-chilling collision rang out as starlight and the tip of a bone spur clashed head-on.
The ultimate light and the condensed eternal night clashed wildly at a point the size of a pinhead, and the resulting turbulent energy spread silently, instantly evaporating the surrounding stardust into Nihility.
From the very first second they met, this battle, which took place at the core of the Starry Sky Palace, immediately entered into the most dangerous and deadly 'fight'.
Every thought that flashed through Fulisina's mind was a deadly strike that drew upon the power of the stars; every response from the Flame Reaver was the ultimate application of his own abilities.
Space was distorting, starlight was annihilating, and the deep-space cloud stone that constituted the Heavenly Palace emitted a low groan of unbearable strain.
Two beings standing at the pinnacle of this world, beneath this frozen starry sky, waged a war in the most direct way, a war that would determine the fate of Okhema and even the entire world...
But... is that really the case?
The moment the ' Flame Reaver ' saw Fulisina, he conceived a brilliant plan.
"Hahaha~" Fulisina covered her face and chuckled, "Thus, we unveil a corner of the divine war..."