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Chapter 596: 596: Monstrous Entity

Some claimed the Empire was secretly negotiating.Others said the Demons were beginning to retreat.

And some even claimed that a cure for the Demon disease had already been found.

The stories sounded ridiculous.

Yet strangely enough...

The rumors kept spreading wider and wider.

At first, most people ignored them.

But slowly...

Hope began appearing once more.

Tired soldiers whispered about it beside campfires.

Mothers prayed quietly for it.

And many commoners desperately wished the rumors were true because everyone had already grown exhausted from the endless deaths.

Even some generals began secretly discussing the possibility.

Could the war really end?

Could everything finally stop?

Inside the Imperial Capital, Ethan quietly sat upon a wide balcony connected to his residence while calmly drinking afternoon tea.

A massive transparent magical glass ceiling stretched above the balcony and allowed sunlight to pour gently across the area while protecting it from wind and rain.

The peaceful atmosphere felt completely separated from the bloody world outside.

Soft breeze moved lightly through the open sides of the balcony while distant sounds of the capital echoed faintly below.

Ethan leaned slightly back against his chair while holding the warm teacup quietly in one hand.

For the first time in a while...

His expression looked somewhat relaxed.

The peace rumors had clearly started affecting the atmosphere of the Empire, and even though nothing had been officially announced yet, Ethan could already sense the tension inside the capital slowly changing.

The servants looked less gloomy.People smiled slightly more often.

And even soldiers walking through the streets no longer looked completely hopeless.

Ethan slowly took another sip of tea while quietly staring toward the distant Imperial Palace.

"I just hope this actually works..." he murmured softly to himself.

But suddenly—

RUMBLE!!!

A violent quake suddenly shook the entire residence without warning.

The teacup in Ethan’s hand trembled violently while the table shook loudly, and cracks instantly spread across several nearby walls.

The ground itself seemed to roar.

RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE!

The peaceful atmosphere shattered instantly.

"What the hell?!" Rathlos shouted from inside the room.

Servants screamed in panic while several objects crashed onto the floor, and outside the balcony Ethan could see countless birds suddenly scattering wildly across the sky.

The entire Imperial Capital had begun trembling.

Ethan’s relaxed expression instantly disappeared.

His eyes sharpened sharply while his body rose from the chair in one smooth movement.

Then a terrifying pressure suddenly descended from far above the sky.

And the moment Ethan sensed it...

His heart violently tightened.

Ethan immediately stepped forward toward the edge of the balcony while his eyes turned sharp, and the terrifying pressure descending from above continued growing heavier with every passing second.

The entire Imperial Capital was trembling.

RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE!

Far away at the very center of the capital, something enormous suddenly erupted upward into the sky.

BOOOOM!

A gigantic shadow rose high above the city, and its sheer size was so overwhelming that it almost covered the entire capital beneath it.

The sunlight dimmed instantly.

Darkness spread across the streets.

People all over the city froze in shock while looking upward with pale faces, and countless screams and panicked voices immediately erupted everywhere.

"What the hell is that?!"

"Monster?!"

"No... no... what is happening?!"

Children cried loudly while merchants stumbled backward in panic, and many civilians instinctively dropped to their knees thinking some kind of divine punishment had descended upon the capital.

Even soldiers across the city looked shaken.

The giant shadow stretching across the sky looked too enormous to properly comprehend.

But strangely enough...

The figure itself did not appear completely solid.

High above the skies, above the countless clouds, only a blurry and illusory outline of a humanoid silhouette could barely be seen forming slowly in the heavens.

It looked unreal.

Distorted.

As if the sky itself was struggling to contain its shape.

From below, many common people simply stared upward in confusion.

"Is that... a magical cloud?"

"I think it is just some strange weather phenomenon..."

"No... maybe some large-scale illusion magic?"

After all, in a world filled with magic, flying beasts, and terrifying experts, strange phenomena appearing in the skies was not exactly uncommon.

Massive magical storms existed.Gigantic cloud formations existed.

And even illusions spanning entire cities had appeared before.

So many ordinary civilians tried desperately to convince themselves that this was merely another strange magical event.

But unlike them...

The expressions of high-level experts across the capital changed completely.

A deep sense of dread quietly spread among them.

Inside noble mansions, powerful auras suddenly erupted one after another as hidden experts rushed outside with shocked expressions.

Inside military headquarters, several commanders stood up abruptly while cold sweat appeared across their foreheads.

And within the Imperial Palace itself...

Multiple terrifying presences awakened instantly.

Ethan’s expression slowly darkened while staring toward the blurry giant silhouette above the skies.

Even with his current strength...

He could still feel overwhelming pressure crushing down upon him.

His instincts screamed danger.

Extreme danger.

At that moment—

SWOOSH!

Rathlos suddenly dashed out from inside the residence and appeared beside Ethan almost instantly.

"This...!" Rathlos’s voice shook slightly while his eyes widened so much they almost seemed ready to pop out of their sockets.

He stared upward blankly.

Even his breathing became uneven.

Ethan slowly turned toward him.

"You know something?" he asked in a low voice.

Rathlos did not answer immediately.

His gaze remained fixed on the sky while his expression turned uglier and uglier.

The usually carefree wyvern looked genuinely shaken for the first time in a long while.

"That pressure..." he muttered slowly.

"It can’t be..."

The ground trembled again violently.

RUMMMBLE!!!

Above the capital, the blurry humanoid silhouette slowly became clearer for a brief moment before distorting once more, and the terrifying pressure descending from the heavens increased several times over.

Some weaker civilians fainted on the spot.

Many soldiers fell to one knee.

And even the magical formations protecting the capital began flickering unstably as if reacting to the presence above.

Ethan’s heart sank slightly while staring upward.

Because deep inside...

He suddenly had a terrifying feeling.