Chapter 2076: End of the Line

A furious, guttural grunt tore from Davina’s lips as she swiped her claws with ferocious force.

Slash—!

Her claws hummed with baleful emerald light, charged with both moonlight and starlight energy—and the moment they bit into the last High Millinar’s guard, they detonated. The concussive blast hurled the last High Millinar backward; his boots skidded across the red shore as he fought to keep his balance.

It took a few stumbling steps before he could recover.

And his hands already moved.

Immortal energy swirled around his hand, summoning both water and ice from thin air.

It froze and sharpened into a katana with a viciously serrated edge, promising a messy cut against flesh. A blob of dense, dark water hovered near the handle, shifting and churning like a living accessory. His eyes snapped left and right, tracking the white blur that twirled around him.

Vadyn was moving from one shattered glass shard to another with terrifying speed.

Unlike High Lord Rashal, who excelled in destruction, she excelled in precision striking and speed.

Swoosh—!

Like a white phantom, Vadyn exploded out from a glass shard directly into the High Millinar’s blind spot; her glass blade aimed for his throat. But the High Millinar had anticipated the move. At this stage of a battle where exhaustion crept in, there was no need for fancy setup.

Just a straightforward attack most of the time would be enough to end the battle.

But his battle experience was vast, and he could still fight despite the creeping exhaustion.

He spun in a violent snap, hooking her blade with his serrated katana and shoved it wide.

In the next instant—he used the opening to swing his free hand, landing a vicious backhand slap across Vadyn’s face that resounded loudly. The crack of skin against skin could be heard for a mile, snapping her head to the side.

Not stopping at that, the High Millinar front-kicked her in the stomach and dashed forward.

He raised his katana to finish her, but he sensed a figure already behind him.

Instinctively, he swung the katana in a horizontal arc, spinning his waist to reach further.

Davina ducked underneath the lethal arc, sensing the attack coming—from the way his muscles flexed. She kept her body low to the ground, planted her weight to one leg, and slammed his foot into his side, forcing a pained grunt through his gritted teeth.

Before he could pivot, she lunged, driving her claws deep into his stomach.

For a fraction of a second, the High Millinar grabbed Davina’s wrist as his eyes widened.

He saw the attack coming, but his body was too late to move.

Boom—!

Davina’s claws detonated inside him; the explosive force tore through his insides and hurled him across the air—bursting out from the smoke. Blood burst out of his mouth, and his eyes that had already been dyed crimson from his erupted blood vessels, and glared at Davina.

Anger was choking him from the inside.

It was embarrassing to be handled like this by two people who should be way beneath him.

Ignoring his wounded pride, Vadyn intercepted him mid-flight.

Her eyes blazed with immortal energy as she hacked her blade down in a heavy slash, aiming to cleave the High Millinar in two. The High Millinar braced himself to absorb the blow, crossing his arms to eat the hit.

But the blade didn’t cut.

It shattered upon impact, bursting into a hundred glass shards.

Before he could react, the glass shards reformed into sharp, gleaming needles and shot forward.

Each one burrowed through his flesh, tore through muscle, and struck hard against his bones.

He crashed to the ground, rolling violently across the red shore, before he caught himself and unleashed a desperate blast of immortal energy. His body discharged energy; the shockwave shattered the glass needles and pushed Davina and Vadyn back before they could press the advantage.

Both women landed across the way, side by side.

Both were panting hard, their chests heaving as the lingering damage from the Major Law of Coldness was making every move two times harder—to their bodies. But even then, their stances were firm, and their eyes locked strongly on the High Millinar.

By contrast, the High Millinar was a wreck.

His body was crisscrossed with a dozen weeping lacerations, and his breathing was reduced to heavy gasps.

Even though the Major Law of Coldness was draining the women’s stamina and slowing their moves, the sheer rate at which he was accumulating wounds far surpassed their exhaustion. He was losing too much blood, and his body was beginning to fail him.

It was the brutal, inescapable consequence of fighting two enemies at the same time.

’I need to buy more time,’ the High Millinar thought inside—as his eyelids dropped and rose again with much effort. ’But these two are persistent. Each time I gained meaningful momentum, the other would come and break it.’

Despite the situation, he believed that time was all he needed.

Soon, Diamantona would kill Rex.

And then killing these two would be a breeze before they ganged up on High Lord Rashal.

He needed to buy more time, but it was looking unlikely.

On the other hand, Davina and Vadyn also had their own shares of trouble.

’I can’t believe that even Rex—got suppressed by him.’ Vadyn thought inside. She stole a glance at the crystal tree and gritted her teeth, realizing that things far surpassed their expectations. ’If Rex falls, then we would need to buy time for Rashal. But that’s impossible.’

Since Diamantona was strong enough to suppress Rex, they would have no chance.

As soon as Rex fell, they would also quickly fall, leaving only High Lord Rashal behind.

’We need to finish this and help Rex.’ She gripped her sword tighter. ’Only then can we have a chance.’

Beside her, Davina was sweating profusely.

Even though the hailstorm made the air inside this new realm consistently cold, she was sweating—as she was feeling turmoil inside. ’Rex... What are you doing? Fight back. I don’t know what power you are using, but you’re scaring me.’

Davina was connected to him as an inner pack member of the Silverstar Pack.

She could feel the excruciating pain that Rex had been enduring.

One that even killed him, as the connection she had with him was disappearing and reappearing.

It was making her anxious.

Rex must be using something that allowed him to cheat death.

But she didn’t know what that power was, so every time the connection disappeared, she was afraid that he wasn’t going to wake up again. As much as she trusted him—feeling him die multiple times made it really hard to keep trusting him.

’We need to end this now.’ Davina thought.

She exchanged a look with Vadyn, and then focused back on the High Millinar again.

Both were on the same page that this last High Millinar needs to go right now.

Just as Davina and Vadyn were about to attack the High Millinar again, fully intending to end the fight right now, the ground underneath them suddenly shook violently. It was a cataclysmic tremor, one that turned their footing treacherous and sent uneven fissures spider-webbing across the red shore.

All of them, including the High Millinar, stumbled, throwing their arms out to keep their balance.

And then their gazes snapped to the horizon.

KABOOM—!

A catastrophic shockwave expanded through the entire realm.

It came from dozens of miles away, a distant detonation of such unfathomable magnitude that its kinetic force still slammed into them—with enough power to push them several steps backward. Even the air itself seemed to groan under the pressure.

Following that, a massive column of water rose on the horizon.

A liquid monolith reaching into the dark sky before slamming back down.

And the resulting impact sent another violent quake rippling through the realm.

Vadyn froze at the sight. Her heart skipped a beat as her senses stretched thin across the realm and then caught a fading presence. High Lord Rashal’s aura—it was diminishing. Fading fast. Raw and unbridled panic shattered her composure.

Overwhelmed by emotion, she took a step to the side. She didn’t think. She didn’t calculate.

She simply ran, blasting away toward the source of the shockwave without a second of hesitation.

Everything that was in her mind disappeared, replaced by High Lord Rashal’s safety.

"Vadyn!" Davina screamed, her voice cracking. "Don’t! We have to finish him first! Focus on him!"

Despite her attempt to call Vadyn back, it was already too late.

Vadyn already turned into a blur of white, swallowed by the distance.

In that exact same second, Davina’s senses rang a frantic alarm.

She spun—but the High Millinar had already closed the gap between them. He had seized the opening with brutal, predatory instinct. Davina raised her arm—desperately summoning a shield of moonlight and starlight to block his vicious downward slash.

But her barrier was unfinished; the energy barely coalescing before he was upon her.

The serrated katana tore through the incomplete shield like paper, and then the blade slammed into her right arm, digging deep into the flesh—the uneven teeth caught on muscle and sinew. Despite the clean slash, the High Millinar didn’t stop there.

Decisively, he pulled the katana back with a brutal yank.

A hiss escaped Davina’s lips as the serrated teeth rend her flesh and spun her body from the sheer force.

Before she could recover, the High Millinar’s boot connected with her side firmly—a crushing kick that sent her flying. She crashed against a nearby boulder hard—the impact stole the breath from her lungs and forced her to gasp.

Davina coughed a mouthful of blood, and her back felt like it had shattered against the stone.

Her body bounced off the boulder, but before her feet could touch the ground—the High Millinar came again. Relentlessly, he drove his serrated katana straight to her stomach. His thrust was so powerful that the katana pierced through the boulder and pinned her there.

A choked gasp escaped her mouth.

Davina gritted her teeth and tried to resist, kicking out with her legs and even clawing at his face.

But it was meaningless.

Instead of freeing herself, the High Millinar became even more rigorous. He pushed the katana deeper; the serrated edges ground against her bones. And with his free hand, he grabbed her face and slammed her head into the boulder.

He pinned her face there and then finally allowed himself to smirk.

"Look at him," the High Millinar leaned close to her ear and whispered. "Look at your fucking lover."

Slowly, he turned his head to look at where Rex was, caged by a thousand crystal branches.

"He’s dying in there. And nobody is coming to save you."

Instead of answering, Davina’s eyes flickered.

Her tails lashed out, wrapping around his wrists and trying to pull his hands away from the blade.

Even then, it didn’t work—the High Millinar retaliated fiercely, pinning one tail to the ground with his foot and then ripped the other one with brute force—forcing Davina to scream in pain. "You have been an annoying little pest. Now, I’m going to make sure that your death would be slow and painful."

Meanwhile, Vadyn soared through the air.

Her mind was in a mess.

Considering how powerful High Lord Rashal was, she was confident that he would win in a direct battle against High Lord Ursa. Now, feeling his presence fading away shocked her to her core. She never even thought that this was possible.

And now, she couldn’t stop herself from checking on him.

It took a moment, but she finally reached where High Lord Rashal should be.

He was underwater.

Vadyn gritted her teeth and shot downward, but before she could even get low, a hand wrapped around her neck and stopped her mid-air. She tried to break free, but her breath was caught in her throat to see who was standing before her.

"Foolish girl..." High Lord Ursa grinned. "What are you doing here?"