The Divine King cunningly hid in the deepest shadows of the energy storm. It greedily devoured everything, yet refused to show itself.
It was accumulating power, preparing to descend upon the world in its peerless, complete form.
An atmosphere of despair began to spread within the hearts of everyone present.
If such a Divine King were allowed to fully descend... the consequences would be unimaginable.
Right at this hair-raising moment—
A pure, cold, yet incomparably resolute resonance fluctuation shot straight up into the sky from the distant Attilius Pass like a meteor tearing through the dark night.
On the high ground of the pass, Yuno floated in the air, her blue-black long hair fluttering without wind.
She tightly gripped her longbow forged from the Moonstone Golden Bough, the bow body flowing with a brilliant light like moonlight.
Tears slid down her pale cheeks like pearls from a broken string, but her azure eyes were filled with an unshakeable resolve.
Through the comms channel, her voice—though choked with sobs—reached the ears of everyone in the basin with absolute clarity, especially striking deep into Rover's heart:
"I'm sorry... Rover... Augusta... I'm sorry..."
"Yuno! DON'T!!" Rover instantly realized what she was about to do. He let out a heart-wrenching roar, attempting to stop her. "Yuno! There must be another way! Stop right now!"
But Yuno merely took one long, deep look in the direction Rover was in the distance, as if to carve his final appearance into the depths of her soul.
She condensed all her attachment, all her reluctance, and boundless emotions into a final farewell:
"...Don't forget me."
The next moment, she drew the longbow to a full moon. All the resonance power in her body was injected into the bow like a blazing fire.
Her body began to turn transparent, emitting an incomparably dazzling moon-white radiance, as if she were transforming into a true, cold, and sorrowful moon.
"In the name of the Oracle, Tide... Lock!"
She released the bowstring.
SHIIIING—!!!
A moon-white arrow of light, its brilliance and beauty beyond words, tore through the firmament, ignoring the distance of space.
In the blink of an eye, it flew over the camp and the Town of Murmurs, crossed the basin, and shot with absolute precision into the most chaotic center of the energy storm—right above the Earth-Piercing Wedge.
Almost simultaneously, as if triggered by this pure power of the lunar phase, the lightning and flame power within the controlled Augusta below—the most yang and firm power of a gladiator—actually broke free from a sliver of the Black Tide's restraint and erupted instinctively.
The primordial power of the solar eclipse within her transformed into a crimson-gold pillar of light shooting into the sky.
The moon-white arrow of light and the crimson-gold pillar of light violently converged in the sky above the Earth-Piercing Wedge beneath this despairing firmament shrouded by the Black Tide.
The Sun and Moon shining together!
An indescribable, majestic power exploded! It was not a destructive explosion, but an ultimate power of manifestation!
"NO—!!!" The Divine King let out a terrified and furious shriek.
That entity which had been hiding deep within the shadows, frantically devouring energy, could no longer conceal itself under the absolute power of the laws born from the convergence of the sun and moon.
It was forcibly "yanked" out from the quagmire of energy.
A pitch-black humanoid outline rapidly condensed and materialized in the air.
It was entwined with boiling Black Tide, radiating suffocating evil and power. But its newly opened, abyss-like eyes were filled with shock and fury at having its plans shattered.
The Divine King had been forcibly manifested.
And Yuno, who had shot that arrow, had her body completely turn into countless scattering motes of light the moment the arrow left the string.
Like shattered moonlight, she dissipated into the cold wind of the pass. Her aura vanished completely, as if she had never existed.
Only her tearful phrase, "Don't forget me," still echoed madly in Rover's mind.
"YUNO!!!" Rover let out an agonizing, heart-wrenching roar. His golden eyes were instantly filled with boundless sorrow and berserk fury.
With the Divine King being forcibly manifested, the mind control targeting Augusta suddenly weakened.
The darkness in Augusta's eyes rapidly receded. She staggered a step and regained her sanity. A trace of bewilderment appeared on her face, but she was instantly jolted awake by the sight before her—the terrifying Divine King manifested in the sky.
She immediately understood what had happened. Although she no longer remembered Yuno's existence, the mission in her heart alerted her.
She knew that someone must have paid an immense price to buy this opportunity.
Without the slightest hesitation, resolve flashed in Augusta's eyes.
She grabbed the faintly glowing Directional Anchor she had prepared long ago from her chest, took one look at the enraged Rover, and roared: "Rover! Now's the time!"
Saying that, she actually took the initiative to leap into the air, charging toward the newly manifested Divine King that was still in a brief state of stiffness.
The moment she touched the Divine King, she forcefully pressed the Directional Anchor against her chest.
Buzz!
The light of the Directional Anchor instantly connected her and the Divine King. Augusta's silhouette was like being swallowed by a black hole, instantly sinking into the Divine King's boiling, pitch-black body.
She was going to coordinate with Rover from the inside.
"Augusta!" Witnessing all this, Rover's eyes widened so hard they nearly cracked.
A close friend sacrificed and dissipated... a comrade voluntarily plunging into danger... Ultimate sorrow and fury erupted completely within his body like a volcano!
"URRRAAAAGGHHH—!!!"
An unimaginably terrifying power violently liberated itself from within Rover's body.
Gold, purple, and cyan light shot into the sky like tangible flames, twisting and tearing the space around him.
Spectro! Havoc! Aero!
The Power of Three Phases fully unleashed! No more holding back!
At this moment, Rover's eyes were as cold as ancient ice. The oppressive aura radiating from him even made the newly manifested Divine King look sideways.
He was no longer the gentle traveler of everyday life, but the terrifying entity that truly belonged to the Supreme Leader of the Black Shores; the Tuner of the Stars who wielded the highest authority of destruction in the world.
"YOU! MUST DIE!"
He locked onto the Divine King in the air. His voice was incredibly deep and hoarse, yet contained world-destroying killing intent.
The battle instantly entered a white-hot phase.
Rover, his power fully erupted, clashed with the Divine King. Every collision caused the heavens and earth to tremble.
Dazzling golden light tore through the Black Tide; fluctuating purple radiance annihilated tentacles; bursts of air explosions blasted massive craters into the basin.
The intensity of the battle far exceeded his previous duel with Augusta. This was a true life-and-death struggle, the ultimate decisive battle where everything was on the line.
However, the Divine King's power was indeed incredibly terrifying. Even after being manifested, even facing Rover with all three phases unleashed, it was still able to resist stubbornly. Even its occasional counterattacks made Rover's blood and qi churn.
Abby also flew out from the Tacet Mark at the critical moment. It blocked in front of Rover, opened its not-so-large mouth, and frantically devoured the Black Tide and mixed frequencies on the Divine King like a miniature black hole.
"Ah... woo-ah... burp~~~~"
After trying its absolute hardest to eat shit for quite a while, it finally couldn't eat anymore and staggered back into Rover's Tacet Mark.
"Burp—Rover, I... I really can't eat anymore..."
Although Abby had eaten heartily for quite a while, the frequencies on the Divine King remained extremely powerful.
It seemed he had to weaken it!
Fortunately, with Abby stalling the Divine King, Rover's mind raced. He abruptly feinted an attack and immediately disengaged from the battlefield.
The next moment, his silhouette appeared like teleportation atop the massive base of the Earth-Piercing Wedge.
He plunged his swift blade into the cold, polluted surface of the Wedge. Closing his eyes, he frantically injected the resonance power belonging to the Sentinel's Arbiter, acting as the highest authority.
"In my name, the Covenant of the Sentinel! Earth-Piercing Wedge, reactivate!"
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