Dimensional Descent

Aina was finally blown back, unable to withstand the carnage. Up above, Nana seemed to have finally lost her battle. The portal had slipped away into a sliver and was moments from closing. At the same time, Drake tried his best to support James, Joel, and the others, but the tide of enemies was too large. It was even to the point that most of the powerhouses were directly ignoring them, lazily allowing their subordinates to take aim.

There were a lot of sayings for what one would experience when the end of their lives came. But there were a lot fewer when it was about the end of the world.

There might have been a song or two, but nothing as profound or daunting as the real thing. There was nothing as beautiful as seeing one's life in a final spurt of consciousness, there was just nothing but endless suffering and pain.

It was hard to tell what these people even wanted. Sure, maybe the Primordial Terror truly wanted to see the end of everything. As the true Beast of Destruction, that was all it wanted. But what about everyone else?

The irony was that most of them were just selfishly pining after their own desires.

The Four Great Families had just wanted to survive. They did it at the cost of betraying their own Race.

Evergreen was the truest devout follower of nature and the course of it. In her eyes, death and destruction could only give way to life. That was the way things had always been, and that was the way it would always be. The actions of the Gods to try to extend their lives beyond reason had always disgusted her.

The God Beasts wanted a return to their former glory and power… they had been knocked down from their pedestal, so how dare anyone else have the right to rise above them…

Some only wanted short-term gain… some only wanted revenge… some were chasing after something much larger at the expense of everyone else.

But regardless of what it was, the reality was laid out before them all. There was no fighting against this.

They were too weak.

up several mouthfuls of blood so scarlet it hurt to look at. She rolled across the ground and felt as though every bone in her body had just shattered. And yet, she didn't seem to feel the pain. She could only wonder if there

to find a way. Was she truly so useless without

Back then, he admitted that she was more powerful than he was…

I would beat you ten out of ten times…

had never taken it that way. It was part of

had the confidence to face off against anything no matter the

the family she despised

last bit of her energy to look at her finger. She raised her hand into the skies as though trying to block out the sun, all to look at

of the sun beaming down, it looked so clear in

do it again…?"

faith in her husband. But even then, right

She had really wanted to see their house full of

stand. Her wounds had already more than 50% healed. Ancient God or not, the healing capabilities of a

it was when she was using her battle ax to stand once more that a voice

"[Instant Recovery]."

but it was hard for her to feel very happy. It didn't seem to change

thought until

these last