The end of the world is approaching, I'm handing myself over to the country.

powder.

Gray powder kept falling from the mysterious arthropod legs.

That grayish-white aura was like a maggot clinging to a bone.

The obsidian exoskeleton, which once could easily cut through alloy armor, is now as fragile as a withered leaf, silently meeting its end.

Fear is not enough to describe what Xin Mi is feeling at this moment.

It was a deeper kind of terror, a fear of existence itself being erased.

"Click!"

A crisp snapping sound.

Before the power of death spread to her body, Xinmi made a decision that surprised even Tia.

With a sudden burst of strength from her remaining seven arthropod legs, one of them spun like a sharp blade and deliberately severed the limb that was being eroded!

The black fluid gushed out, but upon contact with the grayish-white aura, it too vanished into nothingness.

Xin Mi let out a suppressed groan of pain, his massive body staggering backward, his seven legs carving deep furrows in the ground.

She cut off one of her legs!

Xingmi, a weaver who prides herself on her perfect form, chose self-harm without hesitation in order to survive!

Tia's heart pounded wildly.

She looked at Pan Gu, at the grayish-white aura that kept emanating from the gaps in his bones, like the sigh of death.

In Tia's amber cat-like eyes, besides horror, a hint of barely suppressed...jealousy also rose.

And greed.

authority!

This is the legendary realm that only king-level beings can touch!

It is the embodiment of rules!

It's a weapon of concepts!

The difference between A-rank and S-rank is not the amount of energy, but a chasm called "authority"!

Pan Gu, he actually... he actually reached that threshold!

He obtained the key to heaven!

As long as one possesses the power of authority, even just a trace of it, breaking through to the King level is only a matter of time!

At this moment, all the contempt and sense of superiority in Tia and Xinmi's hearts were completely crushed.

They were no longer facing opponents of equal caliber.

But he is... a king in reserve!

The two looked at each other across the distance, and in just a moment, they understood each other's thoughts from the other's compound eyes and cat-like pupils.

One word.

escape!

Even now, Pan Gu is still at Grade A and has not truly broken through to Grade S.

However, having a sliver of the power of death, his actual combat strength will be amplified without limit.

It was impossible for Xingmi and the already seriously injured Tia to kill Pangu.

Holding the truth means being unreasonable!

And now there is something even more important.

"This message must be relayed back to Her Majesty the Queen!"

Xin Mi's hoarse voice rang out, carrying an unprecedented solemnity.

This is no longer a territorial dispute; it involves higher-level strategic intelligence!

An enemy about to be promoted to the King level needs to have its threat level reassessed!

"giegiegie......"

The skeleton of the giant bone slowly raised its head, and the two pulsating blue soul flames in the empty eye sockets now had a grayish-white edge.

His laughter was no longer simply strange, but filled with an indifferent control over everything.

"Trying to escape now?"

"Too late!"

Before he finished speaking, the giant bone moved.

He did not charge, but slowly raised his arm.

As he moved, the grayish-white death energy surrounding him surged toward Xinmi and Tia like a drawn tide!

That wasn't an energy surge; there was no light, no heat, no sound.

It was a moving void.

A death zone that will conceptually erase everything in its path!

Xinmi and Tia's minds are frantically issuing warnings, their life instincts emitting the most piercing screams!

Don't touch it!

Absolutely do not touch!

"Spider Realm - Sacrifice!"

A resolute look appeared on Xin Mi's alluring face. She suddenly opened her mouth, but what came out was not spider silk, but a silk sac that shimmered with dark golden light and beat like a heart!

This is one of her core essences!

The silk sac exploded the moment it left her body, and countless spider silks containing the essence of her life spread wildly, weaving together in mid-air to form a complex and three-dimensional giant magic array!

The moment the magic circle appeared, it began to burn fiercely, scorching and distorting the surrounding space!

In exchange for burning part of our essence, we can achieve a temporary spatial blockade!

However, that grayish-white aura simply flowed by calmly.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, no sparks of energy collision.

That primordial magic array, powerful enough to distort space and burn souls, came into contact with the power of death the instant it touched the earth.

Just like ink stains thrown into water, they silently dissolve, decompose, and disappear.

They couldn't even create an obstacle for a moment.

This is the power of authority.

It is unreasonable; the superiors absolutely suppress the inferiors.

"puff!"

"Damn it! Is this the power of the authority of death?!"

Xin Mi spat out another mouthful of blood, and his aura instantly weakened considerably.

The damage to her very essence caused her immeasurable harm.

But taking advantage of the one-thousandth of a second she gained by the annihilation of the magic array, her massive body transformed into a black shadow, frantically fleeing into the depths of darkness!

On the other side, Tia also used her trump card.

"Mimicry - The Kaleidoscope World!"

Her eerie tail was held high, with a drop of liquid shimmering with iridescent light hanging from the tip of her mouth.

The liquid exploded in the air, turning into a hazy mist of light.

Within the luminous mist, countless figures of Tia emerged.

Each one is incredibly lifelike, each one using a different method to escape, attack, and defend...

Thousands upon thousands filled the entire space in an instant.

This is her strongest illusion, enough to make any being below S-rank lose their way within it.

However, when that grayish-white power of death swept by.

All the illusions, all the light and mist, burst one after another, like bubbles in the sunlight.

If the truth no longer exists, what can the falsehood cling to?

Tia let out a painful groan, blood seeping from her seven orifices, and her pair of silver-white cat ears drooped limply, losing all their luster.

The excessive mental strain made her feel like her brain was about to split open.

But she also managed to buy herself time to escape!

The two, one on the left and one on the right, exerted all their strength, burning their very essence, and spared no effort to escape this land of death.

Their speed was so fast that they transformed into two streaks of light, instantly leaving Pan Gu behind.

Pangu did not pursue.

He simply stood there quietly, letting the grayish-white aura flow slowly around him, his empty eye sockets staring in the direction they had disappeared, his soul fire flickering.

"Gigglegie!"

"When did I ever say I came alone?"