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Dante convulsed.
His black blood flowed down Jin's neck.
Jin clenched his teeth as he observed the blood stained with black Chaos.
Dante's body against his back was cold and rigid.
Obviously, Dante was dying.
How many trials had Jin gone through to save Dante?
Jin didn't even have time to feel anger towards Gliek, thinking that he couldn't lose his friend, who had overcome everything and finally saved, in vain.
Jin only thought about how he could save Dante.
Jin remembered what Ron had told him before leaving Gliek's abyss.
The words urging him to somehow take Dante away and escape while he fought Gliek in his final battle.
"I must go to the rear of the battlefield and find Talaris-nim!"
He had to ask Talaris if he had a way to seal Dante, to postpone his death.
He had to make sure and get the means to keep Dante alive, not just her, but also Rosa and Kelliark.
If they possess the Legacy of Numerus, Jin had to tell them to use it with Dante.
Initially, they would never use such a formidable object to save Dante in such a situation, but not now.
Now that Ron has reached the Genesis Knight Realm, the major clans had to save Dante to avoid his wrath.
"It's unlikely that Runcandel and Zipple have any Legacy of Numerus. Even if they did, considering the current situation, they must have already used it. Still, I have to go there first...!"
Jin urgently turned his head in all directions.
Gliek's Chaos blocked the path no matter where he looked.
Jin followed the path left by Ron's sword and relentlessly advanced towards any possible opening.
The shapeless sword continued to dissipate Chaos energy...
But there seemed to be no trace of a space large enough to escape.
Moreover, while Ron wielded his sword to clear the way, there inevitably was a slight gap in Jin's security.
The Chaos sword plunged into the gap.
Fortunately, it wasn't to the point where he couldn't evade, but it wouldn't last.
Ron separated a portion of the energy protecting him and applied it to Jin and Dante.
Strictly speaking, Jin wasn't fighting against Gliek, and unlike Ron, who had reached the Genesis Knight, he couldn't accurately read the flow of his attack.
Therefore, Jin didn't know that Chaos energy outside his field of vision was also aiming at him.
It was only after a black punch flew from behind and pierced the shield that he realized.
"Jin, don't dodge or block, keep going forward!"
Jin nodded.
Ron sent his energy every time the punch caused a crack in the protective shield surrounding Jin.
Having the power to defy fate didn't necessarily mean it would happen...
Gliek's words were not false.
Humans only had a chance to win the battle thanks to Ron becoming a Genesis Knight, but victory was not guaranteed.
All the power...
Now Gliek was literally pouring all his strength.
And the fact that the Black Sea King was doing his best meant that the consequences of the battle were not limited to this place, the territory of the Sword Emperor Castle.
Kwaaah......!
Everyone on the battlefield, except Ron, reflexively looked up at the sudden roar.
The sky, dyed black by Chaos, was opening.
A rift of a different level was forming than when the sky was changed by the Demon God Orb.
A black lightning bolt pierced the swirling Chaos.
The ruthless black lightning claimed the lives of knights and magicians barely holding on, creating bottomless craters where it struck the ground.
Even within those craters, Chaos erupted like lava.
In the intensifying disaster, the elite forces of Runcandel and Zipple died helplessly.
This wasn't only happening in the territory of the Sword Emperor Castle.
They could see Chaos swirls in the sky.
The Chaos spreading beyond the battlefield was moving towards the Empire, beyond the Empire, and towards the territories where other people lived, the territories of Runcandel and Zipple, at an indescribable speed...
Is it going to attack all of humanity?
Even Rosa, who had told Jin that it wouldn't matter if the entire world perished as long as only Runcandel survived, was surprised to see Chaos spreading across the world.
She wondered if she had ever encountered a more shocking case in her life.
Even the elite forces of each faction wouldn't be able to withstand this Chaos.
If something like this were to be unleashed randomly in the human world, ordinary humans would never be able to endure it.
The destruction of the world seemed an inevitable sequence of events.
"Do we have no choice but to hope that the Prophet comes up with something? I don't know what she'll ask for in return."
Kelliark had similar thoughts to Rosa.
"If this continues, the empire will be destroyed, of course... but Zipple is also in danger."
Both clans had already suffered heavy blows.
In Runcandel, the Black Knights began to lose their lives, and Zipple almost lost its fleet, and the number of Dragons and Magicians killed was unknown.
The fleet can be rebuilt, and they can find Dragons of the same attribute that were inactive.
However, even if Zipple's experts were revived with the Demon God Orb, they could never return to their original form once dead because the Demon God Orb was incomplete.
The Demon God Orb was affected again when Gliek started using all his power.
Before, it only trembled in fear, but now it showed an unstable state, as if it would go out of control at any moment.
'I should have restrained Beradin's unrestraint from the beginning. I can only hope that Kadun and Hedo make the right decision without me.'
As Kinzelo predicted from the start, Runcandel and Zipple were not lacking a last resort.
However, both clans absolutely wanted to exclude those means.
If they had known about Gliek's existence from the beginning, maybe it would have been different, but now it seemed too late to bring it to light.
'The land where my daughter is supposed to live will be... how can I prevent it?'
Talaris, who had sat down to catch her breath, lifted her head and looked at the sky with a devastated face.
The Chaos that began to spread worldwide and the giants had no means to stop it.
Gliek didn't say anything, but his feeling of triumph seemed to penetrate to the bone.
However, his despair did not last long.
Because the next moment, they saw an enormous protective shield that humans had never seen in their lives.
A huge dome-shaped shield, made of light, covered the entire battlefield, extending beyond the coast, out to sea.
The attribute of the Genesis Knight obtained by Ron Hairan is protection.
That power, no...
The "divine power" reacted to the Chaos and began to block it from being unleashed in the world.
The speed at which the protective shield expanded was faster than Gliek's Chaos could spread.
It's incredible that a human created it, and a great power began to protect the entire world.
It's something not even the gods can do.
It's a protection that only Ron Hairan can provide.
"You said I had nothing to protect if I defeated you."
Saying that, Ron extended his sword forward.
Then Gliek's scattered Chaos followed Ron's hand and formed a figure resembling a human in front of him.
It wasn't something Gliek had created...
Ron had forcibly drawn the Chaos to form a suitable state to eliminate it.
When Rashid stabbed the figure, the entire space contaminated by Chaos trembled.
The growth of the Chaos escaping from the vortex also stopped in an instant, and Ron forcibly seized Gliek's energy as soon as the figure dispersed.
"If it weren't for that, I wouldn't have come this far..."
Ron kept cutting at Gliek like that.
If Gliek was dealing with Cyron, it would have been a good decision to take all of humanity as hostages.
Cyron might kill him faster than Ron, but he couldn't avoid the damage to the human world.
But it was an obvious mistake against Ron.
Rather, Gliek should have focused his power on one man, Ron Hairan.
This wasn't what Gliek did without any calculation.
He had hoped that when Dante died and the world was on the brink of destruction, Ron's demonic heart would accelerate.
The threat of Ron turning into a monster still existed.
However, Ron's protective light had reached a much greater realm than Gliek sensed.
Ron's protective shield wasn't completely blocking all the Chaos outside the battlefield.
Still, people outside could handle it if so much Chaos leaked out.
There would be inevitable casualties, but complete annihilation of the world could be avoided.
"No matter what you do, I will never become a monster like you. Even if Dante, my grandson, whom I rescued so desperately, finally meets his end at your hands, absolutely not."
[We'll see about that.]
At those words, Ron smiled and said.
"Do you think you can see it?"
Gliek remained silent.
Dante, carried on Jin's back, spat out black blood again.
Although the convulsions had completely stopped, Jin could barely feel Dante's heartbeat.
Thanks to Ron's protection, Jin was considerably far from the battlefield between Ron and Gliek.
However, it would still take time to reach Talaris, Rosa, and Kelliark.
It seemed unlikely that Dante was still alive inside.
Regardless of Dante's survival, Ron clearly had the advantage.
Because Gliek had dispersed his power, he couldn't prevent Ron from forcibly forming his body and cutting him.
Every time Ron reduced Gliek, the vibrations on the battlefield became stronger, and the amount of Chaos escaping from the protective shield also decreased.
For the first time, Gliek was on the defensive.
Ron was successfully pressuring Gliek like a wild beast that wouldn't release its grip on the neck.
Finally, those fighting outside also got a break.
Rosa and Kelliark quickly ordered to move the wounded to the area with less Chaos, outside the protective shield.
And Gliek focused solely on Ron.
Watching Ron, who entrusted Dante to Jin, concentrate on Gliek, he suddenly felt a strange sensation.
It was clear that Ron's goal was to save Dante.
Thinking this, Gliek concluded that what Ron had to do first was not to attack him, but to share his Genesis Knight energy with Dante.
[Ah.]
Gliek spoke as if he had gained some assurance.
The conclusion he came to was this:
[Ron Hairan... you want to self-destruct with me, don't you?]
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