Ethan was about to seize the opening—compress his power even further and finish it in one clean kill.
But right then—
Something went wrong.
That ant suddenly released a burst of violently oppressive power from inside its body. Immediately after, a mass of brownish-purple energy exploded out from deep within it.
The force came insanely fast, like some corrosive origin power that had been forcibly suppressed for ages—then, the instant the floodgates opened, it swept through the surrounding space.
Ethan's pupils snapped tight.
He retreated on instinct, at the same time condensing white lightning in his palm. He formed it into a huge sphere of energy and hurled it straight into the brownish-purple mass.
The moment the two forces touched in midair, the power that erupted was beyond anything they'd produced in any previous clash at this level.
The world rumbled again with a deep, rolling boom.
