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Chapter 80 - The Beginning of An End (3)

The Edict's power still thrummed in every Voss vein like molten iron poured straight into the soul.

Flames roared higher, lightning cracked harder, wind howled with new teeth. Yet the fodder below died just as fast; one hundred thousand S-ranks carved them open like paper, blood mist rising in endless crimson curtains beneath the violet sky.

Ding-Dong… Ding-Dong…

The phantom bells tolled louder.

Seris heard them clearest of all. She and Lyrin had been tearing each other apart since the first heartbeat of war... ash against sound, grey fire against shadow echoes. Ashen Requiem had long since turned the air into a swirling graveyard of cinders and burning orbs.

However, Lyrin moved like a broken melody... erratic, giggling, leaving after-images wherever sound touched, and sound touched everything on a battlefield.

DING-DONG!

Lyrin stepped clean out of Seris's shadow, dagger flashing for the spine.

BANG!!!

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