Chapter 159: The Final Gambit

The world was collapsing around me, the very fabric of reality tearing apart at the seams. The air was thick with chaos, the ground splitting open to reveal the dark void beneath.

Everything we’d fought for, everything we’d sacrificed, was on the brink of being lost.

But I couldn’t give up. Not now. Not when so much was at stake.

I clenched my fists, feeling the power surging within me, a wild, untamed force that threatened to overwhelm me.

The artifact had shattered, releasing its energy in a chaotic burst, but there was still a chance. A slim, desperate chance that I could turn the tide.

“Focus, Sera,” I muttered to myself, trying to steady my breathing. “You can do this. You have to do this.”

The fused entity hovered before me, its form a swirling mass of darkness and light, a blend of the mastermind’s cunning and the entity’s raw power.

It was a monstrous amalgamation of chaos, a force of destruction that seemed unstoppable.

Its eyes—those cold, calculating eyes—bored into me,