"So instead of rebuilding, we started fighting for the broken corpses of the Empire, and by the way, burned the rest of the world to ashes. Even now, we may be exterminating all life faster than we are looking for a common goal. Individually we are strong, yet united? We will do anything. Omnipotent. If we wish, we can even break through the gates of the Celestial Realm, abandon this pale world, and forge a new empire on the other side of the stars! ”

Tayanali's voice weakened, overwhelmed by the weight of remorse.

"But we can't do it. We do things like second-class beings. This war of our fratricide has lasted many times longer than any war we have fought before. ”

Then his voice became loud and flew to the farthest point of the Circular Theater.

"But it doesn't have to be that way, there's a turnaround."

With a hand over his shoulder and back, Tayanali untied Calikar, and whispers of surprise spread like waves through the Colosseum, and everyone recognized the ancient weapon.

"You all remember," he said. "This weapon belongs to Setaka, the greatest and noblest of us. From the other side of the mountain, they rose together with the birth of Shurima. This blade will one day be passed on to Siunas Alahair, "Messenger of Manna". and in its hands become a weapon of destruction, or a symbol of unity. ”

He lifted the Calikar for all his compatriots to see. Its blades shone with golden light, and the cosmic power that shaped it did not belong to this world, a power that even Shurima's wisest minds could not comprehend. Tayanali saw their respect, awe, and pride.

But more than that, he saw their desire to possess it. Su Yuyan took a step closer to him.

Of course it will be Su Yuyan.

The Celestial warrior swung his battle axe, and Tayanali remembered the pain as the obsidian axe blade sliced through his armor and shattered his spine.

"I'm going to kill you and snatch it." Xu Yuyan said, a long smile split from the sharp mouth on his face. "Does that make me a leader?" The chitin shells on his shoulders began to bulge, and the bone needles and iron blades embedded in his face bulged out along with them. Even in his heyday, Tayanali could not outperform him.

But Hari had been hundreds of years ago, and Tayanali had learned many new tricks.

"Are you going to use it to fight me?" Xu Yuyan pointed his axe at Calikar and asked.

"No," Tayanali replied, turning to hand it to Maisha.

It was almost beyond the limits of her load, but she only blinked, and now he felt her unprovoked smile again, as if the imminent war between the gods was a pleasure for her.

Xu Yuyan sneered, "So what? You want to fight me with your bare hands? Is that so? Do you want to die here, under the gaze of other gods? ”

"Not really."

"It doesn't matter, I don't care what you want," Su Yuyan said. "What started on the riverside, I'll end here."

He pounced like an avalanche—like an earth-shattering, indestructible thunderbolt that buried everything and had no way to escape. Tayanali had witnessed that his charge could destroy an entire army's phalanx, knock over tall giants, and shatter the gates of a fortress.

Tayanali was half-kneeling and laying his hands flat on the glazed floor of the Colosseum. He felt the flow of magic throughout the structure, the golden threads of power connecting him to every living creature on the glazed ground. Mortals are like sparks on a fire, fleeting and insignificant, but the Celestial warriors are like newborn suns, rippling with magical energy.

He accessed their power, just as Maisha had taught him. He had drawn a portion of the cursed prophetic power from Shabeka and Shabeck, their strange senses twisted within him. Sephix's lizard-like agility stirred through his ancient body. Yoshiokatus's rage, and Ennakai's insistence on the ideal of justice.

Tayanali closed his eyes, now he knew where Suyuyan's charge had landed.

He swayed to the side, the blade of the axe just the thickness of a hair's hair from his throat. Su Yuyan rushed over like lightning, and Tayanali spun lightly and grabbed the corner in the carapace behind his opponent's back. He flipped onto Su Yuyan's back, and the former brother let out a furious roar.

The Celestial warrior rolled on the ground, trying to shake off Tayanali, but he caught it too hard. The unwitting gift of the Prophet Twins allowed Tayanali to anticipate every wild throw from his opponent. Su Yuyan grabbed the battle axe in his backhand and swung it back over his shoulder, like a frenzied confessor whipping his back with a thorn. Tayanali rolled over to dodge the oncoming axe blade, and Su Yuyan's extraordinary carapace was cut into a deep puddle of blood by himself.

The Sun Bloodline roared again, twisting the axe out of its carapace, bringing out a pool of blood. One of his corners had broken and was connected only by a layer of fascia, which Tayanali tore from his carapace. The ivory angular arc is like a scimitar, and the tip is covered with an iron hoop, as sharp as a needle.

Xu Yuyan slammed into the wall of the Circular Theater, and the glass shattered into sharp pieces under the violent impact. Dozens of mortals fell to the center of the field, and were immediately trampled under the feet of the scuffling Celestial warriors. Su Yuyan dragged Tayanali from his back. He slammed to the ground, his hand still clutching the sharp horn.

Su Yuyan turned around and raised his battle axe to deliver a fatal blow, but Tayanali flew to the side, and the ground exploded into a storm of glass-tipped knives. But Su Yuyan's thick feet stepped on his chest, pinning him firmly to the ground. He felt his ribs break and a splinter pierced his lung. Wan Jun's weight on his body was enough to squash him like a bug.

"Calikar is mine!" Xu Yuyan shouted.

The Celestial warrior's heavy head poked out of his carapace, blood gushing from his long gray neck. The dull black eyes bulged outwards as they were about to kill another fierce enemy. As he promised, what began on the banks of the Kehari River ends here.

"No," Tayanali squeezed a few words out of the middle of the bloody fangs. "It's not yours."

He unleashed a newfound power, which his countrymen knew nothing about. He stared at him—a terrible sensation overwhelmed him, as if he had fallen into an endless whirlpool, a passageway, surrounded by horrible monsters, all lurking outside the liminal barrier......

It only lasted less than a second, but he felt a year older.

He opened his eyes and saw that he was riding on Su Yuyan's back again, and the deadly battle axe was slashing towards the ground. The sound of popping as the air churned echoed behind him, and the fleeting portal closed.