She had to think back to all his first words.

  “No need.”


  “Useless thing.”


  Even if there were hundreds of extras and so on, Jenna, the weakest of the three, could wipe them out on her own.

  Ereka sank, the feeling of her last hope shattered.

  It’s over.

  The last-ditch plan was for naught, and the Blood Ruler will now be unstoppable.

  Sungjin’s shining legend was on the verge of ending before it even started. There was no way to get back to the earth now.

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