Orion landed several meters away and looked down at the wound. Then he smiled.
"So you were waiting."
Ervin raised his spear calmly. "You were too fast to interrupt carelessly."
Orion laughed. "That is a compliment, right?"
"Yes."
The moment Ervin answered, the air around him changed. It sank, the light sank, and even the sound sank with it. The invisible pressure that had shocked everyone during his battle with Selene returned, spreading across the central stage like the arrival of a bottomless sea.
A black sea appeared behind Ervin, vast and silent and impossibly deep. From within that sea rose the broken ancient gate, half submerged and covered in mysterious symbols that no one could fully read. The moment it appeared, the nine stars inside Orion's body flickered.
Ervin's voice rang across the stage.
"Pseudo Cosmic Path, Abyssal Origin Descent."
Boom!
