Raito's eyes glinted with renewed determination. Even after such a grueling battle, he had grown stronger. The Mireborn King was gone, his power now partially within Raito's grasp.
Raito's lips curved into a smirk. "This… this is just the beginning."
"Now… finally… I did it."
Raito exhaled as his knees nearly buckled.
Then it began
The ruins around him started to vanish.
Not crumble vanish.
The shattered walls, the broken towers, even the collapsed building beneath him, all began dissolving into thin air, turning to glimmering dust that faded upward.
"What the hell…?" Raito muttered, looking around. The ground beneath him was disappearing, replaced by white emptiness stretching in every direction. Then even the dark sky began to shift, its black clouds melting away until everything was pure white, endless and blinding.
"What's happening?" he whispered.
