"You think you've already won?!"
Leviathan roared, pointing at the Dark Tide pillar behind it. Its voice boomed like a great bell and made the air around them tremble.
"My Assimilation Authority never stops working. The whole of Rinascita will soon be swallowed by the Dark Tide and melt into my Heav—"
Its voice grew weaker and weaker, as if some invisible force was pressing it down.
Behind it, the Dark Tide pillar was quickly covered by golden flames. Fierce fire rose from the base of the pillar and climbed upward, burning every last bit of Dark Tide away. The sight was spectacular.
A golden-eyed, white-haired woman with pure angel wings slowly turned around in the middle of the temple ruins. A bold and heroic smile appeared on her face.
"Threnodian, surprised?"
It was Galbrena.
While Leviathan's attention was drawn by the others, she had slipped around to the back and used her own Resonance power to burn away the Dark Tide pillar that was fusing Heaven with reality!
"How is this possible?!"
Veins bulged on Leviathan's forehead.
"How did you do it? I didn't notice a thing. How could you hide from my Secret Authority?"
"Show yourself, Chimera."
"Coming."
The Chimera appeared out of thin air beside Galbrena. It looked over from a distance, unable to hide the pure joy in its eyes.
"I have to admit, Galbrena completely releasing every bit of power she has gathered over the years was a mad choice that risked her own life. But—she succeeded!"
"Impossible!" Leviathan shouted in shock and rage, eyes almost spitting fire. "Even if three more of you came, you still couldn't burn my Dark Tide pillar."
"You're right. I almost really died."
Galbrena did not deny it.
"Luckily, at the critical moment, I had a strong helper—"
"That's me."
A figure with golden hair cascading like a waterfall stepped out from behind Galbrena. Bright light far stronger than anyone else's shone around her body as she gave Leviathan a light, easy smile.
"Cartethyia?!" Noah called out in surprise.
At this time, shouldn't Cartethyia still be sleeping in The Lost Beyond?
At the critical moment, Cartethyia had appeared and given Galbrena part of the power that Sentinel Imperator had connected.
And as a Threnodian Resonator, as long as the Secret Authority did not specially focus on her, she could naturally avoid being sensed by it.
"All of you—"
Looking at the thirteen people below who were all shining in their activated forms, Leviathan flew into a rage.
"You all once received my blessing. You were 'connected' because of me. You were 'born' because of me. Why do you keep defying me one after another?!"
It would make every single one of them pay the price!
Leviathan leapt into the air and hovered halfway up. A huge black fish shadow faintly appeared behind it. Cold, heavy frequencies spread out like wild, surging waves.
The Secret Authority was pushed to its limit. Unprecedented violent whispers echoed through the entire vast Heaven. Everything in every direction collapsed into flowing Dark Tide that rushed toward them.
Endless low mutters of foolish blindness seemed to grow eyes and desperately drilled into everyone's ears.
Even with the connected will protecting them, the strong spiritual pollution still made everyone's faces turn ugly.
Without enough anchoring power, even if they could defeat Leviathan as a Dark Tide creation, they still could not truly destroy it.
"This ends here!"
Cartethyia did not let Leviathan stay in control for long. She pressed her hands together. Resonance power surged inside her body. Three golden doors opened from three different directions around her.
"Leviathan, it is time for you to receive this restraint!"
Separated chains shot out of the doors like arrows leaving the bowstring, flying straight at Leviathan.
"Fleurdelys, you use power from the same source as mine and still want to fight me? You overestimate yourself!"
Leviathan swung its sword and cut the chains apart. The tip of the sword pointed at Cartethyia from afar. The Assimilation Authority activated again from a distance—
"Not good!"
Noah knew exactly how deadly this move was against Cartethyia. His feet pushed hard and his body shot forward like an arrow from a bow.
"Cough! Cough!"
Cartethyia was in a bad state right now. The frequencies inside her body were gathering wildly and out of control toward her chest.
"Even if the Sentinel gave me all its power… even if I almost have two parts of Separation Authority… I still can't resist it… I can't…"
She tightly covered her chest and coughed in pain a few more times. But the cruel reality did not change just because she forced her will to hold on.
All the power and frequencies inside her body were being driven by the overbearing Assimilation Authority, merging toward her chest with no way to stop them.
"Little Ca, hold on!"
Noah's figure finally crossed the long distance and rushed over.
Switch—Aero Rover.
As the Separation Authority that belonged to Aero Rover poured into Cartethyia's body without holding back, the Tacet Marks on both of them suddenly lit up with dazzling light that grew even brighter.
Cantarella stared in a daze.
"This is—"
Leviathan's face changed greatly.
"Third Resonance?!"
It could no longer stay still. Holding its sword, it stabbed fiercely toward Noah and Cartethyia, trying to cut the link between them. Its voice turned crazy as it shouted:
"Impossible! This can't be! You are the Resonator I created. How can you Resonate with someone else?!"
Boom!
Cyan light bloomed like a brilliant sun and completely covered the entire Dark Tide Heaven.
Wherever the light passed, the pitch-black waves turned into clear, cold lake water. The tide-eroded coral melted away like cream. Countless roaring, chaotic whispers found rest at this moment.
The Heaven that the Threnodian had spent a hundred years creating was completely wiped out from then on. Not a single trace was left.
After the cyan light, three chains forged from advanced Separation Authority stretched out again and tightly bound Leviathan.
Each chain was firmly held by four people.
"No! No! How can I lose to you?!"
Leviathan howled in pain. Its voice was full of unwillingness and despair. In front of it stood Cartethyia, whose whole body shone with golden light.
This Resonator that it had personally shaped now held the power to completely suppress it.
"I received countless help and carried countless expectations. That is how I stand in front of you."
Cartethyia walked forward lightly. Her long golden hair floated like soft cotton. Her eyes looked down at Leviathan, who was bound by chains and kneeling on the ground. Her gaze was firm and decisive.
"The god of the old era should leave the stage. The course of Rinascita's civilization will be steered by the civilization itself."
Her hand, wrapped in terrifying Separation Authority, reached out little by little. It was like the sword of Damocles declaring that the death sentence had arrived. Extreme fear filled Leviathan.
As long as this Separation Authority touched it, all the civilization consciousness it had harvested, all the power it had gained, and everything it had obtained would be completely stripped away.
It struggled wildly, but the more it struggled, the more excited everyone became. They tightly gripped the chains and did not back down even a step.
"No! Fleurdelys, you cannot kill me!"
"Because—"
"Because…"
Under the fear of death, Leviathan's stalled thoughts could no longer support rational thinking. Only a few of the most hated faces floated up in its mind.
The Chimera that covered for Galbrena while she destroyed the Dark Tide pillar.
The Resonator Cartethyia that it had personally created.
And the Grand Architect of the Fractsidus who had told Noah about its weakness.
Why… why did all these beings betray it?!
The hand wrapped in terrifying Separation Authority finally pressed down. Leviathan roared out its deepest resentment with hatred. The painful voice seemed ready to pierce through the whole world:
"I have suffered three betrayals!"
"I refuse to accept this!"
"I refuse to accept this!"
[Main Quest: "Dawn Breaks on Dark Tides" completed.]
[Trial character: Rover (Aero six chains) has left the team.]
[Currently owned: Radiant Tide ×60, Lustrous Tide ×50, Astrite ×11280, Shell Credit ×9.63m]