Apotheosis

Although at first intimidated by the blue flame's strength, Zen didn't think that it could harm him in any way.

Just as the Corpse Spirit Sun Crow stopped spewing out flames, Zen abruptly jumped up to rush towards Queenie.

Queenie, who thought that Zen died, had shifted and fixed her gaze on another Oneness General.

Just as she flapped her wings to return to and mount the Corpse Spirit Sun Crow, Zen had unexpectedly pounced on her.

Queenie was caught off guard. She never expected Zen to return safely from the blue flames!

The look of astonishment on her face froze as Zen's long sword pierced right through her chest. At that point, her Chaotic Source Spirits had managed to restore to just thirty percent of their original power after Zen had consumed it earlier.

That meant his sword was only met with slight resistance before it successfully pierced her through the chest.

"I thought…the fire…killed you…" Queenie stuttered in confusion with whatever remaining strength she had.

"Well, you thought wrong," Zen replied.

Whoosh!

Upon finishing his sentence, he suddenly withdrew his long sword from her chest before wielding and slashing it to split her into two.

Now that he had successfully slaughtered Queenie, Zen returned his gaze to the Corpse Spirit Sun Crow.

Because it no longer had a master to order it around, the beast appeared lost and clueless as to what its next move should be.

The Corpse Spirit Sun Crow was like a puppet, useless without a master controlling it.

As Zen thought it through, he suddenly remembered the human race's Civilization Artifact. Apart from the Primeval Lord of Heaven's energy soul, there was also Emperor Charm's energy soul in that Civilization Artifact.

Although these energy souls weren't their real bodies, they still possessed and retained their memories and auras.

As he was casually wiping out dozens of approaching Sun Crows, another thought flashed through Zen's inner world and called out to the Primeval Lord of Heaven.

His inner world had undergone tremendous change ever since carrying the human race's Civilization Artifact. All of this was caused by the Primeval Lord of Heaven and other energy souls that had been carrying out experiments on his inner world.

The successful integration of the Civilization Artifac

He had no chance of fighting these vicious beasts at all.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The whistle of the Sharp-winged Sun Crows slicing the air was followed by the deaths of dozens of people—many of them with their stomachs sliced wide open.

Hot blood splashed onto Jago's face.

More than half of the 300 people who made up the group were slaughtered in this single attack alone.

"I'll slaughter them even if it means death!"

One terrified man exclaimed as he prepared to activate his Other Shore Token.

Unfortunately, Other Shore Tokens that originated from Stage Two or Stage Three couldn't work in this kind of battles at all. Using it against the swift Sharp-winged Sun Crows would be useless.

Before that man could activate his Other Shore Token, one of the Sharp-winged Sun Crows swooped down and slashed his neck. He was beheaded before he even got the chance to cry out.

Jago felt nothing but utter hopelessness as he witnessed his comrades drop dead all around him.

'How can Flag Master… survive this?'

Jago's mind went blank as he realized he'd be unable to protect himself now. But he still clung to the hope that Zen would be able to save him. Although at this point, it seemed quite impossible…

Swoosh!

A sudden wave of heat passed over his face.

All he saw above him was a brilliant blue flame before an enormous Sun Crow landed beside him.

"Come on up!" Zen beckoned from the back of a Corpse Spirit Sun Crow.

Blinking his eyes, Jago could hardly understand what was happening in front of him.