Ethan drew a deep breath and looked around.
"All right." His voice came out a little hoarse. "We can't stay here."
The back-to-back fighting and nonstop absorption had made this space dangerously unstable. If they lingered, it could trigger another collapse.
"We leave. Now."
No one argued.
Ethan quickly gathered what residual energy he could, then stowed the energy cores and some of the lightning power into his storage device. The only surprise was that the world itself couldn't be packed away into an energy sphere.
The space structure here was… weird. It could only be left as-is.
He didn't waste another second.
A few minutes later, the group exited the thunder world.
But the moment Ethan returned to Emerald Castle's camp—right as he stepped out of the spatial rift—he stopped dead.
The sight in front of him made his pupils blow wide.
Up in the sky, the battle had already fully erupted.
