Chapter 145: Chapter 145: Crystal Winslow’s Swan Song!
The southern battlefield was strewn with corpses.
The few survivors were forced to retreat by the Demon Clan, pushed back to the last line of defense of Lythos.
The students and teachers who came to intercept were almost completely wiped out!
Now, only Crystal Winslow, Chloe Grant, and a few others were desperately holding their ground.
The reason they were alive was largely due to Sean Sherman’s deliberate protection!
But the status of this City Lord of Lythos was extremely dire.
Covered in blood, it was impossible to tell if it was that of the enemy or his own.
His once sturdy body now had only one arm left!
Yet even so, he stood like a javelin at the front of the line.
"Click!"
His only remaining left hand clutched tightly, with nails digging deeply into his palm.
Sean Sherman’s bloodshot eyes stared intently at the tide of the Demon Clan ahead, burning with seething hatred.
Among the teachers of Aegis Academy, many were once his comrades in life and death.
And now...
A flicker of pain crossed Sean’s eyes.
When intercepting the Demon Clan, they fought until the very last moment—
Even at the cost of their own lives, they would self-detonate their Domain, dying to take down a Commander Level demon.
Yet despite this, the remaining number of demons still filled Sean with despair.
His gaze swept over Crystal Winslow and Chloe Grant beside him, his voice eerily calm:
"You should go..."
"We can’t hold them off any longer."
"There’s no need to die in vain."
Although he urged Crystal and Chloe to leave, he himself did not move, not taking even a single step back.
Not far behind was Lythos.
This operation’s failure...
Meant that Lythos would inevitably be massacred by the Demon Clan!
And as the City Lord of Lythos...
He vowed to live and die with this city!
However—
As Sean’s words fell, no one moved a muscle.
Chloe Grant’s body was also injured, but her eyes were filled with determination:
"Lythos is where I was born and raised; I cannot just stand by and watch it fall to the Demon Clan!"
She paused, and when she turned to Crystal Winslow, her tone softened:
"But Crystal... you’re different."
"I know you like my brother, and... your talent might even rival his."
"Leave, find Aster... avenge us!"
Hearing these words, Crystal Winslow was struck as if by lightning, frozen in place.
Like... Aster?
The secret she buried deep within was suddenly revealed by Chloe!
She turned to Chloe in a panic, wanting to deny it.
But upon meeting Chloe’s certain gaze, she lowered her head.
She couldn’t speak...
What Chloe said was true.
No matter how she tried to deceive herself, her feelings for Aster were indeed affection.
But before Aster’s closest person, at this moment...
All self-deception instantly crumbled.
"Crystal, leave here!"
Chloe repeated.
Knowing the outcome was certain death, they couldn’t let Crystal stay and die.
But at this moment Crystal shook her head vigorously, her hair flying in the wind.
She liked Aster!
Therefore, she couldn’t watch Chloe sacrifice herself in front of her.
Everyone related to Aster, she wanted to protect!
Moreover...
Crystal’s gaze shifted beyond the battlefield, towards the city that stood tall in the dusk.
Is this... the place where he grew up?
Her slender fingers unconsciously touched her chest.
"Thump, thump, thump—"
Her heartbeat was deafening, as if about to leap out of her chest.
So... this is what it means to like someone!!
Wanting to protect everything related to him!
Upon understanding her feelings, Crystal suddenly looked up, her lips turning pale from being bitten:
"Sis... sister..."
"Can I... call you that?"
Chloe was first stunned, then a smile appeared on her face.
Crystal’s words had made her choice!
To have such a girl like her brother was that brat’s blessing.
Chloe removed her gaze from Crystal and turned to the Demon Clan, speaking slowly:
"Crystal, if we make it out alive this time, I will make that brat marry you!"
Hearing this, Crystal’s cheeks flushed crimson.
Marry her?
The very thought made her heart race...
But the next second, her gaze swept over the incoming tide of the Demon Army, her ice-blue eyes gradually dimming.
Too bad there’s no going back...
She slowly closed her eyes, her long lashes casting shadows on her pale face.
But at least—
In the final moments, she wanted to do something for Aster!
"Boom—"
Tremendous spiritual power suddenly erupted!
Her ice-blue long hair faded to silver at a visible speed, her aura climbing continuously, and the soil beneath started to condense into dazzling ice crystals.
"Is this... the talent of The Winslow Family?!"
Witnessing this, Sean Sherman’s pupils contracted sharply, instantly realizing...
This girl was burning her own life.
Realizing this, Sean’s eyes darkened.
How could he, as a soldier of Draconia, be bested by a student!
His left hand gripping the sword was bulging with veins.
Even without a Beastbond, even with only one arm...
So what?
"Swish!"
The sword’s edge sliced through the air, as Sean dashed toward the demonic tide like an arrow leaving the bowstring.
His slender figure appeared so small amidst the overwhelming demonic Qi, yet so resolute—
What did it matter if he stood alone against thousands?!
When Sean charged alone, all the Commander Level demons simultaneously halted.
—This race was too insane!
They still remembered the resoluteness of those human elites self-detonating their Domains.
This one-armed man before them clearly intended to trade life for life!
"Roar!"
With a command, countless Extraordinary Level demons surged towards Sean like a tide.
Letting these Extraordinary Level demons wear the human down was the right choice!
But this was exactly what Sean wanted...
To buy time with flesh and blood for Crystal Winslow’s ascension.
At the center of the battlefield.
Sword light was like snow, each arc taking the lives of several demons.
But Sean’s Domain was rapidly dimming, his sword-wielding arm beginning to tremble.
"Now’s the time!"
Seeing this, a few Commander Level demons waiting in the distance grinned fiercely.
The next moment.
A Commander Level demon vanished.
When they reappeared, they were beside Sean.
"Pshh!"
The sound of talons piercing a heart echoed.
"Cough..."
Blood spilled from his mouth, but Sean smiled.
His bloodstained hand clamped onto the demon’s wrist like an iron vise:
"Got you."
The demon’s pupils contracted abruptly.
The next second—
"Boom!!!"
Dazzling white light engulfed a hundred meters in radius!
The Commander Level demon and the surrounding Extraordinary Level demons were vaporized in an instant.
In the distance.
The remaining Commanders’ faces turned ashen.
This race, in thousands of years...
Was the most tenacious they had ever encountered!
Despite the vast disparity in strength, however...
No one conceded; instead, they were like wolves cornered in desperation.
Even in death, they would tear a piece off their enemy.
But all of this, now ended!
The last Commander Level Beast Tamer among the human race, who posed a threat to them, was dead, and next...
But just as these Commander Level demons breathed a sigh of relief.
A snowflake landed on the tip of his nose.
"This is...?"
All the demons looked up simultaneously.
The entire battlefield was rapidly frosting over at a visible speed, and the snowflakes lightly brushing against the Demonic Qi emitted a metallic clang.
The temperature plummeted!
Even the blood of the demons began to freeze.
The silver-haired girl stood aloft, her ice-blue eyes now turned frost-white.
She slowly raised her hand, and the world echoed with a sword-like wail of the wind—
Crystal Winslow, her ascension was complete!...
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