Roy glanced at the fluttering veil in his hands. The lady Lord had acted fast, and this was all he could get hold of.
His gaze raised, eting his escaped prey. This ti he saw her full, stunning facial features.
Eyes clear silver, hair jade black tied into a ponytail, lips tender and thin, lashes fluttering delicately.
A beauty that could make n go mad. It was no wonder she made sure to put on a veil.
Her beauty was delicate and especially provoking, especially now. Her slender hands clenched tight, she bit her lower lip delicately as her eyes betrayed emotions of pain, expectation... and fear.
Roy stood paralyzed. Not from her beauty — he already had so resistance to that after dealing with people like Vera, Ashley, and Layla.
But this... his stillness was the result of multiple storming emotions: confusion, shock, anger... and guilt.
Emotion provoked the past, emotions storming with it...
That day, he was only nineteen, still a rookie fresh from the police academy. He had just started putting his life together...
And naturally, he wanted to add the love of his life to this. He wanted to seal the deal. He wanted to propose.
They had been dating long since their middle school days, and their love was still as fresh as when it began. So he had full confidence she would say yes.
He was so sure... he was so confident.
He took her out for a fancy dinner, and the opportunity ca. She went to the restroom, so he quickly began making preparations.
Never would he guess that that would be his last ti seeing her.
He waited and waited. He called for help. They searched the entire building, but she was nowhere to be found.
He called her line, and it rang — on the floor right before the restroom.
He called her family... no news.
Was it possible... did she run away? But he refused to believe this, banishing the thought each ti it surfaced.
He called her roommate — sa result.
So he waited patiently. Every day, there wasn’t a single day he didn’t go back to the restaurant, sitting on that sa chair, reserving it regardless of the cost...
For a year he sat at that sa table.
He had filed a missing person report, which turned out with zero leads. He was even a pri suspect for her disappearance...
At the end, he decided to move on. He left that restaurant for the last ti, deciding to put the past behind him and accept that she was gone...
But he couldn’t still move on. Though his career was bright, getting promotion after promotion at work... his life felt hollow. And so he ended up being a recluse.
After all these years, he had almost forgotten about her. And today, here she was. They were reunited by fate or by coincidence.
She stood before him — Alstera Harrison... his long-lost fiancée.
Not only that, he grimaced as he stared at the screen blinking over her head:
[Nesis Order: Bearer of the Order of Theft!!!]
Alstera remained still, her gaze glued to Roy, as she realized:
"He... still rembers ." Her heart churned with a tinge of happiness and bitterness.
Suddenly everything dimd. Both parties had no choice but to move their gaze from each other to the skies.
The hamr blotted the skies, descending from the heavens, promising to ravage through the land and its Lord.
"That stupid bitch!!" Alstera cursed, throwing her gaze to the distant Lana — the source of this apocalyptic attack, who was levitating midair, her being coursing with a bronze shimr...
This was a powerful skill of the Amazon Lord, called All-Encompassing Wrath.
This skill could only be activated when her anger had reached its peak. She could then funnel this pure and raw force into her weapon, making it colossal and letting it fall to devastate her enemies.
Alstera hesitated for a bit before gnashing her teeth and giving up, deciding to save herself.
Reality pulsed as she vanished...
Roy glanced back down to see that she was gone. He frowned in displeasure. To think after all this ti she had nothing to say, and in the face of danger she just left... She had definitely changed. Well, he couldn’t bla her — after all, he wasn’t the sa either.
He directed his gaze to the distant Lana, who was undoubtedly the source of this attack.
"I underestimated them too much..."
If he had struck her more heavily, or in a more vital and precise area, injuring her badly enough to kick her out of battle, this wouldn’t have happened.
Well, now it was too late for regret. He had to deal with this attack, as it not only had him in its range but a good chunk of his territory and people too.
He was just about to make a move when he caught sight of a familiar figure ascending the skies.
Roy wondered:
"Is that Ethan? Co to think of it, two months have passed. He’s definitely not on the sa level as I left him, which ans he should be able to..."
Space rippled behind Ethan as his mutated ether ntal Wave surged and drained drastically and quickly.
He was activating a skill he had never had to use before now, reaching for a type of summon he had never attempted before.
A summon called Sky-Scrapping ga cha!!!
The wind raged, and an absurdly large rift ford in the sky. Falling from it was a ga figure.
Boooooom!
It landed on the ground, forming a mini valley in its wake. The earth rumbled and trembled from the landing. The shockwave clapped and blew through, but Roy and the two captains remained steady. Only the guards staggered from the pressurized kick of wind...
A humanoid creature... or construct ca into sight.
A giant of steel and flesh, a culmination of tech and biology, stood shoulder to shoulder with the massive structure of the Aegis. Its eyes glowed pure, like two mini suns, as its head raised, cranking sounds ringing out like gears turning.
Ethan’s hands raised, directing the summon, which mirrored its master’s movents.
Two steel-made colossal hands rose into the air, wind blowing in response, creaks and hums of machinery ringing loud.
The two hands — sizes threatening to hold a mountain — actually t the falling attack.
Cracks, clanks, and creaks rang out as the weight of the strike bore down on the ga creature, its knees and hips bending.
Cracks traveled from where it stood as the area slowly began to sink, even the earth struggling to bear the load.
A buzzing noise rang out as the monster’s chanized face — half flesh, half steel — opened wide... too wide.
A pulse of energy slowly charged from the depths of its mouth.
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