As Stanley watched, the Master Tower was gone in the blink of an eye, thanks to Tenzin’s ruthless attack. Many people that were in the tower perished in the fraction of an eye.Stanley was glad that he had left the tower in time.Nevertheless, the earthquake shook the entire Beast Woods, and the cold chilling wave that spread all around made many people freeze in their tracks. They didn’t know what was going on. They just felt paralyzed by the breeze. It was as if their bodies cooled down very quickly against their will. Like deer freezing to death in snow, people began to freeze up.Even Stanely was frozen initially because he was very close to the tower, but he was able to break himself free. And he found himself panting. “That was close. If I was late to react, I would have gotten frozen to the bone.” He then looked up at the sky. The barrier itself was frozen in a thin layer of white ice, so he couldn’t see Tenzin right now. “To think she’s using the power of the underworld right

Both were attacking each other viciously, but neither of their attacks quite damaged the other.“Crescent Demon Kick!” Tenzin crafted a crescent-shaped kick that Jim deflected, which then went on to cut through clouds for miles in the path.“Dual Meteor Blitz!” Tenzin backed it with a chain of punches that were destructive and hot enough to erase district-sized lands from the face of the earth.Jim tanked these heavy-handed punches without even using vivre. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to use vivre but just that he couldn’t.However, now that Tenzin’s attacks turned from being cold to hot, this helped Jim steadily regain his ability to use vivre.Like a volcano bursting out at once, Jim unleashed vivre attacks one after another.“Ethereal Monkey Barrage!”“Celestial Phoenix Whip!”“Million Pound Spear Shock!”All these attacks didn’t just trouble her but made her bleed. The last attack especially ripped her shirt to pieces and badly hurt her organs. She bled from her eyes, nose, and

Gabe stayed behind on the Beast Woods and arranged planes for the slave survivors. Though there were still many survivors of the beast brotherhood, none of them fought him because many had tried and miserably failed.He commanded the animals on the island to help the wounded, even the ones that were part of the brotherhood.Instead of killing them, he took pity on them and gave them another chance. Some thanked him, but some still saw him as an enemy that must one day be erased.After taking care of things on this island, Gabe was heading back home on his wolf Reyes. He was holding a blue crystal in his palm. It was colder than ice. It wouldn’t have stayed solid at normal temperature and would have evaporated into thin vapor, but Gabe was keeping its form intact with the help of his energy.“A piece of the firmament,” he smiled slightly. “The proof that we live in a sealed system. I’ll show this beautiful piece of handiwork to Mia and the kids.”Meanwhile, somewhere else in the city.

On the same night.Jim, Rena, and Shiney slept in the same hotel room but on three different beds. The sisters did not quarrel with each other, not even once. But they weren’t being friendly, either.The next morning.About an hour before the sunrise, Jim woke up and found Shiney sleeping in his bed, right next to him, with one of her legs on top of his leg.He thought it was Rena, so he was a bit shocked to see that it was actually Shiney.He quickly got out of the bed and then walked out onto the balcony.In the past, he would generally hear the traffic. The heavy trucks that would be traveling fast on highways, and the noises of the horns and so on. But right now, he was able to hear very many distinct things.The most peculiar thing he noticed was the chirping on the birds in the trees. And he was able to see that the voices of the birds actually helped the plants wake up from the night before the sunrise.It was so beautiful to see while hearing the voices of the birds that he ha

The three of them returned to the room after finishing breakfast.“Jim, there’s a carrom board, so why don’t we play carroms?” Shiney asked him.“Sure,” he looked at his wife. “You want to play, too?”“Of course,” Rena replied. She couldn’t just leave those two alone, so she had to agree.They sat down in three chairs, with him sitting between the sisters. He sprayed powder and arranged coins on the board. “These smell like tamarind,” he said. “They must have been made from tamarind wood.”“Do you remember that we used to eat tamarind candy together when we were young?” Shiney said.“How can I forget that?”he quickly said. “The pocket money that my mom gave was spent on buying candy for you.”“Hahaha,” Shiney laughed as if she was proud about it.Unlike Shiney, Rena didn’t have many memories with Jim. They were mostly distant to one another, but she was always attracted to him because of his looks and the fact that he was a very hard worker. The reason Rena respected her mom but not h