Chapter 5954

Malcolm swayed beside him, the same arrow-made emptiness flickering in his chest like a doorway to nowhere.

His reincarnation aura, usually stitching wounds before blood could fall, found no purchase and slid away uselessly.

The anti-magic principle woven into the Divine Arrow pried at his foundation of rebirth, widening the hole by the second.

They were alive, technically, but the fight had been stripped from both of them as cleanly as their flesh.

Breathing stayed possible; thinking already felt extravagant.

The arrow never slowed. It disappeared into the distant horizon, leaving behind a ragged seam in the sky that refused to close.

Silence collapsed over the battlefield.