Adrian recognized each of them immediately. He tried to fight the combined weight of their aura as he spoke up.
"Yield? I didn't come this far to take orders from the Emperor's lapdogs."
He didn't wait for a response. He knew the Reality Anchor was at critical disruption. He needed seconds, but the Hexad would only give him milliseconds.
He triggered the technique that had deleted Valdis, but this time, he pushed himself into a suicidal overclock, burning his own life force as fuel.
"Void Distortion: Event Horizon!"
The vacuum around Adrian didn't just swirl; it imploded. He converted the entirety of his remaining mana and a portion of his own biological mass into a gravitational singularity. This wasn't just a ball of energy; it was a localized tear in the fabric of the universe, a hungry mouth screaming to consume the six gods surrounding him.
The violet event horizon expanded instantly, seeking to swallow Barius first.
