Jax stood silent, watching the Siren Queen chained before him. His women formed a tight ring around him, ready for anything, but his mind was split—he couldn't decide whether to execute her now or use her as leverage.
Then it happened. Quietly, without anyone noticing, the siren slid her hands up to the collar at her throat and snapped it. The metallic crack was barely audible, but what followed shook the world.
A roar rose from the ocean's depths. Distant at first, then swelling into a thunder that rattled earth and sky.
Jax narrowed his eyes. Instinct screamed danger—real danger, the kind that had made him fear during the fight with Kalamus. For the first time since killing that colossus, he felt true fear.
"This isn't normal," he murmured.
His blue aura flared in response, but still something weird cut through him. He was level 98 with 99% EXP—essentially a demigod by every measure. As far as he knew, gods couldn't come down to this world.
