CHAPTER 218 — THE DECISION
The sky above the broken city had turned the color of dusk.
Smoke from burning districts drifted upward through the clouds, mixing with the emerald storm radiating from the Jade Dragon's massive body. The wind carried ash and dust through the air, swirling across rooftops and shattered highways.
Sirens still wailed below.
Helicopters still fought the unstable air currents.
But everyone who could see the sky had stopped moving.
Because something had changed.
High above the city—
Long Hao hovered motionless.
Void energy curled around his body in slow, spiraling currents, darker than before, denser than before, as if the air itself had grown heavier around him.
Across the battlefield, the Jade Dragon watched.
Its enormous emerald eyes narrowed slightly.
"You hesitate."
The dragon's voice rolled through the clouds like distant thunder.
Long Hao did not answer.
Inside his mind—
The battlefield was silent.
