The city center had become a war zone.
On one side — WHU.
On the other — Lord's elite forces.
The wind howled through shattered buildings.
Sebastian lowered his hand.
"Advance!"
And hell broke loose.
Opening Clash
Jennifer raised her arm.
The temperature plummeted instantly.
Frost spread across the streets.
Swamp summoned swamp energy — the ground softened into suffocating mire.
Ella Wang stepped forward.
A radiant energy field formed around her.
"This battlefield is not yours!"
Jennifer unleashed a blizzard.
Swamp launched mud-spears from below.
Ice and light collided.
The ground shattered.
Ella was fighting two high-tier enemies alone.
She did not retreat.
Impact
Jennifer dropped the temperature further.
Ella's movements slowed.
Swamp struck from underground—
A crushing swamp eruption hit Ella from behind.
She fell to one knee.
Blood touched her lip.
Jennifer formed a final ice lance—
And then—
A dark blur intercepted it.
Sebastian.
He crushed the ice spear with one hand.
The shockwave rippled across the plaza.
He caught Ella before she collapsed.
"Fall back."
"I can still fight…" she whispered.
His eyes hardened.
"No."
And in that moment—
The truth was clear.
Ella was his wife.
And she was pregnant.
Fear flashed in Sebastian's eyes — just for a second.
Then he turned to the battlefield.
"I'll stay in the rear!"
But he lied.
Because a heartbeat later—
He was already on the front lines.
Asher & Vincent — Combination Assault
Across the field, chaos intensified.
White sliced his palm.
Blood hovered in the air.
With a flick of his fingers—
The blood hardened into razor-like projectiles.
Asher deflected the attack with a burst of energy.
Vincent appeared beside him.
"Together?"
Asher nodded.
White attacked again.
Vincent rushed in, disrupting White's rhythm.
Asher concentrated his energy.
Vincent destabilized White's footing—
Asher delivered a devastating impact.
White shaped blood into a defensive barrier.
The collision split the ground apart.
Neither side yielded.
The fight was perfectly even.
Battles Across the Field
Morton raised the temperature, turning ice into steam.
Jennifer countered with freezing winds.
Gagnon fired precision long-range attacks from elevated ruins.
Roy blurred across the battlefield at extreme speed.
Li transformed partially — striking WHU's defensive line with savage force.
Tracy deployed multiple clones across the field, overwhelming positions.
Oliver Mark engaged her directly, cutting down wave after wave—
But Tracy kept adapting.
The war was chaos.
No side gained dominance.
Sebastian Unleashed
Sebastian entered the main clash.
His aura detonated outward.
Three enemies were thrown back instantly.
Every strike he delivered cracked the pavement.
But his fury was different.
It wasn't strategic.
It was personal.
They had hurt Ella.
His presence shifted the battlefield's pressure.
Even S-rank enemies hesitated.
Stalemate
Minutes felt like hours.
Ice melted.
Swamp hardened.
Energy waves tore through skyscraper remains.
WHU was wounded.
Lord's forces were bleeding.
But neither side collapsed.
It was equilibrium.
Deadly.
Unstable.
And above them—
On a distant tower—
Miasma watched.
Silent.
Waiting.
For the moment both sides were at their weakest.
Closing Scene
Sebastian breathed heavily.
Asher and Vincent repositioned.
Ella stood at a distance, one hand over her stomach.
She whispered softly:
"Please… don't lose yourself."
In the center of the city—
The Great War raged on.
Balanced.
Unresolved.
But something darker was about to enter the battlefield.