The weighing of options occurred in a mere instant.
Luna gave Lilith a deep look, his gaze complex, containing scrutiny and a rare trace of solemnity.
"I hope that when the time comes, Your Excellency Lilith truly can resolve all the incidents in Tokyo."
Luna's voice regained its calm, yet it carried a sense of gravity.
"Otherwise, once the dust settles on the strange artifacts, if the Ghost Prison has not been removed or if the situation spirals out of control, then the final directives of various nations will likely leave them with no other choice."
This was both a warning and a reminder.
If Lilith failed, or attempted to monopolize everything and triggered greater chaos, then the pre-set 'Nuclear Peace' protocols would be activated, regardless of who remained in Tokyo.
Lilith remained noncommittal. After all, the Dragon Kingdom was the closest to the Japan, and it was impossible for the Dragon Kingdom to allow any uncontrollable incidents to occur there.
However, the light in Lilith's crimson pupils seemed to grow a few degrees colder.
"Don't trouble yourself."
Luna spoke no more.
The purple-gold light around him suddenly surged. The phantom of the divine dragon that had been circling him let out a crisp, world-shaking roar and abruptly opened its bloody maw, actually swallowing Luna whole!
In the next moment, the phantom rapidly solidified and expanded!
Dragon scales shifted from ethereal to physical, gleaming with a purple-gold metallic luster. Dragon horns rose majestically, whiskers fluttered, and a vast, dignified dragon pressure swept in all directions like a tsunami!
In the blink of an eye, a magnificent five-clawed divine dragon over sixty meters long, entirely purple-gold, appeared in the Tokyo night sky!
As the dragon's eyes opened and closed, purple lightning surged, carrying the majesty of an emperor!
This was precisely Luna's Slaughtering Path combat form—the [Zihuang Heavenly Dragon]!
The divine dragon extended a massive claw, accurately and gently grasping the wide, rock-armored shoulder plate of the Black Tortoise below.
Simultaneously, its tail flicked lightly as its massive body glided, rushing toward the courtyard where the Dragon Kingdom members were staying, steadily lifting everyone inside.
Giving one last look at Lilith suspended high in the air, the purple-gold dragon let out a long roar.
Its massive yet agile body made a turn in the air, transforming into a streak of purple-gold light that tore through the purple-black baleful aura shrouding the City, flying toward the offshore fleet and quickly vanishing into the vast night.
The Dragon Kingdom had exited the stage.
At this point, in the boiling, bloody, and frenzied Tokyo, after the various Factions had cleared the field—either by force or by choice—only two protagonists remained on the stage.
Lilith slowly retracted her dragon wings, descending gradually from the heights to finally stand atop a building that had not yet completely collapsed.
The night wind blew through her snow-white hair and the hem of her military uniform, her petite figure looking completely out of place with her surroundings.
"You leave as well."
She spoke softly, her voice not loud, yet it clearly reached a certain hidden corner.
In the shadows, Forti's figure flickered into view. He bowed deeply and then seemed to melt into the darkness, disappearing completely.
He needed to carry out his master's previous orders while ensuring the cooperation of the naval fleet.
Before his master left Tokyo, any nation wishing to deploy nuclear weapons would be warned by America; if they did not follow the rules, then... At this moment, the Japan was deathly silent.
No, it wasn't true silence. Below, the roars of millions of monsters continued, and the purple-black baleful aura still churned.
But of the auras belonging to the world's top human powerhouses, only Lilith's remained.
With her crimson vertical pupils, she calmly looked down upon this hunting ground that belonged to her, watching those dead creatures of flesh and blood.
Without Forti's concealment, this flesh was rapidly converging underground, visible to the naked eye.
Just then—
"Rumble—!!!"
In the distance, the entire Tokyo Tower suddenly shuddered violently!
The entire tower swayed heavily in the night as thick, purple-black energy erupted from it like a fountain!
At the same time, a massive number of flesh-and-blood creatures exploded at that moment, turning into gore that seeped into the ground.
The baleful aura and negative energy in the air, so thick they were almost tangible, seemed to be drawn by an invisible giant hand, beginning to converge frantically toward a single point—Tokyo Tower!
No, it was beneath Tokyo Tower!
The massive fluctuations of flesh-and-blood energy that Forti's talent had previously hidden and interfered with were now like a prehistoric beast breaking its chains, no longer capable of being concealed!
"Gurgle... Gurgle..."
A scalp-numbing sound, like millions of tons of flesh and mud churning and merging, came from deep within the foundations of Tokyo Tower.
The massive collective of flesh and blood buried dozens of meters underground, having devoured the essence of countless dead monsters, finally began its final shaping and ascension!
They were no longer just static flesh and negative energy being absorbed; they transformed into tentacles and roots possessed of life and will.
Following underground pipes, cracks, and even tunnels they dug themselves, they were like a reverse waterfall of blood, frantically climbing and converging upward!
Tokyo Tower's steel skeleton groaned under the weight and impact of this torrent of flesh.
The purple-black flesh was like living vines, entwining, covering, and merging, quickly submerging the lower half of the tower and spreading upward at an incredible Speed!
"Boom—!!!"
Finally, at the tip of the tower, a pillar of purple-black light over a hundred meters in diameter shot into the sky, piercing directly through the clouds stained by the baleful aura!
Immediately following, endless purple-black mist spread out from the light pillar like an inverted sea of ink, completely swallowing Tokyo Tower and the surrounding area for hundreds of meters in an instant!
From within the thick mist came terrifying sounds that defied description.
It was the shrill wailing of millions of souls being torn apart, crushed, and forcibly melded together; it was the ear-piercing friction of bones frantically proliferating, deforming, and snapping together in a way that violated all biological laws.
It was the viscous roar of flesh and blood churning, shaping, and solidifying like a boiling swamp.
Even more, a will that seemed to come from the lowest level of the abyss, mixed with endless madness, hatred, greed, and distortion, was gradually awakening and expanding at the center of the mist!
Lilith stood at the peak of the skyscraper, letting the foul wind blow her long hair wildly behind her.
On her body, strands of crimson blood-lightning began to leap out uncontrollably, crackling across her skin.
It wasn't fear, but extreme excitement—the excitement of craving an opponent.
She quietly watched the churning purple-black mist. Her wings beat, and her petite body flew directly to another, taller building to observe this scene more directly.
The mist began to slowly dissipate.
First to be revealed was the silhouette.
A malformed giant shadow, so massive it made the soul tremble, stood where Tokyo Tower once was.
The tower had long since been devoured and assimilated, becoming part of its Torso.
It had a skeletal outline similar to a Western dragon, but the components of this skeleton were countless thick, twisted, and intertwined human bones.
These bones were forcibly bonded together by some kind of purple-black, semi-transparent, tough membrane, its surface covered in uneven bone spurs and tumor-like protrusions.
Covering the bones were layers upon layers of living flesh, constantly writhing and flowing with viscous black blood.