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"But... how could that be?"
"Good and evil eventually reap what they sow, Manlo."
Manlo sat down abruptly on the ground, his head covered in cold sweat as he said, "No, it can't be like this, even if you absorbed the power of Dragon's Golden Eyes. You're just turning into another Dark Giant Dragon, no, we haven't failed..."
Lady Misu looked at him with a complex expression and shook her head, but didn't speak.
Meanwhile, Fang Hong stood by silently, watching this scene in the Phantom Realm, with his heart in turmoil like stormy waves.
The illusory realm gradually faded away—
But within the sea of flames, Fang Hong still saw many fragmented scenes.
They included the ruins of Grey Oak Square, filled with the dead, charred corpses, twisted skeletons, and pillars of fire that raged on...
Manlo's icy corpse still retained the expression of horror from before his death, his heart ripped out by Misu's own hands.