Luca hovered high in the sky, his gaze calm and detached. Behind him, the towering golden statue of a god slowly dissipated into the air.
All that remained was a field of shattered stones and the faint glow of the Orb of Stars, with no trace of Queen Matilda in sight.
"He actually… he actually…" Countless people in Dawn City felt a storm of emotions churn within them. It was almost impossible to believe the scene unfolding before their eyes.
But the Queen of the Clinton Empire—how could she have been killed in public like this?
How could this boy... how could he dare to do this?!
"It's over, it's all over!" Inside the royal study, Alfred's face turned ashen as he collapsed in despair into his chair.
With the Queen dead, no one could stop Luca's march forward. All his years of restraint, ambition, and effort would be reduced to nothing, burned away in an instant!