Lâo Fēng POV VII

My vision blurred. My pulse slowed. My own life waned with every breath, every second this power coiled and thickened in my grasp.

But I did not stop.

Because I would take him with me.

After this attack, I shall perish too, and join my companions in the stars.

And I would leave his wife to the wrath of the generals.

The slithering, snake-like green substance began to seep from my skin, drawn into the growing sphere of death in my palms.

This was my final act. My last battle cry.

I had given this technique a name, long ago.

[Tears of the Green Ghoul].

If Raymond could withstand this, then he truly was not of this world.

Apart from the deadly consuming power, it had the strength to plunge a hole through the earth, or create a space big enough to hold a great lake, as it was.

The earth trembled beneath me, cracks spiderwebbing outward as my feet dug into the shattered ground.