Doom.
That was the only word to describe it.
Genevieve's return changed nothing.
It may have given the team of pro players a mental boost but nothing tangible came from it, nothing changed.
Not the sheer disparity in power.
Not the hopelessness that threatened to crush them.
Not the fact that Kali and Beezebub were unbeatable together.
Her revival only adjusted the death count, from four targets to kill... back to five. At least, to Kali.
And their deaths was still an inevitability.
The air grew colder.
Kali stood poised, her lethal daggers gleaming with the absence of light itself. The Lord of Flies, her puppet, loomed beside her, his rotten wings pulsing with cursed energy.
It was over.
Aria knew it; Caleb knew it; Benjamin knew it.
And yet, Noah didn't move.
He stood there, calm.
Unshaken.
He exhaled, and then something changed.
The flow state…, what was it?