Pure desperation.


    This was what any Tier 4 Beasts of Corruption felt at the unfolding scene around them.


    On the walls of Carthage, Gem Masters were frozen in ce as they stared out in shock.


    In the skies, the Praying Mantis and Lightning Sparrow besieging Branch Leader Axel had their senses telling them a single thing as they carried it out right away.


    Without paying attention to anything else, their life force surged as they shot back toward the Breach in the distance.


    Branch Leader Axel reacted a stepter with his own shock as he bellowed out.


    "No you don’t!"


    He turned into a streak of lightning that gave chase.


    Down below, amidst the heavy storms of lightning, a me Crow erged to be thergest Aerial Beast here, the natural ck mes around its body burning brightly as a lightning storm whipped around It!


    CAW!


    It cried out in disbelief as before it could understand what had happened, it received amand from the entity that had just bound it.


    And without a dy, its eyes zed with mes as it pped Its wings and appeared directly in front of the Cdrius.


    In front of the Envoy and Branch Leader who were already having a hard time holding on!


    The moment it appeared, the storm it brought without broke down the defenses around them, and spears of mes began to form and encircle the Envoy and Branch Leader Enaman.


    They lingered in the air like deadly spikes that could thunder down at any time.


    CAA!


    The Cdrius cried out in fury as white and green mes surrounded it, while Enaman burst with purple mes that were all torn apart!


    And in the next moment, above the ming head of the now titanic me Crow, the figure of the garbed Alexander appeared.


    He sat freely on the ming feathers of the me Crow that did no damage to him, his figure releasing an air of power.


    His left hand pulsed with swirling frost while his left hand sped a pulsing crimson lightning bolt threateningly.


    And he looked towards the Envoy and the Branch Leader Enaman coldly without saying a word.


    But his stance was clear!


    He didn’t say a word, but he didn’t have to.


    He changed his path and came directly in front of this unique Aerial Beast as her shrill voice had shown that she held a great deal of information.


    And what Alexander needed most right now was information!


    "Haha…you got us this time. But for me, it is akin to choosing death right now orter."


    The feminine voice of the Envoy echoed out.


    If she submitted right now, she would break her loyalty to the power behind her as when they ultimately understood what happened here, they would send a force to eradicate everyone- especially the one who betrayed them!


    This human was powerful, yes. But he was only one.


    Unless he got the help of other Ascendant Gem Masters from the more powerful Human Lineages…


    BOOM!


    What met her despairingugh was a strike of the crimson thunder sting apart the green and white light surrounding her as her white feathersced with a gorgeous verdant light became charred.


    Before it utterly eviscerated her…


    "I yield! I yield!"


    N?v(el)B\\jnn


    Her shout, filled with frustration and madness, echoed out.


    Another crimson bolt stopped above her as Alexander gazed forward coldly, keeping to his word of not repeating himself as a Golden light radiated from his chest and flowed to the Cdrius Aerial Beast before him.


    Seeing this scene, Branch Leader Enaman let out a despairingugh as he threw himself off of her back before the deadly transformation he had just seen on the me Crow unfolded, but he didn’t get far before crimson lightning crackled around him and bound him like live snakes!


    CAA!


    Another cry of a bird species echoed out as the Cdrius Envoy was forcefully bound to Alexander, her body beginning to transform as her pupils dted with shock.


    And the figure of Enaman wrapped in crimson chains of lightning struggled with despair as Alexander flung him backwards towards a man floating in the skies surrounded by mes.


    Branch Leader Julius, his father, was surrounded by tendrils of mes as his calloused hands caught the leader of the enemy camp- his gaze difficult at this moment as he looked at the one man who was able to do all of this.


    He wanted to wonder how all of this was possible, but too many ridiculous things had happened in thest hour as he didn’t know where to even begin.


    In the distant skies ahead, Alexander controlled the me Crow as its beak moved right in front of the white beak of the Cdrius Envoy, his figure moving gracefully from one Beast to another as he stepped on the head of this unique Aerial Beast and spoke out lightly.


    "Are there any others waiting in that Breach?"


    …!


    Information.


    The most truthful one would onlye from the Beast bound to him at this moment!


    The Cdrius shuddered at his words as after undergoing all the changes just now, the shock she felt towards this being had risen another octave.


    With every new change or effect she felt as soon as she became bound to him, she confirmed the link between these changes and the effects of Support Gems.


    And if she counted right…was that five? Six Support Ability Gem augmentations?


    She didn’t know for sure as at the very least, this Entity truly was a Tier 7 Ascendant Gem Master!


    Someone simr to the powerhouses she had only seen from a distance in her world.


    So towards his question…


    "N-no, Ascendant Master. These are all the forces from the City Fortress of Nethus. Only a few Tier 4 Beasts were left behind to guard it."


    She answered truthfully.


    She had to.


    And the terrifying Gem Master walked across her beak and onto her white green feathers as he nodded.


    "Good. I have many questions, but let’s ensure that everything that happened here stays that way."


    …!


    As he spoke, he gazed towards the direction where the Praying Mantis and Lightning Sparrow were escaping to while Branch Leader Axel chased.


    Down below, the Golden me Lion and Arctic Wolf suppressed all other Tier 4 Beasts.


    A momentter, the me Crow already streaked across the skies to stop the retreat of the Mantis and Sparrow in the distance, its speed nearly three times as theirs even with its massive body!


    Nothing would escape today.


    After capturing the enemymander and binding the most powerful Beast from the enemy side, all that was left for Alexander was clean up as they had to do this cleanly while understanding just who their enemies were, and what they could expect from here!