Ethan snorted, still not bothering to answer.

He lifted his hand and pressed forward.

A brutal wave of power surged out—like a massive wall of transparent thunder—slamming into the Titan Sovereign head-on.

Boom!

The Titan Sovereign took another heavy hit and stumbled backward in midair, unable to stop himself.

Each step he forced down made the space under him crack in a ring. He tried to steady his posture, but Ethan’s pressure came in wave after wave, leaving him no room to breathe.

Before long, Ethan had driven him back to the area near The Dominion.

On the warship’s deck, the old man watched with eyes so wide they looked ready to split.

He couldn’t accept what he was seeing.

Their Titan Sovereign—the one The Valgari worshipped as a Supreme Deity—was getting beaten back again and again by Ethan.

And what made it worse was how fast Ethan’s power had changed. It happened so suddenly it blew past every prediction The Valgari had made.

He didn’t dare drag it out anymore.

The old man immediately activated every energy system on The Dominion. Countless golden patterns across the hull lit up at once. Core energy poured up from deep within the ship in a raging flood, condensing into a huge column of light that fired from above and dropped straight onto the Titan Sovereign’s back.

The Titan Sovereign didn’t have the luxury of thinking about anything else. The blood-red gemstone in his chest flared instantly.

That red gem greedily devoured the power pouring in from The Dominion. The moment the light column flooded into him, the wounds Ethan had blasted open began to forcibly stitch shut. His Tier and energy fluctuations climbed again in a short, violent spike.

And at the same time—

A golden gemstone slowly surfaced at his forehead.

The instant it appeared, the surrounding space shook even harder.

The power it radiated wasn’t any weaker than the red gem in his chest.

The two gemstones’ energies fused rapidly inside him.

Red and gold light twisted together, converging—until, in front of him, they formed a violently spinning vortex of energy. The moment the vortex stabilized, it carried an aura that felt like it could tear the world apart, and it shot straight at Ethan.

Ethan’s face stayed cold.

The savage power on him kept flooding out, gathering between heaven and earth until it formed a gigantic phantom silhouette. The shadow didn’t waste motion. It simply followed Ethan’s raised hand and smashed forward.

Their forces collided again.

BOOM—!

This time, the eruption shattered the surrounding space completely.

It was like the sky had been punched through. Cracks spread outward in all directions, and violent currents poured backward from the ruptured void, dumping into the battlefield below.

Both armies locked in combat were blown back, forced to retreat. Even The Dominion’s outer defenses flashed violently from the spillover.

But this time, Ethan moved faster than before.

At the very center of the collision, he didn’t get driven back by the blast. He used the chaotic turbulence—rode it—slipping straight through the middle and appearing right in front of the Titan Sovereign.

In the next instant, he punched.

Straight into the Titan Sovereign’s chest.

His target was the blood-red gemstone.

This punch carried the strongest power Ethan had ever called. The moment it connected, white lightning and transparent thunder detonated together.

The red light on the gem’s surface flared—

then a harsh, grating crack split the air.

Crack.

Spiderweb fissures raced across the blood-red gemstone.

The Titan Sovereign’s pupils shrank hard.

For the first time, real terror broke through.

He’d dominated this world for so long he’d never once imagined an Emerald Castle lord could drive him to this point.

Worse—

he could clearly feel his power slipping away. It wasn’t just injuries. Even the energy flow between the two gems inside him was turning chaotic, disordering, fraying at the edges.

He sucked in a ragged breath.

Then, with zero hesitation, he forced all his remaining strength into one burst, spun around, and shot off in the opposite direction.

There was no way Ethan was letting him go.

He took a single step—and his energy detonated again.

Transparent and white lightning stretched and coiled between heaven and earth, rapidly condensing into a gigantic dragon-shaped phantom.

The dragon thrust its head out of the high sky. Its eyes lit with white thunderlight, and then—carrying pressure that felt like pure destruction—it smashed down toward the fleeing Titan Sovereign.

The energy pouring out of that phantom was violently unstable.

This wasn’t just pursuit.

It was more like an entire sky of thunder collapsing.

Boom!

RUMBLE—RUMBLE—RUMBLE—!

The dragon phantom hit dead-center on the Titan Sovereign’s back.

The Titan Sovereign was driven forward so hard his body pitched. He lost control completely and slammed straight into The Dominion’s outer armor.

The massive warship jolted. Even the energy patterns along the edge of the deck flickered into chaos from the impact.

On the deck, the old man’s expression changed instantly.

He rushed forward, trying to haul the Titan Sovereign up, and at the same time he shouted an order to activate The Dominion’s ultimate defensive barrier.

The next moment, a layer of golden shielding rose from the ship’s exterior—thicker, brighter, heavier than before—wrapping the entire Dominion inside it.

Even so, it couldn’t stop Ethan’s pressure.

Power kept exploding off Ethan’s body. One energy удар after another slammed into the shield.

Each impact drove the golden barrier inward. Cracks spread denser across its surface. Inside The Dominion, the energy systems frantically repaired the damage, but the repair rate couldn’t keep up with the pace of Ethan’s destruction.

Before long, the ultimate barrier was laced with countless fractures.

Ethan gathered all of his energy in that instant, pulling it into a single, brutal point.

In the next second, he became a streak of lightning that seemed to pierce the sky itself, charging straight at the barrier. Transparent lightning and white thunder wrapped his body—and the moment he hit, every last bit of force concentrated into one spot.

BOOM!

The ultimate shield was smashed open, forced into a gaping breach.

And the instant the opening appeared, Ethan was already through it.

He landed solidly on The Dominion’s deck.

He lifted his head to look at the Titan Sovereign and the old man beside him. There wasn’t a trace of warmth in his eyes.

"You people..." His voice was viciously calm. "You’re evil to the core."

When he spoke, several different layers of voice overlapped each other, stacked into one sound—low, icy, carrying an indescribable, unnatural pressure.

"You actually dared to come into my world and burn, kill, and loot."

"Today, I’m going to show you what real power is."

The moment the Titan Sovereign and the old man heard that voice, both of their bodies stiffened instinctively.

That layered sound didn’t feel like a simple threat.

It felt like multiple completely different forces were speaking through Ethan at the same time.

The old man’s face went pale. He couldn’t help taking several steps back.

Even the Titan Sovereign—propping himself up with a damaged body—tightened his gaze, wariness flashing through his eyes.