Deep within the void passage, streams of colorful light flashed past like a heavy storm, rushing backward at incredible speed.
Aiden stood with his hands behind his back. Faint nine-colored lightning flickered around him, destroying every Void Storm that came near—storms powerful enough to tear a Venerable apart.
Bella turned her head and looked at him. On her cold, breathtakingly beautiful face, a rare look of memory and complicated emotion appeared.
"Aiden, do you know?"
"A thousand years ago, when the Great Destruction had just ended, I was already a Greater God."
Bella's voice was soft, but it seemed to carry the weight and sorrow of a thousand years.
Aiden turned to meet her gaze. He said nothing and only listened quietly.
"In that war, countless gods fell. Heaven and earth mourned together. Even the laws of the world were shattered."
"At the most desperate moment, I saw that man appear with my own eyes… and I also saw him leave."
"Yves."
