At this moment, a gray ball of light slowly rose from behind Max. It contained a strange energy, one that did not seem to come from this world.

In the next moment, the grayish-black ball of light, which was originally the size of a dragon’s eye, suddenly spread and expanded throughout the world.

In less than half a second, it had covered an area of 10 kilometers. A mere instant later, the color of the world drained away, and before long, it had taken on a grayish-black hue.

Time itself seemed to have stopped, and everything else had become stock still.

Catherine and Max had formed the center of this new space.

‘Damn it!’

‘I failed!’

Catherine cursed aloud within her heart.

The longer she observed the grayish-black space that stretched in all directions, the more Catherine sunk into despair.

Catherine was fully aware of Max’s terrifying talent. Despite all the effort that she had put in to ascend into an Ancient Dragon, she was certain that it would not come close to Max’s potential.

She was aware of the fate that awaited her, and accompany her despair was a seething sense of injustice. Max was supposed to be a mere Dragon Hatchling that she could easily snuff out, and yet, she would soon become prey to him. Reality was truly a cruel mistress.

Meanwhile… Although Max’s injuries had been temporarily suspended due to origin space he was in, he was lying on the ground as if he had melted into a puddle of mud.

Countless magical wisps of light rose from underneath the origin space and surrounded Max and Catherine like little helper sprites.

Those wisps of light that appeared beside Max and Catherine were none other than their achievements in their past, present, and future.

At this moment, the wisps of lights were congregating the heavily injured Max very slowly.

Meanwhile, on Catherine’s side, as she did not receive any injuries, the light wisps swarmed her like floodwaters. Soon after, she was surrounded by hundreds upon hundreds of the light wisps.

Under the illumination of the countless wisps of light around her, Catherine’s beautiful gemstone-like scales had taken on a scintillating luster, and their majestic aura had been further amplified.

Upon realizing that only a dozen or so weak wisps of light had appeared on Max’s side, Catherine’s gaze gradually focused.

The despair that she had felt only moments ago gradually faded away as she thought to herself…

‘He’s clearly a talented individual, how can he only possess such little wisps of light?’

‘Could he have faced an unsolvable crisis down the line and gotten himself killed?’

With this thought in mind, Catherine’s eyes suddenly lit up.

If her guess was on point, then not only would she be able to leave the Battle of Existence alive, better yet, she would be able to devour Max’s insanely powerful talent and use it for herself.

Catherine licked her lips upon this thought.

This temptation was too great for Catherine, who possessed only mediocre talent.

With Max’s talent at her side, Catherine was certain that she would finally breakthrough and enter the Upper Ancient Dragon rank!

There were very few Upper Ancient Dragons among the Silver Dragons’ ranks. There were only a handful of Upper Ancient Silver Dragons, not to mention the Immemorial Dragons whose existences were as rare as a phoenix’s plume!

However, at this moment, an incomparably powerful pressure surfaced from the ground.

It was a suffocating pressure, one that had left Catherine gasping for air!

How heavy was this pressure, you might ask? Well, as an Ancient Dragon capable of unleashing 20 times the normal gravity, the pressure that she was under was akin to 200, nay, 2000 times the normal gravity!

Had she not possessed the constitution of an Ancient Dragon, she would likely have crumpled onto the ground just as Max did when she unleashed her 20x Gravity Layers.

Despite this, Catherine could feel her body beginning to ache. Countless organs were being crushed, and before long, a trail of blood was streaming down from the corner of her mouth as well.

The intense pain caused Catherine to suddenly bowl over. Her powerful aura from moments ago was nowhere to be found, and instead, she seemed to be exuding an aura of intense fear.

‘What’s going on!?’

Catherine subconsciously glanced in Max’s direction, but there was nothing abnormal about him.

Max was still lying on the ground, defeated, and incapacitated. Nevertheless, the wisps of light around him were still emerging one after another.

There were no more than 50 wisps around Max!

On the other hand, there were already hundreds and thousands of light balls appearing on Catherine’s side!

At this moment, the grayish-black space suddenly dimmed.

The top of the origin space was torn apart by a terrifying force. A terrifying spatial turbulence was surged within the origin space.

Outside the torn space was an endless starry sky. The eternal night and the endless stars shone above the heads of the two giant dragons. It was a breathtaking scene.

A blinding radiance was contained within the starry space. It shone like a scarlet sun, and the energy it contained was so overwhelming that Catherine could not even look directly at it.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

Catherine’s heart beat violently.

‘That’s not a star!’

‘That’s something’s eye!’

Soon, a second blinding radiance had revealed itself, and both brilliant glares slowly came forward and looked at Catherine in the eyes.

Catherine could feel every cell in her body trembling.

It was a feeling of fear that had come straight from her soul. The other party’s incomparably terrifying strength had caused Catherine to lose all her will to fight.

The once unruly and lofty Ancient Dragon, Catherine, was now acting like a tamed puppy, who had prostrated herself entirely towards the powerful being before her!

Naturally, Catherine had no desire to act in this manner!

However, she also intuitively understood that unless she submitted in this manner, a fate worse than death would await her!

‘Damn it! What on earth is this monster before me!?’

‘Why would a godlike being disrupt this fight?’

The thing that frightened Catherine the most was that up until now, the owner of the two huge eyes had yet to reveal their body!

Catherine’s heart seemed to be tightly gripped by an invisible hand, and she felt as if it would be crushed at any time.