Against The Eternity Chapter 55: [54] Chapter - 30: Silent After His Stand

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[54] Chapter - 30: Silent After His Stand The battlefield had grown silent in a way that did not feel natural, as though the air itself held its breath in anticipation, and in that silence Anshvi moved with a swiftness that broke the definition of motion. She did not step—she simply vanished. The next heartbeat landed with violence so sudden and absolute. SLAP! Pranav’s head snapped aside under a palm so sharp it might as well have been divine decree instead of flesh. The sound was like a thunderclap trapped inside bone. Pranav’s body flung through the air like a weapon, his limbs limp as though consciousness had been struck from him before his mind could register the pain. He collided with the mountain with bone-shatter intensity, stone cracking open in fractures like veins of lightning frozen in earth, and his figure embedded itself deep within rock. Dust and broken stone cascaded downward like a landslide mourning its own destruction, but the man did not rise, only stillness announcing his death. Anshvi’s eyes did not harden with cruelty nor soften with pity, instead she spoke, her voice unshaken, composed and almost casual as she looked toward the crater where Pranav lay broken, “"Let us clear the field first. You stay here." There was no hesitation in her tone, no tremor of uncertainty, nothing that betrayed effort in the slaughter she had performed in a single breath. Eklavya nodded and answered simply, “Alright,” though inside his chest a tremor rippled, not of fear but of realization that this girl—who smiled playfully to him—held power that bent the world without strain. She closed her eyes, lashes lowering like curtains over a storm. A deep and rich ocean-green glow began to pulse from within her ki core, and with her next inhalation the air stilled, as if awaiting instruction. Then she exhaled slowly. BOOM! BOOM! A dark greenish-blue wave burst outward, expanding in concentric rings like ripples over a boundless sea, yet so dense with ki that the sky itself seemed to bend to its movement. The boom that followed was not heard—it was felt, a vibration traveling from bone to soul. She disappeared again, but to say vanished felt insufficient, because it was not speed alone, space simply failed to grasp her existence. Eklavya, whose senses had surpassed mortal limits due to his Supreme Body, concentrated every shred of perception he possessed. His eyes caught faint threads of her movement, elegant and silent like a celestial feather drifting between worlds, each step or shift made within intervals too narrow for most beings to notice. Yet even he could track the divine speed she embodied, and it became clear to him, why others saw nothing at all. High above the battlefield, where torn clouds swirled like wounded serpents, Laksh and Ishant hovered mid-sky, bodies gashed and robes shredded by relentless combat. Their blood dried in streaks across skin and cloth, and their breaths left faint mist despite the heat of exertion. They paused only for a moment, sensing the ki surge below. Laksh’s brows knitted slightly, his sword hand tightening, and he asked, “You have one more Spirit warrior?” His voice carried suspicion edged with exhaustion. Ishant laughed, not with amusement but the unstable mirth of someone whose body bled more than it held, and he answered, “Hahaha! You can say so.” Laksh frowned in confusion, for the response did not declare ownership nor denial. Ishant’s ambiguity lingered like a riddle within the sky. Laksh eventually dismissed the uncertainty with a brief shake of his head and muttered that she was only a one-star Spirit Warrior, dismissing her potential. Without further hesitation, both resumed their brutal dance, blades and fists clashing like thunder rolling across the sky spine. Far below in the shadowed corridor of air where the wind tasted like iron, Elder Sahas, a half-step Spirit Warrior, fought desperately against Akran, whose presence held the weight of a two-star Spirit Warrior. Their battl