Ethan watched the ashes drift apart, and the corner of his mouth slowly lifted into a strange curve.
This was a clean opening victory.
More importantly, he'd used it to confirm a weakness in the people here.
That discovery was worth far more than simply winning a single fight.
He didn't linger. The moment his mind settled, he immediately ordered the fleet to advance.
After a brief reorganization, Emerald Castle's army restarted. The massive formation pushed through that still-trembling region and continued deeper into Elysion.
It wasn't long before they arrived above a set of ruins.
That place was clearly not something nature had made.
Even now, collapsed and broken, the ground still held large stretches of intact foundational structure. Shattered stone pillars, snapped wall segments, and toppled platforms lay scattered everywhere—enough to tell that this had once been an astonishingly vast complex.
