Chapter 2158 Fun. Fun. Fun.

The world fell into silence. It wasn't the normal kind of emptiness of sound, the kind still filled with the gentle sweeps of wind and the rustling of trees. This was a true silence, like a vacuum formed in the depths of space, lacking a medium for such a thing to travel in the first place.

Ryu stood high in the skies, exhaling a slow breath. Through his lips were sealed and his expression was calm, the rapid rise and fall of his chest showed that he wasn't nearly as calm and nonchalant as he had made it seem.

And yet, it hardly seemed to matter when a woman dangled from his palm by her hair.

Young Mistress Nightly hung limply, her robes tattered and torn, her wings drooping downward without nearly the same sharpness and rigidity they had just had moments ago.

Blood covered her delicate features, her consciousness having faded to black. Her life itself hung on by nothing more than the faintest of strings, but there was a peculiar smile on her face.

Ryu recognized that smile. It was the sort of smile he had had when he spoke to the Phoenix Sky God for the first time, the smile h