The Man’s Decree – Chapter 5753

He did not slow for a single breath, pushing his speed to its final limit.

Blink after blink, he tore fresh rifts, short Spatial Folds that feasted on his dwindling essence until the malignant presence chasing him finally dulled and the suffocating aura of oblivion fell away. Only then did he allow himself to falter, plummeting like a spent meteor into a vine-choked crevice that opened into a narrow, hidden cave.

Thud!

Jared hit the stone floor hard, coughed, and spat more clotted blood. His face bleached to the shade of ash, his breathing ragged and broken.

That frantic escape had drained more than half his celestial energy, and nearly all his will.