Half of Lith's upper body was bitten off, but he stayed standing and channeled his spiritual power to fight against the wraiths.
Arya was in a bad condition too with poison spreading in all parts of her body. She was holding on due to her immense spiritual power and shielding her husband with it as well.
Things were getting really heated and Arya ripped apart her blindfold.
She cultivated the Space and Time path. There shouldn't be any coordinates in the cosmos where these two elements did not exist.
If Time was not in the surroundings, how was everything moving and not still?
If Space was not there, how could they move in three dimensions?
How was she not able to use the elements when she could clearly move around?
Where was she lacking?
What was missing?
Arya's mind worked in full throttle as she tried to find the missing pieces while blowing off her spiritual power onto the wraiths.
Soon...
Her bright blue eyes flickered and lit up.
She had an epiphany.
"Space can cease to exist."
"Time can cease to exist."
"Even the universe is not forever."
"However..."
Lith heard some murmurs behind him. Arya was probably saying something but he was too busy and couldn't properly listen and understand her.
The wraith bit off his leg and ripped it apart. Blood gushed out of his body like a fountain and turned him paler with each second.
If Lith did not have a high tolerance to pain, he would've been crying like a beaten up dog right now.
Lith's will was strong. And the will to protect his wife... stronger.
'Even if I don't make it out of this place... I will make sure my wife survives. It doesn't matter what happens to me... I will protect Arya.'
Sending a condensed ball of spiritual power to the wraith and pushing him back, Lith thought to himself,
'The Return spell is activated through my eyes. All I have to do is gauge my eyes out after activating the spell and throw it at Arya. She should be able to return home with that.'
Adrenaline was pumping in the veins of the husband-wife pair. Despite that, among them, one was thinking in the right direction.
"...I now understand."
'So this is what the Heavenly Secret meant.'
"The void is eternal."
'The universe will fade. The heaven's will collapse. But the void... the void is forever.'
Arya's eyes shined with a brighter glint and her hair went against gravity, fluttering wildly as she comprehended something none in the universe except her knew of.
"You aren't a phantom, why would you try to fight that!" Fei complained and began casting an odd type of healing spell on him.
"Arya... Fei... where's Arya..." Lith's voice was hoarse and he looked like a dying old man as he asked that.
"She's safe. You should be more concerned about yourself!" Fei exclaimed and slapped Lith's back.
"Cough! Cough! Cough!"
Lith coughed violently due to that and spat out a black ball of sizzling mass.
The ball of mass burned the ground, sizzled, and vanished.
Lith's complexion started getting better after that.
"Master..." A new voice called him out. It was a boy's.
Hyunsuk walked towards Lith and kneeled down. His emotionless face finally had changes, and he seemed visibly concerned and sad.
"I'm sorry, Master. I couldn't protect you..."
Lith smiled and shook his head, touched by his disciple's words.
Today, he realized he hadn't selected them wrongly and it was indeed fate that brought them together.
Lith gently patted Hyunsuk's face and said, "Silly, it's not your job to protect Master."
Hyunsuk knitted his brows and wrapped his arm around Lith's shoulders, hugging him.
"Disciple is incompetent. Disciple is really sorry."
Lith felt something warm and liquidy on his shoulder.
He sighed and patted the boy's back.
"It's not your fault, silly disciple. Stop crying."
Fei looked at Hyunsuk and Lith with knitted brows.
'I did all the work and he barges in to hug Master? I didn't even get to hug him...'
While Fei expressed her grievances and healed Lith, away from them, in the far North East direction...
A portal opened near a cliff and out of it appeared a tall and handsome vampire, him being none other than Roy.
Roy had a really bad look on his face as if he had eaten something bitter.
"How dare those guys do—"
Roy stopped himself from speaking as he saw something charging towards him from the distance.
"Huh?" He squinted his eyes to see properly.
A pointed spear equipped with the most terrifying destruction spell was coming at him.
"SHIT." Roy cursed and immediately tried to deploy his defensive artifact, but realized he had given it to the white suit man as a tip.
"What fucking bad luck is this—!?"
—BOOOOOOM!