Dawn's body was locked in a tug-of-war with the laws of physics.
The speed he took such pride in had become a heavy, clinging burden.
Moving even an inch forward took a thousand times more strength than usual.
The air, the light, even space itself had become an invisible wall, pinning him in place.
The divinity of Flash Shadow roared wildly inside him, but he could not channel its power outward.
He felt like a race car welded to the ground, all that power beneath the hood and no way to move.
"Struggling is useless."
The Annihilation God's voice echoed in everyone's minds, calm and devoid of emotion.
"In my Divine Kingdom, the concept of 'movement' does not exist. Everything you rely on, whether the flow of magical energy or the brute force of your bodies, depends on movement. Here, all of it amounts to nothing."
His words were the harshest possible verdict for Tiga Lingyu and Song Ling.
The frozen wave suspended in midair and the devastating ice spear halted before his brow silently proved his claim.
Their strongest attacks had become trophies for his Divine Might, absurd decorations.
Tiga Lingyu gripped Frost Blade so tightly that her fingers turned white.
She could clearly feel that her Ice Law had not been dispelled or destroyed. It had simply been "switched off."
A command from a higher dimension had forcibly stopped it from functioning.
This was domination on a purely conceptual level.
Just as helplessness began to spread through the group, Mirror, who had remained silent, suddenly moved.
She did not attack or defend.
She merely raised her hand and pointed lightly at Song Ling's Ender Ice Spear, frozen a hundred meters away.
Silver ripples spread through space from her fingertip.
The next moment, an identical dark ice spear appeared