The instant those words fell, Sword Master in the Snow's wrist shifted slightly.
The blue Divinity on the tip of his blade did not erupt. It merely pressed forward in silence by an inch.
Just that inch.
Crack—
A barely audible yet unmistakable sound of shattering rang throughout the entire Sea of Souls, coming from the center of the Heartguard Mirror.
Gregor's massive body suddenly trembled.
For the first time, his will beneath the helmet went blank.
It was not the pain of being attacked, but the shock of having his foundation ripped away.
With the Heartguard Mirror at its center, a fine black line appeared without warning, then rapidly spread across the surface of the entire Soulforged Armor.
Wherever the black line passed, the twisted, wailing soul reliefs on the armor's surface instantly fell Stillness.
The ghostly blue soul flames in their eyes went out one after another, as if blown by the wind.
"Impossible!"
Gregor let out a roar of rage and alarm.
He could feel the billion souls that made up this armor losing contact with him.
They were not being destroyed, but cut off in an even more thorough manner.
Sword Master in the Snow's Unbroken Windwalk was, in essence, a severing of the concept of "obstruction."
Gregor's soul armor, meanwhile, was a "Barrier Law" formed from layer upon layer of connections between countless souls.
This strike did not destroy those souls. It merely severed, with pinpoint precision, the "connections" between them and between them and Gregor.
Without those connections, the Barrier Law no longer existed.
This indestructible armor had already been dismantled on a conceptual level into a pile of loose sand.
"My soul armor..."
Gregor lowered his head and looked at the armor on his body as it rapidly lost its luster and filled