The pitch-black spear, forged from the combined strength of six people, caused no earth-shaking explosion.
It simply pierced the enormous face of light.
There was no sound, no flash.
In the void, that majestic, holy face froze.
The next instant, black cracks spread from the point of impact like a spiderweb.
Crack.
A faint sound rang out, like glass breaking.
The pure Holy Light that formed the face began to peel away in great sheets, like paint from a wall, dissolving into primal light elements in the void.
"Did we get it?" Water God asked instinctively.
Before he finished speaking, his expression changed.
As the shell of Holy Light peeled away, what seeped through the cracks was not emptiness, but a deeper, viscous darkness.
A living, writhing darkness filled with madness and twisted will.
A strange stench of rotting blood and spoiled honey appeared from nowhere, forcing its way into everyone's senses.
"Warning! Unknown source of contamination detected!"
For the first time, Season Star's voice carried an urgent alarm.
"Energy properties cannot be analyzed! It's eroding the mental link! It's distorting Space Law!"
"This thing... is disgusting." Evergreen frowned. The Book of Life and Death flipped open in his hands. Its pages representing life and death lit up together, then dimmed together.
This power belonged to neither life nor death.
It existed between them, a vile desecration of the cycle of life.
The face of light collapsed completely as it peeled apart.
In its place was an indescribable mass of Chaos flesh, formed from twisted shadows and shrieking souls.
Countless faces contorted in agony surfaced and sank across the mass, while malformed arms and tentacles shot out, clawing wildly at the void.
At its center, a huge, murky eye threaded with purple veins snapped open.
Its gaze swept across the