The enormous maw formed from Chaos energy snapped shut.
It swallowed nothing.
The Chaos energy swirling inside the maw lost its target. It instantly spun out of control and collapsed inward.
There was no explosion, no deafening roar.
That patch of space vanished as silently as a pencil mark rubbed out by an eraser, leaving behind a twisting black void that would not close.
The Water God and the others stared at the void, a chill shooting from the soles of their feet to the tops of their heads.
If that thing had bitten them, not even a scrap of their souls would have remained.
But Qin Chuan had already appeared at the other end of the battlefield, inside his Shadow Annihilation Array.
With him at its center, the vast Shadow Domain covered nearly a thousand meters.
Countless arcane runes flowed along the domain's edge, and the air was thick with the aura of slaughter and finality.
Every black tentacle trapped inside the array slowed. The pure Chaos energy coating them smoked as though doused with acid, while the array forcibly suppressed their ability to recover and absorb energy.
Thanks to Extreme Cooling, every skill in Qin Chuan's skill bar was ready.
He did not pause. His figure became an untrackable blur within the array.
"Shadow Strike."
Qin Chuan appeared behind a tentacle, sweeping [Day and Night] through a perfect arc.
The blade, empowered by Order Tear, sliced easily through the Chaos energy protecting it and left a wound deep enough to expose the bone beneath.
At the wound's edges, the black-and-white power of law clung like a parasite, relentlessly eroding the tentacle's very foundation and thwarting every attempt to regenerate.
The tentacle gave a soundless shriek and thrashed wildly, but it could not stop the wound from breaking it