The gray-white stone doorway looked like a vast wound in the sky of Nirvana Paradise.
What poured from it was neither an army nor energy, but a higher-dimensional "rule."
Beneath the murky yellow sky, the sickly gray-green sun dimmed rapidly, as though an invisible gray veil had covered it.
On the ground, the huge, brilliantly colored fungi stopped growing. The deadly liquid flowing across their caps slowed to a standstill.
The cloyingly sweet scent of rotting flowers in the air faded too.
The World Law of Nirvana Paradise was being forcibly rewritten.
The Twin Gods hovered in midair, all composure gone from their faces.
They could feel a brutal force disrupting their connection to the Divine Kingdom—even severing it.
"Stop it!"
The boy shrieked. He and the girl reached out together, drawing on the power of the entire Divine Kingdom to drive the ominous doorway away.
A surging tide of Plague Law and Law of Withering swept toward the gray-white doorway in the sky.
Yet within a hundred meters of it, the tide silently broke apart into elementary particles of energy, which the murky yellow world beyond the doorway swallowed.
Judgment stood above decay.
Termination surpassed Withering.
This was Absolute Suppression at the level of law.
Clank, clank—
The dull scrape of dragging metal came from within the doorway. Sin Locks that spanned heaven and earth emerged from the other side.
Their target was neither the army of dead below nor the Twin Gods. It was the Divine Kingdom itself.
One Sin Lock snapped taut, its hooked tip piercing the ground of Nirvana Paradise with perfect precision.
The earth shook violently. The lock forcibly drew the Law of Withering from the flesh-and-fungus carpet it had pierced. Color drained from the carpet before their eyes, leaving it lifeless and gray-white.
Then