Beneath the Deep Sea, no light reached anything. Only a vast heart formed from pure malice beat in the darkness, giving off a foul glow.
Its murky single eye fixed on the rapidly falling Night Cherry Tangle.
The next instant, all the water in the Dragon Bone Sea Trench boiled.
Endless Rot Law took the form of black tentacles that swept out from every side of the Nest. Each carried a withering aura capable of draining Divinity. Together, they wove an inescapable net and closed around Night Cherry Tangle.
This sea trench was its Divine Kingdom.
Here, its law was the only law.
Night Cherry Tangle did not slow his descent. He did not even look at the black tentacles that could devour everything. He merely spoke four words.
"Myriad Law Cage."
Hum—
An invisible sphere made of countless gray runes instantly expanded around Night Cherry Tangle.
The instant the ferocious black tentacles touched its boundary, they went limp, like rotten flesh stripped of its bones.
The Rot Law that formed them had been forcibly suppressed by eighty percent.
An assault that could have destroyed heaven and earth now hung feebly like loose ribbons.
The single eye on the black heart narrowed sharply.
It felt its connection to this domain severed by an order of a higher rank.
Its own power no longer obeyed it before this intruder.
Night Cherry Tangle passed through layer after layer of weakened tentacles and arrived directly above the Nest.
He raised Sin and Punishment: End Judgment.
No light ran along the sword. Instead, its dim blade seemed to absorb all the light and darkness around it, becoming the very concept of "Termination."
"End Judgment."
The cold pronouncement rang through the black seawater.
His movement was simple and direct, without a single flourish.
A gray