The bottomless black vortex did not last long.
It suddenly contracted, then exploded!
There was no sound.
There was no light.
A wave of Devouring Law, pure beyond measure, swept outward in all directions like an invisible ripple!
Everything the ripple touched—the purple Sin Karma Crystals, the shattered earth—instantly lost its very "concept." It was forcibly erased, reduced to its most fundamental energy, then drawn back into Glato's grotesquely oversized body.
Lilith and Kalash, fleeing desperately in opposite directions, were caught by the ripple at once!
"No—!"
Shadow Mother Lilith let out a piercing scream. Her form, scattered into shadows across the sky, began dissolving in great swaths at the edges under the ripple's assault, like thin ice beneath a blazing sun!
She was losing more than energy. Her Divine Origin was draining away!
She did not hesitate. What remained of her reason made the only decisive choice.
Pop!
The heart of that vast shadow suddenly darkened, then burst apart. She willingly cast off more than seventy percent of her Shadow Source as a sacrifice to hold back the ripple.
Using the force of the blast, she turned into a barely visible black thread. At the cost of burning her divine soul, she tore through space and escaped into the endless void in utter disarray.
Bone Lord Kalash fared no better.
Its massive skeletal body shattered inch by inch in the ripple. Bones that had seemed indestructible became more brittle than rotten wood.
At that desperate moment, it roared in defiance, and the entire bone tower coated in Sin Karma Crystals collapsed!
Billions of bones surged against the ripple like moths into a flame, buying its core a thousandth of a second to escape.
The blue-violet soul fire in Kalash's eye sockets shot out of its shattered skull like a