After a brief exchange,
neither said anything more.
As the one who had dragged his opponent here,
Orsaga chose to strike first.
And it was a killing blow, with absolutely nothing held back!
In an instant,
the suffering that had accumulated in the surrounding region over countless years flowed at his will.
The dying screams of countless fallen beings began to reverberate fiercely.
They became an intangible wind, surging wildly!
Vague, distorted faces rippled within it.
At the same time,
within the blood-red flames blazing across the ground, the blooming death tribulation flowers began to sway in the wind, gathering boundless suffering onto Orsaga's fist and driving the flames and plagues within it to ever greater heights of ferocity.
Then,
at truly ultimate speed,
Orsaga threw a punch!
There were no flashy moves.
Only the most direct straight punch.
The fastest, steadiest, most vicious straight punch.
Even the concept of distance
was erased beneath this blow!
However,
compared with the distance being erased,
other, more important things were also being interfered with...
Time was a phenomenon, as well as a scale or measure.
Almost every action and event required the passage of time to develop and change.
Even Orsaga's actions required time to move forward or backward for changes to occur.
If he punched someone, yet that person's time underwent no movement or change,
then it would be difficult to say that they had died.
Moreover,
his own actions also required time as a fundamental prerequisite.
Preparation → action → result.
The behavioral patterns of any living being largely followed this rule.
As beings who transcended spacetime, Abyss Lords could often reverse time at will, revise time, turn effects into causes... and disregard all manner of restrictions, but ultimately, they still had not escaped that framework.
Orsaga, for instance,