Library—Processing Room Underground Area
The starlight was no longer quite as dazzling.
Even though Popper was a heaven-blessed prodigy, born with perfect affinity for the "Void" unique to the S-01 world, and even though he had completed his final Mythic Enlightenment within the Celaino Grand Library and achieved kingship at the critical moment—
Still,
His newly formed Kingdom Territory was not yet stable.
Throughout history, any individual who became a king had needed to spend a great deal of time stabilizing their own king domain through various means.
Such as entering seclusion for decades, nurtured by all kinds of rare and precious materials,
Or fighting thousands, even tens of thousands, of evenly matched battles to temper the king domain through real combat.
Yet Popper had chosen to fight an avatar of a Supreme One—an avatar at the mid-level, no less—in a battle where he could be killed at any moment.
One careless mistake, and his newly formed king domain would be completely burned away.
It was far too much of a stretch.
For the moment, Popper retreated into The Void Depths, doing everything he could to contain the spread of his injuries.
His entire right arm had carbonized. Even Starlight Particles could no longer flow normally through it... The only thing he could do was remove as much residual black flame from the arm as possible, preventing the fire from entering his torso.
This Soul-level Burning remained even after Popper had reconstructed his body through the "Singularity."
"I have to hold on."
Popper could have chosen to remain hidden within The Void Depths, but he could not do that.
Otherwise, once the Black Sky Demon was no longer restrained, he would immediately withdraw from the area and follow his perception of his teammates... If Han Dong and Eugenis were surrounded,