The Tables Turn

The entire Silberburg, and even the space that formed the whole Wandenreich, began to tremble violently.

This sudden change made Haschwalth's expression shift.

Then, apart from the God-Favored Guard, who forcibly suppressed their curiosity and doubts as they continued guarding outside the bedchamber, Haschwalth hurried to the edge of the Palace of Ice and looked outside.

Seeing this, Ishida Uryū followed closely behind. The moment he looked in Haschwalth's direction, his pupils contracted sharply.

Or rather, at that moment, countless Sternritter members who hurriedly looked toward the source of the tremors were all seized by immense shock.

At the boundary above the Wandenreich, spiderweb-like cracks had appeared, covering nearly half the sky.

It looked... as though some colossal object had struck the Wandenreich.

But this was the world of shadows!

Just as everyone stood frozen in disbelief, a giant tree that reached from heaven to earth burst forth from the center of those spiderweb cracks on the verge of shattering.

It smashed through the edge of space, stretched across the sky, and plunged straight into Silberburg. It was like the Sword of Damocles hanging in the heavens had fallen into the mortal world, and like a Jianmu Tree connecting heaven and earth.

"What is that? A tree?"

"Wait, look in the direction of the cracks. Someone has appeared."

"Damn it!! Soul Reapers!!"

At that moment, through the passage in the sky pierced open by the giant tree, what appeared to lie beyond was an endless expanse of blooming flowers and green grass.

Yet as figures clad in Captain's Haori and Shinigami uniforms emerged one after another, accompanied by the powerful spiritual pressure of countless Soul Reapers erupting without restraint, innumerable Quincy changed expression!

Why?

Why had the Soul Reapers appeared here, and in such a manner?!

For the Quincy, the