Having finished exploring Mars, which no longer held the Trigger statue or the Ring of the Wall, Sakura found it utterly worthless now.
However, Sakura did not leave. Instead, she sent her consciousness deep into the world within her body, a world that was transforming into a universe.
With the fusion of the two worlds, Hell's self-expansion successfully enveloped the uppermost world and devoured it.
The Cave Heaven and the lowest layer of space had become part of Hell.
The world was transforming into a universe. The simple fusion of two worlds could not achieve that, so she had used her own body as the world's spine, allowing the two worlds to gain the potential to become a universe.
After the two worlds fused, their potential did not simply add together. That was where Hell's expansion came from.
Hell was now dormant, in a state where it could not be used.
The transformation from a world into a universe required a long time.
The little one and the demons would not awaken anytime soon, though the Cave Heaven was unaffected.
Befa and the others had still been caught up in it. Their souls had fallen into deep slumber and needed time to awaken naturally. Though they could be forcibly awakened, there was no need to do so.
At this stage, the only ones still awake were Makima, who served as her second heart, and that child.
The space beneath the Cave Heaven still remained, and that child had absorbed the energy scattered during the world's fusion, greatly shortening the time she needed before being born.
It could be today, tomorrow, or perhaps a week from now.
Though she still could not give an exact time, this child would soon come into the world.
Her consciousness returned to her body, and