The starry mist enveloping the Rule Authority Holder, the three fiercely clashing halos of Authority within it, and the portion of the Myriad Hearts Stone's rule projections that had been drawn in and churned up all erupted like a powder keg whose fuse had been lit—a violent explosion of rules bursting inward and outward at once!
Overwhelmingly powerful, chaotic torrents of rules, stripped of every restraint, surged like a flood breaching its banks, like ravenous beasts, frantically devouring, assimilating, and tearing apart everything around them.
The hundreds of rune-carved pillars closest to the blast bore the brunt of it. The runes on their surfaces flickered violently, emitting an overburdened hum, as though they might shatter at any moment.
Farther away, the Authority Holders waiting in line paled. They instinctively retreated or raised their own rule barriers against the oncoming wave of chaos. A vast, chaotic breach was instantly torn through the stable rule field covering the entire outer hall plaza.
At the very center, however, the Rule Authority Holder who had touched the Myriad Hearts Stone directly and triggered all of this suffered the most horrific fate.
Their body, formed of flowing crystalline sand and barely maintaining a humanoid shape, was now like a sand sculpture caught in a gale, visibly crumbling and scattering.
The halos of rules representing the Authorities of wind, earth, and water no longer intertwined. Instead, like three venomous snakes gone berserk, they shot wildly out of the holder's body, tearing at one another and trying to escape, utterly destroying the holder's original form.
The holder's aura withered and dissipated at a terrifying speed, weakening by more than seventy percent in the blink of an eye!
Most horrifying of all, the holder could not release even a sliver of spare divine sense or a single agonized