No Way Out (Part 1)

At this moment, the scene on Volcano Island's Material Layer was terrifying to behold, while in the corresponding Abyss Zone, the possibility of most people watching from the sidelines had been ruled out from the very start.

The Abyss Zone had now completely transformed into a destructive storm field. Every collision between extraordinary-level forces, every eruption in the movement of power, stirred the majestic force of the Abyss Turbulence.

Impact and recoil, control and loss of control—under the ultrahigh-frequency clashes on the Mental Layer and the pressure of a powerful opponent, even Extraordinary Species could not attend to every detail. The chaos continued to worsen, and the accumulated violent power swept from top to bottom across every level reachable by human thought.

A veteran B-rank powerhouse like Woolf had not yet recovered from the impact of the Electric Light Spear when the fragile barrier in the surrounding void, thin as paper, left him barely daring to breathe. He feared that one careless move would shatter the barrier, unleash the Abyss Zone's torrent, and wipe out the Security Team.

If even Woolf was like this, the pressure on those participating in the battle was even more astonishing. In the high-level offense and defense of the Abyss Zone, they had to draw out a relatively clear thread amid the deepening chaos and use powerful control to keep the course of battle from veering too far off track.

The problem was that Ms. Dahle and the others had made the wrong judgment from the start. The Electric Light Spear thrown down upon them had seemed like an explosive burst of destructive power, and at first, it had indeed been so. But only after taking it head-on did they uncover the exquisite structure and operational pattern hidden deep within the Abyss Zone.

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