"----"
At that moment, the entire world seemed to fall silent.
When profound darkness replaced the glaciers, replaced the blazing flames, replaced everything that had existed until now, and appeared at the center of this world, true infinity unfolded.
It was a vast, boundless expanse of cosmic space.
It was an infinitely distant boundary.
A massive black hole floated within it. Rather than displaying the terrifying power to devour all things, it merely rotated silently through the cosmic void, bringing everything into stillness.
That naturally included Shalti, the Valkyrie who had swung down icy splendor, unleashed a waterfall of ice, and, driven by her extraordinary senses, sought only to defeat Riezel.
"----! ----!"
The ice Valkyrie hung motionless in that cosmic space, like a star drifting forever, her entire body frozen in place.
Her expressionless face was blank.
Her crimson eyes were blank as well.
Endless streams of complex information flooded into her mind at an astonishing speed, overloading her brain and leaving it with no spare capacity to control her body.
That was why she was frozen.
That was why she was blank.
Even though she no longer possessed normal thought at that moment and relied entirely on instinct-surpassing senses to control her body, her brain was busy processing the countless pieces of information pouring into it. With no energy left to control her body, no matter how extraordinary her senses were, she could not make it perform a single movement.
This was a domain that could even strip away the subconscious.
It was not a dead end, yet it was worse than one.
Unfortunately, Shalti in her current state could not feel it.
"Though with my current abilities, I have plenty of ways to defeat you in this state without even deploying a domain, defeating you this way