"Crack, crack"!
The water-element "ice layer" shattered under the propulsion of incomparably powerful force, letting out a piercing sound like exploding glass. The entire landmass of Ink-Blue Moon was torn apart by Plate Shift, creating hundreds upon thousands of deep canyons. Cyclones that reached from heaven to earth were churned by violent battle aura into azure tornadoes that swallowed ice and snow, while Gaal's ink-blue atmosphere, dormant for millions of years, released dragon-like flashes of lightning beneath the impact of the energy torrent.
This was a massively destructive disaster, yet its instigator was merely a powerful warrior standing within a deep pit.
There was no doubt that Kane's full strength could forcibly cause Plate Shift across a planet slightly larger than the sun all by himself. Yet his sole purpose in doing so was simply to smash a crustal ice crystal only a few square meters in size.
That was the last water-element crystal blocking Gaal's core. After a thousand years of tireless excavation, the excited Mad Knight was finally about to attain his own success. As long as he shattered this super armor, whose hardness rivaled a Bright Moon level alchemical barrier, Instant Kill Spear would inevitably see the thing he had come to Gaal's core to find.
All he needed now was a final little bit of time and strength...
"Just a little more... yes, just a little more... now, you damned barrier, it's time for you to break before me!"
Morningstar combat technique—Thorn of Heaven!
Rumble!
After unleashing his Morningstar killer move an unknown number of times and mobilizing every shred of battle aura within his soul an unknown number of times, the Morningstar Knight stared at the cracked ground before him and repeatedly thrust his lance down at the earth beneath his feet. The instant he