The round cake's phantom vanished into thin air, killed in an instant without a shred of suspense.
Even its main body, wherever it might have been, was wiped out along with it... Or perhaps this phantom had been its main body, and its racial traits simply made it naturally seem more illusory.
"I acted a little too fast." You wiped away a cold sweat that did not exist.
Turning to look at the guard members still standing there stupidly behind you, you thought you should have spared that phantom's life so you could read its mind and interrogate it.
But that tense, thrilling contest balanced on the edge of life and death had not allowed you to think too much. You had been too immersed in the atmosphere at the time to waste time carefully adjusting the weakening multiplier. You had simply weakened it all the way to the bottom first.
Anyway, even if you could not obtain any intelligence this time, you could always ask during the next round.
You did not interrupt the future in which you had killed the round cake. Instead, you prepared to preserve the state of having killed it first, then observe the changes taking place in Nine-Nine Boundary Heaven.
To observe the changes across the entire universe, you naturally needed to enter its very center—the "Powerholder Space."
More than nine hundred Cosmic Powerholders remained here. They were responsible for regulating Nine-Nine Boundary Heaven from within this place. They had not gone with their other five thousand colleagues to watch you undergo your tribulation, so they had escaped the round cake's instant slaughter.
It was rather tragic when one thought about it. The only people the round cake had killed were the Cosmic Powerholders who had gone to watch the spectacle. You, the mastermind,