Chaos reigned here... chaos like that at the very birth of the world, with clear and turbid currents mingling and entwining.
This was the world beyond the rift.
Chaos, boundless and endless... and without a trace of life. This place seemed more like the world after death.
Countless emissaries lurked within the chaos—the creatures known as void origin demons... They were spying, or perhaps coveting, because a figure that should not exist had appeared here.
His arrival coincided with the Giant of Light's disappearance. He had replaced the Giant of Light, who had been locked in fierce combat with something.
A terrifying battle in this land of chaos came to an abrupt halt. What followed was a frenzied aura bursting from the being to whom that enormous hand belonged, laden with brutality, rage, and malice.
Only one enormous hand emerged from the chaos. The rest of its owner remained concealed within it, yet that hand alone kept the countless void origin demons in the chaos from acting recklessly.
These heartless creatures, driven only by instinct, also had something they feared.
"Just one hand."
He... Luo Qiu had indeed replaced the Giant of Light who should have been here—Nagisa. The substitution had taken effect the instant the girl recklessly lifted the Fox Mask.
Two identical protagonists should not exist on the same page at once. Worse still, he had come in person.
The Book of Gaia could not bear such a heavy burden.
"It seems even the Book of Gaia cannot describe you. Or rather..." Boss Luo studied the hand within the chaos, as though he wanted to—or already could—see through the chaos to its enormous owner. "It cannot bear you, either."
The enormous hand suddenly reached toward him.
The void origin demons in its path were instantly annihilated... This hand