Defense Breakthrough

The world seemed to have been turned upside down overnight after her return.

Su Youzi urgently needed to know why and uncover the truth.

Especially after Yarai Kenha brought the less-than-ideal news that "Nidhogg had returned from the abyss, fully laden with corpses."

Su Youzi's need for the truth became even more urgent.

Not for any other reason—

Simply for the sake of this world teetering on the brink of destruction.

No... more precisely, for the sake of this world where humanity's hopes were teetering on the brink of destruction.

After all, even if another rainstorm lasting three million years came down,

and another thousand years of "corpses" returned from the abyss, what impact would that have on the planet itself?

It would merely be another mass extinction.

She had already witnessed far too many extinctions like that.

But... ever since Su Youzi returned from the world of The Forgotten One, the "Origin Witch," or rather, the "will of World's Foundation," had fallen unconscious as well, sinking into a dream that might last for eternity.

As the only person in the world who might understand the truth behind all this,

Su Youzi had no choice but to do everything she could to awaken her—or perhaps... enter that dream meant to last for eternity herself.

But—

Entering the other party's dream presented a fundamental problem.

As the world's only true Eighth Sequence ascender,

entering her dream was exceedingly difficult.

Even the "Origin Witch's" instinctive defenses alone were not something Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi, who had only reached the Sixth Sequence after being amplified by the Evil Relic by 1700%, could break through.

The master of dreams—

Still found herself helpless before the "Origin Witch's" defense, which was likewise called "eternity."

"Is it impossible?" Su Youzi looked at the girl before her, who