For End Counter-Argument World

"What did you do?"

"What did you do!???"

From behind the "Great Shrine Maiden," layer upon layer of voices rang out.

Those voices were filled with disbelief, shock, terror... and... intense unease.

But--

The girl seated atop the jagged World Throne merely propped her chin up with one hand, looking unconcernedly at the Calamity Star before her, as though it were about to go mad.

The balance of offense and defense had shifted.

Su Youzi tilted her head slightly, twirling a strand of hair between her fingers.

Actually... it was something obvious, wasn't it?

Although endless "Eclipse" lingered beside the Sea of the World, to the point that even the World's Foundation Will had been completely devoured,

that kind of lingering and interception clearly could not sever the connection between the Origin Witch, who existed as the "origin" of all abilities, and this world.

The Ability Users naturally would not lose their abilities for that reason.

Then--

There was only one other possibility that could cause all the Ability Users to gradually lose their abilities.

Something had severed the connection between this "world" and the Origin Witch.

Or perhaps... something had severed the connection between the Origin Witch and this "world."

Or even... replaced her--

The girl smiled brilliantly. The power gradually revealed by this ascender, who should have merely been infinitely close to the Eighth Sequence, was slowly... slowly approaching the Eighth Sequence, and even... surpassing it.

"How could she!!!" Deceptive Calamity Star finally realized what Su Youzi had done.

She had done what it wanted to do.

Just as the girl herself had said.

"She became the ruler of this world."

"She became the master of this world."

The Calamity Star that deceived the world and stole fame had hoped to devour reality through illusion and infect the