Buzz—
A volcanic region filled with thick smoke and the smell of sulfur.
A spatial fluctuation suddenly rippled through the air above the entrance to the main peak.
Then, a figure was violently spat out by a spatial vortex.
That figure was Cypher.
Before this.
In a silent transfer site.
Cypher stared fixedly at the Crystal Ball, watching as it gradually sank into the recess in the stone platform.
Once the Crystal Ball had completely sunk into the recess.
Streams of silvery-white light began converging from every direction.
As more and more bands of light gathered, they gradually formed a swirling vortex of light.
In the end, they poured into the Crystal Ball from above the recess.
Stimulated by the silver ribbons.
The Crystal Ball began to emit a fiery red glow.
More and more energy was fed into it.
The Crystal Ball's radiance grew increasingly dazzling.
Gradually, even the silvery-white light converging around it was dyed red.
At a certain moment.
The accumulated energy reached its peak.
Then, without warning.
All the light abruptly vanished.
Cypher narrowed his eyes slightly as he considered how to deal with this sudden change.
Just as he raised his foot, preparing to touch the glow on the ground.
Faint blue lights appeared before him.
The stone platform clearly had no seams, so where had these neatly cut gaps come from?
Then, under Cypher's mildly puzzled gaze.
A sight that left him faintly shocked appeared.
The orderly seams divided the entire stone platform into tiny cubes, each smaller than a palm.
Faint blue light continuously flashed as the surfaces of the cubes scraped and collided against one another.
Once every cube had been pried loose and affected.
The collisions between the cubes intensified.
Then they began devouring their neighboring cubes.
Two into one... four