Gungnir's shaft suddenly erupted with the radiance of billions upon billions of stars. The instant its tip pierced the location where the Ankhseram God stood, the entire sky cracked like fragile glass, spiderweb-like fractures spreading wildly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
This was the physical manifestation of the wound inflicted upon the world's dimensional barrier when the Divine Spear pierced through it and struck the Ankhseram God!
"Roar—!!!"
A roar that sounded both human and bestial instantly rang out in Allen's mind. Even with the protection of Chrono-Adamantium, Allen could still feel the roar battering his insides.
The roar simultaneously transformed into a sound wave, materializing as layers of dark-green energy rings that spread outward. The seawater around Tenrou Island suddenly surged backward into the sky against gravity, while tons of coral reefs turned to dust as they rose.
Allen suddenly tasted blood in his throat. Scorching marks left behind by the divine roar's tearing force lingered across his retinas, as if billions of red-hot steel needles had pierced his nerve endings.
The sky had shattered completely!
Behind the broken void, an indescribable inner world writhed. Tens of thousands of translucent, umbilical-cord-like energy tubes hung down into the mortal world, boiling stardust flowing through each one. Allen suddenly realized that those "umbilical cords" were the physical manifestation of causality, and that some existence was violently tearing them apart. When his gaze climbed upward along the mass of cords, a pair of spiral pupils suddenly opened in the depths of the chaos.
The next second, those pupils transformed into a black-robed humanoid creature that appeared before Allen. Its face seemed to be constantly changing, making its features impossible to discern. It held a massive scythe in its hand, and the instant Allen saw the humanoid creature, a name