"How could this be?" Yin Demon panicked.
He had never encountered anything like this before. The power of "Dimensional Reduction," which had originally been as easy to control as his own limbs, was not only refusing to obey him but had begun eroding his own rules.
"Separate for me!"
Yin Demon roared, trying to sever the rules and cut off the diseased limb to save the rest.
Mysterious, unfathomable ripples spread outward.
The entire space began to ripple slowly. Under the influence of those ripples, even the void itself developed a strange overlap.
Like a crumpled ball of paper. Like a tangled bedsheet.
It was not violent.
It was gentle.
Yet it tore, folded, and overlapped inexorably, filling this space with lethal killing intent.
These were Yin Demon's true rules.
Or, one could say,
they were the rules of that mysterious, unfathomable main body.
The two were one.
That was why Yin Demon had successfully copied this ability and used it as a lever to pry open the power of "Dimensional Reduction."
In essence,
so-called "Dimensional Reduction" meant removing one "coordinate axis" from space.
It perfectly matched his ability.
Before today, Yin Demon had not encountered many genuine powerful enemies, so this "prying" had never been complete. The so-called side effects had merely accumulated and had not reached their limit.
But today was different.
The appearance of the "Divine Firmament Thunder Seal" had forced Yin Demon to unleash his ability with all his might for the first time.
In the end, it pushed him past the limit.
The backlash struck his own body.
He now hoped to cut away his own rules and tear apart the areas that had already been eroded. Although it would severely affect him, he could no longer worry about that.
If he delayed even a