When dazzling golden light erupted on the battlefield near the Navel of the Plane, Saine and the other Dominators fighting there naturally saw it.
A Dominator-class being could not simply self-destruct on a whim.
The Guardian of Autumn's ability to detonate his rules body so quickly clearly meant that he had prepared for the worst long before this...
Probably when the Six-Winged Demon Ancestor and the others had first arrived outside the Wizard World.
Standing beneath the plane barrier in the guise of an old farmer, a sickle in his hand, the Guardian of Autumn had gazed deeply at the land he loved and readied himself to give his life at any moment.
And not just the Guardian of Autumn. Perhaps all the Wizard World's Four Guardians had...
After the dazzling, golden-wheat light erupted, an enormous Dominator Crater appeared near the Navel of the Plane in the Wizard World's Endless South Sea.
The Guardian's death directly damaged the Wizard World's will, while also leaving major weaknesses and gaps in its framework of rules.
Yet the results of the Guardian of Autumn's immense sacrifice were equally clear.
The Demon Emperor, who possessed Level-8 strength, had nearly a third of his body annihilated by the Guardian of Autumn's point-blank self-destruction.
This was no ordinary Level-7 Dominator's self-destruction, but a Guardian's desperate, life-sacrificing attack!
Besides losing a third of his true body, the Level-8 Demon Emperor had suffered severe, visible injuries to the remaining two-thirds.
More importantly, the purple evil heart he had held in his hand had actually been enveloped in golden wheat-awn rules during the Guardian's self-destructive death.
An effect resembling a seal took hold on the evil heart's surface.
Although the Guardian of Autumn's death had not directly sealed the purple evil heart, it had sealed a portion of its