Amid boundless darkness and mottled patterns of rules, a figure appeared at the very center of the deepest part of this Death Gate Passage.
Unlike the other humanoid phantoms that had appeared, which felt unreal, the person in the Depth of Death Gate seemed to possess a physical body!
The countless surrounding patterns of rules were, in fact, chains imprisoning him.
It was truly unknown what kind of overwhelmingly powerful being had been bound in the deepest part of the Death Gate.
What made Saine even more wary and astonished was that, at the same time, an innumerable jet-black torrent was appearing behind the man.
Within that endlessly expanding black torrent seemed to lurk some terrifying sustenance, as though it would devour the man the very next moment.
Yet the man seemed long accustomed to it and appeared entirely unconcerned.
Instead, the faint glow emitted by Saine's Source Energy Sub-City suddenly appeared in the silent space of the Depth of Death Gate, drawing the man's attention.
"Oh?" A soft, surprised voice came from the being imprisoned in the Depth of Death Gate.
The next moment, the boundless black torrent devoured the man once more. At the same time, those currents expanded in every direction again, swiftly sweeping toward Saine's Source Energy Sub-City.
Although his Source Energy Sub-City had already been coated with a great quantity of special Rule Material capable of resisting the black torrent's erosion, the instant it came into contact with the torrent, piercing alarms continuously came through Sky Net to Saine's location outside the Death Gate.
Saine's previous estimate had been somewhat too optimistic.
Under the erosive assault of the dense black torrent in the Depth of Death Gate, the Source Energy Sub-City could hold out for less than one-third of the originally estimated time.
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