The destruction crystal tide on the outskirts of the Dark Obelisk Star Zone began to retreat.
The Empty-Faced Burning Monarch, which had just turned to Locke's side, was the most sensitive to this change.
The vast expanse of phantom obelisks behind it slowly rose, and several pitch-black spatial rifts opened in succession where the distant crystal tide was receding.
No new Level-12 destruction creatures appeared there.
Only streams of dark gold origin power, which should have flowed outward, were surging backward at tremendous speed.
"Stop for now," Locke said.
The Crystal Tide Wrath Beast had already pursued them with part of the Surrendered Army.
Only upon hearing Locke's command did the Destruction Behemoth halt before a stretch of collapsing starry space.
Vast numbers of dark gold destruction creatures were still racing past beneath its feet.
Yet these creatures did not attack the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast. Instead, they scrambled to surge deeper into the starry expanse. Some weaker individuals had barely traveled any distance before their bodies suddenly ruptured, turning into masses of origin of destruction that merged into the reversing crystal tide.
The destruction creatures still alive did not stop because of their kin's deaths.
They seemed utterly unaware of what they were rushing toward.
The Crystal Tide Wrath Beast lowered its head and let out an uneasy roar.
Locke's will swept through the starry expanse around it through the destruction mark.
Deep underground, the dark gold veins that had often supplied power of destruction to the outskirts were steadily tightening.
A floating continent was the first to buckle under this change, splitting in two down the middle!
Countless crystal clusters and the remains of destruction creatures tumbled through the rupture into the crystal tide below, where they were devoured without a trace in an instant.
Locke did not