In the blink of an eye, everything changed.
The Solar Storms that had once risen from the ground vanished without a trace. Across the darkened earth, the Great Arcanum's rainbow light surged in like a long river from the distant Present Realm.
At last, it converged upon the barrier formed from the transformed stone gate, as though wrestling against countless crimson threads.
The blue-gray Stone Cube hung high between heaven and earth.
Like a tomb.
It swallowed the entire vortex whole!
The Present Realm, the central hub, Heavenly Prison Fortress, Dongjun, the gate of the Continuance Institute, the vortex, and even the terrifying shadow rapidly expanding in the distance at a visible rate... Mother of Stone.
Everything was linked together by the Present Realm's rainbow light and the crimson curse.
Like a tug-of-war.
Both sides strained with all their might, trying to drag the other into destruction!
The Destruction Factor · Pied Piper elimination plan had finally begun...
In the brief silence, the conference room within the Decision Room also fell deathly still.
Unable to devote any more energy to the fiercely contested frontal battlefield, everyone sat uneasily, waiting for the final result.
Like waiting for dice to stop rolling after they had been cast, for the dust to settle.
They were on pins and needles.
Whether for the Present Realm or the Abyss, everything within the gate's seal had become a complete black box.
The gate's lockdown was absolute.
The instant the gate opened, the Pied Piper outside and the combat personnel who had waited behind it were sealed within the same domain.
From then on, unless signals were received from more than two Natural Enemies and the Silencer's Stele verified the complete elimination of the Destruction Factor, it would never be lifted.
Neither outward nor inward.
To ensure