Darkness Tower

It was as though a genuine mass of condensed death had flown over his head.

Wherever it passed, endless gravity ravaged everything. Cracks split through the Steel Earth, and even the saucer-shaped Sun Chariot began to tilt and bend. Even from thousands of meters away, it could scarcely withstand that rolling invisible bead.

The slightest aftershock lifted Twilight Land several meters as a whole, nearly wrenching it out of the ground...

If it struck dead center, he and Twilight Land's entire projection—no, at least a third of Helios—would be completely dragged in and melted away within that radiance, wouldn't they?

So Garland had been cooped up in the base for so long just to make a nuclear weapon?

No. Even if its destructive power was comparable to a nuclear weapon's, it was completely different. Its nature and foundation were fundamentally unlike. In such a brief span of time, he had traced upward through a ritual, rapidly reconstructing the authority of the second-generation Danu God-King Lug from Helios's uniquely favorable environment...

He had injected divinity, granting substance to empty starlight through transformations predating calamity and miracle. He had gathered the power of the Hell Projection in one place, then finally formed a genuine "Super-dense Matter" from the Present Realm!

It was no longer something that could be described as matter. Its terrifying density, surpassing even that of a neutron star, had exceeded the Present Realm's limit of tolerance and hovered on the verge of collapse.

The slightest disturbance would trigger a terrifying Heaven Collapse and Earth Shatter...

Just like now.

In an instant, the projectile of light that devoured all radiance crossed from one end of Helios to the other and descended from the sky!

Hercules's interception, Publius's defenses—everything was pierced through like an illusion. At last, the two made contact