Rumble—
Ghastly white lightning flashed through the storm, illuminating Linsey and the deity's miserable faces.
Then the battered deity smiled.
Linsey, who had the other's throat in his grip, wore a grave expression.
An unsolvable problem lay before him.
To kill the deity completely, he had to use Eternal Return. But within this domain, he could not use any abilities related to source material!
"So I either take this thing outside or destroy this barrier!"
Linsey raised an eyebrow.
During their earlier battle, he had smashed the deity against the edge of the domain several times, holding nothing back each time.
The result was obvious.
The domain created by the deity could not be broken through brute force.
"Judging from the situation, this barrier exists to make its user and enemy decide a victor. Naturally, it's difficult to break from the inside out."
"Then what about from the outside in?"
With that thought, Linsey naturally looked toward Wala Wala amid the storm.
The girl was playing through the roaring thunder.
Linsey was certain of one thing.
If his lover stopped playing, she should have a way to open this domain from outside. But that was not a realistic option.
Even from a strategic standpoint—
Wala Wala's performance was more important than the damage Linsey was dealing to the deity's body.
Her song was not only halting the actions of the City of Law's residents; it was also tightly binding the deity dwelling within them to this world, preventing it from returning to reality alongside the people being burned away by the Source Flame.
No matter what, Wala Wala could not stop.
"Heh—"
"Linsey, you understand now, don't you?"
"No matter what you do, you cannot change the fate that is coming. In the world of Awakened, the weak can only