Ego's venomous and terrifying curse rumbled through the universe.
Rumble!
In the unseen realm, the god who controlled the Law of Curses seemed intent on making the curse come true.
Lake instantly looked up.
"Curse, if you dare make this happen, I'll kill you!"
"..."
Rumble!
Accompanying Lake's murderous intent as he shot into the sky, after it completely surrounded Ego's true form, was the Chaos Universe. It seemed to be emerging from the unseen and the illusory, constantly trying to break into reality.
The Force Tree had completely transformed into a vortex, continuously gathering the fragments of the freshly shattered Ego Planet and piecing them together with a series of cracks, rapidly forming a world with a round sky and a square earth.
The land within the Chaos Universe began its march toward reality by relying on this brand-new world.
The curse in the unseen realm remained poised but unreleased.
Even...
At the moment Ego issued that final, desperate curse and was completely suppressed by the Hecatoncheires, everyone saw that the curse he had unleashed still hung suspended in the unseen realm, never taking effect.
Why?
A thought involuntarily rose in Ego's heart. Why couldn't the curse he had cast affect Lake?
The reason was actually very simple.
Lake's Force Tree could transform all forms of power into the most fundamental Chaos Force belonging to Lake.
The Chaos Force could also adjust other powers at designated points and output them as whatever power Lake wanted.
If Lake had used power that did not belong to this universe—or, more precisely, power belonging to the World Tree Universe—then there was no doubt that the curse would descend upon him.
But...
Faced with a brand-new universe like the World Tree, the universe itself had already made its choice.
However, once the universe