Abyss Mother Goddess Awakens! Battle!

Core of the Abyss.

Just a second ago, this place had still been filled with the heroic fervor of "for the Abyss Future" and "let's gamble everything."

The Lords were like warriors willing to sacrifice themselves for their tribes, pouring their Origin into the sacrificial Array as if it cost them nothing.

But in this second.

That atmosphere of "heroic sacrifice" vanished without leaving so much as a fart, frozen solid by a fear colder than Absolute Zero.

Because that eyeball had moved.

It wasn't merely the movement of an organ.

It was the awakening of the entire Abyss Will.

That will was as vast as an endless ocean, while these Lords, who usually threw their weight around, were now like a few shivering prawns in the sea.

"What... what's going on?"

Wrathful Monarch Samael, the macho man who usually tore people to pieces whenever they displeased him, now had legs trembling like someone fluffing cotton.

Watching the unmistakable "reason" revealed in that enormous eye, he heard his teeth clacking loudly.

"Asmodeus! You damned trap-setter!"

Samael grabbed Lord of Lies by the collar, spraying his face with spittle. "Didn't you say the Mother Goddess was sleeping like a dead pig—no, that she was sleeping deeply?! Didn't you say this would only trigger her instinctive defense mechanism?!"

"This is instinct?!" Samael pointed at the enormous eyeball rotating its gaze, clearly pondering something. "Your instinct can watch a show? It can make eye contact with people?! This is obviously her brain waking up!"

Asmodeus was also utterly dumbfounded. His face, normally shrouded in mist and impossible to read, now clearly said, "Who am I," "Where am I," and "I'm doomed."

"No... that can't be..."

Asmodeus muttered, his voice carrying a sobbing note. "The Mother Goddess's Divine Spark shattered and fused into the