The Prison with No Exit, the Fire Hell with No Redemption (33)

No...

Staring at Grand Duke Solin, Adalbert took several steps back. His face had already been exceedingly pale after becoming an Undead Monarch, but now an abnormal flush of color appeared on it. "How could this be... How could there be something so vast... How could there be a barrier this vast... a prison this vast?!"

"This is impossible. How much matter would this require? It would need..."

His voice trailed off. Adalbert lowered his head.

His eyes were blank.

He could not imagine it. Even Adalbert, the genius alchemist who had single-handedly laid the theoretical foundations for the Undead Monarch and the Dead River Armament, could not understand the starry sky when he had never even seen a star.

Could not understand the universe.

It was impossible—on a planet without stars, no one could understand what the universe was, what spacetime vaster than a planet was!

Ian's heart was also shaken to its core. "What... the gravitational limit of the Terra Sun?!"

"Doesn't that mean this barrier was deployed four and a half light-years away, or even farther?!"

The moment Ian heard of the Star-Prison, he had already thought that this absurd thing was likely not a barrier extending from the reach of starlight or the planetary sphere. Rather, it was at minimum a barrier extending from the Oort Cloud—a swarm of asteroids and dust beyond the solar system. By that calculation, its radius might exceed a light-year.

That was already absurd enough... but according to Grand Duke Solin, this barrier might be even more absurd!

Didn't that mean that, in places where stars were densely packed, some barriers might be pressed tightly together?

"Look up!"

Grand Duke Solin understood what the universe was. At this moment, Inaga II's disciple rebuked him. "You're backing down already?"

"Since you cannot