"We waited so long, and finally, it showed itself."
Amid the raging wind and rain, on the perfectly dry terrace, Fan Yun glanced at the monster born from the disaster and finally set down his wine glass.
He slowly pushed himself upright and undid the cuffs of his shirt.
Step by step, he walked down the stairs and into the vast Secret Rite that had long since finished preheating amid the storm. Within the rite's projection, the mountains and rivers of Central Earth rose and fell, its waterways surged onward, every detail clearly visible.
Then he stepped on it, one step after another.
Trampling across it.
At last, he raised his hand.
He closed one eye and narrowed the other.
Clenching his right hand, he raised his thumb and aimed it at the disaster beast screeching hungrily a thousand miles away, until the outline of his thumb completely covered the creature's body.
Then, with casual ease, he pressed downward!
A shrill, piercing sound shot forth in an instant, rolling endlessly between sea and sky.
Like rubber scraping across glass, amid wave after wave of grating shrieks, the mountain-like disaster beast suddenly froze in place. Then, infinite pressure emerged from the void and violently erupted.
Boom!!!
The enormous body was pressed into the sea by a finger from a thousand miles away, stirring up a tidal wave. Its countless limbs flailed in terror, yet it could not break free.
That distant finger descended from the dome of heaven like a celestial pillar.
The power of a celestial being revealed itself at that moment.
Wait—
Immediately afterward, at the Empire's Garrison Base, Duke Pasarela yawned. Complaining about those old things in the Senate, he raised both hands, extending his index fingers and thumbs and joining them into a framing gesture as he