Benjamin's Dharma Image was inching its way into the Plane Barrier.
Dark golden light fiercely ground against the sky-blue patterns along the rift's edges and across the barrier's surface, scattering swaths of fine energy sparks, as though two utterly different orders were tearing at each other in the void.
The Octopus-folk fleet's firepower continued to pour forth madly.
All manner of attacks battered his body without pause. Aside from the highly compressed energy barrages that required tens of thousands of warships to charge in unison, which could still force him back some distance, the other attacks could no longer truly shake him.
At this pace, in just a few more hours, he would completely breach the Plane Barrier.
But at that moment, an attack silently came from deep within the warship formation.
Its appearance was exceedingly abrupt, without the slightest warning or energy fluctuation.
The attack resembled a transparent thread stretched to its utmost limit, so fine that the naked eye could not catch it at all.
Yet wherever it passed, space itself was cleanly and decisively cleaved in two.
Benjamin's True-Delusion Breaking Pupil caught sight of that thread at the very first moment.
But by the time he caught it, it was already right before him.
Too fast.
The interval between the attack's launch and impact had been compressed to nearly zero by some force, leaving him no time to dodge or mobilize his Dharma Image for defense. In the next instant, a layer of grayish-white light unfolded before him.
It was a Solidification Domain woven from countless Law of Pain runes. Thin as a cicada's wing, it nevertheless stood firmly in the transparent thread's path.
The instant the transparent thread struck the grayish-white light, it was silently dissolved.
Benjamin abruptly turned his head.
Viola stood not far behind