The moment the Five Elements Roulette descended, its radiance filled heaven and earth.
The sharpness of metal, the vitality of wood, the depth of water, the blazing heat of fire, and the weight of earth—Five-Colored Brilliance from five kinds of source power intertwined and coiled together like a slowly blooming flower of heaven and earth, illuminating the entire firmament in dazzling splendor.
Wherever that light passed, space no longer distorted, energy no longer ran wild, and even the devastated earth, ravaged beyond recognition by Black Flame, seemed to fall quiet at this moment.
However, to Nihility Devouring Flame, this Five-Colored Brilliance was the most terrifying light he had ever seen in his life.
An unseen force, like a giant hand reaching out from the chaos, gripped him tightly in its palm.
At this point, under the imprisonment of World Power, he could no longer move in the slightest.
His body, his soul, his source—all were locked firmly by that power. No matter how he struggled, he could not break free in the slightest.
And so he could only watch helplessly as the Five Elements Roulette slowly yet irresistibly closed in on him.
Close!
Closer still!
And the moment the Five Elements Roulette reached him, Nihility Devouring Flame finally sensed the true nature of that power.
It was not suppression, not a seal, but... stripping away.
It was a power that tore everything from him, alive, from the very root.
"Ah—!!!"
Agony to the extreme erupted violently from the deepest part of his body in that instant like a tide!
That pain was not pain of flesh, not pain of sinew and bone, but the tearing of the soul's depths, the peeling away of the source at its origin.
It felt as if millions of hands were reaching out from inside