Judah's Chains Bound the Lesser Beasts, Victory Seemed Close-Then the Heart of Darkness Pinned Otto Like a Target

"What is that thing?" Xiao Xiao's voice trembled.

"An Imaginary Beast." A'Dai stared at the Light Screen. "But this isn't an ordinary one. Look at the faces on its body..."

"...Those are the people Otto killed," Hai Long said gravely. "This Imaginary Beast was formed from all the sins he committed over five hundred years."

The view drew closer. Some of the faces on the enormous beast belonged to Schicksal soldiers, some to test subjects, and others to innocents he had sacrificed. Their eyes brimmed with hatred and despair, as though they wanted to drag Otto down to hell.

"He's fighting his own sins," Tian Hen said. "This is the Imaginary Tree's final trial... forcing him to face every evil he committed."

"What if he loses?" Niu Tian asked.

"Then his own sins will devour him, trapping him in the Imaginary Tree forever and making him part of it," Ye Yinzhu said.

On the screen, Otto raised his head and looked at the enormous beast. There was no fear in his eyes, only calm.

"I know who you are." His voice rang out, hoarse but resolute. "You are everyone I killed, every hope I destroyed, every sin I committed."

He paused, tightening his grip on the Divine Key in his hand.

"But I will never regret it."

"Because every one of those sins was for her."

The enormous beast roared and lunged at him. Black Imaginary Energy poured down like a tsunami, threatening to swallow him whole.

Otto raised the Black Abyss White Flower.

"Purification..."

White light erupted from the spear's tip, becoming a pillar that shot into the sky. It was the Authority of Creation, capable of purifying all corruption and sin. The pillar struck the enormous beast. Black energy dissolved in the light, and the twisted faces wailed