The Zhao Family Manor had fallen into an eerie silence.
Zhao Yingming stared dumbfounded at the void in the sky.
The Spatial Power left behind by the [Black Hole Bomb] was still raging, yet it remained at a safe distance and had no effect whatsoever on the city below.
Instead, the blast's aftermath had dispersed the clouds and mist, bringing a rare, brilliantly clear day.
Zhao Heling stood before the railing, his face dark, none of his earlier composure remaining.
By his calculations, the chances of success had been at least ninety percent, hadn't they?
Yet that forbidden weapon, enough to destroy half of Core Base City, had simply vanished?!
What terrified him even more was that the one who had dragged the bomb away was not some human powerhouse as he had imagined, but a Calamity!
A Calamity!
"Impossible..."
Zhao Heling muttered, his emotions gradually growing agitated.
"Impossible... this is impossible!"
He slammed a palm against the railing at the terrace's edge.
The railing was clearly incapable of withstanding the force of a Sixth-tier Awakened. It let out a cracking groan, then split open down the middle.
Plaster rained down in flakes, and the wall beneath looked ready to collapse as well.
Zhao Heling had no mind to spare for any of that. He instinctively clenched his hand, crushing the rubble in his palm into powder.
"That was [World-Overturning Torrent]! Even if it was only an avatar, how could it... how could it..."
His voice grew lower and lower, eventually becoming a murmur almost like delirious sleep-talk.
A Sequence 8 [Cataclysm] beast could not possibly obey a human.
That left only one possibility:
The person acting in the shadows was [Doom]!
And perhaps that person was the real "Investigating Envoy Jiang"!
Listening to his father's muttering, Zhao Yingming felt