In Guiji's heart, in Burning Wind's heart, in Light Decay's heart, in Forge King's heart... in the hearts of every Great Extinguisher embedded in the walls and unable to move, the same thought surged forth.
Though we lost, our benefactor definitely won't!
Go, black-skinned athletic big brother!
Under the watchful eyes of the Great Extinguishers, Nanook took his first step as well.
Without sparing even a moment to mourn his Great Extinguishers, the one who immediately arrived on the battlefield was... the youngest Aeon in the universe, the embodiment of entropy, the Wounded God, the God of Ruin, the Scourge of Annihilation, the Aeon of Destruction—Nanook.
Aeons were an extraordinarily special kind of existence in the universe of Honkai: Star Rail.
They were the incarnate manifestations of the universe's will, absolute beings who stood above all mortal things.
The birth of every Aeon was accompanied by some phenomenon that shook the universe. Nanook's method had been to set his own homeland ablaze.
And among all Aeons, the Aeon of Destruction was the most unique of all.
His very existence was a negation of the other Aeons, a negation of all civilizations, a negation of the very meaning behind the universe's continued existence.
Every Great Extinguisher under his command possessed the power, under certain conditions and through special means, to pry at—or even destroy—a Path.
The increase of entropy was an irreversible law of the universe.
And what now approached Chen Li was the incarnation of that law.
Nanook stepped forward one stride at a time, yet his body was gradually shrinking.
No... it was not shrinking.
It was compressing.
He compressed all the power contained within his colossal, sky-obscuring body into an ever-smaller shell.
His volume was decreasing, his density was skyrocketing, yet the pressure he exerted soared like an