Before long, Painted Skin, in the form of a golden canary, was battling a shadow in the distance that kept stretching and shrinking.
The figure in the volcanic clouds above the Dark Valley merely glanced over before looking away.
What surprised him slightly was that the giant pig demon, which he had thought would die from a single blow of his Fourth-Level Singularity Technique, had transformed in its moment of peril. Its towering, bloated form, originally over ten meters tall, had instantly shrunk to half its size, as if reborn.
Thud, thud, thud, thud.
It forcibly broke through the spatial restraints of the Singularity Technique. Each layer of gravitational field was like the toughest tempered glass, yet somehow it managed to escape the technique's spatial confinement.
"An evolution?"
As the guide of the new era's Academic World, Reilo knew exactly how powerful the Singularity Technique was. To break free of its restraints, one had to obey the law of conservation and pay the corresponding price in matter and energy.
And now...
Within the space firmly locked down by the Singularity Technique, there seemed to be nothing unusual. Yet Reilo clearly sensed that an astonishing amount of fat had undergone a sudden sublimation, filling the confined space as if it were a high-energy balloon on the verge of bursting.
Boom!
The Singularity Technique vanished in a flash, and the fat-filled space immediately erupted in an astonishing explosion that engulfed an area over a hundred meters wide. Since it had detonated so close, several demon servants who had been shouting inside the Barrier Tower were vaporized as well.
Reilo had no intention of letting the fleeing figure escape. A glint flashed in his hand, and a point of light shot after it.
One pursued the other, and gradually they vanished from sight.