The tangled calamity-form Mother Bean crumbled in great swathes beneath the dense, dark-red lightning. Only a core remained, wrapped around Reilo.
Unwilling to let Mother Bean suffer further damage, Reilo actually swung the Particle Realm Eye Wand and withdrew her.
"Is this the power of the Ancient Civilization?"
Reilo stared at his body as it continued to disintegrate. Countless particles, like specks of light, kept dispersing from within him. He couldn't help feeling a deep reverence for the civilization behind the creation of this void.
Of course, he wasn't foolish enough to think this was the technology of the Destroyers.
Fortunately, this void was shaped like a giant funnel stretching from the ground to the sky. Reilo was at the bottom, in its narrowest part. Compared with the vast area at an altitude of over a hundred thousand meters, which covered nearly half the Academic World, this place was only a dozen or so kilometers across. After Mother Bean's protection earlier, Reilo was now relatively close to the edge of the void.
He didn't stay any longer.
Reilo raced at full speed out of the void.
As he went, his body mass kept draining away. The particles left behind him were like countless afterimages. They weren't just escaping from the surface of his body, but dispersing from every part of him. The moment Reilo finally burst out of the void, he felt the natural energy in the surrounding air and couldn't help turning back.
The particles looked like countless copies of him, wailing as they faded away inside the void.
At the same time, he immediately assessed the damage: he had lost 8% of his absolute mass. Nearly all his organs and muscles had been affected. Though he felt no significant effects yet, medical knowledge told him that weakness and