Akasaka's side.
Holding Ea in his hand, he fired it toward the sky of the 56th floor.
A red pillar of light pierced through the sky of the 56th floor, shattering it completely before punching through to the 57th floor.
The ground of the 57th floor was blasted open with a huge hole as well.
Yet the red pillar of light showed no sign of stopping, continuing upward to bombard the sky of the 58th floor!
It pierced through floor after floor, only stopping after it had gone through a full 100 floors!
It had not stopped because it had run out of power.
It was because there were only 100 floors!
As the smoke and dust dispersed, Akasaka lowered Ea in his hand.
The commotion caused by Akasaka's attack was no small matter.
Although he had deliberately compressed the power into a single point to minimize damage to the outside world, the aftershock still shook all of Aincrad—every floor from top to bottom—until it seemed on the verge of collapse.
Everyone felt the violent earthquake.
Some people lost their footing and fell to the ground.
"What the hell happened?!!!"
"I don't know! Who knows why this damn game suddenly had such a huge earthquake?!" another person roared while lying on the ground.
Meanwhile, far away on the 55th floor at the Knights of the Blood headquarters, Heathcliff, who was working overtime, also felt the intense quake. His hand, which had been reaching for a document, froze in place.
The tip of his pencil snapped with a crack.
Heathcliff looked up at the window, his face equally full of question marks???
"What happened?"
Since Akasaka had unleashed that attack from the 56th floor, Heathcliff, who was on the 55th floor, had not noticed that the floors above the 56th had