"Hongka!"
The enormous sound of something deforming, as if from metal fatigue, echoed throughout the entire world.
The sound came from far across the horizon, like an overburdened gear running in Overload. It was also like a monster lying atop a waterwheel, brutally forcing the gears to stop turning.
The deafening noise echoed for a long time without dissipating.
It even attracted the attention of a large number of Fifth Order experts across the entire Stellar Battlefield.
People looked up in confusion and unease.
Yet as they gazed at the sky-spanning Black Locks that seemed as eternal and unchanging as the rules of heaven and earth, no matter how they imagined it, they could not imagine what this truly meant.
It was like something going wrong with the sun. People would only assume that something had happened inside the sun. They would never imagine that someone could affect "heaven and earth."
Therefore, even the few vigilant Planet Destroyer Levels could only conclude after some thought that this was an abnormal phenomenon signaling that the mission was nearing its end.
At the same time.
Above the fortress.
Above a field of ruins, beneath the Black Locks.
Lin An stood suspended in midair, as motionless as a frozen sculpture, his head tilted toward the sky.
Beneath his mask, his eyes were as calm as still water.
Streams of invisible gray currents, concealed beneath a disguise, drilled into the Black Locks one after another like silent winds.
Lin An's expression was cold and detached, as though he had not heard the increasingly violent booms. The Cataclysm Power within his body continued to damage the Black Locks' structure wave after wave.
The "metal" wailed.
Compared to the thunderous roars heard elsewhere on the battlefield,
at this moment, Lin An could even hear the faint