Camus wavered.
But a moment later, he forcibly pushed the thought aside.
"There's no point in telling me any of this."
He stuck out his chin, forcing down all the doubts in his heart.
"The Abyss is about to open its eyes. When that happens, I'll tell you myself who was right and who was wrong."
Thor looked deeply at Camus. "I never thought I could stop you outright. But I hope that if even a little part of you is still uncertain, you'll leave yourself a way back."
Camus stared straight at Thor, his gaze seeming to pass through him and settle on the distant Starry Sky.
"There's no way back."
Thor's body reappeared inside the Great Rift.
Camus couldn't stop him from coming and going. But Thor couldn't stay in the Abyss for long, either.
After all, it was an extremely unusual place—the inside of the Abyss's dead body. It instinctively rejected beings like Thor, who couldn't be contaminated and assimilated.
It was just like when Thor and Kismet had entered the Eye of the Abyss together. The Anchor Points inside the Abyss had instinctively tried to contaminate Thor first, but the moment they realized it had completely failed, they began trying to expel him.
It seemed that allowing Thor and Kismet to enter the Abyss was a dangerous thing for them.
Back in the Chaos Domain, Thor felt even more certain about his original theory.
He looked up and saw Keli and the other two fighting fiercely. But most of the Anchor Point Monsters were merely smashed apart; very few were actually killed.
"If an Anchor Point can't be completely destroyed, its scattered pieces have to be kept apart. Otherwise, they'll start reassembling on their own when they're together, and once there's enough of them, they'll