Chen Rui suddenly realized—the sequence of this illusion had been reversed!
It was like watching a film backward from its ending!
Then the correct course of events should have been this: an "eye" opened in the void; the power of the "giants" was devoured and their bodies cracked apart; then something that had triggered the "eye's" power shattered into pieces and scattered away, while the giants, drained of all strength, collapsed and became "corpses"!
No wonder the way those "corpses" had risen earlier was so awkward!
With this realization, Chen Rui could now make the right judgment about the scenes that followed...
In the void, the enormous "eye" slowly opened, filling the "giants" with boundless terror.
The whole "object" that had summoned the "eye" appeared once more.
A certain body broke apart, yet did not vanish completely. It gathered into that "object," and just as it had scattered before, it seemed to be... seven rays of light!
—In other words, the object formed from that body's annihilation had summoned an "eye" capable of destroying those "colossal beings." Or rather, that body had carried out the summoning at the price of its own death.
An image of that body... before it split apart began to emerge before his eyes.
Compared with those "colossal beings," this body was merely tiny. Yet it was precisely this tiny figure, one so insignificant it could have been overlooked, that had brought about an unimaginable outcome.
It was a tall, lean man. Twelve feathered wings spread from his back, half white and half black, as he raised his head to gaze at those unreachable beings in the sky...
His features and body were indistinct, but even without seeing them clearly, one could feel the persistence in his eyes.
After the scene froze for a moment, the