The withered yellow sea of fire illuminated the dark ocean.
Beneath the firelight, a figure covered his face in remorse.
At the same time, of the grand black-mirror formation that had once sealed the figure in layer upon layer, ninety percent of its black mirrors had now rotted away and vanished beneath the corrosion of the withered yellow flames.
These black mirrors, infused with the power of Abyss Apostles, should have been indestructible.
Yet before this incomparably bizarre blaze, they were like ordinary, fragile bubbles—utterly incapable of putting up even the slightest resistance. They could only begin to corrode, dissolve, and collapse on all fronts within the sea of fire.
And the master of this black-mirror formation—the Abyss Apostle "Escape," whose form was long and strange, with a vertical slit down its middle, ear-like patterns covering its surface, and countless horrifying fuzzy tentacles growing from its edges—was now fleeing and shifting frantically through the black mirrors, trying to forcefully halt the spreading flames by firing Abyss rays.
However, every one of its actions was meaningless.
The withered yellow sea of fire was completely unaffected by Apostle "Escape." It continued spreading at a blazing pace, running wild until every black mirror had been utterly destroyed.
As an Abyss Apostle, "Escape" possessed the authority and purpose of driving any prey trapped within its formation into a hopeless corner with nowhere to flee, until they met their end in despair.
Yet in the end, "Escape" itself became that desperate prey with nowhere to hide.
Thus, the withered yellow sea of fire, possessing the nature of corrupting all things, continued to spread and burn away, swiftly destroying the black-mirror formation until only its final black mirror remained.
At the same time, this was also the final destination Escape had reached after fleeing and shifting