An explosion without so much as a flicker of fire erupted in the heart of the black mist!
The violent shockwave swept away everything around it, followed closely by a dense barrage of Crystal Spikes that ground meteors of all sizes into dust!
Not a single figure remained at the center of the explosion. Everything had been cleared away.
Several seconds later, Black Star emerged from a Rift that had abruptly appeared, expressionlessly pulling out the Crystal Spikes embedded at an angle in his body.
His gaze swept across the surroundings before finally locking onto a lava planet glowing with a faint red light.
There, an inconspicuous cloud of black mist was diving rapidly toward the planet's surface.
Meanwhile, in another direction, several thousand meters away from where they had been blasted by the Crystal Explosion—
Two figures were skewered crookedly onto a shattered meteor.
Phantom Purple Enchantress had already fainted and was completely unconscious;
Black Whale, meanwhile, struggled desperately, trying to pull out the Crystal Spikes pinning him to the rock wall so he could move again.
Under the influence of Authority power, Black Star quickly chose the latter between the options of "continuing to pursue Eternal Night" and "saving his teammates."
His form folded once more as he slipped into a Rift that appeared out of thin air.
After several brief spatial jumps, he soon appeared above that meteor.
Black Whale, who had just forcibly shaken off the effects of [jealousy] through sheer pain, noticed Black Star approaching, and terror inevitably surfaced in his eyes.
He was completely wide open right now, with no means of defense whatsoever.
If the other party suddenly launched a sneak attack, death would be his only fate.
But Black Whale soon sensed that the Authority within him was still at work.
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