Protocol Activated, Order Collides with the Abyss

"Warning! Internal and external chaotic energies are resonating! The shield integrity at Wall of Truth node E-77 has dropped to 15%! Collapse expected in three minutes!"

Sequence Nine's light projection flickered violently.

"What's happening? Why has its energy suddenly surged?"

"It devoured some kind of high-energy reactant."

Lin Mu put away his tablet without changing expression.

"The situation is clear now. Trouble within and danger without."

"If we let them converge, the Divine Domain's logical defenses will collapse in an instant."

Sequence Nine rushed before Lin Mu.

"Advisor! A plan! We need a plan!"

Lin Mu looked at the berserk aberration, then at the protective shield overhead, swaying on the brink of collapse.

He ran through the calculations in his mind at lightning speed.

Everything was proceeding according to plan.

"There is one way."

Lin Mu's voice was terrifyingly calm.

"Since they want to converge, then we'll grant them their wish."

"What?"

Sequence Nine thought it had misheard the logic.

"The purification protocol."

Lin Mu raised a hand and projected a complex energy model into the air.

"At the Wall of Truth's weak point, we will deliberately open a breach."

"We'll use this aberration as bait to lure the Annihilation Fire outside into attacking with full force."

"The moment the two make contact, we'll detonate the energy trap we planted at the breach."

Lin Mu suddenly clenched his palm shut.

"Positive and negative energies collide, producing an annihilation effect."

"We blow them both to pieces."

Sequence Nine's data streams raced frantically.

"This... this is walking a tightrope. If the detonation timing is off by even a microsecond, the Annihilation Fire will pour directly into the Divine Domain."

"Do you have a better idea?"

Lin Mu countered.

Boom!

A crack split open in the protective shield overhead.

Pale tongues of fire