Compatibility Mode

No blood gushed from the severed wrist.

Countless purple garbled strings, erroneous characters, and corrupted pixel blocks poured from the smooth cross-section.

They struck the floor of the Pure White Space with sizzling electrical crackles, corroding everything they touched into black voids.

The enormous eyeball beyond the rift contracted violently.

"Roar—!!!"

A roar pierced through the dimensional barrier.

This was not a sound wave.

It was a violent tremor in a high-dimensional data stream.

Cracks instantly spread across the walls surrounding the Pure White Space.

The floating old-fashioned typewriter shook violently, its keys clattering as they sprang up on their own.

The Author's projection flickered several times, its colors growing even dimmer.

"Damn it."

The projection covered its ears, its body stretching as though the signal had gone bad.

"It's panicking. That roar is aimed straight at the underlying code—it's trying to shatter this story's document."

Lin Mu ignored the projection's complaints.

He gripped the black fountain pen in his hand, its tip pointing downward as a drop of pitch-black ink slowly fell.

The rift overhead was forcibly torn wider by a pair of invisible hands.

The monster known as the "Outer Realm Devourer" finally revealed its true form.

It had no fixed shape.

It was an amalgamation of countless fang-filled maws, twisted tentacles, and endlessly erroring pop-up windows.

Within every gaping mouth spun a profound black hole, radiating the deathly stillness of absolute deletion.

It had descended.

A colossal shadow instantly filled the entire Return-to-Ruin Space.

One of its largest mouths aimed at the Abyss plane projection below.

A pallid beam shot from its mouth.

Wherever that beam swept, space itself turned directly into a transparent grid.

There was no explosion, no blaze.

Only utter disappearance.

The rocks of the Abyss, the Throne of Withered Bones, even the crystalline