After erasing Vashtorr, Qin Mo slung the Crone Sword across his back and removed the scepter.
When he drove the scepter into the ground at tremendous speed, the entire surface began to collapse, gradually exposing the enormous Discordant Engine before Qin Mo.
Yet it did not appear to be some terribly dreadful and evil entity. Rather, it was a freak whose shape was impossible to describe, burdened with far too many additions installed by Vashtorr.
A pale-skinned boy with tubes connected to his body stood beneath the pit, looking up at Qin Mo with curiosity and fear.
Qin Mo looked down at the boy.
He knew this thing was a puppet controlled by the Tuchulcha Engine, not a genuinely living person, so he felt neither pity nor any desire to save him.
"Have you come to free me?" the boy asked softly.
Qin Mo said nothing.
He knew the Discordant Engine was far more dangerous than Vashtorr.
He had still been in the mood to exchange a few words with Vashtorr before killing him, but when it came to the Discordant Engine, all he wanted was to kill it as quickly as possible.
"Have you come to..."
The boy failed to finish his repeated question before lightning pierced both him and the Discordant Engine behind him.
The Discordant Engine, shaped from the Three Divine Artifacts—the Tuchulcha Engine, Ouroboros, and Plague Heart—began collapsing in that instant.
It was as if a singularity had opened within the Warp. Everything around the wound pierced by the lightning began to cave inward.
That immense force tugged at Qin Mo as well, but he could still resist its pull amid the collapse.
Dragon Forest Star, formed from fragments of Caliban, was itself an extension of Ouroboros. Thus, when the Discordant Engine began to collapse, Dragon