"Boom! The floating continent exploded!"
"Did Lee Stein win? Did we win?"
"Definitely! Otherwise, why would the floating continent have exploded?"
"They've stopped moving! Those alien armies have all stopped moving! We really won!"
"Long live Lee Stein!"
As the floating continent collapsed, earth-shaking cheers erupted across Earth.
Within the massive crater where Lee and the Astral Nomads had fallen, surging currents dispersed the surrounding smoke and dust, revealing a meteor crater several kilometers wide.
Lee's enormous Seven Deadly Sins form was gradually shrinking, the intense heat and orange-red hue fading from its surface.
As for the Astral Nomads, their bodies had already been battered beyond recognition by the previous barrage of attacks. Under the final blow, they were utterly wiped out, their very souls completely melted away by the heat generated from the energy released by the Seven Deadly Sins form.
"Lee, are you all right?"
Max's form condensed beside Lee as he asked nervously.
"Of course. Better than ever."
Lee smiled and looked into the distance, as though he could see the cheering Earth Federation forces and the jubilant people celebrating their survival after the disaster.
Finally, he raised a hand, tearing open a spatial rift out of thin air.
"Come on, let's... go home."
Lee turned to Max, then stepped into the spatial rift first.
Beyond the rift lay Marvel Earth of the Astral Realm.
The Astral Realm had been born from the fantasies of all living beings on a planet. Yet low-intelligence beasts had little in the way of fantasies, and even when they did, those fantasies were extremely faint. Ultimately, it was still humanity's imagination that mattered.
Now, as humanity's collective consciousness, his status was even higher than that of the Lord of the Astral Realm. Interfering with the Lord of the Astral Realm or