"It really worked."
Looking at the pitch-black abyss before him, Natsume could not help but marvel.
Only now, as death drew ever closer, Natsume felt little fear. Instead, he grew increasingly calm.
There was even a faint sense of exhilaration, along with awe for a cosmic marvel like a black hole.
After all, he had built this with his own hands.
To use a black hole he had personally created to annihilate the Otsutsuki Clan's nest—even if he died, he would have enough to brag about for the rest of his life.
Natsume: "How long until I cross the event horizon?"
Sophon replied, "At the black hole's current rate of expansion,"
"in five minutes at most, your location will be encompassed within the black hole's light cone."
"At that point, your fate will be sealed: death."
Natsume: "How long until it tears through the Royal City barrier?"
"It is estimated to make contact with the edge of the event horizon in three minutes, absorb the barrier's energy within eight minutes, and tear open a breach..."
"Not bad. That's not too late."
Once he was drawn into the black hole's gravitational light cone, not even light could escape.
Natsume would also be basically unable to foresee the future anymore.
That was why he needed Sophon's calculations.
Now, it seemed the black hole's power had indeed lived up to his expectations.
It truly could break through that barrier's "tortoise shell."
And there was still enough time.
There were still over twenty minutes until the one-hour limit.
Even if he was swallowed beyond the event horizon, as long as he was not completely devoured by the black hole, he would still have enough time to unbind the [Heart of Daofu] and save Kuramitsuha.
For the next few minutes, he would enjoy watching these