Meanwhile.
Inside the Aedes Elysiae illusion.
Yan Huan stood beside the dock and instinctively crouched down, gazing into the bright distant sunlight as he thought.
Logically speaking, this latest reincarnation should have ended in destruction because we failed to submit the Burden of the World Spark.
Then the world resets, and a new cycle begins.
All I have to do is wait right here...
To Yan Huan, the Black Tide was not terrifying.
When it came down to it, they were merely monsters that resembled the Antimatter Legion.
As long as he killed them fast enough, they would not manage to breach the city.
However... who was to say the intensity of this Black Tide might not step up a notch.
Given that the true nature of Amphoreus was an Emperor Scepter, it was entirely fair to treat everything as data.
If they cranked the stats of the Black Tide monsters up to +, it didn't seem entirely out of the question either.
Yet as the saying went: a fountain never rises above its source, ex—
Anyway, no matter how strong these monsters grew, they still had an upper limit.
Right now, Screwllum and Herta are figuring out a way to unlock the seals on my body...
Yan Huan stood up and turned back toward the village.
All I need to do is stall for time and delay the destruction of the next cycle while I wait for word from them.
When it came to cracking something like the Emperor Scepter, Yan Huan genuinely lacked the know-how; the heavy lifting still had to rely on his allies from the Genius Society.
As for throwing hands, though...
"Huh?"
Yan Huan snapped out of his thoughts, only to find a familiar pink-haired girl standing right before him, watching him with a beaming