Perfect Coordination

"Got one. Five left."

Zagi spoke in a sinister tone, but his hands never stopped moving. He flipped both palms over, gathering energy as powerful black-and-red energy brewed between his arms. As he thrust both fists forward, it blasted out like a roaring river.

Zagi Gravity!

This beam was aimed at Runner. Facing that roaring dark energy, Runner could not help but feel disdainful, as though he had been underestimated.

With his speed, how could such a straightforward attack aimed directly at his face possibly hit him?

With a cold snort in his heart, Runner twisted aside. His golden body drifted lightly sideways, effortlessly evading it. The overwhelmingly powerful blast of Zagi Gravity merely pierced through the golden afterimage he had left behind, howling toward an empty area in the distance.

Zagi sneered again.

The target of this Zagi Gravity was not some empty area at all.

Along the attack's trajectory after Runner dodged, behind the backs of all the Elders of the Universe, the beam was aimed at Nexus, who had silently quantum-shifted there in advance.

Nexus took his stance, flipping his arms over before his chest as surging white energy burst from the armaments on his wrists. Gentle light enveloped his entire body, transforming into a circular vortex of energy between his palms.

Zagi Gravity crashed headlong into the vortex cradled between his arms, merging into the vast light energy and being swiftly converted. Darkness was transformed into light amid layers of radiance, and the red-and-black beam transformed along with the luminous vortex into a massive sphere of energy.

Grandmaster was the first to realize something was wrong. "Behind you!"

But it was already too late by the time he shouted. Nexus slammed his right palm fiercely against the energy sphere's surface, converting darkness into light. The combined