As Thanos's laughter abruptly stopped, the pressure of his self-destruction instantly surged to its peak.
Wanda raised her hands.
A shield of Chaos Magic, neither thick nor broad but incomparably condensed,
slowly took shape like an upside-down bowl.
Its range was not large.
It happened to envelop Su Ming's eighty-one multicolored shields,
along with the two of them, securely within.
This Chaos barrier appeared thin,
yet the magical patterns flowing across it were profoundly mysterious.
They continuously twisted and altered the rules of reality around the barrier,
giving it an unimaginable resistance to concepts such as explosions and impacts.
Wanda's face turned pale at a visible speed.
Fine beads of sweat even formed on the tip of her nose.
Yet she gritted her teeth and held on, her gaze incomparably resolute.
Su Ming watched Wanda's petite figure tremble faintly from casting with all her strength,
yet remain stubbornly upright.
He watched the pair of eyes on her pale face, reflecting the light of destruction without retreating in the slightest.
Countless words surged through his heart,
but in the end, they became only a sigh filled with emotion and relief.
I had thought...
That after crossing into this world, with the system in my grasp,
I was destined for a lonely climb and endless battles.
But I had never hoped... that I could gain such pure, life-and-death trust and friendship here.
With that sigh,
the destructive energy accumulating within Thanos's body until it reached its critical point
finally—
erupted!
There was no sound.
Or rather, the sound itself had been devoured by a more fundamental "annihilation."
First came a "white" that swallowed all color.
It was the soul-level Storm triggered by the Soul Stone's self-destruction.
Immediately afterward came an utterly violent "black."
It was the torrential energy unleashed by the Starcore