There was no thunderous crash.
At the instant of impact, time seemed to freeze for a frame.
Pale energy and dark red, molten-gold energy tangled and seeped into each other, annihilating and intensifying one another!
A half-black, half-white sphere of energy formed rapidly at the point of impact, twisting and swelling without pause!
Inside the sphere, pale streams of data and flame tried to break down and purify everything.
But the dark red, molten-gold flames clung fast, carrying the whispers of Hell and the explosive force of chakra as they stubbornly ate into and burned through the opposing structure!
Hummmm—!!!!!
A rumble so deep it seemed to resonate through the soul finally erupted!
A violent shock wave spread outward in every direction!
The testing ground's alloy walls, built to withstand a small nuclear blast, shook fiercely. Dense cracks spread across their surfaces, only to be filled in at once by the repair system.
The energy-dampening field flickered wildly as its power output surged to the critical threshold!
Even the observation room's impact-resistant glass developed spiderweb cracks!
Wanda acted at once. A crimson barrier of Chaos Magic enveloped the observation room, shielding it from the terrifying aftershock.
In the arena, Pale Nova and Karmic Fire Red Lotus both vanished completely.
A huge charred crater more than ten meters across remained where they had collided, its bottom smooth as a mirror.
Pale and dark red embers of energy lingered there, not yet fully extinguished, hissing and crackling.
Both 2B and Mai Shiranui were driven backward by the energy backlash.
The energy shield around 2B flickered erratically. The Eternal Flame on her right arm had visibly dimmed, and overload warnings sounded from the sensors beneath her blindfold.
The Eternal Flame's output was not limitless. Purification Nova had consumed an enormous amount of energy.