Something exploded in the Judge's white eyes when it heard Loren's words.
It was not fear, but rage!
A pure, primal rage that had been suppressed for billions of years, never having been so despised.
Its body suddenly trembled, and dark red energy exploded from within it, forming a ring-shaped shockwave.
The shockwave was powerful enough to tear an asteroid to pieces, yet Loren did not budge.
Even his shirt did not flutter. He looked at the Judge as though watching a child make a futile struggle.
"You—!" The Judge clenched its other hand into a fist, dark red energy compressed to the absolute limit gathering around it.
The energy formed a pinprick-sized singularity glowing white at the tip of its fist.
The singularity's gravity pulled the surrounding Chaos Space inward, forming a tiny, spinning gravitational vortex around the fist.
The power of this punch was enough to pierce through the core of a planet.
But when the Judge's fist struck Loren's chest, there was not a sound.
Because the singularity was swallowed the instant it touched Loren's chest.
It was not blocked. It was devoured and absorbed.
Loren's chest was like a bottomless black hole, swallowing all the singularity's energy.
Its gravity, heat, and impact were all drawn in, leaving no trace behind.
The Judge's fist stopped against Loren's chest, and the dark red energy around it went out the instant it touched Loren's shirt.
Like a droplet falling onto red-hot iron, it hissed before vanishing.
The Judge's white eyes widened to their limit, its pupils contracting wildly.
It had lived for tens of millions of years, yet it had never seen an existence like this.
Its full-force strike had landed on Loren, and he had not even moved.
Loren lowered his gaze to the fist pressed against his