In the void, the Azure Nether Sword Light suddenly flared brilliantly. Terrifying clear sword radiance surged in every direction, descending with a force that blotted out the heavens and covered the earth.
Accompanied by a thunderous roar, the sword light shredded sky and earth alike. Space collapsed, ripples surged, and all that met the eye was a blurred, chaotic vortex.
Between heaven and earth, the terrifying and ferocious rifts left by the sword light remained frozen in place, lingering for a long while.
The Black Scaled Giant Python coiled around Planet Pandora let out a mournful cry. Its body flashed with sword scars before turning into a scepter and returning to Russell's side.
After it departed, a straight vertical line lit up across the motionless Planet Pandora, and the planet slowly split into two along that line.
The instant the planet shattered, earth, fire, water, and wind abruptly rose up, and the order of all things completely collapsed.
Starting from where Planet Pandora had been, the azure blue first distorted. Then, like a virus invading the world, a grid of black, white, and gray spread outward, radiating through the cosmic void and rapidly collapsing beyond recovery.
"A false world..."
Russell murmured, then swung another sword light backward to shatter the void, accelerating this world's destruction.
Faintly, the sound of breaking glass rang out.
The scene before him shifted, and Russell moved from the starry universe outside Planet Pandora to the skies above a city.
There was not a soul on the empty streets. There was neither wind nor insect song in the distant forests and mountains. Everything was deathly silent, like an empty instance dungeon that programmers had yet to populate with program code such as NPCs.
Opposite him, the duplicate clutched its shoulder. One arm was gone, and its