Under countless eyes, just as the two sides reached a perfect balance, continually merging even as they resisted each other, Great Sage Bell let out a shriek from the sidelines.
"Something's wrong. These two completely different powers are rapidly merging—or rather, neutralizing each other."
"If this continues, these two divine authorities will cancel each other out like fire meeting water. When that happens, this ascension ritual will fail completely."
"All the divine authority and power the sisters have acquired will collapse, turning into a heap of utterly chaotic, twisted garbage as they continue to neutralize each other."
"At this rate, the two of them will soon become indistinguishable. Their bodies and souls might even merge into one under the influence of these divine authorities."
"When that happens, these sisters will be in an even worse state than the Twins are now."
Just then, the sharp-eyed Iron Root suddenly spotted something strange ahead.
A Time Rift abruptly appeared, and someone familiar to the Players emerged.
It was a pale young man with dark circles under his eyes, wearing a white lab coat.
None other than Dr. Anxiety of the Heat Death Research Institute.
A faint smile curled Dr. Anxiety's lips. "As expected of Great Sage Bell. Your insight into this field is reasonably sharp."
"Unfortunately, it's already too late!"
The next second, Dr. Anxiety took out an embryo steeped in mutation and gore.
The instant the embryo appeared, it let out a series of eerie, distorted shrieks.
As those shrieks erupted, every Player was plunged into a grotesquely twisted mountain of corpses and sea of blood.
In that world, countless twisted infants crawled across the ground, swelling, mutating, rotting, and exploding.
Anything contaminated by those creatures rapidly dissolved!
This bizarre ability was so powerful that every ordinary Player succumbed to it.