In an instant.
Dragon Head's, Star Embracer's, and Extinction's pupils all contracted.
They whipped their heads around, their gazes locking onto the forty percent of the world still remaining on the reverse side of space.
"Could it be..."
And almost at the very moment they realized it.
The Archangel and the Witch God Head on the screen erupted with tremendous surges of power at the same time. Two forces, one black and one white, converged abruptly on the world's edge from two completely different directions.
In the blink of an eye.
They saw dense, web-like structures bloom across the chaotic reverse side of space. It was an enormous psionic net, woven at some unknown point. Rather than reaching deeper into the world itself, it now spread extensively around the Crimson World.
Crack-
"No!"
Star Embracer's expression changed drastically.
But by the time they noticed, it was already too late. The boundary where the reverse side of space intersected with reality acted like an enormous guillotine, easily slicing through the world's barrier as it contracted now that the barrier had lost its core's energy supply.
It was like an enormous invisible blade stretching from east to west.
The sky was instantly split in two.
One half was cut into real space, while the other remained on the reverse side of space.
The enormous invisible blade sliced easily into the earth. Countless Flesh Creatures along the dividing line were bisected by space, howling and screaming in agony.
The earth trembled. Even a hive in the sky was sliced cleanly in two as that east-to-west expanse of space descended, shattering into countless fragments that rained onto the ground.
And viewed on a broader scale.
The boundary of the enormous world, only a little over half of which had fallen into real space, was