The vast City was brought to a halt.
At that moment.
Time itself seemed to freeze. The frenzied, desperate sounds of the King Beasts fighting filled their ears. Half an hour had vanished in a flash, sending their ranks plummeting.
Countless Polluters were torn to ashes, but the enormous Boundary Gate rumbling open was like a bottomless abyss, impossible to stop, impossible to hold back.
Lynn still stood calmly before the Throne.
His left hand clutched the front of his clothes with all her strength, trembling violently.
It seemed to be an attempt to comfort him.
Or a promise never to abandon him, even if everything spiraled out of control.
"Brain, I'll stay with you until the very last moment. I will!"
Zuo Zuo's voice sounded beside his ear through gritted teeth, like a warm current sweeping through his heart.
Lynn closed his eyes.
He tightened his grip on the Trident.
"Thank you, Zuo Zuo. But we haven't reached the last moment, and this isn't the end."
At that moment.
His eyes snapped open. Without the slightest hesitation, he strode toward the Throne before him, turned sharply, and, as Zuo Zuo trembled violently, sat upon the bloodstained Throne.
Hum-
His soul instantly connected to the authority beneath him, and his will spread across the entire Endless Sea in that same instant.
"Brain!!"
Zuo Zuo screamed.
But she could no longer stop him.
Lynn's gaze held neither joy nor disturbance as he seated himself upon the blood-red Throne that represented the Western Sea's supreme authority.
The Restriction within the Throne was instantly triggered. Almost the very moment he sat down, he clearly felt a destructive power of chaos surging into his soul, as though it would destroy and annihilate everything he was.
Yet he still made no move, nor offered any