But Lynn's eyes flashed.
As though he had known all along that it would turn out this way.
In an instant.
Ether suddenly felt an overwhelming sense of danger surge from deep within him, and his pupils contracted.
This is bad!
Because the true purpose of Lynn's attack had never been to land a hit, nor had it been the Coffin Beyond Time in his hands. It was what he had released from within the coffin!
Chaos!!
Buzzzz-!
It was an almost omnidirectional bombardment with no blind spots. Vast amounts of chaos poured from the Coffin Beyond Time, instantly forming a terrifying domain dozens of meters across before him, like a pitch-black full moon.
Ether tried to dodge, but caught so completely off guard, he was already too late.
Almost instantly, half his body was tainted by the pollution of chaos.
"Aaargh-!!"
In an instant, a deafening, savage howl resounded throughout the Great Rifts.
His gaze turned ferocious.
Had it been an ordinary attack, he would not have cared at all. But within the Material Universe, chaos was the antithesis of almost all matter and energy, an absolute natural disaster that even deities dared not touch! It was the absolute dark side that could melt even rules!
Chaos rapidly dissolved hole after hole across the surface of his body.
As though it had found the most delicious food.
It crawled greedily over him.
But his reaction speed was equally astonishing. Almost the very instant chaos touched him, he severed nearly half his own body with unimaginable speed, freeing himself from its pollution.
Yet almost simultaneously, his gaze suddenly met Lynn's sharp, calm eyes as Lynn stood unharmed amid the chaos.
And the crystal fragment pulsing with mental power in his hand!
[Mind Rules Crystal]!
Boom-
They were far too close