But he knew he could not die.
Because by now, he had long since stopped living for himself alone.
The burden on his shoulders had grown far, far too heavy!
In that instant.
Lynn abruptly tightened his grip on the Trident, ready to transfer himself into its strange internal space at the very last moment before death arrived.
But before he could act.
His pupils suddenly dilated.
There in the darkness.
It was like a speck of azure light, like a comet streaking across a pitch-black sky, growing larger and larger before his eyes.
In a single instant.
He felt a hand, both familiar and unfamiliar, clasp his wrist.
He wanted to turn, wanted to look.
But he had no time to see clearly. Like a bolt of azure lightning, a meteor cutting through the darkness, that azure figure seized his wrist beneath the crushing pressure of Mount Tai and pulled him out of that terrifying darkness at an unimaginable speed.
Rumble-
The earth shook, the sky collapsed, and the ground caved in.
Ether's heavy stomp drove almost the entire stretch of land down a thousand meters, even opening fissures in the tectonic plates that stretched for hundreds of kilometers.
Terrifying shock waves obliterated everything around them, as though the apocalypse had arrived.
And at that very moment.
Lynn forced his eyes open amid the destruction.
Then he froze.
He raised his head. At some point, a girl had appeared before him, shielding him.
Dense blue light flowed over her body. Every mechanical component was as intricate as the world's most perfect creation. An azure glow spread across her entire body as her machinery worked, and the flames from the engines on her back gradually died out. Beneath the azure helmet, its numbers flickering, a face both familiar and unfamiliar