How was that possible?!
Ether's eyes narrowed.
Lynn had been here the entire time. How could he suddenly appear hundreds of kilometers away?
Unless...
In that instant.
He immediately focused his mental power on observing Lynn's Trinity Frame, and discovered that the strength of the soul within it was pitifully weak.
He split himself?! When?!
His pupils contracted.
Without the slightest hesitation, he split off half of his Atomic Frenzy and sent it racing toward the opening Boundary Gate at top speed.
Of course he knew how terrifying the Origins under Lynn's command were.
That was precisely why he had pursued that man relentlessly. If he ever let Lynn open the gate, Lynn might immediately summon every Origin in Dark Night City.
He wasn't afraid of them.
But with the Atomic Revolution still incomplete, he couldn't allow any unforeseen developments.
But how was this possible?!
Lynn was already gravely wounded. How could he still open the gate on his own in that condition?!
But the situation no longer afforded him the luxury of thinking it through.
Because he had to nip even the slightest possibility in the bud.
Whoosh-
He crossed those hundreds of kilometers in an instant.
He saw Lynn's translucent soul standing there, saw the enormous Death Line of the Boundary Gate that Lynn was desperately forcing open across the sky.
Yet the moment he moved to stop him, a cold smile suddenly appeared on that Lynn's face.
"Wrong! I can't open the gate!"
Buzz-
Almost at the very instant Lynn's soul finished speaking, the Death Line above his head collapsed into a singularity. The tremendous backlash caused that singularity to explode violently, and the spatial waves unleashed by the explosion tore Lynn's soul directly beneath it to pieces on the spot.
That terrifying explosion also forced that