"Hmph."
Ether narrowed his eyes.
As the colossal sword spanning the sky swept toward him, Ether's body instantly dissolved into countless streams of mercury-like fluid, engulfing the sapling in the garden and dodging that heaven-cleaving, earth-shattering strike.
Crack-
He tore space apart with his bare hands.
The long stream of Ether surged into the tear.
"I'm done playing with you. Once I've devoured this Origin, we can take our time playing again."
The corners of his mouth curled upward.
But the instant he entered the Spatial Rift, an icy voice suddenly rang in his ears.
"Do you think you can come and go here as you please?"
In an instant.
Sweet Music Box melodies abruptly rang throughout the Hall.
Ether's expression suddenly changed.
For in that split second.
The sapling wrapped in his mercury-like fluid underwent a massive calamity. Dense masses of wildly thrashing trunks and branches burst through his body with a rustling roar. The Mother Tree of Desire's sapling he had enveloped erupted into turmoil.
Black threads of the curse emerged from the shadows, locking the sapling he had enveloped in place like chains.
Bzzz-
The silvery fluid was dragged straight out of the Spatial Rift by those black threads of the curse.
"Damn it!"
He jerked his head up, his eyes savage.
But before he could act again, an invisible giant hand tore open the Sanctuary's roof overhead. With the massive Psychic Giant's assault, the Twelve Wings Archangel shot inside like lightning, bringing the Blade down on him with a metallic clang.
"Dollhouse!"
Lynn's icy voice rang out.
Invisible threads instantly bound Ether, wrenching him out from beneath the Sanctuary.
But in the blink of an eye.
Ether's body dissolved once more into countless streams of fluid and an atomic storm, swiftly escaping the Dollhouse's control. The