Within Ether's spirit world, Lynn was completing the seal when he, too, sensed the terrifying mobilization of power outside. Yet his expression did not change. His eyes flickered, as though he had known all along that this would happen.
"As expected."
"You were still waiting for me."
Lynn's gaze burned.
"If I couldn't seal Ether, were you not going to act? I knew it. No matter how weakened you were, I never believed that one of the Three Pillar Gods who had opened the New World could be shaken by Ether's true form!"
"So this was your goal all along?!"
At the border of the vast chaotic colors.
Ether's immense true form, which had been relentlessly battering the border, seemed to sense something in that instant.
Expressions of suspicion, anger, betrayal, and terror kept surfacing within the silver fluid.
It was as though, in a single instant,
the lifeless chaotic colors had come alive.
Clatter-clatter-clatter-
Countless chains seemed to shoot out of those colors, piercing the silver sphere.
Scarlet lightning and black mist, laden with Hell's curses, rolled over his body.
Like a terrifying predator opening her scarlet eyes.
"You weren't weakened..."
A murmuring voice came from within the enormous silver sphere.
"You were never... weakened... Your target was always..."
"Me!"
The furious voice of Ether's true form nearly broke through Hell's Border.
So that was it!
So that was it!
Or rather, when exactly had it begun?!
Ever since she began her flight, ever since she lost her clash with that expanse of calamity and fled in disgrace, had she already been planning all of this?!
Rumble-
The enormous mass of silver fluid immediately began to shift.
He desperately tried to break away from the chaotic colors.
But it was already too late.
The vast chaotic colors gradually turned