Dead silence spread.
The Beast King's bone claws had snapped under that last blow, but he seemed not to notice. His enormous dragon head slowly turned from the direction of the Seventh Layer with a series of cracks, his black eye sockets fixing on Lynn.
The broken bone claws rapidly regrew before his eyes.
His attention settled entirely on Lynn.
There was no doubt.
He, too, had realized that reaching the Seventh Layer without defeating the Raven before him was no longer realistic.
The enormous skeletal dragon head worked its jaws.
Buzz-
He changed his target completely.
Space tore open. His speed increased nearly twentyfold compared to before, reaching a point where even Lynn could barely react. In a flash, his sharp bone claws were already reflected in Lynn's pupils, shooting straight toward his neck to kill him.
But this time, Lynn did not dodge.
Just as the bone claws were about to pierce his neck, his lips moved, and at that same instant, brilliant light burst from between his brows.
"Dream."
Buzz-
Golden ripples shone into reality, spilling from the deepest reaches of his eyes like water from a golden spring.
They enveloped hundreds of meters around him in an instant!
At that moment, the dream shone into reality!
The enormous skeletal body stopped, and the sharp bone claws froze within the golden ripples. This was not Time Stop. He had intruded into another domain, one utterly different from this world.
The darkness within the skeletal eye sockets still churned, and the enormous body still tried to struggle.
Every movement sent thunderous rumbling through the golden dream.
His strength and standing had reached a terrifying level.
Even with the golden dream fully unfurled, it still struggled to restrain him.
But Lynn's expression did not change.
His gaze blazed, and