Silence spread through the hall.
They had merely addressed one another and said nothing more.
And what an irony it was. Their former brothers and sisters had died or been destroyed, and their reunion had come under circumstances like these.
The Nightmare King said nothing. His eyes narrowed as he looked at the seventy-one pillars standing within the shattered space behind him. He saw the grotesque relief climbing the pillar that represented the Beast King, and immediately realized that the Beast King, who had only just stepped into this timeline, had already been killed once.
To have been forced to revive in this state meant that his body had been utterly obliterated. Otherwise, he could never have undergone another rebirth.
"Let's go."
He strode forward, completely ignoring Truth before the throne, and headed toward the Fourth Layer without so much as a sideways glance.
But just as he was about to pass that figure,
a golden barrier blocked their path.
The Nightmare King stopped indifferently, looked ahead, and said:
"You're going to stop me?"
The figure still held his book, his expression calm. He turned to its final page.
"This was always my Divine Kingdom, and my Divine Realm. If I say the way ahead is closed, then it is closed."
As those final words fell, the Divine Temple became so quiet that a falling pin could have been heard.
Causality's face instantly turned pale as well. This woman, who rarely betrayed any emotion no matter what happened, had lost her composure at this moment.
Because all of them knew what this meant.
The Nightmare King slowly turned his head, his expression cold.
"It seems you have a death wish."
The figure closed his book and slowly stood. As though tasting the air of liberation for the first time, he