They basked in the protection of darkness and calamity, greedily devouring every planet and every trace of laws in the Main Universe, clinging to this shattered world like maggots burrowing into bone.
Until that moment, when they saw Lynn.
Whoosh-
Like countless flocks of crows suddenly taking flight, they blotted out the sky in a shrieking tide.
And this battle would be the final obstacle on his way to that battlefield.
Hum-
Lynn drank to mark his departure. His gaze blazed as he drained the entire flask of wine and gripped his tightly sheathed blade.
Like a traveler boldly marching to his death, he strode straight into the endless Dark Tide.
Every sweep of his blade's light left countless nightmares dead beneath his scabbard. With every step forward, innumerable nightmares burned to nothing in the scarlet flames.
He was like a flame in the darkness.
Even the endless tide surging toward him could not stop his advance.
Boom-
One slash swept across a hundred thousand miles.
The flames left a long trail through the void behind him. He would slay any god or Buddha that stood in his path.
Far away in the void, on worlds whose stars had yet to go out, one person after another raised their heads to look at the pitch-black sky. That glimmer was like the dawn piercing the night, carving a long corridor of blood across the black canvas toward the deepest reaches of the darkness.
And after this departure.
When would they meet again?
Boom-
In that azure world, the towering Mage Tower had long since been reduced to shattered walls and rubble.
The cracked earth, the broken sky-everything foretold the outcome of this bloody battle. The sky abruptly split open once more, and a gigantic black hand descended upon that figure,