At that moment, Lynn said nothing.
But the standoff ended swiftly. No one even saw exactly how Lynn struck. In almost the same instant, the fiercely burning blackfire became a World-Splitting slash and, beneath his almost merciless gaze, crashed into the shadow.
It was like swords ringing in unison, like a collision between heaven and earth that could only have existed during genesis.
Towering blackfire surged across the entire void within sight, like rumbling black clouds, bearing fury and cold as it crushed down upon the shadow.
Yet he actually blocked that world-destroying slash!
Beneath the raging blackfire, fierce winds sent his black robe snapping. A terrifying power from that calamity emanated from his body, forming a sky-obscuring darkness behind him in an instant. That power, which seemed to embody eternal oblivion, proclaimed its own interpretation of finality, just as he did.
BOOM-
In that moment of collision and confrontation, the two powers tore an immense scar through the turbulent void, as though it stretched across the dream.
Zuo Zuo could not help letting out a piercing scream.
Even the mere trace of power that reached her made her feel as though she could be scattered at any moment. Without Lynn's protection, no living being could possibly have survived such world-destroying aftershocks.
At that moment, even the entire River of Time was violently affected.
"I understand."
"You saved my subordinates' lives. With power and concepts of this magnitude, you have indeed earned the right to challenge my lord. This truly is no longer something they can contend with."
As the wind died away, the black-robed figure fell toward the flowing River of Time like a kite with a severed string, his body being eaten away by the blackfire amid the collision's aftershocks.
But even with blackfire ravaging his body, he