An expanse of darkness of unimaginable depth suddenly appeared in the vast universe.
Starlight streaming in from infinitely far away fell into this shattered space.
As though it had fallen into a black hole, it vanished without a trace.
This region of absolute darkness encompassed an area a hundred million kilometers across.
Since the universe was three-dimensional, a more precise description would have been a spherical region of absolute darkness.
The spherical region's edges were perfectly smooth, as though sliced by an impossibly sharp blade!
Since no light could escape from within it or reflect off its surface, it appeared strangely flat to the naked eye-a perfect circle, no matter which angle it was viewed from.
This elegant spacetime structure did not last long.
Spacetime's ability to repair itself was on full display.
Its smooth, unbroken edges lasted only a few seconds before turning ragged.
Then those ragged edges began steadily encroaching inward-the spherical region created by Spatial Annihilation was shrinking at tremendous speed.
At the edge of the unnamed stellar system.
The Golden Crow battleships, White Tiger frigates, and Chiyou planetary fortresses entered combat mode simultaneously!
Inside their hulls, the power output of more than a dozen Antimatter Reactors surged in an instant!
Pure energy poured through the Energy Conduits into the Spatial Rift Generators installed in the forward sections of the ships!
At first, there was only a tiny, fathomless fissure.
In the blink of an eye, it extended in both directions, becoming an immense rift tens of kilometers long!
The next instant, this spatial rift struck toward a relatively small spherical warship like a bolt of lightning!
By the moment the spatial rift vanished from the observable universe, its speed had already exceeded 3,000c!
The shattered spacetime gradually became smooth again.
The sphere of fathomless darkness