Crack-
It sounded like the hum and snap of some will being abruptly severed.
As Lin En's words fell, she instantly felt as though she had plunged into a raging whirlpool. The avatar within the Black Sword was caught in that terrifying pull and, with an overwhelmingly domineering force that allowed no resistance, torn out of the Black Sword's vessel in an instant.
She barely had time to let out a shriek before her consciousness sank completely into darkness.
It was an intense terror.
As though an invisible hand had seized her consciousness, violently snapped the thread connecting her to her true self, and dragged her into a bottomless extradimensional space.
Bzz-
Her vision went black.
Almost at that same moment.
Somewhere in the Ninth Layer of the Spirit Realm, a piercing scream suddenly shook the vast heavens.
That cry, filled with unbearable agony, sent the sea of blood surging and boiling for hundreds of thousands of kilometers around. Countless servants of hers fell apart the instant they heard her voice, their souls nearly shattering.
Deep within the sea of blood.
A black fissure appeared across the manifestation of the Red Moon at that very same moment, like a hideous scar forcibly torn into it.
"Master! What's happened to you?!"
Her servants were terrified.
Only after a long while did the terrifying upheaval gradually subside.
A voice trembling with extreme hatred came from within the Red Moon.
"This is impossible... absolutely impossible! What exactly is he?! Where did he come from?!"
Her connection to her avatar had been severed.
As though a piece of her soul had been gouged out by force, she had completely lost contact with that avatar.
When she abruptly opened her eyes, the terror in them was greater than ever before.
Everything