"It worked!"
As the black hole formed, delight immediately spread across Lin Yuan's face.
His judgment had been correct!
The most important part of creating an Energy Black Hole was the annihilation when the energies first collided.
And making energies annihilate one another required a "catalyst."
Two ordinary forces, even of the same order, remained clearly distinct because their fundamental natures differed.
Even if they canceled and wore each other down, the process was slow, nowhere near annihilation.
To make forces annihilate one another, a "bridge" was needed to eliminate the divide between them as much as possible.
With no divide between them, two forces of the same order would cancel each other out tens of millions of times faster than normal. That was annihilation!
But building that "bridge" was no easy task.
Lin Yuan and Minglong had managed to create Energy Black Holes several times because both their powers originated from A-rank Energy.
Authorities born from A-rank Energy naturally shared certain similarities.
That was what allowed Lin Yuan's and Minglong's powers to achieve annihilation so easily.
With anyone else, it would not have been so easy.
Different Authority Powers represented different rules, their fundamental natures entirely distinct.
Building a bridge between two Authority Powers required a force that could easily influence, or even merge into, different Authority Powers.
As it happened, the power of war was precisely such a force.
As an Authority that helped other powers rapidly ascend, the power of war naturally had an extremely high affinity with the vast majority of Authorities.
It was perfectly suited to serving as a "bridge."
When the Lord of Storms fought Lin Yuan, the early signs of an Energy Black Hole had appeared not only because the power of war raised the order of his storm Authority, but also because