Meanwhile, Dunn, too, sank into boundless darkness.
He saw that fiercely burning, illusory flame.
Has someone attacked me? That was Dunn's first reaction.
However, Dunn soon rejected that conclusion, though he did not know what had caused the scene before him.
Still, anyone capable of something like this had to be at least Legendary or above. The shuddering fear rising from deep within made Dunn feel as though a dragon brimming with malice had fixed its eyes on him.
He could not move an inch!
Even an ordinary Legendary might not be capable of this, and if such a being wanted to attack Dunn, he probably would not even have a chance to react.
And if the being responsible wanted to do something else, it should have appeared by now.
Yet at present, Dunn could see nothing except that illusory flame.
The next moment, the illusory flame abruptly surged, burning higher and higher as time passed.
It was as though invisible fuel was being thrown into it, feeding the flame.
As the flame continued to grow, Dunn vaguely caught a glint reflected from within it. It was something like a crystal.
That fleeting glimpse alone sent a chill through Dunn's entire body.
An inexplicable sense of suffocation abruptly descended. Dunn had never felt death so close.
Do not look directly upon a God!
Those words suddenly came to Dunn.
In an instant, Dunn understood. Someone was becoming a God!
That flame was divine fire!
And the crystal flickering in and out of sight within the flame was probably the godhead about to be born.
Dunn had felt death closing in precisely because he had looked directly at that godhead before it had fully formed.
The reason Dunn had not died was probably that his transcendent will had protected him.
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