The man slowly extended a hand.
The next second, the giant tornado connecting heaven and earth shrank rapidly before their very eyes, like a colossal beast seized by the throat!
One kilometer... five hundred meters... one hundred meters... fifty meters... ten meters... one meter!
In just a few breaths, that apocalyptic storm capable of leveling cities and fortresses was forcibly compressed into a miniature cyclone, which drifted tamely into his open palm.
He abruptly clenched his fingers, and with a soft pop, the cyclone instantly dispersed into nothing.
The corners of Janus's mouth curved upward. His smile grew increasingly unrestrained, finally becoming uncontrollable laughter that made his entire face look somewhat crazed.
"Hahahaha! Power... this is true power!"
He flung his arms wide, and two raging tornadoes instantly formed out of thin air at his sides.
With a fierce sweep of his hands, the wind columns swelled, expanding to ten meters in an instant, and continued greedily devouring the surrounding air as they grew.
Then he slammed his palms together. As though obeying an absolute command, the two tornadoes crashed together and instantly merged into a terrifying storm a hundred meters in diameter, its raging wind blades once again shredding the remaining ice around him.
Once he grew bored, he made a loose pinching motion with both hands. As though crushed from above and below by an invisible, primordial giant hand, the enormous tornado forcibly collapsed inward, compressing until it vanished without a trace, leaving only a devastated stretch of sea.
Janus drew a deep breath of bone-chilling air and looked down at his feet.
With a thought, a small cyclone formed beneath his feet, becoming an invisible, rapidly spinning platform that steadily lifted his body.
Riding the miniature tornado as though walking on level ground, he slowly rose into