750. Collapse

The Sword Saint fought desperately to maintain the sea wall built from the entire ocean. Yet as Kees's mutation intensified, anomalies began spreading from its body.

Abyssal Rifts split open Kees's flesh and spread in every direction.

They were not cracks in the earth, nor Rifts in space. Wherever they spread, the rules there began to collapse.

When they touched the sky, the sky lost its color, fading from azure to ashen white.

When they touched the earth, gravity began to run wild. Broken stones floated up, seawater rolled backward into the air, and up, down, left, and right could no longer be told apart.

When they touched the sea wall, one of the towering walls condensed with the power of the Scepter of the Ocean suddenly flickered. Then, under the Sword Saint's stunned gaze, it vanished entirely.

It had not been torn open. It had disappeared, as if that wall had never existed at all.

The Sword Saint had no time to be shocked. The trash information leaking from the Abyss had already surged into his mind.

Countless fragmented characters, noises, twisted perceptions, and incomprehensible symbols all mixed together.

Although he had only come into contact with the tiniest bit of what had leaked out, his thoughts felt as though they had been filled with lead, becoming unbearably sluggish. Every single thought took every ounce of strength to drag out of the mire, to the point that he could no longer even control his own body.

The Scepter of the Ocean slipped weakly from his tentacles. Without its support, the sea wall collapsed with a thunderous roar, turning into monstrous waves that smashed down head-on toward those below.

Sophia and the others farther away were no better off. Everyone clutched their heads, bitterly holding on to the last of