As soon as the tenth petal of the Rose of Endless Rebirth unfurled, all the accumulated energy within it surged into the Zero-State Spear. The Death Energy inside the weapon erupted, shining like a dark supernova.
The sudden rise in power caught the High Lord and the Champions of the Root by surprise; even beings who had fought through the void felt their instincts scream in terror. Every fiber of their existence demanded they flee, but they were far too slow. The Red King had already moved.
The spear carved a semicircle through the air, striking the warriors gathered before him. The impact triggered an explosion so immense that the entire sixth layer of the Heart of the Root trembled as if on the brink of collapse.
Waves of destruction radiated outward, consuming sky and earth alike, dissolving countless mountains of corpses, and severely weakening the psychic energies that saturated this layer of the living tumor.
