Starting from Ainz Ooal Gown, simultaneously traveling through time

The black sun hung high in the sky, radiating an ominous glow that sent chills down one's spine.

It shrouded the land below in an eerie light and shadow.

At this moment, both the human soldiers below who were on high alert and the undead who exuded a chilling aura all changed their expressions drastically.

They looked up at the terrifying, mind-blowing object in the sky.

Benjeri, who was the first to be hit, managed to force out an almost "ferocious" expression on his usually stiff, undead face.

Within the four eye sockets of the two heads, the fire of the soul pulsed with unprecedented intensity.

His expression revealed extreme shock and... a hint of barely perceptible fear.

"Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!" His hoarse voice was distorted by his emotional turmoil.

"What kind of power is this?! It doesn't belong to magic, nor to any known ability..."

What struck him as odd was that the humans below, including the king who was being protected by the gray-robed man, did not seem to directly feel the terrifying pressure of this power.

But he, as the one directly bearing the "gaze" of this black sun, clearly felt the destructive pull and tearing!

Wherever the light of the black sun reached, the laws of physics seemed to wail and twist.

The air was violently pulled and ionized by an invisible force, producing a faint crackling sound.

Fine dust and gravel on the ground are uncontrollably suspended in the air, and are then crushed into even finer dust.

All kinds of elemental energy floating in space, whether active fire or serene earth, are like leaves falling into a vortex, brutally sucked into the dark core, and then completely decomposed and annihilated.

Benjer felt his body, constructed of pure negative energy and ancient magic, groaning under the strain.

The invisible force of gravity was like billions of cold steel needles, trying to dismantle him at a microscopic level.

The black sun emitted an eerie "light" and "heat".

If that can be called photothermal.

The light and the tropics bring a contradictory pain, as if the soul is about to be frozen and then thrown into a furnace to be roasted.

"Just being 'shined' has such a terrifying tearing force... I can't get any closer!"

Alarm bells rang in his mind as he struggled against the force pulling him toward the heart of darkness.

He clearly recognized that this black sun was not a static landscape, but a continuously operating "crusher".

To drag everything within its reach into eternal nothingness.

"We cannot sit idly by and wait to die!" Benjerry's pride as an ancient immortal and his survival instinct forced him to suppress the shock and unease in his heart.

With all six arms outstretched, an immense deathly power converged at an unprecedented intensity, and the tips of three of his arms glowed with a dark light that could freeze one's soul.

"【Triple Magic Enhancement • Eighth-Rank Magic • Instant Death Ray】!"

Without any probing, he immediately unleashed the killing move he could at that moment, a move that combined speed and instant death!

Three thick, pillar-like, extremely condensed gray-black rays tore through space and shot out in a triangular pattern.

Not only did it seal off all possible evasion angles for the gray-robed man, but the "instant death" ability inherent in the ray itself was also a terrifying threat that would kill anyone who touched it!

However, faced with an attack that could instantly annihilate even the strongest warriors in the Hero Realm, the mysterious gray-robed man with golden eyes remained standing still, without even moving an inch.

He simply adjusted his posture slightly to better protect the king behind him.

The next second, a scene that Benjerry would never forget unfolded.

The three rapidly approaching, deadly rays slowed abruptly upon entering the core area shrouded in the black sun's light, as if they had crashed into an invisible, viscous quagmire.

Immediately afterwards, the ray itself began to twist and deform, and the pure death magic and instant death rules that constituted its existence were roughly kneaded and torn apart by an unseen giant hand!

Sizzle—!

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a faint sound like ice and snow melting.

The three eighth-tier instant-death rays were forcibly "decomposed," "stripped away," and "annihilated" right before Benjerry's eyes by the distorting force field emanating from the black sun!

Starting with the most threatening arrow, it crumbled inch by inch, turning into the most primitive and disordered energy flow, which was then greedily absorbed by the black sun and disappeared without a trace.

"This...!" Benjer's remaining head also showed a look of horror.

One of his most prized attacks was completely neutralized by the eerie black sun before he could even get close to his opponent!

"He can shatter even eighth-tier magic so easily... what else could possibly harm him?"

At this point, the last glimmer of hope in Benjerry's heart was completely extinguished.

He withstood the Pain Wave unscathed and easily neutralized the Instant Death Ray.

Add to that this completely incomprehensible black sun, seemingly possessing an inherent realm of "absolute defense" and "returning all things to nothingness"...

The strength of this mysterious enemy has completely exceeded his comprehension, reaching a level that is probably only comparable to the legendary "Dragon King" level!

"We cannot fight them! We must evacuate immediately!" As immortals who have lived for countless years, assessing the situation and preserving oneself is always the top priority.

Recruiting powerful new members or demonstrating the majesty of the Abyss becomes meaningless in the face of survival.

In a flash, Benjerry no longer hesitated and immediately prepared to use spatial magic to escape.

However, the gray-robed man seemed to have seen through his intentions.

A gray shadow flashed, almost defying the laws of spatial movement. The gray-robed figure instantly traversed a distance of tens of meters, appearing directly in front of Benjeri like a ghost!

The speed was so fast that even Benjerry, who was skilled at instant magic, was a beat slow in thinking.

"【Family Summoning • Displacement】!" In the critical moment, Benjerry used a life-saving secret technique.

This is not a summoning out of thin air, but an instantaneous swap of positions between oneself and a powerful familiar.

With a flash of light, the Death Knight, who was fighting Ares below and was in a rather sorry state, suddenly appeared in Benjerry's original position, facing the gray-robed man directly.

Ben Jerry appeared at the edge of the battlefield below.

The Death Knight was suddenly summoned here, a hint of confusion flashing in his crimson soulfire.

But his long-standing fighting instincts made him immediately raise his giant shield and swing his shadow scimitar, attempting to block the unfamiliar and powerful enemy before him.

The grey-robed man's response was shockingly simple.

His free right hand reached under his gray robe, and when he stretched it out again, he held a long, straight, and beautifully curved sword.

The blade gleamed coldly, and near the guard was an elegant inscription: "The evil spirits lurk in the Spider Mountain at night."

—Famous sword: Spider Cutter.

Without any fancy opening moves, the gray-robed man simply twisted his wrist slightly and slashed forward.

The blade flashed like the cold moonlight, disappearing in an instant.

Click!

A crisp, teeth-grinding cracking sound rang out.

The Death Knight's massive tower shield, capable of withstanding the frontal impact of a heavy battering ram, along with its proud, ancient black armor that is impervious to blades and spears, and the incredibly resilient undead body beneath the armor.

This knife sliced ​​him cleanly and neatly in two from his shoulder to his waist!