Chapter 974 – Sealed Spring [Part 3]
Lux's fingers tightened.
"Sovereign compression. Now."
[Compression Attempt Failed]
[Target Has Established Core Contact]
[Warning: Entity Control Over Spring Core Increasing]
The Devourer lifted the glowing core toward its mouth.
Sira bared her teeth. "Stop it!"
Lux lunged.
Yue moved with him.
But the creature did not eat the core.
It crushed it.
The orb shattered in its claw.
For one impossible moment, everyone froze.
Blue-white fragments burst outward like glass stars. Sacred mana spilled into the air, not flowing upward, not returning to the spring, but breaking apart into countless shards of living hunger.
Ely whispered, "Did it just…"
"Suicide?" Gula finished, voice thin.
Lux's eyes sharpened. "No."
Each shattered piece hit the ground.
Each one sank into stone, root, moss, ash, or water.
Then they grew.
Small forms rose from the fragments.
Not as large as the Devourer.
But many.
Too many.
