The beam's momentum and power were more scorching than standing close to the sun!
The pillar of light erupting from below nearly blinded everyone watching and simultaneously silenced all commotion in the arena.
Even the spectators and contestants outside the arena, at the moment the stardust sphere exploded, lost almost all hearing, sight, taste, and sensation. As if struck by a divine illusion, they stared blankly at the beam, dumbfounded.
As for Hanzo and the others within the arena, facing its might directly, there was naturally even less to say.
Almost the instant the explosion occurred, all their auras vanished from the stage, as if they had evaporated.
If their thoughts hadn't also become significantly sluggish, someone quick-witted would have swiftly reported this fact to everyone.
Hanzo, Armored Gen, the heroic spirits, the two dragon souls... had all disappeared?!
No! That's not right! They seemed to still have a breath of life left! But it didn't look like they were all there…
Whether the light beam appeared and vanished quickly, or they were temporarily disoriented by the peculiar influence of the light pillar, losing their sense of time.
From the perspective of the onlookers, perhaps less than a few seconds had passed when the beam dissolved into specks of stardust, scattering and falling, coincidentally covering the entire stage.
And Hanzo and Armored Gen, who had been directly hit by the cannon blast, lay squarely on the stage, utterly immobilized as if dead.
If they hadn't retained the most basic signs of life, everyone would likely have assumed they were dead.
So powerful! They truly did their best!
This was everyone's first feeling.
To survive a direct hit from Lin Ran's bizarre and terrifying light cannon with even a sliver of life left, they were definitely beings who could be deified in their own countries.
Though they were battered and bruised, their opponent was Lin Ran!
No matter who it was, facing Lin Ran's methods, they wouldn't dare claim they could have done better than Hanzo and Gen.
But it seemed the heroic spirits and dragon souls that Hanzo had painstakingly summoned were likely annihilated…
Hmm? Wait? It seems not yet!
The observant quickly noticed the next detail.
That is, in the sky at this moment, besides the golden-yellow debris from Lin Ran's cannon, there were other energy fragments.
The most eye-catching were naturally green and blue.
And upon closer inspection, one could also see some orange-yellow fragments.
These blue, green, and orange hues mingled with the pervasive gold, gently descending with Lin Ran's cannon debris, blending together seamlessly.
Hmm… being blown to such a state, does that count as annihilation?
It should, right…
After all, the debris had lost all their life force, clearly beyond any hope of survival.
Even a tenth-tier healing awakened being would be helpless against these piles of debris, able only to glare helplessly.
Because besides Lin Ran, no one else in this world could break the world's inherent rules.
At most, they could cause minor, temporary distortions and changes based on the existing rules, and even then, at great cost.
As for feats like reviving the dead, growing flesh from bones, or conjuring endless energy out of thin air, that was clearly impossible—though Lin Ran possessed both those abilities…
So why would Lin Ran continue to use his just-recovered energy to communicate with this scattered debris?
Everyone was puzzled.
The answer to this question, it seemed, only Lin Ran himself knew.
(Yesterday, I drank too much and accidentally uploaded a draft. My apologies… I bow to all my esteemed readers! *Bang bang bang!* The chapter has now been restored and can be read with pleasure!)
And now, another region, even more frenzied than theirs by countless times, belonged to the Sakura nobles led by Tanaka Kenko and Chizuru Ginpiro.
At this moment, their expressions were a mix of stunned, ferocious, pained, gloomy, hazy, and fearful… in short, not a single one looked good.
After all, Lin Ran's attack was too earth-shattering. It not only completely shattered the entire heroic spirit legion and the dragon souls of the twin dragons, but also broke their last shred of self-esteem and dignity.
"Hey…"
"Didn't you say… that so-called power of setting is an invincible existence?"
"Uncounterable, irremovable, eternally present…"
"The maker of rules, the ruler of the universe, the most mysterious and great being in the entire world…"
"And the result? This is the result?!"
"Take a good look at your utterly idiotic power of setting! Take a good look at your brain-dead mysterious heroic spirits! Which of them truly achieved what you claimed?!"
"I knew your divine priest organization that talks a big game was unreliable! But I never expected it to be *this* unreliable!"
"Now that we've paid so much and are still being thoroughly beaten, what do you expect us to do?!"
"If you ask me, why don't we just line up one by one and beg Lin Ran for forgiveness?!"
Tanaka Kenko felt as if his head was about to be shattered by Lin Ran as well, hopping mad and yelling.
Although he only held about thirty percent belief in the power of setting that Chizuru Ginpiro spoke of with such conviction, which sounded like boasting, he didn't expect the outcome to be this bad!
Earlier, victory was stated as their most basic condition! Their considerations were only about how beautifully they would win this battle!
After all, to imbue Hanzo and Gen with the strength to fight Lin Ran, they had paid a great price. They had also specifically contacted the divine priest organization and invited the shrine of heroic spirits, considered the most unbeatable, to assist them!
The shrine of heroic spirits, capable of summoning ancient existences, was hailed by the divine priest organization that currently possessed it as the number one divine artifact in the world. As long as they invested, they were guaranteed satisfactory results!
And now? They had lost utterly! And were beaten black and blue!
Even if Tanaka Kenko couldn't understand the relationship between the flying debris and the power of setting, he could clearly sense the magic contained within!
The magical power Lin Ran displayed was surging, at least five times that of all of Hanzo's side combined, not to mention his continuous recovery and improvement!
When boasting, they all sounded more formidable than the next, but when it came to the fight, they all fell silent.
Whether it was Hanzo and Gen themselves, the dragon markings on them, or these heroic spirits that appeared so formidable and murderous, they were all a bunch of useless trash! They were all the same kind of useless!
How could he not be enraged?