Chapter 231: Manifested Bronze-Level Combat Power (Fourth Update — Begging for Full Subscriptions!)

Jane did not hesitate. The moment she counted to three, her right fingertip also touched the sealed Aether particles at that very instant.

The next second.

Like thick, viscous blood, as if possessed of life, the Aether particles surged forth, almost instantly wrapping around Jane's finger.

In less than the span of a blink, one-third of the Aether particles, like a tide, rushed into Jane's body.

At the same time.

The moment Jane counted to three, Hawk also arrived at her side at top speed.

The instant he set off, the device sealing the Aether particles began to flicker with electric arcs, intending to blast on the spot this outsider who had trespassed into the sealed ground.

But...

Just as the device's electric arc was about to fire, the Aether particles of the sealed ground had already escaped entirely.

Accompanied by a tremendous roar, the device sealing the Aether particles snapped shut in an instant.

The sealed object successfully escaping naturally also symbolized the shattering of the seal.

In an instant.

The sealing device failed. The Aether particles that had escaped from the sealed ground madly wanted to surge into Jane's body, and at that very moment, Hawk appeared, pushed Jane aside, and intercepted the remaining two-thirds of the Aether particles.

Whoosh!

The dark-red, thick-blood-like Aether particles swarmed in, like living things, and like a galloping tide, began to sweep through every corner of Hawk's body.

The side effect of the Reality Stone.

Parasitism, draining the life force of its user.

The Aether particles entering his body were greedily absorbing Hawk's own life force at a ravenous pace.

The next moment.

Hawk opened his own Cosmos. With a single thought, that viscous, scorching sensation of the Aether particles instantly, like a tide, crashed thunderously into his Cosmos.

In an instant.

Under the impact of these tide-like crimson Aether particles, the Cosmos was like a calm lake into which a massive boulder had been hurled.

After falling into the Cosmos, the Aether particles, like ripples spreading across a calm lake, began to diffuse toward every corner of the Cosmos.

Just then.

A phoenix cry rang out. The Heart of the Phoenix, which had gone all-in early and merged with Hawk's Cosmos, opened its eyes. Amid the sweep of phoenix fire, the phoenix emerged from the flames, spread its wings and cried aloud, and in that instant the scorching phoenix fire also swept through the entire Cosmos.

The phoenix fire instantly collided with the liquefied Aether particles of the Reality Stone.

"Screee—"

With the collision of the two, a crimson fire took shape, formed from the fusion of the phoenix fire's scarlet hue and the Aether particles' crimson hue.

"Boom—"

With the appearance of the crimson fire, in an instant Hawk's Cosmos once again staged a scene like the Big Bang of the universe.

The Cosmos was twisting.

The Cosmos was exploding.

Immediately after—

The Cosmos was expanding!

As the crimson fire, born of the fusion of phoenix fire and Aether particles, spread rapidly, it seemed that in the skill of a blink, his Cosmos was born anew.

A vast Cosmos, geometrically larger than before, was born.