The moment Jacob took down the Machina Unit of the Timeless City, in an unknown place filled with dense, ethereal scarlet mist, a pair of horrifying eyes sprang open.
"The Timeless City of Middle Plains has lost its Prime Machina Unit? And we can’t even establish a connection or retrieve the data anymore?!" The cryptic voice sounded with absolute shock.
"Even if someone destroyed the Spirit Core, the data should be retrievable in the hidden substituted Machina Unit, yet nothing was transformed?! Since when did those SNIM Race slaves become so capable!?
"Furthermore, until the substitute Machina Unit established itself, the Constants in the middle plains couldn’t establish contact with Upper Plains through Anarchy, and the traditional method cost too much. This mess will take thousands of years to clean...at least the Primary Timeless Hourglass wasn’t there. Nonetheless, since when did we, ATLAS, have suffered such a blow before?!"
The voice was filled with fury and a hint of disbelief as the mist around churned violently.
"Whoever did this, even if they are the Three Absolutes, humph. I need to report this to a ’Marquis’. The Middle Plains has become extremely chaotic recently, and others have been meddling too much. I need to save my own skin, you all are on your own!"
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The moment the Spirit Core vanished into Jacob’s Infinite Space, a cataclysmic tremor spread across the city.
The dark skies, cloaked in radiation mist, suddenly cracked like fragile glass. Thin fissures of chaotic light and distortion shimmered across the entire city, revealing glimpses of the Chaotic Time Distortion Space writhing beyond.
An ominous groan echoed from the city’s foundation. It was the death call of the formation, deprived of its heart, the Machina Unit!
Now that Jacob had claimed the Spirit Core and lost its connection with the city formation, the calamity was just outside the door.
The ground shook violently.
From the epicenter, where Jacob stood, everything was in ruins, and there was nothing worth taking, for the Spirit Core had already used everything to fight Jacob.
Without any hesitation, Jacob jumped out of the secret floor. At this moment, his cold gaze swept across the panicking masses of Constant fleeing from every direction. He also saw the cracking skies.
Without a single word, Jacob took a step forward. That step boomed with a deafening resonance as his body suddenly expanded into a colossal form, surging to 110 meters tall.
This was the actual size of his body without the suppression of the Fighting Giant Spirit’s Combat Gigantification. It has been a long time since Jacob has shown this form.
His black robe fluttered violently around his gigantic frame. As for the reason for Jacob revealing this form, his eyes were fixed on the Timeless Tower, which was now trembling in place.
Jacob’s massive hand reached out. With a flex of sheer might, his fingers gripped the already cracked structure, and he used his full power as his fingers dug into the tower walls...with a growl of effort...
CRACKKKKKKKKK!
The Timeless Tower was ripped from its roots like a tree from the earth. The formations failed to resist his brute force, nor could they because there wasn’t anything to activate them. Stone and metal fragments rained as Jacob raised it above his head.
Then—Shuup!
It disappeared into his Infinite Space, vanishing like it never existed.
Some fleeing Constants witnessed this scene, and they were flabbergasted before screams and shouts echoed across the collapsing city.
"W-who is that Giant!?"
"A MONSTER!"
"Was it him behind all of this?!"
"FOOL RUN! The formation is crumbling—"
"He probably destroyed the City Core! We’re finished!"
But there was nowhere to run, and even if there were a way, they would need Jacob’s permission first.
The next moment, Jacob’s giant body suddenly turned purple as he was wrapped in lightning law. He moved like an executioner through a field of sheep. Each swing of his arm, each step of his foot, was a massacre.
A single swipe of his hand shattered buildings in his path, and with it, over thirty fleeing Barons were pulverized into blood mist.
He sent a lightning bolt filled with lightning law towards a fleeing flying ship, exploding it into flames.
The next moment, Jacob’s fist was wrapped within a huge lightning blob, and then he pushed out, releasing unimaginable destructive waves of lightning that crushed everything into bits.
Jacob released one powerful move after another without any care about who he killed or injured because they were all constants. As they died, Jacob’s cursed heart instantly plunder their hourglasses.
In Jacob’s eyes, they were nothing but Lifespan. He knew the city was soon going to be destroyed as the residual power in the formation was dropping. So, he reaps Constants, and not just them; he plunders everything.
Vaults, treasure chambers, space treasures—all stolen mid-battle, absorbed into his infinite space like a cosmic vacuum devouring the city’s riches.
Despite his dropping power, Jacob never spotted, the Constants never spotted fleeing, and like this, two hours passed...
The once enigmatic Timeless City was now an apocalyptic wasteland. Buildings had melted into rubble. The streets were rivers of blood and gore.
The protective formation continued flickering violently, holding back the chaotic time distortions barely by threads of its dying laws.
Jacob, now standing calmly within the central plaza, no longer giant, looked around the ruins. He was virtually harmless, without any trace of blood or anything on his person. No one would be able to guess that he was the one behind all that destruction.
Now, only a few remnants of resistance remained—some had either fled into the Shadows of Abyssal Rift, but most of them died under Jacob’s rampage.
He tilted his head slightly as the sky split apart above. The final formation rune cracked.
The formation let out a final screeching chime, like a bell tolling doom, and the entire city collapsed into itself the next moment.
A spiral of twisting time, chaotic space, and unknown corrosion consumed everything—walls, corpses, screams—all pulled into the merciless folds of time distortion.
Within minutes, nothing remained.
Where once a city hidden within the shadows of the Abyssal Rift had existed, now only chaotic temporal fog danced across broken space.
Jacob stood on the last remaining ruin, and just when the time distortion was about to engulf him, he vanished.
The Timeless City was no more because they invited the wolf into the house!