There is one thing that must be mentioned.
Perhaps it is because Pardo has only recently become an Emanator of "Harmony," or perhaps she simply lacks the "Vision" for such matters.
In any case, while Pardo possesses a portable storage space of immense capacity—one capable of holding an absurdly large amount of supplies—she does not have the ability to create or anchor a World Bubble.
This is why the Newborn World Serpent had to settle for "cooperating" with Durandal.
Of course, the dominant hand still remained with the former group.
Otherwise, Aponia would never have planted a "Discipline" on Durandal.
As for now...
The "Interstellar Cliff" is something that has almost completely isolated the entire Solar System from the rest of the world.
By all rights, it is an impassable chasm that "Human Power" is destined to never cross.
But... who could help it when the Newborn World Serpent faction had Pardo on their side?
An Emanator of Harmony, she also served as the Imaginary-type specialist with space-type abilities.
With her on board, combined with the advance observation from "Cat's Eye" and the cat-girl's(?) own transcendent luck, all three Arks managed to cross this "First Major Hurdle" without incident.
It could only be said that the current survivors were truly benefiting from Pardo's presence.
No wonder MEI had previously said, "Pardo's importance is greater than everyone else's combined."
On this point alone, Pardo was truly quite self-aware.
There was one unfortunate matter.
Earlier, when Pardo was teaching Sa a lesson and rescuing the already adult Griseo (Original Body), she had initially wanted to bring back the other Arks that had departed earlier.
But after a glance with her "Cat's Eye," she discovered that those Arks had all been destroyed by Sa.
The crew inside had all perished.
In the end, under MEI's arrangement and command, Pardo could only bring back some Ark components for future replacement and repair.
Of course, Sa also received a few extra slaps in the face for this.
It is worth mentioning that the reason MEI did not let Pardo simply finish the opponent off was, on one hand, that she did not want to create unnecessary complications at such a critical moment, and on the other hand...
"Anyway, the Solar System is about to be destroyed, and she (Sa) cannot leave. She can only perish with it."
"There is no need for us to go out of our way to act."
This was MEI's reasoning.
Anyway, enough with the idle talk.
In short, just as the Newborn World Serpent, piloting the remaining three Arks and carrying the tens of millions of survivors who had entered the "World Bubble," finally succeeded in leaving the Solar System, a place of endless trouble...
Clang
Less than half a day had passed.
A bizarre "rift" with an extremely irregular edge, appearing in reality like the garbled frames of a movie, appeared within the Solar System, near the Mars Space Sector.
This was the "Stargate."
The "contact point" where the branches of two "Worlds" intersected.
It existed in many forms.
Sometimes it was an absolutely cornerless sphere, and other times, like now, it was as if the tapestry of reality had been torn by a sharp blade.
Sometimes, it would exist semi-permanently.
And other times, like today...
It existed for less than ten seconds.
Yet during those ten seconds, a grotesque "sphere" with spikes extending from its surface shot out from within.
This "sphere" was an incredibly dangerous and utterly bizarre creature.
Even in the vacuum of space...
"Ger~ Ger~ Ger~"
A spine-chilling "laugh," sounding as if vocal cords had been twisted into pretzels, somehow transmitted through the medium-less environment.
It had only just appeared...
"Huh?" x3
On Venus, Sa, who had just been taught a lesson by Pardo and now lacked a complete sense of self...
On Earth, Finality, who had been filled with self-reproach for her previous mistake and was now patiently awaiting this moment...
And... on Mars, a certain Transcendent among the Remnants...
Gubeng~
"!!!" x2
The change came too quickly.
The moment that bizarre "sphere" passed through... no, the moment it directly collided with Mars...
The entire planet vanished without a trace.
Along with it, the Remnants and semi-Transcendent individuals hidden within were completely devoured, utterly powerless to resist.
Now, the only two Transcendents remaining within the Solar System could no longer sit idly by.
Even Sa, who lacked a complete sense of self, instinctively sought to evade that terrifying entity.
As for the newly born Herrscher of Finality...
Hum~
She used her Authority to teleport away from Earth instantly.
Immediately after, she appeared near the Mars Space Sector, with the Cocoon of Finality, her true self, shrunk countless times and floating beside her in its normal state.
The Herrscher of Finality knew that recklessly approaching that bizarre, extremely dangerous "sphere" was an unwise move.
But she had disappointed God before, so now...
Even if it meant risking her life, this loyal believer would complete the task God had left for her: to record everything happening in the present moment.
Fortunately...
"Ugh~ Uh~"
After making all of Mars vanish in an instant, the bizarre "sphere" ignored the Herrscher of Finality, who had abruptly appeared nearby.
It... seemed to be drawn by an even more special existence within the Solar System.
Under the Herrscher of Finality's gaze...
"That thing is heading for... Earth!"
What on Earth could attract such a monster?
"Wait!"
There actually was one.
At this moment, in the depths of the Arctic Ocean...
(O_o)
The "eyes" on the surface of a certain treacherous, purple-black egg cocoon seemed to shift slightly.
Though it had not yet been born, it had already observed another... an entity that was clearly not born in the current world, did not belong to the Imaginary Tree, yet seemed to share the same origin on some conceptual level.
The same... "Nihility."
"Ger~ Ger~ Ger~"
That same eerie laughter rang out again.
Now, there were no humans left on Earth.
There weren't even any of Kali's "Spawn."
All that remained were the "ELFs," created from the Herrscher of Stars' original body.
The latter group had been frantically constructing the "Sea of Quanta Portal" recently.
Knowing that the "hour of destruction drew near," the ELFs also wanted to preserve their "civilization" in their own way.
But the hour of destruction they had envisioned was still several years away.
Not today...
Clang~
The bizarre "sphere" moved with incredible speed.
In an instant, it traversed the super-long distance of over a hundred million kilometers.
It traveled from the Mars Space Sector to the Earth-Moon System Space Sector, flying straight toward the northernmost point of the third planet in the Solar System.
Gulp~
There was that sound again... as if it had devoured something.
The clouds above the Arctic Ocean vanished without a trace.
Just then...
"Ger~ Ger~ Ger~"
The bizarre "sphere" suddenly began to deform.
It transformed into... a still-bizarre "humanoid form."
Its head emitted a dark golden yellow light, like the tail of a firefly.
A core that looked like a "hole" seemed to exist at the center of its chest.
Its entire body not only moved in a highly distorted manner but also occasionally produced afterimages.
It soon reached the seabed, arriving before the embryo of "Nihility."
"What the hell is that thing?"
The Herrscher of Finality had already teleported back to Earth.
Now, also at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, she watched with her own eyes as the distorted humanoid monster approached the purple-black egg cocoon step by step...
It... seemed to want to "eat."
Logically, as the embryo of "Nihility," even before that treacherous purple-black egg cocoon hatched, external objects should have been unable to touch it.
And yet...
"Ger~ Ger~ Ger~"
The distorted humanoid stopped near the egg cocoon.
Immediately after, a large number of grotesque and terrifying white giant hands rapidly extended from the "hole" core at its chest.
Like mischievous children fighting for food, the deathly pale hands all... precisely "seized" the purple-black egg cocoon.
Then, they dragged it...
Dragged it toward the "hole" on the distorted humanoid's chest.
As if that was the "mouth" it used for eating.
"The egg of a Black Hole Creature is actually about to be devoured?"
At this moment, the Herrscher of Finality, who was acting as a "war correspondent," was left dumbfounded by the horrifying sight before her.
The "Nihility," which was said to be able to devour everything, was actually being devoured by another being?
This scene, which defied the laws of nature, was simply...
The Herrscher of Finality felt a most primal sense of fear in her heart.
Clearly, she still knew too little about the "Outside World."
Otherwise, she would have understood that an ungrown... and even unhatched, "Nihility" embryo could never be a match for that distorted humanoid.
Because the latter's name was:
"Void Monster Greeza."
It was also an incarnation of "Nihility" in another world.