A faint smile appeared on Aglea's face, as if she had anticipated all of this. "It's finally here. I've been waiting for quite some time already."

She had noticed how Lana had been struggling earlier, but she had resisted the urge to intervene as she was intentionally placing Lana in a perilous situation, thereby forcing Erwin to his limits.

When time was completely still, space could be warped.

This was the overarching message of the fourth chapter of "Laws of Time and Space".

Hence, Erwin hadn't arrived in the air using his normal space split technique. Instead, he had forcibly warped space during that instant in which time had stood still, and as a result, all he had to do to rise up to the heavens was take a single step.

That was why Onean's Boundless Purgatory had suddenly faded. It wasn't because she had run out of magic power. Instead, it was because time had stood still.

For the average person, it would be impossible to understand these concepts, but all of the combatants locked in battle in the sky at the moment were among the most powerful beings in this world, so they had a slight inkling of what had just happened.

Theoretically speaking, was it actually possible for a single person to stop time in such a massive space? Was this something that was achievable at Erwin's...