Similar sounds that overwhelmed all others in the atmosphere accompanied the spiralling cracks, causing Atlas to look at his fists a second time. The realization was important. He'd been using the Empty Void Energy wrongly from the very start.
He brought down his fist, which was covered with a distortive energy, on a nearby Howler and caused the oversized wolf to crash down into the ground.
"Did you think you could run up and sneak me?!"
A small tear appeared as one of the cracks was pried open by the speed at which his fist moved at that moment.
The small tear quickly developed into something else, and that wolf beneath Atlas' fist was dragged into the voracious little rift. The rift closed a second later, but by that time the white mist signifying the defeat of an ethereal monster had already appeared.
"HAHAHA!" Atlas laughed boisterously, but inwardly he cursed.