User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 665 - The Princess Dissection/@comment-5693502-20160310143820/@comment-6904925-20160310150448

The only thing I can guess right at this moment, is that the link is related to the crimson, how all his attacks are crimson colored, and all his abilities have a range of many different uses.(Thats all i have, but I do hope we see more of it later on though)

For the range, I'm guessing it only effects the ground because Askin escaped into the sky.