"It's nothing, I just think you're too noisy and disturbing my enjoyment of the scenery."
Lind shrugged, his nonchalant attitude was outrageous.
"you!!"
Sirona was utterly enraged; shame and anger replaced her bewilderment.
Her dreams! Her territory! How dare she be so scorned!
"Bound by the Deep Sea!"
She crossed her arms in front of her chest, her long, dark blue hair danced wildly without wind, and she uttered ancient and ethereal syllables.
The entire space instantly became incredibly viscous, and an invisible, deep-sea pressure squeezed in from all directions, as if to grind Linde's spiritual body into dust.
At the same time, countless rune chains made of pure spiritual power, shimmering with a ghostly blue light, appeared out of thin air, like giant deep-sea serpents that came to life, wrapping around Lind with a chilling aura.
This is one of her trump cards, powerful enough to imprison the soul of a powerful sea beast!
A hint of seriousness finally flashed across Linde's eyes, but it was only a hint.
"That's interesting."
He whispered, without flinching.
Just as those runic chains, imbued with powerful binding force, were about to touch his body—
Click!
A very faint cracking sound, yet seemingly echoing throughout the entire mental space, rang out.
Sirina's attack abruptly stopped. Not because Lind had done anything, but because she saw... a sight that sent shivers down her spine.
The space around Linde was not imprisoned by her power, but rather... it cracked open on its own!
Like exquisite glass being struck by an invisible hammer, fine black cracks silently spread out from Linde's center.
Those cracks were deep and pure, as if connecting to the nothingness before the birth of the universe, emanating a cold aura that made Sirona instinctively feel extreme disgust and fear.
Even more terrifying, a viscous, cold "darkness" that seemed capable of devouring all light and heat was slowly seeping out and spreading from the crack.
That was not ordinary darkness, nor was it the darkness of the deep sea.
It carries an absolute "deathly stillness," a kind of ultimate nothingness that greedily devours all existence, all energy, all color, and all sound!
That's the aura of Shadow Abyss!
It was only a sliver of light that caused Serena's vibrant "food paradise," built from pure appetite and satisfaction, to tremble violently and fade!
The floating cakes, flowing honey, and drifting fruit near Linde, like sugar cubes thrown into strong acid, began to melt and vanish silently, leaving not a trace or a hint of flavor, as if they had never existed.
The space itself is being eroded, groaning under the weight of its burden.
"Well……"
Sirena abruptly covered her mouth as an indescribable, primal nausea surged up her throat, almost causing her to vomit on the spot.
It wasn't a physical discomfort, but rather a rejection and fear on a spiritual level, like encountering a natural enemy!
In her eyes, Lind's image instantly collapsed and was rebuilt!
The image of that mischievous, somewhat mysterious human youth with a sly smile, like an oil painting splashed with concentrated sulfuric acid, rapidly dissolved and peeled away under the corrosive aura of the Shadow Abyss.
Instead, a terrifying silhouette was enveloped in ever-spreading, deep cracks and writhing darkness!
The outline was indistinct, as if it were composed of pure "nothingness," and at its core there seemed to be a faint purple light, yet carrying supreme will, flickering (Linde's spiritual origin).
But this glimmer of light brings no comfort; instead, it is like the only lighthouse visible in an endless abyss of darkness, revealing the terror lurking beneath that darkness, a terror powerful enough to devour the stars!
"What...what are you?!"
Sirina's voice completely changed; it was no longer an ethereal ballad, but a shrill, trembling voice filled with extreme fear, as if someone were choking her.
She finally understood! Why her dream attack failed! Why her "Deep Sea Binding" couldn't even get close!
The being before her was a life form she could not comprehend at all!
The power contained within him was a billion times more terrifying than the deepest trenches, the most turbulent whirlpools, or even the ancient behemoths lurking at the bottom of the endless abyss that she had ever seen!
That is... the end itself!
"Hah...hah..." An immense fear gripped her heart and gills, making it impossible for her to breathe (suffocation caused by extreme stress on her mental body).
Her pride in her strength, her naive anger, seemed so laughable and insignificant in the face of this revealed terror, which was merely the tip of the iceberg.
She even forgot to run away; her huge fish tail hung stiffly in the air, like prey locked on by its predator, only instinctive trembling remaining.
Linde seemed to have noticed the changes in himself as well.
He frowned slightly, looked down at the shadowy aura and spatial rifts emanating from his body, and then looked at the little sea monster opposite him who was terrified and almost fainted.
He tried to calm his mind, sinking his thoughts into the depths of his consciousness, forcibly suppressing the core of the [Shadow Abyss Halo] that was somewhat agitated by the stimulation of the siren's pure spiritual energy.
As he focused his will, the pervasive, viscous darkness slowly receded like the receding tide, and the spatial cracks laboriously healed and disappeared.
The suffocating aura of terror surrounding him gradually weakened, and the blurry, terrifying outline became clear again, eventually revealing him as a handsome young man in dark purple clothes, with a hint of helplessness in his eyes.
"Tsk, things are getting a little out of control."
Lind muttered something to himself, as casually as if he had just spilled a glass of water.
However, his casual remark was like a thunderbolt to Sirenna!
Out of control?! That aura that just now froze her soul and brought her mental world to the brink of collapse... was it merely because she was "a little out of control"?!
If he really "lost control"... Sirina couldn't imagine what an apocalyptic scene that would be!
Looking at Lind's face, which had returned to "normal" and even had a somewhat innocent expression, Sirona felt no sense of relief. Instead, she felt a chill even deeper than when she was facing the darkness.
A disguise! This must be a terrifying disguise! Like the alluring glowing lanterns of a deep-sea anglerfish! This monster in human skin!
"Waaah..."
An uncontrollable sob, filled with extreme fear, escaped from Sirina's throat.
She dared not look at Lind again, and with a sudden jerk of her huge fish tail, she unleashed an unprecedented power of survival!
She didn't want to attack, nor did she want to argue; she just wanted to escape! To escape this monster! To escape this nightmare that had plunged her from heaven to hell in an instant!
"Thump!"
Her spirit plunged headlong into the honey-flowing "river" beside her, which she maintained with her will, creating huge waves.
Immediately afterwards, the entire "river" distorted and rippled violently, like the reflection of a stone thrown into it. Along with Sirina's figure, it quickly became blurry and transparent, and finally disappeared completely from this crumbling mental space.
She ran away.
In a state of near panic and abandonment of the dream paradise it had meticulously constructed, it forcibly severed the mental link, and its consciousness retreated in a sorry state back into its original body in the cold pool of steel sky.
Linde's spirit floated alone in the rapidly collapsing, faded ruins of the "Food Paradise".
The ashes of the lava cake drifted away, the honey river dried up, revealing an illusory riverbed, and rainbow frosting turned into pale dust that fell softly.
He looked at the spot where Sirena had disappeared and touched his chin with a hint of helplessness.
"So timid? Is Yingyuan's aura really that terrifying?"
He muttered to himself, completely unaware of the terrifying, overwhelming experience his leaked power would have been for a siren with keen senses and a pure spirit.
"Never mind, let's go back and see how this uninvited 'little guest' is doing in real life."
Linde shook his head, and with a thought, his spiritual body vanished from the collapsing spiritual space like a bubble.
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