As Linde soared into the air, he suddenly realized what had happened. Just moments before, he had been struck by that unexpected attack and instantly lost consciousness.
The force of the blow was so great that Lind's body flew through the air like a kite with a broken string. His mind went blank; he had no idea what had happened.
Fortunately, the aura of activation around Lind worked, instantly restoring him to consciousness.
He quickly adjusted his posture in mid-air and landed steadily to the side. Although the attack left him somewhat disheveled, at least he was not injured.
Linde looked down at his magic armor, only to see it had been shattered to pieces. The power of that attack was truly astonishing, directly breaking the hard magic armor into countless fragments.
Fortunately, the replica core inside the magic armor remained undamaged. After a brief delay, the magic supply resumed, and the magic armor regained its original brilliance.
The split entity that had been directly hit by his mental attack was now in an extremely bizarre state. It neither pursued Lind nor looked at the Silver Lance Knights again, but instead fell into a complete and frenzied berserk state! In its eyes, which were burning with black flames, there was now only the most primal, indiscriminate desire for destruction.
"Roar—!!!"
A roar more distorted, filled with pain and madness than any previous roar tore through the air.
The largest split entity suddenly turned around, its huge claws, wreathed in black mist and carrying a terrifying power that could tear through space, fiercely grabbing at the smaller Shadow Abyss split entity that was closest to it!
"Pfft!"
The claws pierced through their companion's relatively "fragile" shadow armor without any resistance, embedding themselves deeply into its body.
Black, viscous, oil-like blood mixed with shattered shadow matter gushed out. The attacked split entity let out a painful scream, its body convulsing violently.
But this is just the beginning.
The largest splitting organism completely ignored its companion's painful struggles and counterattacks. Like a wild beast that had completely lost control, it frantically tore at and devoured the smaller splitting organism!
Each tear brought forth large chunks of black flesh and broken bones (if they existed), and the viscous black mist coiled around the two monsters like living things, accelerating the devouring process. The center of the battlefield instantly transformed into a hellish scene of cannibalism.
"Waaah...waaah..."
The third split seemed stunned by the sudden madness and bloodshed of its own kind. It let out a low, unintelligible whimper and instinctively took a step back. A hint of...fear seemed to flash in its black flame-burning eyes. Its simple consciousness could not comprehend the madness of its companion and instinctively felt threatened.
A brief, eerie stillness descended upon the battlefield.
The shouts of battle and the clanging of metal subsided, and everyone was stunned by this terrifying and bizarre scene.
The Silver Lance Knights forgot to charge, and the remaining Bronze Warriors also stopped in their tracks. Even Astaire and Raymond, who were directing their soldiers to move closer to Lillens in the distance, couldn't help but turn around, their faces filled with horror.
"They...are killing each other?"
Jeffrey, leaning on a spear he had hastily picked up, knelt on the ground, breathing heavily.
He watched the two monsters entangled and tearing at each other, their black mist surging wildly and their shapes seemingly twisting and changing. His brows furrowed, and a strong sense of unease welled up within him.
Lind stared intently at the wildly twisting, ever-expanding aggregate of shadows and black mist, his mind racing.
"The mental shock...it's not ineffective, but the effect...is out of control?"
Lind recalled the feeling from just now. His mental attack had indeed hit its mark and penetrated some kind of mental barrier of the monster.
But the feedback was extremely strange. It wasn't a rational, conscious mental core, but more like... an empty container forcibly stuffed with chaotic instructions, filled with endless hunger and destructive desires?
The mental shock was like throwing a spark into this extremely unstable, collapsing container, instantly igniting all the crazy energy inside, causing it to completely lose all its goals and logic, leaving only the most primitive and violent instinct—to devour everything, including its own kind!
"Oh no!"
As Linde watched the two split entities devour each other, their sizes fused and expanded at a visible speed. The active light emanating from their bodies not only did not weaken, but became deeper and larger, and even began to radiate a heart-palpitating pressure in all directions.
This caused the surviving warhorses around them to wail in fear once more, and even some of the weaker soldiers began to feel their legs go weak.
He realized an even more terrible consequence:
"They're not killing each other...they're...merging! Stop them!"
Jeffrey used the spear imbued with the power of light veins to penetrate the split body once more.
"Hiss hiss hiss..."
The holy white light shone on the thick black fog, producing a violent corrosive sound, and large swaths of the black fog were dissolved.
However, this time, the effect was far less than before! The merging monster seemed to have developed a stronger resistance to the power of the light veins, and the melting speed could not keep up with the speed at which the black mist was surging out of its body.
Where the white light scorched, the black mist churned even more violently, as if it had been enraged.
"roar--!!!"
A deafening roar, seemingly from the depths of the abyss, erupted from the merging darkness. The sound was no longer a simple howl; it was mixed with pain, rage, and a chilling will that froze the soul.
The black mist suddenly contracted inward, and then exploded with a bang!
A much larger, more distorted figure appeared in the center of the battlefield.
It could still vaguely make out the outline of the split entity, but its size had at least doubled, and its height was close to that of a five-story building! Its body was forcibly spliced together from the remains of the two previous split entities, covered with irregular black energy patterns like stitches, and many thick arms (some like claws, others twisted into bone hammers or tentacles) stretched out from various parts of its torso, dancing wildly.
Its head also incorporated the previous features, becoming even more ferocious, with several eyes burning with even more intense black flames irregularly distributed on its face, fixedly locked onto Lind, who was constantly emitting light.
Individual Name: Shadow Abyss Aggregate
Affiliation: Nocturnus (Eternal Devourer, Lord of the Shadow Abyss)
Nature: Remnant of God (Fusion State)
The information received from deconstructing the halo sent Linde's heart sinking to the bottom.
It's refined copper grade... and definitely stronger than ordinary refined copper grade, even faintly touching the next threshold!
The pure black, active light was so tangible that it almost devoured all the surrounding light.
What made Linde's scalp tingle even more was that in the eyes of this newly formed aggregate, which were burning with black flames, besides the desire for destruction, there seemed to be a trace of... a cold "intelligence" that locked onto its target?
It was no longer a chaotic madness, but rather all the violence and murderous intent concentrated on Lind!
"hiss……"
Linde gasped, gripping his weapon tightly, and channeling all his magic and light energy to their maximum.
He glanced at Jeffrey and the heavily wounded Silver Lance Knights, knowing full well that the real battle to the death had only just begun.
The aggregate raised a massive bone hammer formed from the fusion of several arms, with black mist surging wildly above it. With a crushing force, it slammed down towards Lind! The air was compressed, producing a piercing explosion.
A shadow instantly enveloped Lind.
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