The flying bits of flesh hung eerily in the air, turning into a blood mist as if they had evaporated.
The once clear sky was suddenly dyed scarlet, looking like a blood-red cloud from a distance.
Standing on the ground in the center of the 'blood cloud', he cautiously looked around, his expression turning somewhat grim.
"Knowing that I can't unleash my full power in the air, they brought me here. No wonder I sealed you away for five years."
"For the past five years, you've probably been thinking about how to get revenge on me."
Dozens of tentacles instantly formed in the blood mist, each as thick as a century-old tree.
Like scarlet beasts, they surged towards the ground, engulfing it in a horde of creatures.
[Ground] His hands gripped the tentacles on both sides tightly, his fingertips digging into his flesh.
With a grit of his teeth, the ground actually managed to forcefully create a space by using only the strength of his physical body to push open the tentacles that were squeezing him.
Just as he was about to break through the control again, several extremely conspicuous dragon bone cannons appeared around him.
[Ground] He immediately thought to himself, "This is bad!" and transparent crystals appeared on the surface of his body.
Thump!!
White pixel lasers shot out from the dragon bone cannon, bombarding the diamond-encased body on the ground.
Fragments of flesh and blood from the tentacles and shattered diamonds flew everywhere, while the ground at the very center of the attack remained completely unharmed.
"Not a bad attack. If I hadn't been specifically defending against it, it probably would have injured me."
[On the ground] He took off the only remaining diamond fragment on his body and, with a forceful movement, threw the diamond at Aikaren.
The diamond rapidly developed dense cracks in mid-air, and then exploded in mid-air the next moment.
Countless tiny diamond fragments shot at Ekaren's pixelated heart like shotgun pellets, the dense attack and wide range leaving the heart with nowhere to escape.
Aikaren immediately flashed in front of the pixel heart, gripped the pixel knife in his hand and swung it twice, leaving two flashes of pixelated light.
Upon contact with the blade's light, the diamond fragments instantly vanished without a trace, disappearing like pixels.
[On the ground] A huge figure appeared in front of him in a flash, turning Aikalen into a ray of sunlight, causing the latter's pupils to shrink sharply.
The fist, stirring up a gust of wind, slammed towards Aikalen, but stopped five centimeters from her face, blowing Aikalen's hair.
The 'sea urchin', formed from piled-up metal spikes, grew wildly in the blood mist, firmly wedging into the ground and rendering it completely immobile.
"Life itself has already achieved this!"
Before the ground could recover from the shock, Aikalen had already reacted.
He mustered his courage, gripped his knife tightly, and with his mortal body, unleashed a full-force attack on the Five Calamities before him!
The ordinary-looking knife in his hand sliced through the metal stuck in the ground as easily as cutting butter, leaving a deep cut that exposed bone on the ground's chest!
Pixels drifted and spread from the cut, and disbelief filled the golden pupils of the ground.
"ah!!!"
With a deep roar, a powerful surge of primal energy erupted, shattering all the metal that sealed off the ground and creating a vacuum zone amidst a cloud of blood mist.
Aikaren was like a kite with a broken string, flying backwards with constantly flashing pixelated hearts.
"suppress!"
[Ground] He clenched his fist in the void and then swung it down hard.
Suddenly, the Earth's gravity seemed to be amplified tens of thousands of times. The powerful gravitational pull forced the already nearly stopped Aikalen to crash into the ground, causing the pixelated heart to flicker again.
The thick blood mist was also dragged to the ground by the powerful gravity.
[Ground] I crashed to the ground with a thud, causing the whole world to tremble.
He covered the wound, which was still generating pixels, with one hand, and clenched his fist tightly with the other.
A rich source of primal energy was gathered at the wound, and the slowly spreading wound was forcibly suppressed by the powerful energy, eventually returning to normal.
With half his health bar gone, Ekaren scrambled to his feet in a disheveled state, only to be stunned by the mere damage to the ground.
After five years, he had become intimately familiar with his own power, especially his dagger, whose ability ignored any defense or life force.
Once it's hit, it's wiped out at the root, without exception. But the ground only suffered a wound that wasn't fatal.
Moreover, it suppressed his diffusion effect!
The joy that had begun after hitting the opponent plummeted to rock bottom.
Thump!
[Ground] He slightly lifted his foot and stomped down, and gilded runes quickly spread from the soles of his feet, dividing the ground within his sight into squares of varying sizes.
[Ground] As soon as the hand is lifted upwards, the divided ground immediately begins to rise at different speeds.
In the blink of an eye, the ground that had been flattened by the violent explosion and flames was transformed into a complex yet orderly stone forest.
Aykaren was also submerged in it.
Blood mist permeated the stone forest of varying heights, blending and intermingling with it.
Both are terrifying domains belonging to their respective sides, and now they intersect like two wild beasts poised to pounce!
[Ground] A flash of golden light appeared in the golden pupils.
The entire stone forest seemed to have received some kind of command, and began to rise and fall violently.
As the undulations increased in speed, the entire city resounded with the harsh scraping sound of stones grinding against each other.
A powerful airflow was also generated, stirring up the blood mist into a chaotic mess.
At this moment, Aikaren felt as if she had been thrown into a blender world, with tiny pixelated hearts constantly weaving and dodging.
His health bar continued to drop, and he could only keep attacking the rocks with the Dragon Bone Cannon and his knife in hopes of surviving.
But to his despair, these rocks were extremely hard, and the Dragon Bone Cannon could hardly destroy them, and even a knife could only erode them to a very limited extent.
[Ground] It stands like a judge who judges all things, amidst the churning stone forest.
"I admit that you, [Life], are worthy of my full strength, but you are not enough to truly break through my judgment."
Suddenly, his brow furrowed slightly. The stone forest, which was still churning at high speed, suddenly paused, as if the machine had jammed.
Clumps of scarlet flesh appeared out of nowhere in the gaps between the stone pillars, resembling disgusting crawling worms in the dark crevices.
More and more flesh and blood covered the stone forest, and the stone pillars began to stir at an extremely slow pace.
Ekaren, who was already low on health, was able to catch his breath.
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