Chapter 36: The Deep Shadow
“What is it?!”
"What's going on?"
"This darkness..."
The moment when the shadow surged out from the gap in the void and enveloped all the strong men present, the legendary strong men were shocked to find that the battlefield where they were originally fighting had been completely shrouded in fog, becoming a dark space with a strong and depressing aura. This space was extremely calm and incompatible with the ripples of time and space that were constantly rippling around.
Mist? Shadow? Dark?
How is that possible!
Almost all legendary powerful people who have a little understanding of the void could not help but be stunned for a moment. As we all know, the void is nothing outside the world. Apart from the time and space turbulence formed by the time and space fluctuations that scattered the world itself, there is almost nothing. Such terrifying void disasters such as time and space storms are nothing more than riot time and space fluctuations.
Fog... In this kind of terrifying void where even steel warships would be torn apart in an instant without rune protection, how could such a calm fog exist?
But now is not the time to think about these things. The shadows that surged from the gaps in the void have enveloped all the strong men. Immediately afterwards, as the shadows become more and more intense, the darkness becomes more and more substantial. The entire surroundings of the Colonos world, which had been stirred by many legendary powerhouses, was swallowed into an extremely huge, ball-like darkness. It is rapidly forming, as if it is about to turn into a huge egg and a huge cocoon.
But even if you don’t know what’s going on, no one will let the dark plan go smoothly.
In the previous few days of battle, although no legendary existence suffered fatal damage, even Leviathan, the void beast that looked the most miserable and injured the most, was nothing more than a bruised nose and swollen face in the human race. However, the battle ultimately requires energy. The continuous high-intensity combat for many days did consume their spirits. In addition, they were immersed in the battle with the other party and were suddenly attacked, and the power of the dark fog was maximized, so they imprisoned all the strong men in a sudden.
But when everyone reacted, they would never allow this shadow to imprison them!
"What the hell."
In the dark mist, Joshua looked around, and was constantly approaching the darkness that was approaching him. The warrior couldn't help but frown, as if he had seen something dirty.
He hugged his hands in front of his chest and did not take action, but behind him, the phantom of the four-armed giant god appeared. The phantom of steel hundreds of meters high raised his iron fist silently, and then burst out tens of thousands of straight fists with bursting fist winds around him in an instant. Suddenly, the darkness that had originally enveloped the world and the void, calm as if it was shaking violently, as if it was bombarded by endless tsunami waves.
With Joshua's current strength, there are not many things that can imprison him in this world. Any material that has not reached the super-density and substantial material level is useless in front of him. If the legendary sealing array is not particularly fancy, it will be easily smashed by him directly... Time and space cannot bind it to one world, let alone other things?
But strangely, even though the sea of fog was bombarded by Joshua as if it was about to completely collapse in the next moment, it was still not really defeated. On the contrary, after enduring a one-sided attack by Joshua, the black fog seemed to have been stimulated, and suddenly began to proliferate rapidly. The previous two or three times the fog suddenly emerged in the void around him, approaching the warriors again!
Are physical attacks invalid? Or are they capable of absorbing energy and proliferating themselves?
For the legendary powerful people, there is actually no guess at all in the battle. With their strength and observation ability, any attack will be completely seen through as soon as it appears once. In their world, the "unknown attack" almost does not exist at all. No matter how delicate and clever the skills are, even if they cannot do them themselves, they can always fully understand them.
It was the moment of fighting. Joshua's brain was running rapidly at an unprecedented speed, collecting all the information around him for analysis. His pupils turned into silver steel luster, sweeping through the surrounding void. Suddenly, the microstructure of the black fog, energy concentration, proliferation speed and its impact on the surrounding void were all known.
Large-scale polymerization of black particles at the molecular level... seems to be a fog, but in fact it is connected to a whole through electromagnetic force.
In an instant, Joshua had already understood the existence of the enemy. It was not so much a net, a huge net that filtered through the void and the world, so detailed that ordinary humans could not imagine! And what it fished was not a specific prey, but the ubiquitous "energy" in this world!
This is the darkness that swallows light and captures energy!
Heat and kinetic energy are also a kind of energy, so Joshua's fist had an effect at the beginning, but after the initial destructive power passed, the power would be captured by them and turned into their own growth food... In the entire void, the energy densely affected by the great demon tide is rapidly dissipating, and the world of Coronos, which is also shrouded by it, became cold due to the gradual disappearance of energy. After a while, the whole world might freeze and eventually become a cold and silent world like the Seventh Abyss!
Although the black fog has been seen through by Joshua, its movement will not be slow. As the swell of the fog sea waves surging, the light in the void once again dimmed the light of the star that was lit up again due to the great demon tide. In essence, it was generated by excessive energy overflowing in the void. The black fog was hunting for these energy at this time. Joshua could sense the shocking mental fluctuations from the distant black dragon king Kearno, as if its negative energy was no exception, being swallowed by this silent darkness.
Many legendary powerful men present, including the demon, the dragon king, the void beast and the Golden Fleet, all attacked the same moment they were swallowed, as if they wanted to break the darkness, but this action did not have much effect. Just like Joshua's previous straight punch, it caused the enemy to start to proliferate.
After being attacked so much, the sea of fog in the void began to squirm rapidly. It seemed that it wanted to start counterattacking and digest the prey in its body.
Suddenly, inside the dark, shadows were condensed, and endless black particles began to operate rapidly under the violent thunder magic fluctuations, that is, the huge electromagnetic force. In an instant, they condensed into millions of raindrops in the size of a treaty, and were pitch black all over, as if they could swallow the light, and then they quickly fired towards all the legendary powerful men in its body!
There is no resistance in the void, and the needle piercing reaches its maximum speed in an instant. They are like a heavy rain coming from all directions, which will pierce all targets. The black fog has encountered many powerful enemies, but no strong enemy can be unscathed under its attack.
But this time, there may be an exception.
Joshua didn't know how others would deal with it. Anyway, for him, the counterattack of the black fog was a bit disappointing. Faced with the endless black spikes that came from up, down, left and right, front and back at the same time, and attacked at one-twentieth the speed of light, the phantom of the steel giant god appeared again behind the warrior. But what was very different from before was that the phantom of the giant god began to shrink rapidly when it appeared, and finally turned into a similar size to Joshua himself. It even merged with the warrior's body, leaving only four arms.
You can hear the sound of huge mass compressing extremely, and you can see the surrounding space-time ripples begin to sink with Joshua as the center. On the warrior's shoulder, two pairs of silver-like strong arms, which seemed to be metal, have condensed. Six fists, including Joshua's body, slowly clenched, causing the surrounding void to stir up waves like a tsunami.
And the next moment, there was a swing.
When the black spike rushed towards him at a rapid speed, Joshua stepped on the void with expressionless face, and his six arms that covered the front, back, left and right, up and down had already brought about a burst of time and space ripples, intercepting all attacks!
The black needle prick calculated in units of tens of thousands was like a heavy rain, hitting at a speed of tens of millions of meters per second. The way Joshua chose to deal with it was to break every raindrop.
With Joshua as the center, time seemed to be still. Only countless black mist like ink were rapidly dissipating. After closing his eyes and using pure energy sensing to sense the surrounding soldiers, the black spikes that came almost at the same time were actually divided into sequence. What he did was nothing fancy. He pointed it out with simple fingers, smashing all the spikes in order, and smashing them into black mist.
There should be no sound in the void, but the black fog produced by the black spikes can carry fluctuations. Qiao Xiuya's physical fitness and reaction ability are already incredible. This ordinary attack has no meaning to him at all.
Is that all?
Sensing that the black fog condensed around him seemed to be shocked by his response, he paused the action of condensing the spikes. Joshua opened his eyes again and glanced around him. At this moment, it seemed that something was wrong with the warrior's response. A black spike actually crossed Joshua's interception and hit him hard!
But without any accident, the black spike collapsed into black mist in an instant... Joshua's body strength was no different from his arms, both were extremely condensed and degenerate substances. When they hit the warrior's body, there was no difference between being intercepted by him.
But because of this, Joshua nodded suddenly and realized: "So that's the case. I didn't expect that it was such an attack."
After deliberately letting a black spike and letting it attack its body, Joshua finally personally felt the real power of the black spike. This spike, which seems to be small but is actually condensed by electromagnetic force, has a density beyond most substances. The weak current lingers around it, can even cause molecular-level material disintegration! Combined with the energy absorption effect of the black mist itself, in this way, ordinary energy shields and matter seem to have no effect on the spikes.
The most important thing is that if you are careless and pierced into your body by this black needle, even the legendary strong man will be cut off by the warrior's energy cycle, causing a chain reaction and being injured... The simple and powerful attack is unfortunately ineffective on yourself.
Joshua shook his head. After his body reached 27% of the power of steel, the entire surface of his body was already degenerate. Even if he took out a hair, it would be a magic weapon that could pierce everything. If it weren't for the rogue ability like the old pope who could control the speed of light, there would be almost nothing in this world that could harm him. Whether it was material decomposition or energy absorption, it would be meaningless to the warriors.
"Speaking of this electromagnetic force...how does it feel like the power of that ancient dragon?"
"What does this fog have to do with the ancient dragon who has the power of thunder?"
The sea of fog around was surging violently, as if other legendary powerhouses were dealing with the siege of the heavy rain-like spikes, but the darkness around Joshua temporarily stopped acting, as if shocked by the warrior's incredible response methods and physical fitness. Joshua didn't care so much, but instead cared about the power of the black fog.
"But it's not surprising that the power of the Gu Long is learned by others and then used to deal with itself, which is reasonable."
The power of the ancient dragon can be regarded as a natural phenomenon in some cases. It is reasonable for intelligent life to draw knowledge from natural phenomena, arm itself, and then turn to deal with natural phenomena.
On the other side, it seemed that the previous attack was useless to Joshua, so after a few seconds of pause, the dark fog sea began to surge violently, completely different from the way they dealt with other legendary powerful enemies. Darkness, which had fought against countless powerful enemies, has not encountered enemies like warriors, which are almost impossible to destroy, so they know what kind of attack they should use.
In the center of the dark fog, deep purple lightning spread in the shadows, causing endless black particles to condense through the flashing thunder. It formed an extremely condensed core and began to accumulate energy and mass that made the void tremble!
But it is not only the only one that attacks, while everyone else can only be passively beaten.
Just as the dark mist began to condense the core, Qiao Xiuya stepped on the void at the other end of the mist, and a high-hot light radiated from his body, causing a circuit board-like red pattern to appear on his body. The warrior took a deep breath, and suddenly, the energy that was originally condensing towards the dark core was actually pulled into his mouth in the void. Qiao Xiuya, who entered the complete combat form, clenched his six fists, and the silver steel light flashed in his pupils.
Joshua could clearly feel that in the dark center that devoured all energy, some incredible change was occurring. It was not the vacuum of the universe and the vacuum in the void that did not have any visible matter in the naked eye, but the true and true absolute vacuum! The reason why energy condensation and vacuum, which are completely opposite, occurs at the same time is precisely because all the energy in that space is extracted from darkness and compressed into the dark core!
Extreme condensation and absolute vacuum! Such an extreme situation appeared before Joshua. Under the stance of amazing electromagnetic force, the dark core is transforming itself into a black polymer with a density of more than Joshua's super-density substance on the surface of Joshua's body, and the scope of the vacuum is further expanded due to the increase in the density of the black core!
The warrior saw through the black fog in an instant. It planned to use black spikes to directly break its balance at the moment when the dark core was formed, and release a terrifying mass tide that could destroy everything. The first explosion was a rapidly expanding vacuum that sucked everything around. The second explosion was the disintegration of the material core, causing a large-scale collapse of material energy! This power was enough to destroy everything and turned everything swept through into a pure sea of hot ions!
Vacuum implosion!
"Miniature artificial mass points... cannot plunder energy, so can they destroy matter?"
Faced with the rapid condensation of material energy by the enemy, Joshua, who was still in a human form, stretched out his arm. His expression was calm, and the silver light condensed in his palm. With the surging of steel power, the silver-white steel flowed into the warrior's palm, and finally turned into a cold metal spear. The space swayed with the sharp tip of the spear, creating waves of ripples. Joshua weighed it and felt a little unsatisfied, so the red flames merged into the tip of the spear, allowing the space around the top of the spear to release the hot light that was twisted due to the depression of the space.
This spear is not a simple spear, but a projection of steel power. It is the condensation of degenerate material with a mass of hundreds of thousands of tons. The weight of a hill is compressed into a spear with a height of one person, accompanied by a high heat heat heated by Joshua to millions of degrees... This is the simplest, most direct, and most violent force in the material world.
"To be honest, I really don't understand. He dared to sneak attack eight legendary existences at the same time and imprison them in his body... Who are you looking down on by this darkness? Even God will not be so arrogant!"
Holding the spear, Joshua narrowed his eyes slightly. He saw the meaningless obstruction of the black fog sea and saw the rapidly forming dark core body. It condensed very quickly, but the warrior was faster. The steel spear in his hand had been heated by the high heat of nuclear fusion to the point of golden red like the sun. The bursting energy overflowed into lightning plasma, spreading towards the surrounding void, enough to destroy all attacks, which had been formed in the warrior's palm.
So, he raised his spear and pointed it at the center of the shadow mist.
"Feeling the sun's light, unknown darkness."
Accompanied by the extremely powerful mass projection, a golden arc of light could only be seen breaking through the shadow. The steel spear, which was accelerated to an incredible level by Joshua's power, penetrated through the darkness. It was the fog of darkness for a moment and hit the dark core.
There is no sound in the vacuum world.
But, the next moment.
The violent surging light pierces the darkness and shines on the world of Colonos below it.
Chapter completed!