The black sun hangs high

Chapter 211 Chase

As the Touch of Calron undergoes a new "evolution," the Dark Abyss offspring who successfully devoured the Black Sun Society mages are also thirstily absorbing this knowledge and power that is invaluable to them.

Having already hunted many living creatures and learned a great deal of human knowledge, these Dark Abyss offspring, even though they were not the massive entity beneath Seren City, still possessed considerable intelligence. As they continued to digest this "special prey," these Dark Abyss offspring almost immediately realized the importance of the memories provided by the Society mage.

However, given their current size, they are simply not large enough to fully understand and learn the contents. Therefore, these offspring individuals immediately began to try to contact their massive parent body and hope to get their "support" to help their clan thoroughly digest these important secrets and knowledge.

At the same time, the process of "digestion" was further accelerated. The severed limbs of the sorcerer rolled around in the viscous gel, and the once thinking head spun rapidly within the Dark Abyss offspring as if caught in a vortex. Now, the head was almost a pure skeleton, and the knowledge contained within it had been completely absorbed by the Dark Abyss offspring.

Next, they only need to wait for the main body to arrive and completely merge with it before they can fully share these messages...

However, just as these Dark Abyss offspring were about to become "heroes of their kind," a ruthless and terrifying "demon" quietly arrived. The ruins of the structures they used to conceal themselves were destroyed and overturned on the spot. Then, the Tentacle of Karron, composed of sharp limbs and a mix of long and short swords, swept out from the thick fog of the Mirror Messenger and pounced down amidst the horrified screams of the Dark Abyss offspring.

The light of day had already dimmed, and the figure of Hugh standing amidst the ruins became the most terrifying image in the "hearts" of these Dark Abyss offspring. The limbs and blades that kept stabbing out from his side were like a diner's knife and fork, while the ever-flowing black mist was the most greedy lips and tongue.

This time, Hugh did not divide the contents into two parts for the Running Rat as he had done before. After all, the memories of that Society mage were too important. Hugh needed to use this devouring to learn about the Society's layout in Seren and the methods the Black Sun Society used to "modify" those ordinary spells.

With Hugh's full power, the enormous mass of Dark Abyss offspring was quickly and completely devoured by Hugh's mist. Even the few fragments and slime that managed to break free and try to burrow into the crevices of the ruins were forcibly picked out by Hugh.

When it comes to "saving food," Hughes has taken it to the extreme.

As he felt the memories that had entered his mental world through the devouring of the Messenger in the Mirror, Hugh breathed a sigh of relief. But after a few seconds, his expression turned serious again, because in his expanded perception, a large mass of terrifying magical shadows was rapidly approaching his location.

Hughes decisively swept away the remaining Dark Abyss offspring on the ground. Some fragments that seemed impossible to trace were even greeted by several magical attacks. The blazing flames swept into the deepest part of the ruins at an astonishing speed, completely burning the slimy fragments that tried to escape into ashes.

After that, Hugh immediately turned around and climbed onto the back of the running rat. Before Hugh could give any command, the three-tailed giant rat with its keen animal instincts had already taken off and randomly chose a direction to run away. Just a few seconds after it left the spot, a large number of black shadows surged out from the gaps in the ruins of the buildings, like sewage gushing out of a sewer.

The enormous shadow that had completely occupied the underworld of Seren finally arrived belatedly, responding to its own urgent call.

The magical flames that Shug used to incinerate the remains were as insignificant as sparks falling into a swamp in the face of this boundless, undulating chaos, which was like a tidal wave. They disappeared silently into the ever-surging chaos, and the Dark Abyss offspring who had arrived here immediately understood what was happening.

The terrifying black tide of death immediately located Hugh, who was riding a runaway rat and fleeing the scene. So they immediately returned to the underground and began a fierce pursuit along the extensive sewer system beneath the city of Seren.

The speed of the sprinting rat had always given Hugh a great sense of security, but this time, even though Sniggy had shown his most extreme explosive power, Hugh still felt a chill down his spine.

Within seconds, many of the scattered magical rats were devoured, and a considerable portion of them even belonged to the extremely important Ernst family will. Therefore, Hugh decisively cut off the magical power supply to these magical rats, forcing them back to their own spiritual world.

In Hugh's own magical perception, a huge, indescribable shadow was rapidly approaching him, changing its shape as it went. In the straight underground pipes, this massive, indescribably large Dark Abyss offspring could roll forward like water. Hugh had witnessed a similar scene long ago when he fled Seren City.

At this moment, the offspring of the Dark Abyss displayed another major characteristic besides devouring and learning: they were essentially a group of beings with extremely blurred boundaries between group and individual.

The countless dark abyssal clumps that split off from the massive entity can further divide themselves, and when these seemingly independent dark abyssal offspring come together, they will form a new individual capable of unified thinking, decision-making, and action.

As the mass of dark abyssal slime continued to roll and advance, more and more individual dark abyssal offspring hidden on both sides of the street were forcibly merged into it. They immediately transformed into the tentacles of this enormous, amorphous creature, launching surprise attacks and interceptions from every direction that Hugh could and could not imagine.

Collapsed houses, cracks in the streets, unremarkable old pipes...

Their physical characteristics determine their extremely diverse and unpredictable attack directions.

Under Hugh's firm command, the running rat completely abandoned all dodging and retaliatory actions. It darted across the street, leaped over the ruins of buildings, and quickly passed through every possible path.

Hugh, riding on the back of the Running Rat, summoned a large number of Calron's Tentacles. These dark tentacles swayed constantly around Hugh and the Running Rat, and the sharp blades and insect limbs were covered with a thick layer of Mirror Messenger mist. This allowed the Calron's Tentacles, which could only physically divide the Dark Abyss Spawns, to now inflict more profound damage on these eerie pursuers.

As the source of the Dark Abyss Mist, the Mirror Messenger was already fully absorbed in its feeding frenzy. With each swing and thrust of the Kalron Touch, it would seize the opportunity to use its mist to devour the destroyed fragments of Dark Abyss Offspring and strip them of their power essence. Suddenly, a massive chasm in the street ahead erupted with a torrent of shadows, resembling a fountain. An extremely unpleasant aura emanated from the dim sky. Hugh saw countless black shadows being propelled into the air before rapidly plummeting to the ground. These black viscous substances of varying sizes twisted and contorted, taking on more concrete shapes.

They looked like alien creatures pieced together from the features of countless wild beasts and insects. As soon as they landed, they immediately opened their sharp claws and fangs at Hugh and the running rat. Some of them even grew wings similar to those of birds or flying insects, and they wobbled as they crashed into Hugh's body.

This level of interception naturally didn't cause Hugh much trouble. Several strands of Karron's Touch quickly twisted together like plant roots, and then, following Hugh's will, they swept out along the street with force. The deformed bodies simulated by the Dark Abyss offspring were instantly reduced to fragments by the powerful slash, while the black shadows that dared to launch a surprise attack from the air were pierced and shot down by the black twin swords that Hugh had just mastered.

"Stop fucking eating! You're not afraid of stuffing yourself to death, but I am!"

In the brief moment of resisting the interception of the Dark Abyss offspring, Hugh roared at the Mirror Messenger, who was immersed in killing and devouring. The figure, which was originally in a disgusted and intoxicated state in the groove of the metal disc, immediately stopped. Its mouth moved slightly, and a trace of confusion and grievance was accurately revealed in its dark face.

Hughes had no choice but to do this.

Because the speed at which the Mirror Messenger devoured the essence of the Dark Abyss' offspring's power was simply too rapid, even Hugh hadn't expected that combining the Mirror Messenger's mist with the newly achieved breakthrough of Karljun's Touch would produce such an amazing effect.

The waves formed by the offspring of the Dark Abyss seemed endless, and as the friction and entanglement between the two sides continued, the devouring efficiency of the Mirror Messenger continued to increase. In Hugh's original plan, this should have been an extremely advantageous opportunity for him, but the endless devouring of the Mirror Messenger and the excessively high attack frequency of the Touch of Karron caused the essence of Dark Abyss power they plundered to accumulate in Hugh's spiritual world.

Even though "the more the better" is one of the principles that Shug upholds, it has indeed gone a bit too far now.

What made Hughes feel extremely uncomfortable was that, as these essences of power accumulated, he could even hear many noisy sounds from the accumulated writhing chaos, as if countless souls of the children of the Dark Abyss were crying in his mind, or as if specific scenes from countless times and spaces were flashing before his eyes.

This bizarre phenomenon had a significant negative impact on Hugh's thinking and combat.

Hughes spread out the spellbook and, while manipulating the Touch of Karron to clear a path for the running rats, turned to the pages of the spellbook from Verin that were specifically used to inscribe and record lethal battlefield magic.

As a "paranoid" mage who had once inscribed a large number of battlefield spells in his magic book, he was extremely familiar with these spells.

Soon, Hugh found his goal.

Hugh quickly tore off a page adorned with bright red magical patterns. As magic was injected, the coiled flame patterns on the page were rapidly ignited, and these flickering flames quickly converged at the very center of the page, forming a constantly shimmering red lake in the very center of the page.

This is a new type of war magic that has emerged in the current era.

"To give destructive magic more functionality, allowing it to be combined with the defense of the position and the soldiers' offensive..."

This battlefield magic, known as "Lake of Fireworks," originated from this.

In the vision of the mages of the Highland Council, this battlefield magic would be widely used on the front lines—using magic to create a magical lake from which scorching flames would continuously descend. This battlefield magic could cause continuous interference and damage to enemy soldiers who were attacking the position, and at the same time, it could effectively hinder the enemy's subsequent reserves when one's own side was attacking.

To put it in Hughes's terms, this is a sustained "incendiary bomb" with a limited range but an extremely wide coverage area.

"Perhaps this magic shouldn't be called 'Lake of Fireworks,' but rather 'Saint-St. Cocktail' would be more appropriate..."

As Hugh moved, the page of the magic book floated into the air. In the next instant, bright magical flames engulfed the page, and a huge magical ritual field centered on Hugh was created. Just as the name of the magic suggests, an extremely large lake of fire appeared in mid-air. In the flickering light of the lake, one ball of flame after another rolled down, adding a touch of brightness to the dim sky and successfully dispelling the darkness that was protecting the offspring of the Dark Abyss.

However, relying solely on this stream-level war magic would naturally be insufficient to resolve Hugh's current predicament. Hugh had never imagined that he could defeat the formidable enemies in Seren City with just one or two spells. The moment the "Lake of Fireworks" spell took effect, he raised the Black Sun Scepter from the back of the Running Rat. With the support of "Walking Forest," a large amount of magic power was supplied to the ongoing magical ritual without restriction.

As a result, the originally raging flames immediately began to mutate under the influence of Hugh's magic—a vicious, corrosive poison emerged from within the flickering flames, and the ever-rotating lake of flames was completely transformed into a breeding ground for poison and corrosion.

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