Wizard's Journey

Chapter 1169 The Terrifying Black Ball

This small black ball of unknown life seemed to have stopped silently in mid-air because someone had intruded into its territory. The eerie and abrupt sense of oppression made Green, the invisible one-eyed monster, the gourd monster, and the cactus monster all shudder and their bodies stiffen.

Green's tricolor pupils instantly shrank to the size of pinpoints as he stared in disbelief at the tiny creature, no bigger than his own palm, every cell in his body trembling.

This!

This is the ancient aura emanating from something eerie, even older than many of the skeletons here.

It's unclear whether it's an ancient monster that has been dormant here for countless eons, or whether it was already such a terrifying life form when it was sealed in this deepest illusion.

To Green, this all-black monster was like a black hole.

Perhaps this is not a living being at all, but an unknown rift connecting to another illusory world, or even evolved into a rule-based life form, which is inherently endowed with powerful spacetime sealing techniques!

goooo...

Green could faintly hear the sound of the one-eyed monster swallowing. In the eerily quiet sky, the four of them seemed to be frozen in time, and no one dared to move.

The giant octopus chasing behind was not moving fast on land and had to constantly dodge the time gap. At this moment, all that could be heard was the faint "splashing" sound of it entering the edge of the mud pit.

"That idiot."

Grimm cursed inwardly at the relentlessly pursuing, colorful octopus-like monster, which seemed to be a recently exiled life form that had not yet grasped the true terror of the dimensional esophagus.

Suddenly, the previously silent sky was filled with the scream of the cactus monster, the largest of the four. It abandoned its struggle for the silver goblet, and its companion insects and golden thorns transformed into a swarm of attacks that swept towards the black ball, while it fled in the opposite direction, its soul seemingly in its grave.

As a higher life form with the ability to perceive things, the cactus was the first to notice the unusual activity of this unknown life form and took the initiative to flee.

Suck……

Like the sound of slurping noodles, all of the cactus monster's attacks, along with the spacetime in its escape direction, were simultaneously distorted.

Then, an astonishing scene unfolded.

All of the cactus monster's attacks were drawn into the small black ball. Although the cactus monster was fleeing into the distance, the space around it seemed to be folding and condensing, like a boat going against the current. Despite desperately trying to propel itself, it kept retreating, and its body became smaller and smaller. Finally, when it reached the black hole, it was just a faint glimmer of light, as if floating, before being swallowed by the palm-sized black ball.

At that moment, Green could feel himself trembling, an instinctive reaction of horror and fear, and his back was already covered in a layer of cold sweat.

After its first attack, the little black ball clearly had no intention of stopping. It immediately locked onto the gourd monster, with layers of black sand and gravel constantly gushing out from inside the gourd, only to be swallowed by the black ball, as if its body contained an endless space.

Immediately, the one-eyed monster that had been secretly following Grimm turned and fled, flying towards Grimm at an incredibly fast speed.

Seeing the gourd monster getting smaller and smaller and getting closer to the black ball, Green reacted extremely quickly, waving his hand to unleash a powerful repulsive force wave, followed by crackling and extinguishing arcs of electricity that vanished in an instant.

The one-eyed monster, fleeing in terror, had no idea that a terrifying creature was secretly following him. First, he was blocked by a powerful repulsive force, and then, in his panic, he tried to dodge the annihilating arc, but was still struck by it. A hole was etched into his tattered invisibility cloak, and after a muffled groan, blood flowed out, and the invisibility cloak lost its effect.

Despair, anger, fear!

The Cyclops still hadn't found any trace of Grimm, but at that moment the gourd monster behind him had been completely swallowed by the black sphere. Immediately afterward, a binding and squeezing force locked in time and space descended.

"No……"

The shouts could not be heard due to the constraints of the surrounding space and time. No matter how hard it struggled, it was so silent and it was constantly being dragged over.

The one-eyed monster, its gaze filled with hatred, looked around at the empty, hazy sky. Who could it be?

On the other side, beneath the robe of appearance, Green was breathing heavily, fleeing at full speed, passing by the colorful octopus monster roaming in the mud.

Although this octopus monster is strong, it is at most at the level of an elite monster crystal terminator, and perhaps even slightly weaker. Compared to the strange black sphere that Green sensed, it is far inferior.

Splash!

The octopus monster seemed completely oblivious to the horrifying change ahead, still foolishly chasing after something. These colorful tattoos, though beautiful in appearance, represent a silent warning in the process of biological evolution: the more vibrant the colors of a creature, the more dangerous it is.

At this moment, Green practically wished that the octopus would be extremely dangerous, and that it would be best if it could have a life-or-death struggle with that black ball.

However, Green's idea was clearly just wishful thinking.

Having barely escaped tens of thousands of meters, and even without Green having avoided the possible time gap, when he looked back, there was still no sign of it. The giant octopus, which was originally hundreds of meters long, was struggling with its hundreds of colorful tentacles. The expansion speed after activating its true form was not even as fast as the black ball's time-distorting absorption speed. It was constantly being dragged over by the black ball.

Suddenly, a chill ran down his spine, as if he were being touched by countless icy little hands, and Green's body shuddered!

He found out!

The Robe of Appearance was completely useless; it had already discovered it. The massive spacetime distortion, compression, and squeezing around it told Green that it was being devoured, just like the other monsters before it!

Everything happened so naturally. In Green's eyes, as they got closer, the black sphere kept getting bigger and bigger. It had grown from the size of a palm-sized lump of coal to a towering behemoth, and it was still expanding.

Green knew that he was shrinking.

In the dim light, Green seemed to see countless tiny things wriggling on the surface of the black sphere, like two-dimensional life forms swimming around the surface of the black sphere, but because they had lost their sense of height and dimension, they could never escape this black sphere.

Do not……

This can't go on. I absolutely cannot let myself be bound to him and become a part of him!

"Sixth level of Wild Instinct Transformation, Ancient Giant Chi Demon True Form, Activate!"

With his muscles expanding and bone spurs emerging, a giant a thousand meters tall gradually took shape. Immediately afterward, a ball of black flames blazed on Green's body, and three hundred black flame soul bird heads roared in unison.

(End of this chapter)