Ark Undead

Talulah nodded slightly, then raised her right hand.

Flames exploded in her hand, and Ace's shield, which had just reached her, was blasted away by her Originium Arts.

Ace quickly adjusted his angle, tumbled backward, and then landed smoothly.

Rosemary's Originium Arts were the first to react.

She manipulated the giant swords around her and smashed them forward. In front of the massive swords, Talulah looked like a pitiful person about to be hit by a vehicle.

But then she extended her right hand.

click!

Rosemary once again experienced the feeling of wrestling with someone using Originium Arts. The moment the greatsword was captured by Talulah, it could no longer be shaken by her Originium Arts.

As the flames surged from that fair palm, Rosemary's entire greatsword began to melt.

The steel liquefied under the high temperature, dripping down the outer shell of the greatsword and onto the ground with a hissing sound.

In Rosemary's Originium Arts perception, she also felt as if some invisible flame was burning her giant hand.

This had never happened before.

Left with no other choice, Rosemary had to relinquish control of her greatsword. The device behind her had already been damaged during her battle with Patriot due to her overuse of Originium Arts.

Meanwhile, the caster squad behind Rosemary was also preparing their Originium Arts.

Countless energy projectiles of various shapes, along with bizarre Originium Arts, slammed towards Talulah.

Such a surge of magic would cause even patriots to pause and lean back to varying degrees due to the impact.

But in front of Talulah, she completely neutralized it with a mere wave of her hand.

Talulah gripped the longsword hanging at her waist with her right hand. The moment she drew the sword, her Originium Arts were fully activated.

The flames followed the blade's edge, and the flames that condensed into a line shattered the Originium spells and Originium Arts that were about to hit Talulah. The remaining blade light continued forward, about to smash into Amiya, who was standing at the front of the group.

"careful!"

Amiya seemed a little distracted, and in that brief moment, a shield slammed down in front of her.

Fire and shields clashed, and even shields that were already fixed in place on the ground were pushed back nearly two meters by this attack, along with the person supporting the shield.

The shield in Ace's hand was fiery red, and white smoke was rising from his right forearm, which was holding the shield.

The intense heat and violent impact caused the shield's temperature to rise sharply, scorching Ace's arm.

Even so, Ace did not release his shield; he blocked the attack for Amiya.

Amiya?

Ace noticed that Amiya's behavior was a bit strange. Before he could ask her anything, he heard Amiya standing behind him mutter something.

"No...you're not Talulah...there's something inside your body..."

Talulah raised an eyebrow and spoke unexpectedly.

"Oh? This kind of Originium Arts... is quite interesting."

While Ace and the Rosemary Squad were fighting Talulah, Amiya was not idle. Instead, she was working hard to break through the Originium Arts restrictions surrounding Talulah.

Finally, just before she drew her sword, Amiya successfully activated her Originium Arts, linking her mental link with Talulah's.

But at that moment, she noticed something strange about Talulah's consciousness.

A normal person's consciousness is like a water sphere. When Amiya's Originium Arts entered a person's consciousness, they were submerged in the water sphere.

But Talulah's consciousness was like a ball within a ball.

Within the pitch-black consciousness that Amiya sensed, there was another consciousness completely different from the surrounding black water.

Currently, only the outermost black consciousness is responding to Amiya's words.

"You are..."

Amiya did not give up on the attempt to establish a consciousness link. She tried to search for images she could understand in the darkness of consciousness, attempting to find out the person's identity and figure out who she really was.

In that pitch-black consciousness, Amiya finally grasped a clue.

Driven by instinct, she immersed herself in her thoughts and finally found a name.

"Ko...Koschke...No!"

What Amiya saw was nothing but an illusion, and behind that illusion lay a thin cloud that prevented her from seeking the truth.

Talulah, however, seemed to have never experienced a mental link at all. She was neither restricted by Amiya's Originium Arts nor resisted Amiya's mental link.

She looked at Amiya with bright eyes, as if she were looking forward to it.

"Very good, you have guts. But can you really bear the consequences?"

"After you see the truth, will you still have the courage to be my enemy?"

Amiya's consciousness gradually could no longer withstand such depletion.

Talulah felt something strange, as if it could seep into one's mind. Even Amiya's invincible Originium Arts seemed to sink into a swamp before Talulah.

Amiya did not give up searching for the truth; she witnessed many things. However, many of these scenes and experiences were beyond Amiya's comprehension.

It was an endless darkness, an incomprehensible abyss.

Amiya was unaware of how dangerous her actions were.

Amiya saw it; it was from a unique perspective, a view completely different from that of normal people.

That's a panoramic view of Ursus, a view of Ursus from all angles.

Amiya couldn't understand how she "saw" such a scene.

It was at this moment that she found the answer.

"You are... a god of Ursus?!"

Amiya found the answer absurd, and even her own mind went blank for a moment.

But deep within Talulah's consciousness, the eerie perspective, the incomprehensible images and distortions, and the thoughts reflected therein, along with the calm and matter-of-fact emotions, reminded Amiya that this was real.

The Talulah in front of me truly believes that she is the god of Ursus.

The moment she found the answer, the consciousness lurking in the darkness finally revealed its full set of venomous fangs.

Amiya's consciousness was discovered by the hidden venomous snake, which bit into the thin line that emerged from Amiya's sea of ​​consciousness.

The venom was injected into his mouth.

An incomprehensible red light shone in Talulah's gray pupils; she wanted to make Amiya her captive as well.

Amiya felt as if she had been struck by a heavy hammer; her legs went weak, and she collapsed to her knees.

"This is...no...wrong."

Amiya couldn't understand why anyone could seize upon her Originium Arts and use them against her.

This was a situation she had never encountered before.

Amidst the intense pain in her mind, a strange voice echoed in her head.

"The suffering of the earth becomes a reality in your eyes, and the death of your compatriots makes you determined to move forward."

The voice was so sweet, like a mother's embrace, it was intoxicating.

“But no one can escape the invasion of the darkness, you parasite who draws power from the darkness.”

Amiya was resisting the attack from Talulah, and she realized that the voice was trying to persuade her to give up.

"Identity and consciousness are nothing but futile struggles in the face of all-consuming darkness."

She gritted her teeth, trying to resist the intrusion from Talulah.

"Therefore, you need not fear the darkness, for the time to feast has come."

Ace realized that there must be something wrong with Amiya's Originium Arts.

He and Rosemary behind him reached a consensus simultaneously without exchanging words.

Rosemary activated her Originium Arts hand, about to grab Talulah's body, while Ace rushed forward, taking advantage of the moment Rosemary restrained Talulah, to punch her in the cheek.

Talulah's expression suddenly turned cold.

"Go away!"

Wow!

A surge of air erupted, and crimson flames danced up and down.

Rosemary's invisible hand shattered into pieces in an instant, causing her to spit out a mouthful of blood as her body, filled with Originium-infused blood, churned uncontrollably.

Ace, on the other hand, felt as if he had been struck head-on by a giant club. Even though he had raised his shield to block it, he was still sent flying backward, crashing into the walls surrounding the tower.

But they have bought enough time.

Taking advantage of Talulah's momentary distraction, Amiya regained partial control of her body.

This was a game of life and death, and the loser had no chance of survival. Amiya was certainly aware of this.

Amiya then forcibly severed her mental link with Talulah and successfully regained her composure.

Talulah clicked her tongue, but didn't make any big moves.

She looked at Amiya with great interest, and even crossed her arms.

"The human body is still too weak, while the spirit is controlled by the prison of the body."

"After knowing so much of the truth, can you really understand what I've seen and heard?"

Amiya gritted her teeth; she had not escaped Talulah's influence.

The black mist, like venom, had already invaded Amiya's mind along the broken mental link.

In her mind, which was like a kaleidoscope constantly changing scene, Amiya was waging an unspeakable war.

At that very moment, the ring that had already developed a crack on her right thumb suddenly shattered.

Ding...

The purplish-black energy surged through Amiya's body like lightning, her breath was scalding, and her whole body felt as if it were being pressed into magma and boiling.

The power that had been suppressed and out of control for so long finally erupted.