(A huge thank-you to 'dawd' for the 1888 reward! And thanks to 'Yunqi Qinggu' for the reward as well!)
At this moment, within the inner region of the Giant Beast Forest, countless Black Lights were darting about at high speed as though they had gone berserk...
The dense trees posed no obstacle to them whatsoever. They streaked through the forest in arcs of light, trailing black tails behind them as they shot toward a certain direction amid piercing whistles. They seemed to have eyes; even when trees stood in their path, they would twist aside and evade them before continuing onward...
For a time, the entire Giant Beast Forest seemed shrouded in a strange spectacle. Countless Black Lights flew densely between the trees like bees returning to their hive. Combined with the unceasing sounds of air being torn apart, if the Giant Beast Forest were the sky and the Black Lights were silver-white, it would have looked exactly like a meteor shower at night—strangely beautiful.
That was, if one ignored their nature...
Originally, there had not been this many Black Lights!
Though these Black Lights had no consciousness, just as Purple had surmised, they possessed a certain instinct. Not only could they sense danger, but attaching themselves to living creatures and causing them to mutate was also one of their latent instincts.
The Black Lights all resided within living beings. Thus, nearly all the Black Lights here had attached themselves to magical beasts in the Giant Beast Forest, while a small number had taken up residence in humans, changing them before falling dormant.
But now, the hosts they had inhabited had all been reduced to ashes by Ikaros's IS (Permanent Homing Missiles). As a result, the Black Lights could only leave their hosts and follow their instincts to seek out