"Ding! Congratulations, user! Level increased! Current level: 80!"
Just then, the system notification suddenly rang out in Wu Yan's mind, snapping him out of his daze as he stared in the direction where the Beast King had vanished.
Before he could react, a dense crimson current drifted out from his body and rapidly spread across his entire form!
The sudden change startled everyone present, including Wu Yan himself. But before anyone could respond, strange phenomena also appeared around Mikoto, Kotori, Astrea, and Tohka!
A massive amount of blue-white electricity suddenly surged over Mikoto's body, flashing wildly. An abnormally scorching flame ignited around Kotori, its color growing ever deeper. A surging purple radiance completely enveloped the bewildered Tohka. Even Astrea's body shone brilliantly, illuminating the surrounding space in an instant!
For a moment, crimson, blue-white, fiery red, purple, and white light flashed from the five of them, blazing through the night and devouring all the darkness around them. Even the ground beneath their feet began to fracture under an unknown force. With a thunderous boom, five craters exploded open! Everyone's expressions changed. The girls standing close to Wu Yan and the others nearly got caught in the shockwaves of the strange phenomenon, crying out as they hurriedly retreated. Thunder King, who had been closest to Wu Yan, was the first to suffer. Several streams of blood energy struck him, forcing him to stagger back again and again.
"Th-this..." Everyone stared uncertainly at Wu Yan, Mikoto, Kotori, Tohka, and Astrea, thoroughly thrown into confusion. If the people involved themselves had not looked equally baffled, they would have thought this was some kind of prank.
"What's going on?!" Thunder King clutched his aching chest where the blood energy had struck him, staring at Wu Yan and the others in shock.
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