When?
What was that?
What was going on?
By the time those three thoughts surfaced in Rex's mind, instinct had already driven his body to retreat rapidly from Isaac—the classic bruiser's response, with his body reacting faster than his brain.
Unfortunately, he had reacted, but not quite fast enough.
The Miniature Black Hole had swallowed Rex's entire lower body in an instant!
Fortunately, High Knights had no weakness like a magic power core. There was no ridiculous situation where they could regenerate a destroyed heart or brain, only to drop dead when cut in half at the waist. So Rex actually only looked miserable. In reality—
Well, he really was in a miserable state!
Although a knight's tremendous vitality could regenerate his lower body quickly, even restoring it to almost its original strength, that half of his body had been completely devoured. His magic power supply had been halved to begin with, and with the additional cost of regeneration, he would lose at least seventy percent of his vitality and magic power!
That would already have been a crippling loss for a normal Fifth-Tier Knight, let alone a knockoff like him who had only reached the fifth tier through a temporary boost.
Yet precisely because his advancement was temporary, losing nearly seventy percent of his vitality and magic power was not much of a problem for Rex.
At least, it was not that serious.
His most serious problem was that his fifth-tier strength was temporary, and he had achieved it not through a secret technique of his own, but through the special ability produced by merging with those fifty Magic Array Guards.
But the Magic Array Guards' fusion came at a price. Each fusion not only erased their sense of self; more importantly, when they suffered an attack, especially one