Black mist spread over the magnificent gold-and-white armor, turning light into darkness.
The armor that reflected sunlight, bright as a mirror and glittering brilliantly, gradually became sinister, dim, black as ink, yet shimmered with the radiant luster of black diamonds.
Shadows and Haki intertwined, as though covering Garen with another solid layer of flesh and bone.
Garen's twenty-meter-tall body suddenly grew to thirty meters. The outer Shadow Armor revealed muscular contours brimming with brutal beauty, making him look as though explosive power was contained throughout his entire body.
A shadow knight stood upon the earth.
Phantom was so stunned by the sight that he could barely react, while Garen, after briefly adapting to this new form, immediately tried using his new power to attack Phantom:
"Shadow Armor—"
The Shadow Armor covering his body instantly boiled, countless thick, snake-like tentacles growing from it before winding and gathering around Garen's likewise shadow-transformed blade.
In the next instant, the tentacles condensed amid rapid rotation into a massive arm resembling a thick plant vine.
Finally, Garen fiercely swung this pitch-black greatsword of tentacles:
"Deadly Pain!"
The blade came crashing down, while the tentacles shot forth at an explosive speed, blasting toward Phantom with all their might.
"What?"
Phantom finally snapped back to his senses and desperately tried to dodge.
But the tentacles launched far too quickly. He could only use the same old trick, employing Life Return to make himself round and heavy so he could take the blow head-on.
Yet Garen's attack was even more terrifying than the previous Hero's Spear.
Although Phantom used Life Return to turn himself into a giant ball that could not be hammered apart, crushed flat, pierced through, or sliced open, Garen's attack possessed the endless power of Conan's high-tech sneakers, blasting that giant ball straight into the