In the chaotic situation, few people noticed how many times the attacks had rebounded off Izax's forehead. Almost everyone's attention was focused on the Chaos Shadows constantly pouring out of the hall. The black shadows, churning across the ground like sludge, seemed endless. No matter how many Izax and Elizabeth destroyed, more kept surging forward like an inexhaustible tide. The only fortunate thing was that these creatures had no intelligence. They could only charge toward their targets along the shortest path, so the stretch between the hall entrance and the Demon Hunters' defensive line was the only place that needed to be sealed off.
Now that they had reached the open ground outside, Hao Ren no longer had to worry about accidentally hitting allies with his psionic weapon. He drew the Examiner's service pistol and joined the battle. Bright blue beams constantly tore through the air, and explosions erupted one after another across the small plaza in front of the Family Hall. The ground, along with the Chaos Shadows writhing across it, instantly turned into splashing crystal dust under the psionic rays. For a while, Hao Ren's kill rate even surpassed Izax's and the Little Demon's.
Psionic energy ignored all of a target's attributes and defensive measures, inflicting equal true damage on everything in the world, whether describable or indescribable. This was the mighty power regarded as "divine power," and even when it was merely the small-scale firepower of an Examiner's weapon, its nature remained unchanged. The Chaos Shadows were bizarre in nature, but it seemed that their bizarreness was still far from overcoming the psionic energy's overwhelming superiority in rank.
The only problem was that there were simply too many of them, while the range of Hao Ren's service pistol was ultimately limited. The Chaos Shadows poured madly through