Whether Gray Merchant's little trick would succeed could be set aside for now. Even if it did, it would only happen after the Shadow Giant and Gray Merchant clashed for a second time.
The black mist fist conjured by the Shadow Giant had already smashed viciously toward the gemstone shield Gray Merchant had created.
Gray Merchant had great confidence in his gemstone shield, which was why he had dared to pull little tricks in secret. Yet what he had never expected was that the enormous black mist fist, at the instant it touched the gemstone shield, directly... assimilated!
Yes, assimilated!
Gray Merchant watched helplessly as the black mist fist transformed into a cluster of clear amber crystals. The crystals were smooth and round like gemstones, identical to the gemstones Gray Merchant produced after activating his bloodline, gleaming with a unique and luxurious luster.
Under normal circumstances, even if the black mist fist had assimilated into a gemstone fist, it should still have been blocked by the gemstone shield, because the physical collision would surely have been resolved first.
Yet to Gray Merchant's utter disbelief, the gemstone fist bypassed physical collision the instant it touched the gemstone shield and passed through it in elemental form!
It sounded and looked as though it was nothing difficult. To put it bluntly, wasn't it simply elementalization?
But the reality was several times more complicated and difficult than it appeared from the outside.
Elementalization was indeed necessary; only elementalization could pass through the gemstone shield. But there was one crucial point involved.
Even elementalization had to obey the basic principles of elements:
When different elements intersected, their differing properties would produce different results. For example: coexistence, Fusion, Dissolution, explosion, or isolation.
Even when elements of the same type intersected, their differing degrees of inertia and