The shadow transformation covering a vast area had brutally stripped the Marines of any foothold.
The shadow tide assimilated by Maud was like raging waves in a storm, surging toward the Marines and threatening to swallow them whole.
The sudden turn of events threw the Marines into chaos.
Like a flock of pigeons suddenly startled in a plaza, they all stepped on the air with Geppo and rose into the sky to avoid the shadow tide crashing down upon them.
High above.
Maud hovered in place, slightly lowering his head as he coldly looked down at the Marines whose formation had fallen into disarray.
"Ghost shadows... follow the form."
Maud's sword-pointing finger, which had been pressing forward through empty air, swept toward his side.
A cluster of shadows spreading from his fingertip trembled before him and flashed into a streak of black light.
As Maud's command fell, countless pitch-black humanoid ghost shadows suddenly emerged atop the silently roaring tide.
They pierced through the shadow tide and pounced on the nearest Marines.
"What are those things...?!"
The Marines were startled and decisively attacked the incoming ghost shadows.
All kinds of attacks landed on the ghost shadows in an instant.
The power contained within them immediately shattered the ghost shadows, turning them into fragments that fell back into the shadow tide below.
So weak...
Seeing how helpless the ghost shadows were, the Marines were quite surprised.
Maud's monstrous strength had already been deeply etched into their senses, so they instinctively assumed that every move he made was something they could not afford to underestimate.
Yet the ghost shadows pouncing at them were as fragile as paper.
After a single coordinated assault by the Marines, countless fragments of ghost shadows drifted down from the sky.
But the moment the fragments of the ghost