Upon receiving the command, the silver Seal inscriptions on the cabinet's surface sprang to life, each one happily hopping away and revealing the metal cabinet's original dark-gold material.
Then, an exceedingly narrow gap suddenly opened in the cabinet's lid, and a rusty-yellow ray, like crystal, shot into the darkness within the door.
Visible to the naked eye, the black aura instantly churned. The portions directly struck by the ray began to turn gray before fading away.
If the Church's God's Punishment represented the ultimate purification, then the Itel Federation's Doomsday Weapon represented ultimate decay and corrosion.
Struck head-on by two Limit Breaking attacks, the darkness within the gate surged madly as if it possessed substance.
But before anyone could assess the results of the attacks, a shocking and wholly unforeseen change suddenly occurred.
An almost endless quantity of black aura suddenly seeped from the rock walls of the surrounding tunnels, instantly engulfing the many unprepared ninth-rankers.
From the controller's perspective, one could clearly see that the ninth-rankers were now completely inside the body of that unknown entity.
Sensing that it had apparently suffered some sort of attack, the blood-red Giant Eye slowly turned and fixed its gaze on the area near the Energy Chamber. At the same time, countless enormous black Dream Tentacles swiftly wrapped around the group.
Amid this sudden upheaval, several of the weakest ninth-rankers were immediately contaminated by the black aura after it breached their defenses. Like the first ninth-ranker to be infected, they were rapidly assimilated by those strange "auras."
Realizing that the situation was wrong, the Ninth Rank Limit powerhouses from the three factions immediately moved to protect the others while attempting to withdraw from the area.
But by the time they barely managed to retreat, they had already suffered heavy casualties.
Every faction had