"----!"
In that instant, the aura rising from the unknown attacker changed.
It became both dark and bizarre.
A violent gale swept up from the other party and blew in every direction.
At the same time, the mana and curse power acting within the attacker, who was bathed in the gale, underwent a change.
They fused.
Yes.
They fused.
The human mana and nonhuman curse power gradually fused, accumulated, and intertwined amid the attacker's mad roar, finally condensing into a single power resembling black waves.
The fluctuations radiating from that power were astonishing and terrifying, making even the atmosphere tremble and ring.
"Wh... What is that...!?"
Yuri trembled as she witnessed everything with her own eyes.
Luo Zhen, who had been staring intently at the other party, spoke up.
"That's the product of fusing mana and curse power."
Luo Zhen explained this to Yuri.
"The product of fusing mana and curse power?"
Yuri was momentarily unable to process it.
"You should know about it, right? The hypothesis proposed by the Omni-Alchemists."
Luo Zhen brought up the matter.
"Could it be..."
Yuri's memories were immediately awakened.
That had indeed been a hypothesis once proposed by the Omni-Alchemists.
It was said that if both mana and curse power existed within the same individual, there would be a possibility of elevating those powers to the next stage.
That possibility lay in fusing mana and curse power to refine a new form of power.
Through the Omni-Alchemists' research, people discovered that the power possessed by Demon Scarabs, known as curse power, was a form of phase-repulsive phenomenon-interfering power relative to mana.
Therefore, if mana and curse power could be synthesized, their annihilation would release energy, causing the phases of the two mutually repulsive forms of phenomenon-interfering power to disappear. What remained would be pure,