Ten days later, the battle was still raging.
Benjamin, Viola, and Augusta worked together with ever greater coordination, unwittingly settling into a fixed combat pattern. Benjamin served as their main attacker, facing the parasite head-on and weathering all its attacks.
Viola enveloped the parasite's body in the Law of Pain, forcing its movements into brief moments of sluggishness and rigidity that created openings for Benjamin. Augusta skirted the edges of the battlefield, clearing away each piece of the parasite Benjamin shattered before it could become fully inactive, preventing the fragments from reassembling. Benjamin caught hundreds of lashing worm-whips in one hand, tightening his fingers to clamp the writhing bodies firmly in his palm.
The worm-whips struggled frantically in his grip, trying to retract into the mountain-sized main body, but Benjamin's strength held them immobile.
Viola immediately unleashed the Law of Pain. Gray-white light spread along the rocky shell, reaching the roots where the worms connected to the main body. The excruciating pain made the parasite stiffen for an instant. Benjamin seized the opening to gather his strength, clenched his other hand into a fist, and brought it crashing down.
Empowered by both the Great Annihilation Divine Light and God of Light Transformation, his fist smashed through the middle of the hundreds of worm-whips in his grasp.
The severed worms twitched in midair. Augusta arrived right behind him and pulverized them completely, leaving them no chance of reconnecting.
Together, the three steadily wore down their opponent's strength.
Under normal circumstances, their combined energy reserves could never have compared to those of this parasite.
But whenever Viola's and Augusta's mental power dwindled, Benjamin used the Void Ashes Return-to-Origin Hand to restore them to peak condition. Meanwhile, the Incense Divinity Path's Cross-Space Energy Transmission System supplied Benjamin himself with an endless stream of