In the air.
Shinji coldly watched the black liquid pouring down from the vortex in the distance.
Like everyone else present, the moment Shinji looked at the black liquid, he too was contaminated.
But this time, he didn't even use the power of the Lantern. He cleared the contamination from his body using only his own Chakra.
This made him clearly feel how much stronger he had become.
Not long ago, merely exchanging a glance with the Breeding Overlord from afar had left his mind and body seemingly frozen, completely paralyzed. Without the Lantern's protection, he might have died or gone insane—and in any case, he would have missed his last chance to evacuate.
Now he could look directly at the Breeding Overlord without even feeling dazed, let alone paralyzed.
Clearly, after ascending to Kekkei Mōra, he had at least gained the right to meet the Breeding Overlord's gaze.
Shinji glanced again at the Knowledge Tower in the distance.
Ripples that should not have been there appeared inside the Magic Rings above the Knowledge Tower. This meant the Storm Archmage maintaining them was enduring enormous interference and assault.
If an Archmage was a being close to Six Paths level, like Shion in her fully manifested Miko form, then an Archmage inside a Magic Tower, empowered by that tower, could more or less be considered Six Paths level.
At that very moment, six Archmages were doing their utmost to maintain the Magic Rings and repel the Overlord's invasion.
That meant that in forcing its way through this time, the Breeding Overlord had to contend not only with the barrier between dimensions, but also with the combined resistance of six Six Paths-level powerhouses!
So Shinji understood that this situation couldn't be compared to the one on T33. The Breeding Overlord faced far