Mysterious Black Substance

Through the bloodline token, Reilo could feel himself drawing ever closer to Canary.

The gravitational channel linking him to his true body was continually collapsing, and the energy supplied by his true body was steadily fading. Even so, Reilo didn't dare linger here for long.

Every so often, the mysterious Shadow Wall Demons flickering across the surrounding black ice would gradually emerge.

Croak! Croak! Croak!

The Abyssal Tyrant's cries rang out once again.

Its piercing shrieks mingled with the howling blizzard, like the wail of a duck about to be slaughtered. It seemed to have spotted Reilo first, too. A terrifying shadow blotted out the sky as it hurtled toward him at astonishing speed.

Reilo stared into the distance, finally seeing with his own eyes the powerful creature he had previously encountered only in paintings.

It had two pairs of wings, and its wingspan was about forty meters. At first glance, it looked somewhat like an Abyssal Erosion Dragon.

But there was a difference.

Aside from its almost insect-like appearance, its body was also shrouded in layers of eerie black smoke. Even calling it smoke wasn't quite right—it was the same substance as the black unknown matter inside the black ice!

This mysterious black substance spread like smoke, but once exposed to the air or struck by intense light, it gradually vanished. It seemed to exist only within certain special mediums.

Within those mediums, it remained extremely stable, almost like ink.

The strangest thing was that it wasn't particulate matter. Reilo's portable microscope couldn't examine it at the microscopic level at all. Under the lens, it flickered in and out, like a planet in the night sky.

Nor did it seem to be energy. Otherwise, given Reilo's scholarly expertise and innate sensitivity to energy, he couldn't possibly have failed to