Crack!
Amid the scorching waves of heat, Reilo looked up from inside his laboratory's plastic protective suit. A flash of light shone high above.
At first, it was only an insignificant speck of light. Seemingly affected by the devouring force in this space, it kept breaking apart. The next moment, accompanied by an overwhelming wave of heat, it appeared right in front of Reilo.
The heat rushing toward him gradually softened Reilo's protective suit.
Within the flames was Antonio!
But at this moment, his body was already covered in strange black ice crystals, which gave off waves of cold air—a stark contrast to the giant fiery serpent that formed his true body.
Having once infiltrated the Death Abyss and met the Frost Sorcerer, Reilo recognized at a glance that the black ice covering Antonio was imbued with the aura of a Shadow Wall Demon!
He really had been corrupted by a Shadow Wall Demon. He had merely been relying on layer after layer of snake skin.
"Master! You..."
Although Reilo had heard from the Frost Sorcerer that Antonio had once entered the Death Abyss, and had even suspected that the layers of snake skin covering him might conceal its secrets, he still found it hard to believe now that the truth was right before his eyes.
The flames around Antonio had been transformed from one of his ancient serpent heads. But in this mysterious space, even Antonio's Law true body was constantly breaking apart and being devoured, reduced to the most basic energy of this space.
Sizzle...
Reilo noticed that the horns atop the head of this mighty-looking fiery serpent—conductors for its true body, meticulously crafted by combining Mithril with certain unknown, high-grade Magic Materials—were evaporating at a visible rate. Its true-body structure was crumpling like tin foil.
As a