He stretched his stride to its limit, his boot soles striking the stone steps and dragging out hurried, powerless echoes between the stone walls of the Spiral Staircase.
Arthur had just stepped onto the final dozen or so stairs leading to the top floor when the collision erupted from the darkness above.
The Guardian did not negotiate, nor did he hold back.
He wanted to see just how much strength this so-called Taboo Entity still had left.
In that instant, the old man's face collapsed inward. Flesh twisted beneath his skin, wrenching inward as a gigantic eye of crimson-black flesh forced itself open where his features had been. The enormous eye occupied the place of his original face. Within its pale, murky pupil, countless tiny black pupils spilled outward like a swarm of insects, writhing as they stared ahead.
Boom!
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Black aura surged forth.
Every Inscription within a hundred meters of the Tower of Erudition lit up beneath that giant eye in an instant. The blazing light made the Rune Slots on the stone wall emit piercing wails.
The giant eye focused upon the Gray-White Skull at the center of the array.
With a single blink.
The Silver-Gray Phantom condensed above the Skull was instantly churned into a scattered cloud of mist by that frenzied gaze.
The Skull opposite him was thoroughly enraged by the blow.
An eerie gleam suddenly surfaced over those withered, dead bones. Wherever the gleam passed, the projected pupils continually shattered.
Yet the Guardian showed no fear. Or rather, he increased the output of his power.
The collapsing compound eyes suddenly froze. Then, at some unknown moment, that pair of eyes had appeared upon the Person on the Wall's pallid bone face. In the next instant, hundreds of Fleshy Blisters bulged