Lu Yuan's eyes locked onto the enormous creature in the distance. Icy Gray-White Text appeared before him, making his heartbeat skip half a beat.
[Target detected: Pale Eye (Complete Aberration)]
The glow of the Gray-White Text illuminated his eyes, thoroughly confirming the worst suspicion in his mind.
That was the Guardian— a Fifth-Order aberration that had completely abandoned his human body and stepped fully into The Abyss. An intense sense of absurdity and confusion surged through Lu Yuan.
Because Lu Yuan remembered clearly the bottle of potion in Klaus's hand, the special alchemical product called "Breath of the Dying" beneath the Gray-White Text.
Its description stated that it could genuinely suppress the collapse of a Fifth-Order Transcendence Path and the disintegration of the flesh.
In theory, as long as the Guardian drank that potion, he could temporarily slow his injuries and maintain human form.
So long as the Guardian took that potion, he could temporarily preserve his humanity. Then, with that "hope"... perhaps he would still have a chance to endure this trial and survive—at the very least, to preserve what remained of his sanity and humanity.
But his current appearance of total loss of control already explained everything.
Lu Yuan was not beside Klaus and the others, so he did not know what had happened over there.
But the result lay right before him. The Guardian had not chosen to drink that potion and carve out a path to survival for himself. On the contrary, he had likely voluntarily given up his chance to live and plunged headlong onto this road home that was about to collapse.
What exactly did he want to do?
Within his sight, that deep black pupil that devoured all light was undergoing an astonishing transformation.
Cracks began to spread across the surface