The corrosion of void energy was terrifying, equivalent to tens of millions of mutations piling atop one another. Change made them grow.
Change made them grotesque.
This change allowed them to wield the lower-tier energy source of leyline power: void energy.
As a high-level energy source, all one needed to do to obtain it was embrace the void and accept its infusion. It could be called the fastest shortcut of a "heretical cultivation method."
It also came with plenty of side effects: impaired sanity, drastically shortened lifespan, an inability to release energy stably, and so on.
In Jiang Han's eyes, there was another very serious side effect.
Almost every creature that embraced the void was hideous—so ugly that a glance in the mirror could scare them into tears.
So if there were any native survivors here, their looks probably fell far outside the range witches could accept. Even by freakish standards, they likely far exceeded the witches' Windows XP system... No, that was hard to say too...
There were two races in the entire multiverse whose proclivities everyone knew all too well.
The first was dragons. No need to talk about how formidable dragons were, right? Try finding something in the entire monster manual that they had not tried. Even elemental creatures had suffered at their hands! After all, things like [Sedan-Dragon] had happened before.
The other was witches. If you wanted to know how wicked witches could be, ask the Balrogs. Even abyssal Balrogs, fearless before heaven and earth, would shed tears.
Jiang Han rewarded the little cat who had brought the news with dried cod, then slung her K63 rifle over herself and walked forward at a strolling pace.
"Let's seize a large stronghold first, then try making contact with the local creatures. Maybe we can figure out