Card Collecting

Calling it a "palm" was not entirely accurate.

It was more like five pillars wrapped in grayish-white leather, with sucker-like round organs growing at their tips.

Behind the palm was an arm.

Behind the arm were shoulders, a torso, a head...

A complete humanoid outline squeezed out of the dimensional rift.

It stood over ten meters tall, its entire body covered in that rough grayish-white leather.

The proportions of its head were utterly different from a human's—the top of its skull was extremely narrow, almost conical.

Its lower jaw, however, was disproportionately broad, with two fan-shaped bony partitions extending from either side.

The Tool Spirit's detection results popped up:

[Detection complete: Echo Giant

Source: Outer-dimensional deep-sea region (suspected to have a resonance channel with the Abyss's Ninth Floor)

Rank: Dark Sun Rank

Core traits:

A collective consciousness formed from the aggregated resentment of multiple drowned victims;

Skin possesses extremely strong resistance; physical attacks and elemental spells are almost ineffective;

Suckers can attach to and immobilize a target's soul, preventing it from escaping

Weakness: Fire spells or Purification-attribute attacks

Research value: Medium

Danger level: High]

"Collective consciousness..."

Ron studied the giant.

It struggled under the restraints of the summoning array, and every struggle made the binding array let out an ear-piercing hum.

The suckers on those grayish-white fingers opened and closed over and over, making a tooth-aching "tsk, tsk" sound, as if countless mouths were feeding at the same time.

"Good combat value, but limited research value."

After making his judgment, he did not hesitate.

The door of the [Threshold of Darkness] silently unfolded in midair.

The Chaos Veil surged out and wrapped the entire giant up.

This time, the struggle was far more violent than the lump of flesh and the Fear Condensate. The suckers clawed desperately at