"No! This can't be! How are you still alive? This can't be, it can't—" The blond man's panicked scream lasted only a few seconds before cutting off abruptly.
The three remaining Beast Apostles changed expressions and hurriedly turned to look.
The moment they did, their pupils contracted sharply...
What appeared before them was an exceptionally tall shadow, its countless tentacles whipping wildly around it. Waves of eerie magical energy radiated from its body, making their blood run cold.
The once-arrogant blond man had already lost all signs of life. The shadow's tentacles had bound his stiff corpse and hoisted it into the air.
"How is this possible?"
The three Beast Apostles were instantly horrified. They instinctively leaped backward, putting distance between themselves and the shadow.
The moon peered out from behind the dark clouds, and a shaft of moonlight slowly fell upon the earth. Only then could everyone finally make out the shadow's true appearance.
A face like a demon's.
His body was covered in blue scales, with bone spikes jutting from his shoulders and joints. Countless tentacles wreathed in black smoke sprouted from his back.
There was scarcely anything human left about him. Even Ul could only identify the shadow as Singer by his severed arms.
"Heh heh heh..." Singer pulled a twisted grin as he lifted the blond man's corpse up before him. "Looks like you didn't know! After fusing with the Demon Jellyfish, my heart stopped being a vital point long ago."
Singer hadn't expected the blond man to use Mental Power to invade his mind in his final moments.
After fusing with the Demon Jellyfish, Singer's vital points were no longer the same as a human's. But Ul had injured him too badly earlier, so although the blond man's attack had missed a vital point, it