Countless shadowy tentacles reached for the Dark Beast, with a human head and a canine body.
But the Dark Beast leaped nimbly. The ground beneath its feet shattered with a thunderous crash, propelling it more than ten meters into the air. It landed atop a building.
The shadowy tentacles caught fire the instant they touched its body.
Even shadows could burn to ashes!
Like a Tiger King patrolling its territory, the Dark Beast crouched atop the high-rise. The High Priest's head spoke in a booming voice. "Lin... You truly are favored by that being. It even gave you such a powerful Strange Object! Have you formed a cult? Were the followers who died earlier killed by you, too?"
"Old man, you talk too much."
Blood welled from Lin's hand and formed a bow. A pale arrow emerged directly from her arm, seemingly made of bone.
Whoosh!
The bowstring twanged, and the white bone arrow flew forward with unstoppable resolve!
"Restrain him!"
Olivia controlled invisible threads that spread around the High Priest. Those threads were no longer merely crystallizations of the Chrysalis's spiritual power; they seemed to have come alive, actively seeking out their opponent and growing ever tougher.
She had combined the Strange Object's power with her own, achieving an effect greater than the sum of its parts.
Hiss!
The invisible threads swept past, cleanly slicing through even metal lampposts and walls.
They kept closing in, squeezing the High Priest's escape routes and forcing him to take the arrow head-on!
Thud!
The white bone arrow struck the High Priest's outstretched forepaw. It struggled through the skin and sank into the pitch-black flesh.
"Hmm... At most, you're on par with a third-stage Dark Seeker. Without that Strange Object, you wouldn't stand a chance against me."
The black flames covering the Dark