A terrifying torrent of Psychic Power gathered behind Bilak, then surged toward his back.
The Daemon Prince showed no sign of dodging. Instead, he suddenly produced an object emanating the aura of death from his body, which had no accessories capable of holding anything.
The moment the object appeared, the torrent of Psychic Power Ahriman had unleashed at full force vanished in an instant.
To onlookers, the torrent of Psychic Power had simply appeared and disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving no trace behind.
Considering that Psychic Power did not need to obey the law of conservation of energy in the first place, there was nothing strange about it vanishing out of thin air.
That was how it appeared to Lupercal, whose Psychic Power was not particularly strong.
But in Ahriman's eyes, the Psychic Power he had released at full force had not dissipated. It had been transformed by that object radiating the aura of death.
It had not been drawn in or contained. It had been abstractly transformed and devoured through a process.
Everything Ahriman could perceive had been transformed into an entity-concept that could not be fully described. That concept was transformation, but it also resembled an endless cycle of birth, aging, sickness, death, and rebirth.
In that instant, he sensed many things.
"I was going to use this to charge Taifon, but... you will do." Bilak raised the strange object filled with the aura of death.
Ahriman stared intently at it and realized that it was the artifact known as the Plague Heart, one of the Three Divine Artifacts. Yet it was in Bilak's hands now, rather than aboard this warship or in Vashtorr's possession.
However, it did not matter who held any one of the Three Divine Artifacts, because Vashtorr and Bilak had already