Ash, who had been lying on the ground, sprang up with all his strength and retreated dozens of meters away.
"What just happened?"
"Fuck, what the hell is going on? Can someone tell me?!"
Under Ash's shocked gaze, he saw a gigantic humanoid shadow squeezing out from the azure light.
The already absurdly wide azure beam expanded several times over, completely transforming into an azure hole.
What kind of monster was this?
Ash had seen several Greater Evil Spirits and experienced the terror they brought, but compared to this colossal being and the pressure it exuded, those Greater Evil Spirits were nothing at all!
At that moment, Ash could not even twitch his eyebrows.
When the shadow finally squeezed free of the azure light and arrived before Ash, he was utterly stunned.
"Depression. Elegance."
Two words surfaced in Ash's mind.
The instant he saw the figure, those two words had naturally emerged from the depths of his heart for no reason at all, as though the being itself embodied them.
Ash felt his mind go blank, leaving only those two words in his head.
His emotions suddenly sank into inexplicable despondency. The anguish of losing his girlfriend and sister, the depression he had been unable to vent, all surged into his heart.
He felt immense loneliness, boredom, and inner agitation.
That feeling of rejecting everything, that inexplicable emotion that made one feel so suffocated they could go mad.
"I think I really am going insane!"
"No, I can't be like this. This isn't me!"
Ash struggled to steady his mind. He knew he was being influenced, yet he still could not stop his emotions from spiraling in that direction.
He even felt that living was too boring; he might as well just die!
Ash wanted to close his eyes, wanted