With the Silver Surfer's help, the five of them stabilized the line in an instant. But there were simply too many Aberrants, and more poured endlessly from the depths of the Void Interlayer.
The black mist left behind by the destroyed smaller Aberrants kept gathering together, nourishing their surviving companions.
The massive Aberrant Overlord devoured its fallen kind. It grew ever larger, and the void's corrosive power around it continued to intensify.
"At this rate, we'll be stuck in a drawn-out fight and burn through our energy too fast!" A2 severed a thick tentacle with her blade and shouted, "We have to contain the Aberrant Overlord first! Cut off its supply of black mist!"
"I'll seal off the void energy around it!" 2B understood at once. She raised her longsword, weaving pure realm-breaking spiritual power into a ring-shaped cage that enclosed the space around the Aberrant Overlord and blocked the gathering mist.
At the same time, the rest of the defenders arrived in the outer reaches of space.
Wanda spread her scarlet Chaos Domain. Its disorderly rules twisted the black mist's properties, preventing the corrosive toxin from taking stable form.
Medusa swept her cold gaze across the battlefield and unleashed petrifying power over a wide area. Charging Aberration Monsters turned to pitch-black stone, then shattered.
Viper released a specially formulated toxin that countered void energy. It spread across the battlefield as a vast haze, steadily weakening the Aberrant Creatures.
Mei Terumi spread her boundless Source-less Water Realm, its vapor blocking the black mist's advance.
Mai Shiranui ignited a sweeping blaze, scorching the drifting void residue.
Gwen and Marie Rose darted across the battlefield, hunting down stray Aberrants that broke through the line.
Crystal marshaled the five elements into barriers that divided the battlefield and kept the black mist from spreading