The Void Demon King had targeted the puppet, not Nameless hidden inside its shell, so Nameless had seen the entire attack.
The Void Demon King was extraordinary.
So extraordinary that the Divine Insects in Nameless's eyes had eaten their fill in a single sitting—something that had never happened before.
Nameless closed his eyes. He could feel the Divine Insects lodged in his pupils swelling. Normally, they would secrete forms, which the Nameless Sea would then nurture into a Divine Butterfly or Divine Cicada.
This time felt entirely different. Something in his eyes seemed about to "break out of its shell."
Suddenly, his eyes flew open of their own accord. A beam of black light shot from his pupils and instantly condensed before him into a translucent energy form resembling a horseshoe crab.
It swam freely in front of Nameless, but unlike the Divine Butterfly and Divine Cicada, it did not seem to be alive. It was more like a weapon.
Nameless raised a hand to touch it, but his fingers passed through its body. It circled his fingers, its body remarkably supple. Its sharp tail in particular could lengthen or shorten at will, and it grew much longer as it wound around his fingers.
What was this thing for?
Puzzled, Nameless used the Divine Insects' ability to examine it.
A flood of information came to him. The translucent, horseshoe-crab-shaped creature before him was called a Heavenly Demon Insect. It was a guardian weapon formed from the shell the Divine Insects had shed after eating "filth" they should not have eaten.
It bore traits of both that "filth" and the Divine Insects.
The Void Demon King possessed Undying Immortality, for instance, so the Heavenly Demon Insect could not be killed or destroyed either. The Void Demon King's attacks also caused enemies