"Purification."
"...Could the Spirit Intelligence Grass the Void God made..."
Be a knockoff?
He had no idea why, but the little flowers growing on the octopus always reminded him of Spirit Intelligence Grass. These flowers, however, were more delicate and natural.
He tilted his head and looked at the giant octopus.
"Help me cut..."
"Eat me..."
"It hurts so much...this proliferating body..."
The giant octopus's anguished mental power instantly flowed through the Astral Body Inscription Technique. Like a tide, it battered Kroya's mental barrier without end, carrying potent "contamination."
This octopus had already been legendary before receiving an Evil God's blessing and being contaminated by Time Luminary. Even Kroya felt somewhat dazed by its immense mental power.
Fortunately, he was long accustomed to dealing with all kinds of magical beasts, including quite a few berserk ones. He also promptly deployed the orange melody as a protective barrier, blocking the assault.
Only then did he begin soothing it.
Well practiced at this, Kroya soon calmed the octopus down, mainly by transferring its pain to himself and using his cornerstone to bear it.
This was a path he needed to walk for the laws related to "devotion" and "acceptance." In any case, he could now bear enough laws that the more he had, the better.
Once that was done, he finally had time to examine it.
He had already learned that this was a "Silver Clam Octopus," but that had been from just one arm. Now that he could see its entire body, its internal structure was staggeringly complex.
There was the blue of ocean tides, the white of moonlight, the black of Time Luminary, and the even deeper black power of an unknown Evil God-the Astral Body Inscription Technique had not provided that Evil God's exact name.
That was strange. The