"BOOM!!!!"
The enormous nightmare cloud crashed into the ground. Instead of dispersing, it spread, swelled, and solidified rapidly, as though alive!
In the blink of an eye, centered on the cloud's impact point,
a "nightmare domain" more than thirty meters across formed, bottomless and seething with all manner of distorted colors!
Then...
"ROAR!!"
"HISSS!!"
"Hehehe..."
Countless inhuman roars, shrieks, and eerie laughs erupted from the nightmare domain!
Nightmare monsters of every shape, formed entirely from nightmare energy, fearful thoughts, and warped dreams,
crawled out endlessly from the darkness of the domain, like demons emerging from the deepest reaches of hell!
Some resembled enormous spiders with many eyes and legs; others were faceless humanoids dripping pus.
Some were stitched monsters pieced together from countless broken weapons and limbs.
Others were simply frozen skeletal warriors of ancient giants...
These nightmare monsters had no physical substance, making ordinary physical attacks largely ineffective.
They had no clear concept of death. Even if shattered, as long as Killingham's nightmare domain and dream energy remained,
they could swiftly resurrect within the domain's darkness!
Their only common trait was the pure malice, chaos, and hunger for living souls they radiated!
"Attack!"
Almost at the same moment Killingham unleashed his ability, Saint Shepherd Ju Peter and Saint Mars cast aside their hesitation and launched their final counterattack!
Saint Shepherd Ju Peter's body swelled and twisted with a thunderous crash, transforming into a gigantic sandworm that emerged halfway from the ground, its mouthparts hideous and dust swirling around it!
Saint Mars let out a piercing bird cry and transformed into Itsumade, beating his tattered wings,
ready to join the nightmare monsters and the sandworm in one final, desperate struggle!
"Hmph! Now that's more like it!"
Faced with this desperate counterattack-the expanding nightmare domain, the emerging nightmare monsters, and