The ten-thousand-meter-long molten greatsword was reflected on his face, bathing his body in deep red. But he showed no fear. Clenching his fist, he unleashed a terrifying blow at the descending sword.
Rumble-
The sea churned. The enormous molten blade pierced the ocean, gouging a vast abyss into the seabed.
Huge waves roiled.
Then everything seemed to fall still.
An enormous beast crawled out of the seabed, freezing its surroundings. Its gaze fell on the Deep Sea Devourer's body, pinned dead beneath the molten greatsword.
Yet under its gaze, that shattered corpse slowly turned into black fish, dissolving into thin air before them.
"An illusion."
Killing intent surged through its enormous eyes.
Within the rifts and rugged caverns beneath the seabed.
A pitch-black whale dozens of meters long kept burrowing deeper through the strata. Compared with his former body, which had easily stretched over a thousand meters, he was now dozens of times smaller.
And Lynn could clearly sense his life force draining away.
He had not merely created an illusion.
He had expended immense power and lost a great deal of mass to hold those Origins back.
"Your corruption is getting worse! Let me suppress it first!"
Inside his body, Lynn saw the purple-black aberrations beginning to spread through his flesh again. As his strength waned, the corruption began stirring once more.
But the Devourer quickly refused Lynn's offer.
Gritting his teeth, he hurtled deeper underground.
"Don't waste your strength-we're not out of danger yet-if you use your power on me now-they'll discover us immediately-"
"This rift leads to the largest trench in the entire Western Sea-over all these countless years-to avoid the restrictions on the surface-the Fallen and Origins here have tunneled through most of the crust-the underground region is far more extensive than the waters