Deep within the Starry Sky.
A pale green luminous mist filled every corner of this expanse.
The twinkling stars resembled swollen, rounded eyeballs, blinking slowly at a low frequency. Faint bands of light linked them together like the veins and roots of some plant, trembling slightly with the stars' flickering.
Yao Xiaomi lowered his head and stood obediently amid the luminous mist, not daring to move.
Earlier, after the Black Snail had thrown Puji Island's sun into this luminous mist, he had hesitated for an instant. But seeing the sun so close by, he had no time to think and reached out to scoop it back out.
Then the luminous mist spread around him.
The moment he touched that mist, Yao Xiaomi immediately felt the Magic Power throughout his body boil and leak uncontrollably into the outside world. A faint red Legendary aura mingled with the green mist, and a distant moan seemed to drift from the depths of the Starry Sky.
"Shabu Nicholas!"
The moment he heard that name, Yao Xiaomi knew he was in trouble.
Shabu Nicholas. No wizard of even slightly higher rank in the Wizarding World was unfamiliar with that name. She represented one of the strongest Outer Gods in the Starry Sky, as well as one of the beings who had become an Ancient One by "taking another path."
Yet in his memory, Nikolas had always been associated with things like "a gigantic mass of flesh like a black cloud," "tentacles," and "a huge mouth dripping slime." She had not the slightest connection to the dreamlike green luminous mist before him—this was why he had dared to charge in just now.
In his view, aside from a limited number of great figures in the Starry Sky, the other Outer Gods were at most Legendary. He