"Fuck! Stupid Lunatic on the Right!"
At that moment, Verdu kept his eyes tightly shut and said through gritted teeth, "They were brought together through some kind of evil ritual. They seem to be trying to advance to a higher Sequence this way."
Edward was stunned. "Do they think advancing is like playing Merge Watermelon? Combine several Low Sequences into a High Sequence? Their family has been around since the Fourth Epoch. Surely they couldn't make a mistake like that?"
"Normal people certainly couldn't, but under the influence of an evil god, that's another matter."
An evil god?
Was it corruption from the City of Calamity?
"Do you have any way to deal with this?"
"No. If the person you're looking for really is named Medici, all I can say is give up."
Just then, the aggregate's "body" squirmed, gradually transforming from a ball of flesh into a "giant" made of human bodies-its head, torso, arms, and legs were all formed from bodies twisted and tangled together. Then scarlet flames blossomed around the "giant," and in the blink of an eye, the aggregate of flesh became an enormous flaming giant.
"...I remember the Hunter Pathway's Mythical Creature Form being a flaming giant... so this is its Mythical Creature Form now? The merging actually worked? How the fuck is that possible?"
After turning into a flaming giant, it became noticeably more agile. Its right hand loosely closed and slammed down, and a ten-meter-long flaming sword materialized out of thin air, cleaving toward the two of them.
Boom!
A burning trench appeared. Without stopping, the flaming giant lashed out with a flaming whip in its other hand, sweeping toward the spot where Edward had blinked to.
Edward narrowly dodged and said quickly, "It seems to be gradually adapting to its abilities!"
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