The splattered pieces of flesh hung eerily in the air, turning into a blood mist as if they had evaporated.
The once clear sky was suddenly dyed scarlet, looking like a blood-red cloud from a distance.
Standing on the [Ground] in the center of the 'blood cloud', he cautiously looked around, his expression turning somewhat grim.
"Knowing I can't unleash my full power in the air, they brought me here. No wonder I sealed you away for five years."
"For the past five years, you've probably been plotting your revenge against me."
Dozens of tentacles instantly formed in the blood mist, each as thick as a century-old tree.
Like scarlet beasts, they surged towards the [Ground], engulfing it in a horde of ferocious creatures.
[Ground] His hands gripped the tentacles on both sides tightly, his fingertips digging into his flesh.
With a grit of his teeth, the [Ground], through sheer physical strength, managed to forcefully create a space by pushing aside the tentacles that were squeezing him.
Just as he was about to break free of control again, several extremely conspicuous Gaster Blaster appeared around him.
[Ground] immediately thought to himself, "This is bad!" and transparent crystals instantly appeared on the surface of his body.
Thump!!!
White pixel lasers shot out from the Gaster Blaster, bombarding the diamond-encased body on the [Ground].
Fragments of flesh and blood from the tentacles and shattered diamonds flew everywhere, while the [Ground] at the very center of the attack remained completely unscathed.
"Not a bad attack. If I hadn't specifically defended against it, it probably would have injured me."
[Ground] He took off the only remaining diamond fragment on his body, and with a forceful movement, threw the diamond at Aidan.
The diamond rapidly developed dense cracks in mid-air, and then exploded in mid-air the next moment.
Countless tiny diamond fragments shot at Aidan's pixelated heart like shotgun pellets, the dense attack and wide range leaving the heart with nowhere to escape.
Aidan instantly appeared in front of the pixel heart, gripped the pixel knife in her hand, and swung it twice, leaving behind two flashes of pixelated light.
Upon contact with the blade's light, the diamond fragments instantly vanished without a trace, disappearing like pixels.
[Ground] A gigantic figure appeared before him in a flash, turning Aidan into a ray of sunlight, causing the latter's pupils to shrink sharply.
The fist, stirring up a gust of wind, slammed towards Aidan, but stopped five centimeters from her face, blowing Aidan's hair.
The 'sea urchin' formed from piled-up metal spikes grew wildly in the blood mist, firmly wedging into the [Ground] and rendering it completely immobile.
" [Life] has already achieved this much!"
Before the [Ground] could recover from the shock, Aidan had already reacted.
He mustered his courage, gripped his knife tightly, and with his mortal body, unleashed a full-force attack on the [Five Calamities] before him!
The ordinary-looking knife in his hand sliced through the metal stuck in [Ground] ground as easily as cutting butter, leaving a deep cut that exposed bone on the [Ground]'s chest!
Pixels drifted and spread from the cut, and disbelief filled the golden pupils of the [Ground].
"Ah!!!"
With a deep roar, a powerful Power of the Source erupted, shattering all the metal that sealed off the [Ground] and creating a vacuum zone amidst a cloud of blood mist.
Aidan flew backwards like a kite with a broken string, accompanied by constantly flashing pixelated hearts.
"Suppress!"
[Ground] clenched its fist in the void, then swung it downwards with a fierce motion.
Suddenly, the Earth's gravity seemed to be amplified tens of thousands of times. Aidan, which was already close to stopping, was forced to crash into the ground by the powerful gravitational pull, causing the pixelated heart to flicker again.
The thick mist of blood was also dragged to the ground by the powerful gravity.
[Ground] I slammed onto the ground with a thud, causing the whole world to tremble.
He covered the wound, which was still generating pixels, with one hand, and clenched his fist tightly with the other.
A rich Power of the Source was gathered at the wound, and the slowly spreading wound was forcibly suppressed by the powerful energy, eventually returning to normal.
With half his health bar gone, Aidan scrambled to his feet in a disheveled state, only to be stunned by the mere damage to the [Ground].
After five years, he had a thorough understanding of his own strength, especially his dagger, whose ability ignored any defense or Life.
Once it's hit, it's eradicated at the source, without exception. But the [Ground] only suffered a minor, not fatal, injury.
Moreover, it suppressed its diffusion effect!
The joy that had begun after hitting the opponent instantly plummeted to rock bottom.
Thump!
[Ground] He slightly lifted his foot, then stomped down suddenly. Gilded runes rapidly spread from the soles of his feet, dividing the ground within his sight into squares of varying sizes.
[Ground] As soon as the hand was lifted upwards, the divided ground immediately began to rise at different speeds.
In the blink of an eye, the ground, which had been flattened by the violent explosion and flames, was transformed into a complex yet orderly stone forest.
Aidan was also submerged in it.
Blood mist permeated the stone forest, which varied in height, and mingled with it.
These were the terrifying domains of the two sides, and now they intersected, like two wild beasts poised to pounce!
[Ground] A flash of golden light appeared in the golden pupils.
The entire stone forest seemed to receive some kind of command, and began to rise and fall violently.
As the undulations increased in speed, the entire city resounded with the harsh scraping sound of stones grinding against each other.
A powerful airflow was also generated within, churning the blood mist into a chaotic mess.
At this moment, Aidan felt as if she had been thrown into a blender world, her tiny pixelated heart constantly weaving and dodging.
His health bar continued to drop, and he could only keep attacking the rocks with the Gaster Blaster and his knife in hopes of surviving.
But to his despair, these rocks were extremely hard; the Gaster Blaster could barely destroy them, and even a small knife had very limited effect on them.
The [Ground], like a judge overseeing all things, stands amidst the churning stone forest.
"I admit, [Life], you are worthy of my full power, but you are not enough to truly break through my judgment."
Suddenly, his brow furrowed slightly. The stone forest, which was still churning at high speed, suddenly paused, as if the machine had jammed.
Clumps of scarlet flesh had appeared out of nowhere in the gaps between the stone pillars, resembling disgusting crawling worms in the dark crevices.
More and more flesh and blood covered the stone forest, and the stone pillars began to stir at an extremely slow pace.
Aidan was already low on health, was able to catch his breath.