White and black, light and shadow. For a moment, there seemed to be only these two colors left in the entire world.
The whistling lightning tore through the darkness with a dazzling brilliance. While dispersing the darkness that enveloped everything, it struck a figure that walked out of the shadows. It looked like a person's shadow, or rather, it was a person's shadow. It stood on the ground, with only two bright red spots flickering from time to time in the eye area of its head like eyes.
In the face of this thunderous attack, the shadow demon stretched out its hand in an attempt to resist, but the moment it was struck by the lightning, it was completely annihilated and disappeared without a trace.
But very quickly, more little red dots appeared from the darkness that had dimmed once more.
"Don't make too much of a ruckus. Don't leave here. Pay attention to the darkness around you!"
Jenn said in a low voice while swinging his sword forward. Soon, a series of ice crystals broke through the ground and tore through the shadow army like crisscrossing canine teeth.
Immediately afterward, Elyse stretched her hand forward again, and the strange dark red runes formed on her fingertips once again. Then, they turned into sparkling magic missiles that blasted into the squirming shadows like a meteor shower. Soon, a series of explosions occurred, and the shadow creatures in front of her were torn into pieces.
On the other side, Nadia held a longsword in her hand. Under the shroud of holy light, her entire body was like a glowing humanoid light bulb. But one had to admit that this humanoid light bulb was still very helpful in dispersing the darkness. The shadow creatures that pounced on Nadia gradually became thinner under the illumination of the holy light. Then, they were completely annihilated after being swept by Nadia's sword.
But even so, they continued to charge forward, wave after wave.
Of course, Jenn wasn't the only one blocking in front of the shadow creatures.
The huge, bright red 'jelly' rolled and spat out the wall that had been mostly melted. Then, its gelatinous body that looked like a slime spread out and swallowed the shadow creature in front of it. One could clearly see its huge, elastic body trembling along with this action as though it was a big mouth that was chewing.
In this frenzied devouring, the shadows retreated for a moment. But shortly after, they coalesced into a gigantic octopus-like monster that emerged from the darkness on the surface. It waved its tentacles and wrapped around the 'jelly' tightly. Then, a sharp thorn emerged from the smooth skin of the 'jelly'. Shortly after, the octopus pierced its mouth into the 'jelly' and sucked it in big mouthfuls. But at the next moment, it was torn apart by the shrieking 'jelly' and rolled to the side.
Everything was just as Jenn had planned. The evil emissaries of the Mother of Chaos who were alarmed launched a fierce attack on the uninvited intruders. As for the shadow creatures, they were equally annoyed that they were awakened by the intruders. Therefore, under the deliberate provocation of the initiator, the two parties that had nothing to do with each other instantly attacked and tore each other apart.
On the other hand, Jenn and the three young ladies stayed out of it, hiding in the cellar like harmless little bunnies and waiting for everything to end.
But in order to gain something, one had to pay the price. Even though the thick surface blocked the probing of the strange things in the stomach of the Mother of Chaos, the obstacles were almost nonexistent to the shadow creatures. They shrieked and darted out from every corner covered in darkness, launching a fierce attack on their prey.
Fortunately, up until now, everything was still within his control.
A heavy figure clad in a knight's armor strode out of the darkness in large strides. The spear in its hand streaked across the air and struck at Jenn.
In the face of this strange figure, Zayen took a step back, but an afterimage took a step forward almost at the same time, allowing the shadow spear to pierce its body. Then, the afterimage exploded with a loud bang, and the next moment, dozens of ice crystals shot out from the afterimage explosion and nailed the heavy black figure to the wall. But before it could even react, it was completely torn apart like ice melting in water, disappearing into the dark crevice.
"It seems like our luck isn't that great."
Jenn gazed helplessly at the shadowy creatures that emerged, were eliminated, and reappeared.
Such a dense number of shadowy creatures proved that they might have accidentally connected to the territory of a shadow lord. He turned around and gazed at the Shadow Moon Sword in the center of the ritual. At that moment, the sword was completely shrouded in a black light column. Apart from the violent energy waves that resembled a drill drilling through the entire ground, Jenn couldn't sense anything else.
He knew very well that this was the Shadow Moon Sword releasing its own power and once again forming a resonance with the shadow plane. Right now, the sleeping shadow power in the Shadow Moon Sword was gradually awakening, and the fluctuations and aura produced by this power would inevitably attract the attention of some powerful existences.
One had to know that the Shadow Moon Sword was born in the shadow plane, so it was only natural that the creatures on the plane of existence would flock to it.
Jenn initially hoped that the shadow territory could be further away from the troublesome creatures so that they wouldn't rush over so quickly even if they detected the Shadow Moon Sword. But now, it seemed hopeless.
Forget it, this is good too.
At this thought, Jenn narrowed his eyes slightly. He glanced at Nadia who was fighting fiercely in front of him. Perhaps it was because the long-lost holy light could finally destroy the enemies' normally 'that she was a little carried away. But this was also good. This way, this simple-minded holy knight wouldn't notice some problems.
Besides, if anything were to happen, Jenn was sure that she would be happy to 'sacrifice' herself.
"Gururururu …!"
At this moment, a loud sound came from the sky. It sounded like the sound of a hungry person. Upon hearing this sound, Jenn twitched his brows and hurriedly gestured to Elise and Enoya. Elise immediately returned to the core area of the defensive ritual while Enoya flung a lightning whip to defeat the shadow monster's attack again. She grabbed Nadia who was still waving her holy sword and dragged her into the defensive ritual.
Nadia didn't react in time and almost swung her sword at Enoya, who was beside her. Fortunately, she reacted quickly and stopped her attack.
If not, the Paladin would have been slapped to the ground by Enoa.
Under Jenn's guidance, the four of them returned to the center of the defensive ritual and stared at the sky through the broken outer wall.
"Gurururururu …"
Another strange sound sounded. This time, even the shadow monsters who were attacking the defensive barrier seemed to have sensed something amiss. They turned around and gazed at the source of the sound in astonishment.
Until a large shadow appeared out of nowhere and covered their heads.
Upon witnessing the true form of this thing, Nadia almost screamed out loud. Even Elise's expression changed drastically. Only Jenn and Enoya remained calm. But judging from their knitted brows, it was apparent that the situation wasn't looking good at all.
And all of this was because of the monster hovering in the air.
At first glance, it looked like a stomach that had been enlarged countless times. It squirmed constantly and densely packed mouths opened one after another on the scarlet folds on the surface of its internal organs. A few unknown blood vessels or nerves emerged above it, waving and manipulating the monster to move forward.
The mouths opened and closed, letting out burps after burps. Jenn also saw eyeballs hidden in these mouths. When the countless mouths opened, he could even see eyeballs rolling around frantically. This was a form of torture and torture for any trypophobia sufferer.
"Burp — — —!"
The entire stomach contracted abruptly, then swelled up. There was another burp, and the next moment, Zayen saw the countless mouths open and make an inhaling motion.
"Swish …!"
The air whizzed and turned into a violent airflow, sweeping everything towards the countless gaping mouths. Even the tavern where Zayen and the others were hiding was no exception.
The tavern had already suffered significant damage from the battle between Jenn's group and the shadowy creatures, so it was defenseless against the Mother of Chaos's suction. Jenn's group could only watch as the wooden ceiling was torn off piece by piece and flew into the air along with the airflow. Even the brick walls couldn't withstand such a powerful suction force and shattered into pieces.
In the blink of an eye, the tavern above their heads was pulled into the sky. Then, it was torn apart by the airflow and disappeared into the gaping mouths.
Even the shadow monsters were no exception. Although they also sensed that the situation was not good and turned to run back to their Umbral Realm, in the face of this terrifying and powerful suction, even shadows could not escape unscathed. Zayen even saw with his own eyes a large shadow in front of him being torn from the wall like a piece of rag and flying into the sky.
In an instant, the walls that lost their shadows glowed in a mysterious brilliance.
It seemed like Nicholas couldn't wait to devour and digest everything here.
Looking at this scene, Jenn's expression sank slightly.
Of course, he knew what this monster was. It was Nicholas's messenger, the 'Mouth of Hunger', Shagut. Its only mission in this world was to eat for Nicholas. It would keep eating until the Judgment Day arrived.
This was a projection of Nicholas's stomach, so Shagut was naturally a projection too. But even so, it was troublesome enough.
"What should we do next?
Master? "
Looking at the disgusting monster, Elyse's face turned pale. Although she was still maintaining the operation of the defensive ritual, she could sense that it wouldn't be able to last much longer.
If they could not think of a solution, then when the monster opened its mouth again, it was possible that they would be sucked away together with the Defense Formation and eaten!
Seems like this is the only way.
Gazing at Elyse, Jenn knitted his brows. Then, he swept a glance at Nadia, who was still gazing at Shagut. No matter what, she was also a Divine Knight. As long as she could burn the power of grace in her body, she could attract Nicholas's attention. When that happened, Jenn and the others could seize the opportunity to escape.
But … How do I convince her to activate her Fanatic Mode?
Just as Zayen was pondering, he suddenly realized that the black beam of light that erupted from the Shadow Moon Sword had begun to fade. Not only that, but the violent energy fluctuation from before was also gradually disappearing. Could this be …
But before Jenn could ponder any further, a roar engulfed everything.