"They're … all being controlled?"
Cirvanas said in disbelief, his expression uncertain. To the Forsaken, this type of mental enslavement was the most stimulating thing to them. Now, right in front of him, his own soldiers were once again being controlled by this mental enslavement, and were even being controlled to deal with him. Of course, Cirvanas' expression wasn't any better.
"It's not exactly accurate to say that it's being controlled." I observed the faint black fog emanating from the gradually approaching undead soldiers. "The power of the Abyss is capable of amplifying all violent and destructive elements, such as turning a sheep into a bloodthirsty vicious beast, turning a small stream into a flood that swallows a city, or turning your soldiers into killing machines that can't differentiate between friend and foe, as if they've been injected with chicken blood."
I furrowed my eyebrows as I watched the gradually approaching undead soldiers. Although the power of the Abyss was powerful, controlling more than a hundred strong-willed soldiers shouldn't be that easy, right? Only a few mutated demons had been here before, but I didn't believe that the power of the Abyss carried by thirty mutated demons would be strong enough to turn Cirvanas' personal guards into such a state with just their remnant aura.
Just what did I forget?
I swiftly searched through the approaching undead soldiers. Suddenly, an incomparably wretched figure appeared in my line of sight.
It was something that barely had the appearance of a human, but its entire body was pitch-black, as if it was a mass of thick fog.
A ghost, the one with heaven-defying luck who was able to return alive from thirty mutated demons!
Since ghosts were inherently immune to all physical and magical damage, Cirvanas didn't suspect how such a small ghost was able to escape from such a powerful enemy. Because of this, I also overlooked this obvious point of suspicion. Now that I thought about it, ordinary demons would be helpless against ghosts that couldn't be attacked, but wouldn't the powerful power of the Chaos Abyss be able to deal with a creature that was purely made of energy?
That was why, perhaps … no, it was certain that this ghost had long since been controlled by the power of the Abyss! In this case, the information provided by this' Specter 'was definitely wrong. It wasn't 30 mutated demons that appeared here. Instead, it destroyed all 500 Undead Warriors and used this false information to lure Cirvanas out. Now … anyone with a higher IQ than a table would be able to guess what the Abyss was planning.
Even though I had such a guess, I still felt that something wasn't quite right. The enemy seemed to have started a targeted plan, and even thought of a plot to kill the leader of the faction alone, but …
Forget it, with my intellect, the war would have ended long ago by the time I figured it out myself. Even though my self-awareness always made me feel a mysterious sense of sadness …
"Anveena, prepare Holy Light Illumination. Let's see if it can wake these guys up."
After considering it over and over again, I decided to try to see if Holy Light would be able to help these creatures that had just been transformed by the power of the Abyss recover. After all, these were Cirvanas' closest subordinates. Even if they were now enemies, that was the result of being controlled. I could tell that Cirvanas didn't have the heart to do it.
Of course, I also knew that this was nothing more than wishful thinking. If the corruption of the Abyss could be so easily removed, it wouldn't have become such a headache for the Protoss.
Anveena nodded, and then the wings on her back immediately glowed with a powerful white light. She stood proudly on the zombie-filled battlefield like a powerful light source.
The next second, with Anveena at the center, a holy white halo swiftly spread out and covered the entire battlefield. This pure white halo gave me a warm and comfortable feeling, but caused the Forsaken who came into contact with it to scream in agony.
Not only was Holy Light able to harm the power of the Abyss, it was also the greatest nemesis of undead creatures. Even though Anveena had already carefully removed the offensive power of the Holy Light, this holy white halo still caused these skeletons to feel intense pain from the depths of their souls.
Under the fierce Holy Light's baptism, the undead soldiers that surrounded us started to visibly black smoke. At the same time, the great chaos in the depths of their souls caused these confused undead to temporarily stop in their tracks. They all hugged their heads and cried for their mothers and fathers on the ground, creating a scene of utter chaos.
As I expected, the Abyss didn't treat these undead soldiers, who were nothing more than small fries, as its main force against us. Just as Anveena focused most of her attention on purifying the power of the Abyss from the bodies of the Forsaken, a black shadow sneakily appeared beneath our feet.
Due to the chaos of the battlefield and the fact that the soil of Tirisfal was black to begin with, this black shadow that didn't have any energy waves didn't attract Cirvanas' attention. But since I was already prepared for it, this fellow's actions were far too laughable.
From the very start, I had made Anveena appear in a high profile manner, and even made her use her already low amount of Divine Power to activate this Holy Light Illumination. This was all so that the enemy would think that Anveena was the strongest among us.
As expected, seeing that the "strongest" angel was being held back by those small fries, this simple-minded Abyss impatiently attacked its target.
"If I were your boss, I would first do a good job in gathering information." I suddenly lowered my head and spoke to the black, ink-like power of the Abyss that was gathering beneath our feet.
The moment I said this, no matter how muddle-headed Ink Bro was, he knew that his disguise had been exposed. In the blink of an eye, the dirty black substance on the ground shrunk into a fist-sized ball, and then shot towards Cirvanas at an incredible speed. However, Cirvanas wasn't easy to deal with. Even though the distance was so close, Cirvanas still narrowly dodged the enemy's attack at an almost impossible angle.
"What is this?"
Cirvanas cautiously stared at the black ball floating approximately two meters in front of us and frowned as she spoke. Although she had successfully dodged that attack, she was still astonished. If it wasn't for the fact that her sweat glands had long since gone on strike, Cirvanas' forehead would probably be covered in sweat. Her instincts from many years of combat told her that if she hadn't dodged that attack just now, what awaited her would have been a fate worse than death.
"This is the Abyss. More accurately speaking, it's a corrupted entity formed when the power of the Abyss reaches a certain level. If you're corrupted by this thing, perhaps even you won't be able to escape the fate of being completely corroded …"
"Hiss!"
Before I could even show off the tiny bit of ink in my stomach that I could only show off in front of a noob like Cirvanas, the Chaos Abyss, which had now transformed into an egg, let out an unintelligible roar, and then suddenly exploded into a thick black mist that completely enveloped the area where we were.
"Anveena, get away from here!"
Before the black fog completely enveloped us, I saw Anveena, who hadn't been affected yet, attempt to charge towards me. I couldn't help but shout at her.
This black fog might not be fatal to Cirvanas and me, but Anveena had far too little experience in fighting enemies. If she recklessly charged in, I probably wouldn't be able to protect her.
The moment the black fog appeared, negative hints of destruction and destruction pressed down on me from all directions. This negative hint was so powerful and domineering that it actually made me feel a little irritable.
"Mental Barrier!"
I swiftly created a translucent mental barrier. This type of barrier that was formed from powerful mental power was the greatest counter to the power of the Abyss. The moment this barrier appeared, the irritable feeling in my heart swiftly disappeared. Cirvanas, who was beside me, also had a rather unsightly expression. It was obvious that she had been affected as well.
I had truly underestimated my enemy. I hadn't expected that even a low-level amalgamation of the Abyss would be able to affect my mind. If it hadn't been just one Abyss, but a large group of them, I probably would have died a tragic death today.
Cirvanas tried to attack once against such an abnormal enemy. She pulled the bowstring in her hand, and then a pure black energy arrow swiftly condensed on the bowstring. With a light hum, this magic arrow containing powerful magic shot into the seemingly endless black fog. But as expected, the arrow disappeared the moment it entered the black fog. Apart from causing a small energy fluctuation, it had no effect at all.
Similarly, I casually cast a few Mental Shocks, but they all disappeared into the endless black fog as if they were made of mud.
I was certain that my and Cirvanas' attacks had successfully destroyed a portion of the black fog, but it was obvious that this small amount of damage had been repaired in less than a second …
Even though the black fog's energy strength wasn't strong enough, the troublesome part was that its area of effect was far too large. Cirvanas' bow and my Mental Shocks couldn't possibly cover an area of more than one square kilometer. And it seemed that as long as we couldn't completely destroy it in one go, this thing would be able to continuously repair itself. This was really breaking the rules.
No matter how powerful one's DPS was, they probably wouldn't know where to start when faced with such a large mass of fog, right?
At this moment, I suddenly heard low roars all around me, as if hundreds of bloodthirsty beasts had simultaneously lost their restraints and were roaring in hunger.
It was those undead soldiers — after losing Anveena's restraints and being completely enveloped by the power of the Abyss, these ordinary soldiers had completely mutated into powerful abyssal monsters!
Damn, this Chaos Abyss was breaking the rules! Right now, we couldn't even attack it, nor could we find a way out. Not only that, we might be attacked by those monsters hidden in the shadows at any moment. This was so frustrating!
"Anveena, how's the situation?" I asked through our mental connection.
"Master, I'm fine, but this black fog is spreading really quickly, and I can't dispel it!"
"Don't worry about the black fog. Hurry up and leave this place, the further the better!"
Damn it, you want to trap us to death? Do you think that I won't be able to do anything if you transform into a mass of fog? Today, I'll show you why Schilling's technology is the nemesis of the Chaos Abyss!
I chuckled softly and then started swiftly taking out items from my personal space.
Phase Deflection Shield, Micro Space Warp Evasion System, Psionic Reactive Armor, High Speed Resonance Deflection Crystal, Crystal Cluster Array Shield that was three times thicker than normal, and then a Will … This last one didn't count …
Cirvanas gaped at me as she watched me continuously take out all these strange items from a dimensional fissure. Then, I piled these items up at an astonishing speed into a strange-looking, yet obviously some sort of defensive bunker … garbage dump. Cirvanas couldn't help but be curious, but before she could open her mouth to ask, I rudely pulled her into a small safe zone in the middle of this temporary bunker.
Hiss … Cirvanas's body is so cold …
I sighed as I squeezed into the queen's embrace in what could be called the strongest life-saving bunker in history.
"Cirvanas, close your eyes," I said as I took out a large pair of sunglasses and put them on. "Now, happy birthday, buddy …"
"Tenfold … Amaterasu!"
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