Chapter 624 Profound Darkness Part Two (1/2)

”What?!”

”What happened?”

”That darkness…”

In the instant the shade had surged out of the cracks amidst the Void and enveloped every champion present, the Legendary champions noticed in astonishment that their battleground was now utterly shrouded in dense mist, turning into a dark space that bore a strong and oppressive presence. It was immeasurably serene, completely out of place with the dimensional ripples that torrented around them.

Mist? Shade? Darkness?

How was that possible!

Almost all Legendary champions who had a slight understanding of the Void could not help drawing blanks. All of them was aware that the nothingness of the Void beyond worlds had virtually nothing, apart from the dimensional turbulences shaped by the ripples emanating from worlds—whatever dimensional windstorms or Void calamities were nothing other than violent dimensional ripples.

Mist… In the Void were even steel warships without runic protection would be torn apart, how could such serene mist exist?

And yet, now was not the time to consider such things. The shade that had streamed out from the reaches of the Void, having enveloped every Legendary champion present was urgently becoming thicker, its darkness more and more solid. Around the entire world of Kronos, the Void that had been stirred by the Legendary champions into chaos were swallowed into an infinitely large spherical gloom. It rapidly took shape, as if about to turn into a huge egg, a huge cocoon.

Even if they were not sure what was happening, none of them would allow the schemes of the Darkness to continue smoothly.

None of the Legendary-class beings had been dealt lethal blows over the battle that spanned the few previous days, with the extensively injured Void Behemoth Leviathan's merely having the equivalent of a bloody nose and a swollen face if it were in human form. However, the battle ultimately required strength, and the long days of continuous fighting had definitively diminished their spirit, in addition to the fact that whenever they would be suddenly ambushed as they became engrossed in battle. With the power of the dark shroud maximizing itself, it hence bound every champion within!

But when everyone reacted, they would never allow the shade to imprison them!

”What the hell is that?”

Within the lightless mist, Joshua looked around as the Darkness closed in on him incessantly. The warrior could not help but frown as if he had seen something filthy.

He folded his arms across his chest and did not attack, but the shadow of the Four-armed Giant God appeared. The hundreds meter tall Steel Strength silently raised a Steel Fist, and struck out with ten thousand jabs that broke out violent winds. The Darkness that had been serene like dead waters and enveloping the world and Void thus shook tremendously, as if bombarded by waves of unstoppable torrents.

With Joshua's ability at present, not many things could hold him. Any class of substance that was not ultra-dense degenerate matter were but illusions before him, and he could directly smash Legendary-tier sealing circles if there no special aspects to them… If the dimensions could not restrain world, could anything else?

However, extraordinarily, even if the sea of mist had been shaken by Joshua's bombardment as if it would disperse in the very next moment, it did not really diminish, and even acted in the opposite manner. Having taken Joshua's single-sided attacks, the dark mist promptly began to expand as if stimulated—there were no two or three times of mist in the surrounding Void, closing in on the warrior once more!

Were physical attacks ineffective? Or did it have the ability to self-replicate by absorbing energies?

To Legendary champions, there were no actual battles where they had zero inklings. They could utterly see through any single attack with their power and observation abilities, and in their world 'unknown attacks' effectively did not exist. No matter how meticulous or atypical the technique, they would comprehend it utterly even if they could not do it.

Now being precisely the time for battle, Joshua's mind was working furiously at unprecedented speed, collecting information from his surroundings for analysis. His pupils turned into silver luster that swept across the Void around him, and he promptly became aware of every aspect about the black mist—including microscopic composition, energy concentration, speed of replication and the influence of the Void around him.

A large-scale fusion of black particles on a molecular level… While it resembled a mist, it was actually combined into a single body through electromagnetism.

In that instant, Joshua grasped everything about his enemy—instead of calling it a mist, it was more appropriate to call it a net that filters worlds and the Void, with such fine texture that it escaped human imagination! And what it catches was not some physical prey, but the ever present 'energy' of this world!

It was a huge net that caught energies, a Darkness that consumed light!

Heat and kinetic energy were also a form of energy, which was why Joshua's punches were effective in the beginning. But after the initial devastation force had passed, that energy would be captured by the mist and converted into food for them to grow… Across the Void, the energies that became condensed from the Great Mana Tide rapidly dispersed, while the world of Kronos that had been engulfed by it as well rapidly become cold due to the gradual diminishing of energies. Any longer, the entire world might therefore freeze, and finally become a cold and silent world like the Seventh Abyss!

Though the black mist had been seen through by Joshua, its movement did not slow as a result. As the tides of mist cascaded, the light within the Void dimmed once again—the celestial light that shone again due to the Great Mana Tide was fundamentally formed through the excess energies that brimmed from the Void, and the black mist was now plundering those energies. Joshua could sense the shocked spiritual ripples from Kanor the Black Dragon King some distance away, as if its negative energies had been consumed by the soundless Darkness without exception.

The many Legendary champions present—including demons, dragon king, Void Behemoth, and Golden Fleet had simultaneously launched their own offensive, as if to break the Darkness. Their actions, however, did not bear much fruit, and as with Joshua's jab, it caused the enemy to multiply instead. On the other hand, having been attacked so extensively, the mist began to squirm rapidly in the Void, as it to begin its counter-attack and digest the preys in its body.

Shrouds began to condense in the Darkness at once, as endless black particles cascaded beneath lightning-class magic—or great magnetism and worked furiously. They instantly condensed into millions of raindrops sized black needles, utterly dark as if capable of devouring light, and shot toward the Legendary champions in its body!

There was no stopping force in the Void, and the needles instantly reached their highest speed, pouring like torrential rain from every direction to pierce through all targets. The black mist had once encountered many formidable adversaries, but any single one of them would not be unscathed under its offensive.

But this occasion might prove to be an exception.

Joshua did not know how the others countered it, since the black mist's own counteroffensive was rather disappointing from him. As the endless black needles that streaked toward him at one over twenty of one lightspeed, the shadow of the Steel Giant God appeared behind the warrior once more—but unlike before, the Giant God shrunk as soon as it appeared into a size that was not much larger than Joshua himself. It even fused with the warrior's body, leaving just four arms.

The sound of extreme contraction for great mass could be heard. Dimensional patterns around Joshua were bending visibly, and on the warrior's shoulders, two more sturdy metallic arms were completely materialized. Sixth fists—Joshua's own body included—were slowly clenched, causing the surrounding Void to unfurl like a typhoon.

And next came the swing.

As the black needles streaked toward him, Joshua pressed his foot on the Void without any expression. The six arms around his body had suddenly stroked dimensional patterns, blocking every attack directed at him!

The forceful rain showering tens of thousands of black needles struck at the velocity of ten million meters per second, while Joshua's chose method shattered each drop of rain.