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"No! That's impossible! How could you still be alive?! That's impossible, impossi—!" The blond man's panicked, terrified scream lasted only a few seconds before it was cut off abruptly.
The three remaining Beast Apostles' expressions changed drastically as they hurriedly turned around. With that single glance, their pupils shrank violently. What filled their vision was an enormous, towering black silhouette. Countless tentacles writhed wildly around it, layers of sinister magical aura spreading outward, sending chills straight to the bone.
The once-arrogant blond man had already lost all signs of life. His stiff corpse was tightly bound by the shadow's tentacles, hanging in midair.
"How is this possible?"
The three Beast Apostles were instantly horrified. They instinctively leapt backward, distancing themselves from the shadow.
Moonlight broke through the clouds, a pale beam slowly spilling onto the ground. Only then did everyone finally see the shadow's true appearance.
A face like that of a demon.
Its entire body was covered in blue-green scales, bone spikes protruding from its shoulders and joints, and countless tentacles exuding black mist surged from its back.
There was almost nothing human left to recognize. Even Ur could only identify the shadow's true identity by the fact that both arms were severed.
"Kehehehe…" Singer twisted his grotesque face, hoisting the blond man's corpse up before his eyes as he let out a strange laugh.
"It seems you didn't know this, did you? After fusing with the demon jellyfish, my heart stopped being a vital point long ago." Singer himself hadn't expected the blond man to invade his brain with mental power.
After merging with the demon jellyfish, Singer's vital points were already different from those of a human. However, because Ur had injured him so severely earlier, the blond man's strike, though not hitting a true vital point, would still have been enough to kill him slowly.
But what no one could have predicted was that just as Singer was about to die, a foreign spiritual force suddenly surged into his mind.
Instinctively, he launched a counterattack.
The blond man's mental strength was weak to begin with. Under Singer's counterstrike, it immediately backfired, severely injuring him and even having his remaining spiritual power completely plundered. With that stolen power, Singer finally completed the final stage of his fusion with the Demon Jellyfish. Thanks to the jellyfish's innate regenerative abilities, all of Singer's previous injuries rapidly healed.
This sudden turn of events caught everyone completely off guard, even Ur.
After all, a dark guild master being killed by his own carefully cultivated puppet was nothing short of humiliating. If word got out, it would be a disgrace to all dark guilds. If other dark guilds found out, they might even laugh him out of existence.
Singer, now fully demonized, radiated an even stronger presence than before. Yet such power still didn't register as a serious threat in Ur's eyes.
Singer himself seemed to realize this.
Although Singer's fully demonized presence was far stronger than before, this level of power still failed to register as a threat in Ur's eyes. Instead, he began to release his spiritual power frantically. Strands of it spread outward in bizarre waves, rapidly expanding hundreds of meters away.
"Not good!"
The first to react were the three remaining Beast Apostles. The moment they sensed that spiritual fluctuation, their faces changed drastically. They immediately launched attacks at Singer, trying to stop him.
But it was already too late.
"ROOOAAR!!"
"ROOOAAR!!"
"ROOOAAR!!"
Deafening roars erupted from all directions.
With those roars came the collapse of vast swathes of forest. Even the ground itself trembled faintly, as though tens of thousands of beasts were charging through the woods.
"It's over."
"It's all over."
"We're all going to die here."
Feeling the overwhelming disturbance coming from the forest, the three Beast Apostles turned deathly pale. Their bodies went limp as they collapsed helplessly to the ground. As members of the Beast Apostles, they knew exactly what those signs meant, and that was precisely why their despair ran so deep.
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"Huh? What's going on? Is it an earthquake?"
Gildarts and Mirajane had just entered the castle when a violent tremor shook the ground, nearly knocking Gildarts off the stairs. Both of them were startled.
"Let's find Ur first!" Mirajane felt the continuous vibrations beneath her feet, a sense of unease rising in her heart as she spoke with urgency.
"Right!"
The two quickened their pace. At that very moment, at the top of the castle, after releasing the spiritual wave, Singer made yet another move that no one could have anticipated.
He suddenly bypassed Ur and fused directly with the pitch-black gate behind him.
This move completely stunned Ur.
But before his shock could even settle, demonic beasts began bursting out of the forest surrounding the castle, one after another, each radiating a terrifying demonic aura. More and more monsters and magical beasts surged toward the castle.
In just a few dozen seconds, hundreds of monsters and magical beasts had already gathered outside the castle.
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