The abnormality that appeared on the Abyss Flower was completely unexpected by everyone. No one thought a Divine Key could suddenly burst out and injure someone.
Durandal hadn't expected it, Theresa hadn't expected it, and Shun—who already had fleeing for his life integrated into his instincts—immediately entered Imaginary Tree space the moment something felt wrong.
After all, he was a villager who could react to bullets and shells. Even though his neural reactions had weakened quite a bit now, his instinct told him he should phase into imaginary space.
But… the same instinct also told him that he shouldn't dodge. The Abyss Flower held no malice toward him.
Yet this was originally a very absurd thing. Everyone knew that the Abyss Flower was the pickiest about its users. If it didn't acknowledge someone, even a fellow natural Stigmata wielder like Shigure Kira would be half-dead after touching it for less than half a minute.
The Abyss Flower was a weapon even pickier than the Judgment of Shamash. When the Judgment of Shamash activated its Zeroth Rated Power, it only turned from Judgment into self-judgment.
But the Abyss Flower was different. If it didn't acknowledge you, you couldn't even touch it. The black mist on the spear body could corrode a person into atoms.
"Shun!" Theresa very much wanted to instantly appear in front of Shun and use her tough, thick-skinned physique to block the strike. If she were stabbed, it probably wouldn't be too serious.
But Shun was already heavily injured! If he were stabbed by the Abyss Flower, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say he would have ten deaths and no life.
However, everything happened in the blink of an eye. In just an instant, the Abyss Flower pierced straight into Shun's heart.
"How could this happen." Durandal was also full of shock. Who would have thought the Abyss Flower would suddenly attack someone?
"It's over. How am I supposed to explain this to Ana and Kiana…" Theresa held her head in her hands, completely unprepared for something like this to happen.
"Cough, cough. I feel like I can still be saved." Shun slowly spoke. Although his heart had been pierced through by the Abyss Flower in one strike, Shun felt his body was better than ever before.
It was even better than his physical condition before fighting the Thunder Herrscher. The hidden injuries from training and the fatigue on his body had all recovered in an instant.
"Bianca, Theresa, I'm fine. Take this opportunity to go all out and use the Zeroth Rated Power of the Abyss Flower on me."
Shun raised his fist and said to the two of them. He looked exactly like a certain world-famous painting, though the expressions on the two women's faces were quite different from Agni's at the time.
Hearing Shun's words, neither of them hesitated. They reached out and grasped the handle of the Abyss Flower. Although the Abyss Flower had always been the symbol of Schicksal's strongest Valkyrie, few people knew that Theresa could also use it.
After touching the handle of the Abyss Flower, Theresa and Durandal simultaneously recited the slightly chuunibyou and embarrassing release chant of the Abyss Flower. However, under the current circumstances, no one felt there was any issue.
"I am the black from the abyss, I am the white descended from the clouds, born before creation, existing after annihilation; I shall freely give the water of the fountain of life to the thirsty. Divine Key · Abyss Flower, Zeroth Rated Power—Holy Lance's Hundred-Year Welwitschia mirabilis!"
As the release chant was recited, Theresa and Durandal both felt something being drawn out of their bodies. The tips of Durandal's hair even gained some white highlights.
This was the price of releasing the Zeroth Rated Power. Only someone with powerful life force like Theresa and Durandal could pay such a small price to release it.
If it were used on a certain Herrscher of Death, it could drain her into a dried-up corpse.
With the liberation of the Abyss Flower's Zeroth Rated Power, holy white light enveloped the entire room. However, as the wielders, Theresa and Durandal could not enjoy the healing effect of the Abyss Flower.
In that instant, it was as if the entire world trembled. A vast, boundless, sea-like power of creation surged like a raging torrent, pouring unreservedly into Shun's body.
This massive amount of creative power raced through his meridians at astonishing speed, bringing waves of warmth and vitality wherever it passed. And Shun's half-body, which had been badly damaged by intense radiation, was now undergoing an earth-shaking transformation.
The damaged DNA strands seemed to have received a divine oracle and began to rapidly recombine at speeds beyond light. Every base pair precisely found its place, reconstructing the complete genetic information code.
This was the Zeroth Rated Power of the Abyss Flower—Holy Lance's Hundred-Year Welwitschia mirabilis: repairing the living body from the genetic level, allowing the near-dead to be reborn anew.
The originally lost right arm also grew back in an extremely short time. However, the new skin still had some color difference compared to before, which looked a bit jarring.
In fact, from this moment on, Shun had completely become non-human. Under the healing of the Abyss Flower, his cells could now recombine infinitely—more "Abundance abomination" than an Abundance abomination. If this were placed next door, Lan would probably shoot an arrow just to check.
"Theresa, human ability has limits. From my short life, I learned one thing: the more one plays with schemes, the more one discovers that human ability has limits—unless one transcends humanity!"
Now fully recovered, stronger, more vigorous, and more domineering, Shun declared in a powerful voice.
"What exactly are you trying to say?" Theresa was a bit speechless. She expressed that she still preferred the Shun who spoke less, stayed quiet, and had a sickly beauty vibe.
"I refuse to be human! JOJO!" Shun pulled the Abyss Flower out of his heart. Blood sprayed out like a fountain onto Theresa's face, but it quickly recovered under his current terrifying healing ability.
"How about this move—Blood to Blind the Eyes!"
"Aaaah, I can't hold it anymore! You're dead!" Theresa wiped her eyes with her sleeve and threw a punch straight at Shun.
The wind pressure sent the room's glass and even the wall flying out onto the street, but it couldn't do anything to Shun, who had already entered imaginary space.
Fortunately, Durandal seized the opportunity to hug her, stopping Theresa from continuing her rampage. Otherwise, this hotel would definitely have been demolished.
"Theresa-senpai, calm down." The strength of the two was evenly matched, but after being hugged by Durandal, Theresa couldn't be bothered to struggle anymore.
Clearly in the past she had always been the one hugging little Kiana, but now it had really reversed…
"Here, Durandal. This time I really owe you a huge favor." Although he didn't know what was going on with the Abyss Flower, Durandal had been willing to take action and even paid the price of part of her life force. Although that portion of life force could recover, it still moved Shun greatly.
Durandal released Theresa and said: "No need for thanks. Theresa-senpai said you suffered such heavy injuries to resolve the Third Honkai Impact. Even out of respect for a hero, I would not sit idly by."
Durandal was about to take back the Abyss Flower, but unexpectedly, the originally well-behaved Abyss Flower showed new changes again.