Chapter 683: A Dimensional Reduction-Level Attack, Celestial Phenomena - Black Hole's Counterattack

"You damn little thief!"

From the Source of the Bloodline River, a furious roar erupted.

On Mona's side, the Bloodline River had fully merged with the help of Lilith's genes.

A phantom figure materialized as a blood-red long whip rose from the Bloodline River, lashing toward Mona.

Even across two dimensions of space, it still gave Yu Yuan a pressure he could barely withstand. This pressure was an entirely different magnitude from when he had faced a Gold-tier attack from the Blood Clan before.

"Above Gold! He's the Blood Duke."

Yu Yuan instantly understood.

Just as the blood-red whip was about to strike Mona, a ripple of deep purple interwoven with dark red radiated from her body.

"Merge!"

A crisp voice rang out.

The enhancement was complete.

The Spiritual Dimension and the Bloodline River, suppressed by the real world, began to pull away. But that still couldn't stop the blood-red whip's assault. Worse, behind this single whip, a dense barrage of whip shadows followed closely.

Those whip shadows had all been refined into pure spiritual attacks, carrying a potent spiritual pollution effect.

Yu Yuan's expression shifted.

He had no doubt whatsoever that if even a single one of those whip shadows struck Mona, she would die on the spot.

It was at this critical moment.

Hum——

A barrier rose from the Altar of Life, a hemispherical light shield enveloping the entire altar.

Bang——

The blood-red whip slammed into the barrier, sending ripples cascading across its surface.

Crack——

Several fissures appeared on the barrier. The next second, the barrier raised by the Altar of Life shattered into fragments under the assault of the whip shadows, dissipating into the air.

But that was enough.

Taking advantage of the brief window the barrier bought, Mona had already moved.

Her hands rose above her head and swung violently toward the Bloodline River that was about to fade away.

Upstream of the Bloodline River, a layer of mist shrouded it.

This mist seemed to have some connection to the Spiritual Dimension. Not only did it accelerate the Spiritual Dimension's separation from the real world, but it also soothed the somewhat turbulent Bloodline River.

Meanwhile, Yu Yuan, Knight, and Hogg had all arrived at the center of the Altar of Life. The fluctuations of frost, lava, and blood energy on their bodies were unusually active. Knight already had a lava shield in his hand, transforming into a tank warrior as he stood defiantly before Mona.

"Lava stands with my lord!" Knight let out a thunderous roar.

"Glory to the Blood Clan!" Hogg also surged his blood energy with a fierce bellow.

"Frost shall sweep across civilization!" Yu Yuan shouted at the top of his lungs.

But the very next moment, Knight was sent flying backward like an artillery shell.

The lava shield before him had already shattered.

Yu Yuan and Hogg were also blasted backward one after another.

But they had bought Mona the time she needed.

"Rise for me!"

Mona's long hair streamed in the wind, though a strand of black had appeared amidst what was originally wine-red locks...

With Mona's shout, her raised arm snapped backward, and a thread of water from the Bloodline River was pulled free. In the last moment before the Spiritual Dimension fully detached, it shot out of the Spiritual Dimension and landed in Mona's hand.

Time seemed to freeze.

The movements of Mona, Yu Yuan, Knight, and Hogg became impossibly slow.

The Spiritual Dimension, which had already separated from the real world, forcibly broke through using some kind of power, clinging to the final shred of connection it still had with reality.

At the junction where the real world met the Spiritual Dimension, a web-like crack appeared in the void.

"Creak... creak..."

A grating sound echoed.

Finally...

Bang——

The crack shattered, and a crimson finger descended, carrying power that surpassed this very dimension.

It had arrived.

Yu Yuan felt like a fish out of water, unable to breathe freely. His body was frozen solid under the pressure of that finger.

"The scent of Lilith? Lava, Frost Demons, Blood Clan?" An indifferent voice echoed from the Spiritual Dimension.

"I see... I see..."

As it spoke, the blood-red finger reached toward the four of them.

Knight and Hogg wanted to resist, but they were utterly powerless. This was not a force they could oppose. This was the true dimensional reduction strike.

"My lord is with me!" Knight's hoarse scream tore through the air.

His eyes were wide with fury, practically splitting at the corners as he stared at that finger. Cracks began to appear across his charred skin.

Hogg wanted to transform into a werewolf, but he caught Yu Yuan's composed gaze and his movement froze instantly.

"Crack!" Hogg's ribs snapped one by one under the finger's crushing pressure.

Mona also let out a scream of agony.

Just as Yu Yuan felt searing pain wracking his body, as if he would be crushed into paste at any second, his gaze fell upon the Virtual Light Screen before him.

——[Activate Celestial Phenomena - Black Hole's Counterattack]

[Celestial Phenomena - Black Hole's Counterattack]

Quality: Gold-tier

Function: Upon using this card, a 'Black Hole' is generated before the user. It absorbs and condenses all enemy attacks in the vicinity, ultimately transforming them into a single counter ray that fires at the locked target.

——————

The moment Yu Yuan activated the Celestial Phenomena Card.

A black light membrane covered Yu Yuan and the other three, and the suffocating pressure that had weighed down on them vanished completely.

At the center of the four, a constantly rotating black hole appeared. It was initially only the size of a mung bean, but it visibly expanded at an astonishing rate.

In the blink of an eye, it had grown to the size of a basketball.

A terrifying gravitational pull rose from the black hole, warping the entire space around it. All energy was drawn into the black hole. Even the lava energy on Knight, the blood energy on Hogg, and the psychic energy and pollution energy on Yu Yuan and Mona were all absorbed into the black hole.

The blood-red finger, as the black hole's primary target of absorption, began to twist and distort.

Having absorbed a massive amount of energy, the black hole expanded several times over, its rotation speeding up rapidly.

The blood-red finger was firmly locked onto by the black hole. With a sharp "crack," the finger snapped off and transformed back into the Bloodline River, which was then completely devoured by the black hole.

"Hm?"

That indifferent voice sounded again, but this time there was a distinct note of shock in it.

At that very moment, the interior of the rapidly spinning black hole blazed with blinding light. A deep blue ray shot out from the black hole at the speed of light.

It pierced through the shattered void crack and tore straight into the Spiritual Dimension.

"How dare you!"

A furious roar echoed from the Spiritual Dimension, and then the void crack was repaired by space itself.

The Altar of Life returned to silence once more.

"Mie Mie~~" Mie Mie dispelled its equipment and appeared before Yu Yuan.

Zhi Zhi also revealed itself.

"Zhi Zhi, treat everyone!" Several Biological Enhancement Agents dropped from the Rabbit Ring to the ground.

Yu Yuan gasped for breath as he spoke. His body felt like it had been run over by a truck, wracked with pain that left him completely unable to move.

The other three were in much the same condition, leaving all their hopes to Zhi Zhi.

"Squeak!"

Zhi Zhi curled its tail around the injection agents and began administering them to the four one by one.

As the agent flowed into him, Yu Yuan felt his body rapidly recovering.

His gaze had already turned to the information on the Virtual Light Screen.

[Current Fate Card - Slaughter]

[Slaughter Card, Quality 'Silver'-tier. Player must kill one human of no less than 'Silver-tier' within 15 days, or the player dies.]