Chapter 251: Shadow Spacetime

"Are you okay, Wei Er?" Mai Ke and several others approached Wei Er and asked concernedly.

Wei Er looked at his former little companions, feeling like crying; the suffering he endured these days was truly beyond what a human should bear.

First, he was seized at home by a terrifying Monster and thrown into a dark, hopeless world. After barely escaping the Monster's lair, he found that the world was empty of anyone but himself.

Worse still, even after hiding in his secret base, he was eventually discovered by the Monster and dragged back.

Wei Er still hasn't forgotten the feeling of the black, writhing vine slipping from its mouth into his body.

He forced a smile at his companions and said, "I'm fine."

"Roar!!"

A distant Monster, apparently unwilling to watch these humans chat as if it weren't there, charged forward violently.

Naimi Xisi just raised his hand to deal with the Monster when the Monster suddenly froze mid‑air, as if locked in place.

In the distance, the two chrysanthemum monsters that Eleven had dealt with behaved the same, and the three‑headed monster seemed controlled by some unknown force.

Naimi Xisi frowned, sensing something amiss.

His Mana boiled within, meaning the surrounding Magic Net had suddenly become active. Moreover, he sensed a dense shadow energy.

"Click, click"

The three‑headed Monster's joints emitted crisp sounds, then its whole body melted like sludge into a mush of blood and flesh.

Three clumps of blood and flesh streaked through the air like sharp arrows, leaving a shadow trail, then merged together!

The blood and flesh seemed to gain life, slowly gathering and fusing. They kept rolling and twisting, gradually outlining a vague shape. As time passed, the shape sharpened, and a chilling Monster began to take form.

Its body, made of that twisted blood and flesh, displayed an eerie dark red, like dried blood. The chunks hadn't fully merged, leaving vague gaps from which viscous liquid occasionally seeped.

The Monster's limbs were uneven in length, twisted outward as if haphazardly assembled. Its head was bizarre, lacking distinct features, only a few protruding flesh lumps and a hollow, as if trying to form eyes and a mouth.

"haserba"

The hollow on the Monster's face emitted an incomprehensible language; after speaking, it quietly stared at the people before it.

"What is it saying?" Nan Xi stammered, looking at the nightmarish Monster before her.

Qiao Nason was already trembling like a sieve, yet he steadfastly stepped before his brother and mother.

Naimi Xisi squinted; he understood.

The Monster spoke the language of Ying Ying Ming Jie, but with differences; many words were extremely ancient, long detached from any era.

If not for the memory inheritance of Juan Ce Long, accumulated over generations, he might not have fully grasped its words.

"Outsider, leave my world."

Those were the Monster's words.

Naimi Xisi couldn't help but be curious; evidently, when it said "its world," it meant Earth. So why would this creature clearly from Ying Ying Ming Jie claim Earth as its world?

He was now fairly certain that this unknown Monster was essentially the entity controlling those chrysanthemum monsters.

"Your world?" Naimi Xisi laughed mockingly, using the same language, "You dare try to drive me away? That's a big mouth, given how disgusting you look now."

The Monster roared thunderously, as if enraged. "I am the True Red that rules all! Vile dragon, how dare you offend me!"

"True Red?" Naimi Xisi furrowed his brow; from this simulacrum he could discern its nature—this Monster was no simple foe, and he had never heard the title True Red before.

"No, I am not True Red, who am I?" After proclaiming its title, the Monster fell into chaotic muttering, whispering who it truly was.

"I am the Hidden One, the existence hidden behind all things."

"No, that's wrong! I am the True Red, I am the Nameless Terror."

"Who am I really? Who am I?"

Naimi Xisi looked at the Monster, which was already on the brink of madness before he even made a move, and was at a loss for words, feeling a growing contempt for it.

Whatever its True Red or Hidden One, it's probably just a high‑level Monster in the Age of Dharma Decline that wields a bit of supernatural power to wreak havoc.

With the intention of seizing his chance to kill him, Naimi Xisi raised his hand and released Mana.

Seven Ring Ability — Superfrequency Shock Burst!

The invisible force instantly enveloped the Monster. In an instant, sound waves around it began vibrating at an extremely high frequency, warping the air itself.

Ordinary sound waves, under the superfrequency effect, became unbearably sharp and piercing, like countless fine needles stabbing one's eardrum. Then these super‑frequency sounds collided and overlapped, forming an extremely terrifying sound‑wave energy.

!

A huge "boom" rang out, the sound wave exploded! The powerful shock centered on the Monster radiated outward violently, stirring dust, hurling stones, cracking the ground with countless deep fissures, as if the entire space trembled in this terrifying sound‑wave explosion.

A massive crater, twenty meters in radius, appeared where they stood; as the dust settled, Naimi Xisi could faintly see that the once‑huge blood‑flesh shadow had shrunk to about one‑third its original size.

"Roar!!"

The roar sounded, and Naimi Xisi realized the Monster was still alive; Superfrequency Shock Burst could slice the target's entire body into nano‑scale fragments with sound‑wave blades.

How could such a terrifying attack fail to kill the opponent?

"Ants, feel the power of the shadow!"

The Monster in the smoke seemed provoked by Naimi Xisi's attack, muttering a tongue‑twisting ancient Shadow Realm language.

Naimi Xisi sensed the surrounding Magic Net pulsating violently, while a dense shadow energy spread.

Nine Ring Shadow Secret Technique — Shadow Spacetime!

The Monster's roar stalled, and a boundless Shadow Curtain fell from the sky, turning everything around from color to dull black‑and‑white.

Dust, breeze, sound—all fell silent, including Naimi Xisi and the others.

The Monster staggered to Naimi Xisi's side; even reduced to two‑thirds its size, it still towered seven meters high, like a mound of earth looming over everyone.

It calmly raised a limb wrapped in blood and flesh, admiring everything that had solidified.

It didn't know where its power came from, but it knew exactly what those powers could achieve.

Within its sphere of influence, everything would freeze, and it could do as it pleased!

At this moment, a bird's‑eye view from above Hawkins Town would reveal a terrifying fact.

That black‑and‑white Shadow Curtain covered an immense area, not only enveloping the whole town but also extending outward for hundreds of kilometers!

The city of Ge Lun Bu Shi, not far from Hawkins Town, has already fallen into panic; half of the city is now covered by that black‑and‑white curtain!

People outside the curtain can see clearly that everything inside the curtain has come to a standstill. A fearless fellow just rushed into the curtain, and his whole body instantly became, like the others, as if an insect trapped in amber—motionless.

(End of chapter)