Chapter 1620: It, is calling, me?

Everyone gathered at the gap, straining to extend their thoughts outward: "Let me see, let me see."

The battle in the void was extremely fierce; compared to this, the fight between Garymez Fortress and Seeing Ange was somewhat lacking—the opposing star-flame manifestation was several times larger than Garymez Fortress's giant spider, and its movements were much faster and more agile.

"That star-flame manifestation is very agile—look at its surface, those red lightning layers; that must be the key to its agility," Ursman quickly realized.

"Is that... is that a soul armament? Seeing Ange, is it? Is it a soul armament?" Nai Ge Li Si also sensed something, but unsure, he quickly called out to Seeing Ange for confirmation.

Seeing Ange nodded.

Nai Ge Li Si exclaimed in shock: "You just grasped the soul armament, and here someone already knows how to use it."

Antony couldn't help but ask: "Lord Nai Ge, shouldn't a soul armament be physical? Why is it lightning? Is this lightning manifested from the soul?"

"A soul armament doesn't have to be physical; as long as it enhances one's strength, it can be a soul armament. Skeletons' soul armaments are usually fixed—weapons and armor, since those boost their combat power. Zombies don't actually need armor or weapons; the little zombies' soul armament is what they learned from Seeing Ange," Nai Ge Li Si said.

Antony suddenly understood.

Nai Ge Li Si continued: "Naturally, a star soul's armament can't be weapons or armor—those couldn't boost a star-flame manifestation's combat power. Look at Seeing Ange's raincoat—did it increase his combat power? Instead, these lightning bindings make the form more solid, speed faster and more agile—that's the key to boosting combat power."

Everyone unconsciously recalled Seeing Ange's earlier battle with the giant spider; it seemed his combat power hadn't increased much, since the raincoat's defense was similar to the Star God Body's defense—aside from being a bit thicker, there was no essential difference.

Besides, does the Star God Body even need defense? As long as the white crystal isn't hit, the Star God Body is immortal.

"Now look again at this star-flame manifestation's lightning layers—it tightly binds the manifestation's form together, making movement faster, attacks fiercer, and defense much stronger. This is the proper armament," Nai Ge Li Si said.

Everyone examined it closely and unanimously agreed with Nai Ge Li Si's judgment: this star-flame manifestation is a ball with four whip-like appendages growing from it.

The whips are not only its weapons but also its shield; when shadow blades slash toward it, it swings to block, and simultaneously the surface lightning flashes, shortening the whip by a segment.

Though shortened by a segment, the form becomes more solid; when shadow strikes it, it erupts with a stronger shockwave, directly shattering the shadow blade.

Shadow kept slashing, the star-flame manifestation strained to block, holding the shadow in place, while behind them, over a dozen divine stars strained to drag the Sixth Divine Star's main body, pulling it toward a distant cloud of matter.

This matter cloud stretches for an unknown number of segments, its scale far exceeding that of the original Silent Dead Sea—if the Sixth Divine Star's main body is dragged into the cloud, finding it again would be difficult.

Shadow seemed to realize this too, attacking with increasing ferocity, forcing the star-flame manifestation to retreat repeatedly.

"Is the melee combat of the foreign wraiths really this fierce?" Nai Ge Li Si said, somewhat shocked.

The Sixth Divine Star replied: "This isn't a foreign wraith; it's a wraith guide, just like you."

"Oh, are wraith guides this fierce too? The one we saw earlier was just slapped to death by Diridisi—couldn't even run." Nai Ge Li Si said, surprised.

"Um, you also mentioned Diridisi, the Giant Divine Star, one of the most extreme existences in the void—you let my star soul return to its main body, and I could also slap him to death." The Sixth Divine Star said.

Antony asked: "Can your star soul return?"

The Sixth Divine Star said: "No, because to enter the Boundless Realm, I severed my consciousness link with my main body—it's now an ownerless divine star."

"Then why do you still say you'll come back to retrieve your main body? You can't control it—how would you draw its power?" Nai Ge Li Si said, feeling everyone was being misled.

The Sixth Divine Star said: "I left many imprints in my main body; only I know how to decipher them. As long as I enter my main body, I can quickly remove the imprints, control its power—if another star soul wanted to take my main body, they'd first need to decipher the imprints."

"Me too, me too," Mei Lan Ya and the other dark stars also said.

This is a common practice in the void, though each has different imprints or sealing methods, and few situations require completely severing the consciousness link like entering the Boundless Realm, so usage isn't high.

Yet this is precisely what makes the divine star world special—even low-usage things can spread across the starry sky; once you know it, you can teach all divine stars, such as how to avoid spacetime ancient dragons and foreign wraiths.

"Then we must hurry and catch up, otherwise if your main body gets dragged into the matter cloud, finding it again will be troublesome." Nai Ge Li Si said.

"Not difficult— I left a tracking imprint; I just fear those divine stars might tear my main body apart." The Sixth Divine Star said.

Nai Ge Li Si turned to Seeing Ange: "Seeing Ange, can you summon your doppelgänger over? Come learn its combat style."

Seeing Ange shook his head: "Near."

"Too close? Should I step back a bit?" Antony asked, since if Seeing Ange needs to summon a doppelgänger, Antony is likely the anchor point—so if Antony moves farther, both sides in battle would be farther apart, making detection less likely.

Seeing Ange nodded.

Antony quickly squeezed out of the gap, shifting stars in the direction opposite the battling sides. The triangular gap was too small for Seeing Ange's doppelgänger to squeeze through, but Antony is merely one fragment of the doppelgänger, so entering and exiting is easy.

Moreover, this gap is now a star-moving passage propped open by six dark stars; if it's too small, widening it is easy.

Arriving at a place where the battling sides are invisible, Antony only felt his body jolt—a great force grabbed him, and the next moment, a wraith doppelgänger fragment appeared on him.

One fragment, four, eight, sixteen…… each jolt made Antony feel his body weighed down by multiples of fragments, like piling on blankets—he didn't know how many layers had accumulated.

Suddenly, all the fragments flipped like pages in a book, quickly flinging Antony aside, bouncing him to one side.

"Truly miraculous—using just one doppelgänger fragment, the lord sent a duplicate hundreds of segments away; if every place had a fragment, the entire void could be reached!" Antony couldn't help but marvel in the soul network.

But no one paid attention to his marveling—only Nai Ge Li Si urged: "Hurry back, the wraith guide has blasted the star-flame manifestation apart."

"Huh? It's already blasted apart? How?" Antony had just finished asking when he felt a great force surge, his vision blurred, and Seeing Ange hauled him back to the gap's position.

"What happened? Why did it suddenly blast apart?" Antony hurriedly asked.

Ursman said: "That wraith guide just kept slashing and slashing, and just now, the star-flame manifestation suddenly exploded—as if it hit a critical point, it instantly disintegrated."

"Or perhaps the main body's distance increased—what is he doing now?" Antony stared at the stationary wraith guide, whose original shadow blade-like aura kept shifting, as if searching or aiming at something.

Ursman was about to voice his guess, but Seeing Ange hesitated and said: "It, is calling, me?"