"What?"
Isn’t it true that we can’t build anything, so we just found a fig leaf to cover it?
Kneeling down and touching the ground under her feet, Kana pondered for a moment and summoned a black balloon.
It flew into the air on its own little balloon and circled around. Looking around, there was nothing but fog. The monotonous scenery and silent environment gave people an inexplicable sense of depression.
Kana tried to fly up a bit, but encountered no obstacles, but no surprises. She was still thinking about Alpha below. When she saw that she couldn't find anything, she turned around and landed back to where she was.
It's really a bit too empty.
After retracting the balloon, Kana looked at the scattered energy and had a vague idea in her mind.
This "space" is not so much empty as it is... scrawled.
It feels like a hastily constructed framework, with a layer of paper attached casually in order to get out quickly to meet people.
At first glance, it may seem a bit intimidating, but as long as you take two steps forward and lift off the layer of paper, the structural framework scrawled blank inside will be exposed.
Kana blinked, her dark pupils seeming to see through the fog that obscured everything, to see through the secrets hidden behind it.
It slowly walked to Alpha, thinking absentmindedly.
The mist here is definitely not as simple as it seems on the surface, giving Chong a feeling that is both familiar and unfamiliar. Although I don’t know why the other party has not responded, it is safer to start early...
Thinking of this, it looked solemn, stretched out its claws and poked Alpha.
Compared with the familiar that started to enter the task state soon after landing, Alpha was much more lazy.
Not only did he stay where he was, he seemed to be in a daze.
The eyes that stared straight ahead were full of absent-mindedness and lack of belonging, and looked like a breathing sculpture.
I always feel... there seems to be something weird.
The assassin savored the short journey for a moment and touched his chin.
Did something just happen?
He replayed the memories in his mind frame by frame and found nothing strange. However, the strange feeling lingered for a long time. It was not until Kana, who had surveyed the surroundings, came over and poked his calf that Alpha responded. Come to your senses.
"What?"
"Are you going to start?"
Alpha couldn't understand what Kana was saying, and could only make half-guessing based on the body language of his demon pet.
Fortunately, Kana has rich communication skills with people. After a few gestures, she quickly conveyed her meaning.
"No mirror? Are you sure?"
Alpha had already half-taken out the mirror in his arms, but when he realized that Kana meant that he could handle it, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
He glanced at his demon pet, let go of his hand, let the mirror fall back, took two steps back, and made room for Kana.
The next second, the Shadow Doll squatted down and put its claws to the ground.
Rich black energy pours out from its body, like a hound out of its cage, showing its sharp teeth and biting into the mist.
The two colors are intertwined, and you come and go, like a fighting army. The battle is so fierce that people can't take their eyes away.
Alpha observed from the side and found that although the power belonging to the mist side was huge, it was extremely loose and exuded a kind of softness with gold and jade on the outside. On the contrary, the black side, although the power was weak in comparison, was very solid, like It is a sharp knife inserted into the enemy's heart, and gradually penetrates deeper with the release of energy.
A black shadow slowly emerged from the feet of the demon pet, from blur to clarity, gradually breaking through the blockage of the fog and revealing its own existence.
Alpha looked at the black shadow, wondering what its use was, when he saw the shadow getting longer and longer, until it extended to a certain size, then suddenly melted and disintegrated into a pool of flowing black liquid.
Like a popped black balloon, it polluted the otherwise monotonous space.
He knelt down and looked at Kana, who was wrapped in energy and seemed to be gradually carving out a territory in the mist world, showing an interesting expression.
…
At the moment when energy fluctuations began to spread out of Kana's body, the snake's head, which was closing its eyes to rest, suddenly raised, and the crystal on its forehead sent out a warning signal.
A cold light flashed in the snake's eyes, and the successive accidents made the already bad-tempered monster reach its peak of anger.
It raised its head, powerful energy fluctuations emerged from its body, and the curse patterns on its body also radiated light.
The aura belonging to a high-level magical beast burst out from its body, spreading outward like a spring.
However, everything returned to calm after the stone on the monster's forehead lit up with a bloody light. An angry look flashed in the monster's eyes, and the surging killing intent seemed to be forcibly pressed down by someone. It whirled into the sea of mist, and was gone for a long time. sound.
…
Naturally, Kana and Alpha were unaware of the occurrence of these episodes, and their attention was focused on the energy that was constantly accumulating.
The moment she tried to expand the shadow world, Kana felt an unspeakable pressure.
It was a feeling of being against the whole world.
Pressure came from all directions, wrapping it up.
The light mist is like a sponge suddenly filled with water, accumulating piece by piece on the body, and the sense of presence instantly becomes impossible to ignore.
Fortunately, it was just a sponge and was not enough to cause any real obstruction. Kana resisted this squeezing feeling and gathered the energy, starting from underneath her body and slowly spreading outward.
Alpha quietly observed from the side, watching the black color expand little by little. The rich color seemed out of place in this world.
A bit like...a virus invading the human body?
Thinking about his own method of entry, Alpha touched his chin and suddenly felt a little unsure about the position of himself and others.
He waited for a long time, until Kana breathed a long sigh of relief and opened her eyes, and then he couldn't help but ask.
"...Is this the end?"
Alpha glanced at the energy field on the ground, which was only a circle larger than the manhole cover. He always felt like he had paid for a ticket to watch a fake game.
Kana scratched her cheek, feeling a little guilty.
It tried its best, but the compatibility with it here is not very good. It is easy to expand the shadow world, but it is difficult to spread it.
That’s not to say that it’s completely impossible, but basically it’s half the result with half the effort, and the gain outweighs the loss.
It's better to save more energy for future actions.
As for how to solve this problem... let Dean think about it.
Kana turned her head as if nothing had happened, as if she suddenly discovered something new, and carefully observed the surrounding environment.
As it looked at it, it suddenly fell into trance, its eyes radiating concentration.
(End of chapter)
