The dense queue marched forward with messy steps.

The debris and corpses were crumbled apart by the high frequency of trampling and crushing, and then merged into an indistinguishable whole.

Soon, the queue made contact with their target, and a fierce fight and confrontation began.

Standing beside a boulder at the base of a hill, Shug completely hidden his body in its hollow, he quietly looked into the distance, observing the strange and absurd battle.

The scene he saw now was completely different from any predation and struggle he had seen before between the Abyss Creations, because the two sides involved in this battle seemed to be very different from the Abyss Creations he had seen before.

If the strange creatures that pervade this world can be summarized as entities formed by the convergence of high concentrations of abyssal fog and power, then these writhing shadows are more like a pitiful half-finished product.

They are more crippled existences than the descendants of the abyss who destroyed the city of Salem in the first place, with their own magical vision and perception, Xiuge can clearly feel the fragility and instability inside these shadows, they are like newborns in this world, and they are like debris from some behemoth, every simple action, any collision and contact may bring serious changes and even collapse.

But even so, the desire to attack these shadows has not diminished in the slightest.

Xiuge saw that these shadows, which were clearly divided into two "camps", collided violently in this way, and their fighting methods were as crude and simple as they were, with no magic or any skill, and they were simply using their own precarious power to collide.

Within a few seconds of the battle, a large amount of abyssal mist began to float in the "battlefield", and they continued to hover in mid-air, as if they wanted to continue their unfinished battle.

"If nothing else, Vann should be at war."

Theseus's voice sounded in Xiuge's head at the right time: "Your luck is not bad, you were able to meet ...... Well, the things you see are actually one of the forms of 'prey' and 'food' captured by the Abyss, or you can simply see them as fragments of the soul and will, but they are extremely thin and fragile. ”

"You mean, creatures like hounds are hunting in Van En at this time?"

"The Abyssal Court has very, many ways to capture its prey and replenish its own strength, and the 'Great Hunt' we always talk about is just one of the most powerful forms of it."

Theseus explained: "In fact, the gaze and illumination of the black sun alone is enough to absorb and attract the soul of the deceased...... If I guessed correctly, there should be a war going on inside Van En right now, and it should be on a large scale, maybe an all-out attack. ”

"How do you judge?"

"By the number of these fragments, of course."

There was a rare seriousness and rigor in Theseus's tone: "The fragments of the soul forcibly absorbed by the black sun do not project to a single place in the abyss, they will always be scattered all over the abyss, and the overall situation is uniform......"

"So, what I'm seeing is only a portion of those soul fragments?"

"Very little, very little, very little, to be exact."

Theseus used three "very little" in a row to strengthen his tone, and then he continued: "The 'nutritional value' of these fragments cannot be compared to the results of the 'Great Hunt', but no matter what, it is also a nourishment for the abyss...... I'm afraid it won't be long before all the Abyssal Creations hiding nearby will be attracted by this food. ”

"So I should have left early, right?"

"What are you anxious about?"

Theseus laughed, "Rather than leaving this food for those calamities, it is better to strike first." ”

Hearing this, Xiuge was slightly stunned, and he asked with some uncertainty: "What do you mean......?"

"Just like you did in the past in the city of Seren, you have the power and memories that have been sent to your door...... While it may be a bit disgusting to eat scraps and crumbs, inside the Abyss, this is one of the most important ways to grow your own strength. ”

Speaking of this, Theseus added: "Although these absorbed fragments are very broken, they are ultimately the result of a complete soul and will, so you may be able to search for some memories from them, which will help you understand the current state of Vann." ”

Hearing this, Xiuge immediately came to his senses.

Although he was now trapped in the abyss, he was extremely concerned and worried about the situation around Overwatch City, after all, the organizations he cared about and those people were gathered around Overwatch City at this time.

It is common sense that this is the place where it is most likely to be a frontal battleground.

"Okay, so what do I do? Just go up and attack them? ”

"Don't bother, these fragments haven't been fully assimilated by the Abyss, and they'll still follow the basic rules of magic...... You just need to relax your body, empty your mind, expose your place, and accept them as if you were normal magic. ”

Shug nodded, and then walked out of the hideout, he looked around, and after making sure that there were no other abyssal creations moving around, he immediately removed all the abyssal fog around his body as Theseus said, and quickly entered a state of almost "meditation".

The impact of this move is enormous.

The moment Xiuge withdrew his own protection, the shadows that were strangled together were already "aware", and their fighting and confrontation with each other came to a standstill, and as Xiuge entered the state, the fog floating above these shadows immediately began to be pulled, and they surged in the direction of Xiuge like a stream of water flowing through a bottomless pit.

A cold feeling enveloped Xiuge's body and consciousness in an instant, and it was uncomfortable, reminding him of his first terrible experience when he was attacked by the Descendants of the Abyss, but he quickly overcame the discomfort completely.

As Theseus said, these forces are mutilated and disordered, and although they are very large in number, they are very easy to deal with in the absence of unified mobilization, and with a little guidance, he succeeds in absorbing these cold foreign magic into his own magic circuit, followed by rapid assimilation and fusion.

At this moment, Xiuge inexplicably felt a sense of fullness.

It was as if he was drawing his magic directly from a vast underground crystalline mine.

And with the influx of magical power, some very fragmentary images and sounds were also projected into the ocean of Xiuge's thoughts.

Theseus's judgment was accurate, most of these fragmentary memories were related to the war, and in these fragments of memory, Hug could see the clouds from the explosion of mana, hear the dense sound of machine gun fire, and even hear the screams of people and the terrible sound of their bodies being cut and pierced by shrapnel.

Obviously, most of these fragments of the soul and will absorbed by the black sun belong to the soldiers who died on the battlefield.

It's a pity that Xiuge doesn't have the ability to sort out these chaotic and fragmentary messages in detail at the moment, and in the face of these cold magic that continues to pour into his body, he can only adopt an old strategy that he used to use in the past - that is, to carve out an area in the spiritual ocean and put all these chaotic messages into it.

This tactic had been used many times before when dealing with the Descendants of the Abyss.

With all the experience he had accumulated in the past, he was able to use great efficiency to separate the messy information mixed with the magic power.

And as more and more magical mist attracted by Xiuge, those entangled shadows began to change further, they began to collapse and disintegrate on their own, and exploded into one cloud after another of pitch-black mist, and it didn't take long for the strange and chaotic "battlefield" before to disappear, only the fog containing rich power still floated and lingered there.

Such a mist had an exaggerated attraction to the creatures of the Abyss, and soon the first predator appeared.

It was an "old acquaintance" of Xiuge, a sturdy and huge abyssal spider with two huge chelicerae, and its attention was all on these incomparably precious "food", so at the first moment of appearance, it desperately pounced on the mist, opened its mouthparts, and began to eat almost frantically.

Immediately afterward, several more Abyssal Creations that Xiuge had seen during his journey showed their own figures, most of them were the "natives" of this wasteland.

Unlike the typical hunters of the Abyssal Spider, these creatures are basically lowly "scavengers" who survive on the dregs of their souls and wills, and although they are extremely greedy for the delicious "food" in front of them, the caution imprinted in their instincts also makes them dare to stay at the edge of the mist to draw strength.

Soon, more creatures showed their own shapes, including several Abyssal Hounds that acted together, their small size, and the pupils on both sides of their narrow heads were mostly closed, which meant that they were actually "juvenile members" who went out to act outside the Abyss Court and their own race, and it was precisely because of this that these hounds did not immediately clash with the chelae on the other side.

Such a scenario is bizarre, but it is also plausible.

In this delicate moment, the oppressive abyss bears a slight resemblance to the bright Vann—twisted creations gather around the drifting clouds of magic to draw power, just as the savannahs of Vann share a pool of water with the meek vegetarians.

Unfortunately, this brief period of tranquility was soon and rudely broken.

Aware of the fact that the creatures of the Abyss, who had seized the opportunity to nourish themselves, suddenly discovered that the precious food that should have been enough for them to enjoy for a long time was decreasing at an extremely exaggerated rate, the violent hunters who had managed to show their calm side immediately became restless again, and they either began to roar menacingly, or they began to look around, trying to find the culprit who had broken the tacit understanding and tried to take over the food.

Soon, they succeeded in locating their target with the flow of magic.

At the same time, Xiuge's speed of absorbing these magical powers had reached its peak, and the metal disc as the carrier of power also began to rotate at this moment, and the invisible force seeped into those delicate gears and structures like grease for lubrication, which made the rotation of the metal disc extremely smooth, and the speed of absorbing the surrounding power was even faster.

So, before the abyss creatures could react, the last of the magical clouds that remained in the "battlefield" surged towards the direction where Xiuge was located, as if they had been siphoned, and before they could react further, they completely disappeared from their perception.

It turns out that even these dark creatures, composed of pure negativity and the fog of the abyss, fall into a state of sluggishness in the face of such sudden changes, but in the short period of sluggishness, emerge in their purest nature.

The massive, muscular spider was the first to erupt.

The reason why it ventured away from its own people was to be able to take as much prey as possible, which was the key for it to break through its own limitations and become the new pillar of the race, but now, the precious opportunity that had been presented to it was gone, which was enough to make it indignant for its considerable intelligence.

With its own perception, the spider finally succeeded in confirming the location of its target, which made it ecstatic because it suddenly realized that the guy who dared to break the rules and take his own rations was in itself a "delicacy" in the wasteland.

A deep hunger rushed in, and it eagerly reached out of its chelicera, tore through the darkness in front of it, and leaped into it.

In the next moment, the space in front of Xiuge's body was rudely torn open, and then the hideous body of the Abyss Chela Spider poked out of it, and its blade-like limbs were raised high, and it was about to pierce Xiuge's head and body.

However, as if in foresight, Shug suddenly opened his closed eyes at this moment, and beside him, several black tentacles made of pure abyssal magic suddenly appeared, they twisted together, like a huge spear, and pierced its hard carapace body before its limbs fell.

"Click......

A crisp sound came, and as the "rift" closed, the body of the abyssal spider also turned into two, and the abyss mist that escaped from it was even more absorbed by Xiuge.

"Uh......"

Under the gaze of countless murderous creatures, Xiuge hiccuped a little uncomfortably.

He accidentally ate it.

(End of chapter)