Far away in the Flesh and Blood Forest, the "Heart Trees" began to synchronize their beats, sounding like war drums.
The seawater flowing from the Sea of Darkness began to reverse, causing massive disturbances in the direction of gravity.
Even the color of the sky turned into a disturbing blood red.
Feeling threatened, Mogron started to harness the frenzy power stored within him.
Blood-red patterns appeared on the surface of his bone armor, and his entire body began to radiate high temperatures, like a volcano about to erupt.
Yet, his eyes gleamed with even greater excitement:
"Want to fight?" he snarled like a beast, his fists enveloped in frenzied energy: "I haven’t stretched my muscles for a long time!"
Mogron charged towards Nari, his huge figure leaving an afterimage in the air.
His fists, wrapped in frenzied energy, were powerful enough to pierce through mountains.
But in the environment of the Chaos Storm, his speed and power were severely affected.
The originally straight trajectory of his charge became distortingly unpredictable due to the storm’s interference, as if moving through some viscous liquid.
Nari didn’t even take the confrontation seriously, merely waving an ordinary tentacle.
The tentacle collided with Mogron’s fist, creating a sound that shook the heavens.
The shockwave spread out, drastically transforming the surrounding terrain.
Mountaintops were flattened, valleys filled...
Mogron was sent flying by this blow.
Cracks appeared in his bone armor, with some pieces shattering and falling off.
"This can’t be..." he looked at his injuries in disbelief, green blood seeping from the cracks:
"How could Nari’s power increase so much? Such amplification... completely defies logic..."
Selena seized the opportunity to attack, her misty form splitting into countless illusions.
Each illusion represented a different nightmare manifestation.
There were childhood fears, shadows of death, insane hallucinations, and some indescribable terror concepts.
These nightmare illusions surged towards Nari like a tide, attempting to invade her Spiritual World.
Each illusion emitted different spiritual toxins, enough to drive ordinary intelligent creatures mad in an instant.
What shocked Selena was that her usually unstoppable spiritual attack was completely ineffective against Nari.
"Spiritual Invasion?" Nari laughed mockingly, her laughter carrying an unprecedented clarity:
"My spiritual state is more stable than ever, your trickery has no effect on me."
She extended dozens of tentacles, beginning to weave a complex energy network in the air.
Every nightmare illusion that touched these tentacles would be directly disintegrated by Chaos Power, leaving no trace of existence, dissolving like foam.
"Instead, you all..." Nari’s voice turned more dangerous, all eyes shifting simultaneously towards the two invaders:
"Let me teach you what true fear is."
The Chaos Storm began to manifest its destructive essence.
Under Nari’s precise control, some environment traits beneficial to her appeared.
Mogron found that his vaunted Regeneration Ability started to fail.
Not only couldn’t the wounds heal, but they continued to expand, as if being ripped by some invisible force.
Selena’s misty form began to destabilize, and those carefully maintained dream structures were collapsing.
The boundary of reality and illusion she relied on for survival became blurred, losing clarity.
"Damn octopus..."
Mogron gritted his teeth, starting to burn his life essence to enhance his combat abilities, violent energy bursting around him:
"It’s just new power, what’s so great about it! I’m going to rip you apart!"
Mogron raged, but only raged briefly.
Just after he finished his threat, the reinforced Polluting Touch struck like lightning.
This blow was premeditated and so fast that he couldn’t react in time.
In a flash, it pierced through his prized bone armor, stabbing deep into his flesh.
The terrifying polluting effect finally showed its dreadful fangs.
After the tentacle pierced his flesh, the Ron-empowered Erosion began to spread from the wound to the entire body.
The pollution spread like a living thing, and where it passed, the flesh underwent irreversible mutation.
Mogron’s vaunted strong constitution was completely ineffective in the face of such super pollution.
His cells began self-devouring, blood vessels turned black, and bones began to soften.
"Aaaahhhh!" He roared in agony, his voice mixed with unprecedented fear:
"What is this horrible thing? This pollution... impossible... my resistance..."
His body started to undergo extensive necrosis and distortion.
Muscles originally as hard as steel now fell off like rotten flesh, exposing the blackened bones beneath.
Seeing her companion’s dire situation, Selena immediately realized the severity.
In the Abyss, when one side’s strength far exceeds the other, the nature of combat completely changes.
It’s no longer a normal skirmish to exercise the body but a brutal bloodbath where the strong prey on the weak.
"Mogron! Retreat immediately!"
She shouted while starting to weave a large teleportation spell, her misty body rapidly contracting:
"This lunatic truly wants to kill us! And her power..."
Mogron struggled to escape, but the spread of pollution was too fast.
Half of his body was already so eroded it didn’t resemble anything, and the remaining strength was insufficient to support an escape.
Green blood gushed from the wound like a spring.
But soon it turned into a black viscous liquid, emitting a nauseating stench.
"Nari..." he used the last of his strength to threaten, his voice becoming hoarse and unclear:
"You will pay for today’s actions... Other apostles won’t sit idly... The High Council..."
"Other apostles? The High Council?" Nari laughed mockingly: "Let them come then."
Her words contained a level of deep threat.
It was not empty intimidation but confidence based on absolute strength.
As Mogron was about to collapse heavily, a huge dream vortex appeared in the air, flowing with rainbow-like dream light.
Selena glanced warily at Nari, misty form starting to contract towards the Teleportation Gate.
The severely injured Mogron quickly retreated into the Teleportation Gate, disappearing into the twisted space, not even having time to throw a parting threat.
Nari did not stop them, merely watched the direction the two apostles fled, eyes full of disdain.
There was still some time before the ranking battle’s true slaughter.
This battle merely served to show a bit of her unapproachability.
If Mogron was truly killed here, it would certainly break the fragile non-aggression balance between apostles, also violating the rules set by the Supreme Apostles.
And thinking of Chai Ye’s substantial oppressive presence, she felt there was quite a gap at her current level.
But after solidifying her spiritual state, Nari felt she had ample room for growth.
Given time, she might be able to beat Chai Ye just like she battered Mogron today.
"Besides, I haven’t used all my power yet..." she gently stroked the reinforced Polluting Touch, extremely satisfied with its Effect:
"It’s worthy of being my child, truly formidable."