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Knull, I ask you, now that you've even lost your own sword, what do you have left to fight me with?
Ryan waved his colorful Ten Rings cape, wrapped it around the two Gwens, and vanished from the cliff.
As for the tens of thousands of timid mushroom Symbiotes at the bottom of the cliff, he would come back to deal with them after he finished off Knull!
The Sealed Canyon.
In the sealing ground beneath the crack, Knull, who had been confidently waiting for Gorr to bring back the codex, suddenly froze.
Because he felt his connection with Gorr disappear!
That meant Gorr had actually died!
But how was that possible!
Gorr was wielding his all-black the necrosword and accompanied by a primitive Symbiote dragon!
With both combined, one couldn't say he was invincible in this Universe, but he should have had few rivals!
Aside from those bastards in the Celestials who caused him to fall into such a state, who else could be a match for Gorr?
But before Knull, whose information had become outdated due to being sealed for too long, could figure out who killed Gorr, he shuddered violently again, because Knull felt his connection to the all-black the necrosword had also disappeared!
Immediately after, before Knull could recover from the loss of the connection to the all-black the necrosword, he shuddered yet again! This time, the connection to the Symbiote dragon had vanished!
"What the hell?! What kind of entity did Gorr encounter!"
To not only kill Gorr but also erase the connection to the all-black the necrosword and the Symbiote dragon was definitely something no ordinary person could do!
Even among his archenemies, the Celestials, only a few of the top-tier ones could achieve this!
"What on earth is going on?!"
Knull was anxious and wanted to go out and see for himself what was happening.
However, those black substances tightly coiled around his body, fixing him near the throne that restricted his power, making it impossible for him to leave!
But while he couldn't leave, someone had come to personally tell him what had happened to Gorr...
Suddenly, a ray of colorful light shot into the only crack in the seal.
"Graaaaaaahhhhhhh—"
Immediately following that were the shrill screams of the Xenophages and Symbiotes he had stationed outside the crack to guard it.
Just by hearing the sounds, Knull knew they must be experiencing something terrifying!
However, although Knull couldn't go out himself, he had ways to see the outside through other means!
"Black Dragon, come out!"
Knull let out a low, raspy growl.
In the darkness, a black Symbiote dragon, identical to the previous red Symbiote, stepped out with heavy footsteps and arrived before Knull.
That's right, there was actually more than one Symbiote dragon; there were two!
Knull gently stroked the head of the black Symbiote dragon and began to continuously channel black blood into its body.
Upon receiving Knull's black blood, the black Symbiote dragon's size expanded at a rate visible to the naked eye, eventually filling almost the entire sealing ground!
Its size grew from the original hundred meters to a terrifying size of nearly a thousand meters!
Moreover, it wasn't just its size that had increased; even its aura had become something the previous red Symbiote dragon could not compare to!
It only moved slightly, and the air twisted, as if even the air couldn't withstand its power!
"Hoo—"
"Go, I have given you most of the power I've absorbed over these years. Go and see what has happened outside, and kill the intruder for me!"
Knull sat back on the throne weakly and waved his hand.
Upon hearing this, the black Symbiote dragon flapped its wings violently and soared into the sky as a black shadow!
Outside the crack, a terrifying massacre was taking place at that moment!
A majestic figure clad in silver-gray armor, wearing a colorful Ten Rings cape, holding a six-colored shield in his left hand and a red-gold longsword in his right, stood in mid-air, continuously swinging the longsword in his hand!
Each time he swung the longsword, a red-gold crescent light wave expanded outward, slicing the Symbiote traitors parasitizing the Xenophages below, along with the Xenophages themselves, into pieces!
This was naturally Ryan, who had come to 'return the favor.' He was currently delivering a welcoming gift!
Among them were some flying Symbiotes that made the Xenophages fly toward Ryan in mid-air, attempting to attack him.
But Ryan's right hand dealt high damage, while his left hand provided high defense.
Ryan simply swung the shield in his left hand, swatting the incoming Symbiote-Xenophages into bursts of bloody fireworks!
Oh, right, the Infinite Shield not only had high defense, but its damage was also not something an ordinary person could withstand.
Ryan tested the power of the all-black the necrosword a few times and was quite satisfied.
Not to mention its melee power, its ranged attacks were not inferior to the power of his Cosmic Rays, and it was much more versatile and flashy to use than Cosmic Rays.
As for the bodies of the Symbiote traitors and Xenophages he had slaughtered, none were wasted.
Gwen was holding the main Universe Gwen, and the two of them were constantly scavenging those bodies, absorbing them all with their Symbiotes to grow themselves and their Symbiotes!
After all, both Gwens now possessed the Symbiote's ability to consume, replicate, and grow stronger, just like Ryan.
Moreover, those Xenophages contained a trace of Knull's bloodline power, so after absorbing them, their respective Symbiotes grew at an incredibly fast rate!
Especially the main Universe Gwen's Anti-Venom, because it was weak enough, it grew even faster than the Symbiote dragon of the Gwen from the alternate Universe!
Ryan also leisurely swung his sword with great interest, killing one Symbiote-Xenophage after another at the pace of their absorption to feed them.
It was like feeding two little hamsters; it was quite interesting...
But the trio's amusement did not last long before a massive roar reverberated in their ears from deep underground!
"ROAR!!!!"
The next moment, the crack, which was originally only ten meters wide, suddenly 'boomed' as it was smashed open into a massive hole hundreds of meters wide!
An exaggerated Black Dragon, a thousand meters long, spread its wings and soared into the sky from within!
After the black Symbiote dragon emerged, the first thing it locked its gaze onto was the Gwen from the alternate Universe who was flapping her red bat wings.
It recognized those as its brother's wings, meaning the brother it had depended on for hundreds of millions of years had been absorbed by this woman!
Could it tolerate this?
"ROAR!!!"
The black Symbiote dragon let out an angry roar at the Gwen from the alternate Universe and dived toward her with wings spread!
It wanted revenge!
"Wahhhh! Why are you chasing me! I don't even have chocolate!!!"
This scared the Gwen from the alternate Universe so much that she hugged the main Universe Gwen and flew away, flapping her wings!
She wasn't stupid; this black Symbiote dragon was so much bigger than the previous red Symbiote dragon.
Just looking at its size, she knew it wasn't something she could handle!
The main Universe Gwen looked back and saw the black Symbiote dragon staring fixedly at the wings of the Gwen from the alternate Universe, and she seemed to understand something.
Her mouth twitched: "How about you let me go first? It seems to be only chasing you; I'm not its target..."
The Gwen from the alternate Universe decisively refused: "No way, no way! You are me, and I am you. We are one and the same; we share joys and sorrows together!"
Main Universe Gwen: ...