"Ian, is he... really dead, gaga?"
Gaga landed back on his shoulder, his small eyes staring at the corpse, feathers still slightly puffed up.
"He's dead."
Ian stood up, wiping the dark green blood from his fingertips.
His gaze swept over the surroundings.
The Star Sea Illusion Realm was still brilliant. On the broken platforms in the distance, the flames of battle flared up one after another.
But he could feel it...
The closer he got to the center, the more the Shadow Binders, Echo Mirage Spirits, and even stranger Rule Created Creatures increased in strength.
The shadow mutant Selas had just encountered had an aura approaching Level One Peak.
'The trial is accelerating the elimination process,'
Ian muttered to himself, looking up toward the deepest part of the Star Sea.
There, a dark blue "island" ten times larger than the other platforms floated in the Void.
Its surface was awash with a starlight so pure it was blinding.
