Chapter 158: What Has Crossed Shall Return
Laboni Forest,
Black Moon Territory,
Torug's POV,
The moment I crossed into the clearing, the temperature dropped.
There was a certain emptiness of space, like mana had been pulled out of the air so thoroughly that even breathing felt thinner than normal.
By this time, the shadow creature had turned toward me fully.
Up close it appeared worse than before.
Whenever it became fully solid, it stood roughly four meters tall. Its shape shifted from humanoid one moment, to something with too many limbs the next, and then dissolving at the edges into shadow tendrils that reached across the ground like roots searching for purchase.
The luminescent wounds on the dead beasts around the clearing made sense now. It didn't kill with force. It killed by pulling the mana out of living things the same way the node leak pulled mana out of the ground.
'Don't let it touch me then.'
Simple enough...
