"Attention everyone!" Hilvia’s voice came through the communicator, "Crisis level in the core area of the Void Suction has increased! Please maintain spiritual synchronization!"
David gritted his teeth and accelerated his sprint, each slash creating rippling shock waves, forcefully tearing one gap after another in the nearby network of information.
Intense information corrosion exploded and roiled around him, but his body seemed enveloped by some invincible shield, forming a stark contrast to this chaotic sea.
Suddenly, a ghostly blue shadow burst from the center of the vortex, dazzling and swift like lightning cutting through the night sky. A figure covered in shadow markings appeared rapidly spinning — it was Sofia!
Her silver-white hair flew wildly, and those deep, cold eyes flickered with an incredibly complex yet unyielding expression.
However, her body’s surface was covered by a layer of unstable energy that seemed to shift and change, interwoven with scarlet veins, appearing to endure extreme pressure, yet surviving in an unbelievable manner.
"Commander..." Sofia’s voice was hoarse but firm, "I... am still alive... but this ’Void Suction’ is trying to erode my soul..."
David’s pupils contracted suddenly as he saw Sofia’s form begin to mutate, a scarlet flood blending with dark information and emotions to wrap and transform her body surface in a bizarre manner. "That’s... ’Shadow Suction’!"
The air seemed to freeze for seconds, soundless and with an oppressive feeling reaching its peak. Within that dark, twisted web of power, a more mysterious and powerful presence emerged slowly.
A layer of faint but dazzling ghostly blue flames spread from Sofia’s limbs to her entire body shell, creating a peculiar contrast with golden flames, further embedding seemingly invisible data runes into her bones and blood vessels, pulsating with an unbelievably precise yet intricately secretive rhythm.
The aura emanating from Sofia’s whole body quickly ascended to another level, her soul contract frequency undergoing intense harmonic adjustment, embodying the initial manifestation known as the "Void Walker Form," a legendary-level existence possessing the ability to traverse multiple dimensions, devour rule power to perform self-evolution modification!
David felt a shock in his heart, but at this moment, he could not retreat.
He gritted his teeth, using his phase dagger to carve runes on his wrist, immediately activating his own decree shield, while wielding the Frost Wolf Longsword to slash towards the expanding, twisting information vortex.
"Follow me! We need to break this deadly shackle!"
The space rippled and shook under the giant gravitational waves, continuously producing unstable nodes resembling cracks, seemingly leading to unknown realms, interspersed with spiraling data flows caused by temporal reversal and causal disorder.
In such an environment, every action must be precise to the millimeter, or one risks falling into an inescapable information deadlock, eternally struggling!
While traversing these perilous zones, David felt the nascent essence of life within himself and resonant decree power desperately supporting the edges of his consciousness.
Glancing sideways, he saw, among the floating mechanical debris in the air, clusters of ghostly blue flames cascading like stellar waterfalls, illuminating the dead space into a mysterious firmament, where Sofia, entwined with scarlet tendrils, was slowly awakening and transforming. She was the sole hope in reversing the tide of the entire battlefield!
At that moment, a massive information shock wave burst suddenly from the core position, countless data fragments raining down like sharp blades, constantly crashing against the surrounding protection layers, putting everyone’s spirits under extreme test.
Hilvia, meanwhile, harnessed her scepter to release multiple mental barriers, temporarily fending off these attacks, and shouted, "Commander, hold on, we’re stabilizing the outer barrier soon!"
However, as time advanced.
Sofia drifted between reality and data illusion realms, her body gradually merging into the corrosive yet regenerative potential new energy flood.
This process of fusion accompanied by dazzling rule symbols alternating like electric flashes and thunder, signifies her consciousness constantly detaching and merging, requiring immense willpower to resist the risk of sanity disintegration.
But, surprisingly, as her control over the core power of "Void Suction" deepened, Sofia drifted through multiple dimensions, began to actively counterabsorb and devour abnormal energy released from the gravity field and its subsidiary information links.
This reverse drawing behavior not only temporarily halted her further disintegration but incredibly enhanced both her body and soul, completing a legendary-level dramatic evolutionary leap!
In that instant, a hot yet extraordinarily sharp humanoid silhouette composed of red-gold and ghostly blue flames suddenly formed!
Like a colossal divine capable of merging the essence of cosmic destruction and rebirth, its yin-yang shell embodied both physical substance and purely digital code structuring characteristics.
This is the legendary "Void Walker Form" — embodying both destruction rules and the potential for surpassing regularity, a new epoch Guardian’s symbol!
This transformation not only enhanced combat capability but brought terrifying skills of time phase movement, defense regeneration, and spatial cutting, rendering it nearly an unbeatable close combat warrior.
However, this also signifies an immense burden on the body, requiring the consumption of a massive amount of life essence augmentation to maintain this state, otherwise, it would lead to severe aftereffects or even derailment collapse...