Wizard: My skills can be upgraded indefinitely.

Chapter 129 The Last Person

Enraged by the two's escape, the monster's eyes flashed with blood-red light, and its tentacles' attack speed suddenly doubled!

"Ian!" Hector said quickly while dodging the tentacles, "This monster is already at its last gasp, and it just used up a lot of energy. If we join forces and attack its core dark gold eyeball with all our might, we can definitely severely injure or even kill it."

Ian's eyes flickered slightly, but he did not answer immediately.

He did need the [Eye of the Gazer] to enhance his mental power, but Hector's suggestion—

He glanced at Hector, whose eyes held an almost unmistakable fervor and coldness.

"Sure," Ian said calmly. "If you're so capable, bring it all out. Don't hide it."

"Okay!" Hector agreed quickly, but inwardly he sneered.

The two appear to have joined forces again.

Ian took a deep breath and stopped holding back completely.

Within the sea of ​​consciousness, the array of eighty-one will runes shone brightly, and liquefied spiritual power surged forth.

The ice and fire spiral of the Frost Ray became more solid and more violent.

With a piercing shriek, it bombarded the monster again and again, blasting open huge wounds.

This forced the monster to roar repeatedly, concentrating most of its tentacles and mental attacks on Ian.

Hector, meanwhile, walks the line, constantly harassing the monsters with withering spells such as [Finger of Death], [Curse of Aging], and [Soul-Weeping Ripple].

Seemingly restraining, but actually secretly accumulating power, his gaze remained fixed on the dark golden core eye.

And — Ian's back.

The two possessed diverse skills and formidable attacks. With their full strength unleashed, the demon's aura weakened at a visible rate.

One by one, the eyeballs on his body dimmed and burst.

Ian's shield shattered two more layers. He was pale and his mental energy was greatly depleted, but his eyes remained sharp.

Hector was also injured, but he was in significantly better condition than Ian.

Until Ian fired another exceptionally powerful Frost Ray.

Half of the monster's flesh mountain shattered, exposing its dark golden core eye, which now shone much dimmer.

Hector seized the opportunity, and his [Death Finger] contracted into a thick, gray-black ray, piercing straight into the core of the monster.

puff!

The rays pierced through the mountain of flesh, leaving a hole that was clear from front to back.

The Thousand-Eyed Soul-Stealing Demon's aura suddenly weakened, and its whiskers began to move slowly.

Almost simultaneously, he abruptly changed the direction of his bone staff.

A jet-black ray, condensed to its fullest extent, aimed straight at Ian's unsuspecting back!

A dusty gray bone nail, which he had prepared in his left hand, was silently shot toward Ian's temple.

【Soul-Destroying Nail】, a treacherous and insidious weapon of the Withering Council, designed to break shields and damage the soul!

"Die! The treasure is mine!" Hector grinned menacingly.

He could almost see Ian getting badly injured, and then he could easily harvest the wounded monsters, along with this troublesome guy.

However, the moment he made his move, it was as if Ian had eyes in the back of his head.

The last layer of the body's surface, the [Crystal Energy Barrier] shield, suddenly caved inward and deformed at an incredible angle and speed.

In an instant, it condensed into an incredibly thick, diamond-shaped giant shield behind him, covered with dark red spirit-devouring patterns!

Bang! Sizzle!

The pitch-black death ray and the Soul-Destroying Nail struck the rhombus-shaped giant shield almost simultaneously.

The rays were largely absorbed and weakened by [Soul Devourer], and their remaining power was blocked by the crystal shield.

The Soul-Destroying Nail was driven into the surface of the crystal shield, and the gray light frantically eroded it, but it was difficult to penetrate the constantly regenerating shield for a while!

"What?!" Hector was shocked. He hadn't expected Ian's shield to be so strong and so precisely controlled.

The cacophony that had been lurking in the shadows suddenly leaped out from the shadow beneath Hector's feet.

The gray light of the [Ominous Eye] swept fiercely into his eyes!

Ian turned around and waved his left hand, a flash of pale purple light shot straight at Hector's face!

Hector is indeed formidable, possessing an abundance of trump cards and combat experience.

A bone fragment hidden in his bosom exploded, forcefully breaking free from the interference of the [Eye of Calamity].

In his horror, he let out a wild roar and held the bone staff horizontally in front of him.

He pushed the death energy to its limit, forming a bone shield to block the [scorching ray].

boom!!!

The Frost Ray struck his defense squarely.

The destructive energy of ice and fire erupted wildly, with extreme cold and heat alternating and eroding, instantly tearing through his death energy defense, shattering the bone staff, and slamming it into his chest!

Hector's screams came to an abrupt halt.

He looked down at the large hole in his chest, which was completely exposed from front to back and had charred, frozen edges.

His eyes were filled with disbelief, resentment, and a hint of bewilderment.

He opened his mouth as if to say something, but his life force was already rapidly fading away.

Ian leaned close to his ear, his voice calm: "Sorry, I want the [Eye of the Gazer] too."

With a single chop to the heart, it shattered.

The light in Hector's eyes quickly faded, eventually freezing into a deathly gray.

The body fell to the ground.

Ian withdrew his hand, wiped away the blood, and looked at the heavily injured Thousand-Eyed Soul-Stealing Demon in front of him.

The demon's aura continued to decline, but at its core, a faint dark golden light was still circulating.

That is—the Eye of the Gazer is gathering.

Ian took a deep breath and raised his hands again, a pale purple light illuminating the cave.

This abyssal monster is on its last legs.

Its mountain-like body was covered with charred burn marks and frost cracks, wounds left by the [Frost Ray].

More than two-thirds of the eyeballs had burst or dimmed, and the remaining hundred or so eyeballs were moving erratically.

Ian's image was reflected in his pupils, but the fierceness of before had been lost, leaving only a deathly murky look.

But the dark golden light at its core grew brighter and brighter.

This is the [Eye of the Gazer] compressing and crystallizing the remaining spiritual power and soul essence when it is condensed, forming a precious treasure.

This seems to be the instinct of these monsters when they are near death, or perhaps some kind of "legacy mechanism" bestowed by the abyss.

Ian slowly stepped forward, intending to deliver the final blow to the monster and then collect the spoils.

However, just as the ray was about to be emitted...

The Thousand-Eyed Soul-Stealing Demon's remaining eyeballs suddenly all turned towards Ian.

All the pupils simultaneously contracted to the size of pinpoints, and dense, twisted, lifelike abyssal runes appeared on the whites of their eyes.

The runes swirled wildly, intertwining with each other to form a dark red network covering the entire surface of the demon.

Immediately afterwards, the monster's body began to contract and collapse violently!

It compressed all the remaining flesh, spirit, and soul fragments into the core of that dark golden light.

"Self-destruction? Or—" Ian's heart skipped a beat, and he retreated rapidly, activating all three layers of shields.

The expected explosion did not occur.

The collapse was completed in an instant; the mountain of flesh, which was more than ten meters in diameter, was compressed into a dark golden eyeball the size of a fist.

The eyeballs floated in mid-air, their surfaces smooth as mirrors, yet inside they seemed to contain countless nebulae swirling within.

It is beautiful, eerily beautiful, breathtakingly beautiful.

Ian stopped and looked at the crystal warily.

And at that very moment.

A tiny crack quietly appeared on the surface of the eyeball.