Earlier, it was because of insufficient vitality mana that the true power of the three lifeform structure overlap couldn’t be displayed. But now under ‘Negary’s’ control, with more than ample vitality mana to support him, the Great Bear Druid’s form began to change.
First, beneath the brown layer of bear fur, black bear fur began to grow. It wasn’t clear whether or not this Druid had decided upon using purely bear form, but the first lifeform structure he chose was that of the brown bear, and the second lifeform structure was that of a black bear.
Without any surprises, the third lifeform structure he chose was also a bear, but this time, it was a polar bear. The sprouting white fur imbued the Druid a supernatural frost aura, and the overlapping lifeform structure of three bears had caused the Great Bear’s form to grow horrifyingly gigantic.
The mere swing of the bear paw caused a strong gust of wind to blow forward, additionally, the frost aura imbued within the paw also caused the surrounding space and time to become a bit rigid. In truth, this was a phenomenon caused by the frost aura being mobilized by sheer strength, permeating into the surrounding space and time.
Guangnai[1] (shortened name) frowned. The Great Bear Druid had already been using this triple overlap form since a while ago, but being unable to exert its true potential due to lack of mana made him not that much of an issue. Now that he had the mana to exert its power, he was a very serious issue.
Guangnai wasn’t actually worried about himself. Having inherited the original Negary’s powers, his strongest advantage was the ability to protect his own life; what he was worried about was the two mages behind him being squished to death.
These two House of Mages members carried a C-class authority on them, which the original Negary could take advantage of to bypass the Grand Library’s defense mechanism. After all, the Great Magus’ collection still had a level of allure to them.
As for the other Righteous Gods, they would be able to very easily transfer their powers into this sealed-off Grand Library if they took advantage of this C-class authority. In fact, Eternal Heat and Eulogy of the Ocean Depths had most likely used one mage each as their sacrifices to descend earlier.
Guangnai reached his hand forward, the Impurity carried within the germs on his hand manifested as an aura as well. The rigid Space-Time caused by the frost aura quickly changed, under Guangnai’s manipulation, it was changing to form layers upon layers of barriers.
The Great Bear’s strike caused Space-Time to tear apart and shatter, almost like broken glass. It might appear considerable, but most of the strike’s power had more or less been applied onto the altered spatial structure, which had instead ruined his own home field advantage without being able to hit anything.
After all, this forest was in essence a magic ritual created by the Great Magus’ mana, although the Great Magus had prepared a mana pool for himself, no amount of mana would be able to withstand a battle of this caliber.
The Great Bear’s sudden attack was easily resolved by Guangnai, but the real trouble was someone else entirely.
Guangnai’s gaze fell onto Life ‘Negary’, which carried a hint of reevaluation. He had investigated the other party before, who should be the Dean of the Mobis Institute, Michael. Evidently, he had now obtained a second life.
It could almost be guaranteed that this person wasn’t the real Michael. Most likely, he was Michael who had been infected and turned into a clone of Life Bearer.
However, the other party’s technique gave Guangnai an unexpected sense of familiarity. It felt as if he would have utilized the same technique in that same situation if he possessed the same powers; this was because it was the most suitable method, and there was a chance to greatly increase the Great Bear Druid’s strength in the process.
This sense of familiarity was almost indiscernible to other people, it was something that only Guangnai felt doubtful about.
〖 Is it an illusion? 〗
Guangnai’s hands did not stop even as he was contemplating, even more golden beads gathered around him to manifest golden eyeballs all around Guangnai’s body.
Regardless, he was currently Negary’s public representative, an ally of Eternal Heat, and even if his conjecture was true, he now needed to display the attitude fitting of an ally.
‘Negary’ observed Guangnai whose expression didn’t change a single bit and swiftly sped up the circulation of vitality mana. The mass of corpses beneath his feet began to twitch under the mana’s effect, numerous veins broke through their skin and attached themselves to one another. Each of the corpses had literally sewn themselves back together and stood up once again.
Even the squished blood and flesh from before were being absorbed by the hair-like veins, the life force of these stitched abominations was immense, their new bodies had no such thing as vitals.
Strictly speaking, the animated veins were the true form of these abominations, and as long as the veins were not thoroughly destroyed, they could always absorb more biomass to stand back up and fight.
Guangnai’s attention focused on those actions. If he possessed that vitality mana, he would have poured all of it into the Great Bear Druid’s body and further stimulated his mutation. If the Great Bear Druid couldn’t adapt to it, he would still obtain great strength, but his own lifeform structure would later on deteriorate, both his lifespan and strength would weaken.
Unless Life Bearer was willing to fix him up, he would be crippled very quickly.
On the other hand, if the Great Bear Druid could adapt to it, then he must have been able to observe the foundations of his own lifeform structure within the immense chaotic vitality mana. This meant that the Great Bear Druid who had obtained such strength would have a chance to obtain a Seed of Truth and advance forward.
From this point on, the sense of familiarity had disappeared, but Guangnai had instead judged him to be even more likely to be a Negary clone. If the other party displayed the same familiarity to him many times, he would definitely have been a fake, as the real ‘Negary’ would not be so stupid.
Numerous rays of energy shot out from the eyeballs by Guangnai’s side, the bodies of the stitched abominations who were caught by it swiftly collapsed, but would then rapidly stand back up under the veins’ reconstruction ability.
‘Negary’ exhaled, then continued to ensure that he wasn’t struck by any of the energy rays. If he was hit by that Impurity, his body would instantly become chaotic and cause his lifeform structure to collapse.
He was quite pleased with his current first Divine Embryo, so he had no intentions of changing to another body quite so soon. Of course, the incubation of the second Divine Embryo had already entered his list of urgent matters.
Having the power of three bears, the Great Bear Druid roared in a berserk manner as he got down on all fours and rapidly charged towards Guangnai. His three-colored fur was pushed down by the strong wind, the frost aura on his bear paws was rapidly manifesting a road of ice to further bolster the Great Bear Druid’s speed.
The massive amount of vitality mana had created a layer of visible mana armor around the Great Bear’s body. Each time that the eyeballs’ energy rays struck the armor, it would quickly collapse, only for more vitality mana to reconstruct a new armor.
It was because of this that he survived, otherwise, Guangnai’s Impurity Rays would be able to instantly defeat the majority of his adversaries.
Watching the approaching Great Bear, Guangnai touched his bald head again:
〖 It’s been a long time since I last used close-quarters combat, my bones are itching 〗
A second later, hundreds of rays of light erupted all over Guangnai’s body.
[1] Guangnai is the shortened form of “Bald ‘Negary’”, as explained during volume 2, the first syllable in Negary’s name is “Nai”, and the syllable for “bald” in Chinese is the word “光” – Guang
