The Black Robed Man's body began to twist and swell, his bones emitting a grating "ka-ka" sound.
His pale body mutated at a visible speed; his spine protruded in segments like a centipede, and the blood-red patterns surging beneath his skin were replaced by boiling, black-red demonic blood.
Grotesque bone spurs burst from his shoulder blades, and bat-like membrane wings tore through the skin of his back and unfurled. The ends of his blood-stained wings grew barbed, jet-black claws, and his four canine teeth were long and sharp.
In a flash, a three-meter-tall bat monster hovered in the air—its claws like scimitars, fangs like daggers, and blood-red eyes like two miniature blood moons.
"This guy..." Cana gasped, feeling that the Black Robed Man's aura was twice as strong as before, according to her magic perception.
Marcus quickly elevated his position on the gold sand cloud to a relatively safe height, his expression grave. "Is it a receiving spell?"
Ezreal, glowing with white light, floated in the air. He pulled down his goggles from his forehead and put them on, his face serious. "No, he's a true Demon."
The Black Robed Man, transformed into a bat Demon, let out a sky-shattering roar, the sound waves spreading out as tangible, blood-red ripples.
Wherever they passed, the sea surface erupted with hundred-meter-high waves, and even the Flamingos in the air were shaken, their feathers scattering.
The Evil Wolf immediately shielded Ezreal, but was sent tumbling by the sound wave.
Cana and Marcus, being further away, casually cast their respective defensive spells to block the attack, but their expressions grew increasingly solemn.
"Now it's dinner time." The transformed Black Robed Man licked the black blood oozing from the corner of his mouth, his wings flapping to stir up a foul wind. He casually tore off his tattered black robe, a grin spreading across his face. "Let's reintroduce ourselves."
He elegantly raised a hand to his chest, then bowed slightly to Ezreal and the others. His voice suddenly became hoarse and sharp, like metal scraping glass: "Jupiter, loyal servant of the Moon Demon, greets you all."
Marcus wiped the sweat from his forehead, staring at the ten-meter-wide bat wings unfurled behind Jupiter. "Jupiter? That nickname sounds much cooler than my Sandstorm..."
"Cool, my foot!" Cana rolled her eyes, then raised her hand and flung out a cyan card. "By my name, Storm Banshee, seal Release!"
A violent cyan hurricane suddenly erupted out of thin air, swirling around Cana. Amidst the swirling hurricane, a half-human-tall Banshee, whose body was entirely composed of cyan wind, stood to Cana's left.
Meanwhile, the usually silent Frost Spirit quietly descended from Cana's head. Its half-human-tall, ice-blue eyeball body slowly shrank, becoming fist-sized and floating on Cana's shoulder.
Ezreal stood atop the Evil Wolf, with a Flamingo flapping its wings to his side.
Ezreal stared at Jupiter, scrutinizing him for a few moments. Seeing his composed demeanor, a smile suddenly appeared on his previously serious face. He slowly spoke, "You don't think that just by transforming, you can face the three of us head-on, do you?"
Jupiter's grotesque face also revealed a smile. His pale face combined with the four fangs looked particularly terrifying. "Let's see."
Ezreal smiled. With a wave of his left hand, the Flamingo flapped its wings again, flying above Jupiter's head. Cana and Marcus, one on each side, rushed towards Jupiter, forming a pincer attack.
Cana's Frost Spirit flew below Jupiter, hovering on the sea surface, while the Storm Banshee circled around Jupiter, blocking his retreat.
Ezreal stood on the Evil Wolf's head, tilting his head, his eyes growing cold. "Then don't you dare run."
With enemies above, below, and on all sides, Jupiter was not flustered. He first looked up at the bright moon hanging high in the sky. His eyes inexplicably turned from pious to fanatical. "Tonight, the moonlight is truly beautiful..."
Before he finished speaking, Jupiter suddenly spread his wings wide and howled at the moon—
"Dark Sound Wave: Soul Eater!"
A spherical sound wave, black and red, exploded from Jupiter's center. The piercing shriek echoed over the sea like the wailing of a vengeful spirit.
Wherever the sound wave passed, the air twisted and deformed, and even the moonlight was stained a murky blood-red.
"Indiscriminate attack! Be careful!" Ezreal's eyes shone with dazzling white light. He clasped his hands together, and a translucent white barrier unfolded before him.
The Evil Wolf let out a low growl, transforming into black smoke and merging into Ezreal's shadow to avoid taking the full brunt of the attack.
Cana immediately pulled out a card containing a defensive spell, but the Soul Eater sound wave was too fast and had already swept before her.
Just in the nick of time, the Frost Spirit suddenly glanced her way, and ice-blue cold air appeared out of nowhere around Cana, forming an ice crystal shield that enveloped her.
The sound wave crashed against the ice shield, creating countless tiny cracks, but it managed to block the attack.
The Frost Spirit itself exhaled a breath of cold air, directly freezing the incoming sound wave.
"Thanks, little guy." Cana gave a thumbs-up, and the latter swayed twice in response.
Marcus was slightly more disheveled.
The gold sand cloud was scattered by the sound wave, and he was sent flying backward like a kite with a broken string. He used the force to explode into a cloud of gold sand.
"Damn it!"
"Sandstorm Cloud Reassembly!"
The gold sand re-converged into a cloud, and from atop the cloud, the gold sand protruded, forming a human shape that coalesced into Marcus's body.
"This guy's sound wave..." Marcus's face was grim. "It can directly affect magic!"
The Flamingo high in the sky did not passively defend. As the most ferocious of Ezreal's Summoned Beasts, it directly swung its wings, and an overwhelming shower of molten-gold feathers rained down from above, easily tearing through the incoming sound wave magic, then pouring down on Jupiter like a torrential rain.
The Storm Banshee, born from humanity's resentment and fear of storm disasters, was also not to be trifled with. She actually charged straight forward, enduring Jupiter's sound wave magic. Her hands, formed of cyan storm, aimed at Jupiter, and twelve cyan tornados, swirling with large amounts of seawater, took shape.
The Storm Banshee's attack arrived first, and the twelve tornados began to tear at Jupiter.
The wind currents within the tornados rotated in different directions, which meant Jupiter couldn't escape from the tornados with their varying rotational directions and could only be continuously torn by the hurricane.
He flapped his bat wings several times, attempting to break out, but was repeatedly beaten back by the intense wind pressure.
In just an instant, he was already covered in blood.
And just then, the Flamingo's sky-filling fiery feathers also descended. Each molten-gold feather that fell caused a violent explosion, with flames and fragments of magma scattering everywhere.
The scattered magma and flames were then swept up by the tornados created by the Storm Banshee. The original seawater tornados instantly transformed into crimson flame tornados.
Jupiter was completely suppressed.
"Focus fire, finish him!" Seeing this situation, Ezreal immediately roared, and the three-pronged attack erupted simultaneously.
The Evil Wolf shot out from Ezreal's shadow, the fifteen-meter-long giant wolf baring its fangs and once again spewing a powerful dark energy breath.
Cana swiped her hand, and twelve purple cards were flung out, exploding in mid-air to form a purple thundercloud nearly twenty meters in diameter, unleashing almost a hundred purple lightning bolts at Jupiter's location.
The Frost Spirit was directly below Jupiter. It submerged itself in the sea, and the next moment, a massive ice spear broke through the water.
Marcus, meanwhile, manipulated the gold sand to condense into hundreds of javelins, which whistled in from the side.
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