*Huff, Huff, Huff...*
The black mist surged in the room and it condensed into a gigantic scythe as dark as ink behind Kyle's soul, autonomously lifting itself, with its ethereal blade and tip displayed in the air.
Kyle's soul instinctively wanted to return to the body below, but as soon as it began to move, the huge scythe behind it swung forward violently.
*Pū Chi!*
In the shocked gaze of Raina, Kyle's soul was cleanly split in half by the scythe!
Having completed all this, the giant scythe immediately dissipated into a mass of black mist.
Meanwhile, lying on the sofa, Kyle's physical body underwent visible changes at the moment his soul was split in two.
His hair turned silver, each strand looking dull and lifeless.
His handsome face was adorned with extremely weathered wrinkles.
His youthful and vigorous physique slightly withered, transitioning his appearance, physique, and vitality towards the middle-aged stage of aging.
Halving his lifespan was the excruciating price of splitting his soul into two!
The soul, as the core essence of a lifeform, was not independent from the body but intricately connected to it.
When the body died but the soul remained, it was in a state of near-death. But once the soul died, it meant the complete eradication of that lifeform from the world.
This was why human Sorcerers could use their practice of spells to nurture the soul, achieving the effect of revitalizing paralyzed limbs.
Raina stabilized the Kryptonite Baby while looking at the soul split in half in mid-air. The souls began to symmetrically repair themselves, soon forming two Kyle souls floating side by side.
One of the slightly larger souls, drawn to the body lying on the sofa, descended and merged into the middle-aged Kyle's body. The body's breathing and heartbeat quietly recovered.
The other soul, the second self, drifted slowly forward with some consciousness, approaching the Kryptonite Baby still asleep.
Everything was going smoothly and Raina breathed a sigh of relief, finally calming her anxious heart.
But just as Kyle's second self soul was about half a meter away from the Kryptonite Baby, an unexpected event occurred —
*Chi!*
The ceiling of the top-floor office, shrouded in black mist, tore open a small gap. Through the opening, less than ten centimeters in size, one could see a vast and boundless dark dimension.
Here, there were no concepts of time, space, boundaries, or life. There was only an extremely pure source of darkness, a multi-dimensional world similar to the Mirror Dimension but fundamentally different.
Although the dark dimension had no indigenous life, at this moment, a pair of giant monstrous pupils appeared like suns, looming high in the center of the dark dimension, coldly peering at the scene in the top-floor office of the Emperor Building.
*Splash!*
Purple mist overflowed from the torn space in the ceiling, condensing into semi-transparent elongated tentacles. They shot out at lightning speed, launching a sudden assault toward the second self soul, which lacked much consciousness.
Just as the purple tentacles were about to pierce through the second self soul, a powerful wave of consciousness spread out like surging waves, causing ripples that shook everything in the room, forming a successful barrier of air, blocking the fatal assault of the purple tentacles.
"Who's there?!" Raina raised her eyes coldly, her silver-glowing gaze filled with infinite anger!
How dare they attack Boss at his weakest moment, and right in front of her!
"Interesting." The only lifeform existing in the dark dimension murmured softly, manipulating a part of its body that had sneaked into Earth, causing the purple tentacles to fiercely lash downwards, attacking with a mental corruption effect. With one strike, it shattered the resilient barrier of consciousness air.
The purple tentacles, snake-like in form, raised their heads proudly, aiming at Kyle's second self soul, as if preparing for a second powerful assault.
Raina was truly angry now, her eyes glowing silver brightly. All her consciousness converged, forming a circular fortress, immediately enveloping and protecting Kyle's second self soul layer by layer.
The purple tentacles sprang forth as expected, but just as they were about to collide with the mental fortress, they suddenly turned ninety degrees in mid-air, their tips aimed directly at the Kryptonite Baby!
"Not good!" Raina realized with a start. She understood now that perhaps the target of the adversary had always been the Kryptonite Baby!
Under normal circumstances, Raina would never make such a grave mistake. It could only be said that she cared too much about Kyle; once he was unable to protect himself, he became her only vulnerable spot.
While the purple tentacles were still in the air, they transformed from spikes into claws, grabbing hold of the suspended Kryptonite Baby and dragging it towards the spatial rift in the ceiling!
"Leave him alone!" Raina gritted her teeth, her psychic energy manifesting into numerous solid threads, densely entwining around the purple tentacles in an attempt to snatch the Kryptonite Baby back.
But just as the tentacles were pulled down by a meter, the psychic threads rapidly dissolved into nothingness. It turned out that the purple tentacles possessed inherent mental corrosion, which greatly countered Raina's psychic abilities.
With blood dripping from her lips, Raina struggled to protect Kyle's split soul while simultaneously engaging in a tug-of-war with the mysterious lifeform from the dark dimension for the Kryptonite Baby. Her mental exhaustion was reaching its limit.
"You can't challenge me. Evolve for another ten thousand years before you can even think of doing that," The lifeform from the dark dimension, which had gained the upper hand in the struggle against Raina scoffed as it said/thought. It continued to pull the Kryptonite Baby towards the crack in the ceiling.
Just then.
A loud cry from the baby reverberated through the office, causing the glass windows on the same floor to shatter from the resulting shockwave.
Facing this scene, both Raina and the lifeform from the dark dimension were momentarily stunned. It turned out that while they were locked in their struggle, the Kryptonite Baby, who had been sleeping all along, had awakened!
"It's just a little baby, and it thinks it can escape from my grasp?"
The lifeform from the dark dimension sneered repeatedly. It was about to pull the Kryptonite Baby into the dark dimension when it suddenly realized, to its astonishment, that its power was rapidly dissipating at an extremely high rate!
"What's going on?"
Not only was the lifeform from the dark dimension puzzled, but Raina, who was in the room, also widened her eyes in uncertainty.
The crying Kryptonite Baby instinctively reached out its little hand, and the purple tentacles, capable of unleashing tens of tons of pure force and corroding mental consciousness, turned into mist and were sucked into the baby's body like oxygen.
Although the baby was only the size of two palms, it seemed like a bottomless black hole, absorbing the energy from the dark dimension that had been trying to claim it.
Pure energy from the dark dimension would corrode the mind, and aside from lifeforms native to the dark dimension, no other lifeforms could absorb and utilize it.
But this didn't apply to Kryptonians. Whether it was solar energy or dark energy, it was all just nourishment to them, like oxygen to humans.
As the sole lifeform in the dark dimension, Dormammu's essence was highly concentrated pure energy. To the Kryptonite Baby, it was like extremely delicious nectar.
"Is my partial body being... devoured and deprived?"
Ever since becoming the ruler of the dark dimension, Dormammu hadn't felt fear in a long time. It only enjoyed the pleasure of devouring multi-dimensional lifeforms and manipulating others to become puppets in the dark dimension.
But now, it was in a panic!
(End of this chapter)
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