Chapter 1486: Unbothered
At first, it was barely perceptible—a faint crackling in the air that seemed to grow louder with each passing second. But as the noise intensified, Rain felt a growing sense of dread gnawing at his insides, knowing all too well what it meant.
Little by little, his control over mana began to slip through his fingers, like grains of sand slipping through an hourglass. With each passing moment, the static noise grew louder, drowning out his thoughts and clouding his mind with confusion.
"I am tired of this trick..." Rain thought.
Before long, the encirclement was finished around Rain and he was enveloped by darkness. The cubes weren’t done, though. They made the dark liquid contort and decrease in size in order to completely smash Rain... since he couldn’t use magic, he wouldn’t be able to escape this time.
Still, before Rain could be touched by the dark liquid, a powerful impact suddenly echoed inside the sphere, and then the liquid stopped moving. A sequence of quick and powerful sounds echoed inside the sphere, making it expand once again.
The cubes tried to fight back, and the noise inside persisted... eventually, the dark liquid cracked and then began to fly in different directions, but only for a moment... they all disappeared after Rain made them appear inside his pocket dimension.
"How utterly boring... the same stupid trick won’t work on me," Rain said.
As Rain surveyed the strange and ominous liquid surrounding him, a sense of unease settled over him. There was something hauntingly familiar about its dark, viscous surface, a familiarity that sent a shiver down his spine despite his words.
It was then that he realized the truth: this was the same substance that had been used to construct the spherical robots and deadly ring blades that had attacked him in battle before.