Chapter 1507: Erased matter
"She teleported something invisible that is draining energy from the red star?" Rain furrowed his eyebrows. "Can actually living beings do that."
Rain had no idea what kind of creatures the machine gods had found so far, but it seemed that they had quite a variety... a being that could only assume a physical form by using energy instead of matter... that was worrisome.
Eventually, the monster took a humanoid shape without many details... All of a sudden, the creature appeared in front of Rain and swung his hand like a sword at his neck... Rain blocked the attack with his left elbow... but then his forearm was immediately chopped off.
Rain immediately teleported away and recovered the part of his arm that hadn’t been destroyed... then he soon realized what had happened. The matter touched by the enemy was completely erased.
Rain felt his body shaking thanks to the pain... unlike being cut by a sword or smashed by something, it felt like his very core and soul had been damaged by the attack, and that made him feel shivers. It was probably because of that the monster was absorbing energy from the red star once again.
"This won’t do it... I can’t recover fast enough, even with the matter aspect, to create the cells and glue together the damaged parts," Rain thought and then summoned giant earth arms and hardened them with the power of Wrath.
Attacking or defending would be the same, Rain would suffer damage. However, if that creature was once defeated by Arel, then it should have some weakness.
The concept of destroying a being composed solely of energy posed a unique challenge, as energy itself could not be created nor destroyed, only transformed. In the case of Arel and her manifestation, Rain understood that their essence was intrinsically linked to the boundless reservoirs of energy that permeated the red star.
While the physical form of such a being might appear ephemeral and insubstantial, there likely existed a core, an anchor point or nexus, that served as the focal point for their existence. Much like the machine gods who wielded control over their respective domains, Arel’s avatar would likely possess a central core or source of energy that sustained its existence and imbued it with power.