Under numerous mysterious energies intertwined, layers of metal enveloped Ronan completely, writhing like living creatures, finally transforming into a suit of living steel armor that covered his entire body, only revealing Ronan’s hair and a pair of eyes.
His face was covered with a black mask, on which countless metals flowed like water ripples, giving a mysterious and eerie feeling.
After Ronan was fully enveloped by the [Living Steel], a deep silver color started spreading from his face, rapidly expanding, and in an instant, his whole body turned silvery-gray, with many complex and Mysterious patterns appearing on the mask, adding a noble temperament to the overall mysterious and eerie aura.
In three years, Ronan had grown taller from his original 1.8 meters to 1.9 meters, already quite tall among Wizards, and now "wearing" the Living Steel, he seemed even more imposing like a silver-white metal monster over two meters tall.
With a flicker, faint spatial energy fluctuations emanated, and Ronan appeared in the center of the Mysterious Garden.
From among the blooming clusters of lavender and geranium emerged a distorted transparent humanoid "as promised."
Beneath the silver-white metal mask, countless white lines rapidly spread in his deep blue eyes, and the twinkling pattern of an eye on his forehead fully revealed itself.
At this moment in Ronan’s vision, the transparent humanoid—which moved at an unimaginable speed, difficult for both the naked eye and spiritual power to capture—had turned into a mass of shiny silver-white threads tangled together, looking like a rapidly spinning silver yarn ball.
The "yarn ball" rolled swiftly towards Ronan, but unlike before, this time facing the attack of the twisted transparent humanoid, Ronan didn’t dodge but instead stood in place, slowly narrowing his eyes.
As the distorted transparent humanoid charged at him at a high speed, when it came within five meters of Ronan, the [Eye of Truth] on Ronan’s forehead suddenly blazed brightly, almost breaking free from his forehead.
Meanwhile, in the Consciousness Space, the third spiritual power crystal embellished with a Soul Seal trembled slightly, its embedded Soul Seal buzzing incessantly.
Mysterious silver-white light burst from Ronan’s eyes, strong spatial energy fluctuations emanated from around him, covering the fluctuations of metal magic in an instant.
Ronan took a deep breath, and the moment the transparent distorted humanoid was about to reach him, he abruptly stretched out his right hand and splayed his fingers.
In an instant, the silver metal adhered to his body flowed like water, extending rapidly along his right arm and fingers into countless silver-white metal tentacles, momentarily entwining the transparent distorted humanoid layer by layer.
The opponent’s forward momentum slightly decreased, but its body cut through the obstructing metal tentacles like the sharpest blade.
Numerous metal tentacles shattered, but Ronan’s expression was unchanged, a sharp light flashed in his eyes, and he shouted lowly.
In the Consciousness Space, the Soul Seal inside the third spiritual power crystal flickered again.
A whiff of Stasis permeated from Ronan, and a small area around him suddenly froze, as if a large amount of invisible glue was poured into it, the air currents, light, and even time seeming to fall into an exceedingly slow flow.
Under this force, the actions of the transparent distorted humanoid suddenly slowed by dozens or even hundreds of times.
A horrifying force of struggle erupted from it, the frozen Void making cracking sounds of shattering; the Stasis space seemed like it would be completely broken through in the next second.
Ronan remained calm, taking a sudden step forward, instantly appearing in front of the transparent distorted humanoid.
He extended his right arm, and as layers of metal disintegrated, the sound of bone joints colliding emitted from his right arm.
The originally long-sleeved sturdy right arm suddenly became extremely muscular; muscles collided, bulging veins emerged, with dark blue snake scale patterns appearing, the fingers enlarged drastically, tips turning pitch black, transforming momentarily into monstrous limbs like those from legends, fiercely plunging into the chest of the transparent distorted humanoid.
"Burst, burst, burst—"
Beneath the [Eye of Truth], countless silver-white threads comprising the transparent distorted humanoid broke under Ronan’s palm.
Ronan ruthlessly tore open that "yarn ball," his entire arm almost wholly entering the body of the transparent distorted humanoid, then as if grasping something tightly, his expression shifted, then he quickly retracted his hand.
Accompanied by Ronan withdrawing his hand, the transparent distorted humanoid enveloped in numerous metal tentacles burst open, transforming into countless streams of silver-white energy, splashing in all directions, leaving pitch-black slashing marks in the Void.
The Living Steel on Ronan’s body all pushed forward, but under the wash of these spatial energy flows, it seemed as brittle as paper, quickly being washed into shreds.
Yet, he took no concern, standing quietly like a rock in the violent energy turbulence, letting occasional turbulent flows pass through, leaving slashing scars on his body.
Inside his body, like a blazing fireball, the Vital Light Ball released specks of vitality, quickly healing those wounds.
Throughout the process, the Proficiency Level of [Ascetic Body Refinement] on the character panel quickly increased...
At this moment, Ronan’s attention was wholly drawn to the object he was holding in his hand; his right arm had returned to normal, and between his pale, long fingers, he firmly grasped a nearly solidified silver light ball.