However, this didn’t stop Jason from seeing hundreds and thousands of hearts piled up here.
They had already cracked open.
Blood flowed out, gathering together, and tracing a slanted path toward the outside.
The dripping blood that Jason had seen earlier came from this source.
A group of pitch-black humanoid monsters were increasing the flow of blood, rushing from outside, holding hearts in their hands, and then, standing in the center of this room, began to ’pat’ the hearts in their hands.
The slap, slap noise came from this action.
As they patted, the hearts began to beat.
From slow to violent.
After that, the malicious gaze moved away.
The other side swept over the entire ’Fragment’ world once again.
Meteorites fell one by one.
The flames burned ceaselessly.
Only after the ’Fragment’ world in front of him was ’destroyed’ three times like plowing the ground did the malicious gaze finally disappear completely.
In the following three attacks, Jason died 30 more times.
He lay there motionless, enduring such deaths.
Until the time of departure elapsed, minute by minute, second by second.
When the last second had passed, Jason, who was pressed in the rubble, immobile, simply vanished.
But with this disappearance, it seemed the malicious gaze was disturbed.
The malicious gaze descended upon this place once again.
It surveyed the area.
It locked onto the last place where Jason had disappeared.
But before It had a chance to search thoroughly,
In the distance, where Jason had entered through the ’door’, a crack appeared in the void.
The crack spread like a spider web.
As time passed, within a matter of seconds, it expanded into a vast area.
The void completely shattered.
A tall and sturdy figure stepped out.
"Jason, where are you?" the figure shouted after stepping into the breach.
But unlike the memory, the current Aras was clearly taller and more muscular, and furthermore, her attire had changed from jeans and jackets to Daoist robes for cultivation; her thick, disheveled, auburn hair, which had been loose before, was now tied into a high ponytail on the top of her head; and a string of ’anomalies’, which ’the shelter’ had collected to aid in cultivation, had been made into a large rosary that hung around her neck.
Two rope-like bracers, aiding in cultivation, were worn on her left and right hands.
This too were ’anomalies’ that aided in cultivation.
Her roar echoed in this shattered space.
The malicious gaze instantly locked onto Aras.
"Was it you who destroyed my ’altar’?" It asked.
"Have you seen Jason?" Aras responded, ignoring the question.
Such a response prompted the already angry malicious gaze to hesitate not a bit before striking ’the hand’.
A meteorite with a diameter of hundreds of meters came smashing down right at Aras.
She had come to find Jason, not to fight.
But if someone hit her, she definitely wouldn’t take it lying down without fighting back.
The next moment, Aras turned and twisted her waist, leaped high into the air, and with a fierce punch aimed at the meteorite above her head, she struck.
Her fist collided with the meteorite.
The meteorite shattered instantly.
And Aras’s body kept soaring up toward the sky, until... she hit where the malicious gaze was located.
Another rending of the void.
The malicious gaze widened its eyes as the woman drew near.
Before It could speak, the persistent force of the punch landed on Its body.
It wanted to scream, but in the next moment, It realized in horror that Its own body was beginning to disintegrate.
"No!" With an incredulous shout, It swiftly abandoned its body and fled into the far reaches of the void.
It did not know why It had encountered such a terrifying woman, unlike any other human, but It knew that if It did not flee fast enough, It would truly die.
Aras, gazing at the evildoer who had struck first, had no intention of letting the culprit escape.
For she could feel the murderous intent the other had just released against her.
Such a person was an enemy.
Jason had said, when facing an enemy, show no mercy.
Aras brought her hands to her waist, where a golden aura began to condense in her palms.
Then, as she pushed her palms forward, the ball of golden aura spun out like a shooting star and crashed violently into the fleeing figure.