Dimensional Keeper: All My Skills Are at Level 100 Chapter 1554 Strange Creatures!

With his Dimensional Sovereign Body fully engaged, Max dashed across the barren wasteland, his silhouette slicing through the empty battlefield at relentless pace toward Isabella's position.

As he approached nearer, his previous guesses solidified into certainty. This area was undeniably an ancient battlefield. Debris from star shuttles of every size dotted the terrain, their shattered hulls partially embedded in the soil, surrounded by innumerable corpses of humans, primordials, and devils.

A suffocating quiet enveloped the whole landscape, as if time had halted precisely at the instant of devastation.

However, before advancing further, Max halted suddenly.

Shapes materialized in front of him.

Not merely in front. They sprang up from every side, encircling him in a flash.

Max's gaze sharpened while scanning the beings that trapped him, a heavy scowl etching his features as doubt stirred within. "I can't spot them… my Dimensional Sovereign Body fails to detect them too. How is that possible?" he whispered under his breath.

His power ought to let him detect almost all within this dimension, particularly after fully merging with it, but these entities had materialized without notice. It felt like they evaded his awareness completely, as if his Dimensional Sovereign Body couldn't acknowledge their presence.

For a split second, a frigid idea flashed through his thoughts. Was his ability restrained, or did these beings operate beyond the dimension's laws?

Max dismissed the notion temporarily and turned his focus to the surrounding creatures.

They resembled nothing he'd encountered before.

Their forms were utterly dark, devouring even the dimmest light, each supported by six sturdy, segmented limbs that anchored firmly into the dirt. But they weren't spiders.

Their torsos were hideously contorted, like a warped blend of monster and horror. In place of heads loomed enormous wolfish jaws stretching impossibly broad, filled with irregular, serrated fangs that churned and scraped idly even at rest.

Just their immense stature evoked terror, towering above him, their hulking masses matching or exceeding an elephant's. Their hides looked oily and eerie, crafted from some shadowy, throbbing material instead of skin, with subtle warps flowing over them, blurring their precise outlines.

From those cavernous mouths issued a deep, rumbling noise, a mix of snarl and far-off reverberation, like their sounds half-belonged to another realm.

As they inched closer, the atmosphere thickened, and for the first time in this realm, a subtle anxiety rooted itself in Max's core.

"What kind of monsters are these?" Max pondered, yet the words scarcely formed before the beasts attacked.

They charged simultaneously.

Their colossal frames hurtled ahead with horrifying velocity, six legs slamming the earth while their nightmarish wolf jaws gaped, exposing mangled, gnashing teeth craving meat. A putrid, choking presence emanated from them as they neared, aiming to rip him asunder instantly.

Max's eyes iced over.

The next instant, black fire erupted around his form, birthing myriad swords from the blaze, each blazing with fierce, shadowy power. The atmosphere quaked as the ebony flaming blades launched every which way.

The moment the beasts arrived, the swords impaled them.

One by one, the horrors got skewered and pinned down, their gigantic bodies lanced and halted before response.

Then—

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Detonations burst sequentially, rocking the battlefield while the black flaming swords exploded savagely. Every rupture shredded the fiends' bodies, crumbling their twisted shapes into flaming wreckage consumed by dark inferno.

This annihilating force stemmed from the heritage skill Black Flames Explosive Burst, enabling any construct of his black flames to blast with ruinous might.

As haze and debris slowly cleared, quiet reclaimed the field.

All the creatures lay utterly destroyed.

Though numerous, their power merely hit Law Awakening Realm, no match for Max now.

"Devour," Max uttered steadily, eyeing the smoldering corpses.

The dark flames surged fiercer, engulfing the corpses entirely, and in mere moments, no trace of those beasts lingered anywhere.

Right away, Max sensed a change stirring inside his body.

An odd, unknown force awakened from deep within him.

Closing his eyes, he turned his focus inward, scrutinizing the transformation closely. The peculiar energy didn't stay isolated long; it swiftly merged into his Infernal Energy, bolstering it significantly.

Max's eyes flew open.

"Devouring these creatures can actually enhance my Infernal Energy?" he muttered, stunned.

This sensation was entirely new to him.

His Infernal Energy stemmed from the Infernal Demon Tattoo, a force granted by Mark, who had been tainted by the True Origin Devil Blood. Up to this point, that power had stayed unchanged, without any direct means to amplify or purify it.

These creatures had altered that reality.

Through consuming them, his Infernal Energy had grown markedly stronger.

A serious expression crept over Max's face as a fresh idea took shape in his mind.

What kind of beings were these creatures exactly?

"These creatures are connected to the devils," Max determined, his gaze sharpening while his thoughts delved deeper. A bolder concept soon followed. "If that's true, then can I also boost the Infernal Energy in my body by devouring the devil corpses strewn across this battlefield?"

Though Max deeply resented the Infernal Energy residing in him, he couldn't ignore its role as a key pillar of his power. With this newfound way to strengthen it by consuming devil-linked entities, a thrill ignited within him, overriding his hesitations.