I created the Bureau of Anomaly Control

As the golden monster appeared in front of the black shadow, the sharp claws he held, aimed at the black shadow's head, simultaneously and frantically elongated, almost instantly piercing the black shadow's eye sockets and stabbing into his brain.

The black shadow didn't dodge at all.

The sharp claws seemed to directly "sink" into the black shadow's body.

But Gu Lan's expression became extremely serious, because those claws reaching towards the black shadow didn't actually pierce his body, but turned into dust the moment they touched its surface.

And what was even more terrifying was that this power not only destroyed all the claws about to touch the black shadow, but also spread along the point of contact towards Gu Lan's entire body.

This power seemed to only affect monsters, instantly devouring Gu Lan's palm, but what was exposed at the severed wrist was not flesh and blood, but a golden texture similar to skin.

It was as if Gu Lan's entire body was really made of this soft gold.

Looking at his palm being ground into powder, Gu Lan reacted without hesitation. With a faint sound, his entire right shoulder detached directly, abandoning his right arm like a gecko.

Almost at the same time his arm broke, that power corroded the entire golden arm along the break at the wrist. If Gu Lan had been even a little slower in severing his arm...

...then his entire body would have been corroded.

Seeing this, Gu Lan didn't continue to engage in close combat.

If his claws could have successfully pierced the black shadow's body just now, he could have used the contact to directly turn this black shadow into "gold," and this wasn't some kind of metaphor.

He could turn any creature he touched into real gold.

Now he had to use other attack methods.

Gu Lan flew back half a meter, hovering in front of the black shadow like a hummingbird.

Even if the black shadow tried to approach him, he could maintain a constant distance from his opponent. The distance between them had been locked by Gu Lan's power. Ordinary movement couldn't break this move.

Then he opened his mouth, revealing two rows of neat, ivory-white teeth, attempting to use some terrible move that Alice had imagined to deal with the black shadow in front of him.

But before his teeth could close, he felt a tingling sensation all over his body.

That terrifying corrosive power descended from behind him.

Instantly, Gu Lan realized a dangerous fact: the black shadow's corrosion wasn't just caused by contact. In fact, he could cause this attack from a distance.

The black shadow was just deliberately misleading him, while also testing whether he could withstand this attack.

While his thoughts were flowing, Gu Lan's surface had been completely corroded, and similar to the break at his wrist, the exposed inside of his body had no organs or flesh.

It was all soft "gold."

Although Gu Lan's body was already disintegrating, the corrosive power had already covered his entire body from the very beginning, and completely devoured him in a short moment.

But Gu Lan's eyes showed no fear as he looked at the black shadow.

A few seconds after he completely dissolved, the space not far in front of the black shadow flickered a few times, and then reality seemed to have the middle part clipped out, as the golden figure appeared there extremely abruptly.

"Very powerful move. My body can withstand almost all damage. I'm really a little curious how you can destroy it so efficiently, but that's not important."

The resurrected Gu Lan wore a confident smile:

"In Alice's imagination, the most terrifying monsters can't truly be killed. True terror is that you can never defeat or escape them. I am her eternal nightmare."

"Instead of trying to kill me, I recommend you try killing Alice."

But the black shadow seemed unable to understand his words, and raised his hand at him without hesitation.

This made Gu Lan a little disappointed. The other side seemed to be some kind of defensive mechanism that couldn't understand language. In fact, the weakness he had deliberately exposed might really be believed by the other side.

After all, whether he said these words or not, it was easy to deduce this conclusion, so his opponent would probably think he was bluffing and really go deal with the source of his power.

And if anyone really attacked Alice, then there would be a good show to watch.

Intimidation of Alice would be like squeezing a sponge, squeezing out power that he originally couldn't squeeze out.

Normally, it would waste a lot of energy for him to convert Alice's "magic" into himself, but if his opponent took the initiative to attack Alice, then he could fully utilize her power.

But it wasn't a bad thing for him if his opponent didn't care about Alice.

After all, this way he could be reborn almost endlessly.

Although death didn't come without any cost to him, the number of times he could die was enough to solve the black shadow and Ma En and the others in front of him.

This time, the golden figure kept a distance of several tens of meters from the black shadow, and then remained relatively still with the black shadow like a hummingbird. This time, he didn't immediately feel that kind of attack.

Then, the black shadow quickly tried to approach him, but no matter how terrifyingly fast he moved, Gu Lan remained extremely stable at a distance of fifty meters from him.

This action also allowed Gu Lan to immediately confirm his conclusion.

Although that move couldn't only attack through contact, it must be stronger the closer it was to the black shadow.

Because he clearly felt that there was a difference in the speed of the black shadow's two attacks. The second attack killed him only because the attack came from all directions.

This showed that close range did indeed enhance this destructive power.

And this terrifying destructive power couldn't appear at any distance.

After drawing this conclusion, Gu Lan also knew very well what he should do.

He raised his right hand horizontally in front of his eyes and compared it to the black shadow, to ensure that in his eyes, the black shadow was now half-enclosed in his palm...

Seeing that he was preparing to attack, the black shadow of course dodged and began to retreat at an extremely high speed, but Gu Lan still hovered very calmly fifty meters in front of the black shadow, just like before.

He clenched his hand, and the black shadow really couldn't escape like a bug in his hand. Then space and reality were folded in his hand at the same time, about to completely pinch the black shadow into a piece of paper.

But at the moment Gu Lan shook hands, the originally white walls of the Control Bureau instantly turned transparent.

Then the scorching sunlight shone into the room, and at the same time...

Gu Lan felt like he was holding the sun.

His folding of space was instantly shattered, and some kind of more elegant curvature replaced the folding that had originally formed in his palm. At the same time, a mass that was difficult for humans to understand also appeared in his hand.

Gu Lan was instantly crushed into powder by the terrifying gravity...

...but quickly resurrected a few hundred meters away.

"Serraon?" he said in surprise.

Wasn't this ancient god already sealed? Could this black shadow be the Sun God? Did Mason make its corpse into some kind of Control Bureau defense measure?

Looking at the dazzling figure in front of him, Gu Lan was very sure that this was that terrifying god.

He had fought Serraon in his current state before. At least in his normal state, he couldn't defeat that terrifying god. Serraon not only had overwhelming power in the Southern Federation, but also had all kinds of dangerous magic and technology from distant eras.

And the aura exuded by this figure at this time...

...was even more dangerous than the Serraon he had ever seen.

This made Gu Lan even more suspicious that the person in front of him was Serraon himself. After all, even if Ma En could make its corpse into some kind of protection mechanism, it couldn't be stronger than Serraon himself.

And now this figure was more like Serraon than Serraon.

Could this really be that god, and he had never revealed his full power before? Was being killed by Ma En just a play he put on with Ma En?

Realizing the seriousness of the situation, Gu Lan knew that he couldn't win with his normal state. Even many of his stronger forms weren't suitable for fighting this powerful god.

Now Serraon even had the assistance of the Control Bureau.

It seemed he had to use his second strongest state.

This was also the strongest form he could barely maintain control over.

In Alice's subconscious, there was always a creature even more terrifying than the most terrifying monster. That was the most important hope that allowed her to survive until now. It made Alice realize that in front of some things, even nightmare-like monsters could be completely defeated.

That was the Divine Firmament that suppressed the uncontrolled incident that day.

Not the real Divine Firmament, but the Divine Firmament in Alice's imagination. There was a huge gap between this power and the real Divine Firmament. Many of its abilities were even absent in the Divine Firmament, but it was equally invincible.

Gu Lan loosened his shoulders, and then the golden shell on his body began to fall off.

A body that blurred male and female characteristics was revealed.

"Serraon is very strong," Gu Lan said with a smile, "but in a child's imagination, there are things far more terrifying than the so-called Sun God..."

Suddenly, his smile froze.

Because he realized what was happening.

"No, that's not right," Gu Lan's eyes widened, and fear appeared in his eyes as he looked at the black shadow, but what he really feared wasn't the figure standing there. "I let Ma En go, now move quickly!"

But the black shadow was still like a statue that didn't understand human language, and didn't respond to his words.

Seeing this scene, Gu Lan, who had always been calm and composed, finally became flustered and fearful:

"Hurry up! Find a way to block it, otherwise things will become troub..."

His voice disappeared.

"...I'll borrow your body temporarily. I won't do anything to you. This is equally troublesome for me, and you're not my target."

A female voice replaced him.

The Divine Firmament incarnation looked down at the black shadow with disdain, and showed a confident smile:

"Did you think fate was so easy to transcend? Indeed, this isn't the most likely scenario in my predictions, but fate was completely determined a long time ago. I am more vast than you imagine."

"You will never escape from my palm."

The black shadow still didn't react like a lifeless statue.

Just on his back...

The sun set,

Darkness descended.