Everyone Is A Lord: My Talent Is A Little Too Strong Chapter 2696: 1481: Moving Forward (Part 2)

A sudden black gleam from the ground engulfed the group's illumination spheres, plunging them into absolute darkness that nullified even night vision and caused their golem puppets to shatter and collapse. The pink-hooded figure ignited Eternal Lanterns from the Light Elves, revealing black patterns on the floor—a dark forbidden formation that rejected all summoning magic. As the group pressed forward, spatial forces tore them apart, but the hooded figure swiftly countered with a contracting grey magic circle to reunite them, though it left him coughing up blood from the strain.