Alili's Transformation

Suddenly, Chiba had a thought and asked, "Tianna, who leaked the information about the magic crystal to you?"

"Um?"

Tianna pondered for a moment upon hearing this, then asked, "One of my brother's scouts? What's wrong with him?"

"Didn't you notice that the Throne of Water, Kruse, was deliberately waiting for us? And we haven't seen a single trace of magic crystal yet." Chiba frowned and said, "They're trying to lure you here so they can kill you."

Tianna remained calm. She had witnessed far more killing and death than Chiba. She merely furrowed her brows slightly and asked, "Is my existence a threat to them?"

Chiba was now sitting on the ground, the Seven Star Seal had re-entered the sealed state, and a feeling of exhaustion welled up in his heart.

Tianna quickly bent down to support him, her pretty face showing concern. "What's wrong? Are you alright?"

Chiba shook his head and forced a smile, "It's just that I overused my power, it's nothing serious."

He then changed the subject, saying, "What if they want to capture you alive and use you to threaten your brother?"

"That's impossible..."

Tianna smiled and shrugged, saying, "My brother is the kind of person who would do anything for the greater good. Even if I were captured alive, he wouldn't care about me. On the battlefield, we're just superior and subordinate. If necessary, he'll definitely abandon me. And... I won't allow myself to become his weakness..."

She spoke her last sentence very softly, so softly that only she could hear it.

Chiba fell silent. He suddenly felt the topic was getting a bit heavy, so he changed the subject, saying, "Shall we take one puppet back to study it, and destroy all the others?"

Tianna nodded, then stood up, forming a magic circle in her hand, preparing to destroy all the puppets.

"Even if they're just experimental subjects, I'd be in a lot of trouble if they got destroyed, little girl..."

A hoarse male voice reached their ears, followed by a distorted sound in the snow, and then a tall, burly man in gray stepped out.

A broadsword hung at his waist, his right hand resting on the hilt, his left hand wrapped in a snow-white bandage. A face that should have been filled with ferocity now wore a calm and serene smile, but a long scar under his eye resembled a coiled centipede, sending chills down one's spine.

Chiba froze, murmuring softly, "Alili..."

That's right, the man in front of you is none other than Alili, who has many grudges and entanglements with Chiba!

Since his defeat by Chiba, Alili has been completely out of the public eye. He didn't even show up during the Flames of Life and Death incident.

The only information Chiba knew about him was that he had joined the Shadow Skull.

Finally, in this war concerning the survival of Shadow Skull, has he reappeared?

However, the man before them had undergone a complete transformation compared to before.

Tianna looked wary and stopped what she was doing, but her magic became even more frenzied.

The man in front of her gave her a great sense of pressure.

Alili looked at Chiba sitting on the ground, his faint smile fading, and a complex expression appearing in his eyes.

"Haven't seen you for a long time."

His tone was calm, not cold, as if he were genuinely catching up with a friend.

Chiba frowned but did not answer. He didn't know what Alili wanted to do, but his intuition told him that Alili was stronger than before.

Seeing that Chiba didn't answer him, Alili wasn't annoyed. He smiled slightly, looked at Tianna, and said loudly, "Little girl over there, that's enough. I advise you not to touch these puppets, or you'll get yourself into trouble."

Tianna's beautiful eyes narrowed slightly, but the magic in her hands was about to burst forth.

"Tianna, stop! You're no match for him!" Chiba shouted urgently as he saw Alili about to draw his broadsword.

"Whoosh!"

But in that instant, a flash of light appeared. In the blink of an eye, Alili appeared before Tianna with both hands gripping the knife, its blade gleaming coldly.

He only needs to press the knife down, and Tianna will be cleaved in two from top to bottom.

It was too fast, so fast that even with Chiba's Sharingan activated at full power, he could only make out a little bit.

"This is the difference between you and me, do you understand?" Alili said calmly.

After saying this, he turned around and walked to the corpse of Kruse, which Chiba had thrown down, and pulled something out of the body. Then, the nearly three hundred puppets suddenly started moving at the same time, following his movements.

"By the way," Alili suddenly stopped and said, "The battle just now was exciting. But if that's all there is to it, you're still just an ant in the face of real war."

After he finished speaking, he led the puppets to the other side of the canyon, where the puppets had come from.

Chiba stared blankly as he left with the puppets, remaining silent for a long time.

Tianna gritted her teeth, a complex light flickering in her eyes.

Underground space.

Many people believe that Dragon Corpse Valley untouched by living beings, but in reality, it has long been the territory of the Shadow Skull. They built their base underground and established the Sword of Slaughter Guild, where they conducted unknown experiments.

Alili walked in step by step from the outside. The staff along the way all bowed and greeted him. Before long, he arrived at the central control room.

Before him stood a tall woman. She wore a black uniform and a black stockings skirt, exuding allure. Her shapely, long legs were crossed, and she only looked away from the virtual screen after noticing someone approaching.

The woman's beauty wasn't exceptional, but she was still one in a million. However, her captivating face, which didn't need to be deliberately alluring, was exceptionally striking. Her enchanting, shimmering eyes seemed to penetrate straight into the hearts of others, revealing everything about those who were looked at.

"You actually let that kid go? That's so unlike you. I thought you were risking your life for revenge, but now it seems that's not the case." The woman said with an extremely alluring smile.

Alili seemed to ignore her beauty, sitting down in a chair to the side and saying casually, "You seem to be particularly concerned about my affairs lately."

"Hmm~"

The woman's beautiful smile deepened. She stood up, her shapely, slender legs carrying her to Alili's side. She bowed slightly, extended her long, slender, snow-white fingers, and traced them across Alili's chest. Then, her cherry lips approached Alili's ear, and she whispered sweet nothings.

"Those throne-holding beings are particularly eager to possess me, and you... don't you even have that thought?"

Alili said calmly, "So that idiot Kruse is dead, and that idiot Rina is dead too, all because of one sentence you said... [That kid's quite interesting, want to catch him and play with him?]"

"That's not my fault. I never asked them to capture that kid..." the woman said. "I have many interests, but not everything I'm interested in can be obtained, like you..."