"Damn it, it's all that stupid bitch Elodie's fault!" Slan tore his gaze away from the mist, raised his head to look at He Ao, and roared furiously. "If she hadn't been so stupid and let you kill her so easily, she could have used the divine summoning technique to summon the Desire Witch's power and work with me, work with my master—we would have killed you long ago."
He Ao lowered his head and glanced at him, waiting quietly.
Suddenly, deep within the mist in the sky, an orange radiance flickered and surged into the very center of the mist.
The Underworld mist blanketing the sky began to tremble violently as well.
Slan's expression changed slightly. "How? Why is the Underworld's power decreasing?"
Because Eternal Light had raided its home.
The Eternal Divine Kingdom itself still retained Eternal Light's power. With God of Death and Good Friend causing such a huge commotion, There was no way It had failed to notice.
Yet It had not acted all this time. Clearly, It had been waiting for an opportunity.
The portions of the Underworld It had stolen last time apparently had not fully satisfied Its needs, so It had come again.
And It had chosen precisely the critical moment when God of Death and Good Friend were fighting, seizing the chance to invade the Underworld through Visen's ritual.
Good Friend had most likely lent Eternal Light a hand in this process. Otherwise, Eternal Light could not have smuggled Its power over from the Eternal Divine Kingdom so easily.
Of course, God of Death seemed to have guarded against Eternal Light as well, so Eternal Light's invasion had not gone smoothly this time. But it had still held back the power spreading over from the Underworld.
The power originally allocated to Slan