As the portal closed and Baphomet retreated, the standoff between Thorm and the hell lord Baphomet over Ulder Ravengard finally came to an end. The tormented Grand Duke of Baldur's Gate no longer let out pained screams, but lay where he was with his eyes closed, drenched in sweat.
"Y-You, what exactly is this..." Seltun stammered, wanting to say something, but after staring for a while at Aoko Aozaki, whose halo flickered above her head, the tiger demon was stunned. She actually said it was good? But then she sneered. It was nothing more than empty bravado. She wanted to see what they could use to turn defeat into victory, the tiger demon thought.
Corpses lay everywhere, their bodies melted into incomplete remnants by the spherical flashes unleashed from the energy blasts. There were half-orc soldiers, tyrannosaurs, drakes, war elephants, and camel-horses. Some of the round, vitrified shallow craters had become nothing but pools of blood.
"One or two of you, none of you are any help. You've truly disgraced this old man! Hmph!" Marquis Yongping said, flicking his sleeves before storming off in anger.
After instructing Black Thread to keep watch, Bai Yi took out the crystal core of the peak Level One zombie she had dug up from the monitoring room.
Xingchen obediently closed her star-bright eyes, but her trembling lashes and faintly flushed cheeks still betrayed her feelings.
Liu Tianxiong could almost imagine the gruesome scene of death. He shook his head helplessly, feeling it was a pity. The man who had fought him for decades had actually died just like that—and in such an ugly manner.
Thus, Su Yi's mixture of truth and lies actually fooled Yuan Qiulan. Yuan Qiulan probably still believed she had completed her task perfectly and was still laughing now.
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