The ambushers and the ambushed stared at one another.
Both sides stood there dumbstruck as wooden chickens.
The scene was awkward to an almost absurd degree.
Fortunately, that awkwardness did not last long.
The second wave of Evil Energy Puppet wreckage crashed into the dense forest.
Compared to the three Evil Energy Puppet wrecks that had just self-destructed, there were more of these second-wave "Slaughter Angels," and their grades were higher.
That much could be seen from their gleaming shells, scoured clean by holy light, and the shining magical rune arrays upon them.
The profound and intricate magical rune arrays converted Spiritual Energy into peerless kinetic force.
Magnified again and again through pipes, gears, and bearings, blade after blade trembled more than a thousand times per second, wreathed in luminous mist and trailing magnificent flames. They effortlessly broke the sound barrier, cutting down the towering trees along their path as though harvesting ripe wheat stalks.
A Tiger Man Warrior happened to stand directly in front of four Evil Energy Puppet wrecks.
He was still unable to pull himself free from the shock brought by Holy Light Self-Destruction—or rather, Evil Energy Pollution.
Not only was his brain still slamming back and forth inside his skull at high speed, making him so dizzy that he wanted to vomit up even his internal organs.
Even the surface of his Totem Armor had been blasted into layer upon layer of ripples by the holy light shockwave, like a storm-tossed sea frozen solid in an instant.
That made his reaction half a beat too slow.
He was surrounded by four higher-grade Evil Energy Puppet wrecks.
Blades wreathed in holy light pierced his deactivated Totem Armor.
Like red-hot iron crowbars driven deep into ice.
A shrill, piercing hiss immediately rang in everyone's ears.
Thick smoke billowed