"I curse you!"
That was the last thing Gu Xi heard.
By the time Gu Xi reacted and looked over again, all he could see was a pile of fragments.
This time, Death String had truly gone all out, slicing every piece of Orange Equipment on the Octopus Head leader to pieces.
Who knew whether the Red Equipment Guard—blacksmith could piece these pieces of Orange Equipment back together again.
As that thought muttered through his mind, Gu Xi activated Calamitous Flood Dragon Aura, and the curse the Octopus Head leader had released before death was swallowed by the aura at once.
Gu Xi himself, meanwhile, moved as if he had returned home, familiarly grabbing a stone box from nearby that was almost covered in cobwebs.
The instant he opened the stone box, he could see a thick layer of lead plates inside, with mercury poured between them.
Gu Xi had seen this stone box many times in the history of the Octopus Heads. It was used to temporarily seal away the Eye of Concealment after the previous Octopus Head died.
Only after the new Octopus Head leader completed his inauguration ceremony would he take the Eye of Concealment from this box and take control of this piece of Red Equipment.
However, an ordinary Octopus Head leader would merely have heard the previous leader describe it and know such a thing existed. He was not like Gu Xi, who had seen it with his own eyes several times and had long since become familiar with all of this.
He picked up the stone box and pressed it toward the Eye of Concealment that had fallen to the ground. With one lift of his hand and one snap of the lid, he put the Eye of Concealment away.
Now was not the