Petrification Power

The light from the demigod-level lightning gradually faded, and a strange, scorched stench spread across the clearing.

Through her nearly blinded Dark Vision, Angel saw that the Feathered Serpent's enormous body no longer stood upright. Instead, it slumped limply over its coiled tail. Black liquid slowly trickled from the huge mouth that had once flicked out its forked tongue—poisoned blood infected with the plague, which had begun taking effect and destroying the Feathered Serpent's internal organs.

As for the thick wings spread to their widest extent on its back, the searing lightning had burned away all their white feathers. Only gaunt frameworks of bone remained, draped over its coiled body.

Had this demigod-level Feathered Serpent died just like that, caught between "Disease" and Lightning Storm?

Angel could hardly believe it. She activated Spirit Vision and saw the faint glow on the Feathered Serpent's enormous body slowly gathering together. The "Zombies" around it, which had revived several times, also collapsed one after another under a fresh wave of disease. Only then did she cautiously approach, stepping into the foundations of the unfinished palace and coming up beside the Feathered Serpent's corpse.

"It has no spirit body threads."

Having unleashed a demigod's ability, Klein put away the precious Leimano's Travel Notes and retrieved the two Copper Whistles. Following closely behind Angel, he suddenly spoke.

Did that mean this Feathered Serpent had already been dead, and some power had reawakened it?

Hearing Klein's words, Angel began analyzing the battle they had just fought.

She could sense Death's power within the Feathered Serpent. This resonance between divinities was difficult to fake. Even if it had not been a demigod, it must have possessed some form of demigod-level power, such as a Mystical Item, a Beyonder characteristic, or some kind of boon...

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