The Authority Held by the King of the Underworld

"Especially you!"

As Xiao raised his arms high and roared, the raging sea of fire beneath the freighter instantly swept toward Yekaterina.

Rumble!

A violent explosion erupted beneath the Dwarf.

Amid the muffled roar, the graceful figure with fiery red waves leaned forward and pushed off on her toes. Rather than retreating, Yekaterina charged ahead, drawing her iron whip and lashing it fiercely at the black figure standing within the flames.

Crack—

Xiao did not dodge the whip.

The iron whip struck the man's body and produced a strange, muffled thud!

Yekaterina frowned.

The man's body was like a rotting lump of "mud"... The blow had sent flesh and blood flying, yet the "mental presence" around him had not weakened in the slightest.

"Some kind of special 'ability'..."

There was no time for further thought.

The surging sea of flames swallowed her whole.

The iron whip swept back. In the woman's hand, it let out a shriek sharp enough to pierce the eardrums. Yekaterina spun the whip, using her body as the center and the whip as the radius, sketching out a flawless circle!

Rhine City's "Rose of Wind" charged through the flames with ferocious force.

The moment they clashed, she sensed that her opponent was not particularly strong, roughly in the same realm as her... Against someone of the same rank, she had nothing to fear!

Meanwhile, Xiao, who had previously been so arrogant and poised to attack, saw Yekaterina charging toward him. He withdrew the flames, smiled faintly, and retreated toward the cargo hold beneath the Dwarf.

Bang!

This shipment from the Southern Continent was extremely mysterious. Even Yekaterina, who had been assigned to guard it, did not know what exactly the Dwarf's lower cargo hold contained... It was only after she smashed through the deck and burst