Lily squatted on the ground, curiously poking the white wall of the Poseidon Temple with that alloy super-super-super greatsword. As she poked, she muttered, "Landlord, do you think the people inside know you're tearing down their wall?"
Hao Ren pressed one hand against the magical barrier and said, "We've torn it down sixty or seventy times already, and there's still been no reaction from inside. They probably don't know."
Heiserana stood nearby with her arms folded, watching coldly. "I keep feeling like the two of you have already forgotten why we're here..."
The three troublemakers eagerly dismantled someone else's wall over here—well, Heiserana wasn't exactly eager, but those details weren't important—and at last, Hao Ren sensed an unnatural pause in the barrier's regeneration. After he destroyed it once more, the magical shield reappeared noticeably more slowly than before, by about half a second.
"Looks like its reserves are finally almost depleted." Hao Ren let out a long breath at the sight. "Two or three more times at most, and we'll be done."
Lily jumped for joy. "The Landlord is super awesome, woof!!"
The Husky Girl had gotten so excited that even her dialect had slipped out.
However, at that moment, a group of rapidly approaching energy signatures suddenly appeared in Hao Ren's mental perception—several of them were quite powerful!
Before he could warn them, Lily and Heiserana had already taken up positions on either side of him, ready for battle. Hao Ren quickly took a sign he had prepared in advance from his personal storage space and planted it in the ground. Written on it in ancient Greek was a single large line: "Don't get excited—we're on the same side!"
Before long, the news reached the upper hall. The astonishing report made even Athena rise from her chair. "What