Jeppe stared at the cloud flying toward him, shocked and furious. "Why did it get here so fast? How did it pinpoint us so accurately?!"
All along, the Demon God side had believed that they had kept the Greater Grail in one place for too long, allowing the Lion King of this world to discover where the leyline mana was being siphoned and strike their exact location.
Later, Lev and Jeppe constantly shortened their stays and accelerated their relocations. After trying several times, they discovered that they had already moved the Greater Grail, yet the Lion King's Holy Lance strike would land on their previous location.
Only after confirming this repeatedly did Lev leave Jeppe to carry out his own operations. Jeppe, too, carefully remembered the relocation timing they had tested, lest he truly fail to escape the Lion King's attack in time.
And this time, he had left himself a full three days of safety margin!
Jeppe could not make sense of it for the moment, but he knew that if he did not fight back, he would die. He immediately reverted to his Demon God Pillar form.
The massive, twisted Demon God Pillar Jeppe had a black body covered in red stripes. Countless crimson eyes, their pupils black crosses, covered his form. All of them fixed tightly on the cloud flying through the sky as scarlet light began gathering within every eye.
Crimson cross-shaped light blossomed across the ground, and over a dozen beams several meters thick shot into the sky.
In the sky, Semiramis sneered disdainfully. More than a dozen slabs from the Floating Garden, already standing by, fired even larger beams downward. The purple beams scattered the clouds and instantly slammed into the scarlet ones.
The cluster of scarlet beams was steadily forced downward by the