The severely wounded Phoenix, unable to recover, let his guard down for an instant.
Platinum Sperm took the opportunity to viciously stab him in the back, blowing his head apart on the spot.
Yet it seemed this had not been a spur-of-the-moment decision. Had he been eyeing Phoenix for a long time already?
"Come out, now!"
Platinum Sperm suddenly spoke to the empty surroundings.
As soon as he finished speaking, dozens of Black Sperm burst from the ground and surrounded Phoenix's enormous corpse.
"Eat him and split into more of us. I need to fuse into an even stronger power!"
"But shouldn't you already be at your limit?"
One of the Black Sperm looked at him hesitantly. Platinum Sperm replied coldly:
"No. I can feel that I haven't reached my limit. The proof is that you still exist, and you can still split."
"I want to become the one and only me. That will be the true limit—the real me!"
Another Black Sperm frowned. "If that's true, then if you get killed, won't you disappear completely?"
"That's right, but by then, I'll definitely be unimaginably strong. I won't die that easily."
Platinum Sperm planted his hands on his hips confidently, then urged them on.
"Enough nonsense. Eat him already. I'm the main consciousness, so you have to listen to me!"
The Black Sperm exchanged looks, then could only reluctantly pounce on Phoenix's still-warm corpse and tear into it with huge bites.
With every bite, more than a dozen, even dozens, of Black Sperm split off automatically.
In just a few seconds, they had become a dense mass, completely obscuring Phoenix from view.
Then there was Natural Water.
Something was strange. Hadn't it been underground, even deeper than the Monster Association headquarters?
Why had it suddenly appeared here and merged with