Yi Chen was currently in a state where he could no longer distinguish friend from foe. His rational mind was completely sealed off, and everything that appeared before him was treated as an enemy.
The reason he kept chasing Gapp to kill him was simply that, among the three people present, Gapp gave off the greatest sense of threat and was the easiest target to deal with.
Lainey radiated an aura of new life and motherhood. He could even smell something similar to himself on her.
Yi Chen instinctively regarded her as a "friendly" presence, even a "possible mother," and thus excluded her from his list of targets.
William was even stranger in his primal perception.
Whether it was his sense of smell or his perception of killing intent, all he could detect was a black mass, symbolizing something unknown.
To a primal life-form, the unknown was unfriendly, something it was unwilling to approach and even somewhat feared.
It was like a sudden source of fire appearing in a forest. Every wild beast would go around it and leave.
At present,
This unknown thing had suddenly appeared in front of a top-level prey that was about to be successfully hunted. Even though Yi Chen instinctively feared it, he absolutely could not tolerate someone snatching away his prey.
He could sense that although his opponent appeared to be blocking the slash with his hand, he was actually using the "Abyss Interlayer" covering the surface of his glove to stop the attack.
With the blade blocked,
Yi Chen decisively pulled his left hand out from between the Thorn Sword's blades and drove it straight through William's back.
Unexpectedly, a trap that had been set long ago was triggered at that moment.
Back when they had held their meeting in the City of