Hobart, who was in pursuit, suddenly sensed something. He entered the Country of Disorder again and used True Sight to inspect the current battle, only to discover that the enemy demigods who had fled had returned.
He immediately understood their intentions. Since the Ancient Death God's corpse, which had given them such a headache, had vanished, they had surely returned to cover the retreat of their subordinates—or rather, their descendants.
An Despair Witch and an Ageless Witch had arrived at Klein and Sharon's battlefield.
Several enemy demigods had also appeared at Bernadette's battlefield, as well as Lawrence's.
Hobart smiled. If those demigods had simply fled, the Witch Sect would at most have suffered devastating losses among forces below the demigod level. Now that they had returned, they had given Hobart an excellent opportunity to cripple their demigod forces.
Thus, following the previous plan, Hobart released the Bull Demon King, the Black Hound Spirit Beast, and the Overturning Sea Great Saint into the real world.
Leading them, Hobart arrived at Klein and Sharon's battlefield.
Klein, who was using marionettes to evade the Ageless Witch's petrification effects, saw the three black figures behind Hobart.
One was pitch-black all over, with a bull's head and deer antlers. One was enormous, with hard yet illusory scales. The last had a human body covered in thick black fur and did not dare meet the enemy's gaze—it was the Saint who had once been trapped in Mist Town.
Hobart used Distortion to arrive at the battlefield. "Alteration!"
The Despair Witch, who had been surrounded by Sharon and the others, had long since abandoned any thought of rescue when she saw the situation turn unfavorable. Through a mirror formed from a drop of blood, she hid in the Mirror World.
Meanwhile, the figures of Sharon and the