In the vision of Iver's right eye, countless white motes of light emerged above Cardinal Loki's corpse, surging toward Iver like a rushing river.
Killing a Fifth Level Transcendent, obtained 1,500 Free Experience
A long-absent experience notification appeared before Iver's eyes, proving that Cardinal Loki really was dead.
It had been a long time since he had personally killed anyone after taking the position of Minister of Everything.
But...
Wasn't this experience a little too low?
A trace of doubt rose in Iver's heart.
Giant Prince Wolfram had given him two thousand experience. As the former leader of Supreme Heaven, Cardinal Loki's level should have been much higher than his.
...But if he hadn't died, that seemed unlikely too.
So far, no one whose experience had been harvested by Iver had ever survived.
Still, Iver felt that Cardinal Loki's death couldn't be that simple.
Because Loki had clearly seen him at the end, yet hadn't attacked him—even if his attack might not have killed Iver, given Viennes's personality, she would certainly have defended him. At that point, Loki might have had a chance to counterattack or escape...
Yet he had chosen to use a Self-Destruct with an extremely long windup.
Wasn't that just waiting to be interrupted?
Moreover, he had said it himself... He wanted to skip the battle because he couldn't defeat Iver. That meant he at least knew about Viennes, a Sixth Level being.
Iver had assumed that Loki dared to start a battle because he would bring out the "Perfected One" as well—if the Perfected One was a Dual Path Sixth Level being, then he would be an enemy even the Eternal Pope would have to fight until drenched in sweat. In that instance, it had basically been the Eternal Pope and the Perfected One bombarding each