"I guessed that you could keep producing unexpected powers, but this time, you still exceeded my expectations."
The noseless man with snake eyes seemed completely unable to feel his own injuries. Across the sea surface, it looked toward Shade, who was still healing himself.
"You clearly possess such powerful Doomsday Power yourself, yet you are still stopping me from calling forth the Doomsday. Do you know how great a permanent impact that card you just used had on the world?"
In truth, this time the impact was fairly minor. After all, Mr. Snake's Mystic Lock had blocked the power. Shade had originally assumed that the other party knew about those Calamity Beasts, but it seemed the snake did not know everything either.
Shade had no desire to discuss the matter with it.
"Your current body alone still can't stop me. So what other tricks do you have?"
The snake was completely unaffected by Shade's provocation.
"Our final battle will take place at the mountaintop, not at the dock by the Mountain Foot. Now, it is enough. Yes, enough."
Black smoke continued to rise from the two bloody holes in Shade's left shoulder. Though Moon Fire now enveloped the wounds and First Fire burned away the poison within them, he still felt the left half of his body growing increasingly numb.
Lady White, wrapped around his arm, was already reminding Shade that if he held on a little longer, she could open the passage. Shade was also certain that the snake across from him was in no better condition than he was.
The decision came to him in an instant. Even if he left successfully now, it would only return everything to square one. He had the upper hand for the moment, and he had to keep this incarnation of the