At this moment, with the "fall" of the Illusory Sun Void Mother, even Yulan and the Great Abyss, who had wanted to keep fighting, had no choice but to stop.
Saying they stared at the Void Mother's corpse in utter astonishment was not entirely accurate. Yulan was deeply calculating; even seeing an old rival of several decades die on the spot did not stir much emotion in him. The Lord of the Great Abyss was not human, so no expression could be read from it, but its psychic fluctuations churned without rest, clearly finding this utterly unbelievable.
I couldn't beat one of them alone. How was I supposed to fight two against two?
It clearly knew that its Fairy friend would not step in to help. And there was no coordination whatsoever between it and Yulan—if, when Yulan had launched his attack, it had charged at the Floating Mountain, Ian would clearly have been in far more trouble. At the very least, he could not have fought on three fronts and counterattacked at the same time; he could only have defended passively.
But now, Mahdi's "junior brother," the other founder of the Arcane Path, Count Silverpeak, had also arrived.
The coordination between those martial brothers was plain to see from how they had directly cut down the Void Mother just now. It was nothing short of exquisite. Three against one had already been so difficult before; now that it was two against two, the Lord of the Great Abyss had begun wondering how it ought to word its surrender.
Hurry up. You're human, so you surrender first. Then I'll have a way to save face.
Thinking this, the Lord of the Great Abyss glanced sideways at Yulan. In its view, contradictions between humans were ultimately internal conflicts. It should have