It was a pair of astonishingly loud bangs, less than half a second apart.
Gelman first sprang up from the sea of blood, sending crimson waves rolling, then suddenly appeared above the Painful Bloodthirsty Apostle and drew Tachi: Senkage.
"Tachi: Senkage—Drawing Slash!"
Clang—
A blood-red arc like a hook flashed by, severing the Painful Bloodthirsty Apostle's thickest roots one after another!
Pfft, pfft, pfft—
The thick roots fell into the sea of blood, writhing like dying eels and sending ripples across the surface.
The Painful Bloodthirsty Apostle let out a mournful cry and lost its ability to float. Its mountain-sized body plunged downward!
Boom—
It was like a terrifyingly powerful bomb had gone off in the sea of blood. Dark-red, murky waves surged more than ten meters high and splashed straight onto the tower.
But the next instant, before the blood waves could touch the tower's bricks, some invisible barrier stopped them and sent them falling back into the sea.
Everyone inside the tower was stunned, staring at the scene in disbelief. They were astonished both by the tower and by Gelman.
Whichever it was, the Painful Bloodthirsty Apostle was the victim at that moment.
Only then, as if sensing the start of the battle, did the enormous Mist Wall surrounding the sea of blood slowly rise.
The Painful Bloodthirsty Apostle thrashed in the sea of blood, then quickly raised its head. It bared the densely packed, sharp teeth in its mouthparts, looking as hideous and striking as a lamprey.
It had no eyes in the conventional sense, but it could "see" farther and more clearly, because what it saw was the essence of Nen Energy.
Besides that, it was a highly intelligent creature with a memory.
It quickly remembered who the man before it was...
This human was one