Unleashing the Ultimate Move

Mortus seemed to have run out of patience as well. He swung his scythe backward at Black Bear.

Just as Black Bear was about to pounce and bite his arm, the handle smashed brutally into its head, sending its massive body rolling aside.

Then, the curved blade slashed across its shoulder and back.

Splurt!

Blood sprayed everywhere.

A vicious wound tore from Black Bear's shoulder all the way across its back, nearly deep enough to expose bone.

Black Bear let out a pained growl and crashed heavily to the ground.

Ling Chu instinctively turned around, only to see Mortus taking the chance to raise his scythe.

Ling Chu immediately held the Blade of White Bones horizontally, while Smiley's threads wrapped around the scythe's handle from the side.

Ling Chu was knocked back several steps by the impact, and bloody marks were carved into all ten of Smiley's fingers by the immense pulling force.

Yet neither of them let go.

"Don't rush!"

Ling Chu shouted at Plucking Flowers and Seeking Willows.

"Make sure you aim before firing! He isn't as invincible as you think!"

Plucking Flowers and Seeking Willows froze.

While dodging the scythe, Ling Chu spoke rapidly. "People can die in a Public Challenge, but it would never be designed to be completely unsolvable!"

"If he could truly use his full divine power here, we would have died eight hundred times over on the first day we entered. Why would there be all these messy rules involving Soulstones, Treasure Chests, and evacuation points?"

Mortus's gaze darkened, but Ling Chu became increasingly certain as she spoke.

She had long suspected that beings like the Death God were clearly immensely powerful, yet had to bestow divine gifts through statues and rely on believers to slaughter people in the human world. That meant