Gluttony hiding in the rear!

["Then give it a try."]

[Bone Baleful glanced at Blood Slaughter and frowned.]

[He raised his hand, sending abnormal aura flying straight toward your face.]

[You did not move.]

[The Peerless War King moved.]

[He raised his right hand, spread his fingers, and seized the pitch-black energy arrow.]

[The energy arrow exploded in his palm, scattering black sparks, but it did not even break the skin of his hand.]

[Bone Baleful's expression changed.]

["A Great Emperor!"]

[Even his voice changed pitch.]

["Where did the human race get a Great Emperor?"]

[The Peerless War King did not look at him.]

[His gaze passed over the city wall and settled on the sleeping figure in the deepest reaches of the fortress.]

["Gluttony."]

[His voice was hoarse and steady, quiet, yet it carried clearly into the depths of the fortress.]

["It's only been a few years since we last met, and now you're hiding in your shell, sending your underlings to their deaths?"]

[Silence.]

[A long silence.]

[Then, in the deepest reaches of the fortress, an immense will began to awaken.]

[That presence was even more terrifying than before.]

[Gluttony had devoured vital essence, and his cultivation had already approached the limits of a Great Emperor.]

[His aura surged out from the depths of the fortress, like a sleeping volcano finally beginning to erupt.]

[The entire fortress trembled. Vast swaths of formation patterns lit up on the city walls, and the eerie markings in the sky suddenly grew much more intense.]

[The earth cracked open.]

[Pitch-black fissures spread in every direction from the fortress.]

[Dense source of the weird poured out of the fissures, devouring the last traces of light in the sky.]

[Then a voice came from the depths of the fortress.]

[Deep, resonant, and languid, like the grumbling of a colossal