Zong Shen held the temporarily unconscious Annie Pendragon around the waist.
Her delicate body stood in stark contrast to King Arthur's majestic voice from moments ago.
The towering Wasteland King and Imperial Swamp Crab stood silently in the open ground behind him.
From afar, it looked as though two skyscrapers had risen behind Zong Shen.
Whether rubble or piles of corpses, everything seemed tiny before them.
Both of them exuded a savage, violent aura from head to toe.
The great crab in particular had a carapace covered not only in thick moss, but also in spikes of all sizes.
Up close, it looked even more ferocious and terrifying.
The Wasteland King Seth, on the other hand, at least had a standard humanoid form.
He was merely an oversized giant, nothing particularly remarkable.
At the very least, he was easier to accept than the gigantic swamp crab.
King Arthur's advice to him had been to watch and wait, hinting that further changes would follow.
There was a good chance it would draw the Lord System's attention.
As King Arthur's will lay dormant, the spatial rift flickered with a ghostly green chill.
It resembled a gate to hell.
And the place it connected to truly was like the netherworld.
After all, the Demon Abyss Prison was originally one of the layers of the Demon Abyss.
Naturally, it was no good place by the standards of the outside world.
Zong Shen did nothing, simply waiting quietly.
Ekmelading, who was in the Second Ring Layer, had long since been dumbfounded.
From the Wasteland King emerging to the appearance of the Imperial Swamp Crab and Golden Lion, his heart had been filled with shock.
The subsequent appearance of the Golden Lion Knight Ophirok left Ekmelading unable to recover his senses for a long while.
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