"This... this is..."
Seeing Dirigee reappear, the Three Sword Saints nearly bulged their eyes in disbelief. "How is this possible?!"
In fact, it was not just the Three Sword Saints. Fang Mo had not completely wiped out the adventurers over there, so several adventurers and Elise hurried over as well. When they saw Dirigee, they were so shocked that they froze on the spot.
"No! Impossible!"
It was Elise who spoke. She looked completely flustered. "He was clearly crushed to pieces by the dimensional rift..."
Honestly, it was not just the adventurers.
Even Dirigee himself was utterly bewildered.
"I..."
Dirigee looked blankly around him. He remembered being surrounded and attacked by a large group of adventurers, then shoved into a dimensional rift and ground into pieces. That had to mean he was dead, so why was he standing here intact again?
However, before Dirigee could figure anything out,
he suddenly noticed a figure walking straight toward him. Then, the person abruptly opened his arms and gave him a huge hug.
And to top it off,
the other person buried his nose deeply into Dirigee's back and took a hard sniff, like he was huffing a cat.
"???"
Dirigee was genuinely dumbfounded.
And it was not only him. The Three Sword Saints, the adventurers, and Elise were all stunned by what they saw.
As everyone knew, Dirigee, the Sixth Apostle of the Demon Realm, was the source of all disease. He was made up of countless terrifying pathogens and could reduce the cells of any living thing to dust.
When the adventurer corps had set out to subjugate Dirigee a few days ago, their boots had begun melting the moment they stepped into the territory of the Village of Pain. That showed just how potent his poison was.
If not for