Ian Tucker, whom Professor Sylph had just mentioned, suddenly felt an unprecedentedly intense sense of danger.
It was a feeling he had never experienced even when all thirty-two of his Life Caskets had been destroyed.
At that moment, he instinctively realized that Professor Sylph had not been lying. The "Ghost Eye" could certainly bind souls, permanently imprisoning them within the eyeball of the wand and enslaving them!
At this critical moment of life and death, the old Lich made a decision that his future self would consider incomparably correct.
Before the astonished eyes of "Oni" Vernon, "Demon King" Alastair Eldritch, and the "Blood Source Sword Saint," he detonated his own soul on the spot!
"BOOM!"
The soul of "Lich" Ian Tucker burst like fireworks in the air, just minutes into the two sides' direct confrontation.
"Ah!"
Then, within one of his Life Caskets, he jolted upright as if waking from a nightmare, his entire body still trembling uncontrollably.
Thus, only two demons remained in the eastern sky.
The entire area was deathly silent, with only the thunder within the "Boundary-Breaking Thunder Sea" continuing to roar like background noise.
The muscle-brained "Oni" felt a chill run through his body, his knees even seeming to weaken.
Alastair Eldritch, on the other hand, felt no fear. He was merely astonished that Professor Sylph had managed to make that old Lich choose self-destruction with just a few words.
He had spent several months with the old Lich and naturally knew how cunning it was.
Yet that Lich, cunning as it was, had blown itself up after doing practically nothing.
Was it because everything Professor Sylph had said... was true?
Naturally, it was all true.
Holding the "Ghost Eye," Professor Sylph sighed softly and said, "A pity it isn't the wind-element one."
The "Ghost