Tit for Tat

In the flat valley at the center of a cluster of volcanoes, Weimeng still lay on his back inside the shattered stone crater his earlier fall had carved out.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

With his eyes closed, he listened as the sky's deafening blasts and the earth's tremors gradually subsided. The bloodstained features of the Rat Master Hunter immediately relaxed.

Weimeng had deep faith in his teammates, and so he naturally took the silence reaching his ears as a sign of Firona and Erigat's victory.

At that thought, he could not help but let out a long breath, silently musing to himself.

(Hahaha, those last two Clowns must have died horribly.)

(After all, I'm the weakest one on our team.)

(Sigh... if it had been three against three from the start, why would we have needed to go through all this trouble?)

(From a certain angle, you animals weren't entirely unlucky. At least you got to cling to life for a few dozen more minutes.)

(So the three of you should go to hell with gratitude in your hearts.)

Thus did Weimeng mock the Clowns who had met violent deaths.

Before long, a silver bastion swiftly descended nearby.

As its six silver steel plates automatically floated apart, Weimeng's teammate Firona was the first to emerge.

Although Firona had efficiently killed the Reflection Clown Nuobolik and the Finger Clown Lü Zhi in succession, the initial suffocating influence and injury to her neck, coupled with the immense mental drain from repeatedly unleashing "Vacuum Explosive Bullet," still left her looking haggard and weak.

With a weary expression, she stowed the surrounding Hidden Kill Bastions into the Black Ring, then made her way to Weimeng on unsteady, laborious steps. Lowering her head, she inspected the bloody burn marks covering his body before finally focusing on