"Crack—!"
"Rumble!!!"
Shattered earth and stone erupted like a fountain from the center of the ever-expanding mound, shooting into the sky!
The already dim sky grew even darker beneath the spreading dust.
A massive tentacle radiating holy white light shot straight upward, like a sword splitting heaven and earth apart.
When it crashed down, the mountains shook and the ground trembled!
Only then did Gluck realize how laughable his spur-of-the-moment plan to bury two God's Chosen Ones alive had been.
"Matilda, don't harm the innocent!"
Xu Xiao emerged from the thick smoke and shouted urgently.
"If I could still worry about that, I wouldn't have used my Authority True Form!"
Matilda's roar came from deep within the mine tunnel, rolling on and on like thunder:
"If they get caught in it, they get caught in it! At worst, once I deal with this one, I'll just revive them!"
"Are you done over there or not? If you are, get over here and help me!!"
"I..." Xu Xiao glanced at the Palu Rabbitfolk in her arms, already dead. Her palm shifted lightly over its abdomen, and she could faintly feel a heartbeat beneath it.
It was only growing weaker and weaker.
She couldn't delay any longer!
"Hold on a little longer. I'll save them first!"
Xu Xiao immediately replied as she cradled the Palu Rabbitfolk and slowly descended toward the ground.
Within the mine pit strewn with mangled flesh and corpses, holy white thorns began growing wildly once more.
As the first breath of revival sounded, the Palu who had died in the explosion or been accidentally injured by Octopus Lady's Authority True Form were collectively resurrected.
They did not panic like Gluck, nor were they at a loss.
After a brief daze, they all turned their gazes toward the center