Then time began to flow again.
In the sky, beastships fell amid flames.
On the ground, the Buli hunting packs that had fallen atop a layer of frost that had appeared for no comprehensible reason turned to black ash within the Frostfire.
Modo stood there blankly as if in a dream, eyes wide and mouth agape, letting out ragged breaths. "Hah... hah..."
He could not believe what he was seeing. Grand Duke of Netherflame Afurit, who was equally stunned, quickly noticed the figure that had suddenly appeared on the battlefield.
"Is that him?"
"When did he appear?"
Afurit's gloved fingers clenched tightly around the top of his cane, while the flaming eyes within his goat skull's sockets flickered without end.
The next second, he suddenly felt a chill run down his back.
Down on the wasteland, Jiang Lianqiu had clearly raised his head and looked over.
There was confusion in those eyes, but even more than that, something Afurit could not understand—excitement? And eagerness to fight?
"He's coming for me?" Afurit was even more puzzled.
Yet he did not retreat. He planted his cane, his body transforming into a mass of phase-fire. After a short-range Space Jump, he reformed not far in front of Jiang Lianqiu.
"Grand Duke of Netherflame Afurit?" Jiang Lianqiu looked the goat-headed man in a suit, wreathed in flames, up and down. "You're the one who attacked this Cloud Cavalry Army?"
"That's right!" Afurit made no attempt to hide what he had done. "I originally wanted to use this opportunity to test the Buli's strength and prepare for destroying the Xianzhou. I didn't expect an unforeseen person like you to appear."
Jiang Lianqiu: "..."
Huh? Destroy the Xianzhou?
How much had this guy drunk to get this wasted?
Perhaps Jiang Lianqiu's look of utter disdain