Li sneered. "You've already ended up like this, and you're still thinking about who to eat?"
The Gaia Giant Serpent raised a brow, then turned to Li. There was something deeply meaningful in the way he looked at him. "You... I don't know how you linked yourself to my life force, but now, as long as you get injured, you can drain life force from me, can't you?"
Li nodded lightly. "That's right. So don't even think about attacking me now. After all, if I get hurt, I'll have to draw life force from you to make up for it..."
As Li said this, the Gaia Giant Serpent suddenly raised a hand and pointed at him. Of course Li recognized the move this guy was using—Finger of Death! Li took a deep breath and instinctively wanted to dodge. This spell might not be able to kill him instantly, but it would still hurt like hell if it hit him.
But then Li remembered that even if he was injured now, it would only drain the Gaia Giant Serpent's life force. Besides, with a life contract between them, one person's attacks shouldn't be able to harm the other. What did he have to fear? So Li stood where he was, intending to take the attack head-on.
Yet this time, the life contract seemed to have failed. The Finger of Death struck Li viciously, and only then did a thought flash through his mind. Wait... wasn't this a magic-forbidden domain?
With that thought, Li spat out a mouthful of black blood. Looking down at his chest, he saw a fist-sized hole there. An ordinary person would probably have died from such a wound, but Li's body was no ordinary body. He merely swayed once before steadying himself.
What shocked Li was that