Li had been right. The threads only held for about three seconds before snapping, but the instant they made contact, Baldur's body stiffened. He could not even resist Li's attacks and was forcibly shoved away from Hela's side.
The moment those threads snapped, another mass of threads wrapped around Baldur's body.
Li launched another fierce assault. The two of them actually managed to pin Baldur in place. Although Li's conditions for unleashing his power were currently at their peak, the gap between his strength and Baldur's was simply too great. He did not even have the power to lightly injure him. Yet Baldur's heart was already churning with shock.
No matter what, he could not believe that a mere mortal could resist him like this!
Roar after roar burst from his mouth, but Hela's threads restrained him, leaving him unable to attack Li at all. Meanwhile, Li was just barely able to evade every one of his attack trajectories.
Earlier, he had thought Li was Hela in disguise, but he quickly realized that was not the case, because Li's fighting style was completely different from Hela's.
Li could be described as an exceptionally bold close-combat fighting expert, of the same school as Yama. At that moment, Baldur kept tangling with Li and Hela.
On the other side, the Lord of the Forest's battle against the other three was also locked in an extreme stalemate.
These four undead truly possessed far less combat power than they had at their peak, and the power the five of them had gained at the cost of requiring some of them to sleep in order to retain their sanity was not overwhelmingly strong either.
At the very least, compared to their peak, they probably possessed only one-tenth of their former strength.
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