"Mr. Chen Ce is going to sacrifice himself! Go!"
"What?" Lee Sin froze again.
"He's already as good as dead!" Udyr shouted quickly and emotionlessly, as though reciting from memory. "He's going to trade his life for ours!"
With that, he ignored Lee Sin's reaction and kept dragging him in a mad rush down the mountain.
As for LeBlanc on the other side... of course she saw the two of them fleeing, but she no longer had the time to bother with such "trivial matters."
Because she had caught a familiar and ominous scent.
The aura of the underworld.
"What have you done..." At last, the Pale Lady put away that teasing, seductive expression of hers, her pretty willow brows almost knitting together.
"What have I done... isn't it obvious?" Now it was Chen Ce's turn to smile. "I opened the road to the little black room, and I'm preparing to take you there."
"Do you know what the consequences of going to the underworld are..."
"Of course I do."
"You think that if you bring me in there, you'll be able to use the underworld's power to get rid of me? You're too naive..."
"It really would be difficult, so what I was thinking was..."
Black mist spread rapidly, enveloping everything around them in only a few moments.
Yet Chen Ce showed a bright, sunny smile.
"Let's go to the grave together, dear Miss LeBlanc."
"Madman...!" LeBlanc hesitated no longer and immediately drove her magic to flash into the distance, her panicked appearance completely different from her previous elegant composure.
In over a hundred years, this was the first time she had shown panic at events developing beyond her expectations.
That feeling of being unable to keep everything in her grasp, that feeling of something unexpected and uncontrollable... it