The crisp sound of the dagger echoed across the altar.
Li Si felt a jolt in his hand. The dagger seemed to have struck steel, and the recoil left his right hand slightly numb.
Seeing the divine light in the hands of the other three petitioners, Li Si could only retreat for the moment.
After backing away more than ten meters, Li Si kept his eyes fixed on the four petitioners. His Throat Cut just now had achieved nothing; the petitioner he had attacked showed no sign of being affected.
The sharp dagger flickered nimbly in Li Si's hand, but his expression remained calm, without the slightest disappointment over his failed strike.
This was his first time fighting petitioners. Surprises were perfectly normal.
Li Si had also explored ruined God Kingdoms in his previous life, but this was his first encounter with petitioners.
He had intended to close in and attack directly, defeating them one by one, but he had not expected the petitioners' bodies to be so tough.
The feeling of the dagger striking them was like hitting a Gold-level warrior. Even Li Si's attacks could not break through their defenses.
That made sense. As one of a deity's God Kingdom defensive forces, petitioners could not possibly be simple.
Silver-level strength meant nothing against opponents capable of invading a God Kingdom.
Even if ants could bite an elephant to death, against a deity-level existence, they would at least need Gold-level strength.
Perhaps these petitioners had greatly weakened because their deity had fallen and the God Kingdom had shattered.
Their power might have diminished, but the physical strength they had been reinforced with before had not weakened.
Although this was Li Si's first battle against petitioners, he still knew some basic information about them.
Their bodies were not their original