Tolina stood silently upon the parched wasteland, her expression holy, her hands pressed together in prayer.
A black halo hovered behind her head, radiating a hazy sacred light.
Not far away, the monstrous wolf, as large as a truck, was tightly engulfed and entangled by suddenly summoned darkness, forming an even larger mass of profound black matter.
Grrr.
Grrrrr.
The mass continued to writhe, as though the monster wolf within were struggling desperately to break free from the darkness's restraints.
Whoosh!!
Its head suddenly burst out of the darkness. Fear showed in the several pairs of asymmetrical eyes on its long, narrow wolfish face.
The row of heads behind its neck opened their mouths in unison and roared, producing a resonant tremor:
"What kind of power is this?!"
But the moment it finished speaking, the darkness spread again, crawling over its face and swiftly swallowing it whole.
The monster wolf howled:
"No! No, no, no, no!! I am the Father God's emissary in the mortal world, an invincible being of this world! How could I be trapped here—"
Its furious roar came to an abrupt halt.
Clearly, the monster wolf formed from the leader and upper ranks of the Heavenly Bane Cult had already given it everything it had, yet it still could not break free from the darkness. In the end, it became a pitch-black sphere.
Tolina lowered her clasped hands, raised her right palm, and slowly curled her fingers into a fist.
Hummm—
The black sphere imprisoning the monster wolf began to deform. Within seconds, it transformed into a massive upright black coffin!
Seeing this, Gilan teleported in perfect coordination, stopping in midair before the coffin.
With a flick of his hand, he drew the Philosopher's Sword and elegantly extended it forward, piercing straight through the upper half