A few days later.
After round upon round of battles, with thunderous clashes that shook the air, there were no more challengers. The four Coffin Ascenders gathered once again, and Green was fortunate enough to behold all four of their true forms.
Aside from the paper figure and the skeletal monster, the other two were a bizarre cloth doll with half its body burned away, and a humanoid warrior with four arms formed from crimson light blades. Its wrinkled, withered skin bore densely packed stitch marks, looking remarkably like the aftermath of Green's mentor Peranos cultivating Repulsion-Attraction Dual-Force Witchcraft with a complete Earth Vein Stone.
Huff, huff, huff...
Though none of the four Coffin Ascenders had been defeated despite the unending stream of challengers, their current reactions clearly revealed that their strengths varied greatly.
The relatively weaker ones should have been the four-armed blade warrior and the skeletal monster. Their auras were in extreme disarray, while the strongest one Green sensed was undoubtedly this Demon Doll!
Like a bottomless vortex, it cast an all-enveloping shadow that made even Green feel humbled as he gazed up at it. This terrifying creature was probably even stronger than the King of Aibadon Green had witnessed during his time in Evil God Paradise!
This was simply a monster!
What kind of terrifying world, governed by what sort of rules, could have given birth to such a dreadful life-form, only for it to be sealed into the Dimensional Esophagus and await the fate of being digested by the Endless World?
"Did you come from the Dimension Gap?"
Half of the Demon Doll's body turned toward Green as it asked in a low voice, its single remaining eyeball constantly sweeping over him.
"Mm. I was accidentally sealed into the Dimension Gap. I narrowly escaped death, but