Green did not rush to choose a coffin ascender to challenge. He waited quietly in the distance.
Watching the three coffin ascenders besides Demon Doll battle without pause through challenge after challenge, continuously unleashing astonishing fighting will, potential, and terrifying hidden bursts of power, the tricolored eyes beneath his mask flickered.
Though Hope Coffin Gathering Place had only four coffin ascenders, in terms of power, they already stood at the absolute pinnacle of lifeforms within the Dimensional Esophagus!
If I could remain for another one or two eras, raise my elemental-force attacks beyond five hundred thousand degrees, then complete the Ancestor of Humanity Transformation in the Key of Life's hereditary domain and break through another layer of passive bodily evolution restraints... With that as my foundation, what would be so difficult about facing three alone?
To fight one against three, defeat the other three coffin ascenders, and use the Hope Scepter to summon the Hope Coffin—this was Green's final way out.
Yet Green still retained a sliver of hope. If the four of them could open the Hope Coffin together and avoid the conflict that might erupt, that would undoubtedly be the better choice.
In that case...
Because he had spent so long at Penetrating Gate Gathering Place before this, Green had not yet accepted many sacrificial summons or gained much lifespan extension to resist the erosion of illusory time. He could still afford to wait.
He was different from other lifeforms.
Green's attunement to Annihilation allowed the Way of Annihilation to create a one-degree increase in power—so weak it could almost be ignored. Yet in the future, its endless amplification would be limited only by the length of his life. Thus, the longer Green remained a Stigmata Wizard and the longer his attunement endured, the greater the amplification he