Again and again, after long waits, the Coffin Ascender challenges awaited someone capable of replacing one of the weaker four Coffin Ascenders.
This was already the eleventh gathering since Green had become a Coffin Ascender.
Beneath the Face of Truth, Green's tricolored eyes swept over the more than two hundred gathered exiles, and a flicker of disappointment vanished in an instant.
The strong and the weak could never be completely judged at a glance by so-called aura or perception, but anyone Green could identify as possessing a powerful aura undoubtedly had the potential to replace a Coffin Ascender.
"Oh? Quite a few rather impressive fellows have come this time. Interesting!"
The Fire-Poison Centipede muttered excitedly. As time passed, the gap between Green and the Fire-Poison Centipede had grown ever wider. Some figures Green did not even deem worthy of notice were already fairly formidable powerhouses in its eyes.
"Sea-Salt Algae, that one over there has an aura very close to yours. Want me to leave it to you later?"
Sea-Salt Algae was the green water-elemental lifeform that had replaced the Paper Person after Green became a Coffin Ascender. It was a powerhouse born in a deep-sea world, a life algae nurtured by heavy-water essence with peculiar abilities. It was innately capable of using elemental power to purify and condense heavy water. So long as it possessed heavy water, its true body would not be harmed.
In Green's view, this Sea-Salt Algae was, like the Snowline Worm King, a lifeform formed from aggregated will.
Sea-Salt Algae sensed in the direction indicated by the Fire-Poison Centipede and found a coral sprite burning with azure Waterflame. Who knew what abilities that azure Waterflame possessed?
"It is powerful, and it has even greater potential, but for now, it is not my opponent."
That was