"Mm..."
In reality, with a soft grunt, two streams of thick black fluid flowed from Thousand-Prison King's nostrils within the cage. Breaking free of the Nightmare Outer Path, he looked toward the tri-colored glowing eyes on the gray-white face a thousand meters away, a flicker of astonishment showing in his gaze.
So it had been an ability akin to a thousand years in an instant, Tianya at arm's length.
"You actually broke the Nightmare Outer Path. It seems that even I... even I can no longer stop you."
Thousand-Prison King spoke in a low voice.
At those words, a trace of mockery appeared at the corner of Green's mouth beneath his tri-colored glowing eyes.
"The Face of Truth exposes all falsehoods. This ability akin to a thousand years in an instant, Tianya at arm's length is still far from enough. As for your claim that you can no longer stop me—heh heh heh heh heh heh—because your own power is too great, you need to use the Self-Sealing Art. First, you give me hope, then use your true power to plunge me into boundless despair, thereby harvesting a high-grade soul filled with endless terror?"
Green exposed Thousand-Prison King's purpose. Within the half-petrified cage, Thousand-Prison King's feigned astonishment gradually turned to calm.
"It seems I must treat you as an equal. Since I do not know which slumber, I once believed that I alone could stand at such a height. The Nightmare Kings could not accept me, while the Nightmare Bone Kings needed to look up at me. This loneliness... you have experienced it in the Wizard World as well, haven't you?"
Thousand-Prison King extended a hand from within the cage, stopping the petrification from spreading, and said in a low voice, "We are the same kind of existence—outcasts rejected by