"Roar..."
Merlin and Mage Santo watched the Sloth Beast struggle without end. They had never imagined that the Sloth Beast could suffer so much. Even when three Arcane Mages had besieged it, they had been unable to inflict the slightest injury upon it.
Yet now, the Sloth Beast was indeed in extraordinary pain. Its enormous body began to roll about. With a casual crush, the palaces of the Holy Land collapsed in an instant. Not only that, but the mountain range where the Holy Land stood snapped apart and utterly crumbled.
Strangely, however, the Life-and-Death Prison seemed unchanged. Its sturdiness far exceeded their imagination.
"I once thought that throughout the entire Void Realm, no power remained that could harm the Sloth Beast. Looking at it now, I was truly a frog at the bottom of a well. The flames left behind by the Flame Emperor can harm the Sloth Beast. If his true body were to descend, the Sloth Beast would amount to nothing."
As a Supreme Existence, Santo now realized that he had indeed been narrow-minded. He and the other two Supreme Arcane Mages had joined forces against the Sloth Beast to no effect, so he had assumed that no power could harm it. He had been both arrogant and ignorant.
At the very least, the Thirty-Six Emperors of the Void Realm could once injure the Sloth Beast, perhaps even kill it. Though they too had been Supreme Existences, the gap between them and the Thirty-Six Emperors was still as vast as heaven and earth. For a time, as they watched the Sloth Beast struggle ceaselessly, countless thoughts flashed through Santo and Merlin's minds, while Flameglow and the other two kept their eyes fixed on every movement of the Sloth Beast.
As time passed, the Sloth Beast's struggles grew