Meanwhile, in the main hall of the mountain cavern that housed the Ten Wizard Saints...
Raven sat cheerfully in a broad stone chair, watching the five blood-drenched figures below him. His fingers kept tapping lightly against the armrest, his thoughts unreadable.
"I'm sorry. The True God of Death was simply too powerful. If he hadn't been deliberately toying with us the whole time, we'd already be corpses. We never would have made it back to see you." Vincent's apology was weary and weak. The black robe that had shrouded his entire body was now ragged and bloodstained, and all his former air of mystery was gone.
Raven said nothing. He simply kept tapping his fingers with that cheerful smile.
"That damned bastard!!! Someday! Someday, I, Lucius, will kill him!! I'll definitely kill him!!!" Lucius roared like a madman. Almost completely dyed red with blood, he looked hideous and utterly bedraggled.
"Tch! Someone beat you into that pathetic state, and you still have the nerve to spout off here?!" The shadow beneath Raven's feet writhed, and Koochi emerged with a mocking grin. He stared at Lucius with contempt and scorn, sneering sharply, "Do you know who that man is?!! Only a brain-dead idiot like you would dare run his mouth knowing he's the legendary True God of Death!! Crawl back into your mother's womb and eat shit!!! Stop embarrassing yourself, moron!!"
"Bastard!! I'll kill you!!!" Lucius flew into a rage! Forcing his battered body to move, he charged straight at Koochi! Nasha and Edward, both badly wounded and equally miserable-looking, glared furiously at Koochi as well! If their magic power hadn't been completely exhausted, they would have rushed in alongside Lucius to fight him to the death!
But the next moment—
Boom! With a thunderous explosion, Lucius's entire upper body burst