Battle Before the Battle

Zhouliu did not want his cafeteria to lose all its customers, either. As soon as he finished the Dark Cuisine, he stormed out, flew straight into the air, and hurled the dish toward the distant Dark Veil.

Inside the Dark Veil, the Looting Emperor sat cross-legged atop the Evil Beast that the Black Demon Fish had become, contemplating the Myriad Evils Return-Flow Scripture. Sensing something fly in, he opened his eyes and glanced over.

A white plate. On it was... a salted fish?

The Looting Emperor frowned. What was this supposed to be? Had those players failed to break through his Dark Annihilation and decided to throw garbage in to disgust him instead?

But why throw in a salted fish? Something was strange.

If it was an attack, Dark Annihilation would absorb it and grow stronger. It could even break down physical matter into raw materials to strengthen the Evil Beasts.

The problem was... this was a salted fish.

Then he felt the space around him distort. Certain it was no illusion, he narrowed his eyes and looked around, only to see Evil Beasts collapsing one after another.

"No. It's poisoned!"

The Looting Emperor's expression shifted. He could not make sense of it. Those players had used poison-gas bombs before, and Dark Annihilation had blocked every one. Why had it failed this time?

Was it because the salted fish counted as food?

Mistaking the salted fish for something coated in poison, the Looting Emperor waved a hand and fired a beam of black light.

But the instant the light struck the fish, its smell erupted in full. It could hardly be called a smell anymore. It was more like some kind of law.

The Looting Emperor's eyes bulged. He held his breath and looked around. Sure enough, Evil Beasts were