In the Arena.
A crack opened in the wall, and a new monster squeezed out.
The monster had two horns and stood more than ten meters tall, looking like a demon god.
But—
"That's it?" Carrollus sneered.
"I'll go first." Joaquin cracked his knuckles.
"No need. Watch me." Carrollus drew his longbow, pulled an arrow back to the limit, and aimed at the monster.
Three,
two,
one.
The arrow burst into flames and shot toward the monster.
In that instant,
everyone's attention was on the monster.
But not Xu Yuan's.
The Primordial Chaos Umbrella had warned him that it had already "averted disaster" for him once. Full of doubt, he spread his divine sense to the full extent of a Void Meditation Stage Cultivator.
"Not good!"
His expression changed, and he instantly activated Heaven-Stealing.
All five people in the Arena vanished at once.
Black Radiant Flame shot into the sky.
The Arena floor broke apart like soggy tofu. Long black hands rose from beneath it and seized the monster with ease.
The hands grabbed at it, tearing chunks of flesh from its body before withdrawing underground. Then they rose empty-handed to grab more.
Within seconds,
all that remained of the monster was a mangled skeleton.
"What was that?"
Joaquin murmured.
Marcelo hunched his shoulders like a startled quail, too frightened to speak.
—Whatever lurked underground was far too powerful.
Its aura surpassed anything Marcelo could comprehend.
There was no fighting a monster like that head-on!
"Looks like we'll have to get serious," Carrollus said under his breath.
"Agreed," Charlotte said.
A sudden change struck—
Carrollus raised his longbow, but before he could do anything else, he turned into a black wooden puppet shaped like a man.
The same happened to Charlotte, Joaquin, and Marcelo.
Only Sara, the Shadow Assassin, remained