In Kukulkan and Amon's agreement, besides offering up its own Dragon Blood, it also had to put on an act with him: hunt down Kassel's Executive Department squad and drive them into desperate straits.
In the end, after a grueling escape, the Executive Department squad would narrowly make it out alive. And through fighting alongside them, Amon would gain the friendship of Finn and the others.
Having faced life and death together, even if there were many suspicious things about Amon, they would only bury those doubts in their hearts.
However, Lu Mingze's intervention shattered their original plan. From the enhanced Mai Sakatoku, Kukulkan sensed a genuine threat.
Kukulkan's retreat did not fit Amon's plan. He had yet to play his part in this escape!
He was supposed to take command after Arjun and Finn successively lost their ability to fight, leading everyone out of the rainforest...
But Amon could not force Kukulkan to face such a powerful enemy, so he nodded, signaling that this was enough.
Kukulkan let out a breath of relief. Though it did not know Lu Mingze, it sensed an exalted aura from him... As long as the other party did not cross its bottom line, it did not wish to make an enemy of him lightly.
The giant serpent's enormous body began to writhe as it slowly backed away. Its hard scales scraped against the ground with a rustling sound.
Meanwhile, Mai Sakatoku endured the electric numbness and searing pain coursing through her body, barely managing to straighten herself with her knife as support.
She had miscalculated. The original plan had been to strike in a surprise attack and immediately retreat, but she had not expected the other side to instantly deploy a large-scale defensive Spirit Word like "Thunder Pool."
At the time, her charge