The river wind carried the stench of char and blood, yet it could not disperse that wild, unrestrained laughter.
"Ha ha ha ha ha—this round, I won!"
Naga's laughter rose from a low rumble to a piercing crescendo, finally turning into rolling thunder that echoed between the shattered river and the gloomy heavens.
Her enormous draconic body, human above and serpent below, trembled faintly. Every black-and-red scale seemed to resonate, venting her uncontrollable ecstasy.
She had really done it!
Though she had estimated her own strength and believed she could defeat a Monarch, when this moment truly arrived—when a Monarch stood before her battered and scarred—the thrill of surpassing her limits and trampling on legend still surged and boiled within her chest like the fiercest magma!
Especially since this was Odin, the renowned King of Sky and Wind, famed among the Eight Sovereigns for his wisdom and valor—this Monarch had almost never undergone reincarnation!
This achievement was enough to shut up every foolish bastard who doubted God's Blood!
What delighted her even more was the prize within reach—a complete skeleton of Norton, the Dragon King who possessed the authority of Bronze and Fire!
And she had successfully offered that great existence lurking in the unseen a flawless, magnificent sacrifice, with a Dragon King's blood as the offering!
As for Odin's authority over Sky and Wind—her enormous vertical pupils glanced at his dying figure, a trace of cool clarity flashing through them—she did not dare hope for it.
An old fox like Odin would certainly have left behind a cocoon for resurrection before setting out. He would never perish completely in fury as Norton had.
"May the Immortal Gods bless me; the Ring of Causality shall break—if you dare stand in my way again, I will utterly sever your chance of