"Oh? You also faced a trial when you advanced to [Nirvana]?"
"Also?" The [Gold-Swallowing Bone Person] Grand Lord did not understand why An Kai had used that word.
But he had indeed undergone a trial when advancing to [Nirvana].
It was that very trial that had made him who he was.
After completing it and advancing to [Nirvana: Origin Tracing], his strength had far surpassed that of other beings at the same stage!
That was also how the [Gold-Swallowing Bone Person] Grand Lord had risen swiftly through the fiercely competitive [Abyss] to claim the position of Grand Lord of the [Barren Abyss]!
It was now the second day.
Yesterday, the [Gold-Swallowing Bone Person] Grand Lord had wisely chosen to surrender.
He had become An Kai's first underling at the [Nirvana: Self-Realization] stage.
Later, An Kai had sparred with the [Gold-Swallowing Bone Person] Grand Lord.
That had left the [Gold-Swallowing Bone Person] immensely grateful that he had chosen to surrender.
Because the instant he made his move, An Kai had crushed him!
And in close combat, at that...
Even now, he remembered what Lord An Kai had said: "As a [Mage], it's perfectly reasonable for me to learn a few extra self-defense techniques, right?"
What shocked the [Gold-Swallowing Bone Person] even more was that An Kai's true body had never acted at all.
The An Kai who had led the assault on his Seclusion Site and sparred with him had merely been a doppelganger formed through the [Abyss Body-Tempering Method]!
As for where his true body was?
No one knew.
Even Brian William, the Number One beneath An Kai in the Goodness Home Mage Association, had no idea.
The reason An Kai had asked the [Gold-Swallowing Bone Person] Grand Lord about advancing to [Nirvana]...
Was his own current predicament.
Ever since