"I never imagined you had such power. It seems you spent all these years deceiving me."
"In the past, I would have retreated. But now, this is my great opportunity."
High in the sky, Root Grudge spoke coldly. Wounds covered his body, golden light flowing over them-injuries clearly inflicted by A Tai.
Behind him, a streak of golden light followed close on his heels. It was none other than A Tai.
She was injured as well, but her wounds were far less severe than Root Grudge's.
"Don't you dare!"
A Tai clearly knew what he intended to do. With an angry roar, golden radiance surged around her, and she accelerated again, tearing a golden trail through the void.
"Hahaha! You were a step too late after all!"
Root Grudge burst into laughter.
The viscous black aura that blotted out the sky crashed downward, his enormous, twisted body already looming over the Gale Ranger.
Terrifying, corrosive yin energy whipped up a raging gale and rushed straight toward the roof.
Inside, Su Ye's expression turned grim, but he did not attack.
First, his opponent was simply too fast. Second, he was far too powerful.
This was a terrifying being beyond Tier Three. Even if Su Ye unleashed every means at his disposal, he could not hurt him in the slightest. Attacking would be nothing but suicide.
Just as Root Grudge's countless roots of black energy were about to engulf the Gale Ranger, the entire vehicle's outline abruptly faded, becoming a translucent, ghostly glow.
Boom!
Root Grudge's supposedly certain strike slammed down, only to pass through the phantom. It blasted a bottomless crater into the ground, missing its target entirely.
"What's going on?"
Root Grudge was startled.
He could clearly see the Gale Ranger right in front of him, yet he could not