The aftermath of the battle that erupted beside the Cat Fruit Tree on Saturday night was minimal, almost nonexistent.
Aside from a few blades of grass shredded by magical fluctuations, only the fallen leaves crushed beneath two wizards' feet and the tree bark scratched by the black cat proved that something had indeed happened there that night.
This outcome was due not only to the safety barrier the two sides had set up before fighting, but also because both the man and the cat had shown tremendous calm and restraint—if they knew something could not be done, they did not do it.
More precisely, it was the wizard wearing the Wolf Head Mask who had surrendered with extraordinary decisiveness, preventing a tragedy.
The battle itself had been extremely brief.
Samael stood openly in the clearing, prepared to take the black cat's three attacks head-on. The black cat merely opened its mouth and spat out a "Cat Jade"—a move it had learned from the Shadow Cat. On the Black Prison Battlefield, the Shadow Cat had relied on this technique to spray Cat Jades everywhere like a cat-shaped self-propelled artillery turret, making Zheng Qing terribly envious.
He had been eager to try that scene for a long time.
But unfortunately, its "Cat Jade" still failed to make a killing today.
Empowered by the Little Green Snake, the "Cat Jade," carrying traces of a Forbidden Curse, had barely left its mouth when the Sin Eater, who had been watching the fight, anxiously waved his arms and shouted:
"Put it away! Put it away! Hurry up and put away that divine ability of yours!"
As he spoke, he pulled out his spellbook and sent more than a dozen streaks of light flying in every direction, reinforcing the safety barrier they had set up earlier.