The Golden Crocodile King climbed up from the ground. That last blow had been no light hit, but the only skill he had honed over the years was taking a beating. The Ice Empress's attack had not robbed him of his ability to fight. Of course, what the Golden Crocodile King himself did not know was that the Ice Empress had not struck to kill.
Watching the Ice Empress approach him step by step, the Golden Crocodile King instinctively glanced in the direction the Demon Flower Mantis King had fled.
With her speed, she should be far away by now. Still, I'd better buy her a little more time. Having thought this through, the Golden Crocodile King settled back into a fighting stance and fixed his eyes on the Ice Empress.
The Ice Empress no longer wanted to fight. Although the Soul Beast that had attacked her first had escaped, she had already fought to her heart's content. She had only been bored and looking to stretch her limbs in the first place, and she had given the Golden Crocodile King enough of a beating. As long as he admitted defeat now and agreed to become her underling, today's incident would be over. After all, that was how the Ice Empress had done things back in the Far North.
Perhaps the Ice Empress had enjoyed the fight so much that she had forgotten she was currently in human form, not Soul Beast form. That made the situation different. In Soul Beast form, it would have been easy enough to settle, but no Soul Beast would think anything good of a human approaching like this.
The Ice Empress had just opened her mouth to ask whether the Golden Crocodile King would concede, but before she could speak, golden light erupted from