Kokomi actually had many ways to deal with the Serpent Puppet, but she had used none of them. By now, she seemed to be giving the battle everything she had, but who could have known that it was all an act to conceal her preparations for the ritual and lower the Snake God's guard?
At the very start of the battle, Kokomi had already begun laying down a special powder according to the ritual's requirements.
This powder was made from ground pearls from Watatsumi Island. It could serve as a material for laying out the ritual formation and was difficult to detect.
If anyone had carefully traced the paths Kokomi had taken, they would have discovered that those paths connected to form an enormous Hexagram Formation.
At the formation's core lay the pearl Kokomi had seized the opportunity to toss out earlier.
Now that the formation required for the ritual was complete, Kokomi no longer needed to conceal her intentions.
She began a special dance. As her body moved, the enormous Hexagram Formation slowly rose into the air. The sight of the formation and Kokomi's dance suddenly stirred unfamiliar memories in the Snake God's mind.
The Snake God forcibly suppressed those memories and ordered the Serpent Puppet from earlier.
"What are you standing around for? Hurry up and kill that damned priestess!"
It was not that the Snake God did not want to act himself. Rather, he had discovered that whenever he thought of attacking Kokomi, his body would slip out of his control, leaving him unable to attack her at all.
Seeing the Snake God in such agony, the Serpentine Monster realized that Kokomi had tricked him. He launched his body toward the dancing Kokomi in a deadly charge.
But it was doomed to be futile. Since Kokomi had