Just as all the players were gearing up for the coming war.
In the Sea of Blood.
Thirteen humanoid silhouettes stood motionless at the center of the blood sea.
Surging bloodwater continued gathering toward the thirteen silhouettes, turning layer by layer into semisolid, pure energy that merged into each body.
At the center of the thirteen humanoid silhouettes, Katelinna's clay figure was likewise covered in countless blocks of blood-colored energy.
However, as the energy flowed along her body, passing through her limbs and chest to reach the front of her neck, it encountered an obstruction.
A necklace made of bone teeth hung around Katelinna's neck.
It was the Wildman Tooth necklace Mu You had given Katelinna before she left.
To the blood sea's energy, this seemingly unremarkable, crudely handmade object was like a primordial behemoth. The blocks of blood-colored energy gathering from below all stopped, trembling as they skirted the necklace and gathered toward other parts of her body.
Thus, while everyone else was tightly covered in blocks of blood energy, Katelinna alone had an uncovered space beginning at the front of her neck and extending to her head above, untouched by the bloodwater.
"Ah..."
A girl's sigh suddenly sounded in the air, then fell silent.
After an unknown length of time, the bloodwater throughout the Sea of Blood gradually dried up. The sea's surface shrank at a visible speed, exposing a pure white floor, with only a few scattered puddles of bloodwater remaining.
All the energy had gathered inside the thirteen humanoid shells at the center.
The thirteen shells stood silently in the middle of the area, like clay figures or stone sculptures.
Then, at a certain moment, a sharp crack rang out. The bloody clay at the end of the arm of Katelinna's figure in the center cracked