Yang Yi successfully swallowed the Magic King and the Imperial Guards under her command in a single gulp. Although the guards were all attacking him, his sheer size meant that even attacks powerful enough to destroy ships and buildings felt like scratches, barely hindering him at all.
But after swallowing them, Yang Yi felt something was off. It was like swallowing a mouthful of air; however carefully he savored it, he could not detect any flavor.
"They escaped?"
Yang Yi immediately scanned his surroundings, his three eyes twitching rapidly, then discovered the completely unharmed Magic King directly overhead. She and her Imperial Guards were all there, merely in a different position, with the Absolute King beside them.
What had happened needed no explanation. At the very last moment, the Absolute King had shifted space, rescuing the Magic King.
The two Kings had actually begun working together, much to Yang Yi's surprise.
The Magic King seemed somewhat surprised as well. She glanced at the Absolute King, who smiled back.
With the little time this bought her, the Magic King finally finished preparing her magic. An enormous hammer made entirely of salt appeared above Yang Yi, though it was not actually large, only the size of an ordinary short hammer, held in the Magic King's hand.
She looked at Yang Yi with an icy gaze and declared sharply, "In the King's name, I grant you death. The first... King's Hammer!"
She hurled the small hammer straight at Yang Yi, striking him instantly.
Yet on contact, that unremarkable white short hammer seemed to weigh countless tons. It slammed Yang Yi's three-fish body hard against the ground. His legs could not withstand that tremendous force at all, crushed against the ground and even deformed, like a frog squeezed by immense pressure. Then wave after