"Hahahahaha! Beaumont! I broke through! I won this bargain in the end! Just you wait, Loa and Linley!" The Grand Wizard's laughter echoed through the underwater chamber, making even the magic crystals on its walls tremble.
His green eyes brimmed with wild delight.
A Middle God. A Middle God of the death law. When he had escaped the Gebados Planar Prison, he had still been a Lowgod whose strength had been severely diminished. Now, not only had he recovered his full strength, but he had advanced another step. Who on the Yulan Continent could stop him now?
He put the remaining Soul Gold Bead into his Space Ring and swept his sleeve, blasting open the chamber doors.
Divine power enveloped his entire body as he tore through the immense weight of the seawater and shot straight toward the surface.
Sunlight spilled across the West Sea, its waters sparkling, and the sea breeze blew against his face with its salty, briny scent.
He drew a deep breath, considering whether to settle accounts with Beaumont first or go make trouble for those two Deities.
Then he sensed them.
Two familiar auras were flying toward him at tremendous speed from the east.
He had sensed those divine power fluctuations repeatedly over the past year or so-they belonged to the two men who had been scouring the entire continent for him.
The Grand Wizard froze for a moment, then pressed a hand to his forehead, threw back his head, and laughed wildly.
"Good, good, good. I hadn't gone looking for you, and here you are, delivering yourselves to my door." Black light flashed in his right hand, and an enormous Black Scythe appeared out of thin air.
The scythe's shaft was twelve feet long, its blade curved like a crescent moon, and a dense