After Bebe, the victor, finished his audience with the Sovereign and withdrew, Danniton stopped him and asked how he had blocked his ultimate move.
Unexpectedly, Bebe said something that left Danniton somewhat stunned.
The instant Danniton heard those words, the anger in his heart blazed like a raging fire.
He chased Bebe straight out of the Skyrite Mountains.
As it turned out, Bebe had whispered in Danniton's ear, "I have a soul-defense Sovereign Artifact."
Those words alone would not have enraged Danniton, but he remembered how, when they traveled together and encountered Deities with particularly powerful soul attacks, Bebe always used him to block their attacks.
As Bebe put it, who told Danniton to have a soul-defense Sovereign Artifact? Their attacks could not break through its defenses, so if he did not block them, who would?
Back then, Danniton had thought that made sense. Only now, upon hearing those words, did he realize that the detestable Bebe had tricked him again.
A thousand years after the tournament ended, Rhodes sensed something unusual in his Small World and entered seclusion again.
The doors of the secluded chamber closed, and Rhodes's presence vanished directly from the Coiling Dragon Universe. Apart from Hathaway, who knew the truth, and Annie, who only half understood, everyone thought Rhodes had truly gone into seclusion. No one would have imagined that he was no longer in the Coiling Dragon Universe.
Within the Small World, this world that even Rhodes did not know how he had created was expanding at an astonishing rate, every moment without pause.
The Small World seemed to have begun breathing.
With every breath, vast quantities of Hongmeng spiritual energy from Hongmeng Space were drawn into the Small World, making it grow even larger. By now, it could no longer be called a