Sailesi was caught in a profound and agonizing dilemma.
He knew that Ed wasn't actually targeting him, and he really wanted to avoid the combined attack of the Son of God and the demon.
However, if you dodge, the [ Giant Arms ] behind you will be attacked, and you will be unable to break through the hateful domain created by the mage!
Having already completely betrayed the Theocracy, should he now deliberately antagonize the Skeleton Alliance?
Was my life simply filled with betrayal?
Can betrayal really lead to a good ending?
Sailesi's body gradually dimmed, and his thoughts began to stagnate.
No, we can't wait any longer, we have to make a decision!
Life and death, good and evil, loyalty and betrayal...
In the final moments before being wiped out by the combined forces of Duma and Ed, Sailesi finally made up his mind—
He had to block that blow for [ Giant Arms ]! He had to fight to the death!
At the same time, a deep voice, accompanied by a muffled thunderous boom, entered his ears:
"The domain is shattered; teleport with me."
The [ Giant Arms ] that had broken free of the cage was now holding a brand-new finger bone, extending one of its three arms toward Sailesi, clearly ready to take him away.
Thank you.
Sailesi slowly twisted his neck, which felt like a throttle-starved axle, and looked at the [ Giant Arms ] behind him:
"Feel sorry."
Sailesi then pulled a small finger bone from the arm that had fallen from the [ Giant Arms ] with his remaining left hand.
"Goodbye."
With a gentle squeeze, he vanished from before the eyes of the Skeleton Alliance councilor.
That's right, my whole life has been nothing but betrayal!
To prevent others from betraying you, you must act first!
Screw the happy ending!
Betrayal, that feels so good!
In the next instant, the invisible high-temperature purgatory and the immense power of the Absolute Punishment both descended upon the [ Giant Arms ], as if two insurmountable mountains had landed directly on the shoulders of an ordinary person.
Ed and Duma were also stunned by this scene, they really didn't expect that there would be a situation of betrayal and infighting between two people.
But the two quickly regained their composure.
Anything can happen on the battlefield. Killing [ Nether Crossing ] is killing, killing [ Giant Arms ] is killing too. Since things have come to this, there are only four words to say to the unfortunate [ Giant Arms ]:
Increase firepower.
"Ah!"
The Giant Arms arm, writhing in extreme agony, gaped wide, unleashing a roar that sent all the surrounding Psionic Energy into a frenzy.
But the roar was fleeting, for his body, composed entirely of crystal clusters, began to fade and crumble—he couldn't hold on any longer!
The previous battle against three opponents had exhausted most of his strength. He had barely mustered the remaining courage to fight his way out, but unexpectedly, he found himself in a second battle against three opponents.
Just now, [ Nether Crossing ]'s betrayal led to [ Giant Arms ] being ambushed by the two, forcing him to use up the last bit of his life-saving Psionic Energy.
Finally, the [ Giant Arms ] ran out of fuel and its crystal clusters, which made up its body, shattered and turned into tiny fragments that began to dissipate into the air.
His body and four arms were indeed not original; the bones of his torso had begun to disintegrate, while cracks were slowly appearing in the remaining three arms.
As the light within the skull's eye sockets faded, the Skeleton Alliance senator [ Giant Arms ] bid farewell to this world forever.
Three arms, still carrying traces of Psionic Energy, fell from the sky. Duma also withdrew his high-temperature domain and was about to fly down through flames to collect evidence.
Just then, a flash of light appeared, and Sailesi reappeared below the three of them.
This [ Nether Crossing ] councilor has an arm that is completely disproportionate to his body on his right shoulder, looking like a hermit crab commonly found on the beach, with one side larger than the other.
With a wave of his hand, he pulled the remaining three arms into his arms, then pulled out a finger bone and sandwiched it between two fingers—"snap!"
"Don't let him get away!"
Ed re-entered battle mode, his blood-red eyes locked onto Sailesi, who was about to be teleported away. The Authority of [ Absolute Punishment ] was fully activated; he only needed to keep his eyes locked on the opponent for a few breaths to turn him into a pile of bones.
Duma once again used the flames to rush into the Dark Side of the World, while Balund's hands seemed to be on invisible control levers, controlling his engraving knife to continue his attack towards Sailesi.
The three of them were clearly not in a good mood.
You ran away, so be it. Anyway, everyone came for the [ Giant Arms ] in the first place.
But coming back to retrieve the corpse is surely a provocation, isn't it?
"Whoosh!"
The boundless roar of the ocean waves echoed in everyone's ears, as if striking their very souls, reminding them that the battlefield had reached the vicinity of the southern coast of the Graycast Corridor in the midst of a chase and escape.
An endless wall of water swept in from the shore like a counter-current tide. The seemingly gentle seawater transformed into the hardest shield, blocking Balund's engraving knife, Ed's gaze, and Duma's flames.
In the next instant, Sailesi's figure vanished without a trace, and the water wall burst and disintegrated with a "pop" like foam from a wave.
However, this wall of water is not a thin layer of foam, but a spherical dome made of a large amount of seawater.
The moment the water wall ended, a large amount of seawater began to fall from the sky.
Directly below is a satellite city located on the coast, situated within Graycast Corridor.
That was one of the most important satellite cities of the Graycast Corridor, with a large number of port buildings and ships densely packed along the coast.
Even seawater, with such a large volume and such a high position, would inevitably cause a large number of casualties and losses if it fell.
The three people standing high in the sky suddenly realized—
To block the attacks of all three of them simultaneously, the opponent could only be another member of the Skeleton Alliance.
This senator, skilled in manipulating seawater, clearly didn't want a direct confrontation. After successfully rescuing [ Nether Crossing ], he planned to use this method to delay their progress.
Having come to this point, Ed immediately made a decision:
"Prioritize saving lives, I'll keep watch!"
Ed swept his Psionic Energy across a large area leading to the coast, confirming that no High Tier were lurking there anymore, while Balund and Duma had already begun to employ their respective methods.
The demon emerged from the darkness, appearing directly beneath the massive amount of seawater that had fallen from the sky.
His body gradually changed from a normal red to a blazing, scorching hot color, and the surrounding high temperature field expanded outwards again, forcibly encompassing the entire area where the blister had ruptured.
Balund, meanwhile, entered a highly focused spellcasting mode, using various techniques to continuously reduce the speed at which the seawater was falling.
Thanks to the three of them working together, nothing happened in the southern coastal satellite city tonight, except for a salty shower at midnight.