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Even Yan Xue, standing nearby, couldn't help but shudder.
The Beast Emperor before them was merely an image clone—no attack power, no threat whatsoever—and behind him stood no superpower. Yet the strength he commanded was something no guild would dare take lightly, not even the superpowers themselves.
Though he didn't know exactly how powerful the force under the Beast Emperor's control truly was, from the information he'd gathered through Qi Yitao, he knew the Beast Emperor still had two Apostles of the Evil God under his command. The forces backing those Apostles were quite impressive—even before Qi Yitao himself had become an Apostle. The only difference was that these two Apostles weren't in the Star Moon Kingdom; they operated covertly in other kingdoms.
Unlike Qi Yitao, who had been completely out in the open about everything. But precisely because of that, he'd been able to amass such a sizable army of evil beasts and evil demons in such a short time.
After a brief silence,
"Did you really think I'd be scared of your evil beasts and evil demons?" Shi Feng glanced at the Beast Emperor, completely unfazed.
He didn't know all the details of the Evil God Temple, but the creation of evil beasts and evil demons was no easy feat. Moreover, evil beasts were different from evil demons—they couldn't be summoned. If they needed to get somewhere, they had to travel on foot. This was exactly why the Evil God Temple's players placed greater value on evil demons.
Now that Qi Yitao had already burned through nearly all the usable resources around the Star Moon Capital, having been completely wiped out, putting together another army of that scale was virtually impossible. If they could be endlessly cultivated and mass-produced, the Evil God Temple's players would've been invincible by now. Unless the Beast Emperor planned to rely on summoned evil demons to take Stone Forest Town—but evil demons were exceedingly rare. Trying to capture Stone Forest Town with an army of evil demons was simply out of the question.
Yan Xue, hearing Shi Feng's mocking reply, momentarily thought he'd misheard.
"Has this Black Flame lost his mind?" Yan Xue stared at Shi Feng in disbelief, completely unable to fathom what he was thinking.
A massively profitable deal right in front of him, and instead he had to go and provoke a being he absolutely should not have provoked.
What an absolute madman!
"Good! Very good! I originally thought you, Black Flame, were a smart man, but it looks like you're nothing more than a frog at the bottom of a well who doesn't know the heights of the sky or the depth of the earth!" The Beast Emperor's face darkened, veins bulging one by one across his forehead. "Since you want war, I'll give you one!"
The moment the Beast Emperor finished speaking, he vanished. His voice lingered in the grass for a long while afterward, sending shivers down one's spine.
"He left?" Yan Xue was completely dumbfounded.
He had assumed the Beast Emperor was deliberately stalling for time, waiting for the evil demons to arrive as reinforcements—but now it was clear that wasn't the case at all.
What Yan Xue didn't know was that while the Beast Emperor had indeed considered stalling, once Shi Feng summoned Kate and Anna—two direct subordinates who could match Great Lords of the same level—he had abandoned the idea entirely. The escort evil demons he'd sent numbered only three Great Lords. Paired with the High Great Lord evil demon, they could have certainly overwhelmed Shi Feng and ground him down gradually. But the High Great Lord was already dead.
The opportunity was completely gone.
The magic circles of ten Rock Guardians alone could seal away three Great Lord-level evil demons. By then, Shi Feng would have all the time he needed to leave—and could even kill Yan Xue first and walk away right in front of him.
If the
While Yan Xue stood there in a daze, Kate suddenly appeared before him. The blade in his hand traced a cyan arc, sweeping directly across Yan Xue's throat. Before Yan Xue could even react, he was instantly killed, his equipment scattering all over the ground.
"War?"