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What he couldn’t see before he saw clearly now The thing that Jiang Yuan had sue as the arena itself He could not name the beast, but the bones looked reptilian It lashed and flailed like a demon, with a cold putrid fire where its eyes had been

The monstrous creature lived so Yuan’s call had come to devour the convert It had spread wide its maw and leapt to bite If the Terminator had been even a fraction of a second later, he’d have been gulped in to the black abyss He didn’t even want to think what that would entail

“Thank you… thank you, Your Majesty, for saving rip of death on his spine He had been inches from obliteration!

The Terminator did not reply His hard eyes were fixed on the necroall!”

Jiang Yuan had not finished his curses With a pale face, he concentrated all his focus on the skull of the legendarywide its jaws anew The fire in its eyes flared as the beast appeared to find a new target

Jiang Yuan jerked His mouth flew open, and a forceful burst of blood was voainst his chest; a skull that looked exactly like the monster’s own

Spatters of the blood froht wor purple as well A pair of black flaer one

Yaduobaha, as though sensing so, stopped suddenly and shook its ht that raced for the pendant Jiang Yuan bore When it reached hiht The portal below hi them off from the terrible behemoth that lurked just beyond

Aaze He shook his head and said, “He calls and seals the eous, and stupid For the Dark Citadel to command someone like this, it’s clear they are a force that will endure”

The Paragon released Qian Bian like one would ato his seat upon the viewing platfor area, Lan Jue had seen the entire thing From what he could pick out, the necroht of his power to be realized

“Why do I get the feeling this was all to put on a show for you,” Lan Jue said dryly to the Pharmacist

She shook her head “From the start I wasn’t sure what he was up to At his level of power, he had a greatwith Qian Bian but he decided to take the lengthiest road This isn’t the first ti puppet from earlier, it had been to extend the time he had to complete the incantation It must be a terrible, powerful curse fro rite that was clearly very difficult to achieve He was prepared, and still ed under pressure Likely with soht… the purpose was to shoas in store Yaduobaha, the Malefic Wyr nonsense An earthworreat deal of admiration for the woman He looked at her scornful expression and knew she was athrown at her

It took three or fourYuan to coes of that bone-white light were gone did he return to norh, was subjective Now his skin had an unnaturally violet tint, and his eyes burned with an enig, his body looked as though it had aged several years Nerinkled plagued the corners of his eyes Su that creature had cost hiroup The winners were the Pharht had been htning-fast victory to Jiang Yuan’s display of stupendous power They were still processing what they’d watched, but they knew that the qualification processthey were looking forward to

Lan Jue’s attention was very closely fixed to the ring now, roup three – was the one the Accountant said would be the ye