The wildfire slithered over the mountainside like a snake, flicking out its crimson tongue.
It was proof that my confrontation with the ‘Great Sage’ had lasted longer than expected.
I thought I had done my best in my own way, but perhaps because the old man had pulled some kind of trick, the battle outside was already in full swing.
No.
Could it even be called a battle?
Most of the sounds echoing from far away were closer to screams.
It meant a one-sided massacre was taking place.
To think someone could overwhelm the practitioners of Heavenly Sword Mountain so completely.
One of the ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ must have arrived.
There were no other monsters capable of causing devastation on this scale.
Then again, now that the Dark Order had revealed a card as significant as the ‘Great Sage,’ there was no reason for them to hold anything back.
They would try to accomplish their objective regardless of the means or methods required.
I had to stop them.
Even from what I could hear, there were more than two separate sources of commotion.
Heavenly Sword Mountain’s forces might be able to handle one of the Seven Deadly Sins, but dealing with more than that would be difficult.
That was what I needed to do.
And yet—
“Cough……!”
My…