Outside the dense forest, the battle between the three overlords—Giant Sarcoma, Crimson Eye, and Silver Amor—and the several thousand Heavenly God puppets soon came to an end.
Once they had grasped the proper way to kill the puppets, all three overlords attacked without holding back and eliminated the Heavenly God puppets completely.
Given their abilities, which were close to that of half-step Lords, killing these puppets did not require a second attack.
Very soon, all the Heavenly God puppets were obliterated.
Outside the dense forest, not a single drop of flesh or blood was left—not even dregs. All that remained were traces of battle on the ground.
However, after killing all the puppets, the three overlords did not enter the forest immediately.
The forest was the Nine Gloom Vine’s lair. No one knew how many traps he had laid here.
Moreover, the Nine Gloom Vine was—on record—the oldest living monster in the whole of the inner world. Nobody knew exactly how far back his history went since he had been alive for so long. That was also the main reason why Silver Armor and the other two overlords feared him and the consequences of going against him.
Right as they were hesitating, Crimson Eye suddenly spoke up.
“If we don’t take action now, it’ll be too late. Snake Lady has already used her life-saving move.” From afar, he had seen the purple fog released by the Snake Lady and realized that she could not hold on any longer.
As soon as Crimson Eye said that, Silver Armor rushed into the dense forest in a flash.
The reason for his haste was that—like the four-faced individual—he had a very close relationship with the three-tailed snake lady.
In reality, the remaining three overlords were all aware of the complicated relationship between these three people.
This was also what the four-faced individual was most upset about in particular—that under such circumstances, the three-tailed snake lady had chosen Silver Armor instead of himself.
At this level of their relationship, the four-faced individual’s issue was not actually about which of them the snake lady loved—it was that he could not let such humiliation go just like that.
Silver Armor rushed in to attempt to save the three-tailed snake lady not because he loved her devotedly, but because he knew he had to make a show of doing so.
On one hand, it was so that the three-tailed snake lady could see his actions and confirm that she had made the right choice. On the other hand, he wanted Giant Sarcoma and Crimson Eye to see that he was a reliable ally.
He knew very well that the Snake Lady had chosen him most probably not because he was more outstanding than the four-faced individual. Compared to a stalemate of 3v3, they could eliminate two opponents of the same level much faster if they were 4v2. This lady merely wanted to obtain more resources.
For them, to be able to hold the position of overlord, benefits were paramount over everything else. When necessary, they could put up a smiling front and even work together with enemies who had killed their families without batting an eyelid.
As for a friend with benefits whom he had few emotional ties to—there was no question that it would not affect Silver Armor’s choices or decisions at all.
Silver Armor appeared to be hastily rushing into the Nine Gloom Vine’s lair. In reality, however, he was fully on his guard, ready to mount a defense against the Nine Gloom Vine’s traps at any moment.
As soon as Silver Armor set foot into the dense forest, the Nine Gloom Vine immediately launched an attack.
An opponent setting foot into the Nine Gloom Vine’s territory was an opportunity that was extremely hard to come by. Naturally, he was not about to let such a chance to attack pass by so easily.
In practically an instant, the entire dense forest turned into a world of vines. Not only did the vines blot out the sky, they even covered every available inch of space.
From a third-person perspective, Silver Armor was like a skiff floating on a vast ocean, buffeted by the onslaught of merciless waves and the howling of wild winds at any given time. At any moment, the skiff might capsize, and be destroyed.
However, in actuality, Silver Armor showed no trace of fear. Every time he moved, it was with full confidence and no hint of worry at all about the attacks coming from the all-encompassing vines.
His figure slipped repeatedly through the sea of vines, evading them, and dodging the attacks as much as possible. Whatever attacks he could not hide from, he sent his spear into action and utterly eliminated them.
For a while, although it was hard for him to escape this region, he could protect himself and had nothing to worry about. He fell into a stalemate with the Nine Gloom Vine.
However, he was not anxious at all. As for whether or not the three-tailed snake lady would die, he was not overly concerned about the matter.
He had already gone through the motions of attempted rescue. Whether he could save her or not was mainly dependant on the Snake Lady’s own luck.
Despite being under attack from countless vines, he was still advancing slowly and steadily.
At least to the eyes of any outsiders, he had put in the effort.
In reality, he had no intention of taking risks for the Snake Lady. He seemed to be advancing very slowly, but actually, he was waiting for his two allies to join him.
The Nine Gloom Vine was a veteran powerhouse, and they were fighting in his territory where he would certainly have the upper hand. However, as far as Silver Armor was concerned, no matter how powerful the Nine Gloom Vine’s abilities were, he could not fight three people on his own.
Even though the Nine Gloom Vine was on his own territory, it was not really possible for him to single-handedly defend himself against the invasion of three powerhouses of the same level.
Silver Armor knew this, which was why he was not in a hurry at all.
Meanwhile, as he had anticipated, backup soon arrived.
After Silver Armor rushed into the dense forest on his own, Giant Sarcoma and Crimson Eye only hesitated for a brief moment before they entered the forest as well.
As soon as the two entered the battle, Silver Armor could clearly sense that the pressure on him was reduced significantly.
After all, the three of them were opponents of the same level. No matter how powerful the Nine Gloom Vine’s abilities were, he had to divide his attention to fight the other two as well as Silver Armor.
However, before Silver Armor could rejoice, in the distance he heard the Nine Gloom Vine’s voice.
“I can’t believe the three of you showed up on my doorstep voluntarily. That’s saved me a ton of effort!” The Nine Gloom Vine’s voice sounded rather pleased. “Do you know, everyone in the world thinks that this dense forest is a lair I built for myself out of sheer boredom. However, not many know that this is actually my God Territory!”
What the Nine Gloom Vine said stunned almost everyone present.
At the same time, the forest’s environment began changing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Each one of the trees gradually turned into aged vines. Even the plants and flowers transformed themselves into thin, slender vines.
In the blink of an eye, the entire forest had turned into a world of nothing but vines.
All these vines were of different thicknesses and sizes; even some of their colors were different.
“Welcome to my Kingdom!”
The Nine Gloom Vine’s voice came from all directions as if each vine were speaking.
“Only the God Territory of a lord-level powerhouse can be called a Kingdom. What kind of a Kingdom is this? Do you really consider yourself a Lord?!” Giant Sarcoma’s mocking voice swiftly rippled through the entire area.
Beside it, Silver Armor and Crimson Eye laughed out loud.
It was not important whether it was funny or not. Right now, what they needed to do was to support each other.
“In a moment, all of you won’t be laughing anymore,” the Nine Gloom Vine’s voice sounded slightly enraged.
As soon as he was done speaking, countless vines surged toward the three of them.
Some of these vines contained various sequence powers, while some were imbued with elemental truth. Practically every strike they made was on par with a ninth-rank Heavenly God’s full-force attack.
Silver Armor and the other two did not fight the attacks head-on. Instead, they chose to use evasion as their main strategic response, figures dodging continuously and never staying still in one spot.
The display from the three of them was akin to three small skiffs floating on a turbulent ocean, in danger of being capsized at any moment…
