Chapter 734: Leaving the Lightning Berserk Region
Max barely paused, his gaze flicking sideways as Ben’s fierce, battle-hardened eyes locked onto him from across the cavern, he instantly sensing his presence like a predator detecting a ripple in the air.
But before Ben could so much as blink, Max lifted his other hand and released a black flaming lotus, its petals swirling outward with eerie grace as it hovered in the air. The lotus emitted a deep, ominous hum, crackling with dark flames that pulsed with sinister energy, cloaking the cavern in shifting shadows.
"STOP—!" Ben roared, surging forward like a lightning bolt, his aura erupting around him in a brilliant white blaze. But even as his powerful body blurred across the cavern, Max was already gone. With another silent flicker of spatial energy, Max vanished, slipping into the folds of space as if he’d never been there at all.
The members of Thunder Monarch Hall stood frozen in stunned silence, their eyes wide and mouths agape as they tried to process what had just happened. The entire sequence—from Max’s appearance, the theft of the ten eyes, to his disappearing act—had unfolded in the span of mere breaths, so fast that none of them had even managed to raise a weapon.
When they finally registered the loss, all that remained was the black flaming lotus, hovering serenely above the spider’s corpse. Its sinister flames danced and flickered, casting shifting shadows across the blood-slicked walls as a soft sizzling sound filled the silence.
The lotus hung in the air like a mocking farewell, a dark emblem of the man who had struck from the shadows, stolen their prize, and slipped away without leaving a trace.
Even Ben, breathing hard and eyes narrowed with rage and frustration, stood there glaring at the lotus, knowing that despite his speed and power, he’d been outmaneuvered.
Max was gone, leaving only silence, fading embers, and the knowledge that the Thunder Monarch Hall had just been thoroughly—and humiliatingly—outplayed.
And then...