The air fell silent. Everyone watched this scene. Greysius stood frozen in place, his gaze towards Baixi indescribable.
Bai Xi remained calm and composed, ignoring the gazes of others. She even exerted some force with her foot, sliding down a little further until she stepped on Grexius's lower abdomen.
Greysius's serpentine eyes instantly shrank to needle-like size, locking onto Bai Xi. His Adam's apple bobbed up and down, no longer as indifferent as before, but like an uncontrollable raging fire, almost burning Bai Xi to ashes.
"Owner?"
He muttered to himself, seemingly chewing on the title repeatedly, his eyes growing darker as he looked at Bai Xi, a dangerous aura spreading around him, giving people a strong sense of crisis.
Bai Xi seemed not to feel anything, simply propping her elbows forward slightly, bringing her head closer to Greysius, squinting her eyes, and raising the corners of her eyes.
"What? Isn't that right?"
As she finished speaking, she tilted her head and spoke in a somewhat naive tone, like the tempting apple in the Garden of Eden, enticing sin and greed to pluck it.
Greysius's breathing became noticeably rapid, the foot pressing down on him felt like it was on fire. He felt no anger at being insulted, but rather...
That feeling was like lava about to erupt, burning a person to ashes.
In an instant, his well-defined knuckles gripped Bai Xi's ankle tightly. The vastly different bone structure allowed him to easily hold her in one hand.
Bai Xi looked somewhat surprised, as if she hadn't expected a slave to actually dare to lay a hand on her.
However, she wasn't angry. Instead, she raised an eyebrow, kicked the person away with a powerful slap.
Gracius hadn't expected that Bai Xi's small body contained such great energy. Caught off guard, he stumbled and was actually thrown off by Bai Xi.
Bai Xi withdrew her foot and stopped looking at Greyxius's reaction. Of course, she also missed Greyxius's deep, serpentine eyes, which seemed to want to tear her apart and devour her whole.
She yawned, looking rather bored, and glanced around the entire statue square again.
"In short, thank you all for your help. We don't need you to do anything more now."
Bai Xi's tone was indifferent, without much emotion, as if the ambiguous atmosphere just now was a phantom, a bubble, and had not left a trace in her heart at all.
She was referring to the matter of fighting Tartarus. Ever since merging with this body, she had known one thing: her ultimate goal was still to fight Tartarus.
Although she wasn't sure how many times she had encountered this monster, she was always unable to eradicate it completely, so the continent of Coral would continue to be under the shadow of the abyss's threat.
In fact... the reason she traveled here was to completely eliminate the Abyss.
"Use it and then throw it away? That's going too far, you liar."
Ulysses' slightly teasing voice rang out in the Statue Square.
Bai Xi turned her head and fixed her gaze on him, revealing a thoughtful expression, but still spoke.
"It's not like I'm just using you and then throwing you away. We made a promise, and this time I'll keep my word and give you the coordinates all at once as payment for helping you out. How about it?"
Her eyes crinkled with a smile as she spoke, sweet as honey fresh from the hive, flowing out and enveloping the heart, so sweet it was irresistible, yet not cloying.
As for what she said, there was absolutely no lying involved.
However, the reason is quite simple. First of all, Ulysses is now powerless against her. Her body is ridiculously powerful, probably because of Eros.
There's no way to measure her by worldly standards anymore; perhaps her current strength is greater than all the gods combined?
Bai Xi wasn't sure either, since she had never actually fought against them, so she wasn't entirely certain.
There is another reason...
She found the Nightmare Crescent, which was inside her body.
She didn't deny that Ulysses had been a great help this time, but she still remembered everything that had happened before, and those threats and shadows didn't disappear just because she became stronger.
She holds grudges very well.
Therefore... grudges must be clearly distinguished. After settling the score of 'gratitude,' it will be her turn to take revenge.
As for whether Ulysses will come looking for revenge or whether she will be sealed away until death, she is ready to fight to the bitter end.
Perhaps because Bai Xi's attitude was too unusual, this time Ulysses did not treat her with the same ease as usual, but instead adopted a serious expression. The two stared at each other for an unknown period of time.
Finally, Ulysses curled the corners of his mouth into a smile.
"The con artist's murderous intent towards me was as sweet as her smile, and as venomous as her deceitful intent."
He saw through Bai Xi's disguise and the malice hidden beneath her skin. However, Bai Xi hadn't intended to hide it anyway, so she wasn't very surprised that the old monster had seen through her.
"Good to know."
Bai Xi said calmly.
It doesn't matter, she'll get her revenge anyway.
However, taking advantage of someone's misfortune is ultimately a despicable act, and she will openly and fairly beat up Ulysses.
Intelligent people tend to keep their conversations brief and to the point. Ulysses didn't say anything more. As for why the others remained silent...
The others are still reeling from the shock of Bai Xi's drastic change in personality.
The situation was most severe in Norfield.
He looked at Bai Xi with a complicated expression. He had been the God of Light for so long. Although he couldn't be said to be a particularly upright or excellent god, he was still the God of Light.
In addition, Bai Xi's previous impression of him was that he was a person with a strong sense of justice, willing to help others, and unable to bear the suffering of the people.
Even in her human form's memories, Hyakushi is a very kind and gentle person.
Therefore, after witnessing Bai Xi's behavior, she was the most severely affected, while the slight morbid madness hidden in the human host was forcibly suppressed by Nophiel.
This clashed severely with his personality and divine position; as the God of Light, he could not have thoughts like imprisonment.
Nofel closed his eyes several times, trying to banish these thoughts.
Even though his memories as a human being were only a short twenty-odd years, which should not be able to withstand the impact of the years when he was a god, he still couldn't completely control himself.
Even... when he thought of the scene of Bai Xi disappearing before his eyes during the struggle for the divine throne, his evil thoughts were nourished and grew stronger, taking root directly in his heart.
Not to mention the scene we just witnessed, Gretius and Besh... Jealousy grew like wildfire.
But he is a god, so he cannot.
Moreover, Bai Xi now is so different from the Bai Xi of the past, and he felt somewhat lost.
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