So despite stamping the ground with so much force that the ground racked up and shook as if an earthquake had just happened, he only felt a little pressure from the ground.
The pressure just wasn’t enough to force him to either come up or die on the ground. The pressure wasn’t even enough to stop the drill from working.
She wasn’t willing to give up, though. She continued to stomp on the ground as hard as she could.
But no matter what she did, Loki continued to drill through the ground. She could only continue to make futile attempts to force him.
However, Loki wasn’t exactly happy with this success. This was because he had been hoping that her hatred would blind her and her anger would make her follow him into the ground.
He hadn’t entered the ground to avoid her since she couldn’t harm him on the surface. He had only entered the ground to use it to trap her.
Since his plan wasn’t working, he decided to come up with something else. He used the drill to come to the surface and began flying away in the direction of the next city that he planned to raid.
The guardian of light didn’t know the true reason he had come up and thought that he had done so because her actions were so effective. So she smiled as she gave chase.
With the two of them moving at their top speed, they made great progress in the direction that Loki had picked. But one was a bull being plagued by a fly.
The fly couldn’t do anything to the bull other than inconvenience the bull from time to time. The bull also couldn’t do anything to the fly even though all he needed to kill the fly was a good contact strike because the fly was too fast and highly sensitive to danger.
The two moved together like this in a delicate balance. There was no progress in their respective missions to kill each other. So they were looking for something to interfere with their delicate balance and tip the scales in their favor.
Meanwhile, outside the small world. The five divine beings were still monitoring the situation with their eyes closed. But there was a slight change in the situation.
The slight change was that a small airship had flown over to their location and had stopped some distance away from the small world.
The five divine beings didn’t open their eyes to look, but they didn’t need their eyes to sense that someone had arrived or to determine how many people were on the airship.
The airship in question had stopped at a position that was farther away than the airship of the Four Directions Sect that brought the soldiers here. This was so that it wouldn’t look like it was trying to approach the small world.
There were many people on the new airship. Many of them were servants in charge of keeping the airship running. Only one person had a glowing mark on their forehead.
This person with the glowing mark on their forehead was looking at the small world intensely with a gaze that could melt plastic. Of course, their peculiar gaze couldn’t be seen because this person was armored from head to toe in black armor.
The armor they were wearing looked like plate armor. But the plates that made up the armor were too thick. The metal plates looked more like metal slabs because of their thickness.
The metal slabs were layered and interlocked with each other to form an armor that looked like the arrangement of the shell of a tortoise.
The armor was also made in such a way that it had three layers of metal slabs piled on top of each other. So the three layers would need to be breached before the person beneath the armor could be harmed.
At a glance, it is clear that this person is a rank 5 cultivator. It is also clear that they are a forge cultivator with the Armored Shell Life Ability.
This Armored Shell Life Ability isn’t mutated. For a rank 5 cultivator, an unmutated Life Ability is a bad thing. But instead of busying themselves trying to find a way to fix this problem, this rank 5 forger has come to this small world for some reason.
As the rank 5 looked at the small world, he took out his token and used it to send messages to someone.
Usually, tokens can’t be used to send messages to others unless they are in the same communication group serving the sect on the same mission. But rank 5 cultivators can use their tokens to send messages to anyone because they are stewards of the sect.
In the Four Directions Sect and most sects, the hierarchy of relationships goes from outer disciple, inner disciple, stewards, and elders. Stewards can only be rank 5 cultivators, while elders can only be divine beings.
One of the benefits of being a steward is gaining the privilege to assign rank 4 people who will serve as commanders of Earthly Battlefields. So only those who are connected to stewards can serve as commanders of the Earthly Battlefields.
Another kind of benefit is being able to send messages to anyone in the Four Directions Sect through the tokens. This is the privilege that this rank 5 cultivator has used now.
This rank 5 cultivator sent a message saying, "How is it? Have you captured him?"
The other side replied, saying, "I still haven’t found him. How can I capture him if I can’t find him?"
He became impatient as he said, "Then find him. I am paying too much to get this kind of service from you."
The other side snorted and said, "If I could find him, I would have done so already. This task is like looking for a needle in a haystack."
"If I were a seer, then you would have the right to be pissed. But I am not a seer, so getting angry that I can’t find something is undeserved."
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