System's POV

A minute ago, the Warlord Pangolin was still looking down on the human boy who had tried to initiate talks with it.

A minute later, it found itself in a spacious underground cavern.

The Warlord Pangolin frowned as it looked at the hole above its head.

Although it could jump and roll around, it was impossible for it to climb back up from the hole it had fallen into.

In fact, even if it tried, it would find the path blocked by dirt and hard sediments. Rocky deliberately closed it off to ensure that the Warlord Pangolin would have nowhere to escape.

The Rank 6 and Rank 5 bodyguards of the Rank 7 Sovereign rolled off into a different tunnel, which Rocky had prepared beforehand for them.

This passage would lead them to where Giga, Blacky, Hercules, and the other members of Thirteen's Monster Army were waiting.

Giga and the others were already itching for a fight, so Thirteen decided to give them some Pangolins to bully.

Rocky then finally arrived at the spacious cavern where the Warlord Pangolin was trapped.

Fighting intent could be seen in the Magma Bal-Boa's eyes, but it didn't attack right away.

It simply opened its mouth to show the teenage boy, who had a faint smile on his face.

"Now, can we talk?" Thirteen asked.

The Warlord Pangolin didn't even bother to respond.

Instead, it rolled into a spiked wrecking ball and charged in Rocky's direction.

"Fight first, talk later?" Thirteen smirked. "Fine. Let's have it your way. Rocky, he's all yours."

Rocky then closed his mouth before immolating his entire body, making him look like a blazing snake that lit up the darkness of the underworld.

The two Rank 7 Sovereigns clashed, and Rocky found himself being pierced by the Warlord Pangolin's scales, which were as sharp as blades.

However, Rocky didn't back down and wrapped its body around the Warlord Pangolin's body.

If the Pangolin was only round without any bladed spikes, Rocky might have a hard time wrapping itself around it.

But since its blades had already pierced the Magma Bal-Boa's body, it was easier for the latter to find something to coil on, trapping the Warlord Pangolin in his fiery embrace.

The temperature inside the spacious cavern immediately rose, and the ground started to turn into lava.

Rocky was nearly an immortal at this point in time.

The moment the surroundings turned into molten lava, Rocky would be able to reconstruct his body as many times as possible even if he was sliced to pieces.

The Warlord Pangolin didn't expect that the situation would change so drastically in a short period of time.

Although it has high resistance to physical attacks, magic, and other elemental skills to a certain extent, the current situation was beyond what it could handle.

Soon, the underground cavern had transformed into a pool of molten lava, acting like a quicksand.

Rocky was using its high temperature to suffocate its enemy, removing the oxygen in the surroundings.

Unlike other monsters, Rocky didn't need oxygen to breathe, so this kind of tactic was perfect for him.

Soon, the Warlord Pangolin had no choice but to return to its normal form. No matter how hard it tried to spin or roll, the Magma Bal-Boa would just press it down into the lava, rendering it helpless.

"Still don't want to talk?" Thirteen's teasing tone reached the Warlord Pangolin's mind, making the monster screech in anger.

However, no matter how much it struggled or screeched, the end result would still be the same.

At most, in two minutes or three, the Warlord Pangolin would suffocate and lose consciousness.

If Thirteen wished to kill it, he would have already ordered Rocky to drag it to the deepest part of the Magma Pool, making it impossible for it to survive.

They had already done this strategy on the 11th Floor of the Temple of Courage when they were fighting against the Chenoo.

Thirteen had to admit that it was one of the hardest battles that he had fought alongside his monster army.

Not only was this monster fast, but it could also jump all over the place.

If not for the fact that Thirteen and Rocky collaborated to make the Chenoo's home a trap it couldn't escape from, it would have been impossible for them to defeat it with their current strength.

Because of this, Thirteen and Rocky decided to always use this strategy against tricky opponents.

As long as they knew where their opponent was going, they could immediately set a trap for it, preventing it from escaping.

However, Thirteen had underestimated the Warlord Pangolin's stubbornness.

It struggled until the bitter end and refused to back down.

Clearly, it would rather die than be humiliated by the opposing Monster, who was fighting it using a dirty tactic.

Watching this battle from inside Rocky's Mobile Fortress, Thirteen frowned.

He wanted to capture this monster alive, but it was too stubborn to submit to anyone.

What Thirteen didn't know was that the Warlord Pangolin had already faced something similar in the past.

The Master who had sent it to cross to another world like the Minotaur King and the Hercules Beetle had subjected the Warlord Pangolin to torture and humiliation until he finally succumbed to obey their order.

However, the Warlord Pangolin made an oath on that day that it would no longer lower its head to anyone else.
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It would rather die than once again lower its head to someone who wished to use it as a tool in order to reach their goals.

'Too bad, I no longer have a Capture Sphere,' Thirteen thought as a look of helplessness appeared on his face.

In the end, he ordered Rocky to finally end the monster's suffering.

Rocky obeyed and went for the kill. It dragged the Jinn to the bottom of his lava pool and bound it there.

A few minutes later, the body of the Warlord Pangolin finally stopped moving.

Thirteen ordered Rocky to take it inside the Mobile Fortress as soon as possible.

When the Warlord Pangolin appeared inside the Mobile Fortress, Thirteen asked O1 and O2 to push it toward the portal that led to the Order of the Apocalypse.

He was hoping that Metatron could revive the monster. However, he knew that Metatron could only revive monsters that had died inside his personal domain.

And just like Thirteen's conclusion, the God of the Apocalypse was unable to grant his request.

"It's really a pity that you weren't able to convince it to serve you," Metatron sighed. "I can see the potential of this monster."

"I find it a pity too," Thirteen replied. "I guess I'll take it to Erasmus and have him revived into an Undead Monster. Can I store it in my personal storage for a while?"

"You can," Metatron nodded. "Should I store it for you?"

"Yes, please," Thirteen answered.

After the Warlord Pangolin had been taken care of, Thirteen returned to Rocky's mobile fortress and ordered him to go to where Giga and the others were.

When they arrived at the scene, they were just in time to hear Pico's shout which was filled with ridicule.

"Do you monsters know what time it is?" Pico the Pocopoco asked.

"It's Gang Bang Time!"

As soon as those words left the Pocopoco's lips, Giga and the rest of Thirteen's Monster Army clashed with the Pangolins, who had landed in a place where they shouldn't have gone.