The laugh echoed throughout the world.The next moment, the earth split apart, and a body came out of it.It was Shang!And he had fully recovered!At this moment, even the Archivist became nervous.They had all needed to attack Shang together to destroy him!And now, they were back at the beginning, but with one difference.The Archivist's Horn was gone!Without his Horn, the Archivist's defense wouldn't be nearly as solid.If Shang began to attack again, the Archivist might very quickly run out of Mana unless he decided to use two of his artifacts to defend himself.Now, the Archivist needed the five Emperors!Without the five of them, the Archivist would most likely not be able to win against Shang!The Archivist turned to Kali, Abaddon, and Gregorio with a warning gaze.They were not allowed to interfere this time!The other five Emperors nodded with conviction toward each other and readied for another battle with Shang.This one would be much more difficult, but it wasn't impossible to win!And this time, they would make sure that Shang would die!"Hahahahaha!"The eyes of the Emperors opened in shock as another laugh came from below the ground.The next moment, another spot in the ground broke apart, and what the Emperors saw made them believe that they had entered a nightmare.A third Shang had appeared!"Hahahaha!"A fourth one!Even the Archivist's eyes were filled with terror now.With the Archivist's knowledge and experience, he could tell that all of these bodies were real!All of Shang's bodies began to grin at the same time.Then, they chuckled a bit as something new was revealed.A huge black tendril came out of their backs and vanished into the ground.The next moment, the tendrils waved around a bit, and the different Shangs flopped around like puppets.The Emperors couldn't come to terms with what they were seeing.They had been fighting a puppet?!A mere puppet?!Another tendril came out of the ground, but this one didn't have a puppet at the end.The tendril was quite damaged, and based on what they could see, the Emperors could tell that this had been the tendril of the Shang puppet they had killed.And then, a new Shang grew out of the tendril, who just echoed the chuckles of his brethren.The world seemed to stop.The Emperors looked with horror at the Shangs.The Archivist looked with horror at the Shangs.Kali looked with horror at the Shangs.Abaddon looked with horror at the Shangs.Gregorio was the only one that showed no reaction.From the very beginning, this had never been a fight."HOW?!" Brutus Cesar shouted in desperation and horror.
"HOW ARE YOU THIS POWERFUL?!""Hahahaha!"The Shangsjust laughed.Then, the ground began to shake again, but this time, the shaking was even more intense.CRACK!Gigantic cracks and crevices appeared below them, and the minds of the Emperors stopped working.The next moment, a black mass became visible through the cracks, and just a bit later, small black swords slowly rose from the crevices.Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of different swords all rose from the crevices, each of them being swung by tendrils.And then, the ground between them was turned into sand as some kind of grinding force rose upward.One humongous black mass rose from the ground, and uncountable sharp blades were rapidly moving across its surface.