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After silently complaining a few more times in her heart, Echidna held up the Book of Wisdom and began reading aloud the contents inside.

"The following are two methods to kill the Witch of Vainglory, Pandora, absolutely true and effective, absolutely without any fabrication, and absolutely without any deliberate modification."

Method One: Completely destroy the entire world to break the Authority of Pandora, the Witch of Vainglory. The Authority of the Witch of Vainglory comes from the causality of the world, she cannot surpass the world.

Note: This method is not recommended. Destroying the world requires extremely powerful strength, and it is very difficult to execute.

Method Two: Reach the highest level of swordsmanship, the legendary Heavenly Sword, which can briefly sever the Authority connection with Pandora, the Witch of Vainglory, and slay her in an extremely short period.

Note: From the birth of the world until now, only the First Sword Saint Reid has ever reached the Heavenly Sword. Without extremely formidable swordsmanship talent, trying is not recommended.

Having finished reading all the contents written in the book, Echidna closed the book and looked cautiously at Kenma.

"This is everything given by the Book of Wisdom, there is nothing else."

But in reality, Echidna was lying.

She was not deceiving Kenma, the Book of Wisdom truly only displayed these two methods.

The problem, however, was that this Authority was ultimately controlled by her own hands. She could choose the methods to be displayed, reducing or expanding the search scope.

From the moment her head was pinched by the purplish-black hand just now, Echidna had already understood that Satella, the Witch of Envy had set up a barrier of power. Anyone who wanted to pry into her existence would suffer a backlash from her power.

Besides the two methods recorded in the book, there was actually another method.

Satella, the Witch of Envy, the terrifying entity that destroyed half the world, was able to kill Pandora, the Witch of Vainglory head-on. This was also an effective way to kill Pandora.

Yet Echidna manipulated the Book of Wisdom to display two methods, purely wishing to avoid listing any information regarding Satella to prevent suffering another backlash.

After listening to the two methods listed by Echidna, Kenma nodded and reached out to pat her shoulder.

"Not bad, you put in some effort this time."

Having received Kenma's praise, although there were no ripples in Echidna's heart, on the surface she definitely had to put on an appearance of being extremely grateful for the praise.

With both hands pinching the sides of her skirt, she struck a respectful greeting posture. Every movement was just right, with a serene smile hanging on her face.

"You're welcome, Master. These are all things I should do. As long as you are happy..."

A hand pinched her skull, interrupting the rest of Echidna's unfinished words.

Kenma raised his head, a ferocious smile revealing itself on his face. "However, have you forgotten that under the effect of the contract, I can hear all the words in your heart?"

"You've complained a lot, haven't you? It looks like you have quite a big opinion of me. How about this, I am a kind-hearted person and won't subject you to those violent punishments."

Finishing his words, he pulled Echidna back into his body.

Falling back down into the dark space within his mind, Echidna's expression stiffened. Only then did she finally remember that although the contract signed back then didn't explicitly state it, Kenma could learn everything about her, which naturally included her psychological activities.

Just as Echidna was cursing herself inwardly for her miscalculation, Kenma's voice echoed in her mind.

"Since you enjoy physical pain so much, I shall change methods. After all, I am not some evil person."

"From this moment on, your sensory time is adjusted to a ratio of 1 to 6000. One minute outside is 100 hours for you, and your five senses are sealed. Enjoy it slowly."

After hearing all the words, Echidna's pupils suddenly contracted. Putting on a flustered appearance, she hastily reached out.

"Wait—"

Everything before her eyes plunged into darkness.

Cannot hear, cannot see, cannot touch, cannot taste, cannot smell.

As if everything had fallen into endless nothingness.

Echidna stopped her movements, the corners of her lips curving into an arc.

It worked!

She had long since grown tired of the stimulation of thunder, and was just fretting over having no new punishments, when Kenma unexpectedly designed an even better thing for her.

Solitary confinement play... How interesting.

Now let me see what happens to a person under 100 years of solitary confinement. This is a completely unobserved new perspective.

Carrying a satisfied smile, Echidna lay down on the ground with her five senses sealed.

...

Having resolved the issue on Echidna's side, Kenma began to ponder the three feasible methods.

As for why there were three instead of the two written in the Book of Wisdom, it was naturally because Echidna's inner thoughts had leaked out.

Otherwise, if it were just pure complaining, he wouldn't have been angry.

The first method was thoroughly unfeasible. If the entire world were blown to smithereens, what would be the point of killing Pandora?

In Kenma's eyes, the entire world belonged to him and served as an ample reserve of energy. If he had the opportunity to march into other worlds in the future, everyone in this world would be his reserve army.

Therefore, Method One of destroying the world, pass.

If it required sacrificing a massive amount of resources just to kill an enemy, an enemy that couldn't even pose a fatal threat to him, then it wasn't worth it.

That was Kenma's thought.