Chapter 42 A Slap in the Face

Facing the Star Apostle, Grell spoke again, saying the same words as before: "This was just an accident. Li Tianran and our race have only the purest hatred between them. Apart from that, there is no relationship whatsoever..."

Boom!

Grell's words stopped abruptly, and a dazzling burst of fire suddenly erupted within the cavern!

The Star Apostle had actually attacked with extreme abruptness!

It used its Ancient God ability to instantly set Grell's body ablaze. Flames erupted from every pore, drilling into Grell's body and frantically burning away the newly healed organs and bones!

In just one second, Grell's body was once again reduced to a charred head.

This sudden change was something no one had expected.

"Star! You're courting death!" the Gale Apostle roared in anger. It never expected the Star Apostle to dare attack its subordinate in front of it. When it reacted, its wings flapped, and an extremely sharp gangfeng (fierce wind) shot out from its fingertips, directly engulfing the Star Apostle.

Crack!

The Star Apostle calmly crushed Grell's charred head and tossed it aside like garbage.

This time, Grell's life signs completely disappeared. Its life defect was struck and completely shattered!

Bang!

The tiny but sharp gangfeng (fierce wind) blades landed on the Star Apostle, completely tearing apart its white suit, but the Star Apostle's figure instantly transformed into a streak of fire and moved in another direction.

The Gale Apostle picked up the charred remains of Grell's head that had been tossed aside, its state resembling that of a furious lion king.

Grell had followed the Gale Apostle for thousands of years, making great contributions to the rise of the race.

It had survived countless brutal battles against foreign enemies.

Not long ago, in order to create an escape opportunity for its fellow clansmen, it faced the powerful mecha warriors alone, its limbs and wings torn off, its body completely shattered, its life hanging by a thread, but it ultimately returned alive to the Gale Apostle.

Grell, who could survive such brutal blood battles, was now dead at the hands of the Star Apostle, who was also from an ancient civilization!

And it happened right in front of the Gale Apostle!

The life and death of a follower might not be very important to an apostle, even if it had followed them for countless years!

But now, being killed by someone else in front of its face was a completely different matter!

What did this represent?

It meant that the Gale Apostle no longer had the ability to protect its race in front of other apostles. It meant that the Star Apostle no longer respected the Gale Apostle as an existence on the same level as itself. It meant that the Gale Apostle was about to fall from grace!

This was what the Gale Apostle absolutely could not tolerate!

The Star Apostle arrived in front of another Gale follower who had escaped from the warship and asked in the same calm tone: "Gore, can you answer this question for me?"

"I fainted at the time and was unconscious..." the Gale follower said, trembling.

The Star Apostle shook its head and casually pressed its fingertip on the other party's brow. In an instant, terrifyingly high-temperature flames spewed out from the other party's eye sockets, nostrils, ears, and mouth!

In the blink of an eye, a powerful follower was burned into a pile of ashes on the ground!

"Star! I fuck your mother..." the Gale Apostle roared in anger. It waved its wings, and endless gangfeng (fierce wind) surged from all directions, pressing down on the Star Apostle.

The Star Apostle raised its hand, and countless sun-like fireballs floated behind it, sweeping towards the gangfeng (fierce wind).

Boom!

The terrifying fire tornado formed by the condensation of wind and fire raged within the entire cavern, tearing apart the bodies of those Gale followers who didn't have time to dodge, and screams echoed continuously.

The equipment and reinforced walls within the cavern were also collapsing!

Under the sea.

Two behemoths guarded the entrance to the underground dark river passage. Suddenly, they both raised their heads and looked forward.

The seabed was shaking, and a dark crack appeared on the volcanic body where the cavern was located, from the foot of the mountain to the peak!

Soon, the cracks rapidly increased, from one to a hundred, then from a hundred to a thousand, ten thousand!

Dazzling wind and fire overflowed from these dark cracks, as if this volcano, which had been dead for many years, was about to erupt again.

"Boom!"

Three seconds later, the entire underwater volcano completely collapsed, and endless fire and light, mixed with strong gangfeng (fierce wind), swept in all directions.

The Ocean Apostle and the Night Apostle retreated, avoiding the affected area of the wind and fire.

Even they didn't want to get involved in the energy center of the battle between two Ancient God-type apostles!

In the area where the wind and fire were most intense, two figures constantly clashed and collided at speeds that the naked eye could not even follow. Each contact caused the sea to shake, large areas of seawater were evaporated, and terrifying energy overflowed.

When two apostles, especially Ancient God-type apostles known for their destructive power, clashed, the energy they generated was enough to destroy everything around them.

That cavern, that volcano, and the equipment inside the cavern, and... the Gale followers who didn't have time to escape!

Yes.

Most of the followers who had luckily escaped from Li Tianran's warship and the followers who were originally in the cavern died in the clash between the Gale Apostle and the Star Apostle.

"Gale, Star! Enough!"

After the war lasted for three minutes, the Night and Ocean Apostles finally took action. They forcibly intervened in the battle and separated the Star Apostle and the Gale Apostle.

"Do you want to come at me together? Come on, let's go!" the furious Gale Apostle roared, its body covered in charred scars, looking like a madman.

The Star Apostle was no better off, its skin covered in wounds torn by the gangfeng (fierce wind), and some places even exposed bare bones!

"Gale, you've misunderstood! We didn't want to start a war with you!" the Night Apostle said.

"Killing my followers in front of me, forcing me to admit your slander against me... to me, this is a declaration of war!" the Gale Apostle roared, its eyes full of hatred.

"Star's methods were indeed too violent and extreme..." the Ocean Apostle's female head stretched out and said in a cold voice, "But there are indeed too many doubts about this matter! However, if clarifying the truth of this matter comes at the cost of the ancient civilization splitting apart, we would rather stop here!"

"This matter ends here, we will no longer pursue the truth! And the war must stop!"

The Ocean Apostle came to the Star Apostle and said, word by word, "We will not allow the war to continue, otherwise, we will use violent means to stop it!"

"It killed my followers, destroyed my construction... and now you're telling me to stop the war, and the condition is to stop pursuing a slander that doesn't even exist?" The Gale Apostle looked at the three apostles, at the ruins under its feet, and at the remains of its followers in the ruins, and felt completely desperate.

It also understood that the essence of what happened today was simply these three apostles targeting it.

They knew very well that Grell and the other followers' escape was a strategy by Li Tianran, and they also knew very well that the Gale Apostle would not reach any agreement with Li Tianran.

They didn't care about the truth.

What they cared about was that this matter gave them a reason to target the Gale Apostle!

The three apostles had previously given the Gale Apostle's race the task of gathering information, but the Gale Apostle chose to seize resources for itself, and when questioned, it retorted very strongly.

An apostle who had lost a miracle building already had a huge gap in status compared to other apostles.

And clearly, the Gale Apostle didn't seem to have recognized the situation yet.

The Gale Apostle's attitude aroused the dissatisfaction of the three apostles, but because of the "friendship" of countless years of coexistence, they didn't tear their faces apart and violently suppress the Gale Apostle.

They were also wary of the possibility that if they tore their faces apart in public, the Earth Apostle might return in the future and rectify their actions.

Therefore, they could only find a "legitimate reason" to suppress the Gale Apostle!

And at this time, Li Tianran gave them a so-called "legitimate reason"!

Therefore, the three apostles immediately gathered together, with the Star Apostle coming forward and the other two apostles backing them up, and conducted an extremely violent purge of the Gale Apostle.

They destroyed the cavern that the Gale Apostle had worked so hard to gather materials to build, and also killed more than two hundred of its followers.

They said a lot of high-sounding words, but in reality, the only message they wanted to convey to the Gale Apostle was...

You are just an apostle who has lost a miracle building, and you are no longer qualified to sit on an equal footing with us!

If you don't obey our orders, this is the consequence!