Chapter 173 Drowning in the Starry Sea

Banuk拉克 was surprised to find himself in a state he had never experienced before: no foothold, no support, floating in a void, while countless powerful energies poured into his body, tearing at the fragile tissues beneath his carapace. He felt suffocated—but suffocation wasn't too much of a problem for a demon of this level. What was truly fatal was that he sensed an incredibly powerful light behind him, a light wrapped in scorching and bizarre energy that made him feel his flesh dying every second.

The thick carapace and demon shield seemed to have failed, and the body of this demon lord was rapidly being broken down into a mass of high-molecular pulp.

Banuk拉克 struggled desperately. The blinding light was surging from behind, and he desperately waved his limbs to see what those lights were, but such movements were useless in a vacuum. He tried to use his demonic magic to escape this strange place, but found that an unprecedentedly powerful force was tightly gripping him from behind. It was an incredible gravitational pull, dragging him rapidly into the light and preventing him from casting any spatial magic.

Feeling his life rapidly fading, this ancient demon king finally felt fear. He found that the strange man who had sent him here was just ahead, and immediately tried to make a sound: "Stop... stop... I don't want to be your enemy! I was bewitched by Seraton! I can pledge allegiance to the Mad Lord again... or even directly to you! Stop it now! Get me out of here..."

His voice was swallowed by the vacuum. Apart from feeling his carapace trembling, no sound came out.

Hao Ren was "standing" in the void not far in front of Banuk拉克. The shield on his body flickered, resisting radiation and other kinds of particle streams in space, as if his entire body was shrouded in a humanoid torch. He watched the huge beetle slowly fall into the light, wondering what the other party would say at this time—but unfortunately, he couldn't hear anything. In the end, Hao Ren could only shrug and mutter to himself, "This is the starry sea you once disdained."

Banuk拉克, the ancient demon known for his cunning and fence-sitting, had constantly changed camps, taken advantage of opportunities, and switched flags throughout his life, rising from a lowest-level hell worm to the position of demon king. He had betrayed countless allies and lords, but relied on cunning and an almost limitless willingness to compromise to survive for longer than other demons. But today, he finally met his end: drowning in the fiery sea of a star.

The facts proved that great conspiracies and long-term plans could only add icing to the cake. Decisive power could always solve most problems roughly: Banuk拉克 was ultimately killed by the power of nature, and he died quickly and thoroughly.

Hao Ren glanced at the remaining shield energy and turned his head decisively: "Withdraw."

A real man never looks back at a large bug that has been roasted to a crisp.

At this time, the battlefield was completely out of order. At least, the Allied Forces of the Holy See and the demon legions were completely chaotic. The unprecedented battlefield situation left even the most experienced old generals at a loss. The soldiers could only scurry around in the bombardment, and the resistance was disintegrated in the shortest time. When the demon king's army and the Aerym fleet saw this, they no longer paid attention to the soldiers who were no longer a great threat. Instead, they focused on destroying the remaining magic cannons and tainted energy cannons on the battlefield—they weren't here to kill the enemy in the first place. As long as they could cover the withdrawal of the space fortress in the sky, the Allied Forces of the Holy See and the demon legions weren't their target.

"Destroy the cannons! Don't bother with the remaining enemies!" Izhaks waved his giant sword and ordered the soldiers behind him, also shouting to the enemies on the scene, "Our mission is to cover the withdrawal!"

The allied soldiers and legion demons gradually realized that they weren't the targets of those cannons and chainsaw swords, so the instinct to save their lives finally surpassed the desire to fight. The guards of the anti-aircraft artillery positions scattered almost immediately, and Gregory couldn't stop them.

Hao Ren's figure reappeared on Lily's head. He tied a super-huge meat bone to the spear and pointed it towards Izhaks: "Join up!"

Lily's eyes widened, and she roared and charged towards the main formation of the demon king's army. Vivian's figure also appeared from a cloud of blood mist. The combat power of all parties reunited. Izhaks looked at the chaotic battlefield around him, confirmed that the tainted energy cannons had been silenced, and nodded vigorously: "This is not a place to stay for long, let's go."

Hao Ren and his party, under the cover of the obsidian behemoths, quickly withdrew from the battlefield. Almost none of the hostile legion demons on the scene came up to stop them: After Seraton and Banuk拉克 died, these guys had already lost their morale and had little desire to fight.

This was the case with most of the soldiers under the demon kings. Apart from the eternal oddball Izhaks, who had cultivated a group of loyal followers, the loyalty of normal demons was always questionable. What's more, they had to face the Mad Lord, who had been beating them up for the past few hundred years? Seeing Izhaks rushing over fiercely, these low- and mid-level demons ran faster than Lily on the spot. Hao Ren and the others withdrew smoothly all the way.

The group returned to Demon King City, and Vimm's communication also came at the same time: "Anti-aircraft firepower has been cleared, and the enemy doesn't seem to intend to resist."

Hao Ren wiped the sweat from his forehead, his face full of smiles: "Then full throttle—let's go!"

The Aerym fleet covered the wreckage of the huge spaceship, and Demon King City followed closely behind. This strange air force was at full power, and under the gaze of the soldiers of all races who were still deeply in panic on the ground, they quickly moved away towards the western sky of the Shattered Plains. The space fortress, hundreds of kilometers long, was so huge that it was still in the field of vision of those soldiers for a long time, like a gradually drifting cloud in the sky, until a strong flash broke out at the end of the horizon, and that huge shadow completely disappeared.

The journey that followed could basically be described as "all the way with sparks and lightning."

The team only spent some time at the beginning and encountered strong resistance from the enemy: In order to accelerate the wreckage of the space fortress, which was hundreds of kilometers long and had multiple structural damages, the Aerym fleet's tugboats took a lot of effort to reach the highest speed, and they were smeared with the Allied Forces of the Holy See and the demons. But after the speed was increased, and the most powerful wave of allied forces in this world was thrown off, no one could stop this group of people with the wrong style from rushing out of this world.

The Petrified Turtle Rock was at the forefront of the fleet as the lead ship, but no one was driving it now: Even the data terminal had skipped work from the spaceship console to help. But this didn't affect the Petrified Turtle Rock from performing this simple navigation task: No complex combat calculations were needed, and no data for analyzing hyperspace navigation was needed. Now the fleet only needed to return the same way it came, and it was enough to hand over the navigation task to automatic navigation.

One natural space gate after another was expanded into space rifts of hundreds of kilometers by the Petrified Turtle Rock's powerful super-space module. Supernatural phenomena that could be called miracles spread all the way in one space bubble after another. Hao Ren and his group led the fleet out with sparks and lightning all the way, and the passes they broke through were simply a formality: The demon legions and the Allied Forces of the Holy See didn't stop these people with most of their assets, so what could the sentries near the space gate do?

Many sentries hadn't even had time to change shifts, and they were still the same group of people who had seen these aliens roaring past from the sky before. These confused soldiers stared blankly at the sky, and many of them were wondering: Why are these grandsons here again? Is this thing divided into two parts?

A small number of sentries received magic communications directly from the Allied Forces of the Holy See at this time. The supreme commander ordered them to intercept the Mad Lord and his alien army at all costs—many sentry captains jumped up on the spot. The old officers pointed at the large group of rumbling steel monsters in the sky and shouted: That's easy to say, are we going to smash these monsters with bricks!

"The next one is the last 'inhabited' plane," the data terminal's voice came from Hao Ren's pocket, "Izhaks, do you want to say a few polite words?"

Izhaks thought for a while, and he really did: "Let me prepare."

So in the last frontier plane with human residents, when the Aerym fleet was about to cross the last teleportation gate, the frantic gate guards heard the voice of the Mad Lord:

"I will reshape my army in the depths of the universe. One day I will make a comeback! You can wait here for the end to come!"

The teleportation gate suddenly expanded into a glorious light curtain, and the entire fleet disappeared in front of those panicked human sentries.

Izhaks turned to look at Hao Ren and grinned: "Do one last good thing for this world." (Want to know more exciting news about "The Record of Unusual Creatures"? Now open WeChat, click the "+" sign in the upper right corner, select Add Friends, add the official account by searching for "Qidianzhongwenwang", follow the official account, and you will never miss every update! 51read)