The king's words! A gate to the heavens, a living hell!

"A Sovereign?"

"Just as well."

"My hands are getting a bit itchy."

Lin Yuan's casual voice, in the deathly silence of the bridge, exploded in everyone's ears like billions of tons of explosives!

Itchy hands?

You call facing a Sovereign-level powerhouse 'itchy hands'?!

Qin Pojun's lone eye twitched frantically.

That was a Sovereign!

A truly terrifying existence standing at the pinnacle of the myriad races' pyramid, capable of standing on equal footing with a King-Sealing Expert of the Human Alliance!

Each one was a walking world-ending natural disaster!

And now, Your Excellency actually said he was just... itchy-handed?

"Madness... this is madness..."

General Patton's lips were pale as he murmured incessantly.

He felt as if his worldview had been crushed repeatedly countless times today.

First the paperweight, then the elimination of nine races, then a single thought creating ten thousand swords, and now, utter disdain for a Sovereign!

He no longer knew what expression to use to face this man.

Vladimir's body was as tense as a block of steel.

His brain was frantically performing a combat power assessment.

A Sovereign-level Abyssal Demon Kin... His Excellency Lin Yuan... odds of winning... he couldn't calculate it at all!

Because one of the variables had completely exceeded the scope of his cognition!

"Your Excellency!" Qin Pojun finally found his voice. He took a step forward, his tone urgent and solemn. "That is an Abyssal Sovereign! According to the Alliance's highest-level intelligence, any Sovereign possesses the terrifying power to easily destroy a nation! We..."

He hadn't finished his sentence.

He was interrupted by Lin Yuan.

"And?"

Lin Yuan turned back and looked at him calmly.

There was not a single ripple in those eyes, as if the nation-destroying Sovereign Qin Pojun spoke of was no different from a stone by the side of the road.

"..."

Qin Pojun was completely choked by these two words.

And?

And we should temporarily avoid their sharp edge!

And we should request support from the Alliance's King-Sealing Experts!

And for our few thousand warships to charge over like this is just suicide!

These words rolled around in his throat countless times, but he couldn't spit out a single word.

Because, looking at Lin Yuan's face, he suddenly had an utterly absurd thought.

Perhaps... in the eyes of Your Excellency, a Sovereign really... isn't much?

"Full speed."

Lin Yuan withdrew his gaze, looked back at the dark starry sky, and uttered two words.

"What?" Qin Pojun was stunned.

"I said, full speed ahead."

Lin Yuan's voice was still indifferent.

But this time, it carried an unquestionable tone of command.

"But Your Excellency! The load on the warship engines..."

"Then overload them." Lin Yuan's voice turned cold. "I don't want to repeat myself a third time."

"..."

The entire bridge fell into a deathly silence once more.

Fine beads of cold sweat broke out on Qin Pojun's forehead.

He could feel that Lin Yuan was truly getting a bit impatient.

He took a deep breath, and then, using all his strength, let out a sky-shaking roar into the communicator!

"Pass down my orders!"

"All ships! Engines to overload! Energy core output to three hundred percent!"

"Target! The Gate of Heavens Fall!"

"All forces! Assault!!!"

Rumble rumble rumble—!!!!

The entire United Fleet was like a steel behemoth instantly enraged!

The engines of thousands of warships spat out flares more brilliant than stars!

The terrifying thrust even caused ripples of strain in the surrounding space!

The entire fleet turned into a stream of light spanning the sky, charging toward the battlefield already shrouded by the Abyss at a near-suicidal, frantic speed!

...The Gate of Heavens Fall battlefield.

This place could no longer be called a battlefield.

Rather, it was purgatory.

The boundless demon army, like a black tide, crashed again and again against the long-dilapidated starry sky fortress.

The fortress's energy shields had long since been extinguished.

Countless massive Abyssal Demonic Beasts were using their hideous claws and giant horns to frantically tear at the fortress's alloy outer walls.

Huge chunks of armor were torn away, revealing exploding cabins and desperately fleeing human soldiers inside.

In the sky, it was raining fire.

Those were countless meteors burning with hellfire, summoned by the demons with fel Spells, constantly crashing into every corner of the fortress.

Explosions, screams, the roars of demons... they interlaced into a tragic song of the apocalypse.

"Hold! Hold the line for me!"

A human Commander with a severed arm was swinging a chainsword, frantically hacking down one demon after another that lunged at him.

"Reinforcements! Our reinforcements are almost here!"

He roared, trying to encourage the soldiers around him who were already numb.

But even he knew this was just an extravagant hope.

They were completely surrounded.

There was no hope.

Just then.

Boom—!!!

An incredibly thick pillar of black Demonic Energy light blasted out from the Demonic Lord's throne at the highest point of the battlefield!

The light pillar accurately hit the last main cannon battery of the Gate of Heavens Fall.

In an earth-shattering explosion, that battery, along with the thousands of human gunners on it, was instantly evaporated into nothingness!

Despair.

Utter despair shrouded the heart of every survivor.

And at this moment.

Sitting upon his throne of bones, Burning Heaven Demon Lord Baal's eyes, burning with hellfire, shifted slightly.

He felt it.

That Sword Qi that had interested him before was approaching him at an incredible speed.

"Oh? They actually dare to come?"

A cruel and playful smile appeared on Baal's face.

"Very well."

"Let this Lord crush a death-seeking bug before I crush this little pebble."

He slowly raised his giant demonic claw, capable of crushing stars.

He aimed at the direction the United Fleet was coming from... "They're here!"

On the bridge of the dragon charger, the lookout let out a shrill scream!

The moment the United Fleet forcibly jumped out of faster-than-light travel in a way that tore through space.

A scene appeared before everyone's eyes that they would never forget for the rest of their lives.

A massive human fortress, burning, collapsing, and being devoured by billions of demons.

And above the fortress, that hundred-zhang demon god sitting on a throne of bones, radiating an endless aura of destruction!

Under the pressure of that Demonic Lord, the energy shields of the entire fleet emitted a strained humming sound!

Everyone's Soul was trembling!

"This... this is... a Sovereign..."

General Patton's teeth were chattering frantically.

Even across millions of kilometers, he felt like his heart was about to be crushed by that terrifying pressure!

"Rock Corps."

Lin Yuan's voice suddenly rang out.

It was still just as indifferent, without a trace of emotion.

"Go, tear open a gap."

The order was given.

That silent slave legion composed of thousands of Blackstone Clan members did not hesitate for a second.

They turned into a black torrent, breaking away from the United Fleet's formation.

Toward the fortress surrounded layer upon layer by the demon army, they launched a death-defying charge!

"Roar!!!"

This time, they let out a roar!

It was a desperate war cry, a mixture of Fear of death, anger toward the enemy, and sorrow over their own fate, all suppressed for too long by the forbidden curse!

However.

The moment they charged out.

High in the heavens.

That Burning Heaven Demon Lord moved.

His raised giant demonic claw aimed at this tiny, ant-like slave legion.

He gave a light squeeze.

Boom!!!!!!

A terrifying power composed purely of destruction and Fel Energy, beyond description, descended instantly!

Those thousands of fearless Blackstone Clan warriors, along with the vast starry sky spanning tens of thousands of kilometers where they were located.

In an instant.

Just like that, they vanished into thin air.

Not even a speck of dust remained.

"..."

The entire United Fleet fell into an eternal-like deathly silence once more.

Everyone stared blankly at that absolute void that had been forcibly 'erased'.

This was... a single strike from a Sovereign?!

And just as everyone was having their Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering by this god-demon-like power.

The bridge hatch of the dragon charger slowly opened.

Lin Yuan walked out.

He took a step out of the warship.

Beneath his feet was not the void of the Universe.

But a substantive, brilliant galaxy of stars formed spontaneously from billions of Gray-Gold Sword Qi!

He walked toward that hundred-zhang demon god step by step, as if taking a leisurely stroll, treading upon this Sword Qi galaxy that spanned the Universe.