"Found you! You little rat!"
The Wizard read those words from Leilin's lips, and the moment he did, his eyes went red with fury.
"Void Assassins! Don't hold back—kill him!"
The Wizard gripped the command lever in a near-loss of composure, bellowing his order.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
At least eight Void Assassins materialized in an instant, launching themselves at Leilin, while ahead of him the colossal Flame Giant roared and swung its massive whip of fire.
Under the suppression of the magic circle, facing both the flames and the surprise assault of the Void Assassins, even a Fourth-Rank Morning Star would have been in serious trouble.
This kind of attack—if even the demon hunter Galir had been present, he would almost certainly have been gravely wounded!
"Ding! Spiritual Power link detected. Three false signal locations eliminated. Coordinates confirmed!"
The Chip's mechanical voice sounded in Leilin's ear, bringing a smile to his face. Ever since he had suspected that a hidden manipulator might be pulling strings behind the scenes, Leilin had been continuously commanding the Chip to deduce the location of the core control room.
His previous failures and injuries had all been deliberate feints, designed to lure the enemy into showing their hand.
A single magic circle wasn't enough to provide sufficient data and information flow, but the opponent clearly wasn't willing to let things stand—they had actually dispatched forces to attack again, and the Chip had seized on the trace immediately!
"Judging by my deductions and the Chip's calculations, the opponent's own strength may not be that great—they might not even have control over the ruins' core command authority. Otherwise, there's no way they'd only have this level of attack!"
Leilin watched the blades and flames closing in on him, a peculiar smile spreading across his face.
A brilliant crimson light erupted from his body, forming four shimmering, drifting halos.
"First-Rank Inate Talent Spell: Chromatic Serpent Scales! Petrifying Gaze!"
"Second-Rank Inate Talent Spell: Venomous Gall!"
"Third-Rank Inate Talent Spell: Terror Quell!"
"Fourth-Rank Inate Talent Spell: Bloodline Metamorphosis! Combined Morning Star Killing Move: Chromatic Serpent Transformation!!!"
BOOM!
A colossal serpent tens of thousands of meters long descended upon the area.
The magic circle shattered. The earth split open. Numerous buildings were ground to powder by the sheer pressure, and even the void itself trembled violently.
Pop! The Flame Giant, along with the multitude of binding spells and fire-attribute magic circles, were swept aside by the enormous serpentine body. Every rune was annihilated, and even the magic circles embedded in the foundations were utterly obliterated.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
The Void Assassin's normal human frame, against the giant Komoan Serpent, was like an ant before it. Its sharp sword couldn't even pierce a single scale, and was instead flung away to some unknown location by a casual flick of the tail.
The ancient Morning Star Sorcerer's killing technique—the Komoan Snake Transformation—capable of allowing a sorcerer to transform into a terrifying ancient creature, the Morning Star's trump card, appeared once more!
"Hiss hiss!!!"
The massive black serpent turned its head toward another direction. Within its amber-star-like eyes, an almost human-like mockery surfaced. Its body crushed forward like a black storm.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Along its path, various faint glimmers of light flickered beneath the giant serpent, only to quickly dim and fade.
"Wh-what's happening? Is this the Morning Star's killing technique? How… how does he dare?!"
Locked down by the ancient beast's aura, the wizard inside the core control room collapsed to the floor. The moment his gaze met the serpent's eyes, the primal fear buried deep within his genes erupted. His entire body went rigid—he could barely move a single finger.
The direction the serpent had been gazing toward was none other than the core control room itself. Given the speed at which it was crushing its way through, it would arrive here in mere seconds.
The old man's whole body trembled as regret finally sank in—he should never have provoked that harbinger of doom, Lei Lin.
Bang! An impact like a magnitude-nine earthquake rocked everything. Objects inside the core control room bounced violently into the air before crashing back down.
Accompanied by the terrifying hiss of the serpent, the old man trembled even harder, because he knew that monstrous ancient creature had already arrived outside the core control room.
"I still have the core control room's defensive wizard formation! It… it will definitely be fine!"
The fact that the previous attack had been blocked had given the old man a sliver of confidence. But before he could struggle to his feet, an even greater tremor surged through.
Boom! Bricks and stones flew everywhere as the entire roof was torn away. Two eyes, radiant as stars, shone down with terrifying light.
"Aaah!" The old man collapsed onto the floor. Beneath his trousers, a faint, acrid stench began to seep out.
"You little bug, you're quite good at hiding, aren't you?"