Chapter 858: Chapter 567: Austin Sage’s "Beating the Grass to Scare the Snake

This wasn’t flying at all; this was practically a short-range warp through space!

"Let’s go!"

Austin Sage’s face showed not the slightest hint of panic. He took another step forward, bringing Raylo along for the next void blink.

"HUMM!"

The stream of light flashed again. They reappeared tens of thousands of miles away. However, after just a few breaths, those dozen or so Dark Gold streams of light, like Life-taking Talismans, reappeared at the edge of their vision and drew ever closer.

The distance between the two sides was shrinking once more!

At this moment, Raylo had already seen through Austin Sage’s plan. This Sage... he intended to lure this group of World Destruction Level void overlords to the Light Deity’s Divine Kingdom! He wanted to use these thoroughly enraged Celestial Claws as stepping stones to crash against that impenetrable Divine Kingdom! He wanted to force out the true power of the Light Deity!

Raylo’s mouth went dry. He looked at the Mage leader beside him, who remained as calm as a gentle breeze, with eyes full of awe. This was the true... method of a god! Compared to Austin Sage, the storm he had stirred up back in the Jade Swamp seemed like mere child’s play.

As Raylo’s mind reeled, Austin Sage seemed to sense a slight slackening from their pursuers behind them. In the interval of one of his Space Flashes, he actually had the leisure to turn back and point a finger far into the distance.

"RIP!"

A twisted Space Rift appeared out of thin air. Like a hideous, gaping maw, it blocked the inevitable path of the pursuing Celestial Claws.

Caught off guard, the leading Celestial Claw crashed headlong into it! Although it tore through the spatial trap and rushed out a second later, its disheveled appearance was tantamount to pouring oil on the fire.

"SCREECH!"

An even more furious roar resounded, and their speed actually increased by a fraction!

Even when facing the terrifying pursuit of over a dozen Celestial Claws—a seemingly incredibly perilous situation—Lord Sage still had the spare energy to leave behind "little troubles" to ramp up the aggro of the Celestial Claws behind them.

Time trickled away during this chase and flight that spanned hundreds of thousands of miles across the void.

Over an hour later.

When Austin Sage brought Raylo through yet another spatial jump, the scene before them finally underwent a fundamental change.

That golden Sun was no longer a distant, unreachable speck of Light. It was right in front of their eyes.

It was an incomparably magnificent golden planet, its surface flowing with holy radiance. That towering Divine Hall, situated at the pinnacle of the world, emanated an air of supreme majesty. Three massive War Fortresses, like loyal Hunting Dogs, slowly orbited around the Divine Kingdom.

The golden Divine Kingdom was right before their eyes. Its brilliant radiance was no longer a distant Star, but rather like a scorching Sun hanging right overhead.

"Don’t make a sound," Austin Sage’s voice echoed.

The next second.

"HUMM!"

An invisible, distorted membrane of Light rippled outward from him like a water wave. As the membrane swept past, Raylo was horrified to discover that his and the Sage’s forms were undergoing unimaginable changes. Their bodies were elongated, twisted, and reshaped in the void...

In a mere instant, the figures of the two men vanished. In their place appeared a slightly smaller, yet equally violent and ferocious Celestial Claw! This disguised Celestial Claw had the exact same Dark Gold luster flowing across its wings as the mob of monsters pursuing them from behind. Even that terrifying aura of tyranny had been imitated to absolute perfection.

Was this Illusion Magic?

"Let’s go," the Sage said concisely. The next second, this disguised Celestial Claw flapped its wings, transforming into a Dark Gold stream of light. With a single flash, it crossed thousands of miles.

Their target was not the Divine Kingdom itself, but rather an Angel squad patrolling the outer perimeter of the Divine Kingdom. At this moment, a Twelve-winged Angel of Death was leading over a dozen Catastrophe Level Six-winged Angels. Forming a loose patrol formation, they moved slowly through the void.

They seemed to have sensed the terrifying energy fluctuations coming from behind and were vigilantly reforming their ranks. A stream of light was rapidly approaching.

The distance was closing rapidly!

A thousand miles... a hundred miles... ten miles!

That Twelve-winged Angel of Death abruptly turned his head, a flash of vigilance crossing his golden pupils.

He had noticed them! But it was too late. The Celestial Claw conjured by Austin Sage had already appeared right above their heads. A giant Dark Gold claw, interwoven with Illusion Technique and Magic Power, tore through the void and struck down ruthlessly!

"You have a death wish!"

The Twelve-winged Angel bellowed in fury and drew his sword backhandedly, sending a dazzling streak of Holy Light Sword Qi soaring into the sky. But the target of that giant claw wasn’t him at all!

"SQUELCH!"

The razor-sharp claw swept past, grazing the edge of the Twelve-winged Angel’s sword light, and precisely slammed into the formation of Six-winged Angels behind him. The sound of flesh and blood exploding was piercingly sharp in the dead silence of the void.

Just a single strike! Under that tyrannical Power, four Catastrophe Level Six-winged Angels of Death didn’t even have time to scream before they, along with the Armor on their bodies, were instantly shredded into golden motes of Light fluttering through the air!

Succeeding in one strike, the Celestial Claw that Austin Sage had transformed into didn’t linger to fight. Its wings flapped once more, and space distorted. The massive figure left a faint afterimage in its place. In an instant, it reappeared thousands of miles away, as if that Thunderboltous Strike just now had only been an illusion.

"Bastard!"

Watching his subordinates being brutally slaughtered right in front of his eyes, the Twelve-winged Angel of Death flew into a towering rage. His terrifying World Destruction Level pressure erupted with a boom. Golden Holy Flame ignited on the twelve wings behind his back, burning the surrounding void until it sizzled and popped.

Just as he was about to lock onto the fleeing "murderer" to give chase, over a dozen even more massive and violent auras of destruction surged over, blotting out the sky. Over a dozen Celestial Claws, identical in form to the ambusher from moments ago, had appeared right before his eyes!

And that streak of Holy Light Sword Qi he had subconsciously slashed out in his fury struck perfectly true—landing squarely on the chest of the largest, leading Celestial Claw!

"CLANG!"

The full-powered sword strike of a World Destruction Level powerhouse slashed against those Dark Gold feathers. It merely exploded into a string of blinding Mars, leaving behind a shallow white mark.

The tyrannical eagle eyes of those dozen or so Celestial Claws turned in unison. They first glanced at their companion who had been struck by the Sword Qi, then looked at the Twelve-winged Angel of Death, who was holding a Holy Sword and burning with Holy Flame all over.

"SCREECH!"

A furious shriek erupted from the beak of the leading Celestial Claw! The endless fury it had accumulated for so long after being toyed with, provoked, and attacked had finally found an outlet at this moment!

BOOM!

Over a dozen Dark Gold streams of light, like over a dozen destructive Stars, instantly and utterly submerged that Twelve-winged Angel of Death and the remaining few shivering Six-winged Angels.

"No..."

The final expression on the face of that Twelve-winged Angel was one of horror and fear.

A battle? No, that wasn’t a battle at all. It was a slaughter.

Watching from afar, Raylo only felt his whole body run cold.

He saw a giant claw effortlessly pierce through the Twelve-winged Angel’s Holy Light Domain and crush his head. He saw another Celestial Claw open its massive beak and swallow a Six-winged Angel whole along with his wings of Light in a single bite, like tasting an appetizer.

The golden Holy Light and the Dark Gold destructive energy clashed madly. Then, the Holy Light swiftly extinguished, just like a candle splashed with water.

Less than ten seconds. In a mere span of less than ten seconds, a World Destruction Level Twelve-winged Angel of Death, along with his remaining nearly ten Catastrophe Level elites, were thoroughly erased from this stretch of the void. Not even a single intact feather was left behind.

Raylo’s Adam’s apple bobbed with difficulty.

The earth-shattering battle here immediately alerted that massive War Fortress not far away. Countless exits instantly flew open on the nearest War Fortress, which hovered like a satellite.

"SWISH! SWISH! SWISH!"

Like poking a hornet’s nest, hundreds of streams of light swarmed out from the Fortress!

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