The job change is a bizarre and calamity; the nation begs me to tone it down.

Then—they saw it.

In the far distance of sight, those stars that were once quietly suspended are now exploding.

One after another.

It felt like someone was poking me one by one with an invisible finger.

The moment each star explodes, it bursts forth with an extremely dazzling light.

Gold, silver, crimson, and deep blue—these colors of light mixed, intertwined, and collided in the explosion.

It formed a dazzling, multicolored light curtain.

And those lights...

It's the seven colors they see outside.

It turned out to be the case.

The seven-colored light emanating from the secret realm was neither the radiance of any treasure nor the arrival of any miracle.

Rather, it is the final glow of a star before its destruction.

It was the final scream of an entire star field during its destruction.

"Those stars..."

Upon seeing this, Elder Ge spoke again, his voice filled with indescribable awe: "Each one is a world in itself, isn't it?"

No one answered him.

Because the answer is too obvious.

In the Azure Star Divine Realm, each star is a realm under the rule of the Blazing Sun God.

It contains living beings, civilization, and countless lives that thrive and multiply within it.

And now, they are exploding one after another.

It looked like a string of firecrackers with a lit fuse.

It was a lively and bustling scene.

But each sound marks the end of a world.

"What is destroying them?"

Tang Yi's gaze swept across the area, trying to find the answer.

The answer appeared as soon as the words were spoken.

Everyone's gaze turned toward the source of the exploding stars.

then……

They saw what caused those stars to explode.

Black fog, an endless expanse of black fog.

The black mist surged from the depths of the starry sky, like a pool of ink that was devouring everything.

Wherever it passed, starlight was extinguished and space was distorted.

Those stars that were originally floating quietly began to tremble violently the moment the black mist touched them, and then—with a bang—exploded into fragments.

And within that black fog, something was moving.

A large amount of things.

A dense mass of things.

The outlines of those things were faintly visible in the black mist, and their number was too great to count.

They advanced in this direction at a uniform pace.

With each step forward, more stars shattered before them.

"That's... the army?"

The answer popped into everyone's mind again in the next moment.

Yes, that was an army.

An army that is crushing the entire star system.

The army was advancing much faster than they had imagined.

How fast?

They had barely caught a glimpse of the outline of the black mist when, in the next breath, it was already right in front of them.

No one was given time to react.

The moment the black mist dissipated, the figures hidden within were finally revealed to everyone.

Wang Cang's breath hitched; they were humanoid creatures.

But it is definitely not human.

They are about ten meters tall, with a slender body and limbs that are similar in proportion to humans, but the direction of their joint bending is reversed.

The knees are bent backward and the elbows are turned outward, giving an extremely strange sense of disharmony.

Its entire body is covered with a layer of jet-black carapace.

The carapace didn't look like armor they wore; it looked more like it grew naturally from their skin.

The surface of the carapace is riddled with grooves, within which a dark purple shimmer flows.

Each piece of the carapace has a sharp, blade-like edge, and it makes a slight friction sound as it moves.

The head is a slightly elongated oval shape.

It has no eyes.

It has no nose.

It has no mouth.

There is only one vertical crack on the entire "face" that extends from the forehead to the chin.

The sides of the crack were covered with tiny barbs, like the teeth of some kind of deep-sea fish, and deep inside the crack, a dark purple light was slowly pulsating.

Behind each of them grow two pairs of black wings as thin as cicada wings.

The surface of the wings has a hexagonal structure similar to the compound eyes of insects, with the reflection of an exploding star in each hexagon.

What's most unsettling is their way of moving.

They neither walk nor fly.

It is "slippery".

The body remained in a rigid posture, moving smoothly through the void in a way that completely defied the laws of physics.

It moved extremely fast, but its body remained completely still.

They are like statues being dragged along by ropes.

This method of movement itself carries an indescribable eeriness.

And when thousands upon thousands of such things simultaneously slide towards you in this manner—

That feeling is probably like a nightmare coming true.

Before they could recover from the visual shock, the system panel popped up automatically.

Golden characters floated above the heads of these black-armored monsters, and everyone's gaze fell upon those characters.

【Name: Void Piercer - Annihilation Vanguard】

[Level: 105]

[Status: Unconscious/Annihilated/Eternal Conquest]

[Introduction: The vanguard of the Starpiercing Legion, one of the eight legions under the ancient false god [Chaos Fibonacci]. The sole mission of this vanguard legion is, under the command of the [Starpiercing Vanguard Officer], to shatter all stars, erase all life, and wipe out all civilizations within the target divine realm. They pave the way for the [Starpiercing Edge] led by the [Starpiercing Commander]! They need no thought, no rest, no resupply. Their very existence is destruction. In countless past eras, the Starpiercing Legion has crushed over 30,000 divine realms and exterminated countless civilizations and races. They are the reapers of the [Astral Plane], the last shadow seen before a star falls. And the Azure Star Divine Realm is merely an insignificant target in their long journey.]

After reading this introduction, Wang Cang and the other two had the same expression as when they saw the Blazing Sun Guardian panel earlier.

Silence, dead silence.

But this silence is even more somber than the last.

Because last time, they faced a level 100 Blazing Sun Guardian.

Although those remnant guards were terrifying, they were at least "defenders".

It is a passive defense mechanism.

And what are these things in front of us now?

Both are level 100.

But they are the "attackers".

It is an entity that takes the initiative to attack.

It was part of the army that crushed the entire divine kingdom of the Lord of the Blazing Sun.

Moreover, the monsters they were seeing...

It was merely one of the vanguard forces of one of the eight major legions.

What, then, is the vanguard?

Two words: cannon fodder!

Even a single "cannon fodder" vanguard legion is already this large, and it even has a squad leader called "Vanguard Officer".

How many vanguard troops does a Star Trek Legion have?

So what kind of power does the true [Star Piercing Edge] possess?

Who is the "Star-Traveling Commander" who leads him?

What kind of strength will it have?

What about the remaining seven legions?

Is that also the case?

What about the ancient false god Chaos Fibonacci himself, who commanded all of this?

They dared not think any further, for the more they thought about it, the more desperate they became.