Chapter 265 – This Can't Be Tianyuan!

In its normal state, Dolai’s energy reserves were dozens of times greater than that of a Fourth Order combat unit, not much less than a Servant’s perfect Incarnation.

Once entering Limitless Devour mode, General Dolai’s energy level could increase dramatically, making surpassing a descended Servant not difficult at all.

Dolai wasn’t pushing ‘Limitless Devour’ to its maximum at this moment.

Unlike Uta who could completely unleash his power in an instant, Dolai’s ‘Limitless Devour’ followed a gradual process. It had optimized this strategic skill multiple times – such as storing food in dimensional space in advance; preemptively consuming food to enter a ‘ready-to-devour’ state, waiting to erupt during battle; and other methods…

Even so, Limitless Devour still required some process.

To ensure combat timing, Dolai didn’t elevate Limitless Devour to its peak. It merely spent over ten seconds performing tasteless, ravenous digestion before starting to prepare its ultimate move.

By the 6th second of Dolai beginning Limitless Devour, surging, vast energy could no longer be contained and spread outwards in rolling waves, stirring up wind and sand. The main base of the Eye of Divine Radiance, hidden within the mountain in the distance, suddenly sounded with sharp, urgent alarms.

“Beep beep beep—”

“High energy reaction detected! High energy reaction detected!”

The base’s detection equipment immediately marked the energy signature coming from the southwest.

The energy point was rapidly expanding, transforming into a luminous sphere, then into a radiant ring.

Not long before,

Inside the base, the V-masked commander along with various A and B-class agents and Advanced combat personnel were preparing combat supplies.

A-class agent Soma had already located Tianyuan Territory.

Though not officially confirmed yet, it was almost certain. They currently lacked the capability to enter and verify the territory, as that would easily alert their target.

The V-masked commander decided to go all in!

Mobilizing the entire division’s intermediate and Advanced combat forces to assault Tianyuan Territory. That was just how cautious he was.

Their preparations were nearly complete.

Concealment artifacts, Anti-Corruption Potions, spatial lockdown devices, and various other division treasures – he brought them all.

“We have too many people for the teleportation array, but we can reach the target area within 20 hours at most. By the day after tomorrow at the latest, we’ll return home gloriously as Heroes!”

At this moment, the V-masked commander stood at the forefront, facing the crowd and delivering an impassioned speech.

The audience below was electrified, with continuous cheers and applause.

The piercing alarm sounded at this very moment, interrupting the loud speech and successive shouts.

The V-masked commander froze for half a second before leaping up and arriving at the second-floor command platform.

He saw the energy sphere representing the energy level continuously expanding on the display, his expression abruptly changing.

“Energy fluctuations of this Rank… could it be a Fallen God Servant?!”

Just what they feared was happening!

The other agents and Advanced combat personnel also paled successively. The reason they wanted to return home quickly was precisely because staying in the Deep Wilderness offered no sense of security.

They feared being discovered by intelligent monsters.

And Fallen God Servants were even above intelligent monsters.

“Don’t panic, this isn’t a true Fallen God Servant, just a descended vessel.””A mere Descended Servant isn’t difficult for us to eliminate. The most troublesome issue is that this base has been discovered. However, we’re about to march on Tianyuan Territory and return home full of glory, so losing this base isn’t important.”

“As for now…”

Watching the continuously flashing high-energy reactions on the detection equipment, the V-Face Commander felt his heart racing.

This was precisely the most terrifying aspect of Descended Servants.

Their combat power was only slightly superior to top-tier Fourth-Order Commander level, yet the destruction they could unleash was dozens of times greater than these elite Fourth-Order beings.

They possessed vast energy reserves, capable of easily breaching city walls with minimal buildup, even destroying entire towns and villages.

They were truly war machines!

The Commander quickly issued orders.

“Activate the Iron Dome defense system at full power immediately!”

“Engage the V-II Defense Barrier!”Activate all barriers in the material storage area, command center, and formation center!””

They had contingency plans for this scenario. Even before the formal orders were given, these defense facilities activated one by one, with transmission power ramped up to maximum.

The next moment, nine roaring thunderfire dragons came crashing down.

Thunder and flames intertwined, compressed to their limits before erupting violently. Endless light and heat spread in all directions, devouring trees, soil, rocks, land, and monsters in their path. Blazing white light extended for hundreds, even thousands of meters, like a rising sun appearing at the horizon’s edge.

The Eye of Divine Radiance base buried within the mountain rumbled violently.

The camouflaged and reinforced mountain surface at the outermost layer held for less than half a second before shattering and melting away, followed by the expensively deployed V-II Defense Barrier. The barrier lasted two and a half seconds before shattering completely.

Alloy plating, energy absorption systems, the Iron Dome defense system…

Defense facilities overloaded and shattered one after another. Inside the base, walls crumbled while numerous instruments and equipment sparked and crackled.

Crack—crack—

A spatial fissure spread open, and the next moment, large sections of side walls shattered along with the fracturing space, revealing the fiery and thunderous daylight outside.

Several figures stood before the breach, backlit by the pouring radiance.

Silhouetted against the light, their shadows symbolizing death stretched endlessly forward, reaching right up to the agents of the Eye of Divine Radiance.

…

“Holy shit!”

“Holy shit!”

Several kilometers away, watching the slowly rising sun-like explosion, Wang Dong and Bai Lingzhi—two Taixuan Liangyi officials—simultaneously uttered Xuan Nation’s favorite expletives.

“Is it a Descended Servant?”

They initially thought so, but quickly realized it wasn’t.

At the origin point where the nine roaring thunderfire dragons had appeared, vague human figures were visible. And around these figures, monsters were converging from all directions.

If they weren’t Fallen God Servants, they must be Taixuan’s lords.

However, human power has its limits—unlike Fallen God Servants who could unleash world-destroying attacks. These thunderfire dragons could only come from magic scrolls. Wang Dong speculated this was a spell sealed by a Legendary Realm magic specialist.

Powerful indeed.

But ultimately just a single spell.

“Damn it!” Wang Dong’s expression changed. “The situation has shifted! Hurry and urge the others to get here!”

…

The V-Face Commander, senior combat personnel of the Eye of Divine Radiance, and A/B-class agents—all players—also realized the attackers weren’t Servants, but merely a human lord and his subordinates.

And there were only a handful of them at that.Had it been several or over a dozen fully-formed legions attacking, they might have felt a bit uneasy. But just a few people? Who did they think they were looking down on?

Boom—

They burst through the already dilapidated base, scattering and surrounding the attackers in turn.

“Four people.”

A girl riding a Slime; a pink-haired human girl; a general in Black Armor whose capabilities were unclear.

And the young man at the center, suspected to be a player.

The V-masked commander assessed.

At first glance, their own numbers didn’t seem large either.

Only eight individuals stepped forward, but…

Among them were four A-class agents, three Advanced combat personnel from headquarters, and himself—a top-tier player guarding the main Base.

They instantly made their move, their incomplete marks glowing brightly as figures emerged one after another.

In the blink of an eye, dozens of Third-Order and Fourth-Order Experts appeared.

Dragon-Powered Warriors, Purple Lightning Wyverns, Grand Archmages—one powerful entity after another of exceptionally high tiers radiated their brilliance. After all, as core members of the Divine Radiance Empire, they had received cultivation and naturally possessed extraordinary units.

Nobly bred beings like Dragon-Powered Warriors and Grand Archmages were far stronger than ordinary Fourth-Order BOSSes.

They also knew how to coordinate, with damage dealers, supports, tanks, and healers all present.

Sixty against four—the advantage was theirs.

Not only that…

“Could this player be the Tianyuan Lord?”

The V-masked commander glanced at the pink-haired Isloria, growing more certain of his speculation, and then felt ecstatic.

Though inwardly overjoyed, he remained expressionless on the surface.

He discreetly activated the trump card item he had prepared earlier.

Hum—

The sky abruptly darkened as a tangible gray barrier spread outward, enveloping the surrounding area of over a thousand meters.

Space Sealing Barrier!

The Tianyuan Lord had no way to escape now!

“Capture him, dead or alive!”

Just as the V-masked commander was about to utter these words, a premonition of Death surged into his heart.

Without the slightest hesitation, he overcharged an Excellent-grade Ring on his hand. An invisible spatial force enveloped him and several key subordinates, teleporting them a hundred meters away.

The next moment—

Crack, crack—

The space before them froze solid. Two A-class agents and several Third-Order and Fourth-Order Experts shattered along with the fracturing space, their crumbling and disintegrating bodies falling into the collapsing dark void in the next instant.

“What kind of killing move is this?!”

The V-masked commander was horrified.

So were the other Advanced players from the Divine Radiance Empire.

As members of the Empire’s intelligence division, they were well-informed and had witnessed more than most veteran Lords.

Yet, this ability to immobilize and shatter space was something they had never heard of.

It seemed to come from the girl riding the Slime!

“Don’t give her a second chan—”

But before the words could fully leave his mouth, the earth rumbled violently as a colossal entity blotted out the sky, casting a terrifying Shadow.

A tree! A giant tree! One draped with countless enormous cocoons, eerie and sinister!

It stirred waves of frenzied roots.

At the same time, a pleasant “ding-a-ling” chime echoed. The Divine Radiance Experts shuddered, their eyes turning vacant, and in the next moment, they were ensnared by thick roots and dragged into the vast forest of tendrils.

“Beware of this Illusionary sound…”The V-Face Commander himself was an expert who had ignited his Willpower Light, largely unaffected by Illusions. Just as he was about to use an item to awaken his comrades, a ferocious dragon clad in icy-blue scales lunged straight at him.

A Frost Dragon!

According to their Eye of Divine Radiance’s investigation, the Tianyuan Lord indeed seemed to possess such an Epic-level life form!

It was undoubtedly Tianyuan!

They must capture him at all costs.

After a brief entanglement with the Frost Dragon, the V-Face Commander hesitated no longer and tore apart an Excellent-grade Spell Scroll.

Immediately, a brilliant heavenly light manifested, coalescing in an instant into a sacred sword dozens of meters long, which slashed down fiercely toward the Frost Dragon.

This single strike severely wounded the powerful Epic-level Frost Dragon.

The dragon let out a miserable roar as it crashed to the ground.

“One major enemy eliminated. Now, as long as…”

Just as the V-Face Commander thought this, screams of his colleagues echoed one after another in his ears.

He saw a dark-skinned, Three Heads Six Arms burly man wielding a Spear, moving through the battlefield as if it were unguarded. Even Fourth-Order Experts could barely withstand a few moves against him.

He also saw the initial pink-haired girl transform into an elegant dancer, casting beams of light and defensive screens as if performing to music. Though she was alone against ten, it seemed as if she were the one surrounding them, with countless Spells intertwining and putting their side’s experts in perilous situations.

He further saw the girl riding the Slime once again open her mouth wide, chomping down on the surrounding space as if it were a biscuit, biting it apart fiercely.

In just a few breaths, they had lost over a dozen experts.

No, that wasn’t right—it seemed even more.

The V-Face Commander felt the numbers were off. Upon closer inspection, he realized the black-armored expert who had initially appeared beside the Tianyuan Lord was moving across the Battlefield with almost no presence.

The black-armored expert didn’t unleash dazzling Sword rays or flashy Spells. All he possessed was an unremarkable yet Peak-level Sword technique.

With plain and unadorned Heavy Sword strikes, each swing claimed a life.

Whether Third Order or Fourth Order.

The V-Face Commander couldn’t comprehend it; it was as if the Fourth-Order Experts had lined up their necks to be slaughtered.

“It’s a Domain!”

“No, it can’t be just a Domain!”

A Domain possesses absolute suppression, yet many among them were powerful Fourth-Order Experts. Facing a Domain-level expert, they might be outmatched and at a significant disadvantage, but they shouldn’t be slaughtered so effortlessly, without any resistance.

There was a problem, a major problem!

The V-Face Commander was shocked, horrified, and utterly bewildered.

When Deadbone approached him, he threw a punch, unleashing a Perfection-level Fist Intent with full force, yet he couldn’t even graze the black-armored expert.

“I must counterattack when he strikes; that’s the only way to oppose a Domain.”

“Alternatively, I can stall until the Domain can no longer be maintained.”

“A Fourth-Order Expert can’t sustain a Domain for long.”

These half-measures for dealing with Domain-level experts flashed through his mind.

But the next moment, the figure of Deadbone in his eyes seemed to grow immeasurably tall.

Like a king demanding his kneeling submission.

His mind shook violently, his Willpower Light flickering erratically, allowing him to barely maintain his sense of self.

“I…”He was just about to charge his power when the pressure before him—taller than mountains, deeper than the Sky Abyss—materialized into tangible force, coiling around his limbs and torso.

The next moment, the V-face commander lost consciousness, sinking into a pitch-black, lightless abyss.

Before his consciousness faded entirely, only one final thought remained:

Such power… this cannot be Tianyuan!

…

In the distance, Wang Dong and Bai Lingzhi summoned most of their subordinates and sprinted forward.

Midway, they abruptly halted.

“It’s a barrier! A spatial confinement barrier!”

“Wait, why would the Divine Radiance experts suddenly deploy a barrier? Unless…”

Could Tianyuan be inside?

This is bad!

Their expressions shifted abruptly, cold sweat streaming down.

Yet, within moments, the gray confinement barrier shattered with a crack.

Inside, a majestic ancient tree stretched its limbs, while frost dragons and crimson dragons circled and danced, guarding a black-haired young man of imposing demeanor at the center.

The battle had already concluded.

The Divine Radiance experts were either dead or unconscious.

And this mysterious team was systematically apprehending the remaining Divine Radiance members.

Blocked by the barrier, the two couldn’t witness the battle’s progression, but they could roughly reconstruct it in their minds.

One word described it: overwhelming.

Like slaughtering chickens, they annihilated the Divine Radiance experts.

“I overthought it. It couldn’t have been Tianyuan.”

Wang Dong took out his communication device and edited a new message to several colleagues:

Beep~ The situation has changed yet again. Seems like you all might not need to come after all.

The Taixuan Liangyi experts rushing over at top speed: “?”

(End of Chapter)