The communications channel in the hall was filled with noise.
Duo Long's fingers flew across the keyboard as fast as they could. New spatial jump warnings kept flashing across the tactical display.
"Six hundred! No, twelve hundred!" Duo Long swallowed. "Every reclusive clan from a dozen nearby star domains is here! Even the Tian Xing Merchant Guild, those notorious tightwads, brought out their prized Void warships!"
The red and blue dots on the screen had blurred into one mass.
Qin Chuan sat in his chair.
"All personnel, listen up. Abandon every outer position," Qin Chuan ordered over the all-frequency channel. "Fall back to the headquarters core and activate the highest-level Shadow Dimension lockdown."
The channel fell silent for a second.
Water God was the first to protest. "Boss! There are points running around everywhere out there! We're just handing the field to those outsiders?"
"That's a God King-tier beast," Qin Chuan said calmly. "If you want points, first make sure you'll live to collect them."
He had dealt with these things beneath the Black Sea for far too long.
If he hadn't held a pile of outrageously powerful Divine Authorities and rule-level weapons, even he wouldn't have dared provoke a God King-tier Chaos Beast.
The thing defied conventional logic. It stood an entire major tier above Void True Gods.
Dies Martin sounded delighted. "Shadow's going to use them as free test subjects. I'm coming back now."
In outer space.
The burly man in bone armor and the other Void True Gods were about to charge ahead when Qin Chuan's order brought them to an abrupt halt.
"He wants us to retreat?" The burly man scratched his bald head.
The four-eyed old man's damaged soul cursed from inside the altar. "After all those epochs in the Sea of Chaos, have you