The Grand Elder of the Thunder Temple stared at the screen, his shriveled eyelids twitching wildly.
"They're all Void True Gods? Impossible! The Seventh Star Domain is a backwater. You couldn't scrape together this many True Gods even if you turned the whole place upside down!" The Grand Elder smashed the Control Console in front of him and roared hysterically.
The president of the Tian Xing Merchant Guild was drenched in sweat too, but he quickly steadied himself. "A trick! It has to be a trick! Night Roaming God just used an ancient forbidden artifact. He's running on fumes. Those dozens of people must be illusions propped up by a formation. We have nothing to fear!"
"Try them and find out whether they're illusions."
In outer space, the burly man in bone armor cracked his knuckles. His voice traveled through the void and entered every warship's communications channel.
He kicked off hard with his right leg, and a visible ring of violent force burst through space.
Without using a single spell, the bone-armored man hurtled straight into the Tian Xing Merchant Guild's vanguard fleet on the strength of his body alone and slammed a fist into a Main Warship's heavy armor.
The bow of the flagship, built at enormous cost from high-dimensional materials, caved in on the spot.
A violent shock wave tore through its interior, splitting the entire ship in two.
Thousands of Tian Xing Merchant Guild guards flew out through the breach. Before they could activate their life-support systems, the bone-armored man opened his mouth wide.
"Snack time!"
An overwhelming suction erupted. The thousands of guards had no chance to struggle before they were all swept into his mouth.
"Fall back! Our shields can't take a single punch from him!" the Vice President of the Tian Xing Merchant