Facing the threat of a Battalion-Class Ship, Da Vinci merely snorted.
"Force your way into the tribulation lightning and bring karma upon yourselves. Even a Division Level Ship won't save you... If you don't believe me, try it!"
After saying that, he descended directly, too lazy to pay them any further attention.
He had never intended to offend the military to the bitter end—at his age, he only sought to achieve his goals. There was no need to waste extra effort.
He had made everything clear. The fifth tribulation lightning was about to fall, and he had serious business to attend to.
Helping someone meant helping them enough; too much was as bad as too little. Since the person at the center had not shown himself, there was no need for Da Vinci to provoke the military on his behalf.
If Digital Phantom thought he harbored ulterior motives, that would be a tremendous injustice.
His clean withdrawal instead made the military suspicious—how confident did he have to be? At any rate, that confidence could not be feigned, because it would be far too easy to verify.
With the tribulation lightning present, the electromagnetic field across this entire region had become extraordinarily chaotic.
However, the Battalion-Class Ship's detection equipment was also exceptionally powerful. While dispatching people to rescue the soldiers aboard the Company-level Warship, it intensified its scans.
Then they discovered several human figures around the tribulation transcender.
Although the readings were unclear, they could basically confirm that those figures carried extraordinary energy fluctuations.
They were all high-ranking Awakened Ones, and they remained around the perimeter without acting. Clearly, they were standing guard over the tribulation transcender.
Amid everyone's confusion, the fifth tribulation lightning descended.
There was no need to elaborate on the heavenly might of the tribulation lightning. The warships