The Special Kirin Clan

Time rewound to two hours earlier.

On the main battlefield, Brock finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Tal regain mobility in the rear and open a Space Teleportation Channel.

Two minutes later, after confirming that Tal and the other leader-class creatures had all evacuated safely, Brock issued an order to the other nine leader-class creatures on the front line to pass through the spatial passage and retreat immediately.

However, he failed to notice that two creatures even tinier than ants had infiltrated the bodies of two leader-class creatures amid the chaos.

Aliya did not have the two Void Predators launch an immediate sneak attack on the other leader-class creatures after gaining control of their bodies. Instead, she—

—followed Brock into the Space Teleportation Channel.

What was the point of severely wounding a few leader-class creatures in a sneak attack? If she was going to do it, she had to make it big. The wounded Hypnos was Aliya's true target!

The best possible outcome would naturally be to deliver a killing blow to Hypnos while he was severely injured.

Of course, even if she could not achieve that, worsening Hypnos's injuries and preventing him from returning to the battlefield for a longer period would still be quite good.

In short, Aliya would be very satisfied with either outcome.

Time returned to the present.

Boötes Void, the temporary regrouping point of the defeated Purgatory Legion.

The void was in complete chaos.

After subduing the two leader-class Purgatory Creatures and giving them a brutal beating to eliminate the Void Predators inside them, Brock and the other leader-class creatures in the distance caught up to the blasted-away Hypnos. They stabilized his body and brought him back.

It had to be said that Aliya's killing strike had been highly effective. It