Light flashed through the portholes, illuminating the armor.
Gray Star's surface was dim and desolate, dry and dusty, its gray lifelessness resembling the underworld.
With a thud, the warship shook violently. Runes on the bulkheads flashed, dissolving the impact. Bai Yujun saw the runes on a nearby warship collapse as its metal hull disintegrated. Many Heavenly Soldiers and Generals had no choice but to abandon ship. Wreckage blazing with fierce flames and trailing black smoke tumbled downward under inertia. Gray Star drew ever closer...
Bang!
A Heavenly Soldier slammed into the porthole, spat blood, and was swept out of sight. Scarlet blood stained the Magic Array Runes.
With several clicks, her shield unfolded.
Holding her straight saber, she strode to the massive hatch and took her position. By Heavenly Court military law, as an immortal general, she ought to charge at the front in wartime. The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility—though Bai would much rather hide in the rear and muddle through until the battle was over.
She would look for a chance to see whether she could quietly slip past the fallen zone, though she expected it would be difficult.
The warship dipped into a dive. The gray, barren earth ahead rushed closer and closer. She could already make out vast black patches on the ground and enormous altars gleaming red. Those muddle-headed fools truly were conducting a Blood Sacrifice.
The battle was already in full swing; there was no telling when it had begun.
In any case, slaughter was breaking out everywhere.
The hatch's Magic Array Runes flashed incessantly. The ship shuddered violently as it endured continuous attacks.
"Hold steady!"
The immortal general commanding the troops shouted loudly.
There were a thousand Heavenly Soldiers in the cabin and more than ten immortal generals. Aside from several