The dazzling white light vanished from the arena. Socia held Halogen in his arms, looking utterly dejected.
"We're done for!"
He sighed. Their team had arrived in force, only to fall into an ambush laid by one man.
Boom!
Unarmed, he was blasted down to the seabed by a single shot from Huang Ji's Plasma Cannon, just as expected.
"Urgh!" Socia carried Halogen on his back and took most of the hit himself, suffering severe injuries on the spot.
He had no interest in fighting back. Without his weapons, he was only nitrogen rank 7, while Huang Ji had already displayed rank 10 power—and that was before accounting for his supreme mastery of combat.
Now, he could only watch as Huang Ji blasted the other members of the Investigation Team down one after another, leaving them to be swarmed by the Revival Society.
"You Anunnaki bastard! Go on, kill me! I belong to the Shacha Royal Family. If I die... every last one of you in Anunnaki will pay with your lives," Socia said, swallowing his blood.
Huang Ji smiled. "If you're in the royal guard, just say you're in the royal guard. Why pretend you're a member of the royal family?"
The shell atop Socia's head twitched slightly. He thought that the Anunnaki Corporation really had investigated everything.
As expected of a corporation that had emerged from the Abyss and gone legitimate, its network of connections was intricate, with insiders even within the Shacha Royal Family.
"Hmph. It seems the Anunnaki Corporation is ready to offend the Shacha Civilization. What, have you found yourselves an even more powerful backer?" Socia asked gravely.
"This is between us and the Light Burst Group," Huang Ji said. "Prince Stubi had better keep his nose out of it!"
He directly named the prince