The two Star Officials immediately reached for my shoulders, preparing to seize me. As long as I could not use the Star Casket, I would be at their mercy.
However, they had clearly not expected me to resist, much less imagined that I did not need to activate the Star Casket at all.
Rip.
A sound like tearing leather rang out. The upper bodies of the two Star Officials toppled to the ground with a slap, while their lower bodies remained standing where they were. A breath later, they finally lost their balance and crashed down.
Their screams mingled with spurting golden blood, making the scene especially horrifying. The Star Officials, reduced to their upper bodies, hurriedly tried to save themselves, but their rapidly draining aura and energy were swiftly siphoning away their lives.
The princes and princesses were so shaken that they fell speechless, while the heirs and commanderies' princesses all wore faces ashen as death.
They had originally thought I would never dare resist arrest in their relay palace, but I had done exactly that.
I shook off the blood qi drawn out by Skyline from my hand, and only then did my killing intent ease slightly.
"Anyone else want to call me to account?" I looked toward the noble scions of the Heaven Clan, my eyes holding nothing but the radiance with which one regarded ants.
"You... Don't... don't come over! You lowly bastard, how dare you—"
Swish. Skyline left a black line in the air, and the head of the princess who had spoken flew away, leaving only her body twitching.
"Heh heh. It seems you've all found your own roads to death." I bared a ferocious grin as my pressure suddenly descended.
The remaining imperial nobles either dropped to the ground on the spot or