Rescue and Slay the Enemy
The surrounding regions of the Star Alliance, the Eastern Flow Region!
This was the region Liang Ji and Peng Yue had identified on the Star Alliance's "Starry Sky Map" of its surrounding territories, provided by the Star Alliance's higher-ups. It was also the region Peng Yue needed to defend, and where Liang Ji and Peng Yue were now stationed. The Star Alliance had named it the "Eastern Flow Region."
As for the region Liang Ji had previously guarded, it had been named the "High Sun Region" on the "Starry Sky Map" of the surrounding territories.
By now, the Star Alliance's higher-ups had sent new Seventh-Tier Star Lords to take over and defend both the "Eastern Flow Region" and the "High Sun Region."
Compared with top talents like Liang Ji and Peng Yue, who could fight and kill eighth-tier enemies across a tier, veteran Seventh-Tier Star Lords who had completed Void Refinement and formation deployment for their Natal Star Systems—and could take part in guarding the surrounding regions—were undoubtedly easier for the Star Alliance to find and assign.
Liang Ji and Peng Yue completed the handover with the Seventh-Tier Star Lords who had come to take over their defenses. At the same time, the Star Alliance's higher-ups issued them a mission: they were given a void coordinate and told that an eighth-tier Void Demon Race member had broken through the defensive line there, and they needed to go capture it.
Neither of them hesitated. They activated their "Teleportation Tokens," opened a "Starlight Gate" in the void, and stepped through, teleporting straight to the designated location.
Boom! Boom! Rumble...
The moment they arrived, before they could even make out the void or the battlefield, they heard a series of booming explosions and the sounds of battle.
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