A Backstab from More Than Three Thousand Years Ago
As one "Gray Knight" after another, devoured by void shadows and stripped of self as they swelled without cease, was forcibly stuffed into cannon barrels by the sentries and launched, the bridge gradually fell silent.
Though Li Wei, inside the ship, could not see what was happening outside, the earth-shaking roars and the successive howls of the "Lickers" told him exactly what was going on out there.
So this was the true face of the so-called "Statut Defenders."
In the eyes of countless ordinary Silver Dragons who knew nothing of the truth, they were terrifying predators that roamed the kingdom's borders, stripping every Silver Dragon of freedom and condemning them to never see daylight again.
Yet under the influence of a certain supreme will, they were, in some sense, also the watchers of this Silver Dragon nest—or rather, of this Void Star God's body.
Once swallowed by the shadows, they had become part of the extended feelers of this "Void Star God."
And at this moment, Li Wei finally understood.
Why Toristana had called those Statut Defenders "Daddy."
He also seemed to finally understand why, among Ao the Nine-Faced Dragon God's divine titles, he was called—the Shadow Devourer.
Li Wei slowly fixed his complicated gaze on the Nine-Faced Dragon God, who remained as quiet as ever.
Because the other party's current state was so much like the state Li Wei had been in before White City:
Ao and the Star God had already fused into one, inseparable from each other.
He was both the creator of all dragons, and it was only natural that some Silver Dragons who knew the truth regarded him as their spiritual father.
At the same time, he was also the Shadow Devourer who had sealed the