The star beast following from afar suddenly slowed down. Its three tails stretched out, and the specks of light across its skin swiftly blazed with brilliance.
The moment Huo Ling saw this, he sensed trouble and roared a warning, "Watch out! That star beast is about to attack!"
Oma looked back and felt his soul nearly leave his body. He slapped one hand onto the control orb, frantically drawing mana from the mana pool and pouring it into the starship's outer defensive shield.
As for the star beast—
The violent mana within the void storm around it seemed to be swallowed by the star beast like a whale gulping down water. It became a new vortex at the heart of the storm.
Endless energy was absorbed into its body, turning into starlike points of light that gathered toward its head.
The star beast opened its enormous mouth, dozens of meters wide, and a massive torrent of rays shot straight at the starship.
Boom!!!
Everything in the path of that ray—whether meteors swept along by the void storm, various materials, or even the most basic void energy—was annihilated beneath the beam.
Rumble!!!
The pillar of light struck Oma's starship with pinpoint accuracy. The energy beam, dozens of meters thick, along with the energy spilling from it, nearly engulfed the entire vessel.
All the people aboard could see was endless energy crashing against the outer defensive shield, sending great ripples spreading across it.
Layer after layer of shields was shattered by the torrent of light, only for new layers to rise again.
Huo Ling had a mage tower himself. He could imagine how rapidly the mana in the mana pool was being drained.
In Huo Ling's perception, after the star beast finished firing that pillar of light, the starlight-like radiance that had