The girl from the Spirit Pagoda held her little brother tight, her voice shrill.
"You... what do you take us for?!"
On the Sun Moon Empire's city walls, the defenders knelt, but their hands trembled, their nails digging into the gaps between the bricks.
"Our families... our comrades... were they all just your pawns?"
Across Douluo Star, in every corner, every living person and every living Soul Beast heard it.
They knelt.
But fury toward Tang San blazed in the eyes of every living being!
"We are not pawns!"
"Our lives are not a god's script!"
"Give us back our loved ones!"
"Give us back our blood!"
"Tang San! You don't deserve to be a god!"
Tang San's gaze fell on Chen Xing.
"Your victory over Tang Hao did indeed surprise me."
His voice was flat, as though he were discussing something of no consequence.
"But what do you have left now?"
The Starblazer was battered beyond recognition, its right arm shattered, its Stellaron producing less than half its normal output, its frame on the verge of collapse.
Chen Xing's left shoulder was bleeding, blood stained the corner of his mouth, and who knew how many of his bones were broken.
"You think you can stand against a god?"
"You're nothing but an ant!"
Tang San raised his hand.
Golden light gathered in his palm.
That was divine power, a Third-Level God's full-force strike.
"It's over!"
The golden light descended.
Chen Xing pushed the control stick.
The Starblazer raised its sole remaining left arm, meeting the strike with the Beam Greatsword.
They collided.
Then the Starblazer's left arm shattered.
The Beam Greatsword snapped, the machine split down the middle, and the Stellaron went dark in that instant.
Before the eyes of everyone on Douluo Star, Chen Xing plummeted from the